LED ZEPPELIN Tunes To Fill Ontario's Grand Theatre

August 24, 2006

Herman Goodden of The London Free Press reports that the sounds of the first LED ZEPPELIN album will close out London, Ontario's Hot August Nights concerts series at the Grand Theatre tonight.

It would be interesting to see what resident ghost Ambrose Small makes of all the racket. "So, are you playing a record or giving a live performance?" he might wonder. Well, both actually.

"This is a rock and roll recital," said some wag at Q107 Radio in Toronto, discussing one of the more than two dozen presentations put on by the Toronto-based music collective known as CLASSIC ALBUMS LIVE. Instead of sitting behind a loaded music stand and faithfully playing each note and bar rendered there, the pool of musicians who make up CLASSIC ALBUMS LIVE set out to create note-and-nuance-perfect live presentations — or representations — of classic rock albums from the 1960s and '70s.

Craig Martin is the figure behind the concept. "I have 34 different shows that I produce," he says. "And we have about 150 musicians across North America."

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