I know this song is often overlooked because they never played it live, but it's actually a great song that highlights all of Zeppelin's strengths in a "3 minute pop song"... and it's forever attached to Heartbreaker so the two should always remain synonymous... I've been a Zeppelin fan for almost 40 years and they are the reason that I became a musician... this song deserves its place in Zeppelin's catalog of unmatched musical supremacy!!
i thought I was the only one on earth who loves that song ! maybe I'm wrong but I also think that Plant sing it with a kind of voice we've never heard on any of zep songs ! and what a voice ! this track seems very simple but unique in many ways !
When Jimmy Page was putting the Remasters boxset together in 1990, he replaced Living Loving Maid with Communication Breakdown as the direct follow on song to Heartbreaker. I vaguely remember reading in an interview at the time he was experimenting with re-sequencing different songs, the 4CD box offering him the chance to do that, and he really liked how those two songs sounded coming back-to-back. Living Loving Maid eventually turned up in the second Remasters boxset, sequenced between Hots on For Nowhere and Royal Orleans, both tracks from Presence.
Totally awesome ! Thanks for sharing ~ the overtones of your videos are akin to a deep Literary &/or Art Analysis of a Masterpiece. Good Luck with your channel man :-) Led Zeppelin is like a fine wine. They only get better with age ...primarily because the layers of their brilliance are revealed over time to us by folks like yourself. Thanks again for "helping us better listen". God Bless.
thank you for your comment...couldn't agree more with you...that's how i feel about Led Zep....the quality of albums 1 and 2 is absolutely staggering to this day.
Hi Carl . Just found your channel. I’m a huge Zep and Page fan … really loving your analysis of their work . Very interesting indeed… wondering if sometime maybe you could go into the modes/ scales , chordal structures as well ? Like what was used and why perhaps.?? Really keen to hear that also . Thanks 🙏🏻 for the content.
Brother, I can’t tell you how much I’m digging your channel. I just discovered you on YT. You are so descriptive and I just can’t tell you how much I appreciate you. You’re nailing Pagey. Page is my all time fave. I’m learning soooo much from you. Not only from “watching” you, but your in depth analysis is so good. Thanks much for the work you’re putting in here. It will be here for many, many players for years to come. Thanks for sharing what you’ve learned with me and all the other players in the world. Rock on!
The first time Robert Plant did this song live, solo, in the SF Bay Area, he introduced it by adking the audience "Do you have a sense of humor?" Then the band blew our minds and delighted us with the song 😁 You may be aware that he was adamantly against doing any Zeppelin music during his first couple solo tours, and eventually came to realize that, as an entertainer, sometimes you need to give the people what they want...and that's just what he did layer into his live shows 🙂
I absolutely love the way you break this song down, even pointing out the little imperfections which most of us would never notice. Gotta sharpen my listening skills :)
Just from the opening sequence, I feel you got one part exactly correct that I never hear anyone talk about. Jimmy Page had country influenced hybrid-picking, or as I learned it chicken-picking, quite early on. I "hear" him also doing that in the solo of Wonton Song. Yes, Wonton could be just done with a pick, but I hear something more. Right after Physical Graffiti came out, Page began his explorations into the B-Bender. I think that a rarely mentioned part of Page's playing is country influences. The Honey Drippers Sea of love solo is a pretty good indicator of how Zeppelin albums past 1980 might have sounded.
Carl, i'm so glad you are doing this series! For a band as popular as Led Zeppelin, no one has dug as deep as you, and their music really deserves this level of analysis.
Man, if I went to a pub and some random bloke came on stage and laid down the entire Zeppelin II record with high precision to details, I'd be convinced we're living in a simulation, and our overlords were doing an experiment on me to see if it was possible to literally blow someones mind with an unexpected positive surprise. Zeppelin II is my favorite record ever, and also you kinda remind me a bit of Eddie Kramer. Would love to see one of these shows, either live, or on RUclips. Thanks for the great content anyway. I really enjoy these. Greetings from Norway. Cheers.
Dear Carl! I really, really enjoy watching your videos. It's such a great pleasure to listen to you! It's like I could almost "feel" your enthusiasm, and it's pretty contagious (in the best possible way!). I consider myself a huge Led-Zeppelin-fan, your videos always make me *listen* to the songs again and again (not only "hearing" them, yes, that's a big, big difference). Yes, even after almost 40 years listening to Led Zeppelin, there's always something "new" to discover. Keep up the great work!
Thank you my friend! I’m so glad my passion and earnest enthusiasm translates to the audience! Thank you for sharing and for the encouragement! Peace...
Mr. B = you have spoken great truths yet again!!! In my experience, many players overlook the fundamental importance of listening, as opposed to hearing. I think that's why back in the day (high school in the 70's) I would listen to the orchestra players in the School Band and think that they were missing something. Back then i didn't know why, but I think I do now. Those students were so intent on following the "rules" that they missed the beauty and mystery of what happens when you listen to the music for sheer joy. I was self taught, and learned by listening to the records I loved over, and over, and over again. I never mastered sight reading, and instead developed an ear that has served me well. I can play with many different musicians and style and freely improvise, just by relying on my ear. Also, I would LOVE to come see you play live, and shake your hand to thank you for bringing so much fun to us all!
