I've listened to everything they've produced in one sitting, LZ II... quintessential is definitely the word. (That was a great day, tough 12hr shift, every song and every album, these m************ did not mess about)
I listened to Pink Floyd's discography start to finish too, also great if you can stomach 'The Early Years/ Cambridge Station' right at the start. ( Needed to throw in 'The Madcap Laughs' to sanitise myself before going into Gilmour period!)
It is. I get sick of it after a while and keep going back to it later. Same goes for ZOSO, Houses and PG. Such great albums, but II beats them all by a p-hair.
This album changed my life. I found a blank cassette that recorded this album. I had no idea what was on it and who they were. What blew me away was the rhythm section of JPJ and Bonham. It was funky, groovy, and heavy. The way I view and hear music hasn’t been the same since this band and album.
I had an opportunity to ask Eddie Kramer about the bass sound on Led Zeppelin 2 at a clinic he was doing one time. It’s such a classic sound. I always thought it was a Fender Jazz. He said that he thought it was a P Bass directly into the board but he went back and forth on that a couple of time, and finally came back with “What you’ve got to remember is that ‘Johnsey’ is probably the finest rock bassist of all time and that’s what really produced that bass sound”. I don’t think anyone can disagree with that.
When I was 10 years old, I came home with a Kiss album (Destoyer). My brother said if you think that is good, then you must listen to this .He handed me Led Zeppelin ll.. My life was forever changed .
Led Zeppelin II is the best rock album of all time. The sonics, the groove, the vast scapes of sound created were otherworldly and I am sure that all the traveling and being in different spaces to produce and mix it gave it more of that mojo. It truly blew my mind as a very young boy listening to that album, putting the needle on the record and being transported to another dimension. Whole Lotta Love changed my life!
First album I bought with my own money as a 9 yr old back in '72. Couldn't wait to get home, put on my dad's headphones, and put Whole Lotta Love on volume level 10! Holding that album cover in my hands and staring at it, knowing I was looking at something that was already a part of rock history.
Only Led Zep afficionados remember the 2nd album; almost everyone (fan or not) knows the Abbey Road by the Beatles. It's the Beatles man! From boy band (who actually play instruments) then psychedelic rockers and eventual icons.
Led Zeppelin II is one of the all time great mixes in popular music. Much of that is due to the music itself but the mix is adventurous to match. New ground was broken and the end result is almost unbelievable.
I was the sole customer at an audiophile quality stereo store in San Francisco a few years ago where stereos commonly cost over $50,000 and can run into hundreds of thousands and was considering my first purchase of high end audio. They asked me what I wanted to hear first and my mind went blank and then all I could think of was Whole Lotta Love which embarrassed the hell out of me and I think even heard a staff member exhale in suppressed disgust. But the moment completely changed when it started to play: I was blown away by how awesome it sounded! I was blown away by Led Zeppelin all over again. Its true what they commonly say in the high end audiophile world: A big upgrade will make your whole music library sound like you're hearing it for the first time all over again.
In 1970, when I was about 14, I'd ride home from school at lunchtime to an empty house, make myself a quick jam sandwich & then lie on the floor, with my ear right next to the single speaker of our Dancette & blast out Led Zep II as loud as it could go! Happy days...
You explained to me the pre delay on the vocal track was bleed over! I have always wondered about that, it is such a part of the song and I thank you for that. That also explains the bleed over on riders on the Storm at the end. 👍
l just love how every album has a unique mix and life of its own. The mix is just as important as the material. The book, "Light and Shade: Conversations with Jimmy Page" gives great insights into Jimmy's evolution as a studio musician. For nearly a decade he was like a hawk, quietly watching all the engineers in various studios. He explicitly said that he had a certain notion of how he wanted to record drums. And when Bonham came along? It was destiny itself.
@@mixingmasteringonline Agreed. So many underestimate how great he was. I mean, he was on TV at 15, playing 'skiffle' in that famous clip. How many 15 year olds can do that? His right hand technique of hybrid picking is, I believe his secret weapon. As a guitarist, I will flat out declare that he is perhaps the most difficult guitarist to copy precisely because of his right hand. It's how he gets all those counter rhythms and odd notes inside of certain phrases. "The Song Remains The Same" is a perfect example of this technique. He picked that skill up at a very young age from influences like Scotty Moore and rockabilly guys. Yeah... he had a lot going on long before Zeppelin.
@@Tyrell_Corp2019 "So many underestimate how great he was." Agreed, like the royal family of idiots that deemed him only worthy of an OBE when he _clearly_ is deserving of being SIR Jimmy Page. But hey, as long as Brian May (rolls eyes) has a knighthood.
This was the album that introduced me to "stereo" as I listened on my parents' console stereo through a pair of headphones I made and plugged in through a Radio Shack headphone "adapter". It's a wonder I lived to hear Led Zeppelin III. The panning techniques Kramer used have impacted my mixing techniques. I love listening to "stereo". By the way... I just got my first set of hearing aids last week. Go figure...
The sonics! I'll never forget getting the moldy-smelling LPs gifted from my uncle and dropping the needle down on Side One with stereo headphones... The left-right pans and ghostly tracking vocals were something special. Roll another for Side Two... (Bravo! Once again, the background tracks here really bring it on home. 😉🙏)
Led Zeppelin II is my favorite Led Zeppelin album. It was so different and fresh when it came out. I remember hearing "Whole Lotta Love" on the radio. I liked the song so much, I went to the music store and bought the album. At first, I didn't like the other songs on the album but, after repeated listenings, I learned to love all the songs. There isn't a bad song on Led Zeppelin II.
