Dazed and Confused (song) - Wikipedia"Dazed and Confused" is a minor key folk- blues dirge written by American singer- songwriter. Jake Holmes in 1. Music critic Richie Unterberger described it as "a stark, spooky folk- rock track with stinging reverbed lead guitar, Holmes' own pained vocals, and furiously strummed rhythm guitar that winds itself into an anguished climax."[1] Holmes recorded the song for his debut album "The Above Ground Sound" of Jake Holmes and performed it in the late 1. New York City folk scene and the college coffee house circuit. The lyrics refer to the effects of a girl's indecision on ending a relationship. After hearing Holmes perform the song in 1.
John McFerrin offers interactive reviews of the great art-rock group Yes. English rock group the Yardbirds substantially reworked it with new parts and instrumentation. It became a centerpiece of the group's last tours in 1. Dazed and Confusion" was further adapted later that year by guitarist Jimmy Page's "New Yardbirds" group (soon to be rechristened Led Zeppelin) for their debut album, Led Zeppelin. Dazed and Confused" became a concert staple with soloing that sometimes stretched performances to 4. Jake Holmes[edit]Singer- songwriter Jake Holmes wrote and recorded "Dazed and Confused" for his debut solo album "The Above Ground Sound" of Jake Holmes, released in June 1. Like the other tracks on the album, the song does not include any drums and was recorded with the trio of Holmes on guitar, keyboard and vocals; Ted Irwin on guitar; and Rick Randle on bass.[4]The arrangement is a modular dirge in the key of E minor[5] built on a descending chromatic bass line alternating between the 3rd (E- G- F#- F- E) and the 7th (E- D- C#- C- B). The guitar chords ring and drone on the root E minor, augmented by bent notes over a menacing strummed beat. The track builds in intensity through three verses, then changes tempo for an instrumental break in the style of the Indian ragas that also inspired instrumental breaks on hit singles of 1. Yardbirds ("You're a Better Man Than I" and "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago") and the Byrds ("Eight Miles High").[citation needed]When asked in 2. Dazed" was influenced by the early psychedelic rock of the previous year or the current psychedelia of 1. Holmes acknowledged that he was influenced by psychedelic rock and the Byrds: It's kind of hard for me to remember which came first, the chicken or the egg. We were certainly watching the Blues Project at the time. There wasn't anything that they were doing, though, that I remember thinking "Wow, that's cool. I'd like to do something like that." I was very arrogant in that I wanted to be my own person. Nowadays, I think everybody's amazing. Back then I thought nobody could do anything. I thought it was all bad .. I was influenced by the rock thing in a sense. I didn't want to be rock and roll, but I did like the energy and the mysteriousness and the darkness and the blues of it all. I did like that. I loved the Byrds.[4]Holmes' singing is pitched, edgy, and the dark paranoia of some of the song's lyrics ("you're out to get me/you're on the right track") and ("I'm being abused/I'm better of dead"), coupled with the dissonant string bends of the instrumental break led some music writers and other sources to assume the song was about a bad acid trip; but Holmes said "Dazed" was a "song about a girl": I never took acid. I smoked grass and tripped on it, but I never took acid. I was afraid to take it. The song's about a girl who hasn't decided whether she wants to stay with me or not. It's pretty much one of those love songs. In August 1. 96. 7, Holmes opened for the Yardbirds at a Greenwich Village gig in New York.[7] According to Holmes, "That was the infamous moment of my life when 'Dazed and Confused' fell into the loving arms and hands of Jimmy Page." When the track appeared on Led Zeppelin's eponymous debut album in 1. Holmes was aware of it at the time, but didn't follow up on it: "In the early 1. I did write them a letter and I said basically: 'I understand it's a collaborative effort, but I think you should give me credit at least and some remuneration.' But they never contacted me."[4]In June 2. Holmes brought suit against Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page for copyright infringement, claiming to have written and recorded "Dazed and Confused" two years before it appeared on Led Zeppelin's debut album. In court documents Holmes cited a 1. Dazed and Confused" which was renewed in 1. The case was "dismissed with prejudice"[a] on January 1. The Yardbirds[edit]Background[edit]By late- 1. English rock group the Yardbirds' presence in the Top 4. In July 1. 96. 7, they began their second tour of the U. S. as a quartet, with Jimmy Page as the sole guitarist. The group performed at more countercultural venues, such as the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco. Their sets became more varied with extended medleys and featured guitar instrumentals by Page, such as "White Summer" and "Glimpses". On August 2. 5, 1. Village Theater in New York City, with opening acts the Youngbloods and Jake Holmes. Yardbirds' drummer Jim Mc. Carty was the only Yardbird to catch Holmes' performance.[b] He recalled "Dazed and Confused": I thought it was a really moody song and I bought Jake's album [the next day] and played it for the other guys in the Yardbirds, and all four of us kind of rewrote and rearranged the song based on the riff [descending bass line]. Page purchased his own copy of "The Above Ground Sound" of Jake Holmes and Mc. Carty noted, "We worked it out together with Jimmy contributing his guitar riffs in the middle."Composition[edit]The Yardbirds began to develop a new arrangement for "Dazed and Confused" while still on tour in the U. S. Holmes' brooding atmosphere and descending bass line were retained, as well as most of the lyrics. Page doubled the bass line, echoing Holmes' live performances with two acoustic guitarists. However, propelled by drums and an overdriven. Fender Telecaster, the song quickly took on a new, distinctly non- folk sound. Singer Keith Relf initially followed Holmes' verses, but later often changed the order or mixed lines from different verses. He sometimes improvised new lines, such as: I'm dazed and confused, hangin' on by a thread. Come on baby, do you want me dead? I can arrange that, for a dollar or two. I can't remember, anything about you[2. Led Zeppelin biographer Mick Wall feels that Relf only "slightly altered" the lyrics, while Page biographer Martin Power credits Relf with "writing new lyrics". Yardbirds chronicler Greg Russo describes that gradually the song "moved from Holmes' original lyrics to an alternate set of lyrics that combined words from Jake Holmes and Keith Relf."The Yardbirds' major innovations were the instrumental breaks and an extended instrumental middle section. Writer- educator Susan Fast describes the breaks, appearing between the verses and after Page's solo, as "a detail that contributes significantly to the drama of the piece, creating enormous tension at the end of each verse before moving on to the next. Power comments on the middle- section: By the time 'Dazed [and Confused]' hit its middle- section, the Yardbirds hit their stride, with Mc. Carty providing icy snare- drum blasts, Dreja long sustained bass notes and Page a torrent of solo guitar, his notes cutting like shards of glass. It begins with a bowed electric guitar phrasings by Page, answered by vocal and harmonica interjections by Relf. Page attributed the idea of using a violin bow on the guitar to a suggestion from violinist David Mc. Callum, Sr., whom he met in his pre- Yardbirds days as a session musician. The bowed section gives way to Page's riff- laden guitar solo, propelled by a bass ostinato and fast driving 4/4 meter. The song returns to the slow tempo 1. The Yardbirds' new arrangement, contributed by the four members, soon amounted to a major reworking of Holmes' original piece. As bassist Chris Dreja summed it up, "We found it, arranged it and played it. In a way, it was a great epitaph, because we were feeling very dazed and confused about what the hell was going on!"Performances[edit]"Dazed and Confused" was a highlight of the Yardbirds' performances during their final tours in 1. Power noted "The atmospheric and ominous qualities of 'Dazed and Confused' were also well suited to the types of venue in which the Yardbirds now found themselves appearing." 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