@mrbarata this is covered earlier in comments, but Jimmy Page freely admits that this song is where he got the decending arpeggio from. it is also where Spirit got Taurus from and if you think this sounds like Stairway, listen to it. Jimmy Page and Zep toured w/ Taurus prior to the release of Stairway so... Few musicians are truly original, owing to no one...
@TheGreeneyedstone which song are you saying page freely admits he got it from? ive read where he says he got it from davy graham but denies any influence from spirit who made taurus
@Gettheledoutstyle It wasn't my intention to infer that Mr. Page ever admitted to having Spirit as an inspiration, only that he admits that Davy Graham;s Cry Me A River was. It is my own opinion that he was influenced by Spirit as I do know that Spirit was one of the bands that Zeppelin toured with early on and I am not alone in that suspicion. It is mentioned in many biographies about Mr. Page and Led Zeppelin and that is what i intended to point out. apologies for not being clear, ty for input
@TheGreeneyedstone the only problem imop is they never reference this song when the biographies say he stole it just taurus so i think some biographies are flawed..
@Gettheledoutstyle Hmm.. point taken, but you must admit, the two songs ARE very similar.. for what it's worth, I stress that I believe Page was merely influenced by Taurus, and not that he intentionally copied their work
Thanks for this brilliant post. What an inspiration he was. This has inspired me to post a double video response - one of me playing 'Anji' at a gig, just about four weeks after his death - I dedicated it to him then and now. I haven't heard this clip of 'Cry Me a River' before, I guess the version we play also owes a lot to this iconic guitar player. Best wishes, Dave (Small days)
There was cry me a river by Joe Cocker I believe, this version is new to me & contains no lyrics I notice....which is probably best! There is alot of songs from over the years that would sound better to the ears had they dropped those negative lyrics. thx4 postin'
Daveys tune - Angie - was the Only instrumental ever done on a Simon and Garfunkel Album. It was on Sounds of Silence. They wanted Davey to join them
but he turned them down. They would have been Simon, Garfunkel and Graham. Davey didn't last on the music scene long because of his drug addiction. He ended up in an Asylum also and everyone forgot that he was the one Guitarist who influenced the rest when he was at his peak. Bert Jansch Idolised him and plagiarised him like it was Xmas !
@techdudezz - This clip is from the 1959 BBC Documentary - 'Guitar Crazy'. I think
Davey was only 19 here. Page + Led Zepplin were still kids when this was made.
This came way before Stairway to Heaven ! Davey went on to discover and introduce to the guitar World - Modal D tuning - also called Celtic tuning (Dadgad) which Jimmy Page, Bert Jansch, John Renbourne + many others borrowed and used to make a name for themselves. None of them acknowledged his influence upon them !
@BrikSwoony Actually, I remember reading more than one interview with Page (from the '70's, when he was at the height of his influence) where he gushes about Davey Graham (and names Renbourn and Jansch as influences as well). I also recall he mentioned that part of Graham's influence on him was his revolutionizing the use of altered tunings.
@JandritoBlues It was a different time then. Attitudes have changed, be grateful for that rather than bitching about something that was filmed 51 years ago.
beautiful film. I love the shots of the people watching from nearby. Um.... super racist balloon... but I guess given the time period... no balloon is still super racist. BAD BALLOON! Beautiful rendition of the song though.
does anybody want to know how to play this note for note? There seem to be a few videos of people playing something similar to the guitar player version but if anyone is interested in learning to play this exact version of the song (which in my opinion is better than the guitar player version) I will make an instructional video
@jawdust3 Please do, I'd love to accurately replicate this sound. And when you make the video could you by any chance put an aquarium in the back of the shot? I tend to lose interest otherwise, and then I don't learn anything.
@SGigante01 I've actually never seen the guitar pro version. I learned it from watching this video and listening, before that I used to play a version I made up but didn't like it so learned it properly the way he plays it here. I'll post the vid soon
This brings back some memories. In the snip the girl with the balloon sits down next to someone I think I remember, a Canadian guy who used to run the Troubadour. Mike, I think his name was. Can anyone confirm this?
Pity the rest of "From Spain to Streatham" isn't on-line somewhere.
