This Is Your Bladder… This is Your Bladder after 30 Minutes of “Dazed and Confused”
Fuck me, they do go on!
I know you hardcore Zep fans will want my hide, as will all you jam band folks who think it takes 45 minutes just to tune a guitar, to say nothing of actually playing something. I think Led Zeppelin and The Grateful Dead might be the reason The Ramones formed!
I’m (mostly) kidding. I don’t mind long songs or extended jams — hell, sometimes I even love them. There is a point where it all starts to feel a little mindless and masturbatory. This might be one of them. That’s not to say nothing interesting happens in this version of “Dazed.” They do. I’m just not sure there are 30 fucking minutes worth is all — and I haven’t even gotten to fucking “Moby Dick.”
I never finished How The West Was Won yesterday. I got through what I think would be roughly the first two discs if I were listening to it on CD. I might go back and finish that after I finish The Song Remains The Same because I hate having live shows unfinished. It offends my obsessive side, somehow.
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i sort of know what you mean, though what i don’t like about things like this particular version of Dazed is that it’s unfocused. what i like about a lot of jam bands is that they’re working through a set of chord progressions: the Allman’s working out “In Memory of Elizabeth Reed” is a good example.
but this thing with Page pulling out the violin bow…it never really did anything for me.
Very good example, Mark, yes. I love longer, extended pieces of music that go somewhere. Mindless noodling — the violin bow being a prime example — leave me quite empty.