Well, I’ll be doing the zeppelin thing close to Cleveland, but my band Baldassarre has just agreed to a North American tour next Jan and Feb playing material from my progressive/orchestral rock album called Collinwood Yards. You can hear the pre release of it on my website. carlbaldassarremusic.com
Awesome explanation and genius musician! Been waiting for something like this. I can listen and hear the notes well, playing them is a completely different scenario 😀
Another great break down and deep dive into Zeppelin. This is agreat song because of it's complexity and all the little gems found with in it. I dig the way you explain and train and then you play it and it's on the money! Thanks again for your insight into this great music.
Carl, To get into the mind of a great composer is so cool. I played guitar for 50 years and never wrapped my mind around a piece of music like you do, wow mind blowing! My name is Darrel, I grew up in Euclid two doors from John and Cathy, I know your sister Peggy. I played in a band with John for years. Cathy sent me your CDs and note about your RUclips channel, I’m so glad she did, I really love listening to you break down this music like I didn’t even know was possible. Your three CDs are all great, but I think Collingwood Yards is a masterpiece, I think it really gives us a piece of what’s going on in your head, man it’s great beyond words. Thanks for the work you’re putting into this channel.
Hey Darrel! What a small small world!! That’s so awesome! I’m so glad you like my music. There’s something there for everybody! The Collinwood Yards album is special if your into that orchestral proggresive style. If you haven’t got to it yet, check out Sands of a Tarifa and The Reckoning from the Grand Boulevard album (you’ll hear some lovely Jimmy Page inspired compositions). We’ll have to meet face to face when things open up! Let’s get “Cebuly” on the task! Peace out my hoodmate!
Regarding listening versus hearing, I have always taught my daughter to paint "not what you think you see but what you actually see". Once you open your eyes to the colour and texture that is really there, rather than what you have been 'programmed' to see, you realise that they are often different. The same applies with music. Especially music of the 60s, 70s and 80s. Before formulaic music, there was much more going on underneath the surface. I often think that those dissonant tones and beat frequencies that come from guitar and the likes of draw bar organs are what make the difference between hearing and listening. Likewise with rythm. Before we had quantisation, there was 'feel' to a rythm section. I'm not saying it doesn't exist in music today but is infrequent. 🙁
I love the insight and depth you go in to, educating us fans. As a guy learning to play guitar, it’s fun to see the explanation and the depth you go in to. I’m predominantly an acoustic “camp fire” rhythm player, but this makes me want to buy a les Paul and learn all of this! Thanks for the videos!
That stuff amuses me...trying to describe verbally what I’m feeling on the spot. I’m never “alone” because I make myself laugh all the time with my silly sense of humor!
That's so cool to see the joy of discovery and you dig deep into a song and then describe it so well, with humor! It's like almost hearing something new even after 50 years of being a fan. That's what it's like for me watching your videos, "listening" to the track in a new way! Thank you for bringing this discovery to long time fans like me! 👍🎵
I hope I just happen to be sitting in that unsuspecting pub on that night. Once again, you do a great job of just being technical enough for the actual players out there, and you explanation are so engaging for the non technical folks.
I wanted to let you know how much I am enjoying your videos. I didn’t think there was as big a Zeppelin/Page nut as myself but I was wrong. I can play some plenty of zeppelin, it’s recognizable as Zeppelin but you have worked out tiny nuances that sound great. I never considered LZ a swing band as you’ve mentioned a few times, and I was even going to ask for an example from you, but while listening to the live DVD that came out, back when page still had the Les Paul with the Bigsby, they took a serious, tension filled and dramatic song, How Many More Times, and they were swinging through it! I also very much appreciate your words describing LZII. Lustful, was perfect. Can’t wait for your take on Kashmir! I know it may be a while. Be well and rock on.
Loving your videos, Carl. So glad to have recently run across them - definitely subscribed. Your hearing vs listening explanation is perfect - and such an underrated (or at least under-realized) element of playing. And your tone is spot on - even with your strap on backward. 🙃
Voici une éblouissant foulard cravate! Très cool. It is actually cool. It reminds me of the first time I took mescaline. Great video BTW, and that ascot really puts the "V" in video.
Carl, digging your series, playing, insight, and in-depth dissection of these songs. It's a really thorough conversation. I can't wait for you to visit one of my favorites, "Communication Breakdown". Granted, it's not a masterpiece of composition, it's just raw and immediate.
Thank you. I love that song! Btw...I could make the case that It was the first punk song in history. Listen to it again in that light and tell me if you buy that.
As a singer, I must first be able to "hear" the note clearly in my head before I can sing it. "Especially the high notes." Like you say hearing with focus is so important. So get comfortable, put on the headphones and close your eyes.
@@CarlBaldassarreMusic it’s funny that I obsessed on Zeppelin for a full year while I was saving and begging my parents for my first guitar after seeing Dazed live... it kind of trained me to really listen to what Jimmy was doing without any preconceived ideas about the guitar or how he might have played something. I just geeked out with headphones and air guitar trying to commit timing and everything I could to my very essence in a way. So those sexy bends and slides were so ingrained in me that it was just a matter of learning enough technique to replicate what was now in my soul. Watching your stuff makes me want to deep dive it all over again 35 years later
Another fine breakdown.. You sir are an incredible educator... I get flashbacks of Music Appreciation class with Mr.Sydow at Euclid H.S.... Those classes are still invaluable to me today of what i can remember from them.... I think those sessions prepared me pretty well.. But by the same token.. I have always taken the hard road lol. Sorry to digress... But indeed.. Page was a great riffmaster and Lick maker.. Him and Joe Walsh are synonymous in that regard... I always referred to them as the A$$&#%$%$^ with all of the great licks!!! LOL.. Keep Rockin' Carl!
