But that was different since we created that arrangement. [49] A collector Rick Barrett, dedicated to his Led Zeppelin memorabilia, sold several copies of the promo EP for US$300–500 each, "depending on the condition of the sleeve and of the record itself," said Barrett. (Page may have stood there with him; memories differ.) In some moments he tried to alleviate his existential dread with humor. And they did “Dazed and Confused,” essentially doing a cover of the Yardbirds’ cover. For years, he and his bandmates have aggressively pushed back against accusations of song theft. In fact, I think in most cases, you would never know what the original source could be… So most of the comparisons rest on the lyrics. "[8] He was aware of the song appearing on Led Zeppelin's eponymous debut album less than two years later, but did not take any action at the time. He would select the songs himself. The book offers a shotgun seat to all the l-i-v-i-n that McConaughey has accumulated, from his upbringing in a tumultuous Texas family to his ascent as the ruggedly serene star of “Magic Mike,” “True Detective” and “Dallas Buyers Club.”. [45][e] Singer Robert Plant wrote a new set of bluesier lyrics, according to Page,[3] though Plant is not credited on the album, due to contractual obligations to Chrysalis Records. Accusers argued that it is part cover, part original. Yardbirds singer Keith Riff’s performances of the song were muscular and straightforward, whereas Plant sang it lighter and looser, playing with the melody and adding plenty of ad-libbed shouts. "[45], "Dazed and Confused" was the most regularly performed song by Led Zeppelin, appearing at over 400 concerts. “The song had all the feeling of our old material,” McCarty says. A young California singer-songwriter, Holmes was hotly tipped by the industry to be the next breakout star in the folky Donovan vein. In case The Band’s publishers decide to sue. From the start, Led Zeppelin were accused of being, at best, talented mimics—and at worst, copycats. [27] In his Led Zeppelin biography When Giants Walked the Earth, Wall notes that the relatively concise 5:48 version "sounds almost identical musically to the number Page would take credit for on the first Zeppelin album". As his friend Richard Linklater, who directed him in several films including “Dazed and Confused,” explained to me, “People underestimate the utter intentionality of what Matthew’s done. ). Tired from all the turnover, the band was struggling to find a rhythm with their newest member. But — to use an adage that McConaughey might endorse — he tried to light a candle in the darkness and find some optimism at an otherwise dire time. McConaughey, who turns 51 on Nov. 4, enjoys spinning some of these personal yarns, not necessarily because they sound cool but because he believes they reveal certain universal and teachable truths. In fact, each of Led Zeppelin’s first four albums generated cover-song lawsuits over the years. “I thought he was going to be a lawyer.”, Even so, she said that she often observed Matthew “jotting things down on small pieces of paper about what someone had said or what he thought about what was being said or a way he saw life.”, Having read “Greenlights” and seen how Matthew depicted her relationship with Jim, Kay McConaughey said, “It was a rocky and passionate love affair we had, but I do wish Matthew would have told more of the stories about me and his dad’s love, affection and commitment to each other.”, Still, she said, she regarded her youngest son as a fundamentally forthright person. But, Jake Holmes argued, you can’t exactly call it entirely original either. He could have refused and not let the band release them at all. In fact, the first song Led Zeppelin ever played together was the Yardbirds’ version of the 1950s blues song “Train Kept A-Rollin'” (“it was pretty bloody obvious from that first number that was going to work,” Jones said later). It went on to make $7.9 million in North America. PAGE: [Sourly] I don’t know. Those words reveal questions of what counts as a cover song, how an artist needs to credit a songwriter from whom they draw material, and where the line lies between homage and theft. In a press release, Page proudly announced, “between us we wrote 8 of the [9] tracks.”. He was influenced by psychedelic rock and groups such as the Byrds and the Blues Project, and wrote "Dazed and Confused" in a similar style with a blues influence. Because Robert wrote some of the lyrics for that on the album. However, he does unhesitatingly share two different stories in which he awakens from wet dreams — you read that right — where he saw himself “floating downstream on my back in the Amazon River” while surrounded by jungle life and “African tribesmen lined up shoulder to shoulder on the ridge to the left of me.” He interpreted these visions as subconscious exhortations to travel to Peru, where he immersed himself in the Amazon, and to Mali, where he sparred with a local wrestling champion. [18] (Led Zeppelin's studio version lasts 6:28.) Nor does he share any particularly salacious details from his personal life when he was still a single man, beyond a paragraph in which he writes: “I wore the leathers. In the case of “Dazed and Confused,” Jake Holmes waited over forty years to file his lawsuit about being covered without credit. Wiley from Tucker, Ga To confirm, Jake Holmes' song was called "Dazed and Confused". Then a decade later, he sued the band again, this time saying their hit “Whole Lotta Love” used lyrics from “You Need Love,” a song he wrote for Muddy Waters. It runs six minutes on record, but a live version could stretch up to 20 minutes or more with Page’s guitar soloing. “Where we got cleansed? [26][c] On March 5–6, the Yardbirds performed "Dazed and Confused" for BBC Radio. When he wrote “Dazed and Confused,” he knew immediately that it would be a big song. In fact, many thought that entire songs sounded pretty familiar. “It’s a state of being that I work at, continuously, daily, and I break a sweat to get it.”. "[6], "Dazed and Confused" was a regular part of the Yardbirds' performances during their final tours in 1967 and 1968. A young California singer-songwriter, Holmes was hotly tipped by the industry to be the next breakout star in the folky Donovan vein. “They were really well-rehearsed,” he said. To illustrate the difference, take that blues songwriter who’s come up a couple times, Willie Dixon. [6][b] He liked the song and bought the album the next day, subsequently playing it to the rest of the band. [18][6][19][15] The song debuted during their short US tour in late 1967, which included a date at the Village Theater.