You really blew me away on this one. How something so simple sounding can be so complex. It's made me want to go back and actively listen to so much music. The Leit Motif explanation was great, I just always considered it as happy sounding, but you took it to a different place. Thanks for taking your time to do all the reseach.
@@chrishughes4285 Well, Mark somewhat glued himself to Abraxas back in '79 when I was head rodie. He used to plant himself right in front of Ted and watch his every move. I thought it was cool his intensity to learn and knowing his tenacity against authority figures (rock n roll!), I imagined he could do it! I had classes at Shore Jr High with Mark and he was defiantly a standout. Took a few wicked swats back when teachers could administer. Can you imagine that now! Chris, were you an older or younger bro? Music a main thing?
@@stevenjones6780 Younger brother. My really good friends were Ted's next door neighbor. We used to sit outside and listen to Abraxas practice.I told Mark you got to hear these guys. Introduced Mark to Ted and the rest is history 🎸
Thank You is One of my favorites - I got married to it and our vows came from the lyrics back in 78. I'm still thanking her every day. Thanks Carl for your input and your channel is great!
I share your feelings here for sure. Great choice of a Wedding Song my friend!. I just commented to Carl as follows:-THANK YOU Carl, for putting so much listening, playing, and insight into your analysis of LZ as a band, and of Thank You the song. I came across your presentation seeking ideas for a "non-replicate-the-original" version of the Thank You solo. I'm 70, daughter is getting married in November, and she has asked that the long lived remaining founding members of our humble wee band play at her wedding. Thank You was one specific request - inspired no doubt from listening to my generations music for nearly 3 decades..... Cheers from Christchurch New Zealand.
How did I just find you today? As a Zeppelin addict and have been since I was a teen, this channel in the last couple of videos has completely blown my mind! Thank you for the videos I’ve watched to this point and I realize I’ve only just begun on my long continued journey of Zeppelin and now your videos.
@@CarlBaldassarreMusic @Travis Miller I just found Carl’s channel yesterday .. Carl, so glad my interest in Led Zap and JPP brought me to you. Your breakdown of the song is extraordinary . I have watched 5 of your videos and am sharing them broadly. Your joy of music os infectious
Same here. The greatest band ever in the land. And where did Carl come from! How could I not have been hip to this channel before? Came across my feed first time today.
I’ve always considered this one of the greatest love songs ever written. I’ve listened to the original and the BBC version a million times. This breakdown has taken me to back to memories and times I never could have imagined. Once again, thank you for this amazing breakdown, you gave me a whole different outlook on it and I’m thankful for that.
Very , very nice. I always liked the lyrics "Tears of love's lost in the days gone by". That line has always stuck with me. I still think about that girl.
When I watch your breakdowns of compositions by Jimmy Page, I am not only in awe of the magnitude of the genius level that Jimmy Page operates at, but also the genius level one must operate at to not only understand and identify the workings of his genius but also explain it in ways that we mere mortals can comprehend.....for that, I want to thank you
I’m glad UA-cam suggested Carls channel to me because I had no idea that there was a channel out there with someone who is this knowledgeable on Zeppelin especially Jimmy’s technique and has the ability to reproduce JP’s guitar parts is amazing. I can tell there’s going to be a day or two for me to do some binge watching Carls channel to catch up. Thanks Carl.
Carl, another out of the park Home Run!!! What an incredible take on one of my Fav mellow Zep songs. Your breakdown and how it's articulated are terrific. Been looking forward to this installment, on a rainy Monday morning certainly brightened my day! Know these must take quite a bit of work, much appreciated and Thank-You very much. The "IF" is so important to this song. Always thought Zeppelin II being written on the road during a "Zep I" tour through North America that Plant had written the lyrics for his wife. Certainly answers the longing and missing someone while separated. Expressing how powerful their Love is with "If mountains crumble to the sea, there will still be you and me". Silently saying to her ' I'm not with you now, but will be soon, we can make it through this or anything'. Being in a relationship myself where I'm away from the Love of my life many months a year this tune means more to me now, when separated listening is even more intense. The guitar Page used for this was an interesting choice. A 60's Vox Country Western, made in Italy with a bolt on neck. Not a very expensive guitar and certainly not a Martin or Gibson. Yet it had a tone that fit perfectly for the 6 acoustic parts. Have tried to capture the sound using various guitars and some effects, have come reasonably close, still nothing can match it. A small piece of trivia for you. Interesting to note, this is STILL one Zep song that Plant likes to play live to this day. Probably one he has played the most from the Zeppelin catalogue during his solo career. Do wonder how the meaning has changed (if it has) to RP over the years? Once again, appreciate your work very much, "Thank You".
Wow!! What an incredibly insightful comment. I love it and really appreciate what you have to say. Please spread the word about the channel so we can keep it going. I need to get this to several thousands of subscribers.
@@CarlBaldassarreMusic It was an Eros Dakota 606. It's the one Jimmy is holding in the photo at the start of this episode. I bought one 2nd hand in 1971 for £30. Still got it, it plays beautifully and has save many a recording session where bands more expensive guitars didn't do the job. You know the makes!! Have others but have put too much love into this one to part with it.
Nicely done. Most people think of Jimmy Page as a great guitar player. He is vastly under appreciated as composer. His years in the studio served him and all of us well. When I sit down to learn a new song I go straight to the Zepplin catalog first and rarely end up anywhere else. Thanks man that was great 👍 👍
He is a composer first and foremost. His conceptions are high art! His playing is in service to the music and are textural. You out your finger right on it!! Thanks for the comment!!
Beautiful breakdown, Carl. I loved it…and I’m only the bass player! Zeppelin were the ultimate unit. The perfect band at the perfect time. John Paul’s contributions were monumental and even that’s an understatement. The guy was SO good that he didn’t even need to be in a band. Like you, I recognized this when I was 13 years old…and heard LZ II. That was IT for me. At that young, ignorant age I knew that I was hearing something unique. All these years later I’m still trying to decode this band. Excellent video here. Thank you Carl.
