LED ZEPPELIN IV VG+ Atlantic PAGE PLANT PECKO DUCK GEORGE PIROS Black Dog

$

75

Vinyl:  VG+  Play Graded.  Sounds Great!  This is a party record, friend, Turn It Up!!!  The vinyl has some marks and a slight wave to it which does not affect the sound quality.  Atlantic Labels are Clean and Bright.  Released in 1971, this is the audiophile acclaimed Atlantic SD 7208 Pressing!  One of the Greatest Albums of All time and One of the Greatest Mastering Collaborations of All Time: Mastered by George Piros and George Peckham--Peckham cutting the Original Lacquers in England and George Piros Mastering them at Atlantic Records, NYC... Pressed at Phillips Recording Corp., Richmond, IN!!  Classic Rock defined!  One of the most Legendary records in Rock, this one is, perhaps, Zeppelin's Greatest Hour!  Monolithic and Epic:  everything from Crushing Metal to California Hippie Folk Anthem, Badass Boogie to Straight Ahead Rock 'N Roll (sic) and then there's Stairway...  Crucial!  One of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (actually in the Top 10 of 500...)  allmusic gives it 5 stars!!  

See Review Below!
In the Dead Wax:  Side 1:  (etched):  ST-A-712285 DDD-I-III  AT/GP  ((Mastered by George Piros at Atlantic Studios, NYC))  PR  ((Presswell))  PECKO  ((Lacquers Cut in England by George Peckham))
Side 2:  (etched):  ST-A-712286 DDD-I  AT/GP  ((Mastered by George Piros at Atlantic Studios, NYC))  PR  ((Presswell))  PECKO DUCK ((Lacquers Cut in England by George Peckham))
Cover: VG+ (see photos)   Gatefold.  Includes the custom illustration/Credits/Lyrics Inner Sleeve.   One of the most Legendary Covers of All Time, don't forget that this was purposely released without any credits to the band, the record company, title, catalog number...nothing!  This was the band's answer to the claim that they were all hype...Can't hype an album of it doesn't have a name!!!  Instead, we get the mysterious Rune-Like glyphs that the individual band members would be identified with forever more...Nice high gloss on cover.  Front and back of cover artwork is clear and bright, with minor shelf wear.  Seams, corners  and spine are solid and clean, with minor wear.  No splits.  No writing. 

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Why buy a first or early pressing and not a re-issue or a ‘re-mastered’ vinyl album? 
First and early pressings are pressed from the first generation lacquers and stampers. They usually sound vastly superior to later issues/re-issues (which, in recent times, are often pressed from whatever 'best' tapes or digital sources are currently available) - many so-called 'audiophile' new 180g pressings are cut from hi-res digital sources…essentially an expensive CD pressed on vinyl.  Why  experience the worse elements of both formats?  These are just High Maintenance CDs, with mid-ranges so cloaked with a veil as to sound smeared.  They are nearly always compressed with murky transients and a general lifelessness in the overall sound.  There are exceptions where re-masters/re-presses outshine the original issues, but they are exceptions and not the norm. 

First or early pressings nearly always have more immediacy, presence and dynamics. The sound staging is wider.  Subtle instrument nuances are better placed with more spacious textures. Balances are firmer in the bottom end with a far-tighter bass. Upper-mid ranges shine without harshness, and the overall depth is more immersive.  Inner details are  clearer.  

 On first and early pressings, the music tends to sound more ‘alive’ and vibrant.  The physics of sound energy is hard to clarify and write about from a listening perspective, but the best we can describe it is to say that you can 'hear' what the mixing and mastering engineers wanted you to hear when they first recorded the music.    

Led Zeppelin IV Review

by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Encompassing heavy metal, folk, pure rock & roll, and blues, Led Zeppelin's untitled fourth album is a monolithic record, defining not only Led Zeppelin but the sound and style of '70s hard rock. Expanding on the breakthroughs of III, Zeppelin fuse their majestic hard rock with a mystical, rural English folk that gives the record an epic scope. Even at its most basic -- the muscular, traditionalist "Rock and Roll" -- the album has a grand sense of drama, which is only deepened by Robert Plant's burgeoning obsession with mythology, religion, and the occult. Plant's mysticism comes to a head on the eerie folk ballad "The Battle of Evermore," a mandolin-driven song with haunting vocals from Sandy Denny, and on the epic "Stairway to Heaven." Of all of Zeppelin's songs, "Stairway to Heaven" is the most famous, and not unjustly. Building from a simple fingerpicked acoustic guitar to a storming torrent of guitar riffs and solos, it encapsulates the entire album in one song. Which, of course, isn't discounting the rest of the album. "Going to California" is the group's best folk song, and the rockers are endlessly inventive, whether it's the complex, multi-layered "Black Dog," the pounding hippie satire "Misty Mountain Hop," or the funky riffs of "Four Sticks." But the closer, "When the Levee Breaks," is the one song truly equal to "Stairway," helping give IV the feeling of an epic. An apocalyptic slice of urban blues, "When the Levee Breaks" is as forceful and frightening as Zeppelin ever got, and its seismic rhythms and layered dynamics illustrate why none of their imitators could ever equal them.