WHITE SUMMER- Led Zeppelin '69

[TheWizardTree]

Soooo epic!!! I wish more music today sounded like this!

[ghettocumquats]

2 people can die...very soon

[guitargod91000]

i love the quality os the music and that is a positive comment

[Theoriginal159]

this makes me so happy

[budjooooalls]

i just love jimmmy hes beautifulllllllllll where did you get this picture?

[tartinovich9]

JJJJJJJiIIIIIIIIIIIIIMMyYYYYYY­YYYYYY !!! mountain god !! playing like sitar....

[billzor]

its white summer black mountainside

[bluestudio67]

Sounds like he's playing his Telecaster on this one... neck p'up, maybe both?

[613avraham]

@bluestudio67 I think Jimmy plays his Danelectro, but I can be wrong.

[Conan568]

@613avraham

the black & white dan.

I saw him play it in 77.

[penta15786]

This composition is when Jimmy was in The Yardbirds and as time passed he made it a part of Led Zeppelin. This is a piece that is without the tabla and the flute which he recorded even earlier that this.

[gip13g]

@penta15786 where is the version with the flute? never heard it

[SuperGuitarDaddy]

FUCK everyone that gave a thumbs down

[oblongpolygon]

joelpeters1 is right the rest of the song is not completely origional but is changed from their origional compositions in many ways so yeah dont bust his balls for telling the truth!

[Moonwater2000]

This is a beautiful song! Where did you find that photo? It goes great with this song. He is one of a kind and so is Led Zeppelin. He is gorgeous.

[oozingenema604]

I friggin love the dadgad tuning. being norweigan is awesome!!

[brotherbuttcrack]

good cover

[nosajrinse1]

Jimmy Page is a major influence in my musical expedition. I learned of this tuning from him, and I have composed my own song from the same tuning. Check it out if you like. Thanks!

"SONGBIRD" BY DAVID JASON

[registerman07]

I don't know if anyone else has said this already, but this is from a live performance Zeppelin did for the BBC June 27, 1969. But this version sounds like it's been slowed down from the original, but I can't find the undoctored version anywhere...

[ItsCabs]

Jimmy's original recording is a live take on a Yardbirds album, when Keith Relf makes a funny intro and leaves the stage to Jimmy and his guitar. This is nice, but that's the definitive version.

[chaimke7]

@registerman07 I remember it from Tommy Vance replaying BBC sesions I had it on tape for years

[live2mosh]

This is an awsome song, I cant beleive I've never heard it before. I must learn how to play this!

[xKinseh]

Good Luck

[ManiacDrummer1212]

this is really cool. i actually really like how the quality is really poor...it almost adds to how mystical the song is. jimmy is such a great musician. isn't this song actually based from some irish folk song?

[mamacornettesmoney]

Yes. It is called "She moved through the fair." In 1963 Davy Graham recorded an arrangement of it using a tuning with an "Eastern" flair (DADGAD) & called it "she moves thru the bazaar." Page took Graham's arrangement & turned it into "White Summer."

It's the same tuning that Bert Jansch used to rearrange another traditional folk song that Jansch called "blackwater side", which is almost note for note what appeared on LZ I as "black mountainside" minus the lyrics & plus tablas.

[ManiacDrummer1212]

well dang you sure know what you're talking about! thanks for all that man! cheers!

[joelpeters1]

The root melody which both BJ and JP use is an old tune from that area that dates to antiquity, and, is common public property. both were free to take it and change it into thier own songs. BJ learned it from a female friend.

[mamacornettesmoney]

@joelpeters1 You miss the point.

YES, the root melody was "traditional." But the GUITAR ARRANGEMENT was Jansch's (he wrote it for said female friend) and he DID NOT register it as an original.

Jimmy Page took JANSCH'S ARRANGEMENT and copywrited it as his original composition.

One created something new based on something old but credited it as a traditional tune.

The other took someone else's original arrangement of said tune and registered it as his own entirely original composition.

[Vladimir09Lenin]

@joelpeters1

shut up, punk. find some trash if you want to spread garbage. leave wonders to shine. no smut.

[nicom93]

he is the best

[ginnyluhu]

absolutely the cutest

[arjunkaul]

davy graham

[zeldiy]

the pic is well cute and the music's not bad either :) heheh

[365fg]

The song doesn't have two names, it has two sections... White summer AND black mountain song, they are two different songs joined in this one, you can find them alone in different zeppelin albums and bootlegs.

[StairwayToHeaven666]

he is the best ... the only best ...........that song have two name

(White Summer/Black Mountain Side)

[Not2Be0utDone]

speak american!

