Behind the Recording of Led Zeppelin IV
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- čas přidán 25. 06. 2024
- Led Zeppelin's fourth album was sound of the band cementing their place as one of the biggest hard rock bands of all time. Songs such as ‘Stairway To Heaven’, Rock N Roll’ and ‘Black ‘Dog are true rock classics. This is the story of how it was recorded and the techniques and equipment used.
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I had this album on cassette, wore it out and now I just searched my cd collection for half an hour and *found* *it* !!!.... I'll be jamming this all day tomorrow at work!!
Cool! Such a good album to play from start to finish, enjoy! 🤘
First vinyl album I ever owned as a kid. God was it special. Still is.
My first Zep album about 1976.
Got that one for my Christmas and it still my favorite in my vinyl collection
This album was my introduction to Led Zeppelin in my ninth year of life in 1972 just before my tenth birthday.
Already very affected by the music of those times and very much a lover the Beatles and such, this album changed my life forever. It was magical in so many ways and began a very different path on my musical journey. From the echoes of Robert's vocals and the riff of Black Dog all the way through to the thunder of Levee breaking it shook my soul in a way no music before it had. It was a spiritual experience, Led Zeppelin IV will forever be "that album" for me!
Yup. That must be a good feeling.
Excellent!
I had the exact same experience. A BRILLIANT album. It's funny how the press where so anti Zeppelin, for no real reason, and just kept on piling negative press on them since they first came out (I think it was mainly the brittish press too). That's the reason they didn't put the band name on the album, or their name. One of the press told Page the "only reason they sold albums was because of the name". Of course Page took this to heart. Even so, the press kept giving the album bad reviews, and spoke negatively about them.... but the album sold MILLIONS of copies. A few years ago Rolling Stone came out and said it was one of the best albums of all time. They also apologised for all the negative reviews, saying it was a thing of the times where the press just layed shit on them, and they were wrong to do this. Good on them for saying that. Anyone who listens to this album can tell its brilliant. If you don't like the style of rock'n'roll, then fair call, but you can't argue it's brilliance.
Such an amazing album. It was the second album I bought as a fledging guitarist in the early '70s. Here's a fun fact: Headley Grange was haunted, according to Page in an interview. When they first arrived, he ran up the stairs to claim his bedroom. In the room, he saw an apparition that sent him running down the stairs and he was quoted as saying, "I'm not going back in there."
My all time favorite Led Zep song is Kashmir. That's the song I play when I've been climbing up Mt. Shasta for hours and in the zone of suffering. For me Kashmir is a song about the trials of human suffering, like crossing the Gobi desert.
i seen the song remains the same film at a party and was hooked went out and bought iv the very next day i became a zep fanatic love all their albums equally
Fuck yeah!
Zep 3 has always been my favorite. That acoustic side is brilliant. At the time Stairway to Heaven was played continually 24/7 and to this day I can do without that song.
The references to putting the harmonica through an old Fender Princeton amp mention one speaker missing (implying more than one speaker was stock) and the use of tremolo effect. The late-1950's tweed covered Fender Princeton shown has only one speaker (as do all versions of the Princeton), and it did not have tremolo. Tremolo was introduced to the Princeton in 1961, during the 'brown panel' era, when the Princeton went from a single-ended, 6V6GT design to a push-pull design requiring 2 6V6GT output tubes. The 1960's Princetons were very different animals from the 1950's tweed Princetons.
I don’t know where they got this reference for the way the harmonica on “When the Levee Breaks” was recorded. I’ve never seen any interview referenced with anyone in or around the band that mentioned this Fender Princeton business.
I remember hearing this album for the very first time when I was a kid away on a camping trip with the Boy Scouts. The opening vocals and the guitar riff on black dog just floored me. Suddenly Kiss was no longer my favourite band!
Great memories, 😃 you were moving up the rock n roll leagues!
You made the right choice my friend 😂
We need a led zeppelin 3 video on this
Good idea!
Extremely interesting, this is the greatest album ever recorded in my opinion.
I was always intrigued by it, thank you for sharing it...
Thank you!
Great album.
Brilliant videos, I hope you do every Zeppelin album 😂🤘
😅 Thank you! I’ll try 🤞
thank you for taking the time and effort to research compile and bring all the stories, photographs aand music together and taking us on a journey through the process of the makings of one of the most innovative and brilliant albums ever laid to wax!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it 😃
Black dog wasn't that song written by Jones? Jones had more to do with zeps songs more than page/plant did. Zeppelin were a great collage band. Zeppelin lV is my favourite record by them👍🏻
Monumental. One word.
The Vox Phantom XII electric twelve string was also used in conjunction with the Fender Electric XII on “Stairway To Heaven” from the untitled fourth album.
