umm ... everybody who's over 45 years old and loves music like this knows who stole who ... but who actually shows up at blues festivals these days? mostly white folks ... let's not forget this stuff was already antique in the 60s ... let's also make sure the heirs of the creators get paid too.
I liked Zepellin's version, but you can't beat the soulful voice of Willie. I am glad Zep "stole" some of the music from these artists, because they were keeping their music alive by re recording these classic songs
I wish I had my REAL copies of the album right here on hand. It attributes the songs to being written by Dixon. It took me years after I was a Zeppelin fan to hear the originals thanks to the internet. Haters gonna hate, and stir up shit. Magic bullet killed Kennedy too.
I dig Willie D. he's one of the greats. He had his day in court with LZ. On the LZ BBC Sessions they show Dixon's name on the credits. Like some guy very wisely wrote on here, all the blues cats take something from each other. I feel too many are going overboard with this on here. WD has some great youtube videos for those interested. The music industry is a tricky cut throat business. You must surround yourself with a good team to succeed in it.
@fancyfripouille this music is where it's at. don't always believe the names in parenthesis below the song. that goes for all artists, including bluesman. but especially for led zeppelin.
actually no. zeppelin stole many lines and licks without giving credit. from robert johnson, willie dixon, blind willie johnson... they used blues patterns for everything. what they did with it in regards to the acoustic stuff is wonderful and almost unique, save their folk influences. but aside from the production, and especially in their first 2 albums, they are rip off champs. even with stuff that wasn't from bluesmen. but they loved the blues, i don't blame them for that.
@blutus11 they didn't steal. they borrowed, as does everyone in this business. do your research before you open your pie hole. ooooops, did i steal that phrase???? sue me.
they never played one blues festival, never mentioned one bluesman in any liner note. who's doing research here? you've put in nothing so far. and lol that you mentioned suing. led zeppelin settled out of court in '85. their lucky that's all they got. but anyone who knows the blues knows all the stuff they took. i suggest you start listening to the originators if you want to know.
@fancyfripouille they stole word for word from blind willie johnson, willie dixon, robert johnson and more, and never gave any credit of their contributions - and i'm not talking about the 3 covers they did on their first two albums (which is obviously what you thought I was referring to). i'm talking about all the other stuff. in my time of dying, killing floor, down my leg, i ain't foolin, i could keep going on and on. none of these phrases are theirs.
@blutus11 i totally agree with you ,some people just want the credit and do not want to give it where it is due but we all know where the music came from and who started it ,we don't need them to admit it cos i wouldn't want to admit that i copied and stole songs /syles from those artists..i would be too ashamed...i could not come up with myown stuff.
@fancyfripouille i enjoyed the hell out of zeppelin growing up, and i still enjoy their acoustic numbers. page produced amazing rock/blues records. probably the best sounding ever. but they were rip off champs. not just bluesman either. i'm pretty sure, be it lyrics or music, they don't have one original song on their first couple albums, for starters. maybe a couple, still filled with phrases and licks lifted from other artists. read up on that, and you won't be dissapointed from here.
I am amazed at the moan the groan. She hurt him bad. It has to be in you to sing a song a 1000 times and project such real emotions. Try that Hannah Montana. I cant believe how crazy real he is. He sold me. WHen you see me crying Darling....Lord I dont what to do my heart is filled with pain.
@licandres01 No, Zeppelin stole music from Black American artists banned from 'white radio' in the us just as Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, and countless other artists did. Granted, those thieving artists made the music more popular, but they could have at least paid the people who wrote the music.
@iowahorseman Credit isn't paying an artist for the work they created. They can say that another person wrote it and they simply created their version of it but that doesn't pay the artist who created the work.
@iowahorseman Credit isn't paying an artist for the work they created. They can say that another person wrote it and they simply created their version of it but that doesn't pay the artist who created the work.
@iowahorseman Credit isn't paying an artist for the work they created. They can say that another person wrote it and they simply created their version of it but that doesn't pay the artist who created the work.
@PictishPrince It's a misconception Elvis "stole" black music. He also covered white artists.Many of the artists covered in those days were writers who didn't record their own songs. They depended on artists to cover them. While it is true some of the early blues artists didn't get paid royalties for their own recordings, covering a song is not stealing. Taking credit for writing songs someone else wrote, like Jimmy Page and Robert Plant did on the first 3 Zep albums is stealing.
@bluejazz51 It is NO misconception, Black artists were prevented from having copyrights, being played on 'white' radio', and appearing in 'white' venues and especially in the southern US. And not only did US white artists like Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis steal from those Black artists, other artists across the globe stole their music and never paid them a dime in royalties. There is NO Misconception, theft by white 'liberal' artists of the people they supposedly support is fact.
@PictishPrince I do know the history of racism. Black artists not being played on the radio; music by black artists being called "race music" ; rock and roll being called "n" music. That being said, covering a song is not stealing. Blues artists in the 40s and 50s were not paid royalties for their recordings, but I believe the artists covered by most white r&r artists such as Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis were payed royalties. White r&r artists help end segregation at concerts.
@PictishPrince i agree with you so much I am so proud to be black cos we have set the trend for everything and i must say its a great honor to be imitated from words to song to dress to whatever.....i would not wanna take credit for something that i did not create but that's what they did cos they could not come up with their own styles...
