Good Times Bad Times

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Good Times Bad Times
Led Zeppelin
publication January 12, 1969 (album), March 10, 1969 (single)
length 2:47
Genre (s) Hard rock , heavy metal
Author (s) John Bonham , John Paul Jones , Jimmy Page
Label Atlantic
album Led Zeppelin
Cover version
2007 Godsmack

Good Times Bad Times ("Good Times, Bad Times") is a song by the British rock band Led Zeppelin . It is the opening title of their 1969 debut album Led Zeppelin .

General

For the guitar solo, guitarist Jimmy Page amplified his Fender Telecaster guitar with a Leslie speaker to create a swirl effect. This type of loudspeaker contains rotating loudspeakers and is designed for Hammond organs . But it can also be used for guitars. Eric Clapton used this technique on the Cream song "Badge" and George Harrison used it on several Beatles recordings. In an interview he gave to Guitar World , Page stated:

“I do remember using the board to overdrive a Leslie cabinet for the main riff in 'How Many More Times'. It doesn't sound like a Leslie because I wasn't employing the rotating speakers. Surprisingly, that sound has real weight. The guitar is going through the board, then through an amp which was driving the Leslie cabinet. It was a very successful experiment. "

“I remember using a mixer to override a Leslie cabinet for the main riff of How Many More Times. It didn't sound like a Leslie because I hadn't used rotating speakers. Surprisingly, the sound was really powerful. The guitar went through a mixer, then through an amplifier that overdriven the Leslie cabinet. It was a very successful experiment. "

- Jimmy Page

Jimmy Page, who was also the band's producer , placed microphones all over the studio while recording the song to capture live sound.

This song is also because of the repeated use of a series of two sixteenth-note on a single bass drum by drummer John Bonham known imitated an effect that many subsequent rock drummer, just as with the left foot on the hi-hat for almost the whole song eighth notes to play. Bonham supposedly developed this technique after hearing about Vanilla Fudge . Little did he know that drummer Carmine Appice was playing on a double bass drum . As Jimmy Page explained:

“The most stunning thing about the track, of course, is Bonzo's amazing kick drum. It's superhuman when you realize he was not playing with double kick. That's one kick drum! That's when people started understanding what he was all about. "

“A really breathtaking thing about this track is of course Bonzo's incredible bass drum. It's superhuman considering he didn't play a double bass drum. That's a bass drum! Then people began to understand what he was all about. "

- Jimmy Page

Bassist John Paul Jones explained his contribution to the track:

“Usually anything [by Led Zeppelin] with lots of notes was mine and anything with chunky chords was Page's. Things like 'Good Times Bad Times', those are my sort of riffs, they're quite busy. "

“Usually everything [by Led Zeppelin] with lots of notes was by me and everything with heavy chords was by Page. Things like 'Good Times Bad Times' - that's my kind of riff, they are pretty busy. "

- John Paul Jones

"Good Times Bad Times" was hardly played in full live. Occasionally in 1969 the song was used as the introduction to " Communication Breakdown ". It also appears in almost its entirety in the "Communication Breakdown" medley that was performed on the LA Forum on September 4, 1970. There it contains a bass solo by John Paul Jones (heard on the Led Zeppelin bootleg recordings Live on Blueberry Hill ). It was also installed in several 1971 Whole Lotta Love medleys. "Good Times Bad Times" was the opening song at the Led Zeppelin Reunion concert at London's O2 Arena on December 10, 2007.

The song is played in the movie The Fighter . This is one of the rare times that any of Led Zeppelin's songs are used in a movie. "Good Times Bad Times" was also the first trailer for the film American Hustle used, as in the film itself. In both films, led David O. Russell directed .

Awards

publication country Award year
Bender United States "The 1001 Greatest Songs to Download Right Now!" 2003
Bruce Pollock United States The 7,500 Most Important Songs of 1944-2000 2005
Gilles Verlant and Thomas Caussé France 3000 rock classics 2009

Chart placements (as single)

Chart (1969) Highest ranking
Canadian RPM Top 100 Chart 64
US Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart 80
US Cash Box Top 100 Singles Chart 66
US Record World 100 Top Pops 65
Japanese Singles Chart 84
Dutch Singles Chart 17th

occupation

Cover versions

Cover version of Godsmack

The metal band Godsmack coverte the song in 2007 for her album Good Times, Bad Times ... Ten Years of Godsmack . It was the only song on the album that was re-released as a single. A music video, which also includes live recordings, was recorded for the version by Godsmack. Godsmack's version hit the Billboard charts in three categories:

year Chart Highest ranking
2007 Mainstream rock tracks 8th
2007 Modern rock tracks 28
2007 Billboard Hot 100 124

More cover versions

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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ James M. Curtis: Rock eras: interpretations of music and society, 1954-1984 , Popular Press, Bowling Green, OH 1987, ISBN 0-87972-369-6 , p. 291.
  2. ↑ Dave Lewis: The Complete Guide to the Music of Led Zeppelin , Omnibus Press, London 1994, ISBN 0-7119-3528-9
  3. ↑ 1969: Abbey Road ( Memento of the original from July 24, 2013 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website of the Norwegian Beatles Club. Retrieved December 30, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.norwegianwood.org
  4. ↑ a b Interview with Jimmy Page . Retrieved December 30, 2013.
  5. ↑ Get The Led Out Interview with John Paul Jones . Retrieved December 31, 2013.
  6. ↑ a b c Best of All-time Lists, Best of Decade Lists, etc. ( Memento of the original from July 24, 2013 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved December 31, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.acclaimedmusic.net
  7. ↑ Top Singles - Volume 11, No. 7, April 14 1969 ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved December 31, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.collectionscanada.gc.ca
  8. ^ The Hot 100 . Retrieved December 31, 2013.
  9. ↑ CASH BOX Top 100 Singles ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved December 31, 2013.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / 50.6.195.142
  10. ↑ [1] . Retrieved December 31, 2013.
  11. ↑ LED ZEPPELIN - GOOD TIMES BAD TIMES (NUMBER) . Retrieved December 31, 2013.