Now here is one classic combination! If you didn't think a younger generation band could add some spice to the older Led Zeppelin song catalog, then this two-and-a-half-hour hard rock feast should change your mind.

This 2-CD set documents two October 1999 nights Page and company spent wowing audiences at the venerated LA venue. The astonishing revelation is how good Page sounds - he hasn't been this inspired in decades - and how satisfactorily the Black Crowes perform Led Zep standards.

The 50-plus guitarist rips apart timeless arena-rockers like "Heartbreaker," "Nobody's Fault but Mine" and "In My Time of Dying." Page even dips into his pre-Led Zep days, pulling out a thrashed cover of the Yardbirds' "Shapes of Things to Come," which recalls the Jeff Beck Group version more than the rendition Page recorded in the late '60s.

The Black Crowes have always been revivalists and have paid tribute to sloppy rock icons like the Faces, the Rolling Stones and the Allman Brothers. Singer Chris Robinson, in fact, has managed to mix Jagger's swagger with Rod Stewart's hooliganism. Here, the group doesn't succumb to idolatry or revel in mere nostalgia. Instead, the sextet augments its signature Southern rock charm, buoying Page's guitar with Rich Robinson's and Audley Freed's back-to-basics guitar, Ed Harsch's electric organ and boogie-woogie acoustic piano and the bedrock rhythm team of Sven Pipien (bass) and Steve Gorman (drums).

This approach stimulates Led Zeppelin blues-based tunes such as "Your Time Is Gonna Come," as well as blues rave-ups that include BB King's "Woke Up This Morning," some Willie Dixon compositions and a multi-layered interpretation of the Peter Green-era Fleetwood Mac blues-rocker "Oh Well."

Critics bemoan the death of rock. Fads come and go, but the eternal truth of the blues will stay with us. So sit back and listen to this year's best concert treasure, and one of the most vital rock albums to be released in years.