@@pangeaproxima3681Yes the one that had a shocking impact on rock reality. Ask anyone who was a rocker or a musician then...it had a massive impact. I was a little kid and it blew my mind.
Awesome. Led Zeppelin IV was given to me first, but I was in 4th grade and into KISS. It wasn’t until 5th grade I bought Led Zep II that I became a fanatic. This album f’in rules.
this is great stuff. Thanks for the detail. This is "THE" Led Zep album in my opinion. The magic is in the limitations. Like the Beatles before them, it was because they didn't use every piece of gear known to man but a selected toolset that did the trick. We could learn a lot from this idea now! Cheers
nice work - i still have the vinyl(s) - and it's amazing to hold them and spin them after all these years. There are two Led Zep bands - multitrack recording perfection and the live 3 piece embodiment. Both remarkable.
ROBERT PLANT.... HIS VOICE ON THE FIRST ALBUM WAS AT IT'S VERY BEST EVER....ROBUST, STRONG, ABSOLUTELY MY FAVORITE SINGER OF ALL TIME. 2ND ALBUM WAS A HIT MACHINE. NO OTHER BAND HAS SUCH A VAST CATALOG OF GREAT SONGS....NOBODY IMHO RESPECT
Given that Led Zeppelin I (the debut) was recorded _and_ mixed in 1968, it sounds incredibly modern for the time. 1968 was still a time of wonky stereo mixes, with mono drums to one side, bass on the other. LZI‘s mix sounds full-bodied and balanced, no doubt credit to Glyn Johns. I find it actually even overshadows LZ II in certain sonic aspects and freshness.
THE GREATEST LIVE SHOW WAS MADISON SQUARE GARDEN SONG REMAINS THE SAME DAZED AND CONFUSED JIMMY IS AWESOME ON GUITAR . JOHN PAUL JONES AMAZING, JHON BONHAM UNBELIEVABLE. THE MOST ICONIC BAND IN THE WORLD . I LIUSTEN TO ZEPPLIN EVERY DAY SINCE 1975 . AND I WILL NEVER STOP LISTENING, THE FIRST ALBUM MY SISTER LET ME LISTEN TO WAS HOUSES OF THE HOLY , I WAS BLOWN AWAY.. LOVE WITH ALL MY HEART TOO ALL ROBERT PLANT , GREATEST SINGER , JIMMY PAG BLOWS ALL GUITARESTS AWAY , JHON BONHAM TRULY WAS ICONIC IN HIS PROCUSSION, HE DOMINATEATED THE DRUMS SET, JHON PAUL JONES TRULY A WIZ AT ALL INTRAMENTS MY HAT GOES OFF TO YOU ALL.
Thanks for this most informative video. I've always known Eddie Kramer was Jimi Hendrix's wizard studio engineer but now I find he was also the one workin' his magic for Led Zeppelin...WOW!
This is great. I always wondered about the leading vocal under Robert's lead at the end. Fantastic insight into the recording of this classic. How lucky we are now days with digital DAWS and soo many tracks and cut and paste and gadgets galore and still we can't better this album. Audio engineering schools should have semesters on recording with 4 tracks analogue, minimum mics, fx, and time limits to get songs down. Thanks for the post, brilliant.
Zeppelin!! Hard rock godheads! The peak of the mountain! The best!! LZ 2 is a masterpiece of no comparison! After all these years it kills like no other!👏👍👍
Good stuff! It really is amazing just how technically savvy and ahead of their times bands like Zeppelin were considering the technology of the day was hardware and not software. As a kid you just waited for the next album to come out and went to the record store to buy it. Most never knew the incredible backstory to making the albums only that the music grabbed your soul.
Before I could even read, I must have been 4 or 5, my parents had a big dresser type thing in our living room that had a big cd player on it. And inside one of the drawers of the dresser was my dad’s CDs. I remember when he’d leave for work and I was home with my mom, I’d open that drawer and find the album, to me it was “the album with the guys in top hats” 😂 I remember putting that cd on and my little 5 year old brain just being completely blown away by the opening riff of Whole Lotta Love. I knew absolutely nothing about music at that age, but something about the fuzziness of the guitar and how heavy it sounded just mesmerized me. Now some almost 30 years later, it still does the same thing to this day, even hearing it thousands of times. That whole album is ingrained into my dna. One of the best rock albums, and the first one I ever fell in love with.
Cheers! Yeah, a few people pointed that out. I haven't come across the RE15 but I do know the D19. I've since learnt that the body is the same but the capsule is different apparently.
The picture at 6:20, seems to show JPJ playing that show through a (possibly borrowed) Sunn rig. The woofy Acoustic 360's, JPJ favored were dreadful in many ways, but were one of the few 1960's bass amps loud enough to keep up with a Marshall stack.
@@mixingmasteringonline I think the simple answer is that music technology got way better and modern rock bassists desired more treble/articulation than earlier players. Acoustic 360's definitely provided solid bottom end but the introduction of the Ampeg SVT with 8-10" speakers gave all the bottom with more clarity.
I wouldn't call them dreadful. I have one and it sounds glorious. And it's not all bottomy as you would think with the 18" speaker and all. It can cut. A 5 notch vari-amp and even a bright switch helps bring out some sizzle. And the built in fuzz......One of the best fuzz tones I have heard.
@@burtreynolds2969 I should have picked my words more carefully. My experience is from a band mate back around 1974 and maybe his taste was the problem. Peace.
Amazing. Recording and engineering one of the greatest rock albums of all time in a piece meal fashion, with what by today's standard would be considered a hammer and chisel. A testament to how skilled engineers were before they could rely on software and cut & paste.
