Song 180: "Dazed and Confused" by Led Zeppelin, Part Two -- "Inspiration i
9/30/20250 min
For those who haven’t heard the announcement I posted, songs from this point on will sometimes be split among multiple episodes, so this is the second part of a two-episode look at the song “Dazed and Confused” by Led Zeppelin, although this episode doesn’t get as far as Led Zeppelin’s formation, and is mostly about the intertwining session careers of John Paul Jones and (especially) Jimmy Page. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode.
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Transcript
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[singing] A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs, by Andrew Hickey. Song 180, Dazed and Confused by Led Zeppelin. Part two: Inspiration, That's What You Are to Me. Before we begin, this episode contains some brief discussion of sex with underage girls, attempted rape, and drug and alcohol abuse. If those subjects are likely to upset you, you may wish to read the transcript or skip this episode. When Jimmy Page, Peter Grant, and Chris Dreja started their plans for the new Yardbirds, Page, who from the start was going to be the leader of this band, had to make a simple choice between art and commerce. On the one hand, the music Page was listening to most at the time was acoustic folk music, music not a million miles away from what the other ex-Yardbirds were doing, actually. He was a fan of the English folk baroque guitar styles of Bert Jansch and Davy Graham, and the music he enjoyed most at this point was by people like Pentangle or the Incredible String Band, who were combining English traditional music, psychedelic rock music, and jazz to create something utterly unlike anything that had been heard before.
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