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...Riff-Raff...
...side one is more than adequate, side two is one of the finest continuous performances available from any group. Guitarist Nick Jameson leads off with a catchy riff and sails into a rocking solo on the infectious rhythm 'n blues number "My Baby." Pretty harmony and plenty of beat add up to a happy old sound on the only song not written by the group...
...nothing. One day in a lecture, I started telling loud anti-semitic jokes. Right in the middle of Lowell Lec! And I'm Jewish... Which reminds me: too many Jews around this place. It was okay for them to let me in, but who needs the rest of this riff-raff? Wasps, too. They should farm out Wasps...
...nothing. One day in a lecture. I started telling loud anti-semitic jokes. Right in the middle of Lowell Lec! And I'm Jewish! . . . Which reminds me: too many Jews around this place. It was okay for them to let me in, but who needs the rest of this riff-raff? Wasps, too. They should farm out Wasps...
...three finest songs on Led Zeppelin's first album illustrate the foremost capacities of the group. "Good Times Bad Times" is based, as is usual with their songs, on an energetic riff rather crudely syncopated but irresistibly developed. Page plays a brief solo characterized by his enormous intervals and rapid triplets: Bonham employs complex drum pedals; Jones adds a sinuous independent bass line: and Plant insinuates a tone of bemused disconsolation into the song's eternal situation of calumniating fate. "Dazed and Confused" deals with incoherent man in the face of a latter-day Cressida. After a sufficiently stunned introduction...