Early Days: The Best of Led Zeppelin, Vol. 1

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EDITORIAL REVIEWS LED ZEPPELIN Early Days - The Best Of Led Zeppelin Volume One (1999 German pressed 14-track enhanced CD album featuring 13 classic audio recordings including Whole Lotta Love Babe Im Gonna Leave You Immigrant Song Stairway To Heaven Since Ive Been Loving You and more plus the Communication Breakdown CD-Rom Video with a picture sleeve booklet containing discography and timeline) AMAZON.COM Having previously released no less than four boxed repackages of their studio output, Led Zeppelin may well be the band who made redundancy redundant. Well, surprise! They've done it again. Culled from the band's first four albums by Jimmy Page himself (as if a fourth-grader with an FM radio would have been hard-pressed), this collection captures Page and company's blues-riff-ripping prime, relieved only by the folksy "Battle of Evermore" and the song that made Skynyrd's "Free Bird" (almost) tolerable, the ubiquitous "Stairway to Heaven." Strung end-to-end, this is pretty heady stuff, and a great introduction to Zep's core early work for anyone who's spent the last couple of decades hangin' with Gilligan and the Skipper. The rest of us may just grumble and fast-forward to the previously unreleased 1969 live video clip of "Communication Breakdown." The package includes a 24-page booklet with many rare photos. -Jerry McCulley