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duminică, 3 august 2014

Video hit Jimmy Page & Robert Plant

Jimmy Page & Robert Plant - Kashmir (with Egyptian Orchestra)

"Kashmir" is a song by the English rock band Led Zeppelin from their sixth album Physical Graffiti, released in 1975.

It was written by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant (with contributions from John Bonham) over a period of three years with lyrics dating to 1973.

The song became a concert staple, being performed by the band at almost every concert since its release. Page and Plant released a longer live version, recorded with an Egyptian/Moroccan orchestra, on No Quarter: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded (1994) and continued to perform the tune with an orchestra on their 1995 tour.

The song includes many distinctive musical patterns of classical Moroccan, Indian and Middle Eastern music. Page explained, "I had a sitar for some time and I was interested in modal tunings and Arabic stuff. It started off with a riff and then employed Eastern lines underneath."

Orchestral brass and strings with electric guitar and mellotron strings appear in the song. This is one of the few Led Zeppelin songs to use outside musicians. Session players were brought in for the string and horn sections.

According to Jones, "the secret of successful keyboard string parts is to play only the parts that a real string section would play. That is, one line for the First Violins, one line for Second Violins, one for Violas, one for Cellos, one for Basses. Some divided parts [two or more notes to a line] are allowed, but keep them to a minimum. Think melodically".

Lyrics

The lyrics were written by Plant in 1973 immediately after Led Zeppelin's 1973 US Tour, in an area he called "the waste lands" of Southern Morocco, while driving from Goulimine to Tantan in the Sahara Desert.

This was despite the fact that the song is named after Kashmir, a region in the northwestern part of the Himalayas.

As Plant explained to rock journalist Cameron Crowe:

“The whole inspiration came from the fact that the road went on and on and on. It was a single-track road which neatly cut through the desert. Two miles to the East and West were ridges of sandrock. It basically looked like you were driving down a channel, this dilapidated road, and there was seemingly no end to it. 'Oh, let the sun beat down upon my face, stars to fill my dreams...' It's one of my favourites...that, 'All My Love' and 'In the Light' and two or three others really were the finest moments. But 'Kashmir' in particular. It was so positive, lyrically”.

Plant also commented on the challenges he faced in writing lyrics for such a complex piece of music:

“It was an amazing piece of music to write to, and an incredible challenge for me ... Because of the time signature, the whole deal of the song is… not grandiose, but powerful: it required some kind of epithet, or abstract lyrical setting about the whole idea of life being an adventure and being a series of illuminated moments. But everything is not what you see. It was quite a task, ’cause I couldn’t sing it. It was like the song was bigger than me. It’s true: I was petrified, it’s true. It was painful; I was virtually in tears”.

The whole inspiration came from the fact that the road went on and on and on. It was a single-track road which neatly cut through the desert. Two miles to the East and West were ridges of sandrock. It basically looked like you were driving down a channel, this dilapidated road, and there was seemingly no end to it. 'Oh, let the sun beat down upon my face, stars to fill my dreams...' It's one of my favourites...that, 'All My Love' and 'In the Light' and two or three others really were the finest moments. But 'Kashmir' in particular. It was so positive, lyrically”.

In an interview he gave to William S. Burroughs in 1975, Page mentioned that at the time the song was composed, none of the band members had ever been to Kashmir.

The lyrics:

Oh, let the sun beat down upon my face, stars fill my dreams

I am a traveler of both time and space, to be where I have been

To sit with elders of the gentle race, this world has seldom seen

They talk of days for which they sit and wait, all will be revealed

Talk and song from tongues of lilting grace, sounds caress my ears

But not a word I heard could I relay, the story was quite clear

Ohh

(Chorus)

Oh, oh

Oooh, baby I've been flying... No, yeah, mama, there ain't no denyin'

Oooh yeah, I've been flying, mama, mama ain't no denyin', no denyin'

Oh, all I see turns to brown, as the sun burns the ground

And my eyes fill with sand, as I scan this wasted land

Tryin' to find....Tryin' to find where I've been.

