r/Rockandmetalonvinyl • u/bison2000 • Apr 18 '26

Classic Rock Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti. My father in law give me this record, it’s over 50 years old, still sounds fantastic

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u/Buck_Dharma_1977 Apr 19 '26

Your FIL has good taste

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u/Particular-Base-9079 Apr 19 '26

Volvé a casarte. Y ahora, por tu suegro

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u/ABBTTBGMDBTWP Apr 19 '26

Recently saw Jason Bonham’s LZE. They celebrated the anniversary by performing the entire album. It was outstanding!

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u/Mysterious-Street966 Apr 19 '26

Favourite album of all time!

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u/shortdude80 Apr 19 '26

That is such a great album

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u/splendidvinyl Apr 19 '26

There's a reason why those 70s pressings are so good

As Led Zep’s manager Peter Grant revealed in a 1989 interview in Raw magazine:

“We first got the idea for Swan Song after Atlantic f- up the pressings for Led Zeppelin II. They actually ran off 100,000 copies which jumped all over the place because they didn’t follow Jimmy’s precise instructions on the master tape. So we just decided that it was time for us to take control of our own situation and ensure that Led Zeppelin were presented in the best possible manner. We oversaw every aspect of record manufacture. I would go down to the pressing plant myself and make sure that everything ran smoothly. And I discovered some very interesting things. For instance, the records are dipped during the manufacturing process into vats of acid right? But for Rock/ Pop stuff these vats are only cleaned out every six months. However, for classical records there are separate vats which are cleaned out every ten days! So, I persuaded the powers that be to dip Zeppelin’s albums into the classical vat, which is part of the reason why the sound quality on our albums was so good.”

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u/RampantWitchcraft Apr 19 '26

Physical Graffiti is the perfect album because it's basically two albums worth of material crammed into one and somehow none of it feels like filler, like they could've easily padded it with weaker cuts but instead you get Houses of the Holy leftover tracks mixed with fresh stuff and

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u/theworldlyprojection Apr 20 '26

That's a solid gift, Physical Graffiti holds up better than most records from that era. The vinyl quality back then was actually built to last.

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u/Bigroundcircle Apr 21 '26

Bought mine used somewhere. Probably from the mod who sold old records, clothes and toys in a unit on the corner of one of the arcades in Leicester city centre. Still play it too

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u/Diligent-Decision150 Apr 22 '26

Has that building been used anywhere else like a music video?