Product Description
Rare Actual 1976 Japanese First Pressing! Embossed Heavy Grade Gatefold Cover Includes Textured Inner Sleeve & Insert With Lyrics, Labels Are Clean. One Of The Best Led Zeppelin Albums ~ To Be Played LOUD!!!
Label + Dead wax details: ST-SS-763559-F P-10160N1 WITH HELP FROM TOM 6-4 PR 2M-A-9 ATLANTIC STUDIOS / ST-SS-763560-F P-10160N2 AT ATLANTIC STUDIOS PR 2M-A-10
Made in Japan, Warner-Pioneer Corporation, Ic A ★
Condition – Vinyl: VERY GOOD PLUS! Side 1 has some light surface marks. Looks VG+ / Plays EX! Side 2 plays NM!
Condition – Cover: VERY GOOD PLUS! Some shelf wear and foxing, due to age.
Japanese vinyl pressings are highly sought after by audiophiles and collectors, due to their premium sound quality and beautifully presented packaging. The sonic quality of Japanese records is regarded as the best in the world. No wonder all the original Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab records were pressed in Japan! The covers are printed on better quality heavy stock paper too. Top condition original Japanese pressings are becoming scarcer ~ and therefore more collectable and valuable every year.
Side 1:
Achilles Last Stand
For Your Life
Royal Orleans
Side 2:
Nobody’s Fault But Mine
Candy Store Rock
Hots On For Nowhere
Tea For One
AMG –
Presence scales back the size of Physical Graffiti to a single album, but it retains the grandiose scope of that double record. If anything, Presence has more majestic epics than its predecessor, opening with the surging, ten-minute "Achilles Last Stand" and closing with the meandering, nearly ten-minute "Tea for One." In between, Led Zeppelin add the lumbering blues workout "Nobody's Fault But Mine" and the terse, menacing "For Your Life," which is the best song on the album. These four tracks take up the bulk of the album, leaving three lighthearted throwaways to alleviate the foreboding atmosphere -- and pretensions -- of the epics. If all of the throwaways were as focused and funny as those on Physical Graffiti or Houses of the Holy, Zeppelin would have had another classic on their hands.
Geoff –
'Presence' is a highly under-rated classic and is Led Zeppelin at their mightiest! It contains powerful epics, such as "Achilles Last Stand" and "Nobody's Fault But Mine", plus the menacing "For Your Life" (which was performed live for the first time by the re-formed Zep at O2 Arena in 2007). In a similar vein to "Since I've Been Loving You", the spine-tingling blues of "Tea for One" finishes the album off superbly. Page is in his element here, while Plant proved that he still had the greatest voice in rock, despite having to sing whilst in a wheelchair (due to having a broken leg and other injuries sustained in a car crash in Greece earlier that year). The rhythm section of Jones and Bonham is rock solid and tight as ever! ‘Presence’ is an astonishing and very powerful album that deserves a much higher position in the Zeppelin oeuvre.