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Physical Graffiti (Led Zeppelin) | Extended Play Lounge - Ep. 44 (Patreon)

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2023-05-17 00:46:37
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I'm pleased to present my reaction to Physical Graffiti by Led Zeppelin. This was a really fun reaction...especially tickling my rhythmic curiosity. The only song on this album I have previously heard is Kashmir. Other than that, it's all hitting me for the first time. I hope you enjoy!

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MikeCarr

FUN FACT: Remember the 80s Rolling Stones video for "waiting on a friend"? It was filmed outside the building that was featured on the cover of this album.

DJ Marquis Marc Rambeau du Tacoma

I listened to this album and Houses Of The Holy nonstop as I learned to drive in the mid-70s. The two will always be interlinked in my mind. Strangely, this was the only album by LZ back in the day where the sheet music was NOT available. The guitar book was called "Led Zeppelin Complete" but ended at Houses! Go figure. I was in a band back then and did a couple of songs from this album. I did the tried and true trick of mumbling my way through a few lines in the same way Plant did, even if I couldn't make out exactly what he was singing. It worked.

Richard Moore

Side 3 was always my favorite -- 4 great tunes in succession. Back in the day, I would listen to "In the Light" anytime I needed a lift.

Dave Brockis

OK, Welsh pronunciation lesson time. Born Yr Aur (The Golden Breast) sounds like Bron Err Our. It's the name of a cottage and also a hill. Imagine the sunlight catching a bracken covered hillside and you'll get where the name came from. On their 3rd album was the track Bron Y Aur Stomp, which was a miss spelling. Y (the) in Welsh changes to Yr in front of a vowel. I don't speak Welsh, but these are some of the things I learn't from those who tried to teach me.

Richard Elliott

Great reaction Doug thanks, its years since I played the album and now I find I am not liking some of the tracks as I was when it first came out. Old age maybe 😢

Jeff Norman

You'll hear this when you re-listen...but in the second section of "In My Time of Dying," it's not that they're hitting the offbeats...it's that at the ends of the phrase before they move to the IV chord, they throw in a bar of 9/8.

Anonymous

note: In answer to your question during your show about synthesizers and glissando, even the early modular Moogs had an optional ribbon controller that could be used to slide the pitch (or filter settings) using a finger (see Keith Emerson). The Mini-Moog (1970+) had a pitch bend wheel, modulation wheel as well as adjustable portamento referred to as ‘glide’ on Moog instruments.

Andrew Marsh

In My Time Of Dying is one of, if not my favorite, Led Zeppelin track. Even over the usual favorites. Page just kills it. I still have the vinyl with the "moving" inside sleeve.

Martin Broten

Bonham was LZs not-so-secret weapon. To this day he’s still generally considered the greatest rock drummer of all time. And that’s not just a fanboy talking, it’s just kind of a fact. I remember hearing an interview with John Paul Jones where he said that the people who consider Bonham a “heavy metal basher” have got it wrong. JPJ said that Bonham was always a “groove drummer” whose favorite music was soul and R&B.

Gerard Dion

I'm glad you you enjoyed this album, Doug and I enjoyed your review. This is one of rock's greatest albums IMO. The more I listen to later Zeppelin, the more I appreciate how much color and character John Paul Jones added to their music with his keyboard playing.

Anonymous

As Robert Plant himself has said - Led Zeppelin is the greatest rock trio in history, with a wedding singer stuck at the front.

Ron Cook

Dr. D, if you like acoustic guitar work as in Bron-Yr-Aur and similar to Steve Howe of Yes and Steve Hackett of Genesis in several of their acoustic pieces then you should thoroughly enjoy Steve Hackett's Bay of Kings which is an entire album of his original classical guitar songs.

Potted Rodent

Robert Plant had damaged his voice, and had surgery between Houses of the Holy and this album. He lost some of the natural higher register. I believe they mixed the before and after surgery songs on purpose as to not draw attention to it. But it's not hard to hear the difference.

Adie

Very enjoyable to revisit this album. For me, when it first came out, I felt it was a patchy album with some great high points, but a little padded out. It's grown on me over the years, and I thoroughly enjoyed listening through all of it. Answers to a couple of questions raised by Doug are: The synthesizer on In The Light was an EMS VCS3. It did have a joystick which could be used to modulate the sound, and definitely could bend the pitch very expressively. When the VCS3 appeared on recordings it always stamped it's personality all over the music. It was extremely versatile - it had the same insides as the EMS Synthi A used in On The Run on Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. The guitar tuning for Bron Yr Aur was CACGCE. Nearly an open C tuning - the reason for the A tuning of the 5th string was (I believe) to allow the player to add a 6th and 7th in the harmony in the same (hand) position as for the changes needed on the other strings. It also allows the slide to the C heard at the beginning, but then, so would making it a G for a proper open C tuning. This little gem was definitely always a high point on the album for me. 🙂