So many choices but "The Brown Bomb" is my fave for sure from Zep. I still listen to their catalog of material as much as when I first heard them in the mid 70's. Truly timeless.
A couple personal Led Zeppelin memories and a piece of opinion thrown in. I believe that Page in his day was the greatest all around guitar player, he touched all sides of music as a master. I don't believe he gets enough credit for being a masterful producer and with JP Jones on board himself a master musician...... Boom. I can't name a favorite Zep album,they are all so different and musically diverse, I love them all. My brother and his buddy for my birthday in 1976 painted the cover of Zep 1 on my bedroom wall, floor to ceiling exactly like the album, I had the coolest bedroom in all of Warwick Rhode Island. My buddy in JR high school was a Stones fan and didn't get Zep cause he didn't listen, I invited him over one morning and set the stereo speakers on each side of my bed, we smoked a joint and I plugged in Zeppelin 2 8 track cranked it full blast on Whole Lotta Love, my buddy half way through was yelling this is blowing my fucking mind 🎉😂, He went and bought 3 Zeppelin 8 tracks the next day. There is another Zep story about Dazed and Confused and purple microdot...... I will leave that one out. Lol.
Great work on this video. I think Led Zeppelin 2 WAS the turning point for them that solidified their musical efforts and let them know that they could be here for a while. I would just like to point out a couple of things, if i may- the guitar in question being used by Page at 4:17, the one used on Ramble On, was not a Vox country western nor an EKO 6, it was in fact a EROS 606 Dakota model which was an Italian made acoustic guitar. Jimmy Page did use an EKO Ranger 12-string acoustic guitar but that was circa 1970-1971. Also Led Zeppelin 2 did knock Abbey Road off the top of the number one spot but fun fact: Abbey Road knocked LZ 2 off the number one spot a couple of weeks later. This went back and forth until the early part of 1970. Total number of weeks at number 1- Led Zeppelin 2= 7 weeks. Abbey Road= 11 weeks. Awesome stuff man, wonder if you could do Queen’s A night at the opera, that would be awesome. Rock on 🤘
There's such a curious, elusive, 'chime-y,' crystalline quality behind the distortion of the strumming guitar parts of Whole Lotta Love that I've been curious to sus out for a while. I've always had the suspicion that it was either due to a unique peculiarity of a tube amp that Page used or that it's one of a swathe of many numerous possible analog effects and adjustments they may have mixed in - This is such a great insight for that curiosity.
There’s a video where Page said that he recorded it with a Les Paul into a Vox UL4120 solid state amp with a Rickenbacker Transonic cab, and there some studio plate reverb on it too. I have a ‘67 Vox Berkeley II solid state amp and I tried plugging my Les Paul into it to see if I could get the same sound and it sounded just like it when I cranked the amp up. I always thought it was a Marshall amp.
I saw them at the Boston tea party in Jan69, then a few months later at the Carousel Theatre in Natick Mass then at Boston Garden where ZepII was being sold in the Lobby. They went from playing to maybe 700 at the tea party to 2500 at The Carousel, (a tent with rotating stage) to 20k at Bos Garden by Nov. Between shows they wrote and recorded ZepII.. That's a stunning 9 mon of productivity!
Eddie Kramer.....one of the absolute greats!....Side note: For those who love bootlegs...the boot called "Listen To This Eddie" is NOT a reference to Eddie Kramer as MANY people think.....it is a reference to Eddie Van Halen........Awesome boot by the way....and performance.
In the video, the guy talking said the Les Paul Jimmy bought from Joe Walsh in 1969 is a 1960 Les Paul. That's wrong. Led Zeppelin was on tour for their first record in the USA, opening for James Gang, and Jimmy was playing the Dragon Tele. Jimmy watched Joe play his Les Paul, and that was what Jimmy wanted. Joe Walsh was living in New York, and when the tour ended there, Joe brought Jimmy to his house because he had two 1959 Les Pauls. One of them had the baseball bat neck, and the other had a slim taper neck. In 1960, Gibson made the Les Pauls with a slim taper neck because a lot of players were requesting them. Joe sent one of the 1959 Les Pauls to his luthier so he could shave it down to the 1960 spec. That is the guitar Jimmy Page bought from Joe Walsh.
Great stuff! Thanks. To me, the amazing thing about Zep II from a production standpoint, is that when you listen to it you'd never guess it was made across so many studios. It has a sonic continuity like it was all done in one place. At least to my ears.
@@mixingmasteringonlinerecording in so many different places was already a very modern thing for the time. It must've been a pain in the ass to do and get a cohesive sound considering it's still difficult nowadays.
@@artysanmobileFor sure, having the same people do the whole thing definitely helps. But it's still hard to create perfect cohesion across patchworks like these. It's an art on its own. I love mixing.
Whole Lotta Love is a classic riff to this day. Masterpiece! Bring it on Home is a tour de force riff also. Powerful! Ramble On is an acoustic beautiful song. Joe Walsh did Jimmy a huge favor when he sold him a vintage Gibson Les Paul sunburst. It became Jimmy's favorite guitar from then on. Moby Dick has an undeniable monolithic riff, giving way to a Bonzo drum solo. Heartbreaker and Living Loving Maid are also magic riffage.
The breakdown of how the individual instruments were recorded during the first to Led Zeppelin records is definitely informative. There's definitely something to be said about how the hardware used to create reverb, echo and modulation effects was employed. However, I'm sort of convinced that the most significant negative info is the Glynn John's method of capturing the drums and percussion. It is Leap Year 2024 as I comment. My 12th solo record, *The Price that Fools will Pay,* is out today. Of all the recordings I've made on my own, the only one to include a regular drum kit is my self-titled debut, *Eric Benjamin Gordon,* which is also the only record I've made in a facility other than my own. Since then, I've (mostly) depended upon electronically-triggered percussion in lieu of traditional drums. In the future, if I found myself at liberty to include a regular kit on my tracks again, I imagine I would attempt to use the method employed by Glynn John's in capturing John Bonham's playing.
