Jake Holmes - Dazed and Confused

Dazed and Confused was written by the folk-rock singer Jake Holmes and released as a track in his debut album "The Above Ground Sound" Of Jake Holmes in 1967. That same year Jake Holmes opened for The Yardbirds in a show in New York where Jimmy Page heard the song. The song was rearranged and later became one of Led Zeppelin best-known songs, the debt to Jake Holmes however went largely unacknowledged by the band.

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[hydraIX]

The original is great !!! Its in natural sound and It is heard as the blueprint for what it would become !!!

[hydraIX]

Totally Pure and Raw !!! Love all versions done by Page !!!

[pianoman014]

@ineffabletool Fair enough.

[hahabogus]

@Rifflehead - Thanks for that feedback; I suppose when you put it that way it does save a bit of my sanity. I actually kind of like the original though.... As George Thorogood put it, "All the good songs have already been written."

-Lynne

[Rifflead]

@hahabogus Mate, this is an old world! Most of it, if not all is recycled! I suppose you would have felt better if LZ had mentioned him at the time of the release of their first album. But, mate, the song would have been the same! Like, it doesn't matter who Shakespeare really was, and whether he really wrote all that! These are extraordinarily talented people. And, in this Genre of Music nobody can deny that LZ is one of the Greatest. Its always who played it best!

[Rifflead]

Yea, Great Composition! You are the original, man! But they topped you on that song. And I suppose it would have hurt even more if a lame Hip-hop artist had remixed it. I mean, with all due respect to you, and I hope you get your dues on the song, as a song composer, looking at the musicians who took it, you wouldn't really mind that they made it so popular, would you? And to be fair to LZ , they did their stuff on the song, and that stuff was truly theirs. Robert Johnson nicked Kokomo Arnold!

[ineffabletool]

@pianoman014 Well, they were good decisions, to be fair, in terms of how big it got them. Maybe it wasn't quite half their songs but most off of the first two albums and some songs from each of the other albums has got to be close to half of the total number, though, in fairness, it wasn't entire songs that were stolen. Well, OK. To be diplomatic, let's say some parts of roughly half their songs were stolen from other artists, and in some cases almost entire songs were stolen. Better?

[ifutureman]

@Pismenost Actually, I am. I guess the truth hurts, huh?

[Pismenost]

@ifutureman Haha, you're not funny.