Originally Posted by
melon
Sometimes the message is lot more deeper , than purely some sort of anti or pro song towards something , what I mean is it evokes a response from you in far more direct way than purely on intellectual level through words or lyrics, but via the sound itself. ( just look at tribal drumming )
You dont need to hear some lyrics to those songs because you already get a sense of what their about before even hearing the words , i.e. like " Stairway to Heaven " .
Why that is , I dont know , but we all built respond to certain sounds far more than others , perhaps because they tap into part of ourselves that we forgot , or perhaps because its part of our collective subconscious , who knows ?
My point is that point that , that sort of music or " art " not only changes the listener but the artist too , so it becomes a personal journey for both and something both can relate / connect too , regardless of how you interpret it .
I dont think something like that is possible all the time - because those types of pieces tend to almost write themselves , but that all the best songs and art tend to have and element of that " elusiveness " in them that make them far compelling to listen too - and in fact almost " spiritual " because they can never be replicated again.
I had these pieces, these guitar pieces, that I wanted to put together. I had a whole idea of a piece of music that I really wanted to try and present to everybody and try and come to terms with. Bit difficult really, because it started on acoustic, and as you know it goes through to the electric parts. But we had various run-throughs [at Headley Grange] where I was playing the acoustic guitar and jumping up and picking up the electric guitar. Robert was sitting in the corner, or rather leaning against the wall, and as I was routining the rest of the band with this idea and this piece, he was just writing. And all of a sudden he got up and started singing, along with another run-through, and he must have had 80% of the words there ... I had these sections, and I knew what order they were going to go in, but it was just a matter of getting everybody to feel comfortable with each gear shift that was going to be coming
The first attempts at lyrics, written by Led Zeppelin vocalist Robert Plant next to an evening log fire at Headley Grange, were partly spontaneously improvised and Page claimed, "a huge percentage of the lyrics were written there and then".[11] Jimmy Page was strumming the chords and Robert Plant had a pencil and paper. Plant later said that suddenly,
My hand was writing out the words, 'There's a lady is sure [sic], all that glitters is gold, and she's buying a stairway to heaven'. I just sat there and looked at them and almost leapt out of my seat." Plant's own explanation of the lyrics was that it "was some cynical aside about a woman getting everything she wanted all the time without giving back any thought or consideration. The first line begins with that cynical sweep of the hand ... and it softened up after that.[14]
The lyrics of the song reflected Plant's current reading. The singer had been poring over the works of the British antiquarian Lewis Spence, and later cited Spence's Magic Arts in Celtic Britain as one of the sources for the lyrics to the song.[9]
Interesting they were out in the country too when they wrote it becaues theres a strong relationship between creativity and connection to the land / wilderness .
Any way , food for thought.
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but still uncompleted since other diversions took hold.
We were not going for groundbreaking or something completely new on this one. Sure lots of bands do videos in the studio, I think the main thing we had which most do not is a little artistic direction and good quality camera equipment... add to that one of the band members doing the editing and theres next to no sync issues with what you see and what you hear (a big bugbear of mine)...