Jimmy was the multi talented business man that was a great recording producer and nuances in sounds explorer ... Tape recording and listening to it is 1000X more interesting than Digital but Digital DSD is a great for preservation of old master tapes ..
I've been seeing this on my feed for a good while now. Like the Hammer of the Gods were trying to get my attention. Watching this and hearing for the first how some of the sounds were created gave me such a hard on that I have decided to do a Led Zeppelin binge fest starting in 3, 2...
04:51 - that's not a Super Beatle; it's a Vox 4120 (bass amp - the guitar version was the 7 series: 730 and 7120) a phenomenally rare failed line from Vox. People were returning them right and left and Vox cancelled the line almost immediately and scrapped all the returned amps. Best guesses say there are fewer than a hundred left in existence.
Just a note😉, the Walsh LP cost was + a return first class transatlantic flight, not an insignificant sum then. Btw try an Eko Ranger ( not really a 6) . You can pick them up for buttons. Bolt on neck but the quality of the wood is superb. The zero fret might take some getting used to used to but spend £75 on a set up and a fret dress and you’ll be a happy bunny.
I was absolutely exscoriated for saying LZii is thr best album. Here we are, all the accolates. Good to read. It is the LZ album put on my turntable most often, along with the debut.
I think Led Zeppelin II is the quintessential Led Zeppelin album
I've listened to everything they've produced in one sitting, LZ II... quintessential is definitely the word. (That was a great day, tough 12hr shift, every song and every album, these m************ did not mess about)
I listened to Pink Floyd's discography start to finish too, also great if you can stomach 'The Early Years/ Cambridge Station' right at the start. ( Needed to throw in 'The Madcap Laughs' to sanitise myself before going into Gilmour period!)
It is. I get sick of it after a while and keep going back to it later. Same goes for ZOSO, Houses and PG. Such great albums, but II beats them all by a p-hair.
Indeed.
I'd say IV is. There are no folk songs on II and Zep's folkiness is a quintessential part of them.
I walked 4 miles through the snow to EJ Korvettes, and with my Christmas Money…bought Abbey Road and Led Zeppelin II. Pretty cool purchase I’d say.
A very successful shopping trip ! 😃
We had a Korvettes in Morton Grove, IL. Where was yours located?
E J korvettes......classic!!!!
@@sloprun Parkville, Maryland. Joppa rd at Perring Pkwy. Perring Place Shopping Center.
That's dedication!
This album changed my life. I found a blank cassette that recorded this album. I had no idea what was on it and who they were. What blew me away was the rhythm section of JPJ and Bonham. It was funky, groovy, and heavy. The way I view and hear music hasn’t been the same since this band and album.
I had an opportunity to ask Eddie Kramer about the bass sound on Led Zeppelin 2 at a clinic he was doing one time. It’s such a classic sound. I always thought it was a Fender Jazz. He said that he thought it was a P Bass directly into the board but he went back and forth on that a couple of time, and finally came back with “What you’ve got to remember is that ‘Johnsey’ is probably the finest rock bassist of all time and that’s what really produced that bass sound”. I don’t think anyone can disagree with that.
The bassline on WTLB is such a mood
That STILL doesn’t answer the question though 🤣 I think it’s a J bass
That STILL doesn’t answer the question though 🤣 I think it’s a J bass
that's because JPJ is the GOAT
Personally, I think it’s a Jazz bass
Ramble On, a priceless ageless work of art. i never tire of it now @ 77 still rambling on.
My first Zeppelin album. You never forget your first.
When I was 10 years old, I came home with a Kiss album (Destoyer). My brother said if you think that is good, then you must listen to this .He handed me Led Zeppelin ll.. My life was forever changed .
Led Zeppelin II is the best rock album of all time. The sonics, the groove, the vast scapes of sound created were otherworldly and I am sure that all the traveling and being in different spaces to produce and mix it gave it more of that mojo. It truly blew my mind as a very young boy listening to that album, putting the needle on the record and being transported to another dimension. Whole Lotta Love changed my life!
First album I bought with my own money as a 9 yr old back in '72. Couldn't wait to get home, put on my dad's headphones, and put Whole Lotta Love on volume level 10! Holding that album cover in my hands and staring at it, knowing I was looking at something that was already a part of rock history.
There Will Never Be Another Band Like LED Zeppelin In History
They Were Just Iconic.
The Darkness come damn close, though
Thank God! They blow
@@douglasfuerst9363 ok Mr. No Content🙄🤣
why are you capitalising each word that kind of writing is so annoying
@@earthbound914 Didn’t know this was spelling class.
The 2nd album 💿 knocked The Beetles Abbey Road off the #1 spot on the charts.
Yes, but Abbey Road came out four weeks earlier than LZ II, so it had mostly run its course.
Beatles
Beatles. Not beetles.
Only Led Zep afficionados remember the 2nd album; almost everyone (fan or not) knows the Abbey Road by the Beatles. It's the Beatles man! From boy band (who actually play instruments) then psychedelic rockers and eventual icons.
@@theloniouscoltrane3778 The 2nd album has their Whole Lotta Love
Greatest album of all time, front to back!
