Kevin Shirley just lately shared a stunning story about secretly recording Jimmy Web page’s performances with The Black Crowes. In an interview with Final Basic Rock, the well-known producer defined how he managed to seize these stay exhibits—with out Web page realizing.
When Web page and The Black Crowes got here to the U.S. to carry out, Shirley requested the band’s supervisor, Pete Angelus, about recording the concert events. Nevertheless, Web page wasn’t . “Jimmy’s not in any respect,” Shirley stated. However Shirley nonetheless wished to discover a method to save these performances. “Possibly we will do one thing, however it must be below the radar.”
To maintain it a secret, Shirley rented the Le Cell recording truck and hid it below some timber, masking it up so nobody would discover. He then related to the live performance’s sound system and began recording.
Since know-how wasn’t as superior as right now, recording stay music was tough. Shirley needed to combine the sound on the spot contained in the truck and reserve it straight to a CD. After the primary night time, he went backstage and instructed the band what he had performed. “I recorded the present, by the best way. Listed below are the tapes if you wish to do something with them. If not, we’ll scrap them totally.” He left the CDs with them and walked away.
Web page’s supervisor, Invoice Curbishley, later determined to launch the recordings by way of Musicmaker, an early on-line music firm. The deal introduced in a superb amount of cash, and in 2000, Dwell on the Greek was formally launched. The album was successful with followers, that includes Web page taking part in Led Zeppelin classics with The Black Crowes’ energetic blues-rock sound.
Now, greater than 20 years later, the album has been re-released with 16 extra songs that had been by no means heard earlier than. AXS TV reported that the brand new model features a uncommon soundcheck recording of Led Zeppelin’s The Lemon Tune.