Your joy is infectious when you talk about The Greatest Band in the World! I smiled all the way through your presentation as I realized that you love them every bit as much as I do….thank you….
If you listen to live recordings from 71 Page plays the solo in D pentatonic minor and major. Creates a lot of tension Sounds great. Thanks for the vid
Carl, what a great show at Laurello today, I loved the live version of Thank You you did, outrageous! And the way you break it down in this video is mind blowing for real. Thanks again for dedicating one for John, Cathy was so excited when I told her. Your hood brother Darrel Nick Uchbar.9
Thank you Darrel! I really appreciate our historic neighborhood connections and your support. Yesterday’s version of Thank You was the best performance of that number so far! Hope to see you at our next shows!
Thanks for posting this today. My wife and I are celebrating our 20th wedding anniversary today and 'Thank-you' was our song for the first dance. And her favorite movie is Gone with the Wind and you mentioned something musical about the film she did not know.
Another Grand Slam, Carl... I remember thinking when I was a young brat "Hmmm"..."This is an easy one" and I had learned it... but then not really thinking much more of it than just another sappy love long.. I love these videos because you get to see some of the things you missed along the way... The one thing with JP and LZ as a whole throughout their career... You never got the sense they were out of control or didn't know what they were doing and they always seemed to be a step ahead in every way possible right from the get go... Even today... I still feel JP and Zep's influence on everybody...
THANK YOU Carl, for putting so much listening, playing, and insight into your analysis of LZ as a band, and of Thank You the song. I came across your presentation seeking ideas for a "non-replicate-the-original" version of the Thank You solo. I'm 70, daughter is getting married in November, and she has asked that the long lived remaining founding members of our humble wee band play at her wedding. Thank You was one specific request - inspired no doubt from listening to my generations music for nearly 3 decades..... Cheers from Christchurch New Zealand.
I have always felt the hopefulness in this song, not only in the repeating motif but also the beautiful melody and lyrics, particularly "when mountains crumble to sea, there will still be you and me". Such a beautiful song and one of my favorites. I loved hearing your analysis of it and of course now I appreciate it even more ❤
Blown away, mate. Been listening to this for 35 years, just going on feel and leaning towards greatness. Super impressed with your ability to articulate and paint metafores to what is going on. Keep em coming, keen listener here!
Thank you Carl!! I listened to this song when I first heard LZ 2 and felt an otherworldly emotion. It is a masterpiece. Brilliant breakdown. LZ has been my favorite band since I was a child and Ive always appreciated their amazing talent. Ive never tired of it. Thank you!!
Another explanation of something I'd not entirely grasped after so many years listening. A couple of years ago, I managed to get a more modern version of the 12 string Gianini Craviola that I believe might have been played on this. It's a curious beastie some think ugly, but I love it. The amazing thing about it is, it sounds absolutely correct. I have 2 other 12 strings, none expensive - but neither was the Craviola honestly - it actually gets that tone straight off the bat. Look out for one, you won't regret it.
Yet ANOTHER master class!!! Boy, when you say you dig deep, that's no lie! My face is getting muscle cramps from smiling non=stop through the whole vid. Then, when you pulled out Blueberry Hill I couldn't believe it, I have the exact same bootleg! THANK YOU!
DUDE...THANK YOU!!! For someone who has rudimentary musical depth... love your vids that try to explain to me why they're so great. Keep up the great work!
I'm a little late to the party , but I'm glad I found your channel. Yes , I've subscribed to your channel. It's like I'm back in high school studying music theory , but just way better. Keep up with the great job your doing .
The entire album is great. I only got this album in '70, because my older sister wanted to get the "12 albums for $1" that Columbia Records add promised. However, my mom had as a condition, that she pick out 6 albums for my brother Bruce and I. My two favorite songs on the album were Thank You and Ramble On. Your videos are lovely, because they increased my appreciation for Page and Led Zeppelin, thank you very much. - No pun intended. ;)
You’re welcome! What’s also cool about that concert was you could hear how they could stretch their material because they didn’t have enough of their own songs yet!
So cool to see the acoustic studio and the live electric. And so true about the live bootlegs which many of us still listen to. Appreciate your efforts...
Thank YOU, Carl, for yet another wonderful and enlightening episode. I'm not a musician, so I'm unable to comment on the technical side of the piece. That said, thanks to your gift for communication, I could follow certain concepts, such as the harmonic shifts that create a sense of the music being "ambiguous" and "floaty". I first heard Led Zep II as a 13-year-old in, err... '72. For me, the song (the lyrics, anyway) suggest solidity, strength and certainty. With the line "when mountains crumble to the sea, there will still be you and me", the love affair will, figuratively speaking, endure for geological time. The long organ outro and reprise further suggest that there is no sense of finite linear time to the song. "Love is something eternal; the aspect may change but not the essence" (Vincent Van Gogh). As the music is allowed to breath, for me, the song has a wistful quality. So, is there a contradiction? The lyrics would suggest solid and strong, yet the music floating and shifting. For me, the solidity and the certainty of the lyric are reflected, therefore, in the music's sense of timelessness and space, rather than in the harmonies. Now, floating, rather than being foundationless, implies that the relationship is founded on calmness, trust and confidence (for example, one has to have these to be able to float on water). Just my thoughts. Peace.
Jimmy's bends were elastic and huge from the get go on Good Times Bad Times, You Shook Me etc and he and Robert always vied against each other in that classic duelling Q & A they'd do. Thanks for loving Zeppelin !
Enjoyed your thoughts on this lovely song. Lyrics are beautiful and full of love and sadness. Takes one for an emotional journey and does a great job of leaving the listener in a tranquil state, in my opinion. Led Zeppelin is about as good as it gets.