@PictishPrince It wasn't stealing, it was covering. tThere's a huge difference. Blues, rock, basically all kinds of artists covered each other left and right back then. Look at some of those early rock n roll records, or a Led Zeppelin one. It clearly states they're covers. They did to show the influence it gave them and the love and respect they had for the blues. Even Willie Dixon himself did cover songs.
@mashui99 No it was not covering it was stealing. What's the difference? Zeppelin actually took WRITING credit for the songs to AVOID PAYING ROYALITIES thus depriving the original artists from income they deserved. Zeppelin on the other hand flew around the world on jets,living the high life of sex and drugs. Some of the artists sued Zeppelin and won by the way. Other artists like the stones gave proper credit where credit was due.
@tbcass Maybe it's cause i wasn't there when the album when i originally came but on my copies of the cd's it sure as hell gives them songwriting credit. Also, in the 60's and 70's bands covered everyone freely then. Willie Dixon's songs had been literally dozens of times without him getting paid. He sued them because they hugely famous and rich. If they were moderately successful like the Yardbirds he wouldn't have cared, and in fact didn't.
@PictishPrince Zeppelin REVERED the blues greats... as did Clapton, Green, Mayall, Korner etc etc. I find it strange you don't list Hendrix or any of the other 1000s of african americans who covered Dixon and House etc, yet you have a problem with the English covering them. Is this a racial thing for you?
Six people dislike this song that's unforgivable!!!!! Willie Dixon is amazing - they must be bieber's fans they know shit about music. there must be something we can do to erase that kind of worthless "music" commercial crap from the face of the earth, with "bieber jonas spears aguilera gaga" this world in going nowhere.
@vulpeculaladyfox Yeah but just that function as a reminder, but do you need that commercial crap to realize what is real music? thats the question, as a musician I feel sick every time I see teenagers wasting their lives listening to bieber...shit - Willie Dixon, Robert Johnson, B B King, Chuck Berry, John Lee Hooker, Jimmy Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Angus Young, Eric Clapton, Pete Townshend, my god they're heroes. I couldn't live without their music they're my life.
@sdebarbasonoio No I dont, but it seems some people do...I was speaking of taking good things for granted, such as good music. I guess it wasnt read that way. I do know everytime I turn on the radio, MTV or anything that, I get pissed off...Most everything is commercial garbage. There are some gems in new music these days. But its like finding the proverbial needle, I guess. Im sure there where plenty of not so great artists back in their day as well who people complained about.
The Gershwin Brothers, 'Rhapsody In Blue', is TOTALLY stolen from Chopin! Stealin' chops - - I think it started at the beginning of time and ain't gonna end real soon.
are you crazy? Cream, Rolling Stones, Ten Years After (love them all) were peeing in their beds and diapers when Willie Dixon was already componing and singing the blues
Willie wrote this for Otis Rush. Seems Otis' woman had left him and he had the blues so bad that when he sang it in the studi the hair on Mr Chess' head stood up straight. How about that! True story-just ask Willie.
@KLthebig There isn't anything genial about it. Nothing different from what Cream, Rolling Stones, Ten Years After and the Yardbirds itself among many others was already doing years before.
@KLthebig Willie plays bass on many Chuck Berry songs. Man, Rock is Blues and Blues is Country etc.Nothing is pure. You can't help but be influenced by things that move you.Who sits down with an instrument and invents a new genre of music, no one. I'm sure many would argue who wrote the first rap song, I would say Dylan. Listen to Subterrainian Homesick Blues. What inspired him to do that, something he heard?
...LZ by the end of their career was an over glorified pop rock band. By the end of the 75 tour till 79 Jimmy sounded like he played with a broken finger and Jack Daniel's bottle...I have have 100's of hours of LZ soundboards and audience recordings to confirm my opinoin. Side note...kudos to John Paul Jones. I just believe there were much better improvisional live bands from the time period that just weren't 'popular' to the masses. BTW Willie is a badass...end of story
@spacewrangler77 glorified pop band? Where in the world does Achilles Last Stand and I'm Gonna Crawl fit into that? Didn't realize those were pop. But I guess you know more than me.
Started listening to Zeppelin in 1975. Twenty years later, after getting deeper into the blues, I learned this was a Willie Dixon original. It came as a sweet surprise. Love the original -- but, of course, I also love the Zeppelin version.
@Heisssask not everyone knows who was influenced by musicians like willie. and if no one talks about it then no one would have known. give ppl praise for reiterating the influences of old musicians otherwise young kids will grow up and not even be aware of its existence.
@nadman14 but back in those days, black musicians werent even given a record label sometimes so therefore there was no credit to give. but like willie dixon sued them for taking whole lotta love.
@DONDIVA1969 It was more of a tribute and respect for the Ms Delta Blues.... Not an attempt to capitalize... Plant could have sung the telephone book with Jimmy, Bonzo, and jonesy and STILL would have been Rock Gods... But Zeppelin was ever-evolving... It wasnt stagnant and it was a broad range of influences...
@RockerForLife74 Otis Rush' 1966 or 1956? Regardless he's still better than Robert Plant's rendition. Unless you mean Jimmy Page's guitar. Now that's great. I'm glad they at least credited Willie on that.
