Blues Rock Bands

"We didn’t over-rehearse things. We just had them so that they were just right, so that there was this tension – maybe there might be a mistake. But there won’t be, because this is how we’re all going to do it and it’s gonna work!"

"Catch the wind, see us spin, sail away, leave today, way up high in the sky. But the wind won't blow, you really shouldn't go, it only goes to show That you will be mine, by takin' our time."

"And if I say to you tomorrow Take my hand, child, come with me. It's to a castle I will take you Where what's to be, they say will be."

"Way down inside. Way down inside. Way down inside, woman, you Woman Woman, you You need it Need Love."

"You need coolin', baby, I'm not foolin', I'm gonna send you back to schoolin', Way down inside honey, you need it, I'm gonna give you my love, I'm gonna give you my love."

"Hey, girl, I got somethin' I think you oughta know, Hey, babe, I wanna tell ya that I love you so. I wanna hold you in my arms, yeah, I'm never gonna let you go, 'cause I like your charm."

"Communication breakdown, it's always the same, Havin' a nervous breakdown, a-drive me insane."

"Hey, girl, stop what you're doin', Hey, girl, you'll drive me to ruin. I don't know what it is I like about you, but I like it a lot. Won't you let me hold you, now, let me feel your lovin' touch?"

"Lyin', cheatin', hurtin, that's all you seem to do, Messin' around, every guy in town. Puttin' me down for thinkin' of someone new. Always the same, playin' your game. Drive me insane, trouble's gonna come to you. One of these days, and it won't be long, You'll look for me, but, baby, I'll be gone."

"Every day I work so hard, bringin' home my hard-earned pay. Try to love you, baby, but you push me away. Don't know where you're goin', only know just where you've been. Sweet little baby, I want you again."

"Been dazed and confused for so long, it's not true. A-wanted a woman, never bargained for you. Lots of people talkin', few of them know Soul of a woman was created below."

"Woman, woman, I know, I know it's good to have you back again. And I know that one day baby, it's gonna really grow, yes it is. We gonna go walkin through the park every day. Hear what I say, every day/Baby, its really growin, you made me happy every single day But now I've got to go away."

"Babe, baby, baby, I'm gonna leave you. I said baby, you know I'm gonna leave you. I'll leave you when the summertime, Leave you when the summer comes a rollin' Leave you when the summer comes along."

"I know what it means to be alone, I sure do wish I was at home. I don't care what the neighbors say, I'm gonna love you each and every day."

"Good Times, bad times, you know I've had my share. Well, my woman left home for a brown-eyed man But I still don't seem to care."

"In the days of my youth, I was told what it means to be a man, Now I've reached that age, I've tried to do all those things the best I can. No matter how I try, I find my way into the same old jam."

"It starts out like a murmur Then it grows like thunder Until it bursts inside of you Try to hold it steady Wait until you're ready Any second now will do Throw the door wide open Not a word is spoken Anything that you want to do Ya know, ya know, ya know..."

"In the bars, with the men who play guitars Singin', drinkin' and rememberin' the times My little lover does a midnight shift She's followed around all the time I guess there's just one thing a-left for me to do Gonna pack my bags and move on my way Cause I got a worried mind Sharin' what I thought was mine Gonna leave her where the guitars play."

"I got a woman, wanna ball all day I got a woman, she won't be true, no I got a woman, stay drunk all the time I said I got a little woman and she won't be true."

"Wanna tell you about the girl I love My she looks so fine She's the only one that I been dreamin' of Maybe someday she will be all mine I wanna tell her that I love her so I thrill with her every touch I need to tell her she's the only one I really love."

"I have to do a lot of hard work before I can get anywhere near those stages of consistent, total brilliance."

"Stop playing the guitar one day and you will notice. Stop touching it for two days and your teacher will notice. Stop playing it three times and the audience will start to notice."

"So if you wake up with the sunrise And all your dreams are still as new. And happiness is what you need so bad Well, girl, the answer live with you, yeah."

"I wanted it to be totally in character of what’s going on with the lyrics and a summing up of my guitar playing for that particular song. What I’d do is just limber up and then, okay, put the red light on. And again, those solos weren’t done over hours and hours. They were pretty much improvised. They weren’t worked out note for note. Never. The solos were always: take a deep breath and go for it! For the spontaneity. I might have worked out how I might start it off. But that’s it."

"We’d get it up to a serious speed, so it’s really firing on all cylinders, and then you’d start recording. With the red light on there’s even more urgency to it. We’d arrive at those takes in a pretty short time – just a handful of takes, maybe. If a song started to labour, and it just wasn’t working, there’s no point in just recording it. We’d just stop it and do something else, and then return to it later."

"We were crafting albums for the album market. It was important, I felt, to have the flow and the rise and fall of the music and the contrast, so that each song would have more impact against the other."