Bravo Carl!! 👋👍Another great in depth and thoughtful analysis! My favorite parts is when you pulled out all of your notes as your revealing all the layers of this song and then the story about hearing live Led for first time and your original copy of Blueberry.Hill! 😊 That was my feeling exactly when I first heard live Led! It was all bootleg back then, that's all we had before TSRTS. Some of their live bootleg remains some of my fav to listen to, more than HTWWW and TSRTS, where you get the raw real deal and not edited in the studio before live album release. This reaction analysis was gold!
You are a gift. This video kept coming up as a suggestion and I kept blowing it off because of the simplicity of the song. I learned so much, got chills there at the end with the live solo. The context behind the music, along with your personal childhood discovery, all provided with such enthusiasm and passion, adds so much to the videos you produce. They all resonate deeply with my own experiences. Thank you sir!
Had the most wonderful pleasure of proposing to my lady two weeks ago using this song. I held her close to me and after Robert sings the line, "Happiness, I'm glad..." After John Paul Jones organ died down, I pulled the ring out right when Robert started to sing, "If the sun...." The look on her face just made everything indescribable. The sheer beauty of music.
The scored and published sheet music of “Thank You” is in the key of D. Some believe the key to be D Mixolydian. Robert Plant is quoted as saying they considered keys of songs to be centered on how Jimmy Page played the chords. Traditionally, the key of any piece of music has been determined by what scale the notes of the melody fall into. I didn’t know there was a key called D Mixolydian; always thought it was just the name of a scale, or mode. D Mixolydian does seem to make sense for the melody Plant sings. Zeppelin/Page most likely considered “Thank You” to be in the key of D.
Carl, I'm a new fan of yours. Thanks for doing these. I think it also interesting to hear how Page reworks Thank You, Friends (everything, really) on the 1995 album. That might be something interesting to unfold for us some time. (If you don't mind a little suggestion here.)
Robert asked Jimmy, if he could take lyrics Little drops of rain, whisper.... and Jimmy told him , sure you can do .... Greetings to you Carl, and thanxs for musical explanations, Mica 🐕🐾🌻
Outstanding Carl. The very first song I ever heard by Led Zeppelin was with some friends on a Saturday afternoon. It was, "Whole Lotta Love." Yep that was my intro. to Led Zeppelin. Your analysis of that song and all the others since, has given me a grand new perspective of LZ2. "Thank You"
Fantastic Carl, that break down is truly amazing and very touching.I'll be stopping by one of my favourite places early tomorrow morning on the Hartside summit with views over to the Solway firth and mountains across England and Scotland listening to Thank you.
I love the studio version but the live versions have quite a different dynamic to them. One thing about Zeppelin live...you'll never hear the same thing more than once. Maybe similar, but never the same.
FANTASTICALLY interesting analysis! I don't really know a lot of theory and I guess it's even more clear to me now since for fifty years I thought this song was in "D". It's hard to chose which LZ song is my favorite since there are so many, but this one has always been right up there. Thanks for this! Cheers, MB
Pink Floyd The Wall, ending with "The Trial" is a great example of musical motifs for characters. Jimmy knows how to build a progression that makes the listener long for the resolution.
This is a stellar in-depth exploration of this song, and blew me away. I know a little music theory, so was stunned by how you unpacked the foundation of the song, etc. It is so deceptively simple. When I learned how to play it back in the late 1970s, it seemed almost embarrassingly obvious, as it seems like a key of D folk tune with a nice walk-down bass line, and that is how it is usually taught and presented. You exploded that, and restored the breadth and mystery off the song and why it remains so unique and compelling to this day. Love the brief discussion of the live versions and how radically different they were from the studio recording. (I had a lot of Zeppelin bootlegs back in the day as well, and well remember the 1970 versions of 'Thank You'.) Interestingly, as far as I can tell, Led Zeppelin did not play 'Thank You' live after 1973, where it was sometimes included as an encore. Up through 1972 it was (I think) in the first third of their set list. So after '73 it disappears until Page & Plant featured it in 1994 for the Unledded MTV special and album, and their 1995 tour. That reunion had a number of such welcomed surprises and revisiting and reinterpretations of their catalog. Thanks for another outstanding video and musical journey!
I really appreciate the kind words and thoughtful review. I work very hard on these breakdowns. I hope you have seen my other videos and have subscribed!!!
@@CarlBaldassarreMusic Yes, absolutely. Been watching one or two a day since discovering your channel only a few days ago, and bookmarked your website. Looking forward to exploring that as well. You are producing extremely high quality, intelligent, and engaging content, well-planned and well-paced, meaty (no fluff or superficiality) and opening up lots of layers for musicians and songwriters, composers, etc. It's nice to encounter such a great balance of obvious enthusiasm for the material with serious analysis and understanding... challenging enough to make me pause and backup every now and then, but generally a perfect pace for a fully engaging experience. Hope your audience count takes off!
The live version if Thank You from Page&Plant Unledded is my fave ever...the solos are awesome. Love this song with electric solos, live bootleg versions from early days have ridiculously raunchy solos. Particularly Montreaux from early 70s. And my favorite parts of the live solos are always that first electric "rubbery" lick you mentioned. Thanks for posting!
@@CarlBaldassarreMusic: Oh, yes, I started watching it last night and something distracted me. I'm about halfway through, now. I play my own phrasing over that song a time or two during the year. I dont try to copy Jim, #1). I can´t, #2). I´d rather play like me but capture the mood. Your vid will help me figure out the chord progression. Each time I think I have it figured out it, it eludes me the very next time I attempt it. LOL!
Just came across this series you're working on, and I'm loving it! I'm glad you brought up the live differences toward the end, because the BBC Sessions version of Thank You is one of my favorite Page solos ever.