Oh, pilot of the storm that leaves no trace, like thoughts inside a dream

marți, 19 noiembrie 2013

Video hit Robert Plant

Robert Plant - Big Log

Big Log is a song by Robert Plant from his album The Principle of Moments, released in 1983. It was the first single from the album and became his first Top 40 solo hit, peaking at number 11 on the UK Singles Chart and number 20 on the US Billboard Hot 100. The song also reached number six on the Billboard Top Tracks chart.

Bassist Viktor Krauss recorded a cover of "Big Log" on his 2004 album "Far From Enough". Krauss's sister Alison, who would record the album Raising Sand with Plant three years later, sang lead vocals on the track.

The song is featured in the 2013 video game Grand Theft Auto V on the in-game radio station Los Santos Rock Radio.

The video for the song was filmed on location in various areas around California and Nevada, including the Amargosa Opera House and Hotel in Death Valley Junction, the Calico Ghost Town Regional Park in California, and the Glass Pool Inn in Las Vegas, which was demolished in 2004, and in Crystal in Nye County, Nevada.

The lyrics:

My love is in league with the freeway

Its passion will ride, as the cities fly by

And the tail-lights dissolve in the coming of night

And the questions in thousands take flight

My love is a-miles in the waiting

The eyes that just stare and the glance at the clock

And the secret that burns and the pain that grows dark

And it's you once again

Leading me on

Leading me down the road

Driving me on

Driving me down the road

My love is exceeding the limit

Red-eyed and fevered with the hum of the miles

Distance and longing, my thoughts do provide

Should I rest for a while at the side?

Your love is cradled in knowing

Eyes in the mirror, still expecting they'll come

Sensing too well when the journey is done

There is no turning back, no

There is no turning back, on the run

My love is in league with the freeway

Oh, the freeway and the coming of night-time

My love, my love is in league with the freeway

duminică, 30 decembrie 2012

Asculta azi Robert Plant

Robert Plant - Sea Of Love

Robert Anthony Plant (born 20 August 1948) is an English musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist of the rock band Led Zeppelin. He has also had a successful solo career. Plant's 2007 album Raising Sand, which he co-wrote with Alison Krauss, won the 2009 Grammy Award for Album of the Year.

With a career spanning more than 40 years, Plant is regarded as one of the most significant singers in the history of rock music, and has influenced contemporaries and later singers such as Freddie Mercury, Axl Rose and Chris Cornell.
In 2006, heavy metal magazine Hit Parader named Plant the "Greatest Metal Vocalist of All Time".
In 2009, Plant was voted "the greatest voice in rock" in a poll conducted by Planet Rock.
In 2008, Rolling Stone editors ranked him number 15 on their list of the 100 greatest singers of all time.
In 2011, readers of the same magazine placed Plant in first place of the magazine's list of the best lead singers of all time.
"Sea of Love" is a song written by John Phillip Baptiste (aka Phil Phillips) and George Khoury. Phillips' 1959 recording of the song peaked at #1 on the U.S. Billboard R&B chart and #2 on the Billboard Hot 100.
In the UK, Marty Wilde covered the song, and Phillips' version failed to chart there. It was the only top 40 chart song for Phillips, who never recorded another hit.
The song has been covered by a number of artists since then, most notably by The Honeydrippers, whose version (from the album The Honeydrippers: Volume One) reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in early 1985 and #1 on the adult contemporary chart in 1984.

Tom Waits gave the song a darker twist for the soundtrack to the 1989 Harold Becker film "Sea of Love" starring Al Pacino and Ellen Barkin, and Waits included it on his 2006 collection Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards.

"Sea of Love" had made the Top 40 just one other time, when Del Shannon took it to #33 in 1981.

The lyrics:

Do you remember when we met?

That's the day I knew you were my pet

I wanna tell you how much I love you

Come with me, my love, to the sea

The sea of love

I wanna tell you just how much I love you

Come with me to the sea of love

Do you remember when we met?

Oh, that's the day I knew you were my pet

I wanna tell you, oh, how much I love you