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- 0:00Welcome to today' s episode. Led Zeppeling is settled. Lead Zeppelin is
- 0:08already touring the United States, but winter nostalgia causes them to return to England,
- 0:16and that' s good. It wouldn' t be oksia that Led
- 0:22Zeppelin' s debut album is like a synthesis of all those weeks that went
- 0:28on before. The album was recorded at the end of the sixty- eight
- 0:34in fifteen hours and was made almost like a live performance. They were so
- 0:40well, so well grouped that they were able to get it out quickly in
- 0:46January of the following year. In addition, the experience of Jimmy Page Young
- 0:49Paul Jones in the studio made things too much easier. They recorded the pieces
- 0:54almost exactly as they played them. In concert only baban ganallee View was altered
- 0:59has s s ons where they remember their essay before getting into it. The
- 1:03studio was a two- week tour of Scandinavia that they still did as The
- 1:10New Jarverts led Zeppeling. You have a lot of jarberts. Jimmy Page did
- 1:17not manage to completely remove that influence, which is noticed above all in the
- 1:21lighter cut songs, like ikan quid Baby by Willy Dikson You Shut Me and,
- 1:30however, in the own compositions such as Good Times, Bat Times,
- 1:34daysond Confust that gives the name to this podcast, Communication break Down, it
- 1:40was already beginning to glimpse this new form, different above all by the strength
- 1:48of John Bonham in the drums and especially by the extraordinary vocal parts of Robert
- 1:53Plant. That' s how the daisten Confust is the name of this podcast
- 2:01and in case you don' t, if you haven' t heard the
- 2:06song, I' ll give you a hint of how it sounds more or
- 2:07less like that. Well, that' s the song of Daystal Tom Fust
- 2:55Those are the tones Remember that I must play. It' s something different
- 3:00and with mistakes so you don' t get rid of copyride A. Sometimes
- 3:05it acts very easy, very simple, again it is allowed, but in
- 3:07order not to risk it you only Day an idea and you already listen to
- 3:10it. You' re looking for her on the album right now. Well,
- 3:15they have the ease of if you have a podcast system like this,
- 3:19that you' re listening to the podcast. Today' s chapter also includes
- 3:22music many times and you can listen to the songs I' m talking about.
- 3:28Once the episode is over or while you listen to it in some other
- 3:31player puts the music, because, from the time I tell you the story
- 3:38completely, I' m going to start telling you the story of each of
- 3:43their songs as well. But well, everything at once and right now.
- 3:45We are that when it was recorded let Zeppelin had much, much of the
- 3:55influence of the Jarburts, those songs already own. It was already something different,
- 4:00something different and, above all, because as I mentioned a little while
- 4:04ago in this same podcast, it was John Vongham and the voice of Robert
- 4:10Pland, which made it different from what could have sounded like the Jarverts.
- 4:15This album was produced by Jimmy Page and Glen Jones, as an engineer who
- 4:21recorded Hunos Beatles Get Back or larit Be after and good that it was very
- 4:30novel, very novel his way of recording this vinyl It had a surprising freshness
- 4:36and a force that was untoning with psychederic music of that time, especially that
- 4:42which came from the west coast of the United States and that since the sixty
- 4:46- five was dominant in the world of rock, along with the pop style
- 4:49of the so- called English wave that Zepplin bet on rawness and directness,
- 4:56but without giving up the subtlety and sweetness of de de des des des des
- 5:00des desde aces ato. Recording that first album was a very interesting experience,
- 5:02as it allowed them to mix the different styles and influences that each of them
- 5:08brought. Remember John Paul Jones was like getting to the same meeting point from
- 5:13different directions. Robert loved blues and dubop. Jimmy was bringing the school of
- 5:19folk and skifo from the old rock and roll and the true Arabic music.
- 5:26John Bonham was, though hard to believe, a man of songs. He
- 5:32could sit in front of the drums and start singing songs from the Beatles,
- 5:38the Shillits, the Dephonics or James Brownt. As for his personal baggage,
- 5:46John Paul Jones' baggage, especially he was more of jazz, soul and
- 5:55a bit of blues. Although Led Zeppelin' s album is considered to be
- 6:05somewhat off- series, it was not very well, seen by the reviews
- 6:11in the early reviews as being incredibly skeptical. Rolling Stone magazine itself, which
- 6:15in sixty- nine was something like the rock bible, treated it awfully.
- 6:20It is not without curiosity that today the page of this publication has disappeared.
- 6:28The most critical series that at the time were made to Led Zepplint' s
- 6:31albums and have been updated with hypocritically salamerical complacent texts. Rorringstone in the'
- 6:3960s and said the most recent of the British bands, offers very little that
- 6:44distinguishes him from his magist, the Jeff be Group. The excesses of the
- 6:48Jeff Beck Group' s Truth album are very notably used their indlgence and narrowings,
- 6:56as they appear as totally evident in Led Zeppelin' s album. This
- 7:00derogatory remark appeared just in the days when the group was about to leave the
- 7:05angels to move to play in San Francisco. However, the text did not
- 7:11make any kind of media in the followers, who multiplied everywhere by a spontaneous
- 7:16publicity of Boki in mouth more than by some strategy planned technique market. In
- 7:24fact, Peter grand If he had a plan, but it was precisely the
- 7:28other way around and for many of his colleagues he was absolutely suicidal. The
- 7:31idea was that led Zepplin would not be released any single singles for the radio,
- 7:38that the album would be considered as a whole, as a long duration
- 7:43or the EP that was worth for itself and not for some loose songs,
- 7:46not to enter into the modulated amplitude to compete with the hit, for the
- 7:50tremules, the fifth dimension or Gary Packet and the Union Gap that gave letzepelint
- 7:56a sum and great respectability even among some critics and reporters. But St Francis
- 8:03would be the test of fire and this policy of not simple if it is
- 8:15something that remained very firm. And it' s weird. It' s
- 8:18weird. Few are the simple ones that led Zeppelin released, many of them,
- 8:24many of those occasions more forced by the label than just, because the
- 8:30product of led Zeppling was something they knew was worth consuming completely. I'
- 8:37m and ortiz I hope you' re liking the story of led Zepplin.
- 8:39I' ll see you here on the next broadcast See you later.