I knew they ripped off blues artists without giving credit but this one takes the cake.

Even today most fans still do not know that Led Zeppelin's epic "Dazed And Confused," off their eponymous debut, was in actuality a cover tune. During a U.S. American tour in the late '60s the Jimmy Page led version of the Yardbirds shared a NYC Greenwich Village gig with the American folk singer Jake Holmes. The band became enamored of the folkie's dark and mysterious song and re-worked it into their nightly set list, usually closing the show with it showcasing Page's trademark guitar/bow combination. In a somewhat charlatan move, Page solely credits himself as songwriter on the Zeppelin debut.

Holmes' first album (originally released in 1967) will always be primarily known for the inclusion of the original version of ''Dazed and Confused,'' the same song that, with substantial alteration to its arrangement, would become one of Led Zeppelin's major showpieces. Holmes' original is quite different and worthy in its own right - a stark, spooky folk-rock track with stinging reverbed lead guitar, Holmes' own pained vocals, and furiously strummed rhythm guitar that winds itself into an anguished climax.

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Does anyone have an mp3 of the original?

I'd like to hear it.

without listening i know that this one doesn't take the cake anymore than any of the other ones.

In that it sucks like the rest of their catalogue, yes.
In its ubiquity within said catalogue, no.

Scroll down to the middle of the page and you'll see it. I'm unable to play MP3's @ work so I can't tell you how it is.

http://aquariumdrunk.blogspot.com/

i love zeppelin, i just meant that they took a huge number of their songs from other artists. i wish they had given credit, but in the end i don't really care because i still love their music.

I think I did know this, but it's hard to keep track of all their rip-offs.

how are the rest of the songs on that album?

I'm fairly certain Zep's rendition doesn't suck. At all.

But maybe I live in a different universe where peoples ears work different.

Dadrockiverse, perhaps.

Amen.

Anyone ever hear the original version of "Bring It On Home"? Great song. Plays in Lynch's "Mulholland Drive".

Oh... and you know that Spiritualized song on the first record that goes "They call me the breeze... I keep blowin' down the road". He's quoting a JJ Cale song. (Which apprently Lynyrd Skynyrd did too... ew.)

Oh and...

The Stills = P.I.L.

'Call Me The Breeze' is the lead track on JJ Cale's 'Naturally'. Now that's a pretty sweet 'Sunday morning' listen. The track 'Magnolia' on that record is one for the ages.

i don't know how they slept at night.
besides on piles of money with lots of naked women.

whuh?

Good point.

That was just a cover of Sha Na Na.

Now, now. There's nothing wrong with Skynyrd's version of that song or the disc it comes from.

i stole this joke from the simpsons (specifically "the critic" episode)

Thanks. I like it. I'm going to keep my eye out for that album.

Don't forget with the mudshark next to the bed as well.

a REAL zeppelin fan would have taken all the credit for that joke.

Yeah, and anyone saying so is an open dolt.

How do you miss hearing Skynyrd's - They Call Me the Breeze, while growing up in the last 30 years?

Whoever you are, and wherever you are from, you may not know that illiterate Canadians are artistic and shit...they can't be likin Dat Skynyrd.