A cover tune for the year 2020 and onward into our future... Get The Led Out's Paul Sinclair - lead vocals
J Smooov - drums: Instagram@therealjsmooov
Bruce McCormack - keyboards
Arranged, orchestrated, recorded, mixed, produced by Loo in PT's 11. Loo Wood : all guitars and bass
Jimi Page's "Stairway To Heaven" story:
Page had decided he wanted an epic song for the fourth album more than 18 months before its eventual release in November 1971. “I don’t want to tell you about it in case it doesn’t come off,” he told NME in April 1970, “it’s an idea for a really long track on the next album … we want to try something new with the organ and acoustic guitar building up and building to the electric thing.”
Today, he talks about the song with unbridled enthusiasm, losing himself in his words. “It begins with the concept of trying to have something [that] would unravel in layers as the song progressed. You’ve got the fragile guitar that is going to open the whole thing, you’ve got the vocal over that fragile guitar, and then it moves into the more sensual wave with the twin 12-strings, and the electric piano as well.
“It would keep unfolding and more layers would be introduced into the equation. Keeping John Bonham [on drums] to come in for effect was a trick I’d used before, on things like Ramble On. I knew that would be successful, because whenever he came in he made so much difference. And then it’s two more verses before you get to the solo, with this sort of fanfare approach to it. Then everything’s flying at that point.
“There’s almost a hysterical trill at the end of the solo that leads into the finale … ‘And as we wind on down the road …’” He’s often used sexual imagery to describe the song and it’s no different today: “It’s like an orgasm at the end. It’s whatever you want it to be.”
Read the rest of the story here:
Stairway to Heaven: the story of a song and its legacy
Also Andy Johns on the secrets behind the Led Zeppelin IV sessions:
Maximum Respect to all involved. ~ LW
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