Led Zeppelin: Babe I'm Gonna Leave You (1969)

Jimmy Page and Robert Plant loved Joan Baez. So they covered her  "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO6bRjcyQN8

Top 35 songs of 1994 (#11-20)

11. Let Me In- REM
12. Star 69- REM
13. Animal- Pearl Jam
14. Supersonic- Oasis
15. Undone (The Sweater Song)- Weezer
16. Buddy Holly- Weezer
17. Nothingman- Pearl Jam
18. Kashmir- Page/Plant
19. Motherless Child- Eric Clapton
20. I Stay Away- Alice in Chains

Jeff Beck: Rock n Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2009

Jeff Beck joined the Rumbles in 1963. He worked as a session guitarist next before being recruited for The Yardbirds.
Shapes of Things by The Yardbirds (1966): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc17DqcA6Qc



The band fired Beck in 1966 for his temper. He recorded with Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, and Keith Moon....

Beck's Bolero (1967): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeT1sXLzAko



Afterward, he formed The Jeff Beck Group with Ron Wood and Rod Stewart. They released two albums and split up.

Morning Dew (1968): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK86g9HONDA

Rice Pudding (1969): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvz1RNIJ3Fk



In 1969, he suffered a fractured skull in a car accident. He recovered in 1970.

He also played with Stevie Wonder.

Superstition (1972): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDZFf0pm0SE



Back to Beck...

I've Been Drinking (1973): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQm9fRLYLwU

Cause We Ended as Lovers (1975): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC02wGj5gPw



Tax problems forced him to flee to the US in 1977.

U2: Breathe (2009)

Edge created the initial treatment for “Breathe” after working with Jack White and Jimmy Page for It Might Get Loud. The song is directly influenced by the pair. Originally, the lyrics referenced Nelson Mandela, but the band developed a second set that was eventually used.

On Letterman:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIDGE7NJEkM

Studio:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2X2oW1-S5Y

Led Zeppelin: Rock n Roll Hall of Fame Class of 1995

Rock Hall Bio:

http://rockhall.com/inductees/led-zeppelin/bio/

Official Site:

http://www.ledzeppelin.com/

Led Zeppelin formed out of the Yardbirds’ ashes. In fact, they formed as the “New Yardbirds” in 1968. They helped pioneer the next phase of album oriented rock that dominated the early seventies. Zeppelin began as a blues-oriented rock band and expanded to other forms such as folk and even medieval music. The band explored many themes including mythology and history to go along with the usual rock topics.

Whole Lotta Love (1969):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQmmM_qwG4k&ob=av3n

Dazed and Confused (1969):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lkb1R_yif9I&ob=av2n

Immigrant Song (1970):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBmueYJ0VhA

Black Dog (1971):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npQbPpDF6hA

Misty Mountain Hop (1971):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwG9iRFmY1I&ob=av2n

Stairway To Heaven (1971):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YZb8s7Kxa4

The Song Remains the Same (1972):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcYZlRWWxO0

Dancing Days (1972):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGST7qYvlMw

Over the Hills and Far Away (1972):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BokEvEqiVA

The Ocean (1973):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbSugn0dB4c

　
Zeppelin hit its zenith in the mid-70s and developed a reputation for destructiveness and lewd behavior (fish story). Meanwhile, Jimmy Paige was accused of being involved in black magic and the occult.

Kashmir (1975):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTaOvzZKRxA

Achilles Last Stand (1976):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9K-Zv_pTfk&ob=av2n

In the Evening (1979):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg6MIuXrFf8

The group disbanded following drummer John Bonham’s death in 1980. Band members continued on with other projects. They reunited in 1985 for Live Aid and for Atlantic Records 40^th anniversary in 1988.

Live Aid (1985):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ppxkcb9r52g

They initiated a “boxed set” craze in 1990 and released a video to promote it.

Traveling Riverside Blues (1990):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSht5j3Cnh0&ob=av2n

Page and Plant recorded and toured in the mid-90s.

Page and Plant (1995):

http://www.youtube.com/wat
ch?v=zfuYT-qLsUA

They reunited one more time in 2007 for the Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v81ZPRuH3tw

Since then, Paige filmed a movie with Jack White and The Edge while Plant achieved amazing success with Alison Krause and bluegrass music.

　

　

The Yardbirds: Rock n Roll Hall of Fame Class of 1992

Rock Hall Bio:

http://rockhall.com/inductees/the-yardbirds/bio/

Imagine a band with Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page…

The Yardbirds formed in 1963 and signed a contract in 1964.

For Your Love (1965):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU5zqidlxMQ

Clapton left to join John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers

Heart Full of Soul (1965):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9mQkFpkShg&feature=related

I’m a Man (1965):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAdCePtwoW4

Shapes of Things (1966):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc17DqcA6Qc&feature=related

Over Under Sideways Down (1966):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLv7viCMGo8

Happenings 10 Years Time Ago (1966):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFqxiQa74PQ

Beck was fired for missing some shows because of an illness.
Ten Little Indians (1967):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyqkeMlcGFE

Goodnight Sweet Josephine (1968):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnKCEC-xcwc

In 1968, Jim McCarthy and Kevin Relf left the band. Page mutated the band’s remnants into Led Zeppelin.

Howlin' Wolf: Rock n Roll Hall of Fame Class of 1991

Rock Hall Bio:

http://rockhall.com/inductees/howlin-wolf/

His life and career in links.
In 1930, he began hanging outside juke joints and became acquainted with Charley Patton. Patton taught him how to play guitar. Wolf performed throughout the 1930s.
He did not begin recording until 1951 at Chess Records and RPM Records.

How Many More Years:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1FK620bS7A

Moanin’ at Midnight:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU_wUcwooc8

Smokestack Lightning:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1FK620bS7A

I Asked for Water:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvnvvzfKXC4

Spoonful:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyfgb9sDT1I

Little Red Rooster:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Vr-DR5HdKw

He died in 1976. According to legend, Eric Clapton purchased his tombstone. He had a profound impact on British rock acts.

The Rolling Stones:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiFnleuNULQ

Cream:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-lRmVOGw3M

The Yardbirds:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2mFGqPZqRA

Led Zeppelin: Kashmir (1975)

Zeppelin began writing "Kashmir" in 1973 and finally recorded it the following year. The band considered the song one of their greatest musical achievements. Robert Plant was traveling through Southern Morocco when the lyrics came to him. The song is complex creating special challenges for the lyricist:

"Because of the time signature, the whole deal of the song is… not grandiose, but powerful: it required some kind of epithet, or abstract lyrical setting about the whole idea of life being an adventure and being a series of illuminated moments. But everything is not what you see. It was quite a task, ’cause I couldn’t sing it. It was like the song was bigger than me. It’s true: I was petrified, it’s true. It was painful; I was virtually in tears.^"

Live:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAzdgU_kpGo&ob=av2n

Studio:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfR_HWMzgyc

Page and Plant:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO1Bh7rZrog

892. Beck's Bolero by Jeff Beck (1967)

Jeff Beck gathered his friends Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, Nicky Hopkins, and Keith Moon together to record his own bolero. The group considered recording an entire album, but never got around to it.  The song is presented in three parts and contains perhaps the first heavy metal riff. Listen for a scream about halfway through. Moon kicked over his microphone...

The original:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmO0OZC6Ifk

Live (2006):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1hijzkOrnk&feature=related