Bonzo_fan Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 Just wondering if anyone has a few favorite versions of this part of the song? All outros of all three of the 40 min versions stand out to me (2/13/75 Uniondale, 3/21/75 Seattle, 3/27/75 Los Angeles). 5/24/75 is pretty good as well IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strider Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 The outro jam is one of my favourite parts of the live versions of "Dazed and Confused"! As I have said many times (much to Sue's dismay), by the 1975 tour, often the only part of "Dazed and Confused" that didn't bore me was the 'Woodstock/San Francisco/violin bow interlude' and the 'outro jam'. Everything else often sounded by rote, ragged, and tired. Then, the 'outro jam' would come to save the day and your ears would perk up. If only the rest of "Dazed and Confused" on the 1975 tour could have been as interesting and psychedelic as the 'outro jam' and 'Woodstock'. All performances of "Dazed and Confused" have an 'outro' of course. But to my ears, it wasn't until 1971 that they really started to become "jams". With Bonham and Jones laying down a cool circular groove that spiraled in intensity as the jam went on, Jimmy would peel off these mesmerizing wah-wah licks, often with Plant oooing and ahhhhing and moaning (often Blind Faith's "Do What You Like") in tandem. In some of the 1971 outros, you can hear Page get into some "White Summer" licks. 1972 features some fluid and almost jazzy runs by Page. The 1973 ones (especially the Euro tour) feature some great interplay between the band and some monstrous beats by Bonham (see Hamburg), including some inhumanly fast drum solos at the very end of the song. 1975 marked the end of "Dazed and Confused" as part of the set list, so it seems as if the band pulled out all the stops on this tour, with some 'outro jams' exceeding 4, 5, even 6 minutes. Here's a chronological list of most of my favourite 'outro jams'...there are still some "Dazed and Confused"s I have yet to hear, so this list is by no means definitive. Month.Date.Year. Location 1971 4.1.71 Paris Theatre, London 8.23.71 Ft. Worth, TX 8.31.71 Orlando, FL 9.3.71 MSG, NY 9.23.71 Tokyo 9.29.71 Osaka 11.11.71 Newcastle, UK 1972 6.11.72 Baltimore 6.25.72 LA Forum 6.28.72 Tuscon, AZ 1973 3.6.73 Stockholm 3.16.73 Vienna 3.17.73 Munich 3.21.73 Hamburg 3.24.73 Offenburg 7.17.73 Seattle 7.21.73 Providence 7.28.73 MSG, NY 7.29.73 MSG, NY 1975 2.12.75 MSG, NY 2.13.75 Nassau, NY 2.14.75 Nassau, NY 2.16.75 St. Louis 3.4.75 Dallas 3.17.75 Seattle 3.20.75 Vancouver 3.21.75 Seattle 3.25.75 LA Forum 3.27.75 LA Forum 5.24.75 Earl's Court, UK 5.25.75 Earl's Court, UK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilsoncb420 Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 6.25.72 is the most spot on one i've heard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonzo_fan Posted September 20, 2013 Author Share Posted September 20, 2013 The outro jam is one of my favourite parts of the live versions of "Dazed and Confused"! As I have said many times (much to Sue's dismay), by the 1975 tour, often the only part of "Dazed and Confused" that didn't bore me was the 'Woodstock/San Francisco/violin bow interlude' and the 'outro jam'. Everything else often sounded by rote, ragged, and tired. Then, the 'outro jam' would come to save the day and your ears would perk up. If only the rest of "Dazed and Confused" on the 1975 tour could have been as interesting and psychedelic as the 'outro jam' and 'Woodstock'. All performances of "Dazed and Confused" have an 'outro' of course. But to my ears, it wasn't until 1971 that they really started to become "jams". With Bonham and Jones laying down a cool circular groove that spiraled in intensity as the jam went on, Jimmy would peel off these mesmerizing wah-wah licks, often with Plant oooing and ahhhhing and moaning (often Blind Faith's "Do What You Like") in tandem. In some of the 1971 outros, you can hear Page get into some "White Summer" licks. 