Thank you. It’s such a fantastic live version and really stands alone as a totally different version from the studio. Btw…I’ll shall be posting a live version I performed recently on my 2nd website: www.ledzeppelinbybaldassarre.com
If you watch the version from Page & Plant's Unledded, it's better than everyone before or since. Not just because of the orchestras behind him, but Jimmy's soloing on that one is just otherworldly, again... As far as Live vs Recording. LZ always put out a refined, neat product that was second to none, while the live performances were meant to be organic, feeding off the crowd and trying to be inspired and inspiring at the same time. This song is a prime example.
Really really great analysis of this song. It is so cool not to touch the "tablature side", which al the other youtubers do, but really dig in to the layers, dynamics and little guitarplay Page does of LedZep music. I'm really curious - and hope - that Jimmy Page will see your video's. I think he will really likes your way of analysing his songs.
So much music happens before your fingers touch the fingerboard. I’m far more interested in understanding the “want” of the composer, the artist and piece itself. I’m glad you appreciate where I’m coming from and what I’m trying to convey. Be sure to check out all my Led Zeppelin II breakdowns and share my link with others if you don’t mind! Peace, Carl Baldassarre
PS: It would be great to know if Jimmy Page saw these. I’m sure he’d be grateful that someone sees this side of his artistry. I care about the band and his legacy a 100 years hence and no one has really done a musicological analysis that I know of and I wanted to fill that void in a small way for them and future listeners. But I’ll need so many more subscribers if I’m ever going to make a mark….
Great video overall, beautiful appreciation for the artistry of LedZep. And Carl's playing of Page's chordplay and solos is nothing short of lifelong mastery. Theory-wise, I think Carl is, imho, basically saying that the natural C puts this song in the key of G. And if you play the G major scale here the notes work. But I would agree with Larry that Thank You, is like so many Zeppelin tunes based on the blues. It can and should be looked at as in the key of D. The blues is rarely going to have a strict scale or mode use from a player like Page. A key of D blues scale would be mixolydian-ish, but also use flat 3, flat 5, and major 7 sometimes when you're on the 5 chord of A7. Almost anything goes in the blues, and the C chord here is just the flat 7 chord. In the bridge, when Plant's lyric is "Nothing more", there's a classic 2-5-1 of A: Bm to E7 to A, which then is the 5 chord of D. Again no criticism here, just a way of looking at things from a non-classical pov.
Thanx. Really enjoy these insights. Wish you would show how to play the outro from Thankyou. With the glissando embellishments behind Plants' vocals. Never able to figure it out
i am hard of hearing and this album was the first album i listened to on headphones. so it was the first album that i actually heard. i was visiting my aunt and uncle in Pa. my cousin was in vietnam and they let me use his 8track player and headphones. this song and album blew my young mind. thank you was my favourite song on the album. it made a boring trip where i was left to amuse myself one of the best ever. i saved up for some headphones. it changed my life. whooo my life was saved by rock and roll. with a shout out to lou reed.
thank you carl. you are a top notch guitar player. not many people can play jimmy page as well as you. led zep was the reason i got into the great blues musicians. in turn i started to introduce my friends to real music other than kiss and horrible top am hits that saturated the 70s. not all mind you,i will keep an eye out for your great outlooks on music.
Hi Carl, you mention about the lyrics possibly being based on something from Kipling or the book of psalms. Take a listen to jumi Hendrix if 6 was 9, released 1967. Very similar lyrics, not to take away from this beautiful song, which was my first dance with.my wife at our wedding. You're doing great work. Thank you
Zeppelin threw in what were supposed to be homages/nods to other acts now and then, yet now everything they did id called plagiarism even when it was only meant as a brief tribute. Its so annoying. Obvious some, not much, was stolen but a lot of it was just tribute to their musical heroes.
If I may suggest; there’s a live version of this song I’d like to recommend all to look into. A show they did in Vancouver on 21.3.70 was broadcast on FM radio has been for years a famous bootleg for us Zeppelin die hards. It’s called Pb (pure blues) or Mudslide. Either one you find, it’s the same show. The version of Thank You here is just wonderful. John Paul opens it with a church-like Hammond Organ intro. Bonzo’s drumming here is a reminder as to why he couldn’t ever be replaced. Lastly, Jimmy’s solo is just dripping with emotion. I think you’ll all enjoy it as it’s in perfect stereo FM clarity!
@@CarlBaldassarreMusic ah...so it sounds like you’re familiar w that version. It truly is wonderful. LZ II made want to play bass! It’s a great example of what I call British Motown. Jones has cited Jamerson and Duck Dunn as two of his major influences.
Having been born and brought up in Worcestershire (Elgar country), I've always 'gone along' with much of his music - especially along the Malvern Hills (try and find the Ken Russell old black and white Elgar film he made for the BBC back in the sixties. The Introduction and Allegro for Strings is so peacefully wild and free - yet - there is another (movement) of another of his compositions that stays in my mind for similar aesthetic reasons. I've read things about Elgar over the years and quietly suspected that, after - while a struggling composer - his having met and married a middle-class lady (Elgar was working class) ten years older than he, her financial status was a considerable asset to his early yearnings to compose. When at long last he began to be appreciated - in Germany before his own country - his social position subsequently rose and became prominent to the English people, I found that he socially encountered and became very friendly with a woman a little younger than himself. I quietly suspect his feelings deepened for her - but - being a respectable English Knight - his high social status had to remain what it had risen to...so - not only did he not further his emotional interacting with this unpretentious young female along that aesthetic line, he wouldn't even go so far as tell her anything about his spiritual 'problem' by informing her of the true emotion in his soul for her... I'm quietly of the conviction that the nearest he chose to go in that was to put the psychological aspect of his aesthetic situation concerning her into a movement of a subsequent composition of his...and this also, to my mind, has to be another particular recording. I genuinely feel the overall circumstances of his love for her were put by him into the andante movement of his violin concerto - and it is, to me, most clearly performed by Jascha Heifetz. I'll leave it at that. I hope I haven't rambled on again too much - but if my assertion as to the background impetus in Elgar's mind of what social happenings had occurred with him at that time - the neutral listening by anyone may hear something similar to my gentle suggestion...
