– Blues dead in America?
– Some exceptions, e.g. the Kinks

– Led Zeppelin: rock critics’ favourite art band
– Deep Purple: both heavy and melodic
– Black Sabbath, kings of heavy metal
– Uriah Heep: underrated „black sheep”, rock press hostility

• The Gallows Pole, from album
III., 1970
– Sound with pictures (recorded much later when influence from folk is also much more evident)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kBX0K9nxPc
– Look at text: what genre?
– Another famous track
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC-T0rC6m7I
–
Concert footage
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlNhD0oS5pk

• Hangman, hangman, hold it a little while
I Think I see my friends coming, Riding a many mile
Friends, you get some silver?
Did you get a little gold?
What did you bring me, my dear friends? Keep me from the Gallows Pole
What did you bring me to keep me from the
Gallows Pole?
• Hangman, hangman, turn your head awhile
I think I see my sister coming, riding many mile, mile, mile
Sister, I implore you, take him by the hand
Take him to some shady bower, save me from the wrath of this man
Please take him, save me from the wrath of this mad, man
Hangman, hangman, upon your face a smile
Tell me that I'm free to ride
Ride for many mile, mile, mile
I couldn't get no silver, I couldn't get no gold
You know that we're too damn poor to keep you from the Gallows Pole
Hangman, hangman, hold it a little while
I think I see my brother coming, riding many a mile
Brother, you get me some silver?
Did you get a little gold?
What did you bring me, my brother, to keep me from the Gallows Pole?
Oh yes, you got a fine sister, She warmed my blood from cold
She warmed my blood to boiling hot to keep you from the Gallows Pole
Your brother brought me silver, Your sister warmed my soul
But now I laugh and pull so hard, see you swinging from the Gallows Pole Brother, I brought you some silver, yeah
I brought a little gold, I brought a little of everything
To keep you from the Gallows Pole
Yes, I brought you to keep you from the Gallows
Pole
But now I laugh and pull so hard, see you swinging from the Gallows Pole
Swingin' on the gallows pole!

• Kashmir, from
Physical Graffitti,
1975
– Later concert performance
• https://www.youtube.co
m/watch?v=hAzdgU_kp
Go

Oh, let the sun beat down upon my face, stars to fill my dream
I am a traveler of both time and space, to be where I have been
To sit with elders of the gentle race, this world has seldom seen
They talk of days for which they sit and wait and all will be revealed
Heed the path that led me to that place, yellow desert stream
My Shangri-La beneath the summer moon, I will return again
Sure as the dust that floats high in June, when movin' through Kashmir.
Talk and song from tongues of lilting grace, whose sounds caress my ear
But not a word I heard could I relate, the story was quite clear , Oh, oh.
Oh, father of the four winds, fill my sails, across the sea of years
With no provision but an open face, along the straits of fear , ohh.
When I'm on, when I'm on my way, yeah
When I see, when I see the way, you stay-yeah
Oh, I been flying... mama, there ain't no denyin'
I've been flying, ain't no denyin', no denyin'
All I see turns to brown, as the sun burns the ground
And my eyes fill with sand, as I scan this wasted land
Trying to find, trying to find where I've been.
Ooh, yeah-yeah, ooh, yeah-yeah, when I'm down...
Ooh, yeah-yeah, ooh, yeah-yeah, well I'm down, so down
Ooh, my baby, oooh, my baby, let me take you there
Oh, pilot of the storm who leaves no trace, like thoughts inside a dream
Let me take you there. Let me take you there

• Smoke on the Water
– http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=zUwEIt9ez7M
• Song talked about, „the famous riff ”
• http://www.youtube.c
om/watch?v=iWl0YJ
N5Xf4&feature=yout ube_gdata

We all came out to Montereax,
On the Lake Geneva shoreline.
To make records with a mobile,
We didn't have much time.
But Frank Zappa and the Mothers,
Were at the best place around,
But some stupid with a flare gun,
Burned the place to the ground.
Smoke on the water and fire in the sky.
Smoke on the water...
They burned down the gambling house,
It died with an awful sound.
(Uh) Funky Claude was running in and out,
Pulling kids out the ground.
When it all was over,
We had to find another place.
But Swiss time was running out,
It seemed that we would lose the race.
Smoke on the water and fire in the sky.
Smoke on the water...
We ended up at the Grand Hotel.
It was empty cold and bare.
But with the Rolling truck Stones thing just outside,
Making our music there.
With a few red lights, a few old beds,
We made a place to sweat.
No matter what we get out of this,
I know I know we'll never forget.
Smoke on the water and fire in the sky.
Smoke on the water...

• Child in Time, from the In Rock album
• Album cover to right.
• UK TV, 1970
– Good quality rec. but only album cover, Ian Gillan?
– http:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=P fAWReBmxEs&feature=youtube_g data
– On TV, with Ian Gillan for sure
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1 slq_FwRN8o&feature=youtube_gd ata
• Also called „hair rock”. Appropriate?
• Emotional? romantic? John Lord
• Influence for many Hungarian bands, esp. P. Mobil

Sweet child in time you'll see the line
The line that's drawn between good and the bad
See the blind man shooting at the world
Bullets flying, taking toll
If you've been bad, lord I bet you have
And you've not been hit by flying lead
You'd better close your eyes
Bow your head
Wait for the ricochet
Sweet child in time you'll see the line
The line that's drawn between, good and the bad
See the blind man shooting at the world
Bullets flying, taking toll
If you've been bad, lord I bet you have
And you've not been hit by flying lead
You'd better close your eyes
Bow your head
Wait for the ricochet
I gotta hear you scream
I wanna hear you scream Oh, god, oh, no don't, oh, ain't gonna do it, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no

• Follow links, listening and watching.
– Do the same again, in combination with reading the lyrics.
• How the Brits Rocked America, episode 3 -- Further background to the 1960-1970s
– Questions on next slide.
• Read Led Zep and Deep Purple entries in Harmony and
Rock Handbook encyclopaedias.
– Almost a different written genre? Characteristics?
– Note down memorable collocations, e.g „pile-driving music ”

• Take notes of the performers you see (you know).
• Who were the pioneers followed by many other bands, apart from initial inroads into the US by the Beatles, etc?
• What special brand of rock evolved? S_ _ _ _ _ _ rock.
• Humble station-wagon beginnings. In what sense?
• What captivated American audiences?
• What was J. Bruce’s interesting and paradoxical statement?
• How does he describe the Americans’ attitudes to blues?
– What did blacks think?
– What was the attitude of the whites?
• What was the Am. technical contribution to concerts?
• What other technological invention helped popularize performers?
• Collect words that refer to the Americans’ criticisms of the Brits, e.g. baboonery.
– What three roles did Ian Anderson play at concerts?