1972 features some fluid and almost jazzy runs by Page. The 1973 ones (especially the Euro tour) feature some great interplay between the band and some monstrous beats by Bonham (see Hamburg), including some inhumanly fast drum solos at the very end of the song. 1975 marked the end of "Dazed and Confused" as part of the set list, so it seems as if the band pulled out all the stops on this tour, with some 'outro jams' exceeding 4, 5, even 6 minutes. Here's a chronological list of most of my favourite 'outro jams'...there are still some "Dazed and Confused"s I have yet to hear, so this list is by no means definitive. Month.Date.Year. Location 1971 4.1.71 Paris Theatre, London 8.23.71 Ft. Worth, TX 8.31.71 Orlando, FL 9.3.71 MSG, NY 9.23.71 Tokyo 9.29.71 Osaka 11.11.71 Newcastle, UK 1972 6.11.72 Baltimore 6.25.72 LA Forum 6.28.72 Tuscon, AZ 1973 3.6.73 Stockholm 3.16.73 Vienna 3.17.73 Munich 3.21.73 Hamburg 3.24.73 Offenburg 7.17.73 Seattle 7.21.73 Providence 7.28.73 MSG, NY 7.29.73 MSG, NY 1975 2.12.75 MSG, NY 2.13.75 Nassau, NY 2.14.75 Nassau, NY 2.16.75 St. Louis 3.4.75 Dallas 3.17.75 Seattle 3.20.75 Vancouver 3.21.75 Seattle 3.25.75 LA Forum 3.27.75 LA Forum 5.24.75 Earl's Court, UK 5.25.75 Earl's Court, UK Glad there's someone as enthusiastic about it as I am, I have heard most of those, but not all. I'll try to find the ones I haven't heard on YouTube. I agree that this part of the piece got better as the years went on, although I was listening to the 9/19/70 shows yesterday for their 43rd Anniversary, and I found the coda jam on the Evening Show Dazed to be pretty good. Just to show an example of a good one from pre-'71... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strider Posted September 20, 2013 Share Posted September 20, 2013 ^^^ Yeah, the 9.19.70 is good...as are some other 1970 ones. They are just too damn short, haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonzo_fan Posted September 20, 2013 Author Share Posted September 20, 2013 ^^^ Yeah, the 9.19.70 is good...as are some other 1970 ones. They are just too damn short, haha. Agreed. Imagine if they played Dazed for 30 or 40 min that night with the way they were playing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strider Posted September 20, 2013 Share Posted September 20, 2013 Where is Sue? Isn't it mandatory that she contribute her expertise on every "Dazed and Confused" thread? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonzo_fan Posted September 20, 2013 Author Share Posted September 20, 2013 Where is Sue? Isn't it mandatory that she contribute her expertise on every "Dazed and Confused" thread? Haha ya you would think so... And as for the lengths of the coda jams, didn't a few get up closer to or slightly over 7 min? Maybe 2/13/75 & 3/27/75? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pagefan55 Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 I love D and C in general, and the outro jams in particular. I haven't listened to enough bootlegs yet to know my favorite.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juxtiphi Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 2/13! One of the best jams I have ever listened too, Its one of my favs. But I think Offenburg is perhaps the most violent and extreme (although not as long) Coda they did. Its hard to describe the short but wild chaos they set into motion, The first solo or false ending as I call it is pretty good but then Jimmy starts slamming that riff and Johns drumming is like heavy rocks falling all around. Then Jimmy electrocutes us with another solo which is even more furious than the last. As that bit settles Johns starts a simple but highly effective swing on his hi hat that starts us rocking until he drops a mountain on us in a drum roll to end all rolls. Short, sweet, highly intense and very effective in showing why Zeppelin were the most powerful band ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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