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When Jimmy Page<\/a> first left The Yardbirds, he wasn\u2019t looking to become just another blues-rock guitar player.\u00a0<\/p>\n Led Zeppelin had to be their own unique entity when they first began, and even if they had a few of the blues tropes on their first records, Page had the idea for the band to become a much bigger musical force than what they ultimately became. He liked the idea of a group that was constantly evolving sounds, and that meant not being tied into one box when it came to all of their classic tracks.<\/p>\n Because when going through all of Zeppelin\u2019s albums, it\u2019s not like they fit into any one genre to begin with. Blues is obviously where everything got started, but there are also tunes that seem to defy any kind of category. No one knew what to classify \u2018Kashmir\u2019 as when they first heard it, and even when they started moving well outside of traditional rock and roll, how the hell are you supposed to compare \u2018Whole Lotta Love\u2019 with songs like \u2018Achilles Last Stand\u2019 that they did later on in their career?<\/p>\n Those don\u2019t even sound like they come from the same band in places, but that was all part of the point behind Page\u2019s playing. He loved the idea of keeping the audience on their toes when they picked up one of their records, but just because they moved outside of their comfort zone didn\u2019t mean that there weren\u2019t some pitfalls along the way when they first started reaching outside of their wheelhouse.<\/p>\n Then again, it\u2019s not like Zeppelin were exactly critical darlings to begin with. The first few Rolling Stone reviews they got weren\u2019t all that flattering to their sound, and even if they did get mountains of praise from the audience, it was much better for them to turn their noses up at any critic who only wanted to attack them. But even by those standards, Page felt that Led Zeppelin III was going to generate controversy regardless.<\/p>\n The band were no strangers to mixing things up, but to have an album kick down the door with \u2018Immigrant Song<\/a>\u2019 and then going into some of the band\u2019s best acoustic work was going to be a gamble. Not everyone was on board with hearing an unplugged version of the group, but even when they did dive back into blues covers like \u2018Since I\u2019ve Been Loving You\u2019, Page was furious when he heard some people calling them copycats for jumping on the folksy bandwagon that Crosby, Stills and Nash had started.<\/p>\n