Led Zeppelin: Dazed & Confused (2009 Video) User Reviews

Wanted to like it more...

[Flywiththeowl · 6/10 · 22 September 2017]

Overall, a really insightful look into the band. Always good to hear these anecdotes right from band members. I've been into them for 30+ years now & even I walked away with some new info. The only negative for me- the absence of actual LZ music within. & I get why; $$£. But it would've made it that much better. It was frustrating seeing all this amazing footage of them with generic Zepp riffs playing in the background minus any vocals.

Definitely recommended for any LZ fan, but a great entry level intro for the newbie.

Bad soundtrack

[marksdp · 6/10 · 11 March 2022]

Good documentary but what's up with the music ? The Zep catalog of music is at your disposal but you choose to use How many more times, Dazed and confused and Kashmir over and over again ?? Don't get me wrong, those are great compositions but how about mixing in some of their other outstanding material. Halfway through watching I was like " please... the Rain Song ? Or Stairway solo live from The song remains the same ?" I don't get it.

I wish they didn't end things

[JeremyRusso · 10/10 · 29 March 2019]

I can't imagine how difficult it must have been for the surviving members of the band to deal with the death of John Bonham & I get the reasoning for not continuing, but I honestly wish they did. I think they had so much more in them that they could have offered to the world. But hey, thankfully they existed in the first place!

Good But Not Too Much Information

[Michael_Elliott · 23 July 2012]

Led Zeppelin: Dazed & Confused (2009)

*** (out of 4)

If you're looking for an all out rocking documentary on Led Zeppelin then you're not going to find it here. What you get here is a rather cheap and quick look at who the band were, how they got together and we hear some stories about their rise to fame and their eventual end when their drummer died. At less than an hour there's really nothing too detailed here as we're basically given information that even the smallest Zeppelin fan should know. We learn about The Yardbirds, how the band formed, being influenced by the blues and then we hear about their manager, the U.S. tours, the various drug issues and of course the end. Most fans of the band are already going to know this stuff and much, much more so that's why they will probably be most disappointed. If you're not familiar with the band or are just going to know them then I think this documentary will work because it will at least give you some basic information and then you can go out there and search for more detailed stuff. There's no Zeppelin music played but we do get some behind the scenes footage, which was nice but we certainly needed more of it.

Led Zeppelin was a power house

[blpkst · 9/10 · 3 February 2022]

In 1970, I was 17 and was lucky enough to see the band in concert in the Melody Tent, a venue in Beverly Massachusetts. It was an intimate setting and something I will never forget. I loved their music, still do. This documentary captures some of the excitement they generated. The music used in the doc. Sounds genuine enough to me. They changed rock and roll forever.

surreal to watch

[kahnzo · 3/10 · 21 March 2012]

I believe, to avoid paying licensing fees, the makers of this documentary removed any audio of actual Led Zeppelin songs. There are some interesting interviews and old footage but the background music is horrible. The most surreal moment comes when you're watching footage of Led Zeppelin and the riff for Pink Floyd's "Run Like Hell" starts playing (but it's not actually Pink Floyd either.) There are a few drunk cover band quality clips of Led Zeppelin songs. A very odd viewing experience. There are a number of moments when if feels like you're watching a St. Sanders "Led Zeppelin Shreds" video. A very strange viewing experience.

Missing One Huge Thing...

[nafps · 1/10 · 16 May 2021]

Zeppelin's history of stealing music, mostly from far more talented but broke blues artists:

1. " Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" 2. " Dazed and Confused" 3. " Whole Lotta Love" 4. " The Lemon Song" 5. " Bring It on Home" 6. " Since I've Been Loving You" 7. " Bron-Y-Aur Stomp" 8. " Hats Off to (Roy) Harper"

And of course Stairway to Heaven, even though the lawyers for the band Spirit were too incompetent to win a slam dunk case.

Zeppelin is the band every 15 year old boy at the time loved. Bu if you still love them, listen to the far better originals. Now THAT is the blues.

ETA: I'm glad of the strong reactions to my review, both the downvotes and the higher than I expected number of up votes. Good to know some others feel the same.

The story of Led Zeppelin

[metaltomich · 27 February 2012]

Led Zeppelin was undoubtedly one of the greatest rock bands of all time. For nearly a decade they dominated the music industry; releasing 9 albums and selling over 300 million records worldwide. Their music has influenced the shape of rock and heavy metal for generations. There can be no doubting the importance of this super-group. Comprised of four indomitable characters, the chemistry between band members was electric; often competing with each other and continually forcing themselves to greater heights. The results were phenomenal with rip-roaring vocals and intense guitar solos that were the hallmark of a Led Zeppelin track. Follow the exciting story of Led Zeppelin from their formation out of The Yardbirds in 1968, to the band s dissolution after the tragic demise of drummer John Bonham in 1980 and beyond. With performance footage of the group throughout their career and interviews with the band both past and present this programme presents a unique biographic picture of Led Zeppelin. Packed with archive footage, performances and rare interviews this DVD is perfect for any fan.

Why use faked Zeppelin music?

[diehls-08027 · 2/10 · 8 June 2020]

There are some real Zeppelin recordings in this but also a ton of Almost-Zeppelin music that consists of songs that are close but altered just enough, I'm assuming, to reduce the royalty costs or something. It's annoying. I stopped watching about 3 minutes in with fake Kashmir and 4 minutes in with Fake Babe I'm Gonna Leave You. Yuck.

I'm growing irritated by music documentaries on Prime. This one at least had SOME real Zeppelin but many others, like all of the Beatles docs, apparently couldn't get permission or afford the licensing, but made a documentary anyway. Nearly useless but definitely annoying and distracting.

You're better off reading a quick web bio...

[brettlu · 4/10 · 23 July 2020]

Poorly produced, much of the same stock footage is used for b-roll, and they obviously were unable to secure many music rights (imitation, karaoke versions of songs are used for soundtrack instead). A few golden nuggets with Peter Grant clips I hadn't seen before, but otherwise you could get the same info from a 10-minute bio read on Allmusic or Wiki.

Not the Zep doc you want

[scottfrench · 3/10 · 8 January 2022]

What's in "Led Zeppelin: Dazed and Confused" is worthwhile, especially the Peter Grant interviews. It's what's missing that dooms this failure.

It starts off wonderfully, with a decent analysis of the Yardbirds-to-Zeppelin transition, then mostly glosses over the band's history while leaving out the kind of detail that is necessary for this to work. More time is spent on hotel-room destruction -- and, the film's highlight, the myths surrounding that -- than on any particular album nor the details that go into the music that the band created.

Then we get a hugely insufficient roundup of the band members' post-Zep activities, and,voila, we're done.

Any doc on Zep is watchable, but this isn't the one you're looking for.

Might be better off just to hit skip..

[cdanielj-66139 · 5/10 · 3 April 2022]

This is 60 minutes of bad garage band covers that only get worse the further you get into it. Then the director sliced up old interviews from probably 4 or 5 different decades and combined that with newer interviews from people you've never even heard of.

You can learn some good history here of the band nevertheless, it does have its moments and that warrants at least 5 stars I suppose.