Bless you brother! I guess I’ve resisted the calling to teach long enough! My mother, sister, cousin and uncle were all teachers. I like to think about it as simply “sharing” my discovered joy passionately.
Absolutely amazing analysis of this song! I love your enthusiasm with Zeppelin! Suggestion though: any chance you could show your signal flow for these? Your tone is killer.
Page says he hates this song. I don't get that. My big sister had it on a vinyl 45 when I was a kid and I used to wear it out. It's still one of my favorite Zep tunes.
Hi Carl, just wanted to congratulate you on an informed, enlightening and entertaining set of videos! You explain more than eloquently that music is not just about playing the notes (if only I'd understood that aged 18, 28 lol?)! It's funny how in my younger days my reaction to music was from the gut (in a positive way) but now older I have the patience and interest (as well as having played guitar for 30+ years) in exploring the hidden depths of the music. I look forward to more insight, congratulations!
I’m the same way. In fact, I plan on doing a whole bunch of episodes on “things I wish I knew as a young musician.” The list is endless. Wisdom!! Thanks for reaching out and I hope you subscribe and share. Peace, Carl
:-)...i have always loved that little solo...but now i can't get the little puppy out of my mind.....haha......:-O...so true.....just love your enthusiasm.....and yes...again...Jimmy was (is) an artist, not just a guitarist.....he painted those wonderful solos with the BIG brush...and small ones....:-)
I just love sharing my enthusiasm that this stuff just flows out of my head and mouth in the heat of the moment!! I experience music as life personified!
I always loved this song and remember being so sad when I first read Jimmy Page hated it, I remember the conjecture being his girlfriend (yikes lol) didn't like the song because it was written about one of the crazy groupies (not the mudshark kind thankfully) when they were still the "New Yardbirds". Plant also solo performed this on his 1990 tours! His voice on his Manic Nirvana tour better was 1972 worthy. He'd joke and tell the audience they weren't singing loud enough to help him out, he took that zeppelin song and a few of the others out of his later tours because they were straining, and he'd have done the page plant tours too I imagine he got all the led out. Since you give us so many fun zep facts hopefully this is one for you, during the PagePlant tours they tried out Hey Hey what Can i do live, and they scrapped it after the first two shows cause it was so impossible to recreate live.
I’m honored to inspire! I’m glad you like the guitar tone. On LLM(SJAW) I used the same simple path from my Bogner gain pedal into my fender reverb amp, but I split my neck humbucker as I have the Jimmy Page wiring push-pull pots on my Les Paul. Hardly every use them, but it got the right sound for this one!
Totally!!! My fender reverb amp is just a clean tube amp and the bogner pedal gives it that Marshall sound. I could fire up my JCM 800 and get it nice and loud and it would be even more authentic. I’d still use the Bogner, but dial it back just a bit to hit the input of the Marshall a tad so I don’t have to have it so loud! It would be great!!
@@CarlBaldassarreMusic 'here is former Guitar World editor Joe Gore.. This is a two part epi about the Page wiring scheme in depth.. I think there where 16 different pull pot configurations available in this setup... I have a mexican strat that is setup kind of similar... ruclips.net/video/8Zkla7OSyRQ/видео.html
I'd be interested in your thoughts on Jimmy Page as a composer & studio player Vs. as a live player. As someone who plays his songs live - i think you'd have a great perspective to offer insights and opinions.
Love hearing rock songs dissected like this. Page's attention to detail makes up for his perceived sloppiness (something to which he admits). I'd say Hots on for Nowhere is another Zeppelin pop song.
That’s so funny. I just cut a 1976 highlight video today and had to learn Hots on for Nowhere! It’s actually a fussy little bugger to get under your fingers!!
@@CarlBaldassarreMusic: I can imagine! Very stop-start. Think it's the "Laa-la-la laa-lalaala" part that makes it seem poppy, but the riffs are heavy. Nice little coincidence. 🙂
I'm loving your break downs. I'm a beginning guitar player and a huge Jimmy Page fan. Your analysis is phenomenal! On another note, is that a Brian Moore guitar over your right shoulder? I've had a couple of them and I recognize the headstock. They are such fun guitars.
Idk how true it is. But I read somewhere that this is one of the few songs where page sings backup vocals for the chorus. Which is funny cause he talks all the time about how he hates singing. Plus I feel if you mix in the fact that he hates releasing “singles” because of how the radio ruins songs like whole lotta love, being 8 minutes. But this is just me connecting dots, so who really knows. Either way it’s an amazing song and video!
@@CarlBaldassarreMusic your welcome! We're the same age I got hooked on zeppelin back in 69 when I heard communication breakdown! I would love if you do my favorite zeppelin song Achilles last Stand! Proto metal!
@@CarlBaldassarreMusic The way Page could stitch together different guitar pieces to make 1 song into an epic (and this short little "pop" song is no exception) was absolutely genius.