Led Zeppelin II is one of the all time great mixes in popular music. Much of that is due to the music itself but the mix is adventurous to match. New ground was broken and the end result is almost unbelievable.
ok, ok... you're such a _genius._
Just a heads up to serious readers. I’ve got some 7th grader troll with a phone in my comments. Ignore @pangeaproxima3681. He’ll go away.
I was the sole customer at an audiophile quality stereo store in San Francisco a few years ago where stereos commonly cost over $50,000 and can run into hundreds of thousands and was considering my first purchase of high end audio. They asked me what I wanted to hear first and my mind went blank and then all I could think of was Whole Lotta Love which embarrassed the hell out of me and I think even heard a staff member exhale in suppressed disgust. But the moment completely changed when it started to play: I was blown away by how awesome it sounded! I was blown away by Led Zeppelin all over again. Its true what they commonly say in the high end audiophile world: A big upgrade will make your whole music library sound like you're hearing it for the first time all over again.
In 1970, when I was about 14, I'd ride home from school at lunchtime to an empty house, make myself a quick jam sandwich & then lie on the floor, with my ear right next to the single speaker of our Dancette & blast out Led Zep II as loud as it could go!
Happy days...
You explained to me the pre delay on the vocal track was bleed over! I have always wondered about that, it is such a part of the song and I thank you for that. That also explains the bleed over on riders on the Storm at the end. 👍
l just love how every album has a unique mix and life of its own. The mix is just as important as the material. The book, "Light and Shade: Conversations with Jimmy Page" gives great insights into Jimmy's evolution as a studio musician. For nearly a decade he was like a hawk, quietly watching all the engineers in various studios. He explicitly said that he had a certain notion of how he wanted to record drums. And when Bonham came along? It was destiny itself.
Even by this young age, he must have had so much studio experience and know how.
@@mixingmasteringonline Agreed. So many underestimate how great he was. I mean, he was on TV at 15, playing 'skiffle' in that famous clip. How many 15 year olds can do that? His right hand technique of hybrid picking is, I believe his secret weapon. As a guitarist, I will flat out declare that he is perhaps the most difficult guitarist to copy precisely because of his right hand. It's how he gets all those counter rhythms and odd notes inside of certain phrases. "The Song Remains The Same" is a perfect example of this technique. He picked that skill up at a very young age from influences like Scotty Moore and rockabilly guys. Yeah... he had a lot going on long before Zeppelin.
Very true. Every album has it's own character, but also has that trademark sound.
@@Tyrell_Corp2019 "So many underestimate how great he was."
Agreed, like the royal family of idiots that deemed him only worthy of an OBE when he _clearly_ is deserving of being SIR Jimmy Page. But hey, as long as Brian May (rolls eyes) has a knighthood.
This was the album that introduced me to "stereo" as I listened on my parents' console stereo through a pair of headphones I made and plugged in through a Radio Shack headphone "adapter". It's a wonder I lived to hear Led Zeppelin III. The panning techniques Kramer used have impacted my mixing techniques. I love listening to "stereo". By the way... I just got my first set of hearing aids last week. Go figure...
The sonics! I'll never forget getting the moldy-smelling LPs gifted from my uncle and dropping the needle down on Side One with stereo headphones... The left-right pans and ghostly tracking vocals were something special. Roll another for Side Two...
(Bravo! Once again, the background tracks here really bring it on home. 😉🙏)
Great memories! I bet you can still remember the smell. Thank you! 🙏
Led Zeppelin II is my favorite Led Zeppelin album. It was so different and fresh when it came out. I remember hearing "Whole Lotta Love" on the radio. I liked the song so much, I went to the music store and bought the album. At first, I didn't like the other songs on the album but, after repeated listenings, I learned to love all the songs. There isn't a bad song on Led Zeppelin II.
ok, ok...now we know.
Best rock album of all time overall!
@@andrewSUN17 _What?_
@@pangeaproxima3681Yes the one that had a shocking impact on rock reality. Ask anyone who was a rocker or a musician then...it had a massive impact. I was a little kid and it blew my mind.
Moby Dick is boring.
This was AWESOME!!!
More Zeppelin please 🙏🏻
Awesome. Led Zeppelin IV was given to me first, but I was in 4th grade and into KISS. It wasn’t until 5th grade I bought Led Zep II that I became a fanatic. This album f’in rules.
ok, ok...now we all know.
Led Zeepelin and Kiss should never be in the same sentence.
this is great stuff. Thanks for the detail. This is "THE" Led Zep album in my opinion. The magic is in the limitations. Like the Beatles before them, it was because they didn't use every piece of gear known to man but a selected toolset that did the trick. We could learn a lot from this idea now! Cheers
Cheers! Absolutely ,a lot of soul comes through with this approach.
Yes, but you really need superb musicianship to use it successfully! @@mixingmasteringonline
nice work - i still have the vinyl(s) - and it's amazing to hold them and spin them after all these years.
There are two Led Zep bands - multitrack recording perfection and the live 3 piece embodiment. Both remarkable.
Greatest rock album of all time
ROBERT PLANT.... HIS VOICE ON THE FIRST ALBUM WAS AT IT'S VERY BEST EVER....ROBUST, STRONG, ABSOLUTELY MY FAVORITE SINGER OF ALL TIME. 2ND ALBUM WAS A HIT MACHINE. NO OTHER BAND HAS SUCH A VAST CATALOG OF GREAT SONGS....NOBODY IMHO RESPECT
Indeed
Given that Led Zeppelin I (the debut) was recorded _and_ mixed in 1968, it sounds incredibly modern for the time. 1968 was still a time of wonky stereo mixes, with mono drums to one side, bass on the other. LZI‘s mix sounds full-bodied and balanced, no doubt credit to Glyn Johns. I find it actually even overshadows LZ II in certain sonic aspects and freshness.
