The Band of Joy Hey joe

[krecik121212]

which year?

[jdenicholls]

He's got a pretty high range for a man. Or he did. He shot it around 74 through too much drinking, smoking and singing with the flu. It's a pretty standard tenor range now. He ain't capable of the lows that others can do though.

[frazleburger]

bluddy hell !! that boy can sing

[jonsilence]

Guitarist Mick Strode was a monster, should've been a major guitar hero....what happened?

[coolduder10]

Wow! This is a great gritty sound, I thought this was an original Hendrix song.

[TheBrowndawg]

@coolduder10 billy roberts is credited with the original but there is some argument that it could be a traditional blues/folk song. great song either way.

[alcoyot]

Incredible.

[StripesOnMyPants]

the power in plant's voice... just fantastic

[jimmiwannabe]

plant has a level of soul that is untouchable by most love this cover. rip jimi and bonham . love the band of joy. love this era of music. love just playing along with this stuff on my guitar. such soul.dam

[RBKA012]

I Think thas this song is a cover of Led Zeppelin, Sorry by my bad English

[pieyedapple]

Wow, never knew Band of Joy covered this one...love this track...

[steve273]

they sound miles better than the yardbirds

[aczeppelindc2908]

this cover is accualy better than the original. Plants voice is insane and Bonzos drumming is just the best.

[mikehowton707]

i agree

plant is so good in his early days

[mkg487]

Yes it is kevyn gammond on guitar, incredable guitarist as you can hear!!

[colinizer133]

is it kevin gammond on guitar?

[bassistabe]

why is it a led zep cover? its only john bonham and robert plant.

[thehellhecould]

It is not Zep it is RP,JB,KG,Chris Brown-keyboards,Paul Lockey-Bass. They were a legendary Midlands band best seen live-they were awesome.

[bassistabe]

I meant the cover was in the video, I see were you got me wrong saying that I thought it was a Led Zeppelin cover of this song. But thank you for the band mates.

[FlavioGirl]

Happy 61st Birthday, Robert!!!!!! O:-)

[HMROTGDS]

Plants friendship with John definatly goes way beyond Zeppelin!!

[HistorySpeaks4Itself]

This is absolutely AMAZING!

Thanks for posting it!

PLEASE REJOIN JIMMY & JPJ ROBERT!!!!

[Scudsy101]

Where can i hear more Band of Joy songs?

[pleximarshall]

Lyndon Laney: is the bass player of The Band Of Joy.

[pleximarshall]

Lyndon Laney: Bass player

"The Band of Joy" with John Bonham on drums (you never did get over John) and Robert Plant on vocals... Robert always held his own up front despite the racket behind him: Great times. The Band of Joy was a fairly loose band at that time and Robert and John went onto bigger and greater things.

Lyndon Laney: Founder and CEO of Laney Amplifiers.

[thehellhecould]

Laker-LL disd play bass but not on this set of songs. Paul Lockey was bass player and a great one.

[pleximarshall]

May be but Paul Lockey didn't start Laney Amplifiers and still have it running today . Plant plays through Laney amps. Why not Lyndon is his old buddy.

[thehellhecould]

Lyndon was at school with me and now lives near to Robert. He did play live with the BOJ for a while but never recorded with them. Who mentioned anything about Paul starting Laney amps?

[pleximarshall]

I had to be a smart ass. sorry if I pissed you off. No harm done....

[thehellhecould]

Apology accepted. The whole thing is academic anyway , we are talking about 40 years ago!!

[jimmiwannabe]

i can honestly say that out of all the singers that ever lived plant stands taller than everyone of them. dam this man knows how to pour his soul into his music.

[roadworthy1]

wow, this version is really good. almost as good as hendrix................

[oclero]

Le guitariste est excellent!

[QueenHg39]

robert plant is really "the guy with the poerwful voice" as Jimmy called him...XD

[picajoool]

Agree!

His voice is ubelivable here!

So powerfull!

[SurfGreenTelecaster]

Robert was only 19 here, just absolute fire in his voice!

