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LedZeppelinHarmony  I'm Hiding  1000302 posts    Mood Now:  
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 1. Custard Pie 2. The Rover 3. In My Time Of Dying 4. Houses Of The Holy 5. Trampled Underfoot 6. Kashmir Produced by Recorded by Mixed by Musicians:
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dazed and confused  I'm Asleep  posts  Mood Now: 
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Hot on the heels of "Custard Pie", this extremely raunchy number is pure mid-70's rock. Once again the band can be heard truly playing together, rather than meeting as echoes on bits of salvaged demo tapes. It was far removed from 1969-style Led Zeppelin blues, but then times, styles and recording techniques had moved on, and this was a different, more mature and cohesive beast. The kind of heavy rock-metal heard on 'The Rover' inspired many young metal bands to emulate their heroes-during the 80's is was almost impossible not to trip over Zep soundalike bands, like White Lion and Kingdom Come. Yet surprisingly the piece was first rehearsed as an acoustic blues piece. It was subsequently recorded as a full band number during the Houses of the Holy sessions at Stargroves. It was evidently remixed, with the powerful guitar solo added in 1974 in time for its addition to Physical Grafitti. Like many of the mid-period Zeppelin album tracks, it was not
played live on stage, although a bootleg CD reveals it was played during rehearsals. 
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dazed and confused I'm Asleep posts Mood Now:
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The lost track from the album of the same name--if it had been included on the fifth album, it would have a different story in terms of reviews and reaction. This is a highly acceptable piece of work.A clipped beat and an easy riff provides a platform for some of Page's most manic improvisation. A house of the holy is a church, temple or chapel, but in this case the plural term refers to the spiritual aura that Zeppelin felt attended their concerts. Bonham's squeaking drum pedal can be heard again some three minutes into the song. "Houses" was recorded amd mixed at Olympic and Electric Lady studios, during a session that dates back to 1972. Oddly enough, it was never performed live.
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dazed and confused I'm Asleep posts Mood Now:
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Rolling thunder and a sustained mood of ominous
mystery pervade this, the mightiest of all Zeppelin masterworks. Like "Trampled Under Foot", it seemed to come out of nowhere, defying all past precedents, but it was much more than a simple jam; it was the result of shared experiences and long hours of hard work. Here the band created a musical picture more effective than a thousand album covers. Once again John Bonham excelled. His contributions to "Kashmir". "Trampled Under Foot", and "In My Time of Dying" served as a greater testament to his technique and style than any number of recorded drum solos. this powerful drama, that suggest a solemn, marching procession of hooded figures, also boasts one of Robert Plant's finest vocals. He sings with a new kind of humility and serious intent. Perhaps this reflected his own state of mind and a growing maturity. The Eastern flavor and orchestral sound of "Kashmir" seemed to launch Led Zeppelin into as entirely different direction. Most bands would be in a state of advanced decay by their sixth album. From the evidence of this song alone, here was a group undergoing a complete renaissance. The lyrics were composed by Plant during a holiday in Southern Morocco, a desert kingdom in northwest Africa, which of course is nowhere near Kashmir, which is a disputed territory of south Asia noted for its rice-growing and beautiful mountain scenery. The song was originally called "Driving to Kashmir", which meant he had a long way to go. However, the deeper meaning of the song was the strange link between the grandeur and mystical power of Arabian music and the communicative mowers of rock. Jimmy Page had two distinct riffs available on a home demo he'd made with Bonham. The main theme was based on a guitar tuning that he'd used on "White Summer", "Black Mountainside" and the unheard "Swan Song" theme. When the theme was eventually combined with a JPJ arrangement, the piece burst into seething life. Page's use of strange Moorish-sounding chords, played on a Dan Electro guitar and backed by session string players, ensured that "Kashmir" fulfilled its Eastern promise. Plant explained: "The beat came from John. I wrote the lyrics after driving into the Sahara Desert." He had been heading from Goulmine to Tantan in what used to be callled the Spanish Sahara. "I kept bumping down a desert track and there was nobody for miles, except a guy on a camel. The whole inspiration for the song came from the fact the road went on and on and on. It was a single-tracked road which cut neatly through the desert…it looked like you were driving down a channel. I thought, this is great…but one day, Kashmir. That's my Shangri-La". Jones, Page and Plant all felt it was one of the greatest Zeppelin tracks ever and a highlight of the band's career. As Jones said, "It's all there, all the elements that defined the band." Plant recalled: 'Kashmir was tremendous for the mood A lot of that was down by Bonzo." Page added" The intensity of "Kashmir" was such that when we'd done it, we knew that it was something so magnetic, you just couldn't describe what the quality was"………… "Kashmir" was first played in Rotterdam, Holland in January 1975, and in every Zeppelin show thereafter. It was also played at the Atlantic Records birthday party show held at Madison Square Garden in the mid-80's, and on the Unledded tour of 1995.
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poe  I'm Asleep 673 posts   Mood Now: 
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Definite 10!! I love this song so much, I named my cat after it! Though she's a girl, so Kashmira.
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Peggy_Garfunkel  I'm Asleep 4510 posts   Mood Now: 
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I'm probably one of the very few people to have cried to Kashmir - don't ask me why, I have no idea.
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TragicallyHipper  I'm Asleep 7322 posts  Mood Now: 
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Yeah, Kashmir is a pretty nice song. It doesn't make me cry, though.
 I like Custard Pie the best - although, this whole album does rock.
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BobCaygeon I'm Asleep 860 posts  
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Custard Pie is one song that pretty heavy, and quite underrated. My kids really like this disc a lot. They don't seem to care for the second disc as much. The song Houses of the Holy was originally supposed to be on the album Houses of the Holy. I really like that song a lot, too.
Keep on rockin'. 
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zeppelinmommy I'm Asleep 90 posts   
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Well, actually, my kids like both albums. I think my kids do prefer the harder rock stuff… but they enjoy the softer tunes, as well. They even like the bluesy stuff. Anyway, Alisha really does like Custard Pie a lot. She likes to eat custard pie, too. I think that is one of her top favorite songs.
Annette
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ZedLeppelin I'm Asleep 1490 posts  
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Yeah, Melissa likes this whole disc, too! She really likes the song Houses of the Holy a lot. I don't think she's as crazy about the second disc, though.
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tragicallyhip_babe I'm Asleep 2815 posts 
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Yeah, this is one disc that's a bit underrated, but not hard to get into. Heavy metal fans would like this disc.
Keep Hipping!
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