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               INVESTMENT COLLECTIBLE

      STILL FACTORY SEALED - NEVER OPENED!

                "SPINNING WHEEL COVER"  

                                        

 

                       LED ZEPPELIN

                                III

                               

            

\                                                    USA - ATLANTIC RECORDS - SD 19128

 STILL FACTORY SEALED ...NEVER OPENED - NEVER PLAYED ...

RARE SONG TITLES STICKER On outside of cellophane!

NO BAR CODE!

SPINNING WHEEL GATEFOLD!

VINTAGE, INVESTMENT COLLECTIBLE having NEVER been opened and other than a delete drill at top right, is a perfect copy, flat & square with a VERY sharp appearance ...

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Many people know this album as the record that contains the immortal "Immigrant Song" song about as far as the average self-described "Led-Head" has cut their little baby teeth into prior to purchasing the album. And why not? It is a hit song if I've ever seen one. Galloping rhythms, trademark Robert Plant wails, groovin' drums and bass, etc. And yet, this is possibly the most over-valued song on a very under-respected album. While many of you sit back and attempt to take in the blasphemous statement I've just made, allow me to elaborate. The track is undoubtedly a Zeppelin classic, but it is fairly over praised. Only two-and-a-half minutes on length simply can't compare to the mournful genius of something like the seven-and-a-half minute long blues masterpiece "Since I've Been Loving You". It is obvious that length doesn' necessarily equal quality, but in those seven minutes, the band says far much more musically than the opener ever could, banshee-wailing or not.

The production through out is loaded with amusing gimmicks like phasing, primitive synthesizers, creepy string arrangements, distorted vocals, and acoustic instrumentation, and it never gets dull. Of course, some of the country-blues and folk influences they parade around already had been assimilated by other British rockers like the Stones. But Jimmy Page actually has it down better than they do ("Tangerine"), while Robert Plant adds to the stew by getting memorably weird on some of the tracks ("Gallows Pole").

Plant loved Tolkien and Page loved the occult, they put them on a banner and wave them around. Gentle and breezy and folky, but they inject suitable amounts of skull-crackingly intense rockers....

Immigrant Song
Friends
Celebration Day Since I've Been Loving You
Out On The Tiles Gallows Pole
Tangerine That's The Way Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
Hats Off to (Roy) Harper

 

CONDITION:  STILL FACTORY SEALED Stiff and super-clean all over...has a delete circle at top right, otherwise a striking sharp copy with SONG TITLES STICKER on outer cellophane as well as the spinning wheel gimmix gatefold in tact - perfect investment collectible in this UNOPENED condition .... 

A GREAT ADDITION TO ANYONE'S COLLECTION !

SEE: SELLERS OTher items for similar cool sounds for "head" people...

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