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If not Zeppelin per sé, I highly recommend Plant & Krauss “Raising Sand” and “Raising the Roof” albums. Wonderful performances and fantastic production by T Bone Burnett. Simply brilliant 
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Jimmy Page put a nice early version of HOTH’s “The Rain Song” up on his YouTube channel…
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Wow… Jimmy Page is now on YouTube… !! This is his first post. Subscribed…!!!
Thank you - @TheKevster - for spotting & posting this… 
As an early take, its pretty much ‘there’.
Quote -
"My original idea for the opening tracks for ‘Houses of the Holy’ was that a short overture would be a rousing instrumental introduction with layered electric guitars that would segue in to ’The Seasons’, later to be titled ‘The Rain Song’. Again there would be a contrasting acoustic guitar instrumental movement with melotron that could lead to the first vocal of the album and the first verse of the song.
‘The Seasons’ was a memo to myself as a reminder of the sequence of the song and various ideas I’d had for it in its embryonic stage. I’d worked on it over one evening at home. During the routining of the overture now titled ‘The Plumpton and Worcester Races’, the half time section was born and the overture shaped in to the song, ‘The Song Remains The Same’. These rehearsals were done in Puddle Town on the River Piddle in Dorset, UK.
The first set of recordings were done at Olympic Studios with George Chkiantz.
We then came to record at Stargroves, Sir Mick Jagger’s country home, and, like Headley Grange, with the Rolling Stones recording truck.
‘The Song Remains The Same’ was played on a Fender 12 string, the same one used on Becks Bolero, with my trusty Les Paul number 1 on overdubs in a standard tuning. The ‘Rain Song’ was an unorthodox tuning on acoustic and electric guitars. On live shows, it became a work-out feature for the double neck."
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I was at Knebworth in ‘79 too. Although I’m afraid I don’t remember all that much - I was young then and enjoying it! I still have some LZ vinyl, but my old Heybrook TT2 has seen better days and my amp (Naim XS 2) has no phono input 
. I make do with Tidal now.
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Jimmy Page, eh? I don’t normally applaud Robbie Wlliams, but in this case, I’ll make an exception.
Working through my 80’s vinyl collection for my reborn Rega Planar 3. Lots of punch and grip on this gem. Mint condition too 
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The Ocean - live at MSG, July’73 -
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I remember that LZ IV received a pretty lukewarm reception on its release, with many thinking that it was not loud enough!
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A chap called (I think) Geoff Barton was particularly unflattering about Black Dog, comparing the sound to farm wildlife, in the music press. Mind you, he was a Kiss fan.
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