[LLB9977]

band of joy were far cooler in the late 70's

[thehellhecould]

The Original Band of Joy were wonderful. Paul Lockey, Kevyn Gammond, John Pasternak, Michael, and Frankie(?) as the second BOJ made a great second album in 70's but bore no relation musically to the original band.

[enterthafatass]

that record on the picture....i found on in a box in the middle of the desert except the words are yellow and not red

[yoursooowrong]

plant has by far the greatest and most powerful vocals in all of the music world. just, factual.

[Thringer09]

not at all. Plants vocal range is ridiculous.

[poohen223]

@Thringer09 He sacrificed his voice for all the recordings we now collect. He pushed his limits and kicked the shit out of his physical being for shit that many people cherish. Respect.

[dancingrizz]

Very good. Who plays guitar? Mick Strode. Freakin' great!

[thehellhecould]

Kevyn Gammond played guitar

[donepearce]

I saw the Band of Joy at a college near home. Plant's mic broke, so he just carried on singing without it - and he could still be heard. Amazing voice. Sounds a little like Steve Marriott on this track.

[thehellhecould]

I was there too. RP was a friend as were the rest of the band.

[Wdd4lif3]

This is a fuckin trip...His voice sounds like this in 68, then it changed into a screaching madman in the 70's...and then from 1980 untill now he sounds the same as this lol. By the way...good on plant for not touring on some bullshit tour just to make some $

[ltownguitarplayer]

sounds like the singer here is bittin robert plants style

[cokeydear]

...it is Robert Plant

[ltownguitarplayer]

oh i thought the band of joy was one of the bands signed on swan song. was it one of robert plants bands prior to zeppelin ?

[FredBear1966]

Robert Plant AND John Bonham

[cokeydear]

Him and John Bonham were in that group in 68..and I think maybe 67. So yes..

[FlavioGirl]

yes, it was.... robert plant and john bonham.

[cokeydear]

Woah :O..but then that glitchy part at the end :(

[gonzaloperuano]

maybe the recording:s

[cokeydear]

Yea it is..

[poohen223]

@cokeydear My "original" condor bootleg cd back in 1989-90 had the exact same glitches...I think it's in the original source recording from whoever really owns the acetate.

[converter877]

wtf band of joy 74?

[gonzaloperuano]

wops your right!

i changed the title because i tought that was Led Zeppelin and i forgot the 74

[maxlingo]

thank you so much for posting this.

[TygressBZ]

That's not Page. The guitarist's name is Kevyn Gammond. Had a tone all his own. The only other band of joy song you'll find is For What It's Worth, the Buffalo Springfield song, and it's even more amazing than this one.

[LDT1990]

Jimmy's playing sticks out like a sore thumb. I've been listening to it all me life. That's not his tone, not his guitar. This isn't Led Zeppelin.

Crazy coming from an 18-year-old, huh?

[logimonster]

This is simply a cut from Robert's 2 CD compilation Sixty Six to Timbuktu. Band of Joy 1967.

[thehellhecould]

For which I supplied the tapes of the BOJ's demo. The band members lost or broke their acetate copies.

[liiii12]

i love that song sooo much

[johnlesnones]

the solo is from plant imself if i have a good memory.d accord les potes

[johnlesnones]

this is not led zepp.this is robert plant in 1967.

[vitrel943]

it's really zeppelin or band of joy, because if it's band of joy, heck i must go to the stores right now

[TygressBZ]

Everybody who said Band Of Joy is correct, Recorded about 1967. I see this everywhere as Zeppelin live in '74 and It's irritating. The Band Of Joy was a cool group, Plant and Bonham went way back.

[tomitstube]

Cool. My first thought was bootleg Zepp cuz it sounded like Bonham, which you say it is. Guitarist is pretty good on this. idk, but I'm thinking Plant, or the band, may have seen Jimi play this in the UK since it was Hendrix' first recorded tune in 66, in London. Jimi was playing out a lot and being courted by the Stones, Beatles, The Who... It's amazing to think of all the talent bumping into each other in the UK during the 60's.

