Davey Graham - Medley: She Moved Thru' the Bizarre/Blue Raga video free download
"The DADGAD tuning was used extensively by Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin and The Yardbirds in the late '60s and '70s. While with The Yardbirds, Page recorded an instrumental entitled White Summer, itself inspired by the first recorded DADGAD tune, Davey Graham's arrangement of the traditional Irish tune 'She Moved Through the Fair'. On Led Zeppelin's eponymous first album, Led Zeppelin, he used this guitar tuning to perform "Black Mountain Side", though he detuned the entire guitar by one-half a step for the recording, so it was really D?-A?-D?-G?-A?-D? (where the '?' denotes a flattened note)--the piece which was strongly influenced by Bert Jansch's earlier arrangement of a traditional Irish song called "Blackwater Side" (though Jansch actually used 'drop D' tuning). Page later revisited the DADGAD tuning for the song "Kashmir", which appeared on the band's sixth album Physical Graffiti." - I copied and pasted this info straight from a great website on altered tunings called "Guitar Tunings Data Base" (GTDB) Hopefully this will settle some of the controversy surrounding this video, and all of the comments below.
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10 years ago
perfectstranger
Then again, Davey took this from a traditional celtic song, and made a guitar arrangement (and changed its name, basically doing the same as Page later did). I can't blame them for that, they play incredibly well and it's a traditional song after all. Music is not always meant to have an owner...10 years ago
sk8erSpIrIt
One covers song and all lose their minds.11 years ago
Thomas W. Wenzel
Nice to know someone else knows Tolkien got his ideas from Wagner.11 years ago
xExekut3x
All this talk over who stole what... Apparently Graham and Page both took from music that had been around long before either of them. Neither stole.11 years ago
Zoolbar's Magic Star Cave
This song is amazing...11 years ago
Leon1949Green
Right! I always recall learning at a very young age the definitions of plagiarism and creating a new piece: if you change one note within 8 bars, it is new!11 years ago
cnuds
Who doesn't 'steal'? That's music. It happened all the time before the age of recorded music. Every possible chord run will be recorded eventually - no-one should own them.11 years ago
TheSqueakyWaffle
"As for Zeppelin, I believe they should have given more attribution and/or a cut of the proceeds" It would be nice if they gave -ANY- credit to the people they stole from.11 years ago
shavedape777
This is a great YT upload. Thanks! As for Zeppelin, I believe they should have given more attribution and/or a cut of the proceeds, but it doesn't detract from what Zep did -- my opinion. It brings out the old debate, "What is creativity?" It's rarely pure. I researched Tolkien's inspirations, and it became apparent that he was not nearly as creative as I once thought, but it didn't detract from what he did. I feel the same way about Page/Zep.11 years ago
LaMusicade4
Zepelin was a great band and accomplished musicians but their creativity has become suspect. That said, I enjoyed the Zep and I believe artists like Graham are truly great also. If they didn't pay dues, they should ! Especially to all the blues men and women out there or to their families. Just out of respect.11 years ago
david moon
i'd like 2 thank JIMMY, for turning me on to DAVEY! im only a few years younger than jimmy, but never heard of this track. i knew page, was always nickin from thee MASTERS, butt i was 2 lazy 2 research his influences...until now. also, BERT JANSCH rocks! all u young whipper snappers take note as well. everything old, is NEW again! thanks 4 the UBER BITCHEN POST!12 years ago
Ookami-sama F
NOO JIMMY PAGE DID IT AGAIN!!! THAT FUCKN THIEF12 years ago
theotherhepcat
@HotspurJr Not exactly, because both songs are old traditional folk songs; however, Page's renditions were - more or less - the same as Jansch and Graham... but the songs themselves are only identifiable by their melodies. Therefore, Page could legally perform said songs and not give credit to Jansch or Graham as the tunes are still the traditional folk songs. That said, what bothers me the most is that Page re-titled the songs for the Zeppelin albums - which is actually quite deplorable.12 years ago
Tarek Zaheer
What is the official, actual, real name of the first part -- is it "She Moved Through the Fair" or "She Moves Through the Fair" or "She moved through the bazaar" or "She moves through the bazaar" ? Or something else?12 years ago
peregrinusnoctis
@HotspurJr Well-said. Page's unwillingness to give proper credit where due makes him increasingly look like a brilliant but immoral technician, rather than an artist in his own right.12 years ago
peregrinusnoctis
@DADGADSB It can reasonably be stated that all modern (i.e., post-Enlightenment) artists understand the distinctions between origination and plagiarism, and that there exists a moral imperative to publicly acknowledge appropriation of another's work, and of traditional work. Page understood this, but for his own reasons (e.g., legal, financial, etc.), chose not to so do. Henceforth, his reputation will ever reap the consequences. A chord is an element, like salt--rather than a dish or recipe.12 years ago
stephen giles
@DADGADSB I agree, not stealing but being influenced. My mate remembers his step dad recalling a story of him bumping into his old mate Davey Graham on Oxford Street back in the 60s and asking why his forefinger and middle finger were strapped together. DG had been to Morroco and was forcing himself to play a different (and rather demanding) right hand finger picking style. We all need influences to become what we are.12 years ago
planet123
As I have been "influenced" by Led Zep's music I will claim I wrote it all.12 years ago
mielazul
Fans of this kind of Celtic-Arabic guitar sound might like "Rosetta West - Yallah."12 years ago
8333P
@N8wood1 This song is on the 36 track double CD compilation: Davy Graham - A Scholar and a Gentleman, released in 2009.Related Videos
