Kevin Shirley not too long ago shared a shocking story about secretly recording Jimmy Web page’s performances with The Black Crowes. In an interview with Final Traditional Rock, the well-known producer defined how he managed to seize these stay reveals—with out Web page understanding.
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. Nonetheless, Web page wasn’t . “Jimmy’s not in any respect,” Shirley mentioned. However Shirley nonetheless wished to discover a solution to save these performances. “Possibly we will do one thing, nevertheless it must be beneath the radar.”
To maintain it a secret, Shirley rented the Le Cell recording truck and hid it beneath some bushes, masking it up so nobody would discover. He then linked to the live performance’s sound system and began recording.
Since know-how wasn’t as superior as immediately, recording stay music was difficult. Shirley needed to combine the sound on the spot contained in the truck and reserve it straight to a CD. After the primary evening, he went backstage and advised the band what he had executed. “I recorded the present, by the best way. Listed here are the tapes if you wish to do something with them. If not, we’ll scrap them fully.” He left the CDs with them and walked away.
Web page’s supervisor, Invoice Curbishley, later determined to launch the recordings by means of Musicmaker, an early on-line music firm. The deal introduced in a great sum of money, and in 2000, Reside on the Greek was formally launched. The album was successful with followers, that includes Web page enjoying 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 further 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 Track.