I'm mostly talking about guitar since there's so much variety and unmatched skill in Page's guitar playing compared to Otis. As for a comparison between Robert and Otis, it switches. Robert Plant's voice from 1968 to 1972 is at it's peak. Although there is a significant change in Robert's voice through the time Led Zeppelin was together, the early vocal years of Plant in LZ beat everybody, including Otis. Otis is better than Plant when 1973 and on came for Plant. I can explain more if you want.
@RockerForLife74 No need. Though I don't think his voice was great on every song until then I did notice that around their fifth album Plant did start to sound like he was loosing his voice. I can hear it a little bit in Kashmir.
@NeverAloneForever I think plants voice got a little rough around the time of presence. But then again he was in a car accident before they started recording and he was weak from recovery. But yeah I totally agree plants voice got worse for that kind of music. A lot worse. But he has an album out with alison kraus and it is good. So i wouldnt say his voice got worse all around. Just worse for that kind of music.
la energia no se crea ni se destruye solo se trasnforma la obra fuue retomada y mejorada por zep. eso es todo pero los grupos ingleses reconocienron y se asesoraron por los creadores del blus mas no asi los blancos americanos ustedes lo saben.
check out the live "i cant quit you baby" on my page and you will never turn back to this boring ass version. yea this porch monkey influenced jimmy page and yea this guy invented blah blah blah but led zeppelin perfected it!
DUDE - I'm as big a Zeppelin man as any, but give me a break. "Porch monkey?" If you're gonna critique something, at least use intelligence. Zeppelin was a ROCK band, and they played this as a ROCK song. Yeah, they kicked its ass, but they must have seen value in it if they were going to cover it, so let's put the swords away and give credit where credit is due, deal?
Willie Dixon's I Am The Blues is one of the best albums ever made, regardless of genre. The world around us is a metaphor of life, of being: just like a tree can't grow if it's cut off from its roots, contemporary music is lifeless if one doesn't keep Willie Dixon into account. And CBS/Columbia wouldn't release the planned follow-up to this album, which says more about the music industry than it does about Willie Dixon and the Blues! Thanks for posting this
Willie wasn't Chuck Berry's backbone - Chuck wrote his own stuff (possibly with Johnnie Johnson) but I don't think Willie wrote any songs for Chuck. I agree Willie probably had more influence on Music than any other person
so i've always wondered, who was the personnel on this song? i've guessed the harp was james cotton but maybe carey bell. no idea who laid down the incredible guitar and piano parts, and no doubt mr. dixon himself was on bass.
any light you all can shed on this i will be thankful!
this is one of the first songs i ever sang with the first band i ever worked with!
Zeppelin did steal blues but I think they did play them well in their own way. A great bunch of musicians who should have given credit where it was deserved at the time.
@xxfroobxx Hey Guy, you really ought to get yourself some of them 'new' "Zig-Zag" cigar wraps to smoke your stuff with 'real-fruit-flavors' and then you won't have to worry so much about getting busted for all of that 'parafanalia' , not to mention 'inhahing al of those carcenogenic fumes and stuff, and check out the old black dude on the new package, smile!
man this is really good stuff this cat should be the king of the blues! since everyone under the sun who plays blues covered one of Wille's song if not more.
once again.. zeppelin thought they could get away with being so fuckin "original" now it's just one click , and you can see what cunts they were.. never gave credit to the person who wrote the "zep shit".. thank god they got sued... fuck page.. he thought he could get away with it...shame shame shame.............
see me - arkansas red and willie at arkansasred.mysite.com
BishopArkansasRed 1 month ago
pure emotion
onthinice766 1 month ago
it is a difference in covering a song than just downright stealing a song/style from artists and taking the credit.
1goldbaby 1 month ago
umm ... everybody who's over 45 years old and loves music like this knows who stole who ... but who actually shows up at blues festivals these days? mostly white folks ... let's not forget this stuff was already antique in the 60s ... let's also make sure the heirs of the creators get paid too.
pladuk68 1 month ago
This is an EXCELLENT RECORDING.... and those Drums!!!
jayr1669 1 month ago
Love the old time blues, nothing now beats it. I wish Hugh Laurie would send me somewhere.
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Gonsam100 1 month ago
Nunca habia escuchado esta version. lukeaaronfreeman101 Hugh Laurie tambien me envio aqui.Excelente.
freddybg19 2 months ago
I liked Zepellin's version, but you can't beat the soulful voice of Willie. I am glad Zep "stole" some of the music from these artists, because they were keeping their music alive by re recording these classic songs
BLUESMANRONCHICAGO 2 months ago 2
the real music is here..
The6max9 2 months ago
I wish I had my REAL copies of the album right here on hand. It attributes the songs to being written by Dixon. It took me years after I was a Zeppelin fan to hear the originals thanks to the internet. Haters gonna hate, and stir up shit. Magic bullet killed Kennedy too.
SonicProvocateur 3 months ago
I dig Willie D. he's one of the greats. He had his day in court with LZ. On the LZ BBC Sessions they show Dixon's name on the credits. Like some guy very wisely wrote on here, all the blues cats take something from each other. I feel too many are going overboard with this on here. WD has some great youtube videos for those interested. The music industry is a tricky cut throat business. You must surround yourself with a good team to succeed in it.
