Bijna 20 jaar geleden bracht Led Zeppelin de ‘BBC Sessions’ uit met daarop een selectie van de songs die ze speelden bij de Britse openbare omroep tussen 1969 en 1971.
Op 16 september komt er een nieuwe versie uit die helemaal geremasterd werd. Met daarop ook 8 onuitgebrachte songs inclusief 3 verloren gewaande nummers van een sessie uit 1969: “I Can’t Quit You Baby”, “You Shook Me”, en de enige opgenomen sessie van “Sunshine Woman”.
Jimmy Page in Guitar World: “The BBC Sessions show in graphic detail just how organic the group was. Led Zeppelin was a band that would change things around substantially each time it played… We were becoming tighter and tighter, to the point of telepathy.”
John Paul Jones voegde daar in Wall of Sound het volgende aan toe: “We’d been on the road a lot by the time those sessions were recorded. The albums were always the starting point of the music, and then we’d take it out and expand it on the road. Then we’d come straight off the road into those BBC studios.”
En last but not least Robert Plant in Mojo: “The whole thing was very quaint: the politeness of the audience, the technicians fumbling about, proper hallowed low-key introductions. Like there was some sort of holy moment about to occur.”
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THE COMPLETE BBC SESSIONS
CD Track Listing Disc One
- “You Shook Me”
- “I Can’t Quit You Baby”
- “Communication Breakdown”
- “Dazed And Confused”
- “The Girl I Love She Got Long Black Wavy Hair”
- “What Is And What Should Never Be”
- “Communication Breakdown”
- “Travelling Riverside Blues”
- “Whole Lotta Love”
- “Somethin’ Else”
- “Communication Breakdown”
- “I Can’t Quit You Baby”
- “You Shook Me”
- “How Many More Times”
Disc Two
- “Immigrant Song”
- “Heartbreaker”
- “Since I’ve Been Loving You”
- “Black Dog”
- “Dazed And Confused”
- “Stairway To Heaven”
- “Going To California”
- “That’s The Way”
- “Whole Lotta Love” (Medley: Boogie Chillun/Fixin’ To Die/That’s Alright Mama/A Mess of Blues)
- “Thank You”
Disc Three
- “Communication Breakdown” *
- “What Is And What Should Never Be” *
- “Dazed And Confused” *
- “White Summer”
- “What Is And What Should Never Be” *
- “Communication Breakdown” *
- “I Can’t Quit You Baby” *
- “You Shook Me” *
- “Sunshine Woman” *