@@mattcartwright8272 Not at all. The words of 'Thank You' could easily have been similar to the thoughts Elgar had for that woman (possibly Dora Penny - as Elgar - believe it or not - used to cycle from Worcester to Wolverhampton and back to watch the Wolves play with a young woman he knew) - perhaps my being a willful optimist led to my mentioning the Andante movement played by Heifetz - have you listened to it and thought them not a million miles apart aesthetically..?
Hey thanks so much Carl. These are terrific and my own guitar has been pulled out a lot more lately from your inspiration. I would love a Dazed, Levee, SIBLY, Rain Song and Ten Years Gone personally, but I'm excited for more vids!
Thanks for really looking into this song, not knowing theory I’d have never known why it’s so special. I know a bit though so I’m digging what you’re saying 😉. I’d love to know if Plant knew what he was doing or it was just the genius. Mind blowing stuff.
I miss those bootlegs. Blueberry Hill, Destroyer, Bonzo's Birthday...I had recorded them onto cassette tapes, and ultimately lost them to a guitarist's garage.
Great stuff you understand and appreciate Pages work he’s not a sloppy overrated guitar player. There’s a great version of thank you by jun 626 he plays a live from the bbc version from around 1970 the Zeppelin version is on UA-cam also but if you haven’t check out Jun 626 he is awesome and plays a lot of Zep but other artists too. He also has a version of traveling riverside blues it blows me away how close to page he gets. If u get a chance do a video on traveling riverside blues that last lick has a million notes page on fire . Keep the videos coming. I always knew Jimmy was great but watching you and jun now I know why he’s so great
@@CarlBaldassarreMusic it’s funny because you lend Creedence to what I always thought about him. I’ve been playing over 40 years not to your level however what you said about him not being sloppy is right on, in the studio he’s meticulous but live he’s reaching and stretching so of course your going to misfire from time to time. But no one plays with the passion and feeling he does. A real artist in every sense of the word. Last I think a lot of the negitive about him comes from people who don’t play guitar. Thanks again keep the videos coming. Also check out jun 262 great stuff peace
Many years ago, as a kid, I listened to Leonard Bernstein giving young people lectures on music that were full of passion and poetry. He communicated his vast knowledge of music in ways that made it understandable to nubbiest w/out much music theory or vocabulary. Your style of expressing the complexities remind me so much of Bernstein, who really understood music so very well Thank you !
Well my friend…you have paid me the highest compliment ever!! He is basically my hero and I would listen to him hoping he’d never stop talking. He would fill me with such awe and wonder about music, history and the arts. My favorite teacher had a master class with him and i lived vicariously through that story. Anyway…you nailed it and I’m so honored that my approach resembles Lenny’s in the slightest ways!! Gratefully yours, Carl…the other Mr. B :))))
Well said. I know people who played that song at there wedding. Both Wedding March and Bride/Groom dance. You have a great outline to the Review of that Song.
Thank YOU for taking the time to break this song down. I have to give you credit for re-sensitizing my ears to these songs. PS is that a Brian Moore guitar behind you? 👍
Have a listen to this on the BBC sessions album remixed by Jimmy Page - It's epic with electric solo at the end in my opinion the best recorded version.
Thank You! This is one of my favorite Zeppelin songs (among many). So many great insights. There's also a great live version on the BBC Sessions. Also - i'm digging that sweater vest! Would love to hear you talk about your Les Paul sometime.
You’ve got great taste in sweater vests!! Thank you so much!! I hope you subscribed?? Btw…hit the notification bell. UA-cam is not prioritizing my videos.
@@CarlBaldassarreMusic Yep - I've been subscribed for a few months now, and have notification turned on. Just hang in there, and keep putting out the great content - your channel will definitely grow!
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The brilliance of Jimmy Page - making something complex sound so simple and beautiful 🙌🏼
You really blew me away on this one. How something so simple sounding can be so complex. It's made me want to go back and actively listen to so much music. The Leit Motif explanation was great, I just always considered it as happy sounding, but you took it to a different place. Thanks for taking your time to do all the reseach.
Thanks brother! Love your encouragement brother. Means a lot!!
Hi Chris, any relation to Mark Hughes I went to school with (father? brother?). What a guy! I've got a couple good stories...
@@stevenjones6780 (Brother) - I might be part of thise stories LOL
@@chrishughes4285 Well, Mark somewhat glued himself to Abraxas back in '79 when I was head rodie. He used to plant himself right in front of Ted and watch his every move. I thought it was cool his intensity to learn and knowing his tenacity against authority figures (rock n roll!), I imagined he could do it! I had classes at Shore Jr High with Mark and he was defiantly a standout. Took a few wicked swats back when teachers could administer. Can you imagine that now! Chris, were you an older or younger bro? Music a main thing?
@@stevenjones6780 Younger brother. My really good friends were Ted's next door neighbor. We used to sit outside and listen to Abraxas practice.I told Mark you got to hear these guys. Introduced Mark to Ted and the rest is history 🎸
Thank You is One of my favorites - I got married to it and our vows came from the lyrics back in 78. I'm still thanking her every day. Thanks Carl for your input and your channel is great!
I share your feelings here for sure. Great choice of a Wedding Song my friend!. I just commented to Carl as follows:-THANK YOU Carl, for putting so much listening, playing, and insight into your analysis of LZ as a band, and of Thank You the song. I came across your presentation seeking ideas for a "non-replicate-the-original" version of the Thank You solo. I'm 70, daughter is getting married in November, and she has asked that the long lived remaining founding members of our humble wee band play at her wedding. Thank You was one specific request - inspired no doubt from listening to my generations music for nearly 3 decades..... Cheers from Christchurch New Zealand.