@sferemonk I honestly don't know. Mike (if it was Mike) ran 'The Troubadour' in Earls Court and some of the Monitor film was shot there. But I don't know about the location for this clip.
Davy blows me away everytime, also makes u realise page wasnt that great babe am gona leave u an stairway heavily influenced by both graham and jansch. Page not fit to lick SH#T of there boots. lol
you forget bollowers before, I remember that there was "bollowers" in that statement... I seriously recall that. Anyways, majority of Led Zep's work were original... just 13 songs out of 72 studio songs, and half of them were ripped lyrically... Doesn't mean all lyrics, but still plagiarism is plagiarism...
@blueingreentrain Not true. The melody people claim Page "stole" Black Mountain Side from is "She Moved Through The Fair." That melody is an old Irish folk song melody. The actual writer of the original folk song and melody have been lost in time. Dave Graham played a version of it. So, if Page stole it that means Graham stole it as well. Also, people should keep in mind there are only so many chords you can play on any instrument and similarity does not equal "stealing."
alright, calm down. I'm not saying that anyone stole anything from anyone. chill your boots. just saying that without grahan there would(ok, probably) not have been a black mountain side. he was influencial.
and yeah i know its was She moved through the fair. Ive got some vid of page playin it. i think the only real similarity is that both tunes have that same weird drop d tuning. there's more similarity between black mountain side and that morrocan type tune graham also plays.
@blueingreentrain Fair enough. I suppose it's just been that too many people have been irritating me too much lately and I jumped before I really comprehended. My apologies.
It's bloomin' Stairway to Heaven.... It either came from this or "Taurus" by the band "Spirit." Look that one up on here and you'll see. Maybe Spirit ripped Davy off too. His goes back further.... What is this 1959?
its just the old school thirties picking mixed with blues riffs with minor key tonality. And they're all so beautiful. Davy Graham was a definite virtuoso
that sure is a young Davy! You can see how much he advanced technically in a short period of time if you compare the version of this song captured here to that which was released on 'The Guitar Player' LP. Inspirational.
i like the justin timberlake version better lol. (just joking) anyways that descending figure sounded vaguely like stairway to heaven. ahh, another chapter in the jimmy page plagarism book.
yout idiots, ask any givin musical genius of today and all great songs are taken and alltered from other music. its how us music folk work our magic. its just what you do.
he DIDN'T invent it.. omg i hate when people claim that.. he made it famous yes.. it was done by musicians and music gypsies way before... in the eastern part of the world...... thats what i read many times..... he always was going to the eastern part to discover other genres... its an insult to the east to say he invented it.. alot went into it to make it exist
Sorry Gettheledoutstyle-'He Invented DADGAD Tuning when he first went to Morrocco'. He wanted to be able to play along with the Arabic musicians he met
there - especially the 'Oud' Players and because 'Standard tuning' wasn't compatible to playing along with Instruments tuned to Modal tunings - he came up with DADGAD which enabled him to play with the Morroccan musicians.
Gypsies never used DADGAD and even today gypsy guitarists mainly use EADGBE ! Study some History.
haha study some history.. thats why i study led zeppelin and analyze the songs painstakingly.. every day looking up things i may not know already.. fuck outta here with the study some history.. wat a joke.. y dont u study it.... ur wrong... its like colombus.. he didnt create america or the first person to see the u.s. but he made the land famous just like graham did with dadgad.. and page doesnt exactly plays dadgad he drops it a step i read.....but it still gives that eastern feel
i agree with most of this.. some of the story is in correct he didnt invent the tuning but he def utilized and used it on a level that he was the first really to use the tuning,
well he definitely sped up white summer and made it way better.. but pagey said he owes davey even though it is a traditional melody and this is a standard melody cuz cry me a river is a standard used by many many artists
oh yes. Led Zeppelin fan is an understatement!! haha Call me the hunter best line ever. Dude, parts of this song sound a lot more like stairway than that taurus bullshit. i mean the guys in the band spirit that made the song taurus should be thinking, wtf who says taurus sounds like stairway?! bs. this is where pagey got it
agreed.. im a zep nut too good to talk to a fellow zep head....and yea did you ever hear the quote by page .. davy graham can whistle to me the money i owe him for white summer and stairway to heaven" so ding ding doesnt that say something? the only thing is taurus with headphones on sounds more alikethen without it.. but it still has many differences. even with headphones on... plus the last few notes by graham at the end of this are the first 3 notes on stairway so that should say something..
