Glyn Johns, Beatles sound engineer, Rolling Stones and The Who, was responsible for “applying” the band on the guitarist
Glyn Johnsrenowned producer and sound engineer, worked with Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Who, Eric ClPaton and other colossi of rock. It also includes in your curriculum the fact that it has “applied” the LED ZEPPELINuntil then a newly formed band in 1968, the Mick Jagger and George Harrisonfor example.
Is that Glyn was the sound engineer in the recording of the debut album LED ZEPPELIN. The studio professional was so impressed with the result that he wanted to show the first work of the new band Jimmy Page For everyone who found ahead.
According to him, in an interview with Uncut (via Music Radar), his first attempt was with Mick Jagger, during the filming Rock and Roll Circusof the Stones. He took a acetate of the LED album and put it for the singer to know.
However, Mick was not in the mood. Glyn reports:
“I said, ‘This will be huge,’ but Mick was not interested in listening.”

Shortly thereafter, Johns resorted to George Harrison. He says that the Beatles guitarist was even open to the experience and willing to listen to the album carefully, but … he didn’t understand anything about the heavy rock blues that came out of the speakers:
“I dragged George Harrison for the Olympic (studio) to listen to the album when I came back from a session with the Beatles. He didn’t understand anything, which I found extraordinary. I still think this album is the best of them. He shook everything from the roots. “

Glyn Johns about Led Zeppelin
Proud of the work done with the LED ZEPPELIN In the band’s first album, released in January 1969, Glyn Johns is thrilled to remember him:
“I think I haven’t recovered from the euphoria I felt when I was there. It was totally inspiring and incredibly simple to record. They were well rehearsed and were masters in what they did, which is why it took only nine days, including mixing.”
George Harrison wasn’t a fan
Regarding George Harrison, the strangeness in relation to the LED ZEPPELIN seems to have continued. In the following years, Beatle would have stated that the band “does not make good ballads.”

Jimmy Page’s answer came in the form of “Rain Song”ballad that appears in the repertoire of Houses of the Holy (1973), fifth LED album. In statement to Guitar world (via Guitar.com), the guitarist admits that he composed the song as a kind of replica to Harrison:
“He didn’t tell me that (directly). I just heard that he said, ‘Ah, the LED ZEPPELIN It doesn’t make good ballads. ‘ I’m paraphrasing, but it was something like. He probably said this carefree. I probably didn’t hear much LED ZEPPELIN. “
And added:
“I thought it would be interesting to put the first two notes of ‘Something’ at the beginning of ‘The Rain Song’… (In general,) ‘The Rain Song’ It had nothing to do with ‘Something’Then no one would think about it. “
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Source: Rollingstone

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