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@fancyfripouille this music is where it's at. don't always believe the names in parenthesis below the song. that goes for all artists, including bluesman. but especially for led zeppelin.
blutus11 3 months ago
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blutus11 3 months ago
actually no. zeppelin stole many lines and licks without giving credit. from robert johnson, willie dixon, blind willie johnson... they used blues patterns for everything. what they did with it in regards to the acoustic stuff is wonderful and almost unique, save their folk influences. but aside from the production, and especially in their first 2 albums, they are rip off champs. even with stuff that wasn't from bluesmen. but they loved the blues, i don't blame them for that.
blutus11 4 months ago 2
@blutus11 they didn't steal. they borrowed, as does everyone in this business. do your research before you open your pie hole. ooooops, did i steal that phrase???? sue me.
fancyfripouille 3 months ago
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blutus11 3 months ago
they never played one blues festival, never mentioned one bluesman in any liner note. who's doing research here? you've put in nothing so far. and lol that you mentioned suing. led zeppelin settled out of court in '85. their lucky that's all they got. but anyone who knows the blues knows all the stuff they took. i suggest you start listening to the originators if you want to know.
blutus11 3 months ago
@fancyfripouille they stole word for word from blind willie johnson, willie dixon, robert johnson and more, and never gave any credit of their contributions - and i'm not talking about the 3 covers they did on their first two albums (which is obviously what you thought I was referring to). i'm talking about all the other stuff. in my time of dying, killing floor, down my leg, i ain't foolin, i could keep going on and on. none of these phrases are theirs.
blutus11 3 months ago
@blutus11 i totally agree with you ,some people just want the credit and do not want to give it where it is due but we all know where the music came from and who started it ,we don't need them to admit it cos i wouldn't want to admit that i copied and stole songs /syles from those artists..i would be too ashamed...i could not come up with myown stuff.
1goldbaby 1 month ago
@fancyfripouille i enjoyed the hell out of zeppelin growing up, and i still enjoy their acoustic numbers. page produced amazing rock/blues records. probably the best sounding ever. but they were rip off champs. not just bluesman either. i'm pretty sure, be it lyrics or music, they don't have one original song on their first couple albums, for starters. maybe a couple, still filled with phrases and licks lifted from other artists. read up on that, and you won't be dissapointed from here.
blutus11 3 months ago
@blutus11 If you really look, you may not find the track, but on a site somewhere they gave
credit to a guy I never heard of. It was the original composer/singer of "Dazxed And Confused".
Old as hell.
spoildn8410 2 months ago in playlist The Blues Now And Then
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blutus11 3 months ago
Friday night (don't know why Friday), small club, too much smoke, small glasses with whiskey and water.
Bamaboompa 4 months ago
ფაქ იეაჰ !
Luk1ngem 4 months ago
holy shit.
blows my mind......
pineknob711 4 months ago
this song would get me tru the night; good bye ungrateful notion of reality...
storage000 4 months ago
Take a lesson, Robert Plant.
GuitarMirth 5 months ago
@GuitarMirth Dude, Robert Plant did this absolute justice.
Katvictoria2 4 months ago 2
@Katvictoria2 "A chacun de leurs propres".
GuitarMirth 4 months ago
I am amazed at the moan the groan. She hurt him bad. It has to be in you to sing a song a 1000 times and project such real emotions. Try that Hannah Montana. I cant believe how crazy real he is. He sold me. WHen you see me crying Darling....Lord I dont what to do my heart is filled with pain.
barimayberry 5 months ago
This is how it is supposed to be done.
shigella63 5 months ago
*sigh*
(that is all)
bloozplyr 5 months ago
thought this was zeppelin's :O
licandres01 5 months ago
@licandres01 No, Zeppelin stole music from Black American artists banned from 'white radio' in the us just as Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, and countless other artists did. Granted, those thieving artists made the music more popular, but they could have at least paid the people who wrote the music.
PictishPrince 5 months ago 25
@PictishPrince Zeppelin gave credit to all the artists of the songs they covered
iowahorseman 4 months ago
@iowahorseman Credit isn't paying an artist for the work they created. They can say that another person wrote it and they simply created their version of it but that doesn't pay the artist who created the work.
PictishPrince 4 months ago
@iowahorseman Credit isn't paying an artist for the work they created. They can say that another person wrote it and they simply created their version of it but that doesn't pay the artist who created the work.
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@iowahorseman Credit isn't paying an artist for the work they created. They can say that another person wrote it and they simply created their version of it but that doesn't pay the artist who created the work.
PictishPrince 4 months ago
@PictishPrince It's a misconception Elvis "stole" black music. He also covered white artists.Many of the artists covered in those days were writers who didn't record their own songs. They depended on artists to cover them. While it is true some of the early blues artists didn't get paid royalties for their own recordings, covering a song is not stealing. Taking credit for writing songs someone else wrote, like Jimmy Page and Robert Plant did on the first 3 Zep albums is stealing.
bluejazz51 2 months ago
@bluejazz51 It is NO misconception, Black artists were prevented from having copyrights, being played on 'white' radio', and appearing in 'white' venues and especially in the southern US. And not only did US white artists like Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis steal from those Black artists, other artists across the globe stole their music and never paid them a dime in royalties. There is NO Misconception, theft by white 'liberal' artists of the people they supposedly support is fact.
