Friday, January 17, 2020

Led Zeppelin - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: BBC Rock Hour, Playhouse Theatre, London, Britain, 6-27-1969

Here's the third album in my five-album series of Led Zeppelin playing for the BBC. See my post of the first album for a general explanation.

This is the third album of BBC performances recorded in just a few months in 1969. As a result, the song list has a lot of repeats from the songs on the first two albums in this series. But on the plus side, this is a single performance of 51 minutes, done for an hour-long BBC radio  show. Unlike the previous BBC performances, which were played in a studio, this was played in front of a small audience. Yet because it was recorded for the BBC, the sound is as pristine as can be. There are a zillion Zeppelin bootlegs out there, but in my opinion, the vast majority of them have poor sound quality. So any performance of the band recorded this well is a special treat.

All the songs here have been officially released on "The Complete BBC Sessions." But they'd been out of order, including having four of the songs on one disc and the other two on another disc. I've sequenced them all in the order they were played.

01 Communication Breakdown (Led Zeppelin)
02 I Can't Quit You Baby (Led Zeppelin)
03 Dazed and Confused (Led Zeppelin)
04 White Summer - Black Mountain Side [Instrumental] (Led Zeppelin)
05 You Shook Me (Led Zeppelin)
06 How Many More Times - The Hunter - The Lemon Song [Killing Floor] (Led Zeppelin)

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For the album cover, I couldn't find any photos from the concert in question. But I found a nice one from the same month. The photo was taken at the Birmingham Town Hall on June 13, 1969.

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