its really a common cliche melody .. someone once called it cheesy the descending scale that stairway has.. but it sure worked didnt it?? i just think the similarities are completely coincidental considering where pagey found white summer at why wouldnt he look at some of his (davy grahAM's work again..and yea call me the hunter is a great line by robert haha
also stairway has a standard progression that came to jimmy from davy.. i mean standard as in something that uses the same basis but is different in the grand scheme of things.. haha whatever the case its the greatest song ever written by the greatest band
This is a "steadfast" video. =p
jefffinley11 1 week ago
This video went viral on Nairobi
billconner718 4 weeks ago
love the ending
eldeano1 1 month ago
great piece really love it !thnx 4 posting this ;)
fiorina86 2 months ago
am i the only one that can see the similarities between stairway to heaven and cry me a river ?
mrbarata 2 months ago 3
@mrbarata
From 1.03 its unccanny.
okcrayola 2 months ago
@mrbarata
No.
4Topwood 2 months ago
@mrbarata noticed that towards the end too!!
davidgrahamscott 1 month ago
@mrbarata this is covered earlier in comments, but Jimmy Page freely admits that this song is where he got the decending arpeggio from. it is also where Spirit got Taurus from and if you think this sounds like Stairway, listen to it. Jimmy Page and Zep toured w/ Taurus prior to the release of Stairway so... Few musicians are truly original, owing to no one...
TheGreeneyedstone 2 weeks ago in playlist my favorite things
@TheGreeneyedstone which song are you saying page freely admits he got it from? ive read where he says he got it from davy graham but denies any influence from spirit who made taurus
Gettheledoutstyle 1 week ago
@Gettheledoutstyle It wasn't my intention to infer that Mr. Page ever admitted to having Spirit as an inspiration, only that he admits that Davy Graham;s Cry Me A River was. It is my own opinion that he was influenced by Spirit as I do know that Spirit was one of the bands that Zeppelin toured with early on and I am not alone in that suspicion. It is mentioned in many biographies about Mr. Page and Led Zeppelin and that is what i intended to point out. apologies for not being clear, ty for input
TheGreeneyedstone 1 week ago
@TheGreeneyedstone the only problem imop is they never reference this song when the biographies say he stole it just taurus so i think some biographies are flawed..
Gettheledoutstyle 1 week ago
@Gettheledoutstyle Hmm.. point taken, but you must admit, the two songs ARE very similar.. for what it's worth, I stress that I believe Page was merely influenced by Taurus, and not that he intentionally copied their work
TheGreeneyedstone 1 week ago in playlist my favorite things
Fans of Eastern-influenced acoustic guitar might like a clip I just posted: "Rosetta West - Yallah."
mielazul 3 months ago
I had no idea DG was popular enough for almost 350,000 views. The guy was a treasure to say the least.
redshaftedflicker 4 months ago
Thanks for this brilliant post. What an inspiration he was. This has inspired me to post a double video response - one of me playing 'Anji' at a gig, just about four weeks after his death - I dedicated it to him then and now. I haven't heard this clip of 'Cry Me a River' before, I guess the version we play also owes a lot to this iconic guitar player. Best wishes, Dave (Small days)
SmallDays1 4 months ago
search nicolas and the iceni vassal song. they write great folk music which has echoes of davy, drake and denny.
Dadoprice 4 months ago
he was important and good, but last time I saw him , in 1998 at a festival in devon he seemed a bit out of tune that day.
puddypuss 5 months ago
Sounds like Led Zepp stole a riff or two.
liverqiconstraint 5 months ago
yep. jimmy page would steal a riff from anyone. especially those he respected. if jimmy was 19 today his studio name would be Bit Torrent.
journey46 5 months ago
@journey46
I see you don't knock Spirit for stealing this first when they did Taurus?
LaughingGravy31 5 months ago 3
sounds like stairway to heaven's intro.
RustInRush 6 months ago
search nicolas and the iceni vassal song. they write beautiful folk music which has echoes of davy and sandy denny.
Blake788 6 months ago
Grear version of a great tune!
ildedoni 6 months ago
Shhh! Let's keep one of the coolest videos on youtube to our self!!
