Stairway and Black Dog vs. Maxwell's Silver hammer & Octopus's garden
Yeah Ill take Led Zep every day of the week and twice on Sunday's thanks!
Unfortunately that's not the matchup. It's IV vs Abbey Road. The fact that IV got past Sgt Peppers is laughable.
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"Four Sticks" is a song by the English rock band Led Zeppelin from their fourth album, released in 1971. The title came from the fact that drummer John Bonham played with two sets of two drumsticks, totalling four.[1] His decision to play the song with four sticks was a result of him being very frustrated with not being able to get the track down right during recording sessions at Island Studios. After he grabbed the second pair of sticks and beat the drums as hard as he could, he recorded the perfect take and that was the one they kept.
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This is what greatness sounds like:
Wow, the respect meter for John Paul Jones just went even further up!
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For Black Dog, Led Zeppelin bass player John Paul Jones, who is credited with writing the main riff,[3][4] wanted to write a song that people could not "groove" or dance to with its winding riff and complex rhythm changes.
In an interview, Jones explained the difficulties experienced by the band in writing the song:
I wanted to try an electric blues with a rolling bass part. But it couldn't be too simple. I wanted it to turn back on itself. I showed it to the guys, and we fell into it. We struggled with the turn-around, until [John] Bonham figured out that you just four-time as if there's no turn-around. That was the secret.[5]
Despite the seeming simplicity of the drum pattern, the song features a complex, shifting time signature that the band has sometimes claimed was intended to thwart cover bands from playing the song.[citation needed] Jones originally wanted the song recorded in 3/16 time but realised it was too complex to reproduce live.[10] In live performances, Bonham eliminated the 5/4 variation so that Plant could perform his a cappella vocal interludes and then have the instruments return together synchronised.[11] If the volume is turned up loud enough, Bonham can be heard tapping his sticks together before each riff. Page referenced this in an interview he gave to Guitar World magazine in 1993:
He did that to keep time and to signal the band. We tried to eliminate most of them, but muting was much more difficult in those days than it is now.[12]
The sounds at the beginning of the song are those of Page warming up his electric guitar. He called it "waking up the army of guitars" — which are multitrack recorded in unison with electric bass guitar to provide the song's signature.
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