I very nearly did Led Zep I as it’s their introduction to the world but the songs on Led Zep II swung it for me.
Jimmy Page was a great producer…..smart too. He owns all the Zeppelin master tapes.
I agree. One, for 1968 was an incredible recording.
I believe LZ II was the first album to only be sold in a stereo format. Page obviously didn’t want people to settle for an inferior sound with mono.
@@PeterTea All that panning on "Whole Lotta Love" was dramatic.
My friend Chris Huston was one of the engineers on that album. The stories are marvelous.
Wow! What a privilege to hear those stories first hand.
THE GREATEST LIVE SHOW WAS MADISON SQUARE GARDEN SONG REMAINS THE SAME DAZED AND CONFUSED JIMMY IS AWESOME ON GUITAR . JOHN PAUL JONES AMAZING, JHON BONHAM UNBELIEVABLE. THE MOST ICONIC BAND IN THE WORLD . I LIUSTEN TO ZEPPLIN EVERY DAY SINCE 1975 . AND I WILL NEVER STOP LISTENING, THE FIRST ALBUM MY SISTER LET ME LISTEN TO WAS HOUSES OF THE HOLY , I WAS BLOWN AWAY.. LOVE WITH ALL MY HEART TOO ALL ROBERT PLANT , GREATEST SINGER , JIMMY PAG BLOWS ALL GUITARESTS AWAY , JHON BONHAM TRULY WAS ICONIC IN HIS PROCUSSION, HE DOMINATEATED THE DRUMS SET, JHON PAUL JONES TRULY A WIZ AT ALL INTRAMENTS MY HAT GOES OFF TO YOU ALL.
My favourite album! 🤘🎸
Me too!
Brilliant take!!! Absolutely love this video. Seeing it for the second time, taking notes!!!!
Kudos man
Thank you! 🙏
Short, sweet and chock full of good stuff. Well done.
Thank you! 🙏
A timeless album still relevant today. 👍😊
Not especially a Zep fan, but now I want to hear this album - good job!
Thank you!
It was the album that I first got into when I discovered them in my early twenties. It cemented me as a life long fan ❤
Really nice to see a video that focuses on what this band was all about.
Cheers!
Thanks for this most informative video. I've always known Eddie Kramer was Jimi Hendrix's wizard studio engineer but now I find he was also the one workin' his magic for Led Zeppelin...WOW!
Thank you! Yeah, Eddie’s career is incredible!
It is terrifying how long ago this was.
It seems like last week I was in a record shop in Liverpool buying this a week after it's release.
Only 55 years 😊
Blink Of An Eye ❤.
Nothing sounds like it. One of my first LP’s. Still one of the truly great albums of all time.
The Greatest Of All Time Period.
Great research was done on this one.
Absolutely fantastic video. Packed with an enormous amount of great data! Well done!!!
Thank you! 🙏
This is great. I always wondered about the leading vocal under Robert's lead at the end. Fantastic insight into the recording of this classic. How lucky we are now days with digital DAWS and soo many tracks and cut and paste and gadgets galore and still we can't better this album. Audio engineering schools should have semesters on recording with 4 tracks analogue, minimum mics, fx, and time limits to get songs down. Thanks for the post, brilliant.
Great, really glad you enjoyed it!
Great old photos!
This is a phenomenal presentation. Thanks. It's thoroughly enjoyable.
Thank you!
Zeppelin!! Hard rock godheads! The peak of the mountain! The best!! LZ 2 is a masterpiece of no comparison! After all these years it kills like no other!👏👍👍
Good stuff! It really is amazing just how technically savvy and ahead of their times bands like Zeppelin were considering the technology of the day was hardware and not software. As a kid you just waited for the next album to come out and went to the record store to buy it. Most never knew the incredible backstory to making the albums only that the music grabbed your soul.
Before I could even read, I must have been 4 or 5, my parents had a big dresser type thing in our living room that had a big cd player on it. And inside one of the drawers of the dresser was my dad’s CDs. I remember when he’d leave for work and I was home with my mom, I’d open that drawer and find the album, to me it was “the album with the guys in top hats” 😂
I remember putting that cd on and my little 5 year old brain just being completely blown away by the opening riff of Whole Lotta Love. I knew absolutely nothing about music at that age, but something about the fuzziness of the guitar and how heavy it sounded just mesmerized me. Now some almost 30 years later, it still does the same thing to this day, even hearing it thousands of times. That whole album is ingrained into my dna. One of the best rock albums, and the first one I ever fell in love with.
The mic at 2:18 is not an AKG D19 but actually an Electro-Voice RE15. I own one and they use similar vents/proximity technology as the D19
Cheers! Yeah, a few people pointed that out. I haven't come across the RE15 but I do know the D19. I've since learnt that the body is the same but the capsule is different apparently.
This is my favourite album of all time. When I hear that initial cough on Whole Lotta Love the adrenaline starts to flow.
I don't think it's a cough at the beginning of a WLL. it's a Robert plant laugh
What an informative yet concise video - thank you!
That was great. Very detailed. Subscribed!
Thank you! 🙏
in my opinion led zeppelin 2 is the best album
The picture at 6:20, seems to show JPJ playing that show through a (possibly borrowed) Sunn rig. The woofy Acoustic 360's, JPJ favored were dreadful in many ways, but were one of the few 1960's bass amps loud enough to keep up with a Marshall stack.
Thanks for the info! I've never experienced the Acoustic 360's, explains why you don't see them about now..
