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WE CURRENTLY HAVE NEARLY 1,000 LISTED ITEMS Click here to see ALL our ROCK auctions Our PSYCH PROGRESSIVE auctions Our PUNK NEW WAVE auctions Our JAZZ auctions Our BLUE NOTE JAZZ auctions Our BLUES auctions Our CLASSICAL auctions Our COUNTRY auctions Our FUNK auctions Our LATIN auctions Our METAL auctionsOur REGGAE auctions Our SOUL auctions Our STILL SEALED ITEMS Our PROMO auctions Our AUDIOPHILE auctions LED ZEPPELIN LED ZEPPELIN II SECOND ALBUM ORIGINAL 1969 ATLANTIC RECORDS STEREO LP SD-8236 ORIGINAL U.S.
PRESSING THIS IS THE ORIGINAL BOB LUDWIG MASTERING HIS INITIALS R OBERT L UDWIG ARE STAMPED IN THE DEAD WAX / TRAIL-OFF VINYL ON BOTH SIDES OF THE DISC.
All the wonderful elements of Bob Ludwig s trademark mastering style are here: incredible clarity and balanced channel separation, vivid and spacious ambience sound, as well as wide dynamic and frequency range of the sound spectrum.
As is almost always the case with Bob Ludwig s masterings, the Bob Ludwig-mastered pressings of this album are CONSIDERABLY rarer than the regular, non-Ludwig copies of this album.
ALSO: TRAIL OF VINYL DEAD WAX IS CONSIDERABLY SHORTER ON ONE SIDE THAN ON THE OTHER, WHICH CAN ONLY BE FOUND ON BOB LUDWIG-MASTERED COPIES.
ORIGINAL U.S.
PRESSING ORIGINAL RED ORANGE AND GREEN ATLANTIC RECORDS LABEL WITHOUT WEA LOGO ALONG THE LABEL S EDGE AND WITH BROADWAY, NY ADDRESS.
THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S.
PRESSING THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.
ORIGINAL GATEFOLD COVER, MADE OF THICK CARDBOARD AMERICAN STYLE COVER IS STILL IN ITS ORIGINAL SHRINK CELLOPHANE WRAP WITH A NIFTY STICKER STILL AFFIXED TO THE WRAP.
ORIGINAL TEXTURED CRUDE FINISH COVER.
THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW Note: this is a REAL image of the ACTUAL item you are bidding on.
This is NOT a recycled image from our previous auction.
What you see is what you ll get.
GUARANTEED When this album was released in November 1969, it marked literally - the beginning of the new era and the new sound: Heavy Metal.
And, while Heavy Metal existed as a genre even before Led Zeppelin II Blue Cheer, Vanilla Fudge, Steppenwolf it was heavily beholden to psychedelia and bore a heavy burden of debt to the previous era s exaggerations and idiosyncracies.
Not so with Led Zeppelin II.
From the opening blast of Whola Lotta Love to the final fade of Bring it on Home , the listener knows that he is not in Kansas anymore.
This is a whole new, uncharted territory.
In fact, the album makes a clean break even with the band s first album: on their first album, one can easily hear remnants of British psychedelia Black Mountain Top , progressive rock Your time is gonna come urban electric blues You shook me How many more times I can t quit you , folk music Babe, I m gonna leave you and other styles the band members were into at a time.
However, you won t find such excursions on Led Zeppelin II: the album is a monolithic slab of primo metal: an all-out, in-your-face assault from start to finish.
Even the ballads exude the spirit of burning Metal.
For its extraordinary contribution to the contemporary music, superb production, craftsmanship, fine musicianship, revolutionary significance and influence it exerted on numerous generations of musicians, songwriters and general public, or for some other inherent quality, this album was voted one of top-200 albums of all time in one of the largest poll of critics, music reviewers, show business professionals and producers ever organized: the poll, which was conducted by Paul Gambaccini, the legendary BBC Radio A R man, surveyed more than 50 top music professionals including Roy Carr, Jonathan Cott, Robert Christgau, Cameron Crowe, Chet Flippo, Ben Fong-Torres, Charlie Gillett, Greil Marcus, Murray the K., Lenny Kaye, Bruce Morrow a/k/a Cousin Brucie , Tim Rice , Lisa Robinson, Robert Shelton, Ed Ward, Joel Whitburn, Pete Wingfield, etc.
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For more details, see: Critics Choice: Top-200 albums , Omnibus Press, Library of Congress Catalog No.7855565 or click here for the complete album listing For additional historical or discography information on this album, including track listing click here TO SEE IF WE HAVE OTHER LISTED ITEMS BY THIS GROUP OR ARTIST CLICK HERE CONDITION: RECORD IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded we grade records under the strong, diffuse room light or discrete sunlight a WE GRADE THE VINYL AS STRONG NEAR MINT.
The original luster is very much intact, and the vinyl shines and sparkles almost like new.
b The record comes in the original stock inner sleeve.
c The record is pressed on a beautiful, thick, inflexible vinyl, which was usually used for the first or very early pressings.
Usually, the sound on such thick vinyl pressings is full-bodied, vivid, and even dramatic.
Do not expect to obtain such a majestic analog sound from a digital recording d Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording COVER COVER IS STRONG NEAR MINT, STILL IN ITS ORIGINAL SHRINK WRAP NO SIGNIFICANT IMPERFECTIONS ON THE COVER: - No split seams - No ring wear - No cut-out drill holes.
- No cut-out corners - No saw-marks or indents - No dirt/dust rubbing stains friction marks caused by rubbing against other covers - No wrinkles or creases - No yellowing from aging - No writing - No stamps - No tearing: no chips, dents or nicks on the seams - No peel-off marks - No stains - No mold or mildew spots - No stickers or labels - No water damage - No razor marks, scratches, pressure marks, lines, streaks, or cuts.
- No warping - No wax, glue, paint or liquid drops on the cover - No glue traces or wax residue.
- No bar codes - No RIAA stamps or stickers.
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