A FEW DAYS pt 1

So for the next four days i'm going to do the first four, untitled Led Zeppelin albums. starting with the debut, Led Zeppelin.
So i guess the story that sort of goes with this album is that Jimmy Page was the only one left in The Yardbirds, and had to do a Scandinavian tour, so he somehow recruited these members and did the tour as The New Yardbirds, playing mostly these songs, then came back, changed the name and recorded this album out of his pocket. apparently it didn't take long to actualy record, and the songs are mostly live takes. Jimmy Page was also apparently the first one to record with ambient microphones, so he wasn't just sticking a mic right up on the amp, but he had one twenty feet away from the amp as well. so there's a lot of tracks leaking into other tracks and things like that. which i guess isn't so very apparent, but it does make sense. something that i never used to be into was the contrast between the rock songs and the acoustic songs, but i've recently started to gain appreciation for the acoustic ones. the rocking ones are in some respects, very 1969 and almost even very 1979, where the acoustic ones like Black Mountain Side are very 1500s. some of the album is from the future, and some is from 400 years ago. and honestly, Jimmy Page is crazy.