[ShaemusTOFinnigan]

ummm..ya...."American" is NOT a language. Americans speak ENGLISH. (which originated in ENG - LAND)

I didn't check in on your homepage, but is it safe to say that you are an American? Whether you are or aren't, you just displayed for the world your individual ignorance, and reflected poorly on your own intellect.

The funny thing is that I agree with the context your message...It IS annoying to read none fluently English speaking people writing brutally incoherent comments.

[Not2Be0utDone]

calm your nipples man, 'twas a comment in jest. I'm from miami, and around here it's fun to say we speak "American" as opposed to English, because when immigrants try to learn English only to learn "American." And no, I'm not an American.

[alkalo8998]

american is not a launguage you moron

[francescaemc2]

what's a "launguage"?

[iamblase]

language. unless you are being sarcastic. :))

[bigup13]

Jimmy is simply the best.

[mammers11]

this piece is heart-stoppingly pretty

[jmcquiston001]

Saw him play WS with the yardbirds in '67-awesome.Pity he could'nt moderate his drug use, yes he's great but so much unfulfilled promise.

[Hooah1984]

I know. I feel the exact same way. An absolute total monster on guitar he is, but he just couldn't moderate his drug use. At least there is plenty of live footage and audio from when he was "on" during a performace. I'm also sure that he regrets his behavior seeing as it is evidenced in his several "off" nights from 1975 onward.

[Not2Be0utDone]

at least the guy is still a live

[budmotor]

reminds me indian,delta or ydish or irish song music the best

[smackdab3]

MY GOD HE'S AMAZING!!!! thats a cute picture of him too! :)

[iamblase]

i know. HAHAHA

CUTE!

[smackdab3]

teehee!!

[217trevino]

@smackdab3 faggot

[Tengent]

Settle down little kids, listen to the music.

[littlechineseguy]

jesseh1 your an idiot nobody said page wasnt in the yardbyrds we all know he was, but HE DIDNT LEAVE THE GROUP!! is what were telling you atleast drummerboy can comprehend

[littlechineseguy]

if you knew anything about page you would know he didnt leave the yardbyrds the band broke up and page and the bass player were left with the rights to the band name and an unfinished tour which he finished under the name the new yardbyrds

[abhay108]

i wonder if over the hills and far away came from this song...

[Tengent]

It does sound alot like it in some parts yes.

[wDimension]

Yeah, i like Page's version, but original Graham's "She moved thru' the Bizarre/Blue Raga" sounds cool too...

[astroidbelt]

The version that's playing is from the 6/27/69 BBC show, London. As heard on the official release. The version that's playing on the clip here runs slow, is of much poorer quality than the official cd, and is edited at the beginning.

[scbryan420]

that day and venue are wrong. ive got that boot and he doesnt play white summer that night

[iamblase]

i did put in the "about the video" part that i wasn't sure. If your boot is accurate, may i have the correct date/venue? THANKS!

[GrannyWhackers]

I love White Summer!

[notallwhowanderrlost]

I love White Summer too! :)

[badday10]

Will there ever come a better band than led zep????

[ledzep546474]

let me be frank..... NONONONONONONONONONONONONONONO­NONONONONON NEVER EVER EVER EVEREVEREVEREVER!

[yellowledbetter16]

moar no tbh.

But seriously folks, Zeppelin win permanently.

[ChickenFriedHamMan]

@badday10 easy answer, No

[tomassi80]

@badday10 never

[registerman07]

Why is this slowed down??

[cajohn54]

why cant i staedy druck allthe time

[tienavva]

so clean

[brakspbfun]

this is his best solo and jimmy page really inspires me

[italllies]

my friends little brother can play this and hes only 15, the kids a natural.

[warrenzevonfan1010]

ok im not postin anymor cuz this is turnin into mor of a chat room than a comments page

[corruptedfuzz]

Despite the fact that they may have taken songs and changed them, made them their own, claimed them as their own, or didn't claim them; I think we can ALL agree...Zeppelin has so much more to offer than 99.99999 percent of every other band. They changed the face of rock, and took the world by storm and are still to this day considered one of the best bands ever. Agreed?

[Hektor88]

agreed.

[Hektor88]

You Shook Me and I cant Quit You are both blues songs whos writers are certain and who stil played the at the time. How Many More Times is remake of a HOwlin' Wolf song called "The Hunter." Heartbreaker and Whole Lotta Love are, by their own dmission, remkes of blues songs.

[Frank426]

Maybe...but those original blues tunes in NO WAY sounded that way in their original form. It took a bunch of white "boys" to soup up the black boys' crude blues recording AND in effect, MAKE IT THEIR OWN MUSIC/SOUND/ETC.!

