Artist: Led Zeppelin
Album: Led Zeppelin III
Bitrate: 253kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Atlantic
Genre: Rock
Size: 161.18 megs
PlayTime: 1h 24min 37sec total
Rip Date: 2014-05-31
Store Date: 2014-05-30
Track List: Disc #1/2
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01. Immigrant Song 2:27
02. Friends 3:54
03. Celebration Day 3:30
04. Since I've Been Loving You 7:24
05. Out of the Tiles 4:07
06. Gallows Pole 4:57
07. Tangerine 3:11
08. That's The Way 5:37
09. Bron-Y-Aur Stomp 4:17
10. Hats Off To (Roy) Harper 3:44
Track List: Disc #2/2
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01. The Immigrant Song (Alternate 2:25
Mix)
02. Friends (Track - No Vocal) 3:43
03. Celebration Day (Alternate Mix) 3:19
04. Since I've Been Loving You 7:17
(Rough Mix Of First Recording)
05. Bathroom Sound (Track - No 4:01
Vocal)
06. Gallows Pole (Rough Mix) 5:20
07. That's The Way (Rough Mix With 5:23
Dulcimer & Backwards Echo)
08. Jennings Farm Blues (Rough Mix 5:54
Of All Guitar Overdubs That
Day)
09. Key To The Highway/Trouble In 4:07
Mind (Rough Mix)
Release Notes:
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Led Zeppelin was the definitive heavy metal band. It wasn't just their
crushingly loud interpretation of the blues -- it was how they incorporated
mythology, mysticism, and a variety of other genres (most notably world music
and British folk) -- into their sound. Led Zeppelin had mystique. They rarely
gave interviews, since the music press detested the band. Consequently, the only
connection the audience had with the band was through the records and the
concerts. More than any other band, Led Zeppelin established the concept of
album-oriented rock, refusing to release popular songs from their albums as
singles. In doing so, they established the dominant format for heavy metal, as
well as the genre's actual sound.
Led Zeppelin formed out of the ashes of the Yardbirds. Jimmy Page had joined the
band in its final days, playing a pivotal role on their final album, 1967's
Little Games, which also featured string arrangements from John Paul Jones.
During 1967, the Yardbirds were fairly inactive. While the Yardbirds decided
their future, Page returned to session work in 1967. In the spring of 1968, he
played on Jones' arrangement of Donovan's "Hurdy Gurdy Man." During the
sessions, Jones requested to be part of any future project Page would develop.
Page would have to assemble a band sooner than he had planned. In the summer of
1968, the Yardbirds' Keith Relf and James McCarty left the band, leaving Page
and bassist Chris Dreja with the rights to the name, as well as the obligation
of fulfilling an upcoming fall tour. Page set out to find a replacement vocalist
and drummer. Initially, he wanted to enlist singer Terry Reid and Procol Harum's
drummer B.J. Wilson, but neither musician was able to join the group. Reid
suggested that Page contact Robert Plant, who was singing with a band called
Hobbstweedle.
After hearing him sing, Page asked Plant to join the band in August of 1968, the
same month Chris Dreja dropped out of the new project. Following Dreja's
departure, John Paul Jones joined the group as its bassist. Plant recommended
that Page hire John Bonham, the drummer for Plant's old band, the Band of Joy.
Bonham had to be persuaded to join the group, as he was being courted by other
artists who offered the drummer considerably more money. By September, Bonham
agreed to join the band. Performing under the name the New Yardbirds, the band
fulfilled the Yardbirds' previously booked engagements in late September 1968.
The following month, they recorded their debut album in just under 30 hours.
Also in October, the group switched its name to Led Zeppelin. The band secured a
contract with Atlantic Records in the United States before the end of the year.
Early in 1969, Led Zeppelin set out on their first American tour, which helped
set the stage for the January release of their eponymous debut album. Two months
after its release, Led Zeppelin had climbed into the U.S. Top Ten. Throughout
1969, the band toured relentlessly, playing dates in America and England. While
they were on the road, they recorded their second album, Led Zeppelin II, which
was released in October of 1969.
Like its predecessor, Led Zeppelin II was an immediate hit, topping the American
charts two months after its release and spending seven weeks at number one. The
album helped establish Led Zeppelin as an international concert attraction, and
for the next year, the group continued to tour relentlessly. Led Zeppelin's
sound began to deepen with Led Zeppelin III. Released in October of 1970, the
album featured an overt British folk influence. The group's infatuation with
folk and mythology would reach a fruition on the group's untitled fourth album,
which was released in November of 1971. Led Zeppelin IV was the band's most
musically diverse effort to date, featuring everything from the crunching rock
of "Black Dog" to the folk of "The Battle of Evermore," as well as "Stairway to
Heaven," which found the bridge between the two genres. "Stairway to Heaven" was
an immediate radio hit, eventually becoming the most played song in the history
of album-oriented radio; the song was never released as a single. Despite the
fact that the album never reached number one in America, Led Zeppelin IV was
their biggest album ever, selling well over 16 million copies over the next two
and a half decades.
