![]() Much has been made of the Headley Grange stairwell that helped capture that massive "Levee" drum sound: "People wonder how that sounds so planetary, but there was a natural echo there, and then they put more on it. Robert Plant's the only one moving at normal speed on "When the Levee Breaks." It's just them getting lined up from the separate takes and all." Instead, the guitarist left them in, thinking it sounded like "the massing of the guitar armies."ģ. The opening sounds of "Black Dog" are a byproduct of studio technology.Īs Case explains, "Page did a lot of overdubbing, so when you've got three separate tracks of guitars to be played together, they have to get synched. So, we stripped everything away, and let the music do the talking."Ģ. "It was designed as our response to the music critics who maintained that the success of our first three albums was driven by hype and not talent. "The cover wasn't meant to antagonize the record company," Jimmy Page told reporter Brad Tolinksi in 2001. ![]() They had a good reason for not including their name or faces on the cover. Listen to Led Zeppelin Perform 'Black Dog'ġ. It's a fantastic read and we highly suggest you check out the book – and of course, this list of 10 Things You Didn't Know About Led Zeppelin IV. So, I was trying to remind the readers about that, that a lot of this was more haphazard than it seems to be in retrospect." ![]() They didn't have time to think about everything they were doing and try to come up with a reasoning for why they made the songs, or what they put on the album covers. ![]() "Those first four albums were made in less than two years, so obviously they were working at a really fast pace. Which makes a lot of sense, given the band's schedule at the time. This is partially done to debunk the sometimes erroneous legends that have surrounded the band over the years: "There seems to have been a mythology put onto them since they broke up, and the fan community has read so much into the music and the album covers and what the band was doing, and when you go back to the actual interviews of what they said they were doing it, they're actually a lot more off-hand about it than people might suspect." ![]()
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