[Hektor88]

very true, but still...credit the originl composers. They took the energy and emotion in the original recordings and made it more palpable, but that doesnt mean the originals were lame, far from it

[Hektor88]

I dont think their is a single original thing in the Lemon Song. White Summer/Black Mountain Side was played in clubs before Page ever learned it, Babe I'm Gonna Leave You was written by Joan Baez. Dazed and Confused by Jake Holmes. Comuniction Breakdown is a vague remake of an Eddie Cochrane song called Nervous Breakdown.

[iamblase]

correction: "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" was not written by Joan Baez but by Anne Bredon. Joan Baez covered it without knowing who wrote it. Zep heard Joan Baez' version and credited their cover as "Trad. arr. Page". THEY DID NOT CLAIM THAT SONG AS THEIR OWN. I can clearly see the credits on my LZ I LP.

[Hektor88]

i do beliee it must have been changed. I heard an interview once where Page was efending his not crediting Anne Bredon (thx for th correction). I coudl be wrong though

[xKinseh]

jimmy page wrote dazed and confused in the 60s while he was still in the Yardbirds

[Hektor88]

no he didnt, D&C is a vague remake of a Jake Holmes song called "I'm Confused." I havent heard it so i cant say for sure, but i heard that the bassline and the style and tempo the lyrics are sung in was also from "I'm Confused"

[xKinseh]

omg! not a bassline!!! and the tempo doesn't matter. i bet a million songs are the same tempo. and that guy definetly did NOT use a violin bow on his guitar

[jesseh1]

Page didn't write dazed and confused he stole it from the yardbirds when he left the group.

[xKinseh]

he was in the yardbirds, he didn't leave, mostly everyone else did, Led Zeppelin's first tour was as "the New Yardbirds"

[samuelshepard]

dazed and confused is pages VERY original composition of a song by a folk artist jake holmes. his version is acoustic and has different lyrics. he got permission to use it. and the yardbirds did an awful job of it anyway lol. led zeppelin's version captures the original feel (the jake homes version)

[jesseh1]

You are correct to a point. You obviously are knowledgable. When the Yardbirds toured America last year I met them and discussed this topic. They are adamit that Page "Stole" the song from them when the band broke up or when he left (Whatever) the group. I was mearly giving the other side of the story.

[samuelshepard]

well damn. it wasn't their song to begin with. jake homes never got any credit from either band though lol

[dah145]

it is a popular folk song!

[samuelshepard]

its a jake holmes song

[Drummerboy2023]

you fuckin moron. Jimmy Page was IN the yarbyrds

[jesseh1]

What the fuck are you blathering about? Nobody has said he wasn't. Pull your head out of your ass neanderthal!

[Drummerboy2023]

you did you fucing cunt yardbyrds

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Page didn't write dazed and confused he stole it from the yardbirds when he left the group.

[jesseh1]

Right. What part of "left the group" implies he wasn't in ther group? You must be a real genius. Stupid piece of human debris! You must be a real TOOL!

[Defenderofmankind]

he didn't leave the group, before you say things that make you look immature, he wrote dazed and confused, and without him it couldn't be done, I mean, the most famous part of that is the violin bow, and only jimmy can pull that off, lol, before you say anything, get your facts straight

[Nelson676]

Jimmy page left the group (yarbirds)

right?

thats how Led Zeppelin was formed man

[Defenderofmankind]

no it's the opposite,the rest keft, and jimmy page stayed, so he got all the rights for the yardbirds, and on led zeppelin's first tour, they were named "The New Yardbirds" later changing the name to led zeppelin, and kieth moon thought of the name led zeppelin, trust me dude, i know what i'm talking about, i'm the biggest zep fan ever

[Nelson676]

oh, i thought it was vice-versa. And Led Zeppelins my favourite band, i just never looked up their history. thanks for clearing the air for the idiots arguing below us lol

[Defenderofmankind]

ya, no doubt, they should stop arguining and just listen and enjoy

[IATEDYOU]

Jake Homes wrote "Dazed and Confused".. Page first heard it when Jake Homes open for the Yardbirds in NYC...

[Defenderofmankind]

yes i know, but i was never talking about dazed and confused, i was talking about how jimmy stayed in the yardbirds when everyone left except for him, and he got the rights to the yardbirds, and then he formed led zeppelin, but on their first tour they were name "the new yardbirds", people were confused, si i was clearing things up, i don't know where i ever mentioned dazed and confused

[IATEDYOU]

Cool I miss read... Just read a great Yardbirds book by Alan Clayton..You should check it out.. Cheers..

[Defenderofmankind]

I should, thanks for recommending it

[StairwayToHeaven666]

they dont was called "the new yardbirds"...they were called Led Zeppelin .. but people who doesn`t know that called Led Zeppelin "The New Yardbirds" ... I wrote de biographie

[Drummerboy2023]

Page didn't write dazed and confused he stole it from the yardbirds when he left the group.

were your words, jesseh1

and i quote - "HE STOLE IT FROM THE YARBYRDS WHEN HE LEFT THE GROUP"

Jimmy page wrote Dazed and Confused, and if you had any sense of knowledge at all you would realize that

Dazed and confused was Jimmys song, he did not steal it.

