The project was instigated by the Colour Tel film company, the recent credits of which included
The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus and
Jimi Hendrix at Royal Albert Hall. Filming took place over a two-day period in March 1969 in a disused
linoleum factory at
Staines,
England. Artists who were filmed on 25 March included
Led Zeppelin,
Buddy Guy,
Jack Bruce,
Buddy Miles,
Dick Heckstall-Smith and
Chris Mercer. Those filmed on 26 March included
Eric Clapton, Jon Hiseman's
Colosseum,
Buddy Guy,
Roland Kirk and
Stephen Stills. This project also marks one of the rare film appearances of
Glenn Ross Campbell and
The Misunderstood. Allegedly
Jimi Hendrix was due to appear but missed the plane from
New York City. The whole project was planned with great secrecy and filming went ahead at a reputed cost of £100 per minute. The film received a limited run in
London, premiering at the
Lyceum Theatre in November 1969. It later emerged as an official video release by Virgin Vision in 1986. Footage of Led Zeppelin's performance of the song "
Dazed and Confused" which was originally filmed for
Supershow later appeared on the
Led Zeppelin DVD in 2003. ==Track listing==