[gonzaloperuano]

yes i know, i heared this song about 2 years ago; a couple of mounths i just realize that was the band of joy, but the video was already done, and i couldnt change the title.

[goldengod666]

ta mare que buen version de los LED la voz de plant unica, rayos yo amo a plant

[FlavioGirl]

si, y yo tambien.

[mechtech104]

i like led zepplin but they dont sound good in this song

[grungeboyy]

JOKE^^ SORRY I´M DRUNK^^

[grungeboyy]

no no totaly wrong!!!!

thats THE PRINZEN from 1945!!!

it was a great band in his time

[caesarcerf]

it was actually recorded in the sixties. 66 OR 67.

[FlavioGirl]

1967.

[caesarcerf]

it's band of joy long before plant met page.

[CmacDaddyD456]

idc who this is its better than hendrixs personaly

[Adi19790]

it is the Band Of Joy from 1967..

[TerrapinFlyer2]

that does actually sound like zeppelin and page playing but it sound like really early zeppelin

[courtseycourtney]

wtf? i never knew zep did a cover of hey joe!!!

[curlingisgay]

This is pretty wicked actually sounds good

[fizzled1]

Yeah, band of joy, pre zep, 67-68

[Explosive184]

oh my god this is awesome

[attanasio90]

mm i think this is plant s voice but this cover is too similar to the original..zeppelin s cover are always so different form the original (check s. francisco,woodstock,hello mary lou,let s have a part, are very different from the original)

[campocal]

My opinion ? Hendrix plain' guitar, and Plant singin'.....a wonderfull mixture. I think that Robert Plant had a great voice to perform this number.Hendrix plays this song better than Paige....

[Colemancab]

This doesnt sound like a typical Page cover. Imo, he must've been experimenting because he can do much better ever. He is of course, the best ever :)

[giventofly1789]

page didnt play this song...it was robert plant's Band of Joy before he even met page...

[InsaneKramex]

only Hendrix could sing for his style.

i heard a song sang by Noel Redding i believe and it sounded... not as good...

amazing cover btw

[jamesvanhammett33]

Hendrix had a amazing blues voice, there are better rock n roll singers but if you hear him sing blues it is top notch

[BOTFA111]

Jimmy sounds so sweet hear.

[youplant1]

Band of Joy cover, Bonham on drums, Plant vocals

[VoodooChile225]

yeah not zeppelin just plant and bonham

[samuelshepard]

there's a version of zeppelin doing this song but this aint no zep. being a pretty obsessed jimmy page fan, you can tell that jimmy is WAY more creative than this. lol also WAY more sloppy. he wouldnt have stuck so close to the hendrix cover, you know? he was around when bands were doin their own version of this in bars around london.

this aint no zep!

[ZeppelinTheater]

where did you get a hold of this piece of music?

because i know led zeppelin did do a cover of hey joe. my music teacher had the bootleg on vinyl.

[arrotamiltan]

WTF??

This is not LED

[pepsssssi]

this cant be 74' cuz of plants voice it sounds very similar to i cant quit you baby and between 68' and 74' he went from real bluesy to pretty high pitch so i'll go with Hereinmyhead102 its probly band of joy

[Hereinmyhead102]

im sure someone has pointed this out. this is not led zeppelin. this is the band of joy from 1966 plant and bonham band before led zeppelin

[attanasio90]

THIS IS the first time i heard plant s voice in 1974 because there aint no live from that year maybe in bootlegs but i ve never heard it !thanx!

[maxten]

Hendrix immortalized this song. He immortalized some other songs too.

[codehendrix]

this isnt that bad.... the bass however is the only thing carrying anything even remotely funky...

[ZeppelinForever9]

idk about that if you listen to plants voise on some of the Zep tunes and its sounds extremly bluesy

[MoorelandSt]

You guys seem to think that Jimi Hendrix did this song first or best. There were many versions of it around before Jimi did it. He did do a GREAT version though. The original was by The Leaves.