Actually, it is not the longest chromatic run when you consider live improvisation. Page did long chromatic pull-off runs using his first and fourth fingers, often on the high E string.
I am a touch confused about the passage that starts at 15:04..is the pick hitting any notes at all,or just making the clicking sounds? Are you fretting any particular note for the picked notes?
Apart from the first note…each note is plucked then picked. So I’m striking each note twice…once with an up-pluck with my middle finger and then immediately followed by a down stroke with the pick. That’s hybrid picking! It’s such an effective moment. And he never repeated this particular chirping effect on any other solis that I’ve found. But he hybrid picks a lot more than you might realize. The Song Remains the Same is loaded with it on most of the D parts.
Can you do rock n roll next? My band is gonna cover it and the guitar solo's intro flurry of notes is giving me trouble to learn by ear. I'm trying to listen and not hear,but definitely having trouble.
Hello friend! Let me let you and all my followers in a great teacher who’s insane with detail like me. His name is Jim Fuge. guitarbyjimi.com He’s got a lesson you can buy on LZ Rock and Roll. I’m sure it’s immaculately perfect note for note. It’s a bit pricey, but if you want note for note teaching there is no one better out there. I’ve met him and played with him and he’s a gem! Good luck!
Jimmy was always trying to create a unique arrangement for the songs live so that it could be expanded upon, and my guess is that he never came up with a good one for that song that he liked.
After the 3 bends (full, full, min3rd) and release in the “puppy dog” response the lick on the record goes... E, D, C# whereas you just end with the D, C#. It sounded wrong when you played it so I referenced the record and you definitely missed a note there. Surprising given that this is the section you talked about hearing vs listening.
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I know this song is often overlooked because they never played it live, but it's actually a great song that highlights all of Zeppelin's strengths in a "3 minute pop song"... and it's forever attached to Heartbreaker so the two should always remain synonymous... I've been a Zeppelin fan for almost 40 years and they are the reason that I became a musician... this song deserves its place in Zeppelin's catalog of unmatched musical supremacy!!
i thought I was the only one on earth who loves that song ! maybe I'm wrong but I also think that Plant sing it with a kind of voice we've never heard on any of zep songs ! and what a voice !
this track seems very simple but unique in many ways !
When Jimmy Page was putting the Remasters boxset together in 1990, he replaced Living Loving Maid with Communication Breakdown as the direct follow on song to Heartbreaker. I vaguely remember reading in an interview at the time he was experimenting with re-sequencing different songs, the 4CD box offering him the chance to do that, and he really liked how those two songs sounded coming back-to-back. Living Loving Maid eventually turned up in the second Remasters boxset, sequenced between Hots on For Nowhere and Royal Orleans, both tracks from Presence.
Thank you for the cool info! Peace!
This content is so well considered and interesting. Really educational too, thanks so much!
Totally awesome ! Thanks for sharing ~ the overtones of your videos are akin to a deep Literary &/or Art Analysis of a Masterpiece. Good Luck with your channel man :-) Led Zeppelin is like a fine wine. They only get better with age ...primarily because the layers of their brilliance are revealed over time to us by folks like yourself. Thanks again for "helping us better listen". God Bless.
thank you for your comment...couldn't agree more with you...that's how i feel about Led Zep....the quality of albums 1 and 2 is absolutely staggering to this day.
Hi Carl . Just found your channel. I’m a huge Zep and Page fan … really loving your analysis of their work . Very interesting indeed… wondering if sometime maybe you could go into the modes/ scales , chordal structures as well ? Like what was used and why perhaps.?? Really keen to hear that also . Thanks 🙏🏻 for the content.
Brother YOUR videos are FKN priceless!!!!!!!!
Thanks so much!
I just learned how to play this song. I really love the way you break down these songs. Your enthusiasm and insights are awesome. Thank you.
Such a cool break down! hearing -v- listening is the key! "I see said the blind man as he picked up his hammer and saw...keep 'em coming Carl!
Love your videos, keep them coming. Funny my band dropped this song because the arrangement was hard to remember.
Brother, I can’t tell you how much I’m digging your channel. I just discovered you on YT. You are so descriptive and I just can’t tell you how much I appreciate you. You’re nailing Pagey. Page is my all time fave. I’m learning soooo much from you. Not only from “watching” you, but your in depth analysis is so good. Thanks much for the work you’re putting in here. It will be here for many, many players for years to come. Thanks for sharing what you’ve learned with me and all the other players in the world. Rock on!
The first time Robert Plant did this song live, solo, in the SF Bay Area, he introduced it by adking the audience "Do you have a sense of humor?" Then the band blew our minds and delighted us with the song 😁 You may be aware that he was adamantly against doing any Zeppelin music during his first couple solo tours, and eventually came to realize that, as an entertainer, sometimes you need to give the people what they want...and that's just what he did layer into his live shows 🙂
*asking
*later
Exquisite at bending - another British guitarist - Paul Kossoff. Whole solos with bends and vibrato on it all done by hand. wow.
Thank you for pointing that out!
Very well done. “Swinging” is a good way to describe their music and “change ups”.
I absolutely love the way you break this song down, even pointing out the little imperfections which most of us would never notice. Gotta sharpen my listening skills :)
Glad you liked it!
