Dazed and Confused
Dazed and Confused is a song written and performed by Jake Holmes . It became popular with the cover of The Yardbirds and the revision by Led Zeppelin , who hold their own copyright on the song.
Original by Jake Holmes
| Dazed and Confused | |
|---|---|
| Jake Holmes | |
| publication | 1967 |
| length | 3:50 |
| Genre (s) | Folk rock , psychedelic rock , psychedelic folk |
| Author (s) | Jake Holmes |
| Label | Tower |
| album | "The Above Ground Sound" by Jake Holmes |
| Cover versions | |
| 1967 | The Yardbirds |
| 1969 | Led Zeppelin |
Singer-songwriter Jake Holmes wrote "Dazed and Confused" for his debut solo album "The Above Ground Sound" by Jake Holmes , released in June 1967. Like the other tracks on the album, the song does not contain any drums . It was recorded entirely with Holmes on guitar , keyboards and vocals , Ted Irwin on guitar and Rick Randle on bass . The song was mistakenly labeled as a story about a bad LSD trip. Holmes himself has confirmed that this is not the case. In 2001 he said in an interview about "Dazed and Confused":
“I never took acid. I smoked grass and tripped on it, but I never took acid. I was afraid to take it. The song's about a girl who hasn't decided whether she wants to stay with me or not. It's pretty much one of those love songs. "
“I've never used LSD. I smoked weed and took trips from it, but never used LSD. I was scared of taking it. The song is about a girl who hadn't made up her mind whether she wanted to stay with me or not. It is probably one of those love songs. "
In August 1967, Holmes opened up for the Yardbirds in a gig in New York's Greenwich Village . Holmes later said of that day:
"That was the infamous moment of my life when Dazed and Confused fell into the loving arms and hands of Jimmy Page."
"That was the notorious moment in my life when" Dazed and Confused "fell into the loving arms and hands of Jimmy Page."
When "Dazed and Confused" appeared on the 1969 Led Zeppelin album , Holmes was aware of this but did not pursue it any further. It wasn't until the early 80s that he sent a letter to Led Zeppelin's guitarist , Jimmy Page , insisting on his authorship and asking for compensation, but received no response.
In June 2010, Holmes filed a copyright infringement lawsuit in the United States District Court, naming Jimmy Page as a co-defendant. He stated that he wrote and recorded "Dazed and Confused" two years prior to its release on Led Zeppelin's debut album. In court, Holmes cited documents confirming his 1967 copyright registration and 1995 renewal for "Dazed and Confused". The lawsuit was dismissed in January 2012.
Version of the Yardbirds
On August 25, 1967, Jake Holmes opened up for the British rock band The Yardbirds at the Village Theater in Greenwich Village. According to Jim McCarty of The Yardbirds, the next day they went to a record store to buy Holmes' album and decided to cover "Dazed and Confused". They worked on it together, with Page contributing the guitar riff in the middle and Keith Relf making minor changes to the lyrics. Their version contained a long instrumental passage in which Jimmy Page played the guitar with a bow. Page explained that he got the idea of using a violin bow for his guitar from a violinist named David McCallum during his session days. At that time the song had a little oriental influence, as you can hear it on some appearances on French television.
"Dazed and Confused" quickly became a centerpiece of Yardbirds' live performances in the final year of its existence. The song was never officially recorded by the band, but there is a live version from March 30, 1968. This is part of the album Live Yardbirds: Featuring Jimmy Page under the title "I'm Confused". It is noteworthy that it is the only track on the album for which no reference to the author is given at the time of publication. Another live version of the song was recorded in the French TV series "Bouton Rouge" on March 9, 1968 and is on the Cumular Limit CD from 2000. It is written there as "by Jake Holmes arr. Yardbirds." (Eng. "by Jake Holmes, arranged by the Yardbirds") stated.
Version of Led Zeppelin
| Dazed and Confused | |
|---|---|
| Led Zeppelin | |
| publication | January 12, 1969 |
| length | 6:26 |
| Genre (s) | Blues rock , psychedelic rock , hard rock |
| Author (s) | Jimmy Page |
| Label | Atlantic |
| album | Led Zeppelin |
When the Yardbirds broke up in 1968, Page planned to record the song again, this time with Led Zeppelin. According to bassist John Paul Jones , the first time he heard this song was when the band first met on Gerrard Street in London in 1968. Led Zeppelin recorded their version at Olympic Studios in London in October 1968 and he became Part of their debut album Led Zeppelin .
