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It's time I was on my way
Thanks to you I'm much obliged
For such a pleasant stay
But now it's time for me to go
The autumn moon lights my way
For now I smell the rain
And with it pain
And it's headed my way
Ah sometimes I grow so tired
But I know I've got one thing I got to do
Ramble on
And now's the time the time is now
To sing my song
I'm goin' 'round the world
I got to find my girl, on my way
I've been this way ten years to the day, Ramble on
Gotta find the queen of all my dreams
Got no time to for spreadin' roots
The time has come to be gone
And tho' our health we drank a thousand times
It's time to Ramble on
Ramble on
And now's the time the time is now
To sing my song
I'm going 'round the world
I got to find my girl, on my way
I've been this way ten years to the day, Ramble on
Gotta find the queen of all my dreams
I ain't tellin' no lie
Mine's a tale that can't be told
My freedom I hold dear
How years ago in days of old
When magic filled the air
'Twas in the darkest depths of Mordor
I met a girl so fair
But Gollum, the evil one, crept up
And slipped away with her
Her, her, yeah
Ain't nothing I can do, no
Ramble on
And now's the time the time is now
To sing my song
I'm going 'round the world
I got to find my girl, on my way
I've been this way ten years to the day, Ramble on
Gotta find the queen of all my dreams
Gonna ramble on, sing my song
Gotta keep-a-searchin' for my baby
Gonna work my way, round the world
I can't stop this feelin' in my heart
Gotta keep searchin' for my baby
I can't find my bluebird!
I'd listen to my bluebird sing but I can't find my blue bird
A-keep-a ramblin' baby
This song is 50 years old... and it's still amazing.
55 years old as of 2024 . . . and counting.
This is an amazing song. Dreamy singing, great drumming, hypnotic guitar strumming, and a really inventive bass line. Just listen to how the rhythm section works together. Then listen to how the band starts quiet and mellow, then explodes into rock mode, and then pulls it back again. Wow.
Nicely written š
Can I share? Sure, so I will.
At 18 and newly on my own when first I heard this tune. I was traveling about America and taking a look at a homeland I knew little about since I had been a military brat during the Vietnam era and so grew to maturity mostly within the confines of the Asian sphere. My US Air Force military father did endless tours of duty to areas the family could not go, but even so we lived in places like Japan, the Philippines, South Korea, and elsewhere.
I graduated High School in Taiwan, and then came back to the west coast of the States. From there I proceeded apace. Hitch hiking and the like. This tune was one of my theme songs. There has been a fair amount of time from then to now, and damn if it doesn't still resonate. Doesn't it for you? In any case thank you for tolerating this digression. Age, I've found, tends to cause ruminations. All that's needed is a trigger. This tune, for me, is one of 'em.
Highlow
Cool story. Thank You for sharing it.
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At 18 and newly on my own when first I heard this tune. I was traveling about America and taking a look at a homeland I knew little about since I had been a military brat during the Vietnam era and so grew to maturity mostly within the confines of the Asian sphere. My US Air Force military father did endless tours of duty to areas the family could not go, but even so we lived in places like Japan, the Philippines, South Korea, and elsewhere.
I graduated High School in Taiwan, and then came back to the west coast of the States. From there I proceeded apace. Hitch hiking and the like. This tune was one of my theme songs. There has been a fair amount of time from then to now, and damn if it doesn't still resonate. Doesn't it for you? In any case thank you for tolerating this digression. Age, I've found, tends to cause ruminations. All that's needed is a trigger. This tune, for me, is one of 'em.
Highlow
Got Led Zeppelin I & II for the my introductory Columbia Record Club order in '69. After The Gold Rush, Rhinoceros: Better Times Are Comin, & 8 other great albums buried somewhere beyond the cobweb veil. Haven't recovered since they came in the mail.
Cool story! Thank You for sharing it!
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here is a bit of the recent Forbes interview of Butch Trucks by Jim Clash
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JC: You spoke earlier about Led Zeppelin and John Bonham. Ever see that group live?
BT: Duaneās gods had been The Yardbirds. After they disbanded, Clapton and Cream had done what theyād done, Beck had made some great records and we heard that Jimmy Page was coming with his new band. We happened to be in Boston playing at The Boston Tea Party with a week off, living in some one-room tenement with no electricity because we couldnāt afford hotel rooms or to go back to Macon. When we went to see Zeppelin on our off weekend, Duane was all excited. Out comes Page, and they start playing their stuff. But when Page pulled out that damn fiddle-bow and started beating on his guitar, Duane lost it. He just lost it. He said, āEither Iām going to leave, or go up there and kick the sh*t out of him.ā So we all left .
