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Celebration Day
75/365. 29/11/08.
Led Zeppelin III. Side 1, Track 3.
Celebration Day.
Studio version - starts off with Jimmy's guitar, a moog synthesiser and a couple of lines from Robert. Then I love the way the rest of the band just slides into action.
It wasn't meant to be like this apparently - one of the recording engineers accidentally wiped part of John Bonham's opening drum parts. They disguised it by joining the track to Friends (yesterday's song) and using the Moog to tie the two together.
Jimmy on the guitar parts: " There's about three or four riffs going down on that one, isn't there? Half was done with a guitar in standard tuning and the other half was done on slide guitar tuned to an open A, I think. - Guitar World interview, 1993.
Live version from the mid-70s. Sometimes Jimmy played this on the 12-string, this one's with the 6-string Les Paul. It rocks.
Celebration Day
75/365. 29/11/08.
Led Zeppelin III. Side 1, Track 3.
Celebration Day.
Studio version - starts off with Jimmy's guitar, a moog synthesiser and a couple of lines from Robert. Then I love the way the rest of the band just slides into action.
It wasn't meant to be like this apparently - one of the recording engineers accidentally wiped part of John Bonham's opening drum parts. They disguised it by joining the track to Friends (yesterday's song) and using the Moog to tie the two together.
Jimmy on the guitar parts: " There's about three or four riffs going down on that one, isn't there? Half was done with a guitar in standard tuning and the other half was done on slide guitar tuned to an open A, I think. - Guitar World interview, 1993.
Live version from the mid-70s. Sometimes Jimmy played this on the 12-string, this one's with the 6-string Les Paul. It rocks.