I was 14 when Led Zeppelin III came out. The first song, Immigrant song, was immediately overpowering (and still is). I thought it was an unearthly sound. And that voice of Robert Plant. Rough without screaming. Great record too to play along to as a young guitarist. Even playing air guitar again I couldn’t resist! It took a while until I realized that the guitar was in open tuning on ‘Bron-Y-Aur Stomp’, which was even released on single. Automatically I reach for my guitar again to fiddle around with it. What fun is that to rediscover his record. Kind of coming home. The cover is a work of art in itself, still, timelessly beautiful with that dial and only minimal information. Music is louder than words they must have thought back then. Damn right. Went to spin III now of course for this piece and am once again captured by the sound. All the songs are etched in my memory, how often I played that record. And yet now I heard different details again. Not played it for so long. What such a piece of writing brings about. Once I bought it on CD, but now when I play it on LP, the magic of playing LPs comes back. It won’t leave my turntable for a while. The song “Since I’ve Been Loving You,” I must highlight separately. A slow blues on which Jimmy Page plays one of the most beautiful guitar solos of all time. Some songs like this were inspiration for Homesick & The Backstabbers, my first band, with whom we also often played in Wijk bij Duurstede. And that rhythm section, such a fat drum (John Bonham) & bass (John Paul Jones) sound. Those 4 together was also part of the magic! In the third year of high school I had one of those army bags, those things were hard to come by, a pimple you called it. On mine, of course, was written in thick felt-tip pen…. Led Zeppelin. Timelessly brilliant and I am years younger again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9438","bluesvdmaand","type-bluesvdmaand","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n