How did I just find you today? As a Zeppelin addict and have been since I was a teen, this channel in the last couple of videos has completely blown my mind! Thank you for the videos I’ve watched to this point and I realize I’ve only just begun on my long continued journey of Zeppelin and now your videos.
Thank you!! Love hearing this!
@@CarlBaldassarreMusic @Travis Miller I just found Carl’s channel yesterday .. Carl, so glad my interest in Led Zap and JPP brought me to you. Your breakdown of the song is extraordinary . I have watched 5 of your videos and am sharing them broadly. Your joy of music os infectious
I only saw a video for his channel pop up in the UA-cam algorithm today. Took me two videos to subscribe
Same here. The greatest band ever in the land. And where did Carl come from! How could I not have been hip to this channel before? Came across my feed first time today.
Sped Spedding has a great Zep focused channel as well .
I’ve always considered this one of the greatest love songs ever written. I’ve listened to the original and the BBC version a million times. This breakdown has taken me to back to memories and times I never could have imagined. Once again, thank you for this amazing breakdown, you gave me a whole different outlook on it and I’m thankful for that.
So kind! Thank you!!
Very , very nice.
I always liked the lyrics "Tears of love's lost in the days gone by". That line has always stuck with me. I still think about that girl.
I know…it’s a great great line. And so singable!!
When I watch your breakdowns of compositions by Jimmy Page, I am not only in awe of the magnitude of the genius level that Jimmy Page operates at, but also the genius level one must operate at to not only understand and identify the workings of his genius but also explain it in ways that we mere mortals can comprehend.....for that, I want to thank you
Robert, and I want to “thank you” as well!!!
I’m glad UA-cam suggested Carls channel to me because I had no idea that there was a channel out there with someone who is this knowledgeable on Zeppelin especially Jimmy’s technique and has the ability to reproduce JP’s guitar parts is amazing. I can tell there’s going to be a day or two for me to do some binge watching Carls channel to catch up. Thanks Carl.
One of the most beautiful song of all time. Tears drops all the time...
Carl, another out of the park Home Run!!! What an incredible take on one of my Fav mellow Zep songs. Your breakdown and how it's articulated are terrific. Been looking forward to this installment, on a rainy Monday morning certainly brightened my day! Know these must take quite a bit of work, much appreciated and Thank-You very much.
The "IF" is so important to this song. Always thought Zeppelin II being written on the road during a "Zep I" tour through North America that Plant had written the lyrics for his wife. Certainly answers the longing and missing someone while separated. Expressing how powerful their Love is with "If mountains crumble to the sea, there will still be you and me". Silently saying to her ' I'm not with you now, but will be soon, we can make it through this or anything'. Being in a relationship myself where I'm away from the Love of my life many months a year this tune means more to me now, when separated listening is even more intense.
The guitar Page used for this was an interesting choice. A 60's Vox Country Western, made in Italy with a bolt on neck. Not a very expensive guitar and certainly not a Martin or Gibson. Yet it had a tone that fit perfectly for the 6 acoustic parts. Have tried to capture the sound using various guitars and some effects, have come reasonably close, still nothing can match it. A small piece of trivia for you.
Interesting to note, this is STILL one Zep song that Plant likes to play live to this day. Probably one he has played the most from the Zeppelin catalogue during his solo career. Do wonder how the meaning has changed (if it has) to RP over the years?
Once again, appreciate your work very much, "Thank You".
Wow!! What an incredibly insightful comment. I love it and really appreciate what you have to say. Please spread the word about the channel so we can keep it going. I need to get this to several thousands of subscribers.
@@CarlBaldassarreMusic It was an Eros Dakota 606. It's the one Jimmy is holding in the photo at the start of this episode. I bought one 2nd hand in 1971 for £30. Still got it, it plays beautifully and has save many a recording session where bands more expensive guitars didn't do the job. You know the makes!! Have others but have put too much love into this one to part with it.
@@CarlBaldassarreMusic Jimmy’s playing is the most emotional and sensitive to all performers
He truly is a master savant
Nicely done. Most people think of Jimmy Page as a great guitar player. He is vastly under appreciated as composer. His years in the studio served him and all of us well. When I sit down to learn a new song I go straight to the Zepplin catalog first and rarely end up anywhere else. Thanks man that was great 👍 👍
He is a composer first and foremost. His conceptions are high art! His playing is in service to the music and are textural. You out your finger right on it!! Thanks for the comment!!
Great take on this song that I have loved for decades.
Beautiful breakdown, Carl. I loved it…and I’m only the bass player! Zeppelin were the ultimate unit. The perfect band at the perfect time. John Paul’s contributions were monumental and even that’s an understatement. The guy was SO good that he didn’t even need to be in a band. Like you, I recognized this when I was 13 years old…and heard LZ II. That was IT for me. At that young, ignorant age I knew that I was hearing something unique. All these years later I’m still trying to decode this band. Excellent video here. Thank you Carl.
You’re so welcome. JPJ was the secret weapon that made Zep!
Your joy is infectious when you talk about The Greatest Band in the World! I smiled all the way through your presentation as I realized that you love them every bit as much as I do….thank you….
I certainly do! Thank you for watching Mike!
If you listen to live recordings from 71 Page plays the solo in D pentatonic minor and major. Creates a lot of tension Sounds great. Thanks for the vid
Carl, what a great show at Laurello today, I loved the live version of Thank You you did, outrageous! And the way you break it down in this video is mind blowing for real. Thanks again for dedicating one for John, Cathy was so excited when I told her. Your hood brother Darrel Nick Uchbar.9
Thank you Darrel! I really appreciate our historic neighborhood connections and your support. Yesterday’s version of Thank You was the best performance of that number so far! Hope to see you at our next shows!
