The Black Crowes

Live At The Greek

Rock music at it's finest

Review Score:

(10/10)
It is a well known fact that, when performed by the best, rock music is best experienced live. And folks, these guys are the best of the best, and prove it on this album. The Black Crowes, voted "Most Rock 'N' Roll band" by Rolling Stones, team up with guitar GOD Jimmy Page to put out the hardest hitting rock album of the year. First off, this has GOT to be the best sounding, most well-mixed live album I have ever heard. The sound engineers should be given BIG props for this one. The whole band sounds absolutely HUGE, as if they're 20 feet tall (unlike the next closest thing to this album, The Song Remains The Same, which features a very thin sounding Zeppelin recording.), and all the guitars (Page, Rich Robinson, the most underrated guitarist of our time, and Audley Freed) are high in the mix, since they are, indeed, the highlight of the show. Page is on fire the whole show, performing incredible solos on Heartbreaker (especially when the rest of the band comes in... TONS of power there), Oh Well, etc. But the highlight of the show, to me, is Ten Years Gone. On this track, Page finally realizes his creation in it's entire glory live onstage, with the aid of two other guitarists. This version absolutely blows away the studio version (and any Zep bootleg versions you may have heard) with it's triple-headed guitar assault. Chris Robinson does a fine job on all the songs, not trying to sound like Plant but doing his own thing within the limits of the songs. Overall, a must buy.

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