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weedwacker

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  1. Most collectors who yak on message boards are full of shit and talk out their asses either trying to impress upon the masses they are a better fan than you are or are trying blow smoke everyone's ass to see if someone slips up and drops a piece of unintended information. I can count on 1 hand the amount of people who are strictly zeppelin collectors I know who are active participants on message boards that if they said something existed with no proof of it at all I would accept their statement at face value. I would take 99% of the claims with a healthy dose of speculation.
  2. No they didn't videotape in Seattle in 73 or 75 or 72 for that matter(at least not that I am aware of). What I meant was they tended to have above average performances on at their stops in Seattle so that in and of itself was most likely part of reasoning for wanting to film in Seattle in 77(and as shown here past performance didn't guarantee future success) and yes the venue they played in Seattle was the Seattle Center Coliseum in 72/73/75. The Coliseum is still around but is now called the Key Arena.
  3. The Kingdome when it opened in 76 was a state of the art facility at the time and that included the video system they had in place. That was probably part of the reason why the band choose to keep the tapes after the show there there along with the experiences of previous stops in Seattle like in 73 and 75. It was decided well before the show took place and Grant spent over $3000 dollars(which was a lot of money at that time) on high end camera lenses for the video cameras just for the filming of the band. I don't think it was done in mind for an official release but more like a high end home movie of themselves since it is pretty much a given they didn't also multitrack record the show. It would be a lot cheaper using the in house system than bringing in their own crew. All you'd have to do is make sure the legal end was spelled out that they got sole possesion of the U-matic tapes after the show(which they did). As far as multitracking the show if they did you would have saw something from the video on the official release since the visuals are up to par just the performance wasn't and that could have been fudged well enough to include something if they had multitracks for the audio. Lets face it if they did have multitracks from the show you think they would have used audience footage from 77 in the menus. When Grant left the building he took every piece of recorded footage and audio from the venue with him. Also the video was pumped out to the screens for the audience using the closed circuited system. And it is closed circuit not captioned for the hearing impaired. I don't think political correctness was the rage in the late 70s.
  4. Exactly like The Who show. If you mean a third party would have been in charge of filming it at The Summit.
  5. That means absolutely nothing, if the venue had a closed circuit system(which it did) there is no reason to believe the camera(s) weren't on and no one had a tape in the U-matic recording deck in the video room. In those cases the stuff would be single angle footage usually a stationary camera mounted towards the back of the venue and depending on the setup have no audio and could be black and white. The only real question would be if it was done covertly by a venue employee for their own personal use when no agreement was in place between the band/promoter/venue or done in an official capacity which in that case it would come down to who owns the rights the video. In some cases a third party company was contracted out to handle the video at a venue which was the case with The Summit in Houston at this time.
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