The Rover Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 Kevin 'Caveman' Shirley Mixing Led Zeppelin's Live DVD A Detailed (full) article from November of 2003 in Sound On Sound with Kevin Shirley http://www.soundonso...evinshirley.htm An excerpt from the article: Shirley's involvement with Led Zeppelin and Jimmy Page goes back to the latter's collaboration with the Black Crowes. In 1999 and 2000, Page and the Black Crowes toured together, playing a mixture of rock & roll standards and Black Crowes and Led Zeppelin material. Shirley had produced, engineered and mixed the Crowes' album By Your Side (1999), and did the same for the million-selling live recording of Jimmy Page & the Black Crowes called Live At The Greek (2000). In April 2002 Jimmy Page invited the Caveman for a meeting in London. "Jimmy wanted to know how I dealt with new technologies," Shirley recalls, "like surround sound and digital, and asked if I was interested in helping him with some live material that he wanted to put together from archive and bootleg footage." Being a long-standing Led Zeppelin fan, Shirley was very excited about the prospect. He had some premonitions about the technical challenges such a project would pose, and with his commission as yet unconfirmed, Caveman jumped the gun, and laid out $100,000 on a brand new, enhanced Pro Tools HD system, much to the "disgust" of his business manager — who, understandably, thought this was utterly irresponsible. "I took a big chance and trusted my gut instinct," recalls Shirley. "And I knew that at that time there were no systems in the world that could do what I wanted to do. I wanted huge capacity, great quality, and 100 percent reliability. I've worked with rental systems and they always have problems. I didn't want any crashes or noises from radios or cellphones. So a guy in upstate New York, Vincent Gutman of Märc Systems Inc, built a Pro Tools rig for me that is unbelievably stable. He'd also built my previous rig and since 1998, when I began using Pro Tools, I've never had a single crash. Everything is gold-tipped and stripped up and with super-quiet fans and the best cabling, unbelievable. He does a great job earthing and isolating the whole system. The new rig was fantastic, the best in the world, and perfect for this project." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barney2EH Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 How do I get a job like this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melcórë Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 ...When are they releasing the full 45 hours? Interesting article. He comes across as much less of an arsehole than he did in the video I saw elsewhere on the forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Led_Rock_Hard Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 Great article, I enjoyed learning some new things from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LZ77 Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 We had 13 shows, meaning about 45 hours of multitracked music. surely that couldn't be all that Page has left in his personal Zep archive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glyn Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 Perhaps only 13 shows of multitracked audio? That's how I read it. He probably has more, just not multitracked Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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