{"id":1070,"date":"2007-12-14T17:08:08","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T22:08:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-10T16:34:43","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T16:34:43","slug":"i-m-dazed-and-confused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/i-m-dazed-and-confused\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m (Dazed and) Confused!"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HhTU-fFqBWA?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>So the other day my wife comes home from work and says &#8220;My boss says her brother wrote the Zeppelin song <strong>&#8216;Dazed and Confused&#8217;<\/strong> and never got any royalties from it.&#8221; She and her boss must have been discussing the recent Zeppelin reunion show (I also know we got our nephew the new <em>Mothership<\/em> best-of Led Zeppelin collection for Christmas this year), and out of the blue the boss dropped this interesting bombshell.<\/p>\n<p>My wife didn&#8217;t have many details and I was skeptical. Later that night I looked up <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dazed_and_Confused_%28song%29\" target=\"_blank\">the song on Wikipedia<\/a> and sure enough there seems to be some controversy regarding the composer of this tune.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jake_Holmes\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jake Holmes<\/strong><\/a> was a folk singer type in the &#8217;60s and wrote and recorded the song on his debut album in 1967. Later that same year he opened for <strong>The Yardbirds<\/strong>, who liked the tune and decided to work up their own version of the song. From the Wikipedia entry:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It was never officially recorded by the band, although an unauthorized live version was included on the semi-legitimate Live Yardbirds: Featuring Jimmy Page album under the alternate title &#8216;I&#8217;m Confused&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v5Recd6Us9g?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Later, Jimmy Page worked up an arrangement for Led Zeppelin, and it was recorded and released on their self-titled debut in 1969.<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5ssI83i_ApI?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Holmes eventually sent a letter to Page essentially asking him to do the right thing and acknowledge &#8220;co-authorship&#8221; of the song, but he never heard back. Apparently Holmes has decided not to pursue legal action. Since the &#8217;70s Holmes has been a successful jingle writer, penning such gems as &#8220;Be A Pepper&#8221; for Dr. Pepper, &#8220;Be All That You Can Be&#8221; for the U.S. Army, and my favorite, &#8220;Raise your hand if you&#8217;re sure!&#8221; for Sure Deodorant! Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.furious.com\/perfect\/jakeholmes.html\" target=\"_blank\">an interesting interview with Holmes<\/a> from 2001 on the <em>Perfect Sound Forever<\/em> online music magazine.<\/p>\n<p>So my fellow Townspeople, what do you think? Should Mr. Page acknowledge that Mr. Holmes did in fact contribute a fair portion to the writing of a tune that has now become clearly associated with the Led Zeppelin songbook?<\/p>\n<p>[For more on Jimmy Page&#8217;s songwriting abilities, check out the two part article &#8220;THE THIEVING MAGPIES: Jimmy Page&#8217;s Dubious Recording Legacy&#8221; written by Will Shade on the <em>Perfect Sound Forever<\/em> online music magazine website. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.furious.com\/perfect\/jimmypage.html\" target=\"_blank\">Part One<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.furious.com\/perfect\/yardbirds2.html\" target=\"_blank\">Part Two<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the other day my wife comes home from work and says &#8220;My boss says her brother wrote the Zeppelin song &#8216;Dazed and Confused&#8217; and never got any royalties from it.&#8221; She and her boss must have been discussing the recent Zeppelin reunion show (I also know we got our nephew the new Mothership best-of <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/i-m-dazed-and-confused\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[70],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}