Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/04/16/led-zeppelins-ramble-on.html
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He had a video blocked a while ago because apparently his assistant had thirty seconds of a Katy Perry song playing on her headphones in the background.
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one of my most favorite zeppelin songs ever. their acoustic stuff was always so, so good.
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I love that song and I love Zepp, but this was a Joan Baez song first - just sayin’.
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Video link for the BBS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCN97ZS7Ax4
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It’s a great song and all, and confirms that Jimmy Page was a master at almost symphonic arrangments of guitar parts, but I always LOL when they get to “T’was in the darkest depths of MOAH-dor…” So dramatic. So cheesy. 
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I always thought Led Zep’s music was too simple. Clearly I was mistaken. What a great channel this guy has.
I really enjoy the track just for the way it makes me feel, but the in-depth analysis is completely wasted on me. Now I’ll have to go spin the vinyl.
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The fuck kind of question is this? It’s LED ZEPPELIN ffs, of course it’s going to be great!
If you want to learn the acoustic guitar part, Shut Up and Play is your guy.
“Babe” isn’t even a Baez tune, as a Google search (eventually) shows*–it was composed by Anne Bredon, picked up by Baez (who credited it as traditional), and Joanie’s version was the one Page and Plant used as the template for the Zeppelin arrangement. Eventually Bredon got composer credit from both Baez and Page & Plant. One admires Page’s big-ear’d appreciation of music-where-he-finds-it and his arranging gift while also marveling at his tendency to claim composer/publisher credit for anything left lying around.
- You have to wade through a lot of Led Zeppelin results to find the song’s back-story.
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This guy is great - I can’t read a note of music, but he opens up so many songs in such detail. I highly recommend his breakdown of “Superstition” and “Limelight” - and even “Minerva” by Deftones. Probably the most eye-opening video he did was Elton John’s “Rocket Man”, I always thought that song was so simple yet there are so many layers you hear but I didn’t acknowledge. Beyond the WMTSG videos, he has tons of music theory/education videos and just commentary on the music industry in general. My favorite video is where he takes down John Williams, exposing him as an amazing arranger of other artist’s music.
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If you can find it, Any Day Now from Joan is an essential album.
He’s put up a vid just recently about the death (pretty much) of music. And I posted back a couple of long and rambling arguments that basically boil down to "dude, just wait’.
1:47 always gets me. The sound of my youth.
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