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-“you shook me” is a 1962 blues song recorded by chicago blues artist [muddy waters]-
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(it features his vocal in unison with a slide-guitar melody by earl hooker)
(“you shook me” became one of muddy waters’ most successful early-1960s singles and has been interpreted by several blues and rock artists)
(english rock band Led Zeppelin recorded “You Shook Me” for their 1969 debut album Led Zeppelin)
(allmusic critic Bill Janovitz describes it as “a heavy, pummeling bit of post-psychedelic blues-rock, with healthy doses of vocal histrionics from Robert Plant and guitar fireworks from jimmy page”)
(the stones hated led zeppelin)
(as did eric clapton)
(as did pete townshend)
(the beatles feigned willful ignorance)
(can you see john trying to compete with a robert plant vocal?)
(even yoko couldn’t shriek that convincingly!)
(janis would pass out in drunken admiration)
(with “janus” cohen, as another door openeed)
(i don’t dig robert plant or roger daltrey)
(because they were mere puppets for jimmy + pete)
(same goes for gilmour and waters relationship)
(even mick and keith)
(right down to john and paul)
At nearly six and a half minutes, it is considerably longer than the Muddy Waters or Jeff Beck recordings. Except for the breaks during the song’s guitar solo, Led Zeppelin uses a straightforward twelve-bar blues arrangement, but performed at a slower tempo.[20]
(during the opening and closing vocal sections, Page takes Earl Hooker’s slide-guitar lines and stretches them out using liberal amounts of guitar effects, with Robert Plant’s vocal matching them note for note)
(plant uses Willie Dixon’s opening verses, but also incorporates some from Robert Johnson’s “Stones in My Passway”: “I have a bird that whistles and I have birds that sings”)
The instrumental part consists of three twelve-bar sections for solos by John Paul Jones on organ, Plant on harmonica, and Page on guitar.
Led Zeppelin biographer Keith Shadwick notes that, while the accompaniment may appear casual, it is “very tightly arranged, even down to [drummer John] Bonham’s strict limitation of his cymbals to a ride splash in each bar and hi-hat beats in unison with his bass-drum pedal”.
(through the use of overdubs, Jones plays organ (using the pedals for bass) and electric piano)
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In a 2014 interview, Page explained that he used a Gibson Flying V guitar to record “You Shook Me”:
It’s hard for people to believe, but I just used my Fender Telecaster for the entire album, except for one track.
Somebody was trying to sell me a Gibson Flying V at the time.
I don’t what made them think I could afford it, because I clearly couldn’t, but I asked them if I could just try it out.
I brought it into Olympic and used it on “You Shook Me.”
With those big humbuckers, it was so powerful you can hear it breaking up the amp in the middle of the song.
I could’ve tidied it up, but I really liked hearing the amp really struggle to get the sound out.
It’s really fighting through the electronics to get out of that speaker.
I’m not sure what happened to the guitar.
It might’ve found its way to Keith Richards or something, but I really don’t know.
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Page employed a “backward echo” studio sound processing effect on Plant’s vocals and the guitar towards the end of the song. This involves manipulating a recorded echo so it precedes the main sound instead of following it. Page developed the method in 1967 when recording the single “Ten Little Indians” with the Yardbirds.
In an interview with Guitar Magazine in 1993, Page recalled how the backwards echo effect came together on this song:
I told the engineer, Glyn Johns, that I wanted to use backwards echo on the end. He said, ‘Jimmy, it can’t be done.’ I said ‘Yes, it can. I’ve already done it.’ Then he began arguing, so I said, ‘Look, I’m the producer. I’m going to tell you what to do, and just do it.’ So he grudgingly did everything I told him to, and when we were finished he started refusing to push the fader up so I could hear the result. Finally, I had to scream, ‘Push the bloody fader up!’ And lo and behold, the effect worked perfectly.
Led Zeppelin regularly performed “You Shook Me” during their concert tours until October 1969, and occasionally thereafter when the group began to incorporate more material from subsequent albums into their on-stage performances.
(two versions from 1969 are included on their BBC Sessions album)
The 2003 Led Zeppelin DVD has a 1970 performance from the Royal Albert Hall as part of a medley during “How Many More Times”. Jimmy Page performed the song on his tour with the Black Crowes in 1999, a version of which on the album Live at the Greek.
Disagreement over influence
Since their version was released nine months after Beck’s and have similarities, Led Zeppelin have been accused of stealing Beck’s idea.
Page chalks it up to coincidence, citing his and Beck’s similar background and tastes, and denied hearing Beck’s version. Page in 1977 elaborated:
[Beck] had the same sort of taste in music as I did. That’s why you’ll find on the early LPs we both did a song like “You Shook Me.” It was the type of thing we’d both played in bands. Someone told me he’d already recorded it after we’d already put it down on the first Zeppelin album. I thought, “Oh dear, it’s going to be identical,” but it was nothing like it, fortunately. I just had no idea he’d done it. It was on Truth but I first heard it when I was in Miami after we’d recorded our version. It’s a classic example of coming from the same area musically, of having a similar taste.
However, Beck biographer Annette Carson notes “during a 1976 interview with NME’s Billy Altman, Beck attested to [the fact that Page had accompanied Peter Grant to several Jeff Beck Group gigs when they first played America], stating that ‘[Jimmy] was going with us from city to city, taking things in’. Rod Stewart made a similar claim about Page on a US radio show during the eighties”.
Carson adds, “Both Beck and Stewart had vivid memories of Jimmy Page traveling around with their U.S. tour that summer, when he’d obviously listened to all their material”.
Led Zeppelin biographer Mick Wall also points out in When Giants Walked the Earth: A Biography of Led Zeppelin that “Peter Grant had given him [Jimmy Page] an advance copy of Truth weeks before its release” and “it seems inconceivable that John Paul Jones would not have mentioned at some point that he had actually played Hammond organ on the Truth version”.
(major differences between the two versions include the prominence afforded Nicky Hopkins keyboard playing in the Mickie Most mix, and that Stewart sings only two verses in the Jeff Beck recording)
(robert plant would kick rod stewart’s ass)
(“with a name like ‘rod'”)
(“i don’t care how ‘raspy’ he can sing, i’ll never take seriously any blonde bloke named ‘rod'”)
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