LED ZEPPELIN II ORIGINAL LP on ATLANTIC GATEFOLD NEAR MINT PLUS 1969

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Here is a NEAR MINT PLUS! LP by LED ZEPPELIN titled II. It is an ORIGINAL! US pressing on the ATLANTIC label, catalog #SD 8236 in STEREO sound and released in 1969. The vinyl is in NEAR MINT PLUS! condition, shiny and black and should have superb playback. The GATEFOLD cover is in NEAR MINT PLUS! condition with extremely light corner and edge. It is your opportunity to purchase this AWESOME! LP by LED ZEPPELIN in this NEAR MINT PLUS! condition. It’s the NICEST COPY I HAVE EVER HAD! and a true gem for the ALBUM ROCK / BLUES-ROCK / BRITISH BLUES / BRITISH METAL / HARD ROCK / ROCK collector! Email me with any questions and be sure to look at the pic’s. I DO NOT ACCEPT BIDS FROM OR MAIL TO SOUTH AMERICA, SOUTH AFRICA, ITALY & OTHER COUNTRIES. IF YOU ARE NOT FROM THE USA CONTACT ME BEFORE BIDDING! International bidders can email me for shipping rates. SHIPPING IN THE US IS $4.00 for MEDIA MAIL. I COMBINE SHIPPING. BUYERS PLEASE WAIT FOR INVOICE! Thanks for Looking & Good Luck!

Music Review from AllMusic.com by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Recorded quickly during Led Zeppelin's first American tours, Led Zeppelin II provided the blueprint for all the heavy metal bands that followed it. Since the group could only enter the studio for brief amounts of time, most of the songs that compose II are reworked blues and rock & roll standards that the band was performing on-stage at the time. Not only did the short amount of time result in a lack of original material, it made the sound more direct. Jimmy Page still provided layers of guitar overdubs, but the overall sound of the album is heavy and hard, brutal and direct. "Whole Lotta Love," "The Lemon Song," and "Bring It on Home" are all based on classic blues songs -- only, the riffs are simpler and louder and each song has an extended section for instrumental solos. Of the remaining six songs, two sport light acoustic touches ("Thank You," "Ramble On"), but the other four are straight-ahead heavy rock that follows the formula of the revamped blues songs. While Led Zeppelin II doesn't have the eclecticism of the group's debut, it's arguably more influential. After all, nearly every one of the hundreds of Zeppelin imitators used this record, with its lack of dynamics and its pummeling riffs, as a blueprint.