Now, if you want to be an immature little 12 year old, please, keep on calling me names.

and he didnt leave the group. Not too bright...

[jesseh1]

I don't know what rock you crawled out from under but you should slither back underneath it before you get hurt little hummer boy.

[Drummerboy2023]

so weve come to threats now? how immature... fool. youre just embarressed that you made a mistake.  quit whinning and acting tough. your charade isnt working.

[HartyD9]

he stole it from jake holmes and changed the words(its bout a bad trip)the yardbirds were recording "think about it" and "goodnight sweet josephine" in early 68(CBS)..the incendiary jimmy solo on "think about it" goosed with a metal slide and backward echo soon resurfaced as the molten climax on "dazed" maan.

[Drummerboy2023]

suck on that douch fag

[shadeoforange]

I like this version, it seems a little slower and cleaner then some of the others.

[iamblase]

yeah i know... but i have to say, I love this version :p

[santasxgirlfriend]

thanx for the upload  !!!

[warrenzevonfan1010]

some people (such as gab99) refuse to acknowledge that led zeppelin paid 4 most of the songs the "stole" from african american musicians and are feeding the myth that led zeppelin had no original music

[Hektor88]

but the original credits did not credit the original composers

[warrenzevonfan1010]

when u sell something it is no longer yours

they would have no right to it once they sold it

[Hektor88]

it is still your until yu sell the rights to it. jt putting it otu there doesnt mean anyone can take it and do whatever they want with it, thats the point of copyright. I dont know, but i have a hard time believing that ALL the blues guys Zep "borrowed" from had sold their rights

[Hektor88]

whoa, typo-rama there....should read "Just putting it out there"

[warrenzevonfan1010]

MAYBE not ALL of them sold there rights but the majority did and it creates a steriotype against all rock bands with a bluesy feel when someone says stuff like that

[Hektor88]

not at the time Zeppelin was around.

Also, its not just a question of selling rights and legal stuff. Its artistic integrity. You dont take credit for soemthign you didnt do. its really shameful and arrogant.

[warrenzevonfan1010]

so called "artistic integrity" is not in the subject in question. the majority of the musicians DID sell the rights to there music to led zeppelin. besides people who just want to deface and spread rumors about led zeppelin should not be on a video of there performance. (i.e. its for there fans to enjoy)

[Hektor88]

i am not here tto defame Zeppelin, i am a huge fan of theirs. I have not done my research l the way, but i highly doubt that al the blus rtists they stole from just sold their rights to them. I know that Wilie Dixon sued them, and so did the mother of another rock star whos name i cant rememer right now.

Its not just people trying to defame them and spread rumours. The fact is, they stole alot of their early material.

[warrenzevonfan1010]

all i can say is that i disagree and that you ARE defacin led zeppelin

[Hektor88]

well, you can think what you want about me defacing Led Zeppelin (i am not). I am a huge fan of theirs, but i dont like it when people rent able to admit their faults. they werent a perfect band. As for them stealing songs...it doesnt matter if you disagree, cause the stil did it, its not an opinion

[iamblase]

I know what you mean. I do not like zeppelin for that. I think of it as the negative side of the band.

"You Shook Me" and "I Can't Quit You Baby" were credited to their real composers in LZ I. Why couldn't Zeppelin give due credit for the other songs they "wrote"?

However, hearing how zeppelin reworks other artists' compositions amazes me. They do make the song a million times better. Sadly, they still did not come up with the original idea.

[Hektor88]

agreed

[strakallah]

This is one of the reasons why youtube is fantastic. This would have been rotting away forever. Now everyone gets to hear it.

[eastsackevster]

filmore SF? 1000 peeps??? man what comes thru that place today, nothing comes close! people must of lost there MINDS that night!

[iNUrfaCe00]

i think my mom went 2 that concert. xD

[iamblase]

blahblahblahblah.

Sadly, we will never know the date and venue for sure. Not all sources are accurate. Just enjoy the song! hahaha.

[MrZ91]

I don't know from where this is but it ain't Fillmore West 27 April..... Checked with my version... (just tought it's fun to know at least what the date and venue arn't :-)

[gab99]

'white summer' is stolen from 'she moves through the fair' by davey graham. the middle section is 'black mountain side' which he stole from bert jansch (jansch sued him and won)

[Sammerhammer]

true that brotha

[luckyvet]

wicked, another treat.

[notallwhowanderrlost]

I love this!

Thank you so much for posting!

:)

[tremold2043]

one of the best ever...