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Frequently bootlegged and now digitally remastered by Jimmy Page, these tapes capture a 25-month (1969 to 1971) arc in which Zep's sound grew to encompass the speed rush and jazz/blues festival stuff of their 1969 debut, the fully developed folkie musings of "Going to California" (in which Plant vowed to make a hejira right up to Joni Mitchell's front door), and the band's modestly popular multilayered epic "Stairway to Heaven." The Sessions also give a glimpse of nearly off-the-cuff invention in an intense take on Robert Johnson's "Traveling Riverside Blues". Most other white blues musicians would've rushed to get this on vinyl; Page and Plant instead used it for parts, most notably taking its profound acoustic freneticism for Led Zeppelin III. --Rickey Wright
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Led Zeppelin were a live band. They had such incredible talant. The studio albums were good but rock music is about live performances and in my opinion Zeppelin were hard to beat. This album is all about the second CD for me. From the start of "Immigrant Song" you are in at the deep end. It is early Zeppelin for sure but it is easy to see why they still move so many people to this day (me included). It is such a shame that more of the live material is not released, I don't care if there is the occasional mistake, that's what it's about, it's live! Whilst the studio stuff on the first CD is nice to listen to buy this one for the second CD because it's what Zep were all about...
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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If you love the studio albums, want a little more looseness but don't want to sit through bootlegs seemingly recorded in a coal scuttle, this album is an absolute must, if only for Robert Plant's hysterical screaming blues version of Something Else. (Why must every woman have to 'go walking in the park' with him? Don't they have cinemas in Wolverhampton?) The three different versions of Communication Breakdown take you in three totally different directions and the production qualities are fantastic throughout. Proof that, on a good night and pre-flaming stage gongs, they probably were just as good live, if not better.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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I listened to the two hour long concerts which make up most of this album and taped them at the time, the tapes died ages ago. Incredibly it took the BBC 30 years to get the recordings out. It's hard to express what I felt at the time, no one had made music like this, the power was immense, you had no idea what was coming next, I didn't even know if I liked it!
The best tracks are from the two concerts rather than the sessions - the BBC screwed up - they should have released the two concerts in their entirity and put the session tracks on a third CD.
Some of this music is the most electrifying ever recorded, you may find it hard to cope with at first but I think it's the greatest recorded live rock music there is.
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a gift
i don't really know as it was a gift- they said it wa good- so that will have to do
Published 28 days ago by marion tollervey
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WORDS CAN NOT DESCRIBE HOW GOOD THIS IS!!
I would go so far as to say that this is the best thing I have heard from Led Zeppelin. Live , intimate , Bluesy , Hard hitting , raw , powerful. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Warren
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BBC
Great price for this, hence I got a copy for a friend. Very much a product of its time but wonderful to hear the songs in development before they became the album tracks we know... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Peter Cooper
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Led Zep !!! Early and raw
Its Zeppelin - what can possible be wrong with it. Buy it If you want to listen to Zep from the early days when they were young, raw and full on, this is it. Read more
Published 2 months ago by peter graves
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Zeppelin at the Beeb
This 2-disk set, finally released in 1997, is the pick of Zeppelin's BBC radio sessions between 1969 & 1971. Read more
Published 5 months ago by The Guardian
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Essential listening
This 2 CD set contains recordings that Led Zeppelin made in the later 1960's and early 1970's for the BBC. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Rod
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Just awesome
This album is awesome, like every other single thing about Led Zeppelin. Even though you have about 3 versions of the song "Communication Breakdown", they all sound different. Read more
Published 8 months ago by André
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Pure Led Zep for all generations
This double CD give us a resume of the early works of Led Zep. Many of them were taken alive in different scenarios. It capture the escence of Led Zep. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Pablo Neruda II
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Brilliant
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Published 21 months ago by Camilla
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Best British Band Ever!
I already had this album imported on iTunes when I borrowed the album off a friend. Then I realised that there's a difference between having the songs and actually owning the... Read more
Published on 6 May 2011 by Adam Brown
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