Holmes was not named as the author of the Led Zeppelin version. Page used the title, wrote a new text and modified the melody. The arrangement of the song remained very similar to the version of the Yardbirds from the previous year. As a result of Holmes' lawsuit, Holmes is named as inspiration on the 2012 live album Celebration Day .
Led Zeppelin's piece begins with a bass intro to which Jimmy Page creates “psychedelic” overtones . In the verse of the song by leaden is Blues - riffs supported, including singer Robert Plant and his energetic voice cries out a plaintive melody. Page's use of a violin bow for playing the guitar is characteristic. The piece can be assigned to the blues genre; However, it is played with a distorted guitar and a dominant drum kit and has a sometimes very high tempo, so it can be regarded as one of the first hard rock , if not heavy metal songs.
Led Zeppelin's live performances
"Dazed and Confused" was made widely known by Led Zeppelin and is strongly identified with them. It became the centerpiece of the Led Zeppelin concerts, at least until the release of " Whole Lotta Love " on their second album . When performed live, it was played at a slow overall tempo, except for the faster middle section, and the length gradually expanded into a multi-part improvised jam session (up to 45 minutes in 1975). Although the song was initially played in a manner similar to the studio version, some notable differences were gradually developed during live performances. In June 1969, the rest of the band stopped completely in the part where Page played his guitar with a bow, which allowed him to play a very long free-form improvisation, but by January 1970 the main structure of that part was formed. In 1972 another improvised part was inserted between the verse and this part. The fast part has been expanded to allow for volume changes as well as changing the basic rhythm. After the last verse there was a short jam at the end of the song.
Over time, more and more material flowed into the improvisation part. In 1972 the song featured riffs from the Led Zeppelin songs "The Crunge" and "Walter's Walk", as featured on the live album How the West Was Won . In 1973 the song received an extended passage before the bow solo, which contained a melody that was used in the 1976 song "Achilles Last Stand". Plant sang lyrics from Scott McKenzie's "San Francisco" or Joni Mitchell's "Woodstock" in this part . From October 1969 until the last performance in May 1975 at the Earl's Court Shows, the solo parts included "Mars, the Warbringer" from Gustav Holst's suite The Planets .
In his 1997 release, Led Zeppelin Live: An Illustrated Exploration of Underground Tapes , Luis Rey divided the structure of the song as it was in 1975 into twelve parts to demonstrate its gradual evolution during live performances:
- Part 1: Bass intro and wah-wah interjections
- Part 2: sung main melody
- Part 3: fast instrumental and 'oriental' riffs
- Part 4: "San Francisco / Achilles Last Stand" or "Woodstock"
- Part 5: Violin bow passage with echoes from the guitar; Interjections from Plant's 'instrumental voice'; Gustav Holst's "Mars, the Warbringer" and return of the rhythm section
- Part 6: fast guitar solo and 'battle' with Plant
- Part 7: Solo at a slower pace and funky mood
- Part 8: hard breaks and call-and-response part
- Part 9: faster solo with crescendos and occasional tempo change
- Part 10: New arrangement of "Mars the Warbringer" (slow and fast version) and final ecstasy
- Part 11: Return to the main subject
- Part 12: Coda. Closing instrumental and vocal 'battle' with syncopated rhythms, drum solo and final explosion.
A live version of "Dazed and Confused" became part of the 1976 concert film The Song Remains the Same (and accompanying soundtrack) as part of Page's fantasy sequence. Other live recordings are included on the Led Zeppelin BBC Sessions releases (with two different versions), How the West Was Won and the Led Zeppelin DVD .
"Dazed and Confused" was performed on every Led Zeppelin concert tour up to and including their 1975 Earl's Court Shows. It was then removed from their live setlist. However, Page performed parts of the bow solo during solos in 1977 and 1979 (as introductions to "Achilles Last Stand" and "In the Evening"). The song was performed during the Led Zeppelin Reunion concert at the O2 Arena in London on December 10, 2007. This version is a whole tone lower.
Cultural influence
The song is part of "The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll".
The song was also used as the basis for the title of the 1993 film Confusion , which features the lives of various American teenagers in the last days of their high school in 1976. The song is not part of the score, however. The director Richard Linklater asked the members of Led Zeppelin to use some of their songs in the film; although Page agreed, Robert Plant declined.