MrStickyMouse 5 months ago
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brianpage100 7 months ago
What an incredible talent he was...
greeneyedstone42 7 months ago in playlist Favorites 12
This is great!
mushroomagical 8 months ago
1:02 is stairway to heaven, jimmy page has got it from davy
haslam95 8 months ago 3
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love davey graham, check out british band kulu's debut video change of heart on youtube, there album no rider is also on i tunes great listen
takeitbackfloyd 8 months ago
is that a classical guitar or a steel string he's playing?
metalhaze1982 8 months ago
@metalhaze1982 classical
jagoemc 8 months ago
very beautiful
MagicalSunrise1984 9 months ago
im glad 300k people have seen this, i havent watched it in years
otacon451 9 months ago
thats a pretty racist balloon
bellableu62 10 months ago 21
I've only heard, and been listening to Davy Graham for a few minutes now, and I can honestly say that I'm in love with his sound. It's perfection.
ZeppelinClassics 10 months ago 5
Great balloon!
stallywag 11 months ago
Kind of weird to think about.. Spirit copied this song and made Taurus. And Zeppelin copied that song and made Stairway To Heaven..
DrawingsByEhvh 11 months ago
There was cry me a river by Joe Cocker I believe, this version is new to me & contains no lyrics I notice....which is probably best! There is alot of songs from over the years that would sound better to the ears had they dropped those negative lyrics. thx4 postin'
Ezdduf4kuZ 11 months ago
i know someone samp[led this to make a hip hop beat but i dont know that name of that song, fuck, does anyone know..
eddiedazle 1 year ago
soooooo gooooooood
doriithexplorii 1 year ago
1:00 And she's buying the stairway...
wojtekmetal 1 year ago 4
Daveys tune - Angie - was the Only instrumental ever done on a Simon and Garfunkel Album. It was on Sounds of Silence. They wanted Davey to join them
but he turned them down. They would have been Simon, Garfunkel and Graham. Davey didn't last on the music scene long because of his drug addiction. He ended up in an Asylum also and everyone forgot that he was the one Guitarist who influenced the rest when he was at his peak. Bert Jansch Idolised him and plagiarised him like it was Xmas !
BrikSwoony 1 year ago
@techdudezz - This clip is from the 1959 BBC Documentary - 'Guitar Crazy'. I think
Davey was only 19 here. Page + Led Zepplin were still kids when this was made.
This came way before Stairway to Heaven ! Davey went on to discover and introduce to the guitar World - Modal D tuning - also called Celtic tuning (Dadgad) which Jimmy Page, Bert Jansch, John Renbourne + many others borrowed and used to make a name for themselves. None of them acknowledged his influence upon them !
BrikSwoony 1 year ago
@BrikSwoony Actually, I remember reading more than one interview with Page (from the '70's, when he was at the height of his influence) where he gushes about Davey Graham (and names Renbourn and Jansch as influences as well). I also recall he mentioned that part of Graham's influence on him was his revolutionizing the use of altered tunings.
relayer43 7 months ago
Let's hear it for the beatnik chick with the racist balloon!
JandritoBlues 1 year ago 5
@JandritoBlues It was a different time then. Attitudes have changed, be grateful for that rather than bitching about something that was filmed 51 years ago.
TheAtlantissg1 1 year ago
@TheAtlantissg1 I wasn't bitching. I think is awesome. I'd love to get in that.
JandritoBlues 1 year ago
Funny how it sounds like Stairway to heaven in some sections...
techdudezz 1 year ago 5
@techdudezz Yeah, Zeppelin copied Spirit who copied Davy Graham.
DrawingsByEhvh 11 months ago
man, what an amazing tune...
revolverr 1 year ago
Guitarist might want to visit Wiil Fly's website. He's worked out the tab for this. It's also here somewhere on Youtube
neuro518 1 year ago
@neuro518 WHAT SO CAN I GET THE TABS .__.
JereZeful 1 year ago
1:02 - Some serious elements of Stairway to Heaven in there. Now I see where Jimmy got his inspiration!
