My understanding is that Page/Plant appropriated the arrangement from one Fred Gerlach who in turn stole it from Lead Belly. Lead Belly was riffin* on an olde English folk ballad. Pb-belly did bring in the racial angle, replete with lynching reference.
Still, none of them contributed what John Bonham did to the song which was an also melodic rhythm.
Still, none of them contributed what John Bonham did to the song which was an also melodic rhythm.
To elaborate, consider this discussion here beginning around the 9m 30s mark: "Bonham turning the beat around to buck up Jimmy Page."
If you have a Led Zeppelin version, what I'm talking about is the drum part right around where Plant sings "Hangman hangman, upon your face a smile, tell me that I'm free to ride, ride many a mile." (2 min 30 s). I think it's just sublime, the way it accentuates Plant's melody.
One last thing about LZ's "Gallows Pole. It foreshadows "Stairway To Heaven" on their next album. "Gallows Pole" is arranged in the same way: strings and lyrics to start then the drums kick in halfway in. "Over The Hills And Far Away" on the fifth LZ album echos "Gallows Pole" and Stairway To Heaven" in that sense of arrangement.
Or was their band name a pun on the old joke I used to hear as a yute? As I have mentioned before I saw The Zep open for The Who at Merriweather Post Pavilion back in '68, but have never really been much of a fan of their music. I think that must be a generational thing.
When it comes to 12 string guitars I prefer the Belly of Lead to the Balloon of Plumbum.
Which reminds me - I saw an advertisement for a block of sycamore burl and the seller stated that a block of that stuff which measures 8" x 8" x 3" weighs 120 pounds. Heavy, dude! I guess that's what happens when your tree's roots reach down to the old plutonium mine.
"If you have a Led Zeppelin version, what I'm talking about is the drum part right around where Plant sings "Hangman hangman, upon your face a smile, tell me that I'm free to ride, ride many a mile." (2 min 30 s). I think it's just sublime, the way it accentuates Plant's melody."
Cripes, I didn't even have to play it... it was all still in my head.
That would make it just slightly less dense than solid gold, and one of the heaviest materials on earth. I say buy that wood. It must be amazing stuff.
I had a neighbor who worked at Hanford in the plutonium mine. That was before the terrible accident when a piano fell on him. Then he was A flat minor.
As for the sycamore, I was tempted to respond with some snark but then figured it was just a typo. I mean the nerve of some people to mistype something!
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A rare Sixty Grit typo omission in the title.
My understanding is that Page/Plant appropriated the arrangement from one Fred Gerlach who in turn stole it from Lead Belly. Lead Belly was riffin* on an olde English folk ballad. Pb-belly did bring in the racial angle, replete with lynching reference.
Still, none of them contributed what John Bonham did to the song which was an also melodic rhythm.
Still, none of them contributed what John Bonham did to the song which was an also melodic rhythm.
To elaborate, consider this discussion here beginning around the 9m 30s mark: "Bonham turning the beat around to buck up Jimmy Page."
If you have a Led Zeppelin version, what I'm talking about is the drum part right around where Plant sings "Hangman hangman, upon your face a smile, tell me that I'm free to ride, ride many a mile." (2 min 30 s). I think it's just sublime, the way it accentuates Plant's melody.
One last thing about LZ's "Gallows Pole. It foreshadows "Stairway To Heaven" on their next album. "Gallows Pole" is arranged in the same way: strings and lyrics to start then the drums kick in halfway in. "Over The Hills And Far Away" on the fifth LZ album echos "Gallows Pole" and Stairway To Heaven" in that sense of arrangement.
Thanks, CL - that's what happens when you change your mind about what to call a post. Or pole.
Er, I mean, what typo?
I have never heard the Led Zeppelin version of that song. I guess I will have to listen to it now. I always heard that Bonham bucks up the feet...
I also heard that unlike a lawyer, a rooster clucks defiance.
Amazing that you never heard the LZ version since your title is a pun on their band name.
Or was their band name a pun on the old joke I used to hear as a yute? As I have mentioned before I saw The Zep open for The Who at Merriweather Post Pavilion back in '68, but have never really been much of a fan of their music. I think that must be a generational thing.
When it comes to 12 string guitars I prefer the Belly of Lead to the Balloon of Plumbum.
Which reminds me - I saw an advertisement for a block of sycamore burl and the seller stated that a block of that stuff which measures 8" x 8" x 3" weighs 120 pounds. Heavy, dude! I guess that's what happens when your tree's roots reach down to the old plutonium mine.
"If you have a Led Zeppelin version, what I'm talking about is the drum part right around where Plant sings "Hangman hangman, upon your face a smile, tell me that I'm free to ride, ride many a mile." (2 min 30 s). I think it's just sublime, the way it accentuates Plant's melody."
Cripes, I didn't even have to play it... it was all still in my head.
Heavy, dude! I guess that's what happens when your tree's roots reach down to the old plutonium mine.
Plutonium is mined? I thought it was made artificially from uranium in places like Hanford.
Cluck, cluck
"8" x 8" x 3" weighs 120 pounds"
That would make it just slightly less dense than solid gold, and one of the heaviest materials on earth. I say buy that wood. It must be amazing stuff.
I had a neighbor who worked at Hanford in the plutonium mine. That was before the terrible accident when a piano fell on him. Then he was A flat minor.
As for the sycamore, I was tempted to respond with some snark but then figured it was just a typo. I mean the nerve of some people to mistype something!
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