In the television series The Simpsons , an episode of Itchy & Scratchy (1993: "Wir vom Trickfilm") is entitled "Dazed and Contused", an obvious reference to the song. It was also used as a play on words ("abraised and contused") in the episode "Bart has two mothers" from 2006, where Ned Flanders describes himself as Ned Zeppelin. In 2012, the song opened the final episode of the 5th season of Californication , in which the main character Hank Moody dreams that he is in hell.
The song is part of the episode "Air Guitar" of the drama series Shabatot VeHagim from 2003.
Awards
| publication | country | Award | year | rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock and Roll Hall of Fame | United States | "The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll" | 1994 | * |
| Pause & Play | United States | "Time Capsule Inductions - Songs" | 1998 | * |
| NME | Great Britain | "117 songs to soundtrack your summer" | 2003 | * |
| Toby Creswell | Australia | "1001 Songs: the Great Songs of All Time" | 2005 | * |
| Pitchfork Media | United States | "The 200 Greatest Songs of the 1960s" | 2006 | 11 |
| Q | Great Britain | "The 20 Greatest Guitar Tracks" | 2007 | 2 |
| Q | Great Britain | "21 Albums That Changed Music - Key Track" | 2007 | 6th |
(*) denotes unsorted lists.
occupation
literature
- Dave Lewis: The Complete Guide to the Music of Led Zeppelin . Omnibus Press, 2004, ISBN 0-7119-3528-9
- Chris Welch: Led Zeppelin: Dazed and Confused: The Stories Behind Every Song . Carlton, 1998, ISBN 1-56025-818-7
Individual evidence
- ^ Susan Fast: In the Houses of the Holy: Led Zeppelin and the Power of Rock Music . Oxford University Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-19-514723-0
- ↑ a b c d e Interview with Jake Holmes . Retrieved January 11, 2014.
- ↑ a b album review . Retrieved January 11, 2014.
- ^ A b c d Newspaper article in the Guardian . Posted by Sean Micheals. Retrieved January 11, 2014.
- ^ Newspaper report on the lawsuit . New York Post. Retrieved January 30, 2014.
- ↑ [1] . Retrieved January 11, 2014.
- ↑ Chris Welch: Led Zeppelin: Dazed and Confused: The Stories Behind Every Song . Carlton, 1998, ISBN 1-56025-818-7
- ↑ Album review . allmusic.com. Retrieved January 30, 2014.
- ^ Will Hodgkinson: Song Man: A Melodic Adventure, Or, My Single-Minded Approach to Songwriting . Da Capo Press, 2008, ISBN 0-306-81581-8 , p. 129.
- ↑ Scott Schinder: Icons of Rock . Greenwood Publishing Group, 2008, p. 385.
- ↑ Luis Rey: Led Zeppelin Live: An Illustrated Exploration of Underground Tapes . Ontario: The Hot Wacks Press, 1997, p. 235.
- ↑ Dave Lewis: The Complete Guide to the Music of Led Zeppelin . Omnibus Press, 1994, ISBN 0-7119-3528-9 .
- ↑ Shabatot VeHagim's "Air Guitar" . Retrieved January 30, 2014.
- ↑ Best lists on archive.org ( Memento from July 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved January 30, 2014.
- ↑ [2] . Retrieved January 30, 2014.
- ↑ [3] . Retrieved January 30, 2014.
- ↑ Toby Creswell: 1001 Songs: the Great Songs of All Time . Prahran: Hardie Grant Books, 2005, ISBN 978-1-74066-458-5 , p. 745.
- ↑ [4] . Retrieved January 30, 2014.
- ↑ [5] . Retrieved January 30, 2014.
- ↑ [6] . Retrieved January 30, 2014.
Members: Jimmy Page | Robert Plant | John Paul Jones | John Bonham
Studio albums:
Led Zeppelin |
Led Zeppelin II |
Led Zeppelin III |
( Led Zeppelin IV ) |
Houses of the Holy |
Physical graffiti |
Presence |
In Through the Out Door |
Coda
Live albums: The Song Remains the Same | BBC Sessions | How the West Was Won | Celebration Day
Compilations: Remasters | Led Zeppelin Boxed Set | Led Zeppelin Boxed Set 2 | Best of Led Zeppelin | Mothership
Film: The Song Remains the Same | Led Zeppelin: Celebration Day