Guitarist classifies album in question as a watershed, as it is “full of so many ideas that had not been done before”
The debut album of LED ZEPPELINhomonymous or popularly known as LED ZEPPELIN I (1969), is what in the English language is called Gamechanger. Something that translated literally (“Game modifier”) It makes more sense in sports than in music, but it can be better understood as “watershed” in Portuguese.
So much so that one of its creators leaves all modesty when classifying it as “the album that changed the story” of music. Let’s face it: Jimmy Page It’s not exaggerating.
Recorded in just over 36 hours throughout September and October 1968, LED ZEPPELIN I It was released in January 1969 and brought particularities and innovations in every way. From capturing to production, as well as in aspects of conception and dissemination.
The newly formed LED ZEPPELIN He recorded his debut even before he signed with a label. Jimmy Page himself and the entrepreneur Peter Grant They played the money of approximately 1,700 pounds committed to the studio.
Page didn’t want singles, so this modus operandi “do it yourself”, without budget and pressure from a seal, helped the band have full autonomy and control of the creative process.
In the studio, the guitarist used a Fender Telecaster given to him by Jeff Beck. He abused pioneering techniques, as he had vast experience as a hired musician recording and producing for other bands of the time.
In an interview with the channel ENTER THE JAM (via Far Out), Page praised the pioneering spirit of LED I:
“I think the first album of LED ZEPPELIN It changed everything in the way people recorded. Then we entered the world of recording once and for all. The first album was full of so many ideas that had not been made before. This is at the top of the list, because if it wasn’t for the first album, there would never have been a second album. “
More about the album Led Zeppelin I
One of the first records in the history to be released only in stereo (and no longer in mono and stereo), LED ZEPPELIN I It led the merger of blues and rock to another level. He catapulted the band as leader of the development of heavy sound, which would consolidate himself as hard rock and later to Heavy Metal.
Songs such as “Good Times Bad Times”, “Communication Breakdown”, “Your time is Gonna Come” and even those who were born inspired by existing blues songs, such as “Babe I’m Gonna Leave You”, “DAZED AND CONFUSED” and “I can quit you baby”they became hymns with the face of the LED ZEPPELIN.
Page’s trajectory, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and John Bonham It was just starting, and later the band would go even further, with more copyright and diverse work. Still, LED I It was a debut that exceeded expectations. And definitely changed the story.
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Source: Rollingstone
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