Dear Nathaniel,
Hello my angel, we went to a "wave of light" tonight, we got a little angel and wrote your name on it and we lit two candles for you too. After that we went to visit you and I'm really happy that your light is still working it looks lovely in the middle of the night. We were also able to give the money we got to the charity tonight and that was really nice.
Tonight we're listening to Led Zeppelin's last studio album as an active band, a year after this was released drummer John Bonham died. This is the least Zeppelin-esque album of their back catalogue, due to most of the writing being done by John Paul Jones and Robert Plant. Jimmy Page and John Bonham had both wanted to go back to a harder rocking Led Zeppelin with their next album that never was.
Having been listening to Led Zeppelin almost exclusively over the last week or so I'd have to say this is my least favourite of their albums and the quality of Coda was improved tremendously with the remasters so I had to completely change my opinion of it as an album. Of course this is still a very good album in it's own right. The guitar work by Page is really good if a bit buried in the mix especially given the prominence of John Paul Jones' keyboard work.
Because of the excessive keyboard usage this Led Zeppelin album doesn't have the same stripped down and primal feel of their previous albums and it's usually somewhat of a disappointment to go back and listen to it. It is still a good album of course but it just doesn't compare to the rest of their albums, especially not with back to back listening.
Led Zeppelin at this point were plagued with significant personal problems. Not only was Bonham suffering with alcoholism and Page was addicted to heroin but Robert Plant had lost his five year old son while Led Zeppelin were touring which had put the band on hiatus for a long time. The song All of My Love on this album is dedicated to Plant's son Karac. While the remaster of this album has put the guitar a bit higher up in the mix it still doesn't change the overall lighter style of the songs.
I love you my angel Nathaniel I hope you liked everything we did for you today and I hope you're having a wonderful time. Goodnight.
Love from Dad.
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