As the title suggests (to those that aren't more mentally challenged than I), I'll be on vacation for the next THREE WEEKS! I've been lookin' forward to this for... Well, basically since November, when the last one ended I just got done making sure that I'd have some spending money (think that $700 will be enough with gas prices the way they are?), and I'm fixing to pack up. I should've done that sooner, but I had to get a Driver's License yesterday, and work today, so I have been really pressed for time! But, can't wait to see you all when I get back. I'll have details about the trip, like where I am now, where I went, how it was, how much was spent (because that is a very important factor here), and anything else.
So most Zeppelin fans are familiar with the Earl's Court performances of 1975, right? About 5 songs were put on the DVD release of 2003. But there were a lot of songs that weren't played that didn't get released. Well, I've located a pretty large number of them, and I'm posting them here for y'all Enjoy.
We'll start things off with the four-part, 34 minute long version of Dazed and Confused.
Anyway, most of these songs were from the 25th of May. This is relevant because they'd played about 5 shows (and let's get this straight, a Zeppelin show is a LONG show) over the course of I think 9 days. That's quite a bit. They were probably worn out by this time. But it's still awesome Anyway, peace. Hope you Zepp-addicts enjoyed.
All I have to say is amazing... This guy rocks out, and this is a beautiful song. Enjoy it I'm not sure of when it was performed, though. Be sure to leave comments, too. We appreciate those here. Let's us know that you appreciate us too
Wondering why I have Europa up 3 times? Read this!
Some of you are probably wondering why there are so many recordings of Santana's "Europa" up on my profile. Well, here's the reason...
The first one, just titled "Europa Jam," was done with my dad and my brother. I played rhythm, my dad played lead, and my brother played bass. Read the Blog entry with the same title for details on that recording if you're interested.
The second one was something that I threw together as a demo, but I wanna keep it up so people can say which style of lead they prefer, II or III. I played them both a bit differently, and I quite honestly fucked up on both of them. The third version has little things like major scale tones on minor chords and a bad note on the delay at the end and just little things that make it sound like I'm utterly incompetent (which is arguably true). The one entitled "Europa II" just has little things like volume spikes in the leads that don't really sound good because they're not necessarily dynamic, but more just bad control with the picking hand (as an excuse, it has been cold in my house lately and difficult to play due to how cold my hands were).
The third version isn't done yet, though. It's, once again, only a demo for the final product (which I'd better get to soon because I'm blowing through my fucking hard drive space). Let me set the story in a bit, because this next bit won't make sense unless I explain something from the past first (believe me, you'll see why).
I just got some tapes from my Aunt with my grandfather's voice, who was a B-52 pilot in World War II, on them. The recordings are him reflecting on what it was like for him in the war because he wanted his kids, grandkids, and generations of people to come to have something from him about the war.
Moving on, my dad took a trip with him back in I think the early '80s from Ohio, where he lived, down to where I live now, in Louisiana, to visit my Uncle Bill. It should be noted that my grandfather was very close minded about music. So my dad has this mix tape with, you guessed it, Santana's Europa on it. After about the third listen through, he admits that "that Santana is a good guitar player."
Aside from one picture that I can recall seeing of my grandfather, I've never seen or heard his voice before in my entire life. I thought it'd be pretty cool to put his voice (as well as maybe some sounds of gunfire) on one of these Europa recordings somewhere, to sort of pay homeage to him, since he died so many years ago, for my family. My Aunt and my friend Logan both thought this was a cool idea (as well as my mom), so I've decided to pursue it.
So, UG, what do you think of this idea, and there's your explanation as to why I have a hundred recordings of the same song up on my profile. You can comment here or in my profile, but please comment.
Yeah... I'm a Zeppelin whore, so to speak. I love Jimmy Page and Led Zeppelin, and if you don't like them as well, then you may just want to stay outta this Blog It's just the one Led Zeppelin video, but any Zeppelin fan will enjoy it a lot
Anyway, this one is on their 2003 DVD release (you can read about it here), live from the 1975 Earl's Court show. Brilliant performance, in my opinion, but to each his own. Leave comments, please
Hope you enjoyed it (though most Zeppelin fans have probably already seen this). Until the next (cue dramatic music and voice), "UG, Video of the Day!"
