(levee breaks)
This may be Zeppelin's greatest recording. I spent years trying to get a harp to sound like that. Somebody finally gave me a magazine article that explained that the reverb had been put in as the tape played backwards.
When it came on at the end of The Big Short, I was in a theater with a good sound system and stayed until the last note and the last credit. They finally kicked me out with the trampled popcorn. Ah, the life of a film critic.
Last edited by Phat Mack; 12-04-2018 at 02:38 AM.
Reason: redeye posting too fast
Levee Breaks is a very manipulated song (not just the harmonica part) to the point Led Zep only tried to play it a few times live and realized they couldn't recreate the sound.
I'm going to post this here because the overall tone of the song is mostly blues, but i'm also going to link to it from the Jazz thread because Gil Scott Heron has such a jazz history.
full disclosure: i've never heard this song until tonight. i'm aware of the troubles and struggles GSH experienced during the later years of his life; but i was never aware he had what appears to be a Johnny Cash 'Hurt' moment in his musical career. he passed away about a year after this song was released.
i believe that's Chris Cunningham on guitar, but i'm not positive.
I used to have that Led Zeppelin III album, bought it when it first came out. Had a wheel thing you would turn on the slip cover. The album disappeared into the vacuum of lost years, too many moves, and not enough drugs.
copy everything after the "=" sign in the Youtube url, click on the Youtube button at the top of the comment window, and paste it between the brackets.
in the case of your link, quote me and you'll see how it works
tl/dr:
King Curtis was stabbed to death a week after this album was released in August 1971
King and the Kingpins also backed up Aretha around this same time 1971
he was also on the first recorded theme to Soul Train
and he also recorded a few tracks on John Lennon's Imagine
as for the rest of the band:
Cornell Dupree guitar: also recorded with Aretha, Miles Davis, Archie Shepp, and Joe Cocker
Jerry Jemmott bass:
Quote:
With his connection through Curtis to Atlantic Records, he soon began recording with other Atlantic recording artists, including Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Wilson Pickett, the Rascals, Roberta Flack, and Margie Joseph. He also recorded with B.B. King, Freddie King, Chuck Berry, Duane Allman, Otis Rush, Champion Jack Dupree, Mike Bloomfield and accompanied Herbie Hancock, Freddie Hubbard, Erroll Garner, Les McCann, Eddie Harris, Houston Person, George Benson, Archie Shepp, Lionel Hampton, Herbie Mann, Eddie Palmieri and Charles Earland. He played the bassline on the song "Mr. Bojangles" and contributed to B.B. King's "The Thrill Is Gone."
Billy Preston organ:
Quote:
Preston was a top session keyboardist in the 1960s, during which he backed artists such as Little Richard, Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, Rev. James Cleveland and the Beatles. He went on to achieve fame as a solo artist, with hit singles such as "That's the Way God Planned It", "Outa-Space", "Will It Go Round in Circles", "Space Race", "Nothing from Nothing" and "With You I'm Born Again". Additionally, Preston co-wrote "You Are So Beautiful", which became a number 5 hit for Joe Cocker.
