LED ZEPPELIN - LED ZEPPELIN (1969)

Músicos: Robert Plant (vocal e gaita), Jimmy Page (guitarra, violão e backing vocal), John Paul Jones (baixo, órgão e backing vocal) e John Bonham (bateria e backing vocal) + Viran Jasani (tablas).

Faixas:
Good times bad times
Babe I'm gonna leave you
You shook me
Dazed and confused
Your time is gonna come
Black Mountain Side
Communication Breakdown
I Can't Quit You Baby
How Many More Times

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Pouco tempo após a sua primeira digressão, o grupo editou o seu primeiro álbum Led Zeppelin em 1969. Este álbum resultava de uma combinação entre o blues e o rock com amplificações distorcidas, o que o levou a tornar-se no pivot na evolução do heavy metal. O imediato sucesso do disco foi o pontapé de saída para a carreira da banda, especialmente no EUA, onde eles haveriam de actuar frequentemente, e onde as suas vendas de discos apenas foram suplantadas pelos Beatles.

Led Zeppelin: Robert Plant (vocals, harmonica); Jimmy Page (acoustic, electric, & pedal steel guitars, background vocals); John Paul Jones (organ, bass, background vocals); John Bonham (drums, tympani, background vocals). Additional personnel: Viram Jasani (tablas). Recorded at Olympic Studios, London, England in October 1968. Rising from the ashes of his old band the Yardbirds, session guitarist Jimmy Page formed Led Zeppelin, one of the most powerful, influential, and enduring British bands to emerge in the '60s. Despite the presence of such classic thrash-o-ramas as "Good Times Bad Times" and "Communication Breakdown," what set Led Zeppelin apart was the depth and range of their music. Their sound was bathed in the blues, from rootsy covers of Willie Dixon's "You Shook Me" and "I Can't Quit You Baby," to the crunching rhythm changes of "Dazed And Confused." Few guitarists before or since possessed Page's sense of pacing and dynamics, as exemplified by the traditional acoustic folk elements framing the arena gestures on "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You," and the raga-flavored acoustic mystery of "Black Mountain Side." These elements would continue to evolve on subsequent albums, leading to some of Led Zeppelin's greatest moments.
Atlantic Records 1994 remastered reissue of 1969 album.