Led Zeppelin FAQ by George Case

Author:George Case [Case, George]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Styles / Rock, BIO004000 BIOGRAPHY &#38, AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Composers &#38, MUS035000 MUSIC / Genres &#38, musicians
ISBN: 9781617130748
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Published: 2011-10-01T04:00:00+00:00

This lovely instrumental of guitars and mandolins from the 1977 Little Queen album could well be guitarist Nancy Wilson’s approximation of Zeppelin’s “The Battle of Evermore,” “Going to California,” or “Bron-yr-Aur,” similar to all three without directly quoting any one.

Black Sabbath: “Paranoid”

Like the Heart and Skynyrd cuts, this founding text of heavy metal from 1970 is a sidelong tribute to Zeppelin’s inescapable redefinition of rock ’n’ roll orchestration. The timeless worldwide hit was recorded almost as an afterthought while the quartet were making their second album. Bassist-lyricist Geezer Butler reportedly worried over the opening riff’s resemblance to “Communication Breakdown” (there’s also a hint of “Dazed and Confused” there as well). Both “Paranoid” and “Communication Breakdown” are fast and heavily distorted guitar progressions in the key of E; both are played with the chording hand deadening the strings enough to give them a chunky, almost percussive texture; and both are short: “Paranoid” is timed at 2:50, while “Communication Breakdown” runs 2:26. Though not a deliberate copy of any Zeppelin song, “Paranoid,” like many other well-known rock tracks, would not have been possible without the audio precedents established by Page, Plant, Jones, and Bonham in 1969.

Eric Clapton: “Let It Grow”

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