![]() Also in October, the group switched its name to Led Zeppelin. The following month, they recorded their debut album in just under 30 hours. Performing under the name the New Yardbirds, the band fulfilled the Yardbirds' previously booked engagements in late September 1968. By September, Bonham agreed to join the band. Bonham had to be persuaded to join the group, as he was being courted by other artists who offered the drummer considerably more money. Plant recommended that Page hire John Bonham, the drummer for Plant's old band, the Band of Joy. Following Dreja's departure, John Paul Jones joined the group as its ba**ist. br /br /After hearing him sing, Page asked Plant to join the band in August of 1968, the same month Chris Dreja dropped out of the new project. Reid suggested that Page contact Robert Plant, who was singing with a band called Hobbstweedle. ![]() Wilson, but neither musician was able to join the group. Initially, he wanted to enlist singer Terry Reid and Procol Harum's drummer B.J. ![]() Page set out to find a replacement vocalist and drummer. In the summer of 1968, the Yardbirds' Keith Relf and James McCarty left the band, leaving Page and ba**ist Chris Dreja with the rights to the name, as well as the obligation of fulfilling an upcoming fall tour. Page would have to a**emble a band sooner than he had planned. In the spring of 1968, he played on Jones' arrangement of Donovan's "Hurdy Gurdy Man." During the sessions, Jones requested to be part of any future project Page would develop. While the Yardbirds decided their future, Page returned to session work in 1967. During 1967, the Yardbirds were fairly inactive. Jimmy Page had joined the band in its final days, playing a pivotal role on their final album, 1967's Little Games, which also featured string arrangements from John Paul Jones. br /br /Led Zeppelin formed out of the ashes of the Yardbirds. In doing so, they established the dominant format for heavy metal, as well as the genre's actual sound. More than any other band, Led Zeppelin established the concept of album-oriented rock, refusing to release popular songs from their albums as singles. Consequently, the only connection the audience had with the band was through the records and the concerts. They rarely gave interviews, since the music press detested the band. It wasn't just their crushingly loud interpretation of the blues - it was how they incorporated mythology, mysticism, and a variety of other genres (most notably world music and British folk) - into their sound. Led Zeppelin was the definitive heavy metal band.
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