Sour grapes, the fruit of the South.
Totally agree, so where did this so called "music" called rap ever come from?
Yes, it takes all tastes, but I just don't understand it.
(And before you attempt to defend it - as a music lover with catholic tastes, Bach to Beatles, Mussorgy to Manic Street, I don't want to.)
Then again perhaps I only involuntary hear it when some moron in a car with darkened windows drives down the high street.
Deep joy!
And rant over - sorry folks!!
Beauty is in the ear of the beholder. It's ok if you don't like it. Really, it is.
This song is 50 years old... and it's still amazing.
Totally agree, so where did this so called "music" called rap ever come from?
Yes, it takes all tastes, but I just don't understand it.
(And before you attempt to defend it - as a music lover with catholic tastes, Bach to Beatles, Mussorgy to Manic Street, I don't want to.)
Then again perhaps I only involuntary hear it when some moron in a car with darkened windows drives down the high street.
Deep joy!
And rant over - sorry folks!!
This is an amazing song. Dreamy singing, great drumming, hypnotic guitar strumming, and a really inventive bass line. Just listen to how the rhythm section works together. Then listen to how the band starts quiet and mellow, then explodes into rock mode, and then pulls it back again. Wow.
I agreed until you got to the singing part - Robert Plant's vocals are truly awful. Whiny. No emotion.
either my headphones cannot get louder or...
my ears are shot.
Ramble On
Battle of Evermore
No Quarter
Misty Mountain Hop?
Kashmir?
Over the Hills and Far Away?
I don't think it has anything to do with arrogance or thinking other people are "wrong"; I think some people just don't care for Led Zeppelin's music for whatever reasons. There is no quantifiable "wrong or right" when it comes to musical tastes.
Thereās also a strong never Zeppelin contingent because of stories like this.
Ramble on Deconstructed
Very cool isolated track "deconstruction" of this absolute classic on Open Culture; click above link.
Never released as a single; makes Rolling Stones top 500 greatest songs.
Damn, making me feel old...
21 out of 1445 (a staggering 1.4%) rated it a 1. I wish I had the arrogance to think that 98.6% of the listeners here are wrong, while I am somehow a quality arbiter of good taste. They must be hipper than the hipsters.
I don't think it has anything to do with arrogance or thinking other people are "wrong"; I think some people just don't care for Led Zeppelin's music for whatever reasons. There is no quantifiable "wrong or right" when it comes to musical tastes.
21 out of 1445 (a staggering 1.4%) rated it a 1. I wish I had the arrogance to think that 98.6% of the listeners here are wrong, while I am somehow a quality arbiter of good taste. They must be hipper than the hipsters.
That's not entirely fair. Not everyone thinks their rating should be embraced by all others (though reading comments show that there are clearly folks who do think that). A rating can simply be a personal opinion and nothing more.
This is a SOLID 10....with some personal history too....Long Live RP!!
Listened to this song during oblivion with Tom cruise
To me this a SOLID 8 - Most Excellent almost 9
This is a SOLID 10....with some personal history too....Long Live RP!!
To me this a SOLID 8 - Most Excellent almost 9
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On YouTube there is the isolated bass track by JPJ. It really shows that he is a bass professional with studio experience under his belt. The verse lines have a very Stax or Motown feel.
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21 out of 1445 (a staggering 1.4%) rated it a 1. I wish I had the arrogance to think that 98.6% of the listeners here are wrong, while I am somehow a quality arbiter of good taste. They must be hipper than the hipsters.
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JC: You spoke earlier about Led Zeppelin and John Bonham. Ever see that group live?
BT: Duane’s gods had been The Yardbirds. After they disbanded, Clapton and Cream had done what they’d done, Beck had made some great records and we heard that Jimmy Page was coming with his new band. We happened to be in Boston playing at The Boston Tea Party with a week off, living in some one-room tenement with no electricity because we couldn’t afford hotel rooms or to go back to Macon. When we went to see Zeppelin on our off weekend, Duane was all excited. Out comes Page, and they start playing their stuff. But when Page pulled out that damn fiddle-bow and started beating on his guitar, Duane lost it. He just lost it. He said, “Either I’m going to leave, or go up there and kick the sh*t out of him.” So we all left .
