Dazed and Confused by Jake Holmes

“Dazed and Confused was written by the folk-rock singer Jake Holmes and released as a track in his debut album "The Above Ground Sound" Of Jake Holmes in 1967. That same year Jake Holmes opened for The Yardbirds in a show in New York where Jimmy Page heard the song. The song was rearranged and later became one of Led Zeppelins best-known songs, the debt to Jake Holmes however went largely unacknowledged by the band until 2012.”

13 more comments  /  37 loves

This jam was posted by 10 people

but peterdowie was first  

Dazed and Confused was written by the folk-rock singer Jake Holmes and released as a track in his debut album "The Above Ground Sound" Of Jake Holmes in 1967. That same year Jake Holmes opened for The Yardbirds in a show in New York where Jimmy Page heard the song. The song was rearranged and later became one of Led Zeppelins best-known songs, the debt to Jake Holmes however went largely unacknowledged by the band until 2012.   13

moondog 27 Nov 2013

The original.

mathjohnson 20 Feb 2013

This is the song that Jimmy Page "improved" and then called his own. Recorded 2 years before Led Zeppelin.   1

jtfysh 14 Sep 2013