Thanks for posting this today. My wife and I are celebrating our 20th wedding anniversary today and 'Thank-you' was our song for the first dance. And her favorite movie is Gone with the Wind and you mentioned something musical about the film she did not know.
How uncanny is that!!! Happy anniversary!!! Thanks for the support!
You nailed it on this song. I felt the same way as a youth falling in love with this song. Beautiful nostalgia, and always loved the guitar solo.
Thank you!!!!
Another Grand Slam, Carl... I remember thinking when I was a young brat "Hmmm"..."This is an easy one" and I had learned it... but then not really thinking much more of it than just another sappy love long.. I love these videos because you get to see some of the things you missed along the way... The one thing with JP and LZ as a whole throughout their career... You never got the sense they were out of control or didn't know what they were doing and they always seemed to be a step ahead in every way possible right from the get go... Even today... I still feel JP and Zep's influence on everybody...
Thanks again my brother. Right on!!
THANK YOU Carl, for putting so much listening, playing, and insight into your analysis of LZ as a band, and of Thank You the song. I came across your presentation seeking ideas for a "non-replicate-the-original" version of the Thank You solo. I'm 70, daughter is getting married in November, and she has asked that the long lived remaining founding members of our humble wee band play at her wedding. Thank You was one specific request - inspired no doubt from listening to my generations music for nearly 3 decades..... Cheers from Christchurch New Zealand.
I have always felt the hopefulness in this song, not only in the repeating motif but also the beautiful melody and lyrics, particularly "when mountains crumble to sea, there will still be you and me". Such a beautiful song and one of my favorites. I loved hearing your analysis of it and of course now I appreciate it even more ❤
Awesome! One of their sweetest and caring songs ❤️
It’s very moving isn’t it?!
Blown away, mate. Been listening to this for 35 years, just going on feel and leaning towards greatness. Super impressed with your ability to articulate and paint metafores to what is going on. Keep em coming, keen listener here!
Thank you Carl!! I listened to this song when I first heard LZ 2 and felt an otherworldly emotion. It is a masterpiece. Brilliant breakdown. LZ has been my favorite band since I was a child and Ive always appreciated their amazing talent. Ive never tired of it. Thank you!!
Thank you!
Another explanation of something I'd not entirely grasped after so many years listening. A couple of years ago, I managed to get a more modern version of the 12 string Gianini Craviola that I believe might have been played on this. It's a curious beastie some think ugly, but I love it. The amazing thing about it is, it sounds absolutely correct. I have 2 other 12 strings, none expensive - but neither was the Craviola honestly - it actually gets that tone straight off the bat. Look out for one, you won't regret it.
Yet ANOTHER master class!!! Boy, when you say you dig deep, that's no lie!
My face is getting muscle cramps from smiling non=stop through the whole vid. Then, when you pulled out Blueberry Hill I couldn't believe it, I have the exact same bootleg!
THANK YOU!
Ha! That’s so awesome to know I make you all smile!! Blueberry Hill...is still an awesome document!
DUDE...THANK YOU!!!
For someone who has rudimentary musical depth... love your vids that try to explain to me why they're so great. Keep up the great work!
I'm a little late to the party , but I'm glad I found your channel. Yes , I've subscribed to your channel. It's like I'm back in high school studying music theory , but just way better. Keep up with the great job your doing .
The entire album is great. I only got this album in '70, because my older sister wanted to get the "12 albums for $1" that Columbia Records add promised. However, my mom had as a condition, that she pick out 6 albums for my brother Bruce and I. My two favorite songs on the album were Thank You and Ramble On. Your videos are lovely, because they increased my appreciation for Page and Led Zeppelin, thank you very much. - No pun intended. ;)
I’m so glad you enjoy the videos. I hope you continue to watch my other videos! Peace!
Thank you, indeed. I've loved this song for about as long as you have. I've got to hear the Blueberry Hill version now. Thank you again
You’re welcome! What’s also cool about that concert was you could hear how they could stretch their material because they didn’t have enough of their own songs yet!
So cool to see the acoustic studio and the live electric. And so true about the live bootlegs which many of us still listen to. Appreciate your efforts...
I appreciate you!!
Thank YOU, Carl, for yet another wonderful and enlightening episode. I'm not a musician, so I'm unable to comment on the technical side of the piece. That said, thanks to your gift for communication, I could follow certain concepts, such as the harmonic shifts that create a sense of the music being "ambiguous" and "floaty".
I first heard Led Zep II as a 13-year-old in, err... '72. For me, the song (the lyrics, anyway) suggest solidity, strength and certainty. With the line "when mountains crumble to the sea, there will still be you and me", the love affair will, figuratively speaking, endure for geological time. The long organ outro and reprise further suggest that there is no sense of finite linear time to the song. "Love is something eternal; the aspect may change but not the essence" (Vincent Van Gogh). As the music is allowed to breath, for me, the song has a wistful quality. So, is there a contradiction? The lyrics would suggest solid and strong, yet the music floating and shifting.
For me, the solidity and the certainty of the lyric are reflected, therefore, in the music's sense of timelessness and space, rather than in the harmonies. Now, floating, rather than being foundationless, implies that the relationship is founded on calmness, trust and confidence (for example, one has to have these to be able to float on water). Just my thoughts. Peace.
Brilliant! Thank you so much for sharing!!!
Jimmy's bends were elastic and huge from the get go on Good Times Bad Times, You Shook Me etc and he and Robert always vied against each other in that classic duelling Q & A they'd do.
Thanks for loving Zeppelin !
Enjoyed your thoughts on this lovely song. Lyrics are beautiful and full of love and sadness. Takes one for an emotional journey and does a great job of leaving the listener in a tranquil state, in my opinion. Led Zeppelin is about as good as it gets.
I saw Zep live in Seattle in 1975. I was a Jr. in college and my roommate won tickets on the radio.
