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Track Listings
Disc: 1
1 | Whole Lotta Love (Remaster) |
2 | What Is and What Should Never Be (Remaster) |
3 | The Lemon Song (Remaster) |
4 | Thank You (Remaster) |
5 | Heartbreaker (Remaster) |
6 | Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman) [Remaster] |
7 | Ramble On (Remaster) |
8 | Moby Dick (Remaster) |
9 | Bring It on Home (Remaster) |
Disc: 2
1 | Whole Lotta Love (Rough Mix with Vocal) |
2 | What Is and What Should Never Be (Rough Mix with Vocal) |
3 | Thank You (Backing Track) |
4 | Heartbreaker (Rough Mix with Vocal) |
5 | Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman) [Backing Track] |
6 | Ramble On (Rough Mix with Vocal) |
7 | Moby Dick (Intro / Outro Rough Mix) |
8 | La La (Backing Track) |
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John Bonham, John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant came together in 1968 as Led Zeppelin. Over the next decade, the band would become one of the most influential, innovative and successful groups in modern music, selling more than 300 million albums worldwide. Their songs are some of the most celebrated in rock n roll history that, to this day, resonate with fans young and old around the globe. Still, no matter how many times you may have listened to their music, you ve never heard Led Zeppelin like this before.
With the 2014 release of deluxe editions of Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin II, & Led Zeppelin III, the band will launch an extensive reissue program of all nine of its studio albums in chronological order, each remastered by guitarist and producer Jimmy Page. Led Zeppelin will also open its vaults to share dozens of unheard studio and live recordings, with each album featuring a second disc of companion audio comprised entirely of unreleased music related to that album.
"The material on the companion discs presents a portal to the time of the recording of Led Zeppelin, " says Page. "It is a selection of work in progress with rough mixes, backing tracks, alternate versions, and new material recorded at the time."
The band wrote and recorded nearly all of Led Zeppelin II while touring relentlessly to support its debut album. Incredibly, the album was released just seven months after Led Zeppelin in October of 1969. Led Zeppelin II features some of the band s most beloved tracks including "Ramble On" and "Heartbreaker" as well as "Whole Lotta Love, " considered by many to be one of the greatest rock n roll songs of all time. The album is certified diamond by the RIAA with sales of over 12 million copies.
The Led Zeppelin II companion audio gives fans the first peek into the band s recording sessions, with alternate mixes of five songs from the album, backing tracks to "Thank You" and "Living Loving Maid (She s Just A Woman), " and the previously unreleased track "La La."
Led Zeppelin continues to be honored for its pivotal role in music history. The band was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1995, received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005, and a year later was awarded with the Polar Music Prize in Stockholm. Founding members Jones, Page and Plant along with Jason Bonham, the son of John Bonham took the stage at London s O2 Arena in 2007 to headline a tribute concert for Ahmet Ertegun, a dear friend and Atlantic Records founder. The band was honored for its lifetime contribution to American culture at the Kennedy Center Honors in 2012. In January of 2014, the band won their first ever Grammy award as Celebration Day, which captured their live performance at the Ertegun tribute concert, was named Best Rock Album.
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Language : English
- Product Dimensions : 5.79 x 5.12 x 0.31 inches; 2.82 ounces
- Manufacturer : Atlantic
- Item model number : 28930313
- Original Release Date : 2014
- Date First Available : March 22, 2013
- Label : Atlantic
- ASIN : B00IXHBS6M
- Number of discs : 2
- Best Sellers Rank: #6,199 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #91 in Classic Psychedelic Rock
- #143 in Arena Rock (CDs & Vinyl)
- #162 in Folk Rock (CDs & Vinyl)
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In 1968, famed British session guitarist Jimmy Page (whom had joined The Yardbirds and was in their final lineup) first joined forces with fellow British session musician John Paul Jones (bass guitar and keyboards) and two musicians from the Midlands of England being singer Robert Plant and the sadly missed John Bonham on drums. Just after the band released its debut album in January of 1969, the band conquered America with ease as its debut album reached #10 in the States without a hit single! Also the band quickly graduated from opening act to theaters to eventually arenas and stadiums.
Whilst the band toured for its debut, they recorded, mixed and mastered its sophomore effort with Jimmy Page producing the album and this time Jimi Hendrix engineer Eddie Kramer, the late Andy Johns, George Chkiantz and Chris Huston were the recording engineers and Eddie Kramer did the mixing. Would this album be as great as its debut or better, read on and find out, as I did when I first heard as a 7 year old in 1983 when my third oldest sister's friend brought over the vinyl record and would acquire on cassette in 1985 (with "Heartbreaker" ending Side 1 and "Thank You" opening Side 2).
We open proceedings with the band's only US Top 5 hit, the rocking "Whole Lotta Love" which is just a killer tune although its been played many times on rock radio over the years. When issued as a single, the trippy middle section was excised (sacrilege). The song was a group composition based on Willie Dixon's "You Need Love". Next is Page and Plant's power ballad as it were "What Is and What Should Never Be" which is just a stellar song and has the quiet verses, the loud chorus and an ending which goes elsewhere. Next is the band's collaboration rocker called "The Lemon Song" which is not about lemons. The song has references to blues songs like Robert Johnson's "Travelling Riverside Blues" and Howlin' Wolf's "Killing Floor" but the riffs and the solo sections from Page were all Zeppelin. The first half closes with "Thank You" which is a Page/Plant collaboration which has Jimmy on acoustic and electric guitars, Jonesy on organ and is just a beautiful love song as it were.