I just located a helluva lot of Rush videos on YouTube, so I'm posting them here for you all to see. If anyone knows how I could rip these from YouTube to my computer (IF IT'S LEGAL!), could you drop a comment or Message me please? I'd love to own these videos for myself
Those last three are all from the same performance. It's a pretty cool little set of songs I especially like Circumstances, because the bass in that song is so bad ass
Hope you guys like the vids. And you can consider this my "UG Video of the Day." I think I'm doing a good job in making up for not posting anything for several months on end, don't you?
When you conisder how long it's been since I've done one of these! But it's time for another Video of the Day! (More like year, by now...). There have been so many momentous occasions that I didn't celebrate with this blog, so hopefully this one will really knock home for you guys with the song selection. I didn't celebrate the new year, I didn't celebrate the Led Zeppelin reunion, Jimmy Page's birthday.... So listen up and pay attention!
First, since Led Zeppelin have been pretty much my biggest influence musically, we'll play some Led Zeppelin for you. I just watched this on their 2003 DVD release the other night and remembered how amazing it was, so here it is: From 1975's Earl's Court performance, In My Time of Dying. This song was also performed live at their reunion concert in December, I haven't commemorated any Zeppelin events in recent times, so here is one of many upcoming commemorations of Zeppelin milestones!
Now I'm also a huge Rush fan, we're celebrating them as a band lasting for as long as they have, the fact that I even found this song, and the fact that they've announced that they're going to be doing a tour! I could go on for hours and supply hundreds of videos, but this one ought to be enough to make you cream yourself watching it It's a pretty brilliant song, and they're all so great. If you don't like the song, don't be put off on checking out other songs of theirs, either. Anyway, this is called Circumstances.
Hope you guys liked the songs, liked the title, and hope you look forward to hearing more. I didn't wish half of you a Happy New Year or a Merry Christmas, so though it's delayed, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Enjoy, and I'll hopefully post more soon, because I'd forgotten about how much I enjoyed sharing the music that I love with the rest of the UG Community, which I consider to be the best online community
So I'm harmonizing the leads to parts of Led Zeppelin's "Achilles Last Stand" and Carlos Santana's "Europa" right now... I've gotta say, it's interesting I came up with the idea for Achilles last night just farting around with the guitar and something else I was doing (another harmony, funny enough..). So of course I had to start recording the first few measures of Achilles Last Stand's solo and then figure out what the harmony was Then today I was furthering that (now being able to use an amp, as it wasn't 11 at night and I wouldn't get bitched at), and decided Europa might sound cool, so I moved on to that. Since I haven't really worked out either of the harmonies completely yet, neither will be going up any time soon. But once each part is worked out and I can play them halfway good, there'll be recordings up here
So you've probably noticed that there's a cover of Carlos Santana's "Europa" up on my profile right now.... Let me give a bit of the story to you, so you don't say, "That sucks."
So this afternoon, I ask my dad if he wants to record Europa with me later on. He said, "Sure Brian," so I was in one of those "well alright!" kind of moods, and I was immediately setting everything up. I figured I'd do the rhythm guitar live with my dad playing lead and adding a bit of bass later on, but my brother was in the room, so I asked him, "Daniel, do you wanna play the bass on this?" So he consented to playing the bass, and I showed him what to play (I re-wrote the bass line last night because my friend Logan and I were preparing for an event later on this month and didn't have time to fuck around figuring out the old one, so we just did the new one). We set the mic up and did everything live, in maybe 3 or 4 takes. We were having a few issues with the mic placement, because I wanted to capture everything as close to evenly as possible. The Marshall amp my dad was playing through sounded all tinny and shit on all of the previous recordings, though, so we moved the mic and adjusted the amp and figured that all out and just kept that last take.
My brother doesn't have very much experience with music at all, so it was a hard time getting him to stay in time, and I was so excited that it was really difficult for me. But I've been bragging about my dad's lead playing for so long now, and here it is. It's for the most part improvised. Hope you guys enjoy it, and please, leave comments.
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I just got done making sure that I'd have some spending money (think that $700 will be enough with gas prices the way they are?), and I'm fixing to pack up. I should've done that sooner, but I had to get a Driver's License yesterday, and work today, so I have been really pressed for time! But, can't wait to see you all when I get back. I'll have details about the trip, like where I am now, where I went, how it was, how much was spent (because that is a very important factor here), and anything else. 
Enjoy.
I especially like Circumstances, because the bass in that song is so bad ass 