[Destino68]

Actually, the original was by Billy Roberts, a Californian folk singer, though The Leaves' version was the first to become a hit. If you get a chance, check out Deep Purple's fantastic rendition of it on their album "Shades of Deep Purple" (1968).

[MoorelandSt]

Right! I love the Deep Purple version too.

[mcul2112]

Nick Cave's, (with Toots Thielemans) is pretty sick...nice n low down.

[mcul2112]

When I heard this version, I was impressed. It's good.

I think that's why I love this song, my favorite out there. Good n nasty. Dudes step up to it, and you can tell how good they are, or aren't.

[dragonzep]

this isnt zeppelin,its actually a version done with the band of joy about 1967-68

[Rockart9]

yup. but its still Robert singing. Amazing! He must be about 19 when he did this...

[xKinseh]

I knew it couldn't be 1974, his voice had changed a lot from his original Bluesy voice.

[redsoxledzep]

exactly right my friend haha

[DAconfusedZED]

said perfectly

[Lefthandedwilliam]

Great guitar playing by Kevyn Gammond!

[beagleman123456789]

This is a complement to Jimmy Hend.with respect.

[taipobryan]

Feeling is better than technique. I miss Jimi.

[Skheart88]

omg. this sucks.

[thewho6507]

I think this is Band of Joy. It sounds exactly like the BOJ version I heard

[ZeppelinTheater]

this is cool stuff wether its Band of Joy or not, im not sure.

Led Zeppelin did do a version of Hey Joe though.

my music teacher had a bootleg of it stolen from jimmy page's studio.

[Red40Wings13]

Love it

[ledzep755]

This is not Led Zeppelin, This is The Band of Joy, which included Robert Plant and John Bonham, this is before zep

[ploermel56490]

Sorry but I don't like this version !

Are led zep fans intolerant ????

[samuelshepard]

ploermel you'll be happen to know that this isnt zeppelin :) jimmy page is better than this guy and always was. even when he was 18 doin studio work. ya know?

[Giveitawayer]

You said it AL5EZ

[guitarplaya4933]

i think led zeppelin adapted hendrix's song pretty well

[ploermel56490]

Hahaha Zozo makes me laugh !

He has no arguments and he is agressive and pretentious like child.

Sorry zozo but I don't lie !!!

[ploermel56490]

what a shit !!!

Plant can't sing for sure

[ozzilla45]

hes one of the best. I'd like to see you sing better.

[ploermel56490]

there is a lot of singer better than him (by far). Just listen Hendrix version of this song. Plant is very overated !

[ploermel56490]

Plant is very overated (like led zep by the way).

There is a lot of singers much better than him.

clean your ears and listen more music...!

[Zoso9090]

You know nothing of what you are talking about, arent the french supposed to have good taste? Jimi hendrix barley even knows how to sing! Plant blows him out of the water with respects, please shut your mouth before you talk of things that are beyond your grasp

[ploermel56490]

At first zozo is a fucking xenophob !!!

Then he doesn't knows nothing about music !

Otherwise he should knows that there'is a lot of singers better than R. Plant !

(by the way it's not only my opinion but it's a fact established in many countries (USA UK etc))

zozo should improve his musical culture before talking with his ass !

[Zoso9090]

Ive heard more music and more artists at my age than you have already! Oh and your country doesnt just come up with the "fact" that there are better singers than robert plant, I highly doubt there is a nation wide alert about this all of a sudden, and, haha, an xenophob? just because your french and have no taste and sense of your own culture is no reason to call me such words as "xenophob", my racial slurs are to you, not the rest of your culture which I love, you are obviously are a french ASS

[ploermel56490]

Yeah i'm right zozo really speaks with his ass !

How can he tells that he heard more music than I've already ...????

Ha ha ha ! I heard some music and I attended at a lot of rock concerts before he was born !

and was studying classical music for several years.

furthermore his explainations against his xenophob attitude are very unclear.

zozo is full of prejudgeds.

I think it's opposite to a musical culture

[Zoso9090]

No No No, you lie, you have never been to any concerts and you have no musical training either.