Just from the opening sequence, I feel you got one part exactly correct that I never hear anyone talk about. Jimmy Page had country influenced hybrid-picking, or as I learned it chicken-picking, quite early on. I "hear" him also doing that in the solo of Wonton Song. Yes, Wonton could be just done with a pick, but I hear something more. Right after Physical Graffiti came out, Page began his explorations into the B-Bender. I think that a rarely mentioned part of Page's playing is country influences. The Honey Drippers Sea of love solo is a pretty good indicator of how Zeppelin albums past 1980 might have sounded.
I love your work for many reasons, but among them is the clear joy you obtain from the subject matter.
Thank you!!
God discovering you is making me enjoy my new 50's Paul even more! So well done Carl!!
This has become my fav channel! Love everything you're doing here.
Carl, i'm so glad you are doing this series! For a band as popular as Led Zeppelin, no one has dug as deep as you, and their music really deserves this level of analysis.
Thank you. I’m in pretty deep!
Enjoying these Zeppelin discussions and breakdowns
Carl your a true Page /Zeppelin master !!!!
Man, if I went to a pub and some random bloke came on stage and laid down the entire Zeppelin II record with high precision to details, I'd be convinced we're living in a simulation, and our overlords were doing an experiment on me to see if it was possible to literally blow someones mind with an unexpected positive surprise. Zeppelin II is my favorite record ever, and also you kinda remind me a bit of Eddie Kramer.
Would love to see one of these shows, either live, or on RUclips.
Thanks for the great content anyway. I really enjoy these. Greetings from Norway. Cheers.
Thank you so much!! Maybe one day our paths will cross so I can blow your mind!! :))
Your videos and explanations have such an elegance about them. Thanks and please do more. Love them.
Keep the videos coming my favourite youtube channel!!! Keep rockin 🤘
Thank you!!! Please share so more people find the channel! xo
Dear Carl! I really, really enjoy watching your videos. It's such a great pleasure to listen to you! It's like I could almost "feel" your enthusiasm, and it's pretty contagious (in the best possible way!). I
consider myself a huge Led-Zeppelin-fan, your videos always make me *listen* to the songs again and again (not only "hearing" them, yes, that's a big, big difference).
Yes, even after almost 40 years listening to Led Zeppelin, there's always something "new" to discover. Keep up the great work!
Thank you my friend! I’m so glad my passion and earnest enthusiasm translates to the audience! Thank you for sharing and for the encouragement! Peace...
Just plain fun. I enjoy every one of your posts. Keep them coming. Bravo, Carl!
Mr. B = you have spoken great truths yet again!!!
In my experience, many players overlook the fundamental importance of listening, as opposed to hearing. I think that's why back in the day (high school in the 70's) I would listen to the orchestra players in the School Band and think that they were missing something. Back then i didn't know why, but I think I do now. Those students were so intent on following the "rules" that they missed the beauty and mystery of what happens when you listen to the music for sheer joy. I was self taught, and learned by listening to the records I loved over, and over, and over again. I never mastered sight reading, and instead developed an ear that has served me well. I can play with many different musicians and style and freely improvise, just by relying on my ear.
Also, I would LOVE to come see you play live, and shake your hand to thank you for bringing so much fun to us all!
Well, I’ll be doing the zeppelin thing close to Cleveland, but my band Baldassarre has just agreed to a North American tour next Jan and Feb playing material from my progressive/orchestral rock album called Collinwood Yards. You can hear the pre release of it on my website. carlbaldassarremusic.com
Totally agree with you Carl. The arrangement and turnarounds are so damn hard to remember! 😂
Awesome explanation and genius musician! Been waiting for something like this. I can listen and hear the notes well, playing them is a completely different scenario 😀
Stay with it!!
Another great break down and deep dive into Zeppelin. This is agreat song because of it's complexity and all the little gems found with in it. I dig the way you explain and train and then you play it and it's on the money! Thanks again for your insight into this great music.
Carl, To get into the mind of a great composer is so cool. I played guitar for 50 years and never wrapped my mind around a piece of music like you do, wow mind blowing! My name is Darrel, I grew up in Euclid two doors from John and Cathy, I know your sister Peggy. I played in a band with John for years. Cathy sent me your CDs and note about your RUclips channel, I’m so glad she did, I really love listening to you break down this music like I didn’t even know was possible. Your three CDs are all great, but I think Collingwood Yards is a masterpiece, I think it really gives us a piece of what’s going on in your head, man it’s great beyond words. Thanks for the work you’re putting into this channel.
Hey Darrel! What a small small world!! That’s so awesome! I’m so glad you like my music. There’s something there for everybody! The Collinwood Yards album is special if your into that orchestral proggresive style. If you haven’t got to it yet, check out Sands of a Tarifa and The Reckoning from the Grand Boulevard album (you’ll hear some lovely Jimmy Page inspired compositions). We’ll have to meet face to face when things open up! Let’s get “Cebuly” on the task! Peace out my hoodmate!
@@CarlBaldassarreMusic I will talk to Cebuly, looking forward to meeting you!
Love to hear zep 2 from you in the Forum Tunbridge Wells England that will be perfect as sadly never managed to to see Zeppelin live.
