"Whole Lotta Love" by Led Zeppelin...

[Archae]

Just how stoned were Led Zeppelin when they recorded it? :smoke:

I'm listening to WKLH "classic hits" and they just played "Whole Lotta Love."

[J-Lo Biafra]

1. Not too stoned when they stole it from Willie Dixon.

And lifted the Small Faces arrangement.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkQpZpFLpv4

[Orsino]

2. They transcended the Small Faces arrangement...

...which is cluttered with stupid hand-claps. Zep took that skeleton (well, okay, much more than a skeleton) and built a giant atomic death robot that lurches across the skyline a hundred feet over our heads. And Page's lead break is one of the all-time great rock 'n' roll moments.

The Faces deserve credit for their arrangement, but they come off as the weak imitators of whatever the hell it is Zep created.

[carlyhippy]

3. Listen to that song with earphones on....man it's a trip

concentrate and it feels like the guitar is going around your head or thru it, aaahh the cutting edge recording techniques of long ago.....

[mitchum]

4. You should have heard my "Cornhole Lotta Love" from a couple decades ago...

I sampled the Deliverance banjo riff, changed the lyrics to reflect redneck sodomy, added piq squeals, etc...