And why are you talking in second person? As if there is somebody outside this arguement that you are trying to convince?

[samuelshepard]

plant had an amazing voice. hendrix wasnt a singer at all. hendrix knew this and accepted it, why havent you? and dont bother insulting OR CRITICIZING people in ENGLISH when you're not very good at it. prejudgeds? cmon. its prejudices. jeeze...

[codehendrix]

Hendrix was a great singer.... and this version does not compare.....

[slotwinski1414]

ur just... wrong. Hendrix Did have a good voice (not a Rock God voice) so. Still good. It fit.

[samuelshepard]

hendrix had no control or range in his voice. dont get me wrong i like listening to it but he wasnt a singer. neither was dylan but that didnt stop him and lots of people like him. or how about louie armstrong? no range no nothing. but he's wonderful to listen to sometimes. same thing with tom waits. the list just goes on and on...

[1HOLYDIVER1]

maybe there not technicly brilliant singers but there unique and they have so much passion in there voice, i would rather watch hendrix play red house then see aled jones singing some proffesional stuff, maybe he has no range but hendrix has got to be one of my favroute singers as well as guitarists

[samuelshepard]

why is everyone taking my comment so personally? i like hendrix. i LOVE hendrix. he's no top notch singer is my point. i think plant did FINE on this COVER. as did hendrix do FINE on a COVERRRRRRRRRRRRR. you people need to realize that hendrix didnt write hey joe and wasnt even the first to put it out there. robert plants band of joy wasnt that great of a band, only two outstanding musicians (him and bonzo) so yea hendrix's version is better, but thats bc he's an outstanding musician.

[marritdepp]

jimmy doesnt know about music? thats cool. thats why he isnt so popular and thats why no one whats to copy him. Jimmy also doenst play folk nor blues nor nothing!

[thewho6507]

On most standards his vocals blow away Jimi. Does that make Robert the best?No. Jimi had the right blues vibe in the song which made it immortal, Plant can't do it. No disrespects. The best singer has been dead for over 15 years

[TheSunQueen]

Hendrix is a guitarist, not a singer. I think Robert's voice is better than Jimi's, though Jimi's version is of course original.

[thewho6507]

It isn't original, but it is a classic. Plant can't sing this song, he had too much of a high voice, you need a deep blues voice for this. Which is what Jimi had

[ozzilla45]

i like hendrix, but plant is very good. I like alot of rock n roll. i like a lot of stuff that i wouldnt think is good just because the singer has skills

[mateozeppelin]

thats bonham on the drums too.. u can just tell ay..

[LordofDundonald]

Yes, an earlier commenter was correct: this is from Plant's Band Of Joy (pre-Zeppelin)days. If I were Jimmy Page listening to this, I'd have picked Plant as my new lead singer, too.

[rahxephonliveon]

this proves that robert plant is the best singer of all time, especially when it comes to the blues!!!!

[SheriffOfRutland]

The best performance by the best rock singer in history. This should be on every list of the top one hundred of all time. I've played it for hundreds of people and everyone is messmerized by the vocal and the guitar work

[Flackack]

Awesome!!!! I had a copy of this a long time ago, but lost the tape!!!! Great post. Better than Hendrix's version IMHO.

[BuonaDomenica]

I have this song too and it says it is a bootleg version from a 1974 Concert. This cover version of Hey Joe is great.

[samuelshepard]

limewire lies!

[ZososoZ]

woah is this robert plant?

[OldSteamer]

Great post Gonzo!!:)

[wakadni]

Amazing. As good, if not better than Hendrix's version. Where did you get this from? It sounds earlier than '74.

[mikhailognen]

If I'm not mistaken, this is actually a 1968 recording of Hey Joe done by Robert Plant's previous band, the Band of Joy

[gonzaloperuano]

yeah your right, i download with this name, but i wasnt sure.

[mikhailognen]

It's still a great post, though.

[gnrledzep4eva]

Dead on, thought I was the only one aware of this. Good call!

[zepman13579]

ya i think this is the band of joy because led zeppelin never actually did n e concerts in 1974