But in the ’90s culturally the law started to provide a lot of copyright protection for those kinds of riffs. [Page] is gonna be so connected to that song by now, it’s like if your baby is kidnapped at two-years-old and raised by another woman. He just thought it would be a big song for him. When you have so many fewer revenue sources, it makes the stakes much higher.”. But, Jake Holmes argued, you can’t exactly call it entirely original either. For “Dazed and Confused,” they only did two takes (they released the second), capturing most of it live and later overdubbing Page’s violin-bow solo.

After a complicated childhood (more on that later), McConaughey got his big break in the 1993 film Dazed and Confused. McConaughey, who turns 51 on Nov. 4, enjoys spinning some of these personal yarns, not necessarily because they sound cool but because he believes they reveal certain universal and teachable truths. I think it tells a bit too.”. “What has remained consistent in Matthew’s life is his honesty and being true to himself, knowing who he was and owning it.”, Matthew McConaughey recounts how he landed his breakthrough role as the likable sleaze Wooderson in “Dazed and Confused” by tracking down the film’s casting director, Don Phillips, in an Austin bar and charming his way into an audition.

Consider one last exchange, in 1990 in Musician magazine: MUSICIAN: I understand “Dazed and Confused” was originally a song by Jake Holmes.
Stevie Ray Vaughn used Hendrix guitar licks for his music. This was in 1989, when he didn’t know all the twists and turns that awaited him — the acting awards he’d win, the wife and children he’d have, the bracing dramas and banal rom-coms he’d make. He is comfortable referring to himself in the third person and dismisses any suggestion that he has stumbled backward into his professional success. The songwriter earns royalties from every sale of the cover, which can be substantial. [43] "Dazed and Confused" was the second song recorded at the Olympic sessions. In subsequent decades, other musicians would disagree with this authorship claim.

[41] According to Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones, the first time he heard the song was at the band's first rehearsal session at Gerrard Street in London, in 1968: "Jimmy played us the riffs at the first rehearsal and said, 'This is a number I want us to do'.

Like the bestubbled dude you have seen whooping it up at WWE matches and sermonizing in luxury car commercials, McConaughey is alternately uninhibited and self-serious.

But if you change even a word of the lyrics, you need explicit permission. But he was certain he would live a life worth chronicling. “It’s a state of being that I work at, continuously, daily, and I break a sweat to get it.”. Led Zeppelin’s many lawsuits bring up the thorny side of cover songs and copyright law. — Jake Holmes, Led Zeppelin’s self-titled debut album came out 50 years ago today. In his memoir, “Greenlights,” the star of “Dazed and Confused” and “Dallas Buyers Club” shares lessons from a life in which he turned out all right, all right, all right. [13], On August 25, 1967, the group headlined at the Village Theater in New York City, with opening acts the Youngbloods and Jake Holmes. In fact, many thought that entire songs sounded pretty familiar. Music is derivative anyway! But before Holmes signed that settlement, he talked about it plenty.

“It’s always been obvious to me that I do not have a laissez-faire attitude,” he said. A young California singer-songwriter, Holmes was hotly tipped by the industry to be the next breakout star in the folky Donovan vein. Jake Holmes, whose authorship of the tune has been widely cited for … Even though I was a lowly Cedar Chopper across the low water bridge out in the hills of … In the case of “Dazed and Confused,” Jake Holmes waited over forty years to file his lawsuit about being covered without credit. In a way, it was a great epitaph, because we were feeling very dazed and confused about what the hell was going on! What would later become such an iconic part of Led Zeppelin was then just a young and unproven guitarist trying to bring something new to his instrument. Anyone, who is creative, has influences that they incorporate into their work, and as the bible says, there is nothing new under the sun. But Led Zeppelin didn’t always win.

Though they enjoyed playing it, ultimately the song had not inspired the rejuvenating spark they’d hoped for.
PAGE: [Sourly] I don’t know. So did Led Zeppelin deliberately steal Holmes’ song? That would be easy to catch, especially with the internet, and impossible to argue your way out of. I rode the Thunderbird. “I don’t want [Page] to give me full credit for this song. When he wrote “Dazed and Confused,” he knew immediately that it would be a big song. And they did “Dazed and Confused,” essentially doing a cover of the Yardbirds’ cover. Wiley from Tucker, Ga To confirm, Jake Holmes' song was called "Dazed and Confused".

So I don’t know.