PictishPrince 2 months ago
@PictishPrince I do know the history of racism. Black artists not being played on the radio; music by black artists being called "race music" ; rock and roll being called "n" music. That being said, covering a song is not stealing. Blues artists in the 40s and 50s were not paid royalties for their recordings, but I believe the artists covered by most white r&r artists such as Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis were payed royalties. White r&r artists help end segregation at concerts.
bluejazz51 1 month ago
@PictishPrince i agree with you so much I am so proud to be black cos we have set the trend for everything and i must say its a great honor to be imitated from words to song to dress to whatever.....i would not wanna take credit for something that i did not create but that's what they did cos they could not come up with their own styles...
1goldbaby 1 month ago
@bluejazz51 elvis stole the style from "jackie wilson (roll the tapes)...he certainly did not come up with what he was doing on his own ...
1goldbaby 1 month ago
@1goldbaby also elvis stole from blackmen - OTIS BLACKWELL and ROY HAMILTON! roll the google and see fror yourself!
BishopArkansasRed 1 month ago
@PictishPrince or at least gave the credit and try not to act like they discovered it... i agree with you 100%
1goldbaby 1 month ago
@PictishPrince It wasn't stealing, it was covering. tThere's a huge difference. Blues, rock, basically all kinds of artists covered each other left and right back then. Look at some of those early rock n roll records, or a Led Zeppelin one. It clearly states they're covers. They did to show the influence it gave them and the love and respect they had for the blues. Even Willie Dixon himself did cover songs.
mashui99 1 month ago 3
@mashui99 No it was not covering it was stealing. What's the difference? Zeppelin actually took WRITING credit for the songs to AVOID PAYING ROYALITIES thus depriving the original artists from income they deserved. Zeppelin on the other hand flew around the world on jets,living the high life of sex and drugs. Some of the artists sued Zeppelin and won by the way. Other artists like the stones gave proper credit where credit was due.
tbcass 1 week ago
@tbcass Maybe it's cause i wasn't there when the album when i originally came but on my copies of the cd's it sure as hell gives them songwriting credit. Also, in the 60's and 70's bands covered everyone freely then. Willie Dixon's songs had been literally dozens of times without him getting paid. He sued them because they hugely famous and rich. If they were moderately successful like the Yardbirds he wouldn't have cared, and in fact didn't.
mashui99 6 days ago
@PictishPrince Zeppelin REVERED the blues greats... as did Clapton, Green, Mayall, Korner etc etc. I find it strange you don't list Hendrix or any of the other 1000s of african americans who covered Dixon and House etc, yet you have a problem with the English covering them. Is this a racial thing for you?
lordfluxington 1 week ago
6 disco fucks dislike this?
ricman68 5 months ago
Blu blu blu blu bluessssssss
ketefollen1984 5 months ago
This song is pretty much.... THE SEX <3 <3
Gdev02 5 months ago
Rockin'! This is one of the greatest blues albums ever!
surfdogdude 6 months ago
This is pretty on point, I can dig it. That guitar is talking to you...
PollitasPiglet 6 months ago
Six people dislike this song that's unforgivable!!!!! Willie Dixon is amazing - they must be bieber's fans they know shit about music. there must be something we can do to erase that kind of worthless "music" commercial crap from the face of the earth, with "bieber jonas spears aguilera gaga" this world in going nowhere.
sdebarbasonoio 6 months ago
@sdebarbasonoio i agree, BIG time
Eyzi96 5 months ago
@sdebarbasonoio yeah but its that worthless crap that gives us the reminder of what real music is! So, at least it serves some function :)
vulpeculaladyfox 5 months ago
@vulpeculaladyfox Yeah but just that function as a reminder, but do you need that commercial crap to realize what is real music? thats the question, as a musician I feel sick every time I see teenagers wasting their lives listening to bieber...shit - Willie Dixon, Robert Johnson, B B King, Chuck Berry, John Lee Hooker, Jimmy Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Angus Young, Eric Clapton, Pete Townshend, my god they're heroes. I couldn't live without their music they're my life.
Greetings from Roma.
sdebarbasonoio 5 months ago
@sdebarbasonoio No I dont, but it seems some people do...I was speaking of taking good things for granted, such as good music. I guess it wasnt read that way. I do know everytime I turn on the radio, MTV or anything that, I get pissed off...Most everything is commercial garbage. There are some gems in new music these days. But its like finding the proverbial needle, I guess. Im sure there where plenty of not so great artists back in their day as well who people complained about.
vulpeculaladyfox 5 months ago
@vulpeculaladyfox Got you I know what you mean. :)
sdebarbasonoio 5 months ago
@sdebarbasonoio and Eric Clapton & Jimmy Page couldn't have lived without guys like Willie Dixon.
GuitarMirth 5 months ago
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harkrum 6 months ago
Didn't know Led Zeppelin covered this. Both versions are amazing
DimebagJim420 7 months ago 3
@DimebagJim420
"covered" ?? actually they stole it - and they had to be sued to admit that :-(
Statek63 6 months ago
@Statek63 I never knew that happened, thanks for posting it...the bastids
LabelBob 6 months ago
Who's playing guitar?
davidratcliffe1 7 months ago
Hugh Laurie sent me here!!
lukeaaronfreeman101 7 months ago 20
@lukeaaronfreeman101 Me too!!!
legionjgp2 7 months ago
@lukeaaronfreeman101 I love you for saying that! Hugh's my IDOL!!
rockengellygirl 6 months ago
Hard to believe any dislike here
PepeMoreno49 8 months ago
@Flat7 up you must be insane
keith7g7j 8 months ago
The Gershwin Brothers, 'Rhapsody In Blue', is TOTALLY stolen from Chopin! Stealin' chops - - I think it started at the beginning of time and ain't gonna end real soon.
