Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin II

This time Keith Moon really got out of time, saying that the new band formed by Jimmy Page would go down like a lead zeppelin! In fact, in 1969 when the second chapter of the zeppelin came out, the world went into chaos, because it was about to meet the son of the blues, that is, HARD ROCK. Led Zeppelin II was born in a historic period for the music world; such record institutions as Abbey Road by the Beatles, Let It Bleed by the Stones, The Allman Brothers Band, Velvet Underground, In The Court Of The Crimson King, Hot Rats by Frank Zappa, Green River by CCR were released. The album opens in a shocking way, with tracks never taken to such a granitic power: until then every band had created riffs, but never so engaging. Have you ever wondered what any bassist was supposed to do in the zeppelin?? Harmonically speaking, in Led Zeppelin's songs the bass is forced to stay on the heels of the riff, teetering between genius and banality, creating a moment of tension until the final explosion of solos, shaping rhythmic textures of high school, that only someone like JPJ was able to conceive, and devising cues for improvisation. In The Lemon Song, what has been said materializes on the (unfortunately or perhaps not) plagiarized composition of Howlin Wolf, Killing Floor. Opening the dance is Whole Lotta Love, a track that has entered the list of the most beautiful riffs in rock history such as: Smoke On the Water, Sunshine Of Your Love, Aqualung, Satisfaction, You Really Got Me. The track is a reworking of You Need Love by Willie Dixon, featuring a complex instrumental interlude, in which a theremin peeks out, the flagship of an authentic orgiastic cacophony. Plant sings about love, but a love parsecs and parsecs away from the ramblings of the now buried flower children, supporting the following thesis: "Why should I talk about broken hearts, when everything is born from the belly?". Heartbreaker is the fifth track in which that confused roaring creature, emanating from the Gibson Les Paul Standard and later perfected by Eddy Van Halen, becomes part of the new skills of every rock guitarist. "It is the horrible thread of a fabric woven with cables and hawsers. Crossed by a polar wind, flown over by birds of prey." These bleak words from Herman Melville are enough on their own to define that symphonic poem for percussion that bears the name of the White Whale. Once again, the zeppelin has brought along many legends, such as the one that American soldiers, before going to bomb Vietnamese villages, would always listen to Whole Lotta Love while engaging in a solemn self-pleasure to regain energy.