Page, Crowes Live Will Satisfy Zep Fans
By Jane Stevenson
Toronto Sun
July 2, 2000

Previously only available as a customizable release on the Internet, this 20-track collection of Led Zeppelin songs and blues tunes now hits stores as a double CD on Tuesday.

And while Crowes' frontman Chris Robinson is no Robert Plant at his peak, let's face it, neither is Plant these days, he comes awfully close on a few occasions -- Your Time Is Gonna Come, The Lemon Song, Heartbreaker and Out On The Tiles.

Meanwhile, Page is his usual guitar-genius self, particularly on What Is And What Should Never Be, a rambling reworking of The Yardbirds' Shapes Of Things To Come, covers of Jimmy Rogers' Sloppy Drunk and Paul Green's Oh Well, and other Zep classics Ten Years Gone, In My Time Of Dying -- complete with slide guitar -- Your Time Is Gonna Come, The Lemon Song, Nobody's Fault But Mine, Heartbreaker and Whole Lotta Love.

Basically, this is the best live Zep that fans are going to get for now, since Plant has begged off touring with Page for the time being.

Otherwise, blues numbers like B.B. King's Woke Up This Morning and Willie Dixon's Mellow Down Easy are nice shoutouts to the masters but ultimately, given that everybody pretty much just wants to hear the Zeppelin material, are they really necessary?

Page & the Crowes, who just kicked off a North American tour in tandem with The Who last weekend in Chicago, are rumoured to be playing the Air Canada Centre on Oct. 3, but nothing has been confirmed so far.

Track Listing
Disc 1
01.Celebration Day
02.Custard Pie
03.Sick Again
04.What Is And What Should Never Be
05.Woke Up This Morning
06.Shape Of Things To Come
07.Sloppy Drunk
08.Ten Years Gone
09.In My Time Of Dying
10.Your Time Is Gonna Come

Disc 2
01.Lemon Song
02.Nobody's Fault But Mine
03.Heartbreaker
04.Hey Hey What Can I Do
05.Mellow Down Easy
06.Oh Well
07.Shake Your Money Maker
08.You Shook Me
09.Out On The Tiles
10.Whole Lotta Love