TheElissaS 8 months ago
The Gershwin Brothers, 'Rhapsody In Blue', is TOTALLY stolen from Chopin!
TheElissaS 8 months ago
are you crazy? Cream, Rolling Stones, Ten Years After (love them all) were peeing in their beds and diapers when Willie Dixon was already componing and singing the blues
royrvr 8 months ago
It's the beautifulest song I had ever listen . C'est la plus belle chansson que je n'ais jamais entendu .
Samuel78500 8 months ago
@Samuel78500 Most Beautiful.With any word 3 syllables or more, one uses most or more in front the word.
TheElissaS 8 months ago
That's exactly what I call Music.
DtoX57 8 months ago
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Yes, its true zeppelin should REFER willie dixon in their cover, but don´t question Zeppelin´s work.
Their hard rock / blues fusion is to GENIAL to be QUESTIONED
KLthebig 8 months ago
Willie wrote this for Otis Rush. Seems Otis' woman had left him and he had the blues so bad that when he sang it in the studi the hair on Mr Chess' head stood up straight. How about that! True story-just ask Willie.
JaySewallBlues 8 months ago
@Flat7up What are you talking about? Have you any idea about the history of the blues... It would seem not!
bobsylvan 8 months ago
thumbs up if you are here because of House
ruiz107 8 months ago
sure Zep ripped him off... but they also turned him into a millionare after he sued 'em
zipahead 8 months ago
Yes, its true zeppelin should REFER willie dixon in their cover, but don´t question Zeppelin´s work.
Their hard rock / blues fusion is to GENIAL to be QUESTIONED
KLthebig 8 months ago
@KLthebig There isn't anything genial about it. Nothing different from what Cream, Rolling Stones, Ten Years After and the Yardbirds itself among many others was already doing years before.
PetermoBR 8 months ago
Sorry my friend, but if you think that, you don´t know the diference between Hard Rock and the other subgenres of rock.
KLthebig 8 months ago
@KLthebig Willie plays bass on many Chuck Berry songs. Man, Rock is Blues and Blues is Country etc.Nothing is pure. You can't help but be influenced by things that move you.Who sits down with an instrument and invents a new genre of music, no one. I'm sure many would argue who wrote the first rap song, I would say Dylan. Listen to Subterrainian Homesick Blues. What inspired him to do that, something he heard?
davidratcliffe1 7 months ago
@zipahead One Million is what he sued for, so after lawyers fees a little less.
davidratcliffe1 7 months ago
@Flat7up huh?
olifantgamer 8 months ago
blues legend...sings and plays right out his soul
luccheba 9 months ago
hey whos playing that harp?
loxab2 9 months ago
@loxab2 Big Walter Horton
BackDoorMan1993 7 months ago
...LZ by the end of their career was an over glorified pop rock band. By the end of the 75 tour till 79 Jimmy sounded like he played with a broken finger and Jack Daniel's bottle...I have have 100's of hours of LZ soundboards and audience recordings to confirm my opinoin. Side note...kudos to John Paul Jones. I just believe there were much better improvisional live bands from the time period that just weren't 'popular' to the masses. BTW Willie is a badass...end of story
spacewrangler77 9 months ago
@spacewrangler77 glorified pop band? Where in the world does Achilles Last Stand and I'm Gonna Crawl fit into that? Didn't realize those were pop. But I guess you know more than me.
GranDrJ 6 months ago
Its too bad that like 1/6 of all of zep's music was stolen. but their awesome and when they stole, they STOLE RIGHT...
peacesellsstevebuyin 9 months ago
@peacesellsstevebuyin Led Zep do not steal. LZ reinvent
miguelsamarao1 9 months ago
@peacesellsstevebuyin Led Zep do not steal. LZ reinvent
miguelsamarao1 9 months ago
Of course they reinvent...they are a genial band.
But don´t close your eyes. Led Zeppelin I had some stolen music
KLthebig 8 months ago
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John Mayall's got a great version of this Willy-song, done way back in the 60's. When Zeppelin did it they turned it into cheese-pop. Oh well.
denzoil 9 months ago
John Mayall's got a great version of this Willy-song too, done way back in the 60's. When Zepplin did it they turned it into cheese-pop. Oh well.
denzoil 9 months ago
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monadasmoinas 9 months ago
just have to saying "dude inhaling butane; mafucker even Justin Bieber would sound alright" FUCK YEAH!
portroyalwi 9 months ago
If Willie Dixon don't reach your soul, man you is dead
TheMangygoat 9 months ago
tell it brother!
