Disc 1 of this 2-CD set is an Enhanced audio CD which contains regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
Personnel: Jimmy Page (guitar); Chris Robinson (vocals); Rich Robinson (guitar, background vocals); Audley Freed (guitar); Ed Harsch (keyboards); Sven Pipien (bass); Steve Gorman (drums).
Recorded live at the Greek Theatre, Los Angeles, California.
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
Following a successful collaboration at a 1999 London benefit show, it made perfect sense for Jimmy Page to invite the Black Crowes to be his back-up band for a mini-tour later that year. Recorded during a pair of sold-out shows at Los Angeles' Greek Theatre, these sets are dominated by Led Zeppelin tunes, along with a mix of classic blues nuggets and covers of Fleetwood Mac and Page's first group, The Yardbirds. (Due to contractual obligations, no Crowes songs are included here).
Chris Robinson's soulful singing ably fills in for Robert Plant's caterwaul, particularly with the sinister "In My Time of Dying" and the bluesy drawl of Willie Dixon's "You Shook Me." Guitarists Rich Robinson and Audley Freed provide stellar sounding layers of depth behind Page's playing, whether on the chiming "Hey Hey What Can I Do," or the hard-hitting swagger of "Nobody's Fault But Mine." From the non-Zeppelin material, the Crowes and Page soar on covers of the B.B. King shuffle "Woke Up This Morning" and the Chicago blues stomp of Jimmy Rogers' "Sloppy Drunk."

Rolling Stone (4/27/00, p.69) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...The combination is a win-win....The stomping treatments of Zep's tortured blues [prod] Page into the kind of fury that used to be a nightly routine....simultaneously raucous and faithful..."
Uncut (10/00, p.86) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...A live double album's worth of Zep's greatest guttural roars and stormtrooping stanzas..."
Mojo (Publisher) (9/00, p.103) - "...The most conservative rock'n'roll record of the year...and probably also the most enjoyable..."
NME (Magazine) (8/5/00, p.29) - 7 out of 10 - "...A work of licksmanship....Guitar tech album of the year, and a whole lotta irony-trashing fun besides."