TheEditingShop 1 year ago
beautiful film. I love the shots of the people watching from nearby. Um.... super racist balloon... but I guess given the time period... no balloon is still super racist. BAD BALLOON! Beautiful rendition of the song though.
yormungandr111 1 year ago
does anybody want to know how to play this note for note? There seem to be a few videos of people playing something similar to the guitar player version but if anyone is interested in learning to play this exact version of the song (which in my opinion is better than the guitar player version) I will make an instructional video
jawdust3 1 year ago
@jawdust3 Please do, I'd love to accurately replicate this sound. And when you make the video could you by any chance put an aquarium in the back of the shot? I tend to lose interest otherwise, and then I don't learn anything.
hobotravis 1 year ago
@hobotravis ok I'll get on to it soon. I don't have an aquarium.
jawdust3 1 year ago
@jawdust3 I´m very interested on that. I also agree that Guitar Pro version it´s not that accurate.
SGigante01 1 year ago
@SGigante01 I've actually never seen the guitar pro version. I learned it from watching this video and listening, before that I used to play a version I made up but didn't like it so learned it properly the way he plays it here. I'll post the vid soon
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incongra 1 year ago
Even brassieres looked better, in those days
incongra 1 year ago
This guy invented Led Zeppelin but also David Bowies style.
ame624 1 year ago
I think this is from the documentary "From Spain to Streatham" (sometimes "Gutar Craze", does anyone know where I can get it? Legal or illigal..
kobax1337 1 year ago
ohhh, thats where Mr Page got it!!!!!
meatweed 1 year ago
Terrific footage...
diskochimp 1 year ago
Davy Graham just amazes me, one of the most interesting musicians the uk has produced for sure, definitely a favourite of mine.
thank you for sharing
paulsteptoeriley 1 year ago
Wonderful !
szv888 1 year ago
☆Thank You☆ヾ(･_･｡)♪じ〜ん♪
Mahoubin0 1 year ago 2
This brings back some memories. In the snip the girl with the balloon sits down next to someone I think I remember, a Canadian guy who used to run the Troubadour. Mike, I think his name was. Can anyone confirm this?
Pity the rest of "From Spain to Streatham" isn't on-line somewhere.
nhopton 1 year ago
@nhopton Is it filmed in the Camden area do you know?
sferemonk 1 year ago
@sferemonk I honestly don't know. Mike (if it was Mike) ran 'The Troubadour' in Earls Court and some of the Monitor film was shot there. But I don't know about the location for this clip.
nhopton 1 year ago
Jimi Page takes Stairway to Heaven from here...
carschand 1 year ago 4
@carschand true and also an instrumental by spirit called taurus
theblahman 1 year ago
@theblahman . . . and "And She's Lonely" by the Chocolate Watchband, eh?
NeverAloneForever 1 year ago
Davy blows me away everytime, also makes u realise page wasnt that great babe am gona leave u an stairway heavily influenced by both graham and jansch. Page not fit to lick SH#T of there boots. lol
ScouseFolky 1 year ago
Yeah dude. I agree.
The thumbs down you got are from all the Led Zeppelin fans.
Davey is awesome. I listen to his stuff everyday.
arjunkaul 1 year ago
@arjunkaul
I'm a Led Zep fan??
What thumbs down?
You mean the 13 dislikes?
Seriously... Your opinions is your opinion...
But I love this song...
LinkBulletBill 1 year ago
@LinkBulletBill Me 2 buddy peace :)
arjunkaul 1 year ago
@LinkBulletBill I apologize. Dint mean any disrespect to Zep :)
arjunkaul 1 year ago
damn this sounds good
negativjazz 1 year ago 2
In the words of Robert Plant, 'they all come from a house of beggars and thieves'
achtsieben87 1 year ago 3
@achtsieben87
you forget bollowers before, I remember that there was "bollowers" in that statement... I seriously recall that. Anyways, majority of Led Zep's work were original... just 13 songs out of 72 studio songs, and half of them were ripped lyrically... Doesn't mean all lyrics, but still plagiarism is plagiarism...
LinkBulletBill 1 year ago
They are all influenced by each other.. There is no shame in copying songs, it is only developing music.
snakeweirdo 1 year ago 3
This came before stairway guys, get over it.