OPTIMIZEDd 9 months ago
lovelvoelove lveolveovelveovlevoelv love
Horrayformusic 10 months ago
omg all these years later and he still does it for me...
i would really love to know who the cool drummer is on this!
bluesoulady 10 months ago
omg all these years later and he still does it for me...
bluesoulady 10 months ago
Luv that harp break!
gorblimey61 11 months ago 2
muito bom
masoes1 11 months ago
Started listening to Zeppelin in 1975. Twenty years later, after getting deeper into the blues, I learned this was a Willie Dixon original. It came as a sweet surprise. Love the original -- but, of course, I also love the Zeppelin version.
jporcel100 11 months ago 4
4 people just don't have a heart
JungleJack1978 1 year ago 4
@JungleJack1978 you're so right
afrandolph6058 11 months ago
with out these guys there wouldnt have been nothing in 60s an70s not nothing
JayCRosie 1 year ago
mistret
borsecrosu 1 year ago
Allright allright, we ALL know there would be no Zeppelin, no Cream without Willie Dixon. There would be no Metallica or Iron Maiden without them.
We all know that already, so LET'S JUST ENJOY THE AWESOME MUSIC AND NOT TALK ALL THE TIME ABOUT WHAT BANDS THERE WOULDN'T BE WITHOUT SOMEONE, OKAY?
Heisssask 1 year ago 2
@Heisssask not everyone knows who was influenced by musicians like willie. and if no one talks about it then no one would have known. give ppl praise for reiterating the influences of old musicians otherwise young kids will grow up and not even be aware of its existence.
BigBoyKaveman 1 year ago
LEGEND!
flakitugahbaybay 1 year ago
splendida
tangerine58 1 year ago
The more I listen to guys like Muddy, Willie and Wolf the more I realize Zeppelin raped the blues guys. Figuratively speaking.
DONDIVA1969 1 year ago 2
@DONDIVA1969 yea, but they made it more epic. although not crediting the original artists was very lame.
nadman14 1 year ago
@nadman14 but back in those days, black musicians werent even given a record label sometimes so therefore there was no credit to give. but like willie dixon sued them for taking whole lotta love.
SoundMaker76 1 year ago
@DONDIVA1969 It was more of a tribute and respect for the Ms Delta Blues.... Not an attempt to capitalize... Plant could have sung the telephone book with Jimmy, Bonzo, and jonesy and STILL would have been Rock Gods... But Zeppelin was ever-evolving... It wasnt stagnant and it was a broad range of influences...
luvthatzeppelin 1 year ago
Ésto es realmente fantástico.
carlos86902 1 year ago
Willie Dixon is the Blues.
thepoisonwhisky 1 year ago 38
perfect!
wwiermann 1 year ago
Stop comparing and arguing, just enjoy the music!!!
Oh and for the record, Gary Moore does a good cover of this.
anonymouslolxD 1 year ago
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anonymouslolxD 1 year ago
This is amazing... defo best version i've heard...
Tzaosirus7 1 year ago
@MrWildboy214. You don't know shit about blues, man, that's all there is to say.
dirtythierry 1 year ago 2
Led Zeppelin's version is the only version the beats the original.
RockerForLife74 1 year ago 2
@RockerForLife74 Actually, Otis Rush beats both.
NeverAloneForever 1 year ago
@NeverAloneForever Heard it. Led Zeppelin just tops both, but not by a lot.
RockerForLife74 1 year ago
@RockerForLife74 Otis Rush' 1966 or 1956? Regardless he's still better than Robert Plant's rendition. Unless you mean Jimmy Page's guitar. Now that's great. I'm glad they at least credited Willie on that.
NeverAloneForever 1 year ago
I'm mostly talking about guitar since there's so much variety and unmatched skill in Page's guitar playing compared to Otis. As for a comparison between Robert and Otis, it switches. Robert Plant's voice from 1968 to 1972 is at it's peak. Although there is a significant change in Robert's voice through the time Led Zeppelin was together, the early vocal years of Plant in LZ beat everybody, including Otis. Otis is better than Plant when 1973 and on came for Plant. I can explain more if you want.
RockerForLife74 1 year ago
@RockerForLife74 No need. Though I don't think his voice was great on every song until then I did notice that around their fifth album Plant did start to sound like he was loosing his voice. I can hear it a little bit in Kashmir.
NeverAloneForever 1 year ago
@NeverAloneForever I think plants voice got a little rough around the time of presence. But then again he was in a car accident before they started recording and he was weak from recovery. But yeah I totally agree plants voice got worse for that kind of music. A lot worse. But he has an album out with alison kraus and it is good. So i wouldnt say his voice got worse all around. Just worse for that kind of music.
FFC159 1 year ago
@FFC159 I see what you mean. I think I love Otis Rush's version especially because of the extended note on the "I". It's actually kind of funny.
NeverAloneForever 1 year ago
Nobody can touch these guys for timing and feel Thanks for posting.
Frinkstobat 1 year ago
la energia no se crea ni se destruye solo se trasnforma la obra fuue retomada y mejorada por zep. eso es todo pero los grupos ingleses reconocienron y se asesoraron por los creadores del blus mas no asi los blancos americanos ustedes lo saben.
rafgarden 1 year ago
check out the live "i cant quit you baby" on my page and you will never turn back to this boring ass version. yea this porch monkey influenced jimmy page and yea this guy invented blah blah blah but led zeppelin perfected it!
