PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Forgotten Series: Led Zeppelin, "Presence" (1976)

By Nick Deriso Led Zeppelin wasn't always this thundering, then nimble, amalgamation. The band's first album had, on its surface, only a copycat kind of appeal. Recorded over just 30 hours, these songs were presented in the same way Zeppelin would have done them on stage at the time—half rendition, half sweaty tribute. They were, as much as anything, another British referendum on the brilliance of American blues music...

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