The second half of the album begins with the group collaborated rocker "Heartbreaker" which just burns and is a killer tune. We then segue into another rocker out of "Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman") which is a Page/Plant rocker which rocks. Then it's a half acoustic/half electric number called "Ramble On" which is another Page/Plant collaboration and just is a great song. Next is the instrumental "Moby Dick" which showcased why the late John Bonham was rock's greatest drummer (this song's drum solo would extend to upwards of 30 minutes in later concert performances in later years). We close the album with "Bring It On Home" which is two songs in one which the intro and outro was based on Sonny Boy Williamson and then the rest was Page/Plant with some additional lyrics by Willie Dixon. Killer way to end the album.
Led Zeppelin's sophomore effort would go to #1 on the American album charts knocking The Beatles' Abbey Road out of #1 and has sold over 10 plus million Stateside.
Now in 2014, the album is re-released and given a superb remastering treatment by Jimmy Page and also comes with a second CD featuring a rough mix of "Whole Lotta Love" with alternate vocal performance and sans the overdubs plus rough mixes of "What Is and What Should Never Be", "Heartbreaker" and "Ramble On" with alternate vocal and guitar bits. Then there is instrumental backing tracks of "Thank You" and "Living Loving Maid" and "Moby Dick". Finally is an instrumental not released before called "La-La" which is an excellent and unique instrumental which is excellent. Also is packaged in a triple gatefold and comes with a stellar booklet with awesome pictures.
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In 1969 I had already been playing music for 4+ plus years and at the ripe old age of 17 thought I was "King S!#t". "Thought" being the key term in my misguided assessment of my early facility on my instrument...the bass. The shocking moment of revelation came not when I first heard Led Zeppelin's first offering, which was itself a revelation, but when I walked into Winterland (an old now non existent ice arena turned concert venue in SF CA) to my first Zep concert. The first player I saw/heard (more like felt right through my body) was John Paul Jones. His sound was like a freight train comin' at ya at full throttle but with the touch & skill of a classical concert musician! I had never heard anything like it. Then later that year Led Zeppelin II came out and I said to myself, "self, you've been f@$&!*g around up till now...you best get busy" So I did. I learned I & II note for note....every track. But my all time favorite is "Ramble On". Here I finally get to my point. After 43+ years as a professional musician & teacher (10 of those years) I use Ramble On and many other Zep trks to teach ear training. In Ramble On's case in particular, I had lobbied the Zep powers that be by email & by any means I could find to "please release or tell me if it's possible to make available a copy of the tune without fading it out". I wanted to know what went on to the end of the track as recorded, 'cuz to me it sounded like they were well on their way to "gittin' it" when as it often happens to great rhythm sections as they "air it out", get faded out. Well I am extremely happy to report here & now that has now, with this new version with the supplementary special added track of ruff mixes, this has actually happened. Jimmy Page has given us a peek at the meticulous construction/production of this classic recording by drying up some of the effects, eliminating some of the over tracked guitar parts and vocals (to his credit I might add 'cuz they're great parts), by doing so, clarified the bass even more to reveal every little nuance that JPJ articulated. He holds the fade on Ramble On till the very last moment & you can actually hear them stop. I must admit it was a little anti climatic 'cuz I though they had for sure gone into a great jam but they end it not really to long after the original fade! None the less it answers a question that has haunted me since I first heard the tune. Thank you Mr Page for your tireless work in "re working" a true master piece.
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Firstly lets deal with the myth that the 2014 remasters weren't from the analogue tapes - "the new remasters were created from 192 kHz/24 bit digital transfers of the original analogue tapes. The catalogue is being remastered now to take advantage of the significant advances in mastering technology that have occurred since 1991".
Secondly I have in my possession a 1969 purple label vinyl copy of II as well as the 1994 George Marino remaster.
I play my vinyl on a refurbished Linn Sondek LP12 with a Hana SH cartridge, and my CD source is a Marantz SACD 30N through an upgraded Ming Da valve amp Naim cabling into floorstanding Triangle speakers - so my system is geared to a warm detailed sound.
Bluntly nothing sounds as good as my 1969 vinyl copy .......until perhaps this recent remaster - the major difference is that the original vinyl has a warm fat powerful sound with enormous bottom end - I am used to JPJ`s bass being fat and thick with great presence and power and the drums should kick out of the speakers but never make you wince. Listening to the Marino 1994 master it is precise and tight but one could also argue a little tinny and harsh in the upper registers at high volume (what other volume should Zep be listened to?) and the bass lacks the bottom end fatness.
The 2014 master is the nearest I have heard to my original vinyl - it is EQ`d at a higher volume than 1994 but it has much more lower register so the drums kick out more powerfully and the bass is much more noticeable (a good thing for me!!) but crucially at high volume Plants vocals still sound sweet and the cymbals do not make me wince. Some people have commented that the 2014 master is woolly compared to the precision of 1994 - I think it comes down to preference and also your HIFI system.
To summarise there is a noticeable difference between the remasters and it is up to your preferences as to which to get - in my view the 2014 is a big improvement BECAUSE it sounds like my vinyl copy that I am used to and prefer!
Now to the Companion disc - I will be blunt, they are in my view a complete and utter waste of time and money and I will never listen to them again - three backing tracks without vocals (what is the point?) and three rough mixes with vocals that in every instance are substantially interior to the final version and add nothing. For completists who may be interested you get Whole Lotta love with no guitar solo and slightly different lyrics ie no "inches of love" being given by Plant!
I will probably be getting all the new remasters now and not for the extras but for the audio improvements. Incidentally III extras are more interesting (see my review on that).