Sounds like Duane had to get the hell over it. BTW, the best thing ABB ever did was get Dickie's ass outta there and picked up Warren, Derek, and Oteil.
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JC: You spoke earlier about Led Zeppelin and John Bonham. Ever see that group live?
BT: Duane’s gods had been The Yardbirds. After they disbanded, Clapton and Cream had done what they’d done, Beck had made some great records and we heard that Jimmy Page was coming with his new band. We happened to be in Boston playing at The Boston Tea Party with a week off, living in some one-room tenement with no electricity because we couldn’t afford hotel rooms or to go back to Macon. When we went to see Zeppelin on our off weekend, Duane was all excited. Out comes Page, and they start playing their stuff. But when Page pulled out that damn fiddle-bow and started beating on his guitar, Duane lost it. He just lost it. He said, “Either I’m going to leave, or go up there and kick the sh*t out of him.” So we all left .
Not a bad cut on this one!
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Exactly....
That makes perfect sense... well said, treatment_bound...
Laz, here's another "tone-deaf peasant" google image which really doesn't need a caption!
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When I fnished the book(s) I was a little disappointed that Gollum, the evil one, never crept up and slipped away with anyones girlfriend.
He took Robert's girl, silly goose, not someone's in the book.
Always thought Plant should've kicked Gollum's skinny ass for that.
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When I finished the book(s) I was a little disappointed that Gollum, the evil one, never crept up and slipped away with anyones girlfriend.
Hollywood's still churning out movies. It's bound to happen in one of the endless sequels! ; )
If you google "tone-deaf peasant" and request images, here's just one of many entertaining photos which pop up:
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That makes perfect sense... well said, treatment_bound...
everybody in my alien space craft loves this song...
When I fnished the book(s) I was a little disappointed that Gollum, the evil one, never crept up and slipped away with anyones girlfriend.
Get in line, buddy.
... I got burned at the stake here in paradise by an angry mob of unsophisticated tone-deaf peasants.
If you google "tone-deaf peasant" and request images, here's just one of many entertaining photos which pop up:
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ROMEO, OUR GIGOLO - IS HE OK....?
Yes indeed, hotnut... I be the holy ghost of big stud Romeo Tuma... I got burned at the stake here in paradise by an angry mob of unsophisticated tone-deaf peasants, but I was saved because of my love for sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll...
hope you be having a marvelous time right this minute... love this marvelous song...
There has been much doubt around Bonham's percussions in the background throughout the song, having regard to the particular resonance that it captures. There are no versions consistent in this respect: often mistaken for bongos, some said of a small plastic bin for waste played with the hands from the side of the bottom, others about the sticks on his drum kit vinyl seat pad, or even the soles of the shoes he wore during the recording session and so rhythmically beaten with his drum sticks; the book John Bonham: A Thunder of Drums reports instead of a hard case for guitar on which Bonham improvised percussion background with bare hands
Any good percussionist can create, well, percussion from almost anything. I once saw a Spike Jones documentary in which Jones, a drummer by trade, rapped out an amazing percussive solo with kitchen knives (the old blunt butter type) on countertops, cabinets, assorted pots and pans, and other kitchen ephemera. Made me a believer.
Led Zeppelin II
1. “Whole Lotta Love”
2. “What Is And What Should Never Be”
3. “The Lemon Song”
4. “Thank You”
5. “Heartbreaker”
6. “Living Loving Maid (She’s Just A Woman)”
7. “Ramble On”
8. “Moby Dick”
Companion Audio Disc
1. “Whole Lotta Love”
2. “What Is And What Should Never Be”
3. “Thank You”
4. “Heartbreaker”
5. “Living Loving Maid (She’s Just A Woman)”
6. “Ramble On”
7. “Moby Dick”
8. “La La”
9. “Bring It On Home”
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off yersef
But it is OK to call for the death of our congress like you did?
Agreed. That bass makes this song.
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The photo is a fairly well-known and documented photo of Von Richthofen's Jasta 17, the Flying Circus. That's his Albatros D.III they're posed in front of with the Red Baron hisself in the cockpit. Reputedly the photo dates from April 1917.
One of my Desert Island Disks. Sublime.
Not good behaviour. It's only music.
