Label: Atlantic Records (US), SD 19126-2
Style: Hard Rock, Classic Rock
Country: London, England
Time: 41:37
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 244 Mb
Charts:
UK #1, AUS #1, AUT #25, CAN #1, GER #1, JPN #8, NLD #1, NOR #2, SWE #4,
US #1. AUT: Gold; GER: Platinum; AUS & UK: 4x Platinum; CAN: 9x
Platinum; US: Diamond.
Led Zeppelin II was conceived during a
busy period of Led Zeppelin's career from January through August 1969,
when they completed four European and three American concert tours. Each
song was separately recorded, mixed and produced at various studios in
the UK and North America. The album was written on tour, during periods
of a couple of hours in between concerts, a studio was booked and the
recording process begun, necessarily resulting in spontaneity and
urgency, which is reflected in the sound. Several songs resulted from
improvisation while touring and were recorded mostly live in the studio.
Recording
sessions for the album took place at a wide variety of studios in the
UK and US, including Olympic and Morgan Studios in London, England;
A&M, Quantum, Sunset, Mirror Sound and Mystic Studios in Los
Angeles; Ardent Studios in Memphis, Tennessee; A&R, Juggy Sound,
Groove and Mayfair Studios in New York City; and R&D Studios. Some
of these were ill-equipped, leading to one Vancouver studio, which had
an 8-track set-up without even proper headphone facilities, being
credited as "a hut". A more favourable set-up was Mystic Studios in
Hollywood, Los Angeles with Chris Huston engineering.
Lead singer
Robert Plant later complained that the writing, recording, and mixing
sessions were done in many different locations, and criticised the
writing and recording process. "Thank You", "The Lemon Song" and "Moby
Dick" were overdubbed during the tour, while the mixing of "Whole Lotta
Love" and "Heartbreaker" was also done on tour. Page later stated, "In
other words, some of the material came out of rehearsing for the next
tour and getting new material together."
Page and Kramer spent two
days mixing the album at A&R Studios, and the album's production was
entirely credited to Jimmy Page, with Eddie Kramer engineering. Kramer
was quoted as saying, "The famous Whole Lotta Love mix, where everything
is going bananas, is a combination of Jimmy and myself just flying
around on a small console twiddling every knob known to man." Kramer
later gave great credit to Page for the sound that was achieved, despite
the inconsistent conditions in which it was recorded: "We cut some of
the tracks in some of the most bizarre studios you can imagine ... but
in the end it sounded bloody marvellous ... there was one guy in charge
and that was Mr. Page."
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin_II)
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