Studio Broadcast

This is not a friendly listen, but a neat window into the past for those who love(d) the classic 1993 Coverdale/Page album. Followed up with a short 5-date tour, the C/P momentum was swiftly cut off by Robert Plant (whose solo album of the same year flopped) who enticed Page to collaborate for a project which would eventually become the Indian flavored "No Quarter" album. Which was great but I think the follow up "Walking Into Clarksdale" was their best duo effort.

Garbage

A project that was 5-10 years late in the making....First off, Plant never called Page to pull him away from this project. Plant's mgr Bill Curbishley was contacted by Mtv for Plant alone to do a "storytellers/Unplugged" type show of Zep material. Plant outright refused, not wanting to be the lone flagbearer of Zep. It was Curbishley, wanting the gig for Plant who secretly contacted Page. Promoters were already hesitant about a Page/Coverdale US tour because their style was already 5-10 yrs late to the grunge rock that was heavily trending in the US. The tour was nixed, and Page agreed to do the Mtv thing, and also signed on to let Curbishley manage him as well. It wasn't until after this that Plant agreed to do it. He was actually the last one on board!! The rest is history, but let's first get the facts and timeline right.

You can barely hear anything. I get it is a bootleg which it did not say in the listing but it may be the worst sounding show I ever heard

Esta magnífiica producción, de dos albums, uniendo a dos grandes del Rock, David Coverdale & Jimmy Page, vale mucho la pena. Musicalmente, Líricamente y la Vocalización de otro nivel!!!

CD ist klasse. Die Bestellung und Lieferung funktionierte reibungslos.

Excellent album - most enjoyable. It arrived promptly and there were no issues with it. Many thanks.

When Jimmy Page and David Coverdale joined their forces and released Coverdale/Page album back in 1993 fans were either thrilled or terrified. Some were skeptical as myself. It sounded too good to be true. Once Deep Purple lead singer and Led Zeppelin's main composer and guitarist together. But this is not a review of their album. This text is about recording of their tour rehearsals. Is it any good? Yes and no. You can hear yourself how they sounded, what songs they had in the setlist and so on. Sound quality and recording is decent. But in my opinion Whitesnake songs don't sound very good with Jimmy Page on guitar. C/P songs sound good, Led Zeppelin songs sound OK, but Whitesnake songs lack power. So for the hardcore Whitesnake fans this might be a small disappointment but for the rest very good purchase.

David Coverdale and Jimmy Page, with Guy Pratt - bass (of Pink Floyd and David Gilmour fame), Denny Carmassi - drums (from the band Heart and previously with Montrose) and Brett Tuggle - keyboards (backup with Fleetwood Mac and David Lee Roth Band). Recorded at Nomis Studios, London, July 1993 (allegedly). Page had previously used Nomis for his auditioning of band members and rehearsals for The Firm back in early 1984.These recordings were originally made for band review purposes and were never at all intended for broadcasting despite the claim made in the accompanying sleeve text notes that "they agreed to let a tiny local radio station broadcast the entire proceedings." That is nonsense, considering the only tiny local radio station in London would have been a DJ crew in their bedroom on the top floors of a block of flats, it's highly unlikely.These recordings aren't great and have been copied from cassette tapes with an audible amount of background hiss throughout, but this isn't entirely instrusive. What the listener hears is very much close to the real live mix in concert where it's an almost mono sounding very closed-mix stereo soundfield. There's no sound effects trickery or any evidence of Page's solo spot using his theramin and violin bow. It's the kind of recording that's best played as loud as possible.The band are excellent though, despite a few Coverdale shortfalls with taking ownership of a few of the Led Zeppelin songs that he's seemingly not entirely at home with. Or is it more a case of not being used to anyone other than Robert Plant singing? Yes, probably. He makes up for that with his interjections of swearing, so your mother wouldn't like it. He also lays back a bit on some of the new Coverdale-Page songs as if saving his voice. Just what for I'm none too sure as their originally planned US tour in June had been postponed until October and all 45 dates ultimately cancelled, yet this recording purportedly hails from July? They returned to Nomis in November 1993 and also in Los Angeles for further rehearsals prior to their December 7-date mini tour of Japan, which is perhaps a better bet of when these rehearsals actually took place, but I could be dead wrong on that. No matter, they are what they are, a very interesting fly on the wall perspective of just how good a Rock music outfit Page had scored for himself in 1993, which had Robert Plant bristling with envy and forced his hand to make that telephone call.Fans will just have to make do with this until we get the as promised box set complete with the "four or five" tracks that didn't get on the album, as stated on radio by Coverdale in 2018.