Led Zeppelin did tour to support both Led Zeppelin III and Led Zeppelin IV, but
they played fewer shows than they did on their previous tours. Instead, they
concentrated on only playing larger venues. After completing their 1972 tour,
the band retreated from the spotlight and recorded their fifth album. Released
in the spring of 1973, Houses of the Holy continued the band's musical
experimentation, featuring touches of funk and reggae among their trademark rock
and folk. The success of Houses of the Holy set the stage for a record-breaking
American tour. Throughout their 1973 tour, Led Zeppelin broke box-office records
-- most of which were previously held by the Beatles -- across America. The
group's concert at Madison Square Garden in July was filmed for use in the
feature film The Song Remains the Same, which was released three years later.
After their 1973 tour, Led Zeppelin spent a quiet year during 1974, releasing no
new material and performing no concerts. They did, however, establish their own
record label, Swan Song, which released all of Led Zeppelin's subsequent albums,
as well as records by Dave Edmunds, Bad Company, the Pretty Things, and several
others. Physical Graffiti, a double album released in February of 1975, was the
band's first release on Swan Song. The album was an immediate success, topping
the charts in both America and England. Led Zeppelin launched a large American
tour in 1975, but it came to a halt when Robert Plant and his wife suffered a
serious car crash while vacationing in Greece. The tour was canceled and Plant
spent the rest of the year recuperating from the accident.
Led Zeppelin returned to action in the spring of 1976 with Presence. Although
the album debuted at number one in both America and England, the reviews for the
album were lukewarm, as was the reception to the live concert film The Song
Remains the Same, which appeared in the fall of 1976. The band finally returned
to tour America in the spring of 1977. A couple of months into the tour, Plant's
six-year-old son Karac died of a stomach infection. Led Zeppelin immediately
canceled the tour and offered no word whether or not it would be rescheduled,
causing widespread speculation about the band's future. For a while, it did
appear that Led Zeppelin were finished. Robert Plant spent the latter half of
1977 and the better part of 1978 in seclusion. The group didn't begin work on a
new album until late in the summer of 1978, when they began recording at ABBA's
Polar studios in Sweden. A year later, the band played a short European tour,
performing in Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Belgium, and Austria. In August of
1979, Led Zeppelin played two large concerts at Knebworth; the shows would be
their last English performances.
In Through the Out Door, the band's much-delayed eighth studio album, was
finally released in September of 1979. The album entered the charts at number
one in both America and England. In May of 1980, Led Zeppelin embarked on their
final European tour. In September, Led Zeppelin began rehearsing at Jimmy Page's
house in preparation for an American tour. On September 25, John Bonham was
found dead in his bed -- following an all-day drinking binge, he had passed out
and choked on his own vomit. In December of 1980, Led Zeppelin announced they
were disbanding, since they could not continue without Bonham.
Following the breakup, the remaining members all began solo careers. John Paul
Jones returned to producing and arranging, finally releasing his solo debut,
Zooma, in 1999. After recording the soundtrack for Death Wish II, Jimmy Page
compiled the Zeppelin outtakes collection Coda, which was released at the end of
1982. That same year, Robert Plant began a solo career with the Pictures at
Eleven album. In 1984, Plant and Page briefly reunited in the all-star oldies
band the Honeydrippers. After recording one EP with the Honeydrippers, Plant
returned to his solo career and Page formed the Firm with former Bad Company
singer Paul Rogers. In 1985, Led Zeppelin reunited to play Live Aid, sparking
off a flurry of reunion rumors; the reunion never materialized. In 1988, the
band re-formed to play Atlantic's 25th anniversary concert. During 1989, Page
remastered the band's catalog for release on the 1990 box set Led Zeppelin. The
four-disc set became the biggest-selling multi-disc box set of all time, which
was followed up three years later by another box set, the mammoth ten-disc set
The Complete Studio Recordings.
In 1994, Page and Plant reunited to record a segment for MTV Unplugged, which
was released as No Quarter in the fall of 1994. Although the album went
platinum, the sales were disappointing considering the anticipation of a
Zeppelin reunion. The following year, Page and Plant embarked on a successful
international tour, which eventually led to an all-new studio recording in 1998,
the Steve Albini-produced Walking Into Clarksdale. Surprisingly, the album was
met with a cool reception by the record-buying public, as Page and Plant ended
their union shortly thereafter, once again going their separate ways (Page went
on to tour with the Black Crowes, while Plant resumed his solo career). Further
Zeppelin compilation releases saw the light of day in the late '90s, including
1997's stellar double-disc BBC Sessions, plus Zep's first true best-of
collections -- 1999's Early Days: The Best Of, Vol. 1 and 2000's Latter Days:
The Best Of, Vol. 2. A full reunion of the surviving members of the band, with
Jason Bonham filling in for his late father on drums, took place in 2007 when
the group played a historic concert at London's 02 in memory of Atlantic Records
founder Ahmet Ertegun. The set was filmed and recorded, and finally appeared as
a commercial release under the title Celebration Day in the fall of 2012.