So much I still didn't know about this. Great research.
Thank you!
I don't think I've run across your channel before. I expected to see the same old tale of magic mic placement on "Levee" whilst leaving out the Binson. Nicely done.
Oh so that’s why the guitars on Black Dog sounds like bees in my skull
Great video as always!
Thank you! 🙏
Brilliant . Excellent post !
Thank you!
Led Zeppelin put out 4 (Four) albums in 1968, 1969, and 1970. Zero chance that will happen again from any good band today, there are none!
Weezer?
When the Levee Breaks is a song that I can honestly say I've listened to 500 times. I won't listen to anything else off from 4, but Levee is to good.
what’s wrong with the rest of the album?
@@Nobodyimportant696 nothing.
you’re missing out on a great album sadly
That's silly
@@JuniorFarquar people have the attention span of a household fly these days. to him that’s a single.
I get it.
Awesome awesome video man. I have heard this story and read this story so many times and you brought so much new stuff to it that I never heard before and new pictures that I never seen before. Bravo work man I really enjoyed it!
Thank you! 🙏
Its hard to believe Led Zep IV came out in '71. Its hard to believe that if you were fighting in World War II, then Led Zep would be recording just 23 years later. The two seem like radically different times in history, yet only 23 years apart. 23 years ago was 2001, that doesn't seem like a different era, yet Led Zep and WWII don't seem like adjacent eras.
Almost unbelievable really Every year must have been like 5 during that period!
I agree that the solo was done on the Fender Dragon Telecaster. (Page has stated so in multiple interviews.) The amp however is probably not the Supro. That amp has a unique sound and the solo sounds different. It could be the VOX AC30 (or 15) which Page is known to have used or some other amp. Page hasn't elaborated.
Jones played mandolin on Going To California.
Cheers for the correction! 🙏
From what I could find online, the first version of the Mobile Studio was in a BMC truck (as you can see on the Headley Grange photos). It was only in 1979 that it was moved to the DAF truck.
Thanks for the info 🙏
Good video!! And nice editing
Thank you!
@@mixingmasteringonline no problem!
Bonzos Jensen interceptor featured.
Kramer's recording and mixing was so muddy it sounded like a record from the 1930s
Amazing video and such great, intriguing info. Why would Jimmy plug straight into the board as opposed to an amp micd up? Interested to know the reasoning, such ingenious designs by this man. Jimmy was a monster.
Thank you! He was just in pursuit of something different I suppose. Lennon did it on Revolution too and overloaded the tube desk for that tone.
The "recorders" on Stairway are a Mellotron keyboard. Probably the same sound tapes as the Beatles used on Fool on the Hill.
The Echorec is also featured on the mandolin track on Evermore. On the official video they show a photo of the tape box and it says Robert played the guitar.
Cool didn’t know about the Echrec on evermore. I think actual recorders were used for the recording and Mellotron were used live to recreate it.
@@mixingmasteringonline I believe you're correct, it was actually a recorder on the recording and re-created with the mellotron live !
71? Damn I was born 9/23/1968
Amazing video. Very informative! What is the background music. It sounds like Zeplin but maybe in a different key. What did you use for the music? Thank you!!
Thank you! It was from some session demos for the album.
3 was their best album
I am with you on that.
The rolling truck stones thing was right outside( smoke on the water)..I may have botched the quote
😅 close enough!
zep rivaled the beatles with the excellent backmask on stairway
Grande Led faz do fisical graffitt
Looks like a BMC truck outside Headley Grange? 🤔🤷♂️
0:34 What is that instrument on the far right? Balalaika?
Yeah, looks like it. Looks very awkward to play..
ZEPPELIN III when???
2:02 What is "A complete set of Dolbys"?
Good spot! Maybe all the noise reduction options they had?
What's the track playing in the background circa the 3 minute mark?
It’s a tape of demos/rehearsals for the album.
@@mixingmasteringonline interesting..where did you find that?
@@Boleskinebeatz this video has it i think plus lots more, czcams.com/video/Jo9PvSWVmdE/video.html
Sounds like the rhythm tracks during the guitar solo in Stairway to Heaven.
Critics still aren't sure about it. Lol
Brilliantly recorded LP. But I'd have paid the extra 1000£ to NOT live & record at Hedley Grange: a dirty, freezing, haunted, rat infested mold pit. But Jimmy did love his haunted black magic buildings...🤷♂️
Lol
I thought stairway was done on a j-200 (beginning)
1:46 - Who is the goddess on the left?
Might be Keith's girlfriend at the time, Anita Pallenberg?
LZ III incredible? Ah... no. Not even.
IV is perhaps one of the greatest and best produced albums of all time
Kramer's recording and mixing was so muddy it sounded like a record from the 1930s