How I’d love to bring it to you…here’s a special private link to soothe your longing…;)
ruclips.net/video/vXsOkXlMeoU/видео.html
Good choice I've been revisiting this myself
Regarding listening versus hearing, I have always taught my daughter to paint "not what you think you see but what you actually see".
Once you open your eyes to the colour and texture that is really there, rather than what you have been 'programmed' to see, you realise that they are often different.
The same applies with music. Especially music of the 60s, 70s and 80s.
Before formulaic music, there was much more going on underneath the surface.
I often think that those dissonant tones and beat frequencies that come from guitar and the likes of draw bar organs are what make the difference between hearing and listening.
Likewise with rythm. Before we had quantisation, there was 'feel' to a rythm section.
I'm not saying it doesn't exist in music today but is infrequent. 🙁
I love the insight and depth you go in to, educating us fans. As a guy learning to play guitar, it’s fun to see the explanation and the depth you go in to. I’m predominantly an acoustic “camp fire” rhythm player, but this makes me want to buy a les Paul and learn all of this! Thanks for the videos!
Buy a Les Paul and plug in. Life is short!!!
Another great analysis and be breakdown Carl! It's all about the bends, the swing, the sensual and puppy dogs. Loved that part of your analysis! 😅
That stuff amuses me...trying to describe verbally what I’m feeling on the spot. I’m never “alone” because I make myself laugh all the time with my silly sense of humor!
That's so cool to see the joy of discovery and you dig deep into a song and then describe it so well, with humor! It's like almost hearing something new even after 50 years of being a fan. That's what it's like for me watching your videos, "listening" to the track in a new way! Thank you for bringing this discovery to long time fans like me! 👍🎵
All I have to say is “Wow!” And “Thank You!!”
I hope I just happen to be sitting in that unsuspecting pub on that night. Once again, you do a great job of just being technical enough for the actual players out there, and you explanation are so engaging for the non technical folks.
You’re such an encourager Chris! I’m so glad we’re lifelong friends!
excelente y muy cálida explicación. muchas gracias!!!
I wanted to let you know how much I am enjoying your videos. I didn’t think there was as big a Zeppelin/Page nut as myself but I was wrong. I can play some plenty of zeppelin, it’s recognizable as Zeppelin but you have worked out tiny nuances that sound great. I never considered LZ a swing band as you’ve mentioned a few times, and I was even going to ask for an example from you, but while listening to the live DVD that came out, back when page still had the Les Paul with the Bigsby, they took a serious, tension filled and dramatic song, How Many More Times, and they were swinging through it!
I also very much appreciate your words describing LZII. Lustful, was perfect.
Can’t wait for your take on Kashmir! I know it may be a while.
Be well and rock on.
Love from nepal. Im a fan of this channel. Thanks man.
Loving your videos, Carl. So glad to have recently run across them - definitely subscribed. Your hearing vs listening explanation is perfect - and such an underrated (or at least under-realized) element of playing. And your tone is spot on - even with your strap on backward. 🙃
Thanks for all the kind words! And I am a bit dyslexic (true). Strap notwithstanding;)
Voici une éblouissant foulard cravate! Très cool. It is actually cool. It reminds me of the first time I took mescaline. Great video BTW, and that ascot really puts the "V" in video.
Superb, as usual, nothing less expected, thanks!
Thank you!!!!!!
Carl, digging your series, playing, insight, and in-depth dissection of these songs. It's a really thorough conversation. I can't wait for you to visit one of my favorites, "Communication Breakdown". Granted, it's not a masterpiece of composition, it's just raw and immediate.
Thank you. I love that song! Btw...I could make the case that It was the first punk song in history. Listen to it again in that light and tell me if you buy that.
I never noticed that m3 bend before now. Wow!
Isn’t that cool!!!!
As a singer, I must first be able to "hear" the note clearly in my head before I can sing it. "Especially the high notes." Like you say hearing with focus is so important. So get comfortable, put on the headphones and close your eyes.
Amen!
That’s a great Page quote and so true!
It was so simple and so true...I just wasn’t ready to understand it’s depth...
@@CarlBaldassarreMusic it’s funny that I obsessed on Zeppelin for a full year while I was saving and begging my parents for my first guitar after seeing Dazed live... it kind of trained me to really listen to what Jimmy was doing without any preconceived ideas about the guitar or how he might have played something. I just geeked out with headphones and air guitar trying to commit timing and everything I could to my very essence in a way. So those sexy bends and slides were so ingrained in me that it was just a matter of learning enough technique to replicate what was now in my soul. Watching your stuff makes me want to deep dive it all over again 35 years later
Good stuff Carl!🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Another fine breakdown.. You sir are an incredible educator... I get flashbacks of Music Appreciation class with Mr.Sydow at Euclid H.S.... Those classes are still invaluable to me today of what i can remember from them.... I think those sessions prepared me pretty well.. But by the same token.. I have always taken the hard road lol. Sorry to digress... But indeed.. Page was a great riffmaster and Lick maker.. Him and Joe Walsh are synonymous in that regard... I always referred to them as the A$$&#%$%$^ with all of the great licks!!! LOL.. Keep Rockin' Carl!
Bless you brother! I guess I’ve resisted the calling to teach long enough! My mother, sister, cousin and uncle were all teachers. I like to think about it as simply “sharing” my discovered joy passionately.
I want t be at that pub when Carl drops Led Zep II.
