{"id":506,"date":"2011-12-09T17:59:18","date_gmt":"2011-12-10T01:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randyw.camiwp.com\/?p=506"},"modified":"2012-09-11T09:51:20","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T17:51:20","slug":"randy-wells-photography-classic-porsche-automotive-travel-music-reviews-78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=506","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ledzeppelinfoursymbols.jpg\" title=\"ledzeppelinfoursymbols.jpg\"><img id=\"image504\" src=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ledzeppelinfoursymbols.jpg\" alt=\"ledzeppelinfoursymbols.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>LED ZEPPELIN IV<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Forty years ago Led Zeppelin ruled the charts and airwaves with the epic (and overplayed) &#8220;Strairway to Heaven&#8221;. I still remember when I first heard it. I was a senior in HS and my girlfriend&#8217;s best friend was ultra hip. She had somehow got a copy of LZ IV before the stores carried it. One listen and I knew what I&#8217;d be playing for my &#8220;Creative Poetry&#8221; class the following week. Everybody was mesmerized as the LP spun that day. I went King Crab fishing in Alaska six months later and was essentially incommunicado. By the time I returned it was playing every half hour on the radio. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For the best sonics on this album, pick up the original CD, or better yet, look for an original US or UK LP with &#8220;Porky&#8221; written in the dead wax (run out area). Joe Sidore mastered the first CD release, and George Peckham cut the first records. Crank it up!<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/jimmy_page_with_robert_plant_2_-_led_zeppelin_-_1977.jpg\" title=\"jimmy_page_with_robert_plant_2_-_led_zeppelin_-_1977.jpg\"><img id=\"image505\" src=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/jimmy_page_with_robert_plant_2_-_led_zeppelin_-_1977.jpg\" alt=\"jimmy_page_with_robert_plant_2_-_led_zeppelin_-_1977.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Cover Artist and Photographer: Unknown)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LED ZEPPELIN IV Forty years ago Led Zeppelin ruled the charts and airwaves with the epic (and overplayed) &#8220;Strairway to Heaven&#8221;. I still remember when I first heard it. I was a senior in HS and my girlfriend&#8217;s best friend was ultra hip. She had somehow got a copy of LZ IV before the stores &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=506\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1518,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions\/1518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}