SticktheFigure 1 year ago 4
white summer and black mountain side also taken from him
gtat111 1 year ago
i.think.this.chaps.got.promice
49mrjd 1 year ago
yay beautiful music
sepulchrav3 1 year ago
omg this is where stairway comes from!
xp0ferens 1 year ago 3
It is Stairway. Now we know where they stole it from. LOL
Everyone steals music. It's not a bad thing. Denying you stole it is pretty lame tho
Nulty16 1 year ago 3
Ken Russell -- I can dig it. Good vid.
ThetalmudHater 1 year ago
You're all full of fucking nonsense. Just enjoy the bloody song. Arseholes, the lot of you.
GrahamMc 2 years ago
0:20 sounds like stairway to heaven (a little bit)
TheJensGuitar 2 years ago
This song was first published in 1953.
Made famous by the Julie London version in 1955 and again in the film 'The girl can't help it' in 1956.
Julie London was married to Bobby Troup who wrote 'Route 66' for Nat Cole.
avril2 2 years ago
i love the way the chick is digging him play, and the setting - post war london; its just awesome
blueingreentrain 2 years ago 23
She's a paid actress, of course, and she 'digs' him off-time, but yeah she's cute. I too love the set.
fingling8 5 months ago
isnt it ironic that this guy looks like Justin Timberlake and that both have the same lil jew fro and same song title.
goodroot06 2 years ago
Page you thieving little git!
ogdroadsong 2 years ago
Hey! Whoa!
Led Zeppelin toured with Spirit for two years...
Spirit made Taurus...
So Spirit ripped from Cry Me A River too?
All chords are not even the same from all three song, the similarity is the bass note from every chord...
LinkBulletBill 2 years ago
wether or not jimmy page copied this,he took it,improved it,developed a better sounding version,and people liked it.
devinsbrother 2 years ago
@20 seconds = Stairway to Heaven
communty 2 years ago
Charming video, great instrumental.
BigJiggety 2 years ago
Wow, amazing gee-tar.
Thanks for uploading this!
Kimbo2u 2 years ago
great vibes
PaulCookeMusic 2 years ago
without graham there would have been no black mountain side
blueingreentrain 2 years ago
@blueingreentrain Not true. The melody people claim Page "stole" Black Mountain Side from is "She Moved Through The Fair." That melody is an old Irish folk song melody. The actual writer of the original folk song and melody have been lost in time. Dave Graham played a version of it. So, if Page stole it that means Graham stole it as well. Also, people should keep in mind there are only so many chords you can play on any instrument and similarity does not equal "stealing."
zezaekrael 2 years ago 2
alright, calm down. I'm not saying that anyone stole anything from anyone. chill your boots. just saying that without grahan there would(ok, probably) not have been a black mountain side. he was influencial.
blueingreentrain 2 years ago
and yeah i know its was She moved through the fair. Ive got some vid of page playin it. i think the only real similarity is that both tunes have that same weird drop d tuning. there's more similarity between black mountain side and that morrocan type tune graham also plays.
blueingreentrain 2 years ago
@blueingreentrain Fair enough. I suppose it's just been that too many people have been irritating me too much lately and I jumped before I really comprehended. My apologies.
zezaekrael 2 years ago
Listen again.She moved thru the fair became White Summer.Blk Water became Blk Mountain
paddyfrogfart 2 years ago
Sure you're not a little confused there old chap?
paddyfrogfart 2 years ago
How is that so? I think you are getting mixed up with Bert Jansch who did a version of the old Irish folk song Black Waterside.
ImElvis666 2 years ago
i was so amazed by this this has more of an impact on me than purple haze
microsoftsucksass 2 years ago 2
This guy blows... everyone out of the water!
uforomeo666 2 years ago 5
haha, you totally got me. you gotta love the ellipses... best punctuation mark ever
PutzerLovesYou 2 years ago
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This guy blows.
Ryanrre45 2 years ago
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Compare this intro to the intro of Stairway to Heaven played LIVE. 95% same
BenHeadikt 2 years ago
It's bloomin' Stairway to Heaven.... It either came from this or "Taurus" by the band "Spirit." Look that one up on here and you'll see. Maybe Spirit ripped Davy off too. His goes back further.... What is this 1959?
Damn.
Lizardtheinsane 2 years ago 3
This is a nice video in all but Beyonce has the best video of all time
Robdee999 2 years ago 3
;-/
In Italy we'd comment you "Bestemmia!".