That would be the best night out. I'd just chug beer and thoroughly scream the roof down.
Absolutely amazing analysis of this song! I love your enthusiasm with Zeppelin! Suggestion though: any chance you could show your signal flow for these? Your tone is killer.
I do have an episode on my pedal board and shows some of the signal flow! Check it out!
Page says he hates this song. I don't get that. My big sister had it on a vinyl 45 when I was a kid and I used to wear it out. It's still one of my favorite Zep tunes.
I was under the impression that the rhythm guitar was his electric 12 string (the one he used playing with Beck at his Hall of Fame induction)
Congrats on 1K subs !
Thank you!! Thanks for your support and encouragement!
Hi Carl, just wanted to congratulate you on an informed, enlightening and entertaining set of videos! You explain more than eloquently that music is not just about playing the notes (if only I'd understood that aged 18, 28 lol?)! It's funny how in my younger days my reaction to music was from the gut (in a positive way) but now older I have the patience and interest (as well as having played guitar for 30+ years) in exploring the hidden depths of the music. I look forward to more insight, congratulations!
I’m the same way. In fact, I plan on doing a whole bunch of episodes on “things I wish I knew as a young musician.” The list is endless. Wisdom!! Thanks for reaching out and I hope you subscribe and share. Peace,
Carl
@@CarlBaldassarreMusic Already done when I viewed your first vid! Rock on!
Thank you!!
:-)...i have always loved that little solo...but now i can't get the little puppy out of my mind.....haha......:-O...so true.....just love your enthusiasm.....and yes...again...Jimmy was (is) an artist, not just a guitarist.....he painted those wonderful solos with the BIG brush...and small ones....:-)
I just love sharing my enthusiasm that this stuff just flows out of my head and mouth in the heat of the moment!! I experience music as life personified!
@@CarlBaldassarreMusic carry on...i love your enthusiasm....without good music.....what would this world be...??....:-)
I always loved this song and remember being so sad when I first read Jimmy Page hated it, I remember the conjecture being his girlfriend (yikes lol) didn't like the song because it was written about one of the crazy groupies (not the mudshark kind thankfully) when they were still the "New Yardbirds".
Plant also solo performed this on his 1990 tours! His voice on his Manic Nirvana tour better was 1972 worthy. He'd joke and tell the audience they weren't singing loud enough to help him out, he took that zeppelin song and a few of the others out of his later tours because they were straining, and he'd have done the page plant tours too I imagine he got all the led out.
Since you give us so many fun zep facts hopefully this is one for you, during the PagePlant tours they tried out Hey Hey what Can i do live, and they scrapped it after the first two shows cause it was so impossible to recreate live.
great stuff
Such a good job bringing out the nuances of these tunes, these videos give me inspiration. Also love your guitar tone..
I’m honored to inspire! I’m glad you like the guitar tone. On LLM(SJAW) I used the same simple path from my Bogner gain pedal into my fender reverb amp, but I split my neck humbucker as I have the Jimmy Page wiring push-pull pots on my Les Paul. Hardly every use them, but it got the right sound for this one!
Thanks! Just curious, could you get close to the same tone if you used a Marshall?
Totally!!! My fender reverb amp is just a clean tube amp and the bogner pedal gives it that Marshall sound. I could fire up my JCM 800 and get it nice and loud and it would be even more authentic. I’d still use the Bogner, but dial it back just a bit to hit the input of the Marshall a tad so I don’t have to have it so loud! It would be great!!
@@CarlBaldassarreMusic 'here is former Guitar World editor Joe Gore.. This is a two part epi about the Page wiring scheme in depth.. I think there where 16 different pull pot configurations available in this setup... I have a mexican strat that is setup kind of similar... ruclips.net/video/8Zkla7OSyRQ/видео.html
Thanks for your reply!
Jimmy didn't like it but I love it!
That makes two of us!
It would be cool if you could do one of these videos for Since I've Been Loving You/I cant quit you babe or even no Quarter. Awesome stuff!
Bucket list items!
Carl Trivia ‘ Page used a Gibson Flying V through a Leslie on You Shook
Me.
I hope Jimmy sees this and re-evaluates his song.
Awesome!
I still can’t play this without looking at a chart!! The arrangement subtleties are impossible for me to remember!
Great job!
I turned four the same month and year this song was released 😁
You’re very young in my book!’
@@CarlBaldassarreMusic I feel it, even after having just turned 57 on the 8th!
Hey Carl! Love the channel. Definitely let me know the pub and the date that your gonna play Zeppelin II live. Thanks
Thank you!! What town are you in?
I'd be interested in your thoughts on Jimmy Page as a composer & studio player Vs. as a live player. As someone who plays his songs live - i think you'd have a great perspective to offer insights and opinions.
Love hearing rock songs dissected like this. Page's attention to detail makes up for his perceived sloppiness (something to which he admits). I'd say Hots on for Nowhere is another Zeppelin pop song.
That’s so funny. I just cut a 1976 highlight video today and had to learn Hots on for Nowhere! It’s actually a fussy little bugger to get under your fingers!!
@@CarlBaldassarreMusic: I can imagine! Very stop-start. Think it's the "Laa-la-la laa-lalaala" part that makes it seem poppy, but the riffs are heavy. Nice little coincidence. 🙂
What a surgical dissection.!! Thanks for the great insight.
