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Black Dog - 30.01.2007, 09:50Music Review: Led Zeppelin - Presence
Ich glaube, das ist eine ganz gute Review ;-)
The band's first album had a copycat kind of appeal. Recorded over just 30 hours, these songs were presented in the same way Zeppelin would have done them on stage at the time — half rendition, half sweaty tribute. They were, as much as anything, another British referendum on the brilliance of American blues music.
It wasn't, however, all that interesting.
Parts of Zeppelin's second album approached their more celebrated late-period brilliance — namely "Whole Lotta Love," (the much better) "What Is and What Should Never Be" and "Ramble On," which was lyrically linked to J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord Of The Rings.led-zeppelin
But how's this for un-revolutionary?: Led Zep was successfully sued for stealing Chicago blues legend Howlin' Wolf's "Killing Floor," without giving any credit, on an "original" called "The Lemon Song" from the second CD. Further, "Bring It On Home" is just Sonny Boy Williamson, though perfectly amped up.
They moved past it. And there's little doubt that Led Zep found its true inspiration when the band stopped aping the early U.S. traditionalists which it so rightly admired — the bulk of which appears from 1970 on.
What to make, then, of Presence — Led Zeppelin's underrated seventh release? After all, this unpolished gem from that second period is actually best described as a moment when the band stopped for a longing look back. They never sounded bluesier during a late '70s period defined by debauchery — when, as Rolling Stone's Stephen Davis famously wrote in his review of this album, you could "give an Englishman 50,000 watts, a chartered jet, a little cocaine, and some groupies and he thinks he's a god."
Davis is talking about singer Robert Plant, of course. But this album belongs to Plant's doomed drummer John Bonham, and that gives it a slow-rolling menace very familiar to fans of the band's earliest work.
By 1976, Zeppelin had begun its slow descent, and Plant was recovering from a serious auto accident. Perhaps predictably, they were introspective. But even in what should have been safe nostalgia, Bonham unleashes newfound, and surprisingly subtle, polyrhythms. He now has the ability to quietly improvise on the heaviest of those heavy Led moans — including "blooze" throwbacks like "For Your Life" and "Tea for One."
A favorite is "Achilles Last Stand": Bonham, and this is special, works as the lead instrument over roughly the first half of this song. Even Jimmy Page's patented "army of guitars" sound is no match for Bonham's charging fills.
He begins by powering an absolutely monstrous template, then delves into jazzy asides — deftly coloring the beat. "Achilles" takes an abrupt turn and we ride with Bonham up to Page's thundering solo like the clack-clack-clack of a roller coaster ... you know, you feel, that something big is going to happen.
Does it ever. They circle back around to the tune's original chugging, marrow-deep groove. I was zipping along at 45 in a 30 before I knew it, this morning, thinking: I sure miss THIS guy.
Sure, by "III," the Zeps had shed their then-growing reputation as blues cheats by presenting a sweetly cool-rocking set of mostly acoustic-based tunes — coupled with one of their best album-openers ever, "Immigrant Song." From there on out, as the band rounded into its best creative period, Zeppelin displayed a newfound versatility and a refreshing willingness (for a so-called "heavy metal" band, anyway) to dabble in various musical forms.
They weren't sounding anything like the blues musicians they'd once blatantly emulated. No, by then, Led Zep was a completely new synthesis.
But then came this, an album that once again lovingly incorporated their earliest, and most powerful, influences. It was, at last, a true triumph.
Of course, the center of this thing, the hard-charging Bonham, could not hold. He was as committed to drink, it seemed, as he was to the drum. But before Zeppelin fell to pieces, they got together to make Presence.
And there is, inside of this gift, much to love — not least of which is one of the most wicked harmonica solos in all of rock, on "Nobody's Fault But Mine."
Pico's note: This article was written by my blogmate Nick Deriso.
Re: Music Review: Led Zeppelin - Presence
maGGus - 30.01.2007, 12:41
Jap der Bericht ist echt gut. Es stimmt leider, dass Presence selten bei den "top" Zep Alben genannt wird...Ich persönlich finde es genial, vor allem Tea For One und Achilles Last Stand...
Re: Music Review: Led Zeppelin - Presence
Black Dog - 30.01.2007, 13:48
Ich bin bei Presence zwiegespalten :?
Einige meiner Favourites sind drauf...aber auch einige, die ich selten höre :shock:
Re: Music Review: Led Zeppelin - Presence
Anonymous - 31.01.2007, 00:57
Ich find die Rezension/Review sehr gut.
Hier mal meine persönliche Bewertung der Platte - Auf einer Skala von 1 bis 10.
1. Achilles Last Stand (10/10)
2. For Your Life (7/10)
3. Royal Orleans (4 bis 5/10)
4. Nobody's Fault But Mine (10/10) - einfach nur geil, klasse!!!
5. Candy Store Rock (6 bis 7/10)
6. Hots On For Nowhere (9/10)
7. Tea For One (6/10)
Re: Music Review: Led Zeppelin - Presence
Black Dog - 31.01.2007, 08:13
Interessant!
Meine Top 3 ist ohne Frage:
1. ALS
2. NFBM
3. TFO
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