@@mixingmasteringonline I think the simple answer is that music technology got way better and modern rock bassists desired more treble/articulation than earlier players. Acoustic 360's definitely provided solid bottom end but the introduction of the Ampeg SVT with 8-10" speakers gave all the bottom with more clarity.
I wouldn't call them dreadful. I have one and it sounds glorious. And it's not all bottomy as you would think with the 18" speaker and all. It can cut. A 5 notch vari-amp and even a bright switch helps bring out some sizzle. And the built in fuzz......One of the best fuzz tones I have heard.
@@burtreynolds2969 I should have picked my words more carefully. My experience is from a band mate back around 1974 and maybe his taste was the problem. Peace.
Amazing. Recording and engineering one of the greatest rock albums of all time in a piece meal fashion, with what by today's standard would be considered a hammer and chisel. A testament to how skilled engineers were before they could rely on software and cut & paste.
So many choices but "The Brown Bomb" is my fave for sure from Zep. I still listen to their catalog of material as much as when I first heard them in the mid 70's.
Truly timeless.
Dude thank you so much for this video
Thanks you! 🙏
A couple personal Led Zeppelin memories and a piece of opinion thrown in. I believe that Page in his day was the greatest all around guitar player, he touched all sides of music as a master. I don't believe he gets enough credit for being a masterful producer and with JP Jones on board himself a master musician...... Boom. I can't name a favorite Zep album,they are all so different and musically diverse, I love them all. My brother and his buddy for my birthday in 1976 painted the cover of Zep 1 on my bedroom wall, floor to ceiling exactly like the album, I had the coolest bedroom in all of Warwick Rhode Island. My buddy in JR high school was a Stones fan and didn't get Zep cause he didn't listen, I invited him over one morning and set the stereo speakers on each side of my bed, we smoked a joint and I plugged in Zeppelin 2 8 track cranked it full blast on Whole Lotta Love, my buddy half way through was yelling this is blowing my fucking mind 🎉😂, He went and bought 3 Zeppelin 8 tracks the next day. There is another Zep story about Dazed and Confused and purple microdot...... I will leave that one out. Lol.
Great memories to share! 😃
Then came 4 which was the Pedal to the Floor! Rip roaring Rock n Roll!
Definitely a masterpiece, Zeps first four were thier best.
What a coincidence---my fav Zep album ( Heartbreaker,yeah! )
Great work on this video. I think Led Zeppelin 2 WAS the turning point for them that solidified their musical efforts and let them know that they could be here for a while. I would just like to point out a couple of things, if i may- the guitar in question being used by Page at 4:17, the one used on Ramble On, was not a Vox country western nor an EKO 6, it was in fact a EROS 606 Dakota model which was an Italian made acoustic guitar. Jimmy Page did use an EKO Ranger 12-string acoustic guitar but that was circa 1970-1971. Also Led Zeppelin 2 did knock Abbey Road off the top of the number one spot but fun fact: Abbey Road knocked LZ 2 off the number one spot a couple of weeks later. This went back and forth until the early part of 1970. Total number of weeks at number 1- Led Zeppelin 2= 7 weeks. Abbey Road= 11 weeks. Awesome stuff man, wonder if you could do Queen’s A night at the opera, that would be awesome. Rock on 🤘
Thanks for the info, that would be a great one to do, yes!
Now that's what I call a band absolutely brilliant
super details and insights TY
Thank you!
There's such a curious, elusive, 'chime-y,' crystalline quality behind the distortion of the strumming guitar parts of Whole Lotta Love that I've been curious to sus out for a while. I've always had the suspicion that it was either due to a unique peculiarity of a tube amp that Page used or that it's one of a swathe of many numerous possible analog effects and adjustments they may have mixed in - This is such a great insight for that curiosity.
There’s a video where Page said that he recorded it with a Les Paul into a Vox UL4120 solid state amp with a Rickenbacker Transonic cab, and there some studio plate reverb on it too. I have a ‘67 Vox Berkeley II solid state amp and I tried plugging my Les Paul into it to see if I could get the same sound and it sounded just like it when I cranked the amp up. I always thought it was a Marshall amp.
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I thank God for the technology that allows recording period!!!. Just THINK of what it takes to make it happen!!! ❤️❤️❤️
I saw them at the Boston tea party in Jan69, then a few months later at the Carousel Theatre in Natick Mass then at Boston Garden where ZepII was being sold in the Lobby. They went from playing to maybe 700 at the tea party to 2500 at The Carousel, (a tent with rotating stage) to 20k at Bos Garden by Nov. Between shows they wrote and recorded ZepII.. That's a stunning 9 mon of productivity!
Wow, the boys did well! Amazing that you got see them in their prime.
That mic at 2:17 is probably an EV RE15. Not to mention that the AKGD19 has a shallower, flatter shaped head than the RE15.
Led Zeppelin III..
An amazing album, although they are all amazing really
The Greatest Of All Time Plain And Simple.
Born yr air stomp is a underrated GGGGReat
Greatness.
This is amazing!
Thank you!
Great video. Thanks. Long live rock and roll
Thank you! Rock on!
I had all the albums through Houses of the Holy, the only ones I bought again after misplacing those (read sold) are 1 and 2.
Eddie Kramer.....one of the absolute greats!....Side note: For those who love bootlegs...the boot called "Listen To This Eddie" is NOT a reference to Eddie Kramer as MANY people think.....it is a reference to Eddie Van Halen........Awesome boot by the way....and performance.
It’s crazy how many perfect songs are on this album, people say 4 is the best but imo it’s not close
GREAT album! Ramble on! \m/
When I record my drums I usually use the Glynn Johns technique. As Page has said " distance creates depth".
