,Today's episode is another reaction to a Led Zeppelin song, this time Dazed and Confused, and boy it really blew a lot of minds lol. The song was the set piece of the album Led Zeppelin I and their live shows of the time, and to let all of you know, their first album is primarily a blues album. It hits harder and heavier than a lot of what was out at the time, but it's electric psychedelic blues at its finest. Again I've scoured youtube for the best (in my humble opinion, anyways) reaction videos, and I wasn't disappointed.
Kudos to those brave enough to embark on this journey, you guys are the greatest. Thank you for letting us share your reactions.
After the reactions there's some information on the song itself. Hope you enjoy the ride!
Kudos to those brave enough to embark on this journey, you guys are the greatest. Thank you for letting us share your reactions.
After the reactions there's some information on the song itself. Hope you enjoy the ride!
This guy's face though. I love seeing faces when Robert Plant's vocals slam into your eardrums when you're innocently enjoying the musical interlude. Uncle Bob didn't sing; he bludgeoned your ears and brain and possibly your face with bald power, in fact he sounds in danger of 'stripping a gear' to paraphrase some of my mom's brilliant sayings. You can tell this man can appreciate music of all kinds. Enjoy the rabbit hole you've been sucked into, sir.
That stank face is worth the price of admission, haha! Indeed, Bobby Plant don't play--he busts out the vocals like it's the apocalypse. Which right now it could very be, but I digress. This guy's observations are astute and funny, and you know he's got a point. The woman in the song sounds like bad news and with all that pain in Robert's voice, maybe he's fixin' to kill her. And you're right, the song has a disjointed, sinister vibe to it, which I guess goes along with the whole dazed and confused thing.
You said it right, you've gone down the rabbit hole. So he's not black but he's clearly enjoying himself too. "Robert's vocals are monstrous," he says. YOU RIGHT, SON. His expressions when the song changes up just made my day, he's having such a good time so it's making me have a good time. He also offers a pretty good analysis of the song.
This was the funniest reaction to Dazed and Confused, and probably the craziest and funniest reaction to anything I've seen yet. WARNING: for language, but the antics of these two I couldn't pass up. Man oh man, they just had their brains exploded apparently and it's so amazing and fun to see. "OOOOH!" You said it, all right. This kinda reaction to something 50 years old is surprising, but good is good no matter what year it is, Zeppelin be timeless. Yeah the middle part freakout kinda goes with the middle part freakout in the song, and makes me happy in my face.
Dazed and Confused was notoriously lifted from folk musician Jake Holmes, which had the familiar, dark and creepy sounding descending bass line. The lyrics were about paranoia and truly being dazed and confused, but Jimmy Page of the Yardbirds heard it and the band decided to incorporate the song into their live act, with some rewrites of the lyrics. The blues-based Yardbirds broke up not long after and Page formed another band which came to be known as Led Zeppelin, and he took the song with him.
The band recorded their version of the song, complete with long breakdown and Jimmy Page using a cello bow on his Fender Telecaster for those unearthly sounds, but neglected to give Jake Holmes any credit. He didn't pursue the matter until decades later, which resulted in a lawsuit that was settled out of court and now the song is listed as "Inspired by Jake Holmes" which I think is still kinda crappy. Thing is, the song was reworked, rewritten and re-arranged until only the title words and descending bass line remained the same from the original (I guess the Song Didn't Remain the Same? Sorry, Zeppelin pun). Still, some sort of acknowledgement is only fair. Anyway, I can't help but love what Led Zeppelin did with the song, and it's possible we'd have never heard any version of it it hadn't been for them.
The song was typical of the 'rave-ups' of the day, where bands would improvise and jam for long periods of time, hence the trippy middle section of the song. Some of the early Zeppelin catalog featured the call-and-return between Robert Plant's voice and and the guitar, which added to the trippy atmosphere. Voice and instrument would mimic each other, which gave Robert something to do during the instrumental sections when they played the song live.
Here's the original song as performed by Jake Holmes.
Dazed and Confused was notoriously lifted from folk musician Jake Holmes, which had the familiar, dark and creepy sounding descending bass line. The lyrics were about paranoia and truly being dazed and confused, but Jimmy Page of the Yardbirds heard it and the band decided to incorporate the song into their live act, with some rewrites of the lyrics. The blues-based Yardbirds broke up not long after and Page formed another band which came to be known as Led Zeppelin, and he took the song with him.
The band recorded their version of the song, complete with long breakdown and Jimmy Page using a cello bow on his Fender Telecaster for those unearthly sounds, but neglected to give Jake Holmes any credit. He didn't pursue the matter until decades later, which resulted in a lawsuit that was settled out of court and now the song is listed as "Inspired by Jake Holmes" which I think is still kinda crappy. Thing is, the song was reworked, rewritten and re-arranged until only the title words and descending bass line remained the same from the original (I guess the Song Didn't Remain the Same? Sorry, Zeppelin pun). Still, some sort of acknowledgement is only fair. Anyway, I can't help but love what Led Zeppelin did with the song, and it's possible we'd have never heard any version of it it hadn't been for them.
The song was typical of the 'rave-ups' of the day, where bands would improvise and jam for long periods of time, hence the trippy middle section of the song. Some of the early Zeppelin catalog featured the call-and-return between Robert Plant's voice and and the guitar, which added to the trippy atmosphere. Voice and instrument would mimic each other, which gave Robert something to do during the instrumental sections when they played the song live.
Here's the original song as performed by Jake Holmes.