Jazz Articles about Led Zeppelin

About Led Zeppelin

Bailey's Bundles

The Led Zeppelin Papers: Houses of the Holy, Deluxe Edition

by C. Michael Bailey
November 15, 2014

Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy, Deluxe Edition (Atlantic Records) 1973/2014 “For me, Led Zeppelin began as the epitome of everything good about rock: solid guitar work, forceful vocals and rhythmic backing, devotion to primal blues forms, and most of all, thunderous excitement on stage and vinyl. But as superstardom came to them, so too came the gradual evaporation of those qualities from their sound.... Even after a hundred listenings I'm still ...

Bailey's Bundles

The Led Zeppelin Papers: Led Zeppelin IV, Deluxe Edition

by C. Michael Bailey
November 15, 2014

Led Zeppelin Led Zepplin IV, Deluxe Edition (Atlantic Records) 1971/2014 “It might seem a bit incongruous to say that Led Zeppelin--a band never particularly known for its tendency to understate matters--has produced an album which is remarkable for its low-keyed and tasteful subtlety, but that's just the case here. The march of the dinosaurs that broke the ground for their first epic release has apparently vanished, taking along with it the splattering electronics of ...

Bailey's Bundles

The Led Zeppelin Papers: Led Zeppelin III, Deluxe Edition

by C. Michael Bailey
September 20, 2014

Led Zeppelin II was the second element of the musical binary epoxy that hardened the reputation of the band after the release of Led Zeppelin. “Sonic crunch" is an apt description of II while Led Zeppelin III takes a hard right into new (and, perhaps, unwelcome) territory. Led Zeppelin Led Zepplin III, Deluxe Edition (Atlantic Records) 1970/2014 I keep nursing this love-hate attitude toward Led Zeppelin. Partly from genuine interest and ...

Bailey's Bundles

The Led Zeppelin Papers: Led Zeppelin II, Deluxe Edition

by C. Michael Bailey
August 23, 2014

January 12, 1969 to October 22, 1969. Two-hundred eighty-three days. That is the length of time between the releases of Led Zeppelin and Led Zeppelin II. By any estimation, in rock music it defies the space-time continuum. By 21st Century time, it only compares to the incessant leakage of Rap mixtapes pooling on the floor of some unnamed ghetto. If there was ever a rock Twilight of the Gods (Gotterdammerung), this was it. Led Zeppelin Led ...

Bailey's Bundles

The Led Zeppelin Papers: Led Zeppelin, Deluxe Edition

by C. Michael Bailey
August 16, 2014

There would have been no rock music in the 1980s and beyond had Led Zeppelin not called it quits that year in the wake of drummer John Bonham's death from misadventure. Shot from a cannon in 1969 and flaming out a decade later, this rock royalty sired a legion of bastards and lesser creatures in the form every popular band from the “Me" decade. LZ's import is much farther reaching than simply Motley Crue, Poison, and Tesla. They offered a ...

Multiple Reviews

Led Zeppelin Remastered: The First Batch (I, II & III)

by John Kelman
June 8, 2014

I, II, III | IV, Houses of the Holy For a time, Led Zeppelin was one of the biggest--if not the biggest--bands in the world, eclipsing the Rolling Stones, the Who...even the Beatles. Born out of the ashes of the Yardbirds--even operating, very briefly, under the moniker the New Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin came to symbolize the word hard in “hard rock," its ear-bursting, high-decibel performances the epitome of heavy. But from the very beginning, the brainchild of the ...

Highly Opinionated

The Led Zeppelin Papers: Sacred Cows, Led Zeppelin and Does the Song Remain the Same?

by C. Michael Bailey
April 20, 2013

"Sacred cows make the tastiest cheeseburgers" --after Abbie Hoffman (1936-1989) I have always said of popular culture, that like a McDonald's cheeseburger, it is to be consumed but never considered. Much of music is nothing more than a reflection of popular culture and certainly falls beneath that grand proclamation. A good deal of hip hop and all of dubstep, electro house, post-hardcore and what passes for R&B today will not be remembered, much less heard regularly, in fifty ...