Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You (take 8, full version) - Led Zeppelin

#ledzeppelin #jimmypage #robertplant #johnpauljones #johnbonham In the fall of 1968, at the end of September and the beginning of October, Led Zeppelin recorded their epymous first album at Olympic Studio's in London. Listen to a snippet of an interview with Robert Plant about choosing 'Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" here:    • Robert Plant on choosing Babe I'm Gonna Le...   Engineer was Glenn Johns, brother of Andy (engineer for Led Zeppelin III and the Fourth Album), who - like Jimmy - lived in Epsom, in the county of Surrey, just south of London. 'Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You' is one of the songs of Led Zeppelin, that has epic status. What is interesting in this version, take 8, is that Robert is not following the exact lyrics from the original, but he is ad libbing. And that Jonesy's bass has a predominant role in the mix. So that's why I think this is an important outtake, in finding out Why the songs from Led Zeppelin are so great or even epic. And this one is epic! 'Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You' is based, as you know, on the version of Joan Baez, from her 1962 album 'In Concert'. However, Jimmy Page's guitar arrangement is totally different (a decending bassline over a A-minor chord, did you hear that elsewhere?!). On the sleeve notes of Joan Baez's album, is says that the song was an old blues song, and that Joan Baez had learned the song from a friend from the hippy, folk community at Oberlin College, named Janet Smith. Janet Smith had learned the song from Anne Bredon and only later found out that it wasn't a traditional song, but actually written by Anne. Anne Bredon had only made a homerecording, so there was no album or other source that indicated that this song wasn't tradional. Cheers, Benzep