My pleasure! So glad you enjoy!
Great 👍
Hats off to (Carl) Baldassarre
I ain’t no monkey, sure can’t climb no tree...” if I got the reference right!! Thank you!
@@CarlBaldassarreMusic spot on sir and thank you!
I believe the spelling is "woman" as in one... great video Carl!!!
It’s on the list of things to fix
I'm loving your break downs. I'm a beginning guitar player and a huge Jimmy Page fan. Your analysis is phenomenal! On another note, is that a Brian Moore guitar over your right shoulder? I've had a couple of them and I recognize the headstock. They are such fun guitars.
Great eye!! Yes, it is a Brian Moore! They are such great guitars!
I love your guitar tones. Do you discuss your guitar and the signal chain you are using, in any of your videos?
I have an episode on my pedal board!
Just discovered your channel. Love it and you really nail Page's tone. What pedals are you using?
I have an episode about my pedal board!
Why was this never played live??
The reason why they didn't play this song live Jimmy Page said he hates this song! I don't know why I think it's a great catchy riff!
Idk how true it is. But I read somewhere that this is one of the few songs where page sings backup vocals for the chorus. Which is funny cause he talks all the time about how he hates singing. Plus I feel if you mix in the fact that he hates releasing “singles” because of how the radio ruins songs like whole lotta love, being 8 minutes. But this is just me connecting dots, so who really knows. Either way it’s an amazing song and video!
Thank you for that!
@@CarlBaldassarreMusic your welcome! We're the same age I got hooked on zeppelin back in 69 when I heard communication breakdown! I would love if you do my favorite zeppelin song Achilles last Stand! Proto metal!
That’s a beast of a tune!!! One of my favorites. Would love to some day!!
These are fantastic videos! I learn so much! Really enjoyable to watch, too.
BTW, it's "Woman", not "women". Singular!
I know I gakked the title! Only a couple of people noticed!
@@CarlBaldassarreMusic My career is in correcting internet spelling. It doesn't pay well, but gives my life purpose! 😂
To my ears it sounds like there is an overdub with a wah wah pedal in the mix somewhere too.
Definitively! ...and played with a slide as well! It was in my notes but it just didn’t make it into my headlines! Thanks again Jeff!
@@CarlBaldassarreMusic The way Page could stitch together different guitar pieces to make 1 song into an epic (and this short little "pop" song is no exception) was absolutely genius.
He was all about textures...
The end of the lick is longest simple chromatic run in any of Page’s solos.
Actually, it is not the longest chromatic run when you consider live improvisation. Page did long chromatic pull-off runs using his first and fourth fingers, often on the high E string.
I am a touch confused about the passage that starts at 15:04..is the pick hitting any notes at all,or just making the clicking sounds? Are you fretting any particular note for the picked notes?
Apart from the first note…each note is plucked then picked. So I’m striking each note twice…once with an up-pluck with my middle finger and then immediately followed by a down stroke with the pick. That’s hybrid picking! It’s such an effective moment. And he never repeated this particular chirping effect on any other solis that I’ve found. But he hybrid picks a lot more than you might realize. The Song Remains the Same is loaded with it on most of the D parts.
Can you do rock n roll next? My band is gonna cover it and the guitar solo's intro flurry of notes is giving me trouble to learn by ear. I'm trying to listen and not hear,but definitely having trouble.
Hello friend! Let me let you and all my followers in a great teacher who’s insane with detail like me. His name is Jim Fuge. guitarbyjimi.com He’s got a lesson you can buy on LZ Rock and Roll. I’m sure it’s immaculately perfect note for note. It’s a bit pricey, but if you want note for note teaching there is no one better out there. I’ve met him and played with him and he’s a gem! Good luck!
Wow I've been playing it wrong my whole life hahaha
I always thought D’yer Mak’er was much more of a pop song than living loving maid and certainly more simplistic.
I can see that.
GREAT PERFORMACE❗😍
PLZ MY ZEP TOO👍😊😊
My friend you must do ten years gone and achilles last stand pleasse 😫
Two of my favorites!
@@CarlBaldassarreMusic exactly!
Just subscribed and not disappointed to find you are indeed an ascot wearer.
Jimmy was always trying to create a unique arrangement for the songs live so that it could be expanded upon, and my guess is that he never came up with a good one for that song that he liked.
Come for the guitar lesson. Stay for the life advice
Love this!!
page was the best hands down
After the 3 bends (full, full, min3rd) and release in the “puppy dog” response the lick on the record goes... E, D, C# whereas you just end with the D, C#. It sounded wrong when you played it so I referenced the record and you definitely missed a note there. Surprising given that this is the section you talked about hearing vs listening.
Thanks for pointing that out. I’ll go back and check.
Woman
Page did that by design’ Carl
SP Woman. Other than that, nice video.
I’ve got to get that corrected!!!
Am I the only one that knows? It’s… Living Loving Maid (She’s Just a Woman). WOMAN. Not Women! ;)
No, I need to get that fixed!!!
It sounds like the G string to me.
It’s a bit girthier that way. Thanks for validating.
*woman
Omg!! Good catch!
PS your facial expressions on the "sensual" and "puppy dog" parts are a scream!
I read somewhere that Jimmy hated this song. I have to disagree!