Led Zeppelin - Coda - Unreleased Tracks - VG+ Classic Rock - LP
LP

Led Zeppelin - Coda

Label: Atlantic
Cat #: 79 00511
1982
Canada issue

Vinyl: VG+ to VG++, some light scuffs
Gatefold cover has light ring wear, minor wear to opening edge
Includes original inner sleeve

Tracklisting:
A1 We're Gonna Groove
A2 Poor Tom
A3 I Can't Quit You Baby
A4 Walter's Walk

B1 Ozone Baby
B2 Darlene
B3 Bonzo's Montreux
B4 Wearing And Tearing


We're Gonna Groove" opens the album and is taken from the recording sessions that yielded "Led Zeppelin II". This track was a one time show opener and it's easy to see why. Jimmy Page adds sub-octdivider effects on guitar while a young Robert Anthony Plant screams his head off. "Poor Tom" is an interesting piece left over from the "Led Zeppelin III" era. Bonham supplies a fine rhythm track under Page's stellar 12-string acoustic work and Plant's harp. "I Can't Quit You Baby" is taken from a soundcheck from the Royal Albert Hall in 1970. This take is far more explosive than the version found on "Led Zeppelin" (and better, too). "Walter's Walk" is from the 1972 "Houses Of The Holy" sessions and is easily one of the better songs on the album. Bonham's drum sound is massive, and Page stays in the pocket...until the final refrain when he goes postal. Plant's vocals *must* have been overdubed during the compiling of this collection because the quality of his voice is more consistant with the 1978 "In Through The Out Door" sessions, range-wise, whereas if you listen to a song from "Houses" ("Over The Hills And Far Away"), his voice is more powerful.

"Ozone Baby", "Darlene", and "Wearing and Tearing" are all outtakes from the "Out Door" sessions. "Ozone Baby" is a nice, uptempo rocker which obviously would not have belonged on "Out Door". "Darlene" is another highlight of the album. John Paul Jones' piano work is fantastic, while Jimmy Page slips into his Scotty Moore/Jimmy Burton persona to deliver some inspired lead work.


Wearing and Tearing - Live 1990




Led Zeppelin - Ozone Baby

One of Bonzo's greatest tracks, just feel the intensity of the drums