In the video, the guy talking said the Les Paul Jimmy bought from Joe Walsh in 1969 is a 1960 Les Paul. That's wrong. Led Zeppelin was on tour for their first record in the USA, opening for James Gang, and Jimmy was playing the Dragon Tele. Jimmy watched Joe play his Les Paul, and that was what Jimmy wanted. Joe Walsh was living in New York, and when the tour ended there, Joe brought Jimmy to his house because he had two 1959 Les Pauls. One of them had the baseball bat neck, and the other had a slim taper neck. In 1960, Gibson made the Les Pauls with a slim taper neck because a lot of players were requesting them. Joe sent one of the 1959 Les Pauls to his luthier so he could shave it down to the 1960 spec. That is the guitar Jimmy Page bought from Joe Walsh.
Cool, thanks for the background info on the Joe Walsh story! 🙏
You are absolutely correct. Thanks. You saved me from writing all that stuff.
Great documentary, awesome pictures!
Thank you!
The Lemon Song is my favorite off of LZII. A masterpiece of bluesy rock.
Had this on 8-track! Good times!
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Yeah! Good times indeed 😃
Great stuff! Thanks. To me, the amazing thing about Zep II from a production standpoint, is that when you listen to it you'd never guess it was made across so many studios. It has a sonic continuity like it was all done in one place. At least to my ears.
Thank you! Yeah, it’s amazing, I never knew it was recorded like that originally. Just goes to show what the important factors are.
@@mixingmasteringonlinerecording in so many different places was already a very modern thing for the time. It must've been a pain in the ass to do and get a cohesive sound considering it's still difficult nowadays.
Yeah, a real pain lugging those tapes around!
Where a record is recorded and mixed is virtually irrelevant if the same production crew does the final mixes. That is where the sonic stamp is made.
@@artysanmobileFor sure, having the same people do the whole thing definitely helps.
But it's still hard to create perfect cohesion across patchworks like these. It's an art on its own.
I love mixing.
This is great stuff man
Thank you!
Really insightful. Thank you
Thank you!
Whole Lotta Love is a classic riff to this day. Masterpiece! Bring it on Home is a tour de force riff also. Powerful! Ramble On is an acoustic beautiful song. Joe Walsh did Jimmy a huge favor when he sold him a vintage Gibson Les Paul sunburst. It became Jimmy's favorite guitar from then on. Moby Dick has an undeniable monolithic riff, giving way to a Bonzo drum solo. Heartbreaker and Living Loving Maid are also magic riffage.
The breakdown of how the individual instruments were recorded during the first to Led Zeppelin records is definitely informative. There's definitely something to be said about how the hardware used to create reverb, echo and modulation effects was employed. However, I'm sort of convinced that the most significant negative info is the Glynn John's method of capturing the drums and percussion.
It is Leap Year 2024 as I comment. My 12th solo record, *The Price that Fools will Pay,* is out today. Of all the recordings I've made on my own, the only one to include a regular drum kit is my self-titled debut, *Eric Benjamin Gordon,* which is also the only record I've made in a facility other than my own. Since then, I've (mostly) depended upon electronically-triggered percussion in lieu of traditional drums. In the future, if I found myself at liberty to include a regular kit on my tracks again, I imagine I would attempt to use the method employed by Glynn John's in capturing John Bonham's playing.
I TOTALLY AGREE 👍 👍 👍 👍
Jimmy was the multi talented business man that was a great recording producer and nuances in sounds explorer ... Tape recording and listening to it is 1000X more interesting than Digital but Digital DSD is a great for preservation of old master tapes ..
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Their best album, IMO.. Every track was great
Opinions are like assholes...
I've been seeing this on my feed for a good while now. Like the Hammer of the Gods were trying to get my attention.
Watching this and hearing for the first how some of the sounds were created gave me such a hard on that I have decided to do a Led Zeppelin binge fest starting in 3, 2...
04:51 - that's not a Super Beatle; it's a Vox 4120 (bass amp - the guitar version was the 7 series: 730 and 7120) a phenomenally rare failed line from Vox. People were returning them right and left and Vox cancelled the line almost immediately and scrapped all the returned amps. Best guesses say there are fewer than a hundred left in existence.
Great video! Thanks! 😀
Thank you!
Wow this is great info!
Thank you!
Parkville, Maryland
On Joppa Road
Perring Place was the Shopping Center’s name.
It was at the end/start of Perring Pkwy on Joppa Road.
I like the more heavily distorted rhythm guitar parts on Zeppelin ll. The Lemon Song in particular.
Just a note😉, the Walsh LP cost was + a return first class transatlantic flight, not an insignificant sum then. Btw try an Eko Ranger ( not really a 6) . You can pick them up for buttons. Bolt on neck but the quality of the wood is superb. The zero fret might take some getting used to used to but spend £75 on a set up and a fret dress and you’ll be a happy bunny.
Thanks for the tip!
There's nothing like the Robert Ludwig master....worth every penny and blows all other pressings away.
Was Ludwig’s master released?,..I’ll google
Look up Led Zeppelin II Robert Ludwig.@@truemanmontfort8031
@@truemanmontfort8031 Just look up Led Zeppelin II Robert Ludwig.
Inside Out by Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette (2000) on ECM is a wonderful album…
On ‘ You Shook
Me ‘ Jimmy used a Gibson Flying V ‘ that was left in the studio through a Leslie Cabinet’
Very interesting as ever.
Thank you! 🙏
I was absolutely exscoriated for saying LZii is thr best album. Here we are, all the accolates. Good to read. It is the LZ album put on my turntable most often, along with the debut.
Symbols not over powering the drums… perfect
Yes, ll is the reference standard.