Alino17 2 years ago
Nice one ;)
BenHeadikt 2 years ago
I'm sure that this has been pointed out before but does anyone else think that Jimmy Page might have lifted that riff for Stairway to Heaven?
RedhillTaekwondo 2 years ago
Yeah dude, been brought up near the start of the comments. I agree, I don't think Graham recieved trhe recognition that he deserves.
HammyBlingBling 2 years ago 2
Its not really a rip off just a very poular compositional technique. contrapuntal elaboration on static harmony
IsmaelAliCatalan 2 years ago 2
Wow! Music videos were much better before music videos.
InterWebsTuberNetter 2 years ago 63
@InterWebsTuberNetter makes no sense lol
sweetbutdaring 1 year ago
What a lovely recording :)
brainysod 2 years ago
/What a historic recording this is! Great.
mcphert1 2 years ago
outstanding... like a time capsule.
kissmybuttdimple 2 years ago
excelente.........
rockedbr 2 years ago
This is good.
swirlcrop 2 years ago
He was from the same city as I am. He makes me proud to be born in Leicester. It's such a shame hardly anyone ha heard of him.
anonymouslolxD 2 years ago
i love this
DetectiveDipshit 2 years ago
tienen q escuchar -ojala - de silvio rodrigez- no se si estaran deacuerdo con migo pe la cansio de silvio se parece mucho a esta de 1959
aolejandro 2 years ago
can someone please tab this
musiclov3r2 2 years ago 6
Davy Graham wrote "Anji", a great instrumental popularized by Simon & Garfunkel.
chakani0001 2 years ago 2
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mahcuz 2 years ago
nice musik and a beautiful vid.
thanks.
edmundusrex 2 years ago
its just the old school thirties picking mixed with blues riffs with minor key tonality. And they're all so beautiful. Davy Graham was a definite virtuoso
subterranean47 2 years ago 3
its so nice.. !
XarezX 2 years ago
Stairway to heaven sounds a bit like this actually. But some ppl think Led Zep ripped it off from the Spirit song Taurus.
It's actually a common riff.
RCbeastly 2 years ago 2
its little bit sounds like stairway to heaven. hahah!
supamarkzyxe 2 years ago
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NorthernWheat 2 years ago
that sure is a young Davy! You can see how much he advanced technically in a short period of time if you compare the version of this song captured here to that which was released on 'The Guitar Player' LP. Inspirational.
kingcutt 2 years ago
he is soo oo cute
and so is his playing
it does wonders : )
i love it
pichkari8636 2 years ago
who cares who is best or first just enjoy brilliant music!
patlaws 2 years ago 4
hmmmm...
that descending scale sounds a little to me like stairway to heaven
joe85rtta 2 years ago
yeah it kinda does
musiclov3r2 2 years ago
I heart the balloon girl.
GrigoriSom 2 years ago 2
Me too. I need to fix the eyebrows some though.
rinksie 2 years ago
I wonder if there are tabs for this version...
thekkl 2 years ago
i like the justin timberlake version better lol. (just joking) anyways that descending figure sounded vaguely like stairway to heaven. ahh, another chapter in the jimmy page plagarism book.
paperbackriter55 2 years ago
totally agree with you cause i learned that song today
getmein567 2 years ago
welcome to the guitar playing fraternity, brother.
paperbackriter55 2 years ago
brilliant wee video. what a player.
RIP davy graham
FearOfFalling90 2 years ago
oh wow make room for a philistine people came here 'cos of susan boyle but who knew i 'd find this. gotta listen to more of this guy, he's great.
tazma96 2 years ago
by god... thank you for the video...
amazing sound
sclctrading 2 years ago
gorgeous sound : )
jondrahil 2 years ago 3
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munkyz1991 2 years ago
Extremely enjoyable video. This black and white footage is a treasure, and the performance is superb.
AlbertBroughton 2 years ago 10
yout idiots, ask any givin musical genius of today and all great songs are taken and alltered from other music. its how us music folk work our magic. its just what you do.
poohcytoo 2 years ago
The Inventor of DADGAD Tuning.
