“Out On The Tiles” by Led Zeppelin

"Out on the Tiles" started life as a drinking song John Bonham would hum or holler around the studio, so the story goes, and it got finished for Led Zeppelin III, which Atlantic released in October 1970. Bonham and Jimmy Page share the music credit, and Robert Plant wrote the words. Its working title was "Bathroom Song", after Bonham's notion that his drums had been cut in a bathroom, and it hits like hard rock with the bar tab still open.

Page produced, with Andy Johns engineering and mixing, Terry Manning also engineering and Peter Grant as executive producer. The secret is the room: Page put a mic close to his guitar and a second one clear across the studio, catching the lag between them, since for him recording meant bottling the space and the moment, not just the notes.

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