Led Zeppelin - In Celebration For A King ~ The Capitol Center, Landover, Maryland, U.S.A. May 1977 (SBD)

Led Zeppelin
In Celebration For A King - (LZ Rarities/The Dogs Of Doom)
The Capitol Center
Landover, Maryland, U.S.A.
May 1977
Soundboard Compilation
Flac Level 8 - 24bit & MP3 320kbps
Cover Art Included

Rosebud's Pick

CD 1
01 The Song Remains The Same
02 The Rover/Sick Again
03 Nobody's Fault But Mine
04 In My Time Of Dying
05 Since I Been Loving You
06 No Quarter

CD 2
01 Ten Years Gone
02 The Battle Of Evermore
03 Going To California
04 Dancing Days/Black Country Woman
05 Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
06 White Summer/Black Mountain Side
07 Kashmir

CD 3
01 Over The Top
02 J.P. Solo
03 Achilles Last Stand
04 Stairway To Heaven
05 Whole Lotta Love/Rock And Roll

Robert Plant lead vocals
Jimmy Page electric & acoustic guitars, backing vocals, theremin
John Paul Jones all keyboards, bass, various acoustic instruments, backing vocals
John Bonham drums, percussion

Using the best recordings from Led Zeppelin's 4 night stint at The Capitol Center in Landover, Maryland the maker of this compilation created a great composite live album. The liner notes cover what songs from what day was used. They also state that the makers used a hybrid matrix recording for all tracks. In doing so they have created the 1977 era Live Album Led Zeppelin should have put out. Yeah I think it's that good myself, but you don't have to take my word for it, you can download it. The flac is in 24bit so it is ready for a audio DVD if you like.

Since Rosebud picked a Led Zeppelin recording it's also going to be this weeks entry in our Roots Of Heavy Metal/Hard Rock Series. Although Led Zeppelin disavows their illegitimate Metal children just like illegitimate road children there's no denying their influence. You can not deny that the chunky, heavy riff that starts "Whole Lotta Love" didn't launch thousands of Metal bands. Has anyone heard of Kingdom Come or Great White? Also "Stairway To Heaven" is the very blueprint of the Power Ballad. Every 1980's Metal Band had to prove that just because they were Hard, it didn't mean they couldn't still be Soft. On VH1 Classic's series on the roots of Heavy Metal the host set up an interview with both Jimmy Page & Robert Plant. When he arrived the lawyer of both artists greeted him saying Led Zeppelin denies having anything to do with the Heavy Metal genre. Since this interview was to be on their influence on the genre it is being cancelled. Jimmy, Robert, you can deny us, but we know the truth.

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