RIP Davey.
gabrielangello 2 years ago
he DIDN'T invent it.. omg i hate when people claim that.. he made it famous yes.. it was done by musicians and music gypsies way before... in the eastern part of the world...... thats what i read many times..... he always was going to the eastern part to discover other genres... its an insult to the east to say he invented it.. alot went into it to make it exist
Gettheledoutstyle 2 years ago
Sorry Gettheledoutstyle-'He Invented DADGAD Tuning when he first went to Morrocco'. He wanted to be able to play along with the Arabic musicians he met
there - especially the 'Oud' Players and because 'Standard tuning' wasn't compatible to playing along with Instruments tuned to Modal tunings - he came up with DADGAD which enabled him to play with the Morroccan musicians.
Gypsies never used DADGAD and even today gypsy guitarists mainly use EADGBE ! Study some History.
gabrielangello 2 years ago 2
haha study some history.. thats why i study led zeppelin and analyze the songs painstakingly.. every day looking up things i may not know already.. fuck outta here with the study some history.. wat a joke.. y dont u study it.... ur wrong... its like colombus.. he didnt create america or the first person to see the u.s. but he made the land famous just like graham did with dadgad.. and page doesnt exactly plays dadgad he drops it a step i read.....but it still gives that eastern feel
Gettheledoutstyle 2 years ago
"OK" - Sorry, ... Maybe I'm Overzealous in my Respect for Davey. Cheers.
gabrielangello 2 years ago
I wouldn't say invented, that's like saying the first man to use purple dye invented the color purple. It's better to say he discovered DADGAD.
thekkl 2 years ago
thank you. ive read that he got it from somebody he didnt invent it
Gettheledoutstyle 2 years ago
i agree with most of this.. some of the story is in correct he didnt invent the tuning but he def utilized and used it on a level that he was the first really to use the tuning,
that aside,
beautiful tune
curranni 2 years ago
*cough*stairway*!
Hasn't Jimmy done well out of this guy? And why call it "white summer" when he should have called it "Davey's version of she moves though the fair".
I'm a huge Zep fan... but you have to acknowledge your roots properly.
mikegalsworthy 2 years ago
well he definitely sped up white summer and made it way better.. but pagey said he owes davey even though it is a traditional melody and this is a standard melody cuz cry me a river is a standard used by many many artists
Gettheledoutstyle 2 years ago
This particular example of descending chromaticism appears in plenty of songs predating both Stairway and this version of Cry Me A River.
God Bless The Child, My Funny Valentine, and Nature Boy spring to mind but there are doubtless other uses of this idea in popular song.
For the same idea with a Latin feel listen to the intro to the TV show Sex and The City.
It's just a minor chord over a line that descends in half tone steps from the tonic to the 6th.
trouser 2 years ago
uh, stairway to heaven?!?!?!
CallMeTheHunter 2 years ago
im assuming u are a zeppelin fan bc of the lyric in how many more times.. call me the hunter.. do you think it does or doesnt sound like stairway??
Gettheledoutstyle 2 years ago
oh yes. Led Zeppelin fan is an understatement!! haha Call me the hunter best line ever. Dude, parts of this song sound a lot more like stairway than that taurus bullshit. i mean the guys in the band spirit that made the song taurus should be thinking, wtf who says taurus sounds like stairway?! bs. this is where pagey got it
CallMeTheHunter 2 years ago
agreed.. im a zep nut too good to talk to a fellow zep head....and yea did you ever hear the quote by page .. davy graham can whistle to me the money i owe him for white summer and stairway to heaven" so ding ding doesnt that say something? the only thing is taurus with headphones on sounds more alikethen without it.. but it still has many differences. even with headphones on... plus the last few notes by graham at the end of this are the first 3 notes on stairway so that should say something..
Gettheledoutstyle 2 years ago
its really a common cliche melody .. someone once called it cheesy the descending scale that stairway has.. but it sure worked didnt it?? i just think the similarities are completely coincidental considering where pagey found white summer at why wouldnt he look at some of his (davy grahAM's work again..and yea call me the hunter is a great line by robert haha
Gettheledoutstyle 2 years ago
also stairway has a standard progression that came to jimmy from davy.. i mean standard as in something that uses the same basis but is different in the grand scheme of things.. haha whatever the case its the greatest song ever written by the greatest band
Gettheledoutstyle 2 years ago