Kashmir (song)

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Kashmir is a song by the English rock band Led Zeppelin and appeared on their album Physical Graffiti in 1975 . It ranks 141st on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time .

General

Kashmir is one of the most famous songs by Led Zeppelin. All four band members have mentioned that the song is one of their greatest musical achievements to this day. John Paul Jones said it showed all of the elements that make up the Led Zeppelin sound, while Robert Plant named Kashmir as his favorite song of the band. In a 1998 interview with Rolling Stone , he described Kashmir as "the definitive Led Zeppelin song". When bassist and keyboardist John Paul Jones was late for a recording session, Jimmy Page used the time to work on the reef with drummer John Bonham . The two first recorded the song as a demo in late 1973. Robert Plant added the vocal part a little later, and in 1974 Jones recorded the keyboards.

Robert Plant said:

“It was a great piece of music to write and an incredible challenge for me. ... It was a difficult task because I couldn't sing it. It was like the song was bigger than me. It's true: I was petrified. It was painful; I was close to tears. "

- Robert Plant

Musical details

The song uses an unusual polymetric : while the guitar, strings, bass and vocals move in time to three, the drums play a completely normal 4/4 beat.

The guitar was played in an alternative string tuning, namely in DADGAD or Open Dsus4 . "Driving to Kashmir", the working title of the piece, got its text from singer Robert Plant in 1973 while he was in Morocco on the way from Guelmim to Tan-Tan in the Sahara. Since the song is longer than eight minutes (8:23), it was not played often by radio stations.

reception

Genesis took inspiration from Kashmir's (and When the Levee Breaks ) title, Squonk on A Trick of the Tail , in 1976 .

The dominant riff of the song was used by Puff Daddy in 1997 as the basis for his song Come with Me ; It was recorded by Jimmy Page and Tom Morello . With his band Rage Against the Machine , Morello also used the riff in the song Wake Up , which is also part of the soundtrack of the film The Matrix . In addition, the song is played in the stadium of the French football club Olympique Marseille after every goal.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ rollingstone.com: 141: Led Zeppelin, Kashmir
  2. ↑ abc.net.au: Kashmir: Led Zeppelin
  3. ↑ songfacts.com: Squonk
  4. ↑ Guitar Workshop Kashmir. Musician magazine bonedo.de