A rare concert team-up between one of the great blues-rock bands of the last four decades and one of the greatest guitarists of all time is getting revisited in a new 3CD or 6LP set due for release next month.

Originally released in 2000, less than a year after it was recorded, Jimmy Page and The Black Crowes' Live At The Greek was a double album featuring the group and the former Led Zeppelin guitarist tearing through renditions of classics from the latter band's catalogue, plus a heap of blues standards. Now it's being expanded with additional 14 tracks, including soundcheck audio and - for the first time - Page sitting in on cuts from the Crowes' discography. Original album producer Kevin Shirley has remixed and remastered this expanded presentation.

After a busy '90s that saw the Atlanta-born band burst onto the scene with the multiplatinum Shake Your Money Maker (1990) and the chart-topping The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion, The Black Crowes (less than a year out from their fifth album, By Your Side) took to The Greek Theatre for two special sets in October of 1999 that featured the Robinson brothers (singer Chris and guitarist Rich), touring guitarist Audley Freed, bassist Sven Pipien, drummer Steve Gorman and keyboardist Eddie Harsch joined by Led Zeppelin's exalted six-stringer, himself a year removed from Walking Into Clarksdale, his only post-Zeppelin studio album with the band's singer Robert Plant. Having met the Crowes at a charity gig that summer, the team-up focused on cuts from the Led Zeppelin songbook ("Whole Lotta Love," "Ten Years Gone," "Hey, Hey, What Can I Do," "What is and What Should Never Be") with a few covers and standards for good measure (Fleetwood Mac's Peter Green-era favorite "Oh Well," Elmore James' "Shake Your Money Maker," the Chicago blues standard "You Shook Me," and even The Yardbirds' "Shapes of Things"). For contractual reasons, the Crowes songs the group played - "She Talks to Angels," "Remedy," "Wiser Time" and even Otis Redding's "Hard to Handle," a Top 40 hit for the group in 1991 - were barred from appearing on the album, an omission that is now corrected by this new reissue.

For all the thrill of hearing Page team up with The Black Crowes, the experience did not, at the time, seem well-treasured by either party at the time. Chris Robinson later deemed it "alright" and "just a job," owing in part to his personal dislike for Plant's vocals and lyrics; Page later joined the group for a full tour with The Who but left after less than a dozen shows, reportedly after the Robinsons rejected his overtures to write with them. Things weren't so hot within the band, either; bassist Pipien was dismissed between the Greek shows and the album's release, with his replacement Greg Rzab overdubbing parts on versions of "In the Light" and "Misty Mountain Hop" that were included on Japanese pressings. (Pipien actually rejoined after a hiatus that stretched from 2002 to 2005 and is currently the only official member other than the Robinsons.)

In any case, with the benefit of an even broader set list, Page and The Crowes' Live At The Greek will be ready to be heard anew when it's released on March 15. All formats (including a 2LP "best-of") are available at the links below; as an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.

Live At The Greek (Silver Arrow, 2025)

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* previously unreleased
+ included on 2LP edition

Disc 1

1. Celebration Day
2. Custard Pie +
3. Sick Again +
4. No Speak No Slave * +
5. Hard to Handle *
6. Wanton Song * +
7. Misty Mountain Hop +
8. Hots On for Nowhere * +
9. What is and What Should Never Be
10. Wiser Time * +
11. Mellow Down Easy
12. Woke Up This Morning (My Baby She Was Gone)
13. Ten Years Gone +

Disc 2

1. In My Time of Dying +
2. Your Time is Gonna Come
3. Remedy * +
4. The Lemon Song
5. In the Light +
6. Shake Your Moneymaker
7. Sloppy Drunk Blues
8. Shapes of Things
9. Nobody's Fault But Mine +
10. Heartbreaker
11. Bring It On Home *
12. She Talks to Angels + *

Disc 3

1. Oh Well
2. Band Introductions *
3. Hey, Hey, What Can I Do +
4. You Shook Me
5. Out on the Tiles
6. Whole Lotta Love +
7. Custard Pie (Soundcheck) *
8. You Shook Me (Soundcheck) *
9. The Lemon Song (Soundcheck) *
10. Ten Years Gone (Soundcheck) *
11. Jam (Soundcheck) *

All tracks recorded live at The Greek Theatre, Los Angeles, CA - 10/18-19/1999

Disc 1, Tracks 1-3, 9 and 11-13; Disc 2, Tracks 1-2, 4, 6-10 and Disc 3, Tracks 1 and 3-6 released as TVT Records 2140-2, 2000
Disc 1, Track 7 and Disc 2, Track 5 released on Japanese pressing - Victor VICP-61192~93, 2000