{"id":8393,"date":"2014-07-01T03:31:29","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T03:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=8393"},"modified":"2014-07-10T17:13:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T17:13:54","slug":"four-guys-made-these-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/01\/four-guys-made-these-records\/","title":{"rendered":"four guys made these records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Led_Zeppelin_-_Led_Zeppelin_1969_front_cover.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8395\" src=\"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Led_Zeppelin_-_Led_Zeppelin_1969_front_cover.png\" alt=\"led z\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Led_Zeppelin_-_Led_Zeppelin_1969_front_cover.png 914w, https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Led_Zeppelin_-_Led_Zeppelin_1969_front_cover-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Led_Zeppelin_-_Led_Zeppelin_1969_front_cover-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Led_Zeppelin_-_Led_Zeppelin_1969_front_cover-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>so much good in this article about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/arts\/culturebox\/2014\/06\/led_zeppelin_how_jimmy_page_robert_plant_et_al_invented_modern_rock.html\" target=\"_blank\">led zeppelin<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is early 1969, and you are young. You hold in your hands an LP by a band with a strange name. The cover art is a black-and-white photo of the Hindenburg exploding, cropped and retouched to resemble some phallic, Nazi apocalypse. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The album\u2019s centerpiece was the six-and-a-half-minute \u201cDazed and Confused,\u201d a morass of shrieking chromaticisms and asinine misogyny. It would quickly become one of the band\u2019s most iconic works, stretched to 20 or 30 minutes in concert, replete with gongs, vocal histrionics, tricked-out guitars played with violin bows. \u201cDazed and Confused\u201d is a lousy song, the musical equivalent of plastering a horrific tragedy on your album cover and then asking your art department to make it look more like an erection.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>four guys made these records:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Listening to the ragged life behind these recordings reminds us, on the one hand, that four guys made these records. It also reminds us, on the other, that <em>four guys made these records<\/em>. Sometimes being made human only heightens your immortality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>long been a proponent of <a href=\"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/30\/tangerine\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;tangerine,&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And then there\u2019s \u201cTangerine,\u201d a song Page had written years earlier that\u2019s probably the prettiest recording Led Zeppelin ever made. The 12-string guitar sparkles, Bonham plays with uncharacteristic sensitivity, and Plant sings Page\u2019s lyrics with a vibrato that\u2019s almost Presleyan (a stylistic departure so striking that one criticspeculated it was a guest vocalist). \u201cTangerine\u201d is one of only a handful of Zeppelin tracks that\u2019s totally perfect, not a second too long, not a note unnecessary or out of place&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>so much good in this article about led zeppelin: It is early 1969, and you are young. You hold in your hands an LP by a band with a strange name. The cover art is a black-and-white photo of the Hindenburg exploding, cropped and retouched to resemble some phallic, Nazi apocalypse. &#8230; The album\u2019s centerpiece [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8393"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8432,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8393\/revisions\/8432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}