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Most weekends see The Beloved and myself engaged in titanic battles of vocabulary over the Scrabble board. Usually I like to have the footy in background but as the season is over (apart from tomorrow’s NRL grand final) music DVD’s have been playing in the background. The other day I picked up Led Zep’s live 2003 DVD for 22 bucks at JB Hi-Fi at Town Hall station. So the past two nights I’ve had that playing in the background as The Beloved and I engage in fierce competition over the tiles (for the record 2-0 to me this weekend). I had the 1975 Earls Court footage on last night and the 1979 Knebworth show on tonight. Both concerts are outstanding. As Percy Plant sez in the booklet: When the early punks said it was self-indulgent they missed the point. It was the opposite: to achieve what we did on stage, it took a lost of personal restraint. It was this completely selfless form. Now if you have seen The Song Remains The Same you’d concede that the early punks had a point (I’ve always found it a hard slog to either watch or listen) . But Zeppelin at Earls Court and Knebworth are very focused. There is a stunning performance of Trampled Underfoot from Earls Court and, for a song so overly familiar that I would not suffer if I never heard it again, there is still magic in Stairway To Heaven. It is amazing how much difference four years can make. In 1975 Plant and Page look very young. At Knebworth you can see the youth starting to fade. But they have maturity on their side and you can see how much all four are enjoying the concert. And they are so tight as a band. Even the longer pieces such as Kashmir seem lean and mean. To dismiss Led Zep as bloated antediluvian relics ignores the testimony of the best shows. On their night they were just a vital and explosive as anyone else going around. For more info see the very, very amazingly comprehensive Garden Tapes site.