MrWildboy214 1 year ago
@MrWildboy214 CAREFUL
joyproductionstv 1 year ago
@MrWildboy214
DUDE - I'm as big a Zeppelin man as any, but give me a break. "Porch monkey?" If you're gonna critique something, at least use intelligence. Zeppelin was a ROCK band, and they played this as a ROCK song. Yeah, they kicked its ass, but they must have seen value in it if they were going to cover it, so let's put the swords away and give credit where credit is due, deal?
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dirtythierry 1 year ago
@MrWildboy214 stupid ¡¡¡¡¡
EMIUP 1 year ago
@EMIUP you are a complete idiot if you think this is stupid. This is where rock started man. It is in many ways much better than anything today.
markd514 1 year ago 2
Para que se mueran de envidia, yo tengo este album en LP!
LuisCacheux 1 year ago
this is some deep shit! awesome but deep, deep.....deep.........deep
h4zre 1 year ago
Willie Dixon's I Am The Blues is one of the best albums ever made, regardless of genre. The world around us is a metaphor of life, of being: just like a tree can't grow if it's cut off from its roots, contemporary music is lifeless if one doesn't keep Willie Dixon into account. And CBS/Columbia wouldn't release the planned follow-up to this album, which says more about the music industry than it does about Willie Dixon and the Blues! Thanks for posting this
kidcalabria 1 year ago
But I miss you, Buster Benton........
Juliasblues 1 year ago
Willie wasn't Chuck Berry's backbone - Chuck wrote his own stuff (possibly with Johnnie Johnson) but I don't think Willie wrote any songs for Chuck. I agree Willie probably had more influence on Music than any other person
boothl232 1 year ago
Influenced the WORLD! Thank God. Lest it be borin' 'bout now...
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thorivaldic 1 year ago
@antman5000000
better than good.
VoodooFlintstone 1 year ago
"GreatttttSonggg!"
MaripozaM 1 year ago
Man, its true. A women shouldn't make love to nobody but her husband.
fringers814 1 year ago
i wonder- who was mr. dixon's band on this cut? killer harp player- carey bell? james cotton?
JawboneandJolene 1 year ago
@JawboneandJolene Willie Dixon (vocals, bass); Johnny Shines (guitar); Walter "Shakey" Horton (harmonica); Sunnyland Slim, Lafayette Leake (piano); Clifton James (drums).
vancewaylon 1 year ago
so i've always wondered, who was the personnel on this song? i've guessed the harp was james cotton but maybe carey bell. no idea who laid down the incredible guitar and piano parts, and no doubt mr. dixon himself was on bass.
any light you all can shed on this i will be thankful!
this is one of the first songs i ever sang with the first band i ever worked with!
JawboneandJolene 1 year ago
@JawboneandJolene that was some great drum playin as well, i think the piano and willie's voice shined through the most on this one
Psychobilly4life 1 year ago 2
@antman5000000 Giving credit where credit is due is always cool! Have u ever heard the live version of this on BBC Sessions?
kingrob29 1 year ago
I can close my eyes and listen to this music and I go back in time. I can just picture it.
TNTasha 1 year ago
right arm
mattbastardsen 1 year ago
as much I love led zeppelin, but they can't measure with the feelings willie puts in.
HajrudinPranjga 1 year ago
Zeppelin did steal blues but I think they did play them well in their own way. A great bunch of musicians who should have given credit where it was deserved at the time.
qwerly45 1 year ago 2
This is the blues. it's rare to find this kind of sound nowadays.
afreistedt 1 year ago
here i am inhaling butane while smoking weed through a glass pipe
truly enjoying myself to a old black dude playing fucking dam right blues
FUCK YEAH !
xxfroobxx 1 year ago 54
@xxfroobxx Hey Guy, you really ought to get yourself some of them 'new' "Zig-Zag" cigar wraps to smoke your stuff with 'real-fruit-flavors' and then you won't have to worry so much about getting busted for all of that 'parafanalia' , not to mention 'inhahing al of those carcenogenic fumes and stuff, and check out the old black dude on the new package, smile!
MisterCrash241 1 year ago
@MisterCrash241
I'll do so !
I'm smiling at the idea of just rolling one of those crazily good brown cigar blunt wif (with) some flavor :) thanks for the advice ! peace!
xxfroobxx 1 year ago
@xxfroobxx stop inhaling butane, its gunna kill you buddy
rocknrollporn 1 year ago 2
@xxfroobxx this is old school hommie you do it with a joint and a wooden match
marcos94santiago 11 months ago 2
inhaling butane?hooooly fuck...
borsecrosu 10 months ago 13
@xxfroobxx Speak on it Brother...Im right there witcha.....
yknid9608 10 months ago
No Willie Dixon,No T-Bone Walker No Rock and Roll No R&b No Soul No Shit
joethepainter90 1 year ago 2
man this is really good stuff this cat should be the king of the blues! since everyone under the sun who plays blues covered one of Wille's song if not more.
oicsaywhat 1 year ago
he's the blues
cece33372 1 year ago
once again.. zeppelin thought they could get away with being so fuckin "original" now it's just one click , and you can see what cunts they were.. never gave credit to the person who wrote the "zep shit".. thank god they got sued... fuck page.. he thought he could get away with it...shame shame shame.............
jodonte1 1 year ago
@jodonte1
Lol, shut the fuck up you retard. So you're saying this sounds anything like Zeppelin's rendition?
Murreh 1 year ago