![led_zeppelin_II_Manfred_von_Richthofen_red_barron Led Zeppelin II Red Barron Manfred von Richthofen ALbum Cover](https://www.feelnumb.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-2004-0430-501_Jagdstaffel_11_Manfred_v._Richthofen.jpg)
I've always wondered where the album cover came from. Could it really be Manfred von Richthfren's "Flying Circus"? (or just another sick internet hoax)
Everybody in my mushrooming multitude of churches be dancing buck ass naked all across the holy moly world like B.F. Skinner... we love this song... love sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll...
We be dancing like bowlegged gypsy muleskinners... love this song...
If you Google "bowlegged gypsy muleskinners", the first three pages that come up are all selected Lazarus comments on this site.
Are you attempting to trademark that "occupation", or something?
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off yersef
We don't want crap comments like that here on RP. Go somewhere else!
Wow! Really? Tell us how you really feel there, pal.
Page and Plant were Tolkien fans. "Ramble On", "The Battle of Evermore", "Over the Hills and Far Away", and "Misty Mountain Hop" all have references to the Lord of the Rings.
I was going to ask, did Robert just sing, "In the darkest days of Mordor..."? WHOA......mind blown.....I think that's the first time in all the years I've heard this song that that line made sense. Guess I'll pull the Tolkien out....got some summer reading to do!
We be dancing like bowlegged gypsy muleskinners... love this song...
Huh? Why do even listen to RP?
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There has been much doubt around Bonham's percussions in the background throughout the song, having regard to the particular resonance that it captures. There are no versions consistent in this respect: often mistaken for bongos, some said of a small plastic bin for waste played with the hands from the side of the bottom, others about the sticks on his drum kit vinyl seat pad, or even the soles of the shoes he wore during the recording session and so rhythmically beaten with his drum sticks; the book John Bonham: A Thunder of Drums reports instead of a hard case for guitar on which Bonham improvised percussion background with bare hands
...and just what IS that tapping sound throughout? Perfect!
Everybody in my church loves this song...
Highlow
American Net'Zen
IS there another song more godlike? If there is one, I haven't heard it.
Indeed he did:
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Mine's a tale that can't be told,
my freedom I hold dear.
How years ago in days of old, when magic filled the air.
T'was in the darkest depths of Mordor, I met a girl so fair.
But Gollum, and the evil one crept up and slipped away with her, her, her....yeah.
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Page and Plant were Tolkien fans. "Ramble On", "The Battle of Evermore", "Over the Hills and Far Away", and "Misty Mountain Hop" all have references to the Lord of the Rings.
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"the turn of the late sixties/early seventies bands (the best era of music for me)": No shite, Pedro. There were GIANTS in those days! My daughters even think of it as Rock's Golden Age. I guess the music was to compensate for just about everything else being so crappy. Strange Days had found us. P.s., my vinyls are definitely NOT in mint condition: we played the grooves off the first 3 Zep albumds.
MISS ROMEO, OUR GIGOLO - IS HE OK....?
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I've got to see this room! I think collectively, the RP forum should visit en mass ( with Romeotuma's permission of course!) and join the party - hats off to the most postive poster out there. My nipples are standing proudly to attention for you!!
Everyone in the next room seems to like this song!
Is there ever anyone in your hotel room that doesn't like any of the songs played on RP?
I've got to see this room! I think collectively, the RP forum should visit en mass ( with Romeotuma's permission of course!) and join the party - hats off to the most postive poster out there. My nipples are standing proudly to attention for you!!
Yes, I am sure there is.
Everybody in my hotel room loves this song...
Is there ever anyone in your hotel room that doesn't like any of the songs played on RP?
After seeing the Who live a few times, I became a huge Entwistle fan. Probably the most "fluid" rock bassist I could think of. He did a solo on the Quadrophenia tour that was mind-blowing. May he rest in peace.
Agreed, just listen to the bass on The Real Me from Quadrophenia, it's just sick !
Prefer Plant over Zep!
Huh? - Like preferring Ringo over Beatles...
Thanks for your post, the bass players often get overlooked in rock bands. Jones is a terrific bass player. "Many notable rock bassists have been influenced by John Paul Jones, including John Deacon, Geddy Lee, Steve Harris, Flea, Gene Simmons, and Krist Novoselic.(Wikipedia) Jones also plays many other instruments and is an arranger, composer and record producer.
"Do not take lightly or underestimate that bit of musicianship simply called 'bass'." - Lowell George, on Kenny Gradney (who certainly was a huge part of the Little Feat sound) but I'm sure he meant it for all bass players.