"The numbers are eye-popping. [...] Statistics are one thing, but the story must also be told with due reverence to all they accomplished musically, including pioneering the album-oriented rock rock concept and, more dramatically, forging a style that would dominate throughout the seventies."

"Led Zeppelin IV is not just the greatest guitar album of the 70s, but the benchmark for every guitar band ever since."

"While Black Sabbath and Deep Purple also influenced a hard, guitar-driven sound that opened the door for the heavy metal movement, Zeppelin did it better than anybody."

"The song titles are complex, but when it comes to the album titles, they lay them out like IKEA instructions: Zeppelin I, Zeppelin II, Zeppelin III, Zeppelin IV. The fifth album, Houses of the Holy, is where they regain their insanity. Just to fuck with you, it does not contain one of their few hits that has the title in the lyrics, "Houses of the Holy". That's on Physical Graffiti."

"For many hours and days that pass ever soon The tides have caused the flame to dim. At last the arm is straight, the hand to the loom. Is this to end or just begin? All of my love, all of my love, All of my love to you."

"Now my body is starting to quiver And the palms of my hands getting wet. I've got no reason to doubt you baby, It's all a terrible mess. I'll run in the rain till I'm breathless. When I'm breathless I'll run till I drop, hey. The thoughts of a fool's kind of careless; I'm just a fool waiting on the wrong block, oh yeah. Light of the love that I found..."

"Now I will stand in the rain on the corner I'll watch the people go shuffling downtown. Another ten minutes, no longer And then I'm turning around. The clock on the wall's moving slower; My heart it sinks to the ground. And the storm that I thought would blow over Clouds the light of the love that I found."

"Well there's a light in your eye that keeps shining Like a star that can't wait for the night I hate to think I've been blinded baby Why can't I see you tonight?"

"Oh it's simple, all the pain that you go through, You can turn away from fortune, fortune, 'cause that's all that's left to you. It's lonely at the bottom, man, it's dizzy at the top, But if you're standing in the middle, ain't no way you're gonna stop."

"In the evening, When the day is done I'm looking for a woman; Oh, but the girl don't come. So don't let her Play you for a fool. She don't show no pity baby, No no, she don't make no rules."

"How come twenty four hours Baby sometimes seem to slip into days? Oh twenty-four hours Baby sometimes seem to slip into days. When a minute seems like a lifetime, Ooh baby when I feel this way. Sittin, lookin at the clock. Oh time moves so slow. I've been watchin' for the hands to move Until I just can't look no more. How come twenty four hours Baby sometimes seems to slip into days?"

"Devil he told me to roll, Devil he told me to roll roll roll roll. How to roll the log tonight, Nobody's fault but mine."

"One town love, you better take care how you use it. Try to make it last all night, and if you take your pick, Be careful how you choose it. Sometimes its hard to feel it bite. Feel it bite."

"You said I was the only, oh, oh With my lemon in your hand. Exhibition is your habit, Emotions second hand, oh, oh. Had to pull away to save me; Maybe next time around. And she said, don't you wannit? Don't you want coca coca cocaine? Hadn't planned to, could not stand to Try it, friend, yeah, na, na, yeah."

"If one bell should ring, In celebration for a king, So fast the heart should beat, As proud the head with heavy feet. Days went by when you and I, bathed in eternal summer's glow. As far away and distant Our mutual child did grow. Oh the sweet refrain, Soothes the soul and calms the pain. Oh Albion remains, sleeping now to rise again. Wandering & wandering, what place to rest the search? The mighty arms of Atlas, hold the heavens from the earth."

"Into the sun the south the north, at last the birds have flown. The shackles of commitment fell, in pieces on the ground. Oh to ride the wind, to tread the air above the din. Oh to laugh aloud, dancing as we fought the crowd."

"Sending off a glancing kiss, to those who claim they know. Below the streets that steam and hiss, The devil's in his hole."

"It was an April morning when they told us we should go As I turn to you, you smiled at me. How could we say no?"

"Oh, to sail away, to sandy lands and other days. Oh, to touch the dream, hides inside and never seen."

"With all the fun to have, to live the dreams we always had. Oh, the songs to sing, when we at last return again."

"Then as it was, then again it will be An' though the course may change sometimes Rivers always reach the sea Blind stars of fortune, each have several rays On the wings of maybe, down in birds of prey Kind of makes me feel sometimes, didn't have to grow But as the eagle leaves the nest, it's got so far to go."

"Oh, father of the four winds, fill my sails, across the sea of years With no provision but an open face, along the straits of fear."

"Oh, pilot of the storm who leaves no trace Like thoughts inside a dream. Heed the path that led me to that place, Yellow desert stream. My Shangri-La beneath the summer moon Will return again. Sure as the dust that floats b'hind you When movin' through Kashmir."

"All I see turns to brown, as the sun burns the ground. And my eyes fill with sand, as I scan this wasted land. Tryin' to find....Tryin' to find where I've been."