![]() ![]() “Upon my return from India, I sat in my cottage and sang the songs I had composed out there. Recalling the sessions that yielded his song ‘The Hurdy Gurdy Man’, Donovan suggests that three-quarters of Led Zeppelin may have first bonded making his music: Bonham eventually sought pastures new as Band Of Joy failed to attract decent money for their gigs. Plant and Bonham developed a close personal friendship, as well as bonding over music, Plant becoming influenced by the US West Coast scene as well as the blues and soul that already permeated. Robert Plant hailed from Worcestershire in England, near the Welsh border and cut his musical teeth in the Birmingham area with blues bands like the Crawling King Snakes and the Band Of Joy, a latter incarnation of which featured drummer John Bonham. Since English musicians were allowed only six months a year in America, they were under constant pressure to make every day pay day.” Its release marks the beginning of the Heavy Metal era.’ Ĭontinues Davis “Led Zeppelin II was the product of an English band’s insane life on the road, written in snatches in motel rooms, dressing rooms and studios all over North America. To fit in with all the touring, the tracks were recorded in London, Vancouver and New York as and when time allowed.”Īs Stephen Davis states in ‘Hammer Of The Gods’, the first Led Zeppelin album, released was ‘The band’s early show, recorded in a London studio with a minimum of overdubs, 1968.’ whilst the follow-up Led Zeppelin II aka ‘The Brown Bomber’ was ‘written and recorded on the road in America, 1969. The album had been written in a variety of hotel rooms, breaks and rehearsals, and sometimes during these rehearsals whole numbers took shape virtually on the spot. “The release of ‘Zeppelin Two’ brought in advance orders of 350,000 from the States alone. Every time I moved into a new place, I’d set up my hi-fi before unpacking all the boxes, put this on the turntable and drop the needle on to the start of side one – crackle, crackle, then that familiar snippet of Robert Plant’s laugh before that Jimmy Page riff begins the groove – na na na na na… ”You’ve been cooling, honey I ain’t fooling…” When the drums and bass kick in, the neighbours soon know you’ve arrived and it feels like home… ![]() Since I first picked up a second-hand vinyl copy when I was in my teens, this has been my ‘go to’ Led Zeppelin album.
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