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On this week's Loudini Rock & Roll Circus podcast we will take a step back in time and explore one of the most important albums in all of rock history. Led Zeppelin IV (more commonly known as "Zoso") was a watershed moment not only for the band but for rock music and rock history. With songs like Black Dog, Rock 'n Roll and Stairway to FREAKIN' HEAVEN the album joins the pantheon of the greatest rock albums of all time; right up there with Dark Side of the Moon and Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club.

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the four symbols on the jacket
they each picked their own
Plant: Feather of Mot
Page: Zoso... designed by page himself
Bonham: Bromian Rings
Jones: Celtic Knot
guest vocalist Sandy Denny on Battle of Evermore
Headley Grange... suggested by Andy Johns & Fleetwood Mac to go to a country estate to record
Oil painting for cover purchased at an antique shop while at headley
Painting thought to resemble the "10 of ones" tarot card and/or George Pickengill (father of modern witch craft)
The fold out art is based on "The Hermit" tarot card... symbol of the band's crusade

"When the LEvee Breaks" (memphis minnie) recorded drums in lobby. Tempo slowed down in post... everything accept vocals recorded faster then slowed
backwards harmonica with echo

Black Dog... black lab that hung around hedley grange. Riff composed by JPJ. The stop and start verses inspired by "oh well" by Fleetwood Mac

Four Sticks...played with 2 sets of sticks

Rockn' Roll... jamming on "keep a knocking" by little richard

Page concerned about small details

Stairway... second take is the one you hear on recording
lyrics deliberately vague so tthe listener could use their imagination
Shifts from Aeolian to dorian mode

"Battle of Evermore"... influence by LOTR

Page didn't like the mix... then remixed 4 months of work to record an mix

Led Zep Tribute band: ZoSo

Ranking Tracks:
Black Dog 1
Rock & Roll 2
Battle of Evermore 7
Stairway to Heaven 5
Misty Mountain Hop 4
Four Sticks 8
Going to California 6
When the Levee Breaks 3