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Rolling Stone Magazine – Led Zeppelin I ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE – LED ZEPPELIN I By John Mendelsohn – March 15, 1969 – TRADUZIONE A CURA DI ANDREA AMATO CONTE The popular formula in England in this, the aftermath La formula popolare in Inghilterra, sulla scia del era of such successful British bluesmen as Cream and John grande successo di bluesmen inglesi come Cream e John Mayall, seems to be: add, to an excellent guitarist who, Mayall, sembra essere: aggiungere a un eccellente since leaving the Yardbirds and/or Mayall, has become a chitarrista, divenuto una divinità musicale minore dopo minor musical deity, a competent rhythm section and pretty aver lasciato gli Yardbirds e/o Mayall, una competente soul-belter who can do a good spade imitation. The latest sezione ritmica e un urlatore bellimbusto che possa farne of the British blues groups so conceived offers little that its una discreta imitazione. L’ultimo dei gruppi british blues twin, the Jeff Beck Group, didn't say as well or better three così concepito offre poco che il suo gemello, il Jeff Beck months ago, and the excesses of the Beck group's Truth Group, non abbia già detto nello stesso modo se non meglio album (most notably its self-indulgence and restrictedness), tre mesi fa, e gli eccessi dell’album Truth del gruppo di are fully in evidence on Led Zeppelin's debut album. Beck (in particolare la sua auto-indulgenza e la limitatezza) sono del tutto evidenti nel primo album dei Led Zeppelin. Jimmy Page, around whom the Zeppelin revolves, is, admittedly, an extraordinarily proficient blues guitarist and Jimmy Page, attorno al quale ruotano gli Zeppelin, è explorer of his instrument's electronic capabilities. certamente un chitarrista blues straordinariamente abile ed Unfortunately, he is also a very limited producer and a esploratore delle capacità elettroniche del suo strumento. writer of weak, unimaginative songs, and the Zeppelin Purtroppo, è anche un produttore estremamente limitato e album suffers from his having both produced it and written autore di canzoni fiacche e prive di fantasia, e l'album ne most of it (alone or in combination with his accomplices in risente, avendone questi sia scritto che prodotto la maggior the group). parte (da solo o in combinazione con i complici del gruppo). The album opens with lots of guitarrhythm section exchanges (in the fashion of Beck's "Shapes of Things" on L'album si apre con un gran numero di scambi di "Good Times Bad Times", which might have been ideal for chitarra ritmica (Good Times Bad Times, che rifà il verso a a Yardbirds' B-side. Here, as almost everywhere else on the Shapes of Things di Jeff Beck, avrebbe potuto essere una album, it is Page's guitar that provides most of the perfetta b-side degli Yardbirds). Qui, come in quasi tutto il excitement. "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" alternates resto dell’album, è la chitarra di Page a fornire la maggior between prissy Robert Plant's howled vocals fronting an parte delle emozioni. Baby Im Gonna Leave You si divide acoustic guitar and driving choruses of the band running tra gli sdolcinati strilli di Robert Plant a fronte di una down a four-chord progression while John Bonham chitarra acustica e dei cori del gruppo che girano attorno a smashes his cymbals on every beat. The song is very dull quattro accordi, mentre John Bonham fracassa i suoi piatti a in places (especially on the vocal passages), very ogni movimento. Il brano è assai noioso a tratti (in redundant, and certainly not worth the six-and-a-half particolare sui passaggi vocali), molto ridondante e minutes the Zeppelin gives it. certamente non vale i sei minuti e mezzo di attenzione lungo i quali gli Zeppelin strascicano il brano. Two much-overdone Willie Dixon blues standards fail 1/2 to be revivified by being turned into showcases for Page Due classici blues molto molto sopravvalutati di and Plant. "You Shook Me" is the more interesting of the Willie Dixon non riescono a essere adeguatamente two — at the end of each line Plant's echo-chambered rivitalizzati e diventare delle vetrine per Page e Plant. You voice drops into a small explosion of fuzz-tone guitar, with Shook Me è il più interessante dei due – il culmine di ogni which it matches shrieks at the end. linea vocale di Plant, con tanto di eco ambientale, precipita in una piccola esplosione di chitarra dal suono fuzzoso cui The album's most representative cut is "How Many corrispondono le grida della fine. More Times." Here a jazzy introduction gives way to a driving (albeit monotonous) guitar-dominated background Il pezzo più rappresentativo dell’album è How Many for Plant's strained and unconvincing shouting (he may be More Times. Una introduzione jazz lascia il posto a un giro as foppish as Rod Stewart, but he's nowhere near so (pure monotono) dominato dalla chitarra che fa da sfondo exciting, especially in the higher registers). A fine Page per il gridare teso e poco convincente Plant (potrebbe solo then leads the band into what sounds like a backwards essere accostato a Rod Stewart da qualche incauto, ma non version of the Page-composed "Beck's Bolero," hence to a è così eccitante neanche lontanamente, soprattutto nei little snatch of Albert King's "The Hunter," and finally to registri superiori). Un bell’assolo di Page conduce la band an avalanche of drums and shouting. in quella che suona come una versione al contrario di Beck’s Bolero “composta” da Page, quindi un po’ di furti In their willingness to waste their considerable talent dalla The Hunter di Albert King, e, infine, a una valanga di on unworthy material the Zeppelin has produced an album tamburi e strilli. which is sadly reminiscent of Truth. Like the Beck group they are also perfectly willing to make themselves a two- Ostinandosi a sprecare il loro notevole talento su del (or, more accurately, one-a-half) man show. It would seem materiale indegno, i Led Zeppelin hanno prodotto un album that, if they're to help fill the void created by the demise of che ricorda tristemente Truth. Come il Jeff Beck Group Cream, they will have to find a producer (and editor) and sono persino disposti a ridursi a un two-men-show (o, più some material worthy of their collective attention. precisamente, uno e mezzo). Ma se davvero vogliono contribuire a colmare il vuoto lasciato dalla scomparsa dei Cream, dovranno trovare un produttore (e un editore) e del materiale all’altezza dell’attenzione del pubblico. 2/2 .
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