Ezeregy dal, amit érdemes meghallgatni: 0331 Led Zeppelin: When the Levee Breaks (1971) Writer: | Memphis Minnie, John Paul Jones, John Bonham, Robert Plant Producer: | Jimmy Page Label: | Atlantic Album: | Led Zeppelin IV (1971) Ensconced at country-retreat-cum-studio Headley Grange, nearing the end of the sessions for their fourth album—which, thanks to the epic “Stairway to Heaven,” would prove their most successful—Led Zeppelin took one last swing at their version of a dusty but enduring blues relic. The original, recorded in 1929 by husband-and-wife duo Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie, was inspired by the plight of those caught in the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. Drenching Zeppelin’s earthy take in studio effects—including distinctive reverse-echo on the blistering harmonica and trudging guitars—Jimmy Page built a track that evoked the sheer might of the flood, vocalist Robert Plant wailing beneath the tumult. The genius stroke, however, was John Bonham’s behemoth of a drum track, the secret to the song’s colossal heft. To achieve this pulverizing beat, engineer Andy Johns placed the kit at the bottom of a staircase in the old country house and suspended microphones from the ceiling, so Bonham’s every kick-drum thud, snare thwack, and cymbal splash was bolstered by the natural reverb of the stairwell. The song was so reliant upon this primal studio trickery that Zeppelin only performed it onstage twice, although Page and Plant revisited the song while touring acoustically in the 1990s. Still, it remains perhaps their most ground-shaking track. youtu.be/9NaQZojWi6U
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