Great video, appreciate your analysis and breakdown of the song... thank you is one of my favorites songs.. I also enjoy Chris Cornell's cover
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The Souls Journey of Being Human.
Bravo Carl!! 👋👍Another great in depth and thoughtful analysis! My favorite parts is when you pulled out all of your notes as your revealing all the layers of this song and then the story about hearing live Led for first time and your original copy of Blueberry.Hill! 😊 That was my feeling exactly when I first heard live Led! It was all bootleg back then, that's all we had before TSRTS. Some of their live bootleg remains some of my fav to listen to, more than HTWWW and TSRTS, where you get the raw real deal and not edited in the studio before live album release. This reaction analysis was gold!
It’s hard to explain what it was like back in the day! You definitely get it! Thank you!
You are a gift. This video kept coming up as a suggestion and I kept blowing it off because of the simplicity of the song. I learned so much, got chills there at the end with the live solo. The context behind the music, along with your personal childhood discovery, all provided with such enthusiasm and passion, adds so much to the videos you produce. They all resonate deeply with my own experiences. Thank you sir!
Thank you sooo much for taking the time to comment so kindly!
Had the most wonderful pleasure of proposing to my lady two weeks ago using this song. I held her close to me and after Robert sings the line, "Happiness, I'm glad..." After John Paul Jones organ died down, I pulled the ring out right when Robert started to sing, "If the sun...." The look on her face just made everything indescribable. The sheer beauty of music.
Wow! That’s awesome. Congratulations!!!!
@@CarlBaldassarreMusic Thank you.... Literally! Lol!!
The scored and published sheet music of “Thank You” is in the key of D. Some believe the key to be D Mixolydian. Robert Plant is quoted as saying they considered
keys of songs to be centered on how Jimmy Page played the chords. Traditionally, the key of any piece of music has been determined by what scale the notes of the
melody fall into. I didn’t know there was a key called D Mixolydian; always thought it was just the name of a scale, or mode. D Mixolydian does seem to make sense for
the melody Plant sings. Zeppelin/Page most likely considered “Thank You” to be in the key of D.
Is this Adam Neely in disguise? :))
The most BEAUTIFUL LOVE song ever written. I’d love to hear Carl’s take on Jimmy’s High Octane Solo from The BBC Sessions in ‘71…
So amazing! I’ll revisit because it never gets old!
Awesome! Hello fellow buckeye!
Beautiful. just Beautiful !!!
And of Course Robert Was Magical !!!
Carl, I'm a new fan of yours. Thanks for doing these.
I think it also interesting to hear how Page reworks Thank You, Friends (everything, really) on the 1995 album. That might be something interesting to unfold for us some time. (If you don't mind a little suggestion here.)
Let me give it some thought!
Thank you for doing this, a song that I have always found to be beautiful is even more so now.
Robert asked Jimmy, if he could take lyrics Little drops of rain, whisper.... and Jimmy told him , sure you can do .... Greetings to you Carl, and thanxs for musical explanations, Mica 🐕🐾🌻
Fabulous break down Carl. On point.
Outstanding Carl. The very first song I ever heard by Led Zeppelin was with some friends on a Saturday afternoon. It was, "Whole Lotta Love." Yep that was my intro. to Led Zeppelin. Your analysis of that song and all the others since, has given me a grand new perspective of LZ2. "Thank You"
Thank you so much!!! I give it my all. Please help me spread the word.
Fantastic Carl, that break down is truly amazing and very touching.I'll be stopping by one of my favourite places early tomorrow morning on the Hartside summit with views over to the Solway firth and mountains across England and Scotland listening to Thank you.
Have fun!
I love the studio version but the live versions have quite a different dynamic to them. One thing about Zeppelin live...you'll never hear the same thing more than once. Maybe similar, but never the same.
superb breakdown of a classical track
Fascinating overview Carl, I hope you continue with these videos? As you, Led Zeppelin are my go to band of all time. thank you
FANTASTICALLY interesting analysis! I don't really know a lot of theory and I guess it's even more clear to me now since for fifty years I thought this song was in "D". It's hard to chose which LZ song is my favorite since there are so many, but this one has always been right up there. Thanks for this!
Cheers,
MB
You’re very welcome!!
Thank you for sharing. I love all of the information along with the lessons
Pink Floyd The Wall, ending with "The Trial" is a great example of musical motifs for characters. Jimmy knows how to build a progression that makes the listener long for the resolution.
This is a stellar in-depth exploration of this song, and blew me away. I know a little music theory, so was stunned by how you unpacked the foundation of the song, etc. It is so deceptively simple. When I learned how to play it back in the late 1970s, it seemed almost embarrassingly obvious, as it seems like a key of D folk tune with a nice walk-down bass line, and that is how it is usually taught and presented. You exploded that, and restored the breadth and mystery off the song and why it remains so unique and compelling to this day.
Love the brief discussion of the live versions and how radically different they were from the studio recording. (I had a lot of Zeppelin bootlegs back in the day as well, and well remember the 1970 versions of 'Thank You'.) Interestingly, as far as I can tell, Led Zeppelin did not play 'Thank You' live after 1973, where it was sometimes included as an encore. Up through 1972 it was (I think) in the first third of their set list. So after '73 it disappears until Page & Plant featured it in 1994 for the Unledded MTV special and album, and their 1995 tour. That reunion had a number of such welcomed surprises and revisiting and reinterpretations of their catalog.
Thanks for another outstanding video and musical journey!
I really appreciate the kind words and thoughtful review. I work very hard on these breakdowns. I hope you have seen my other videos and have subscribed!!!
@@CarlBaldassarreMusic Yes, absolutely. Been watching one or two a day since discovering your channel only a few days ago, and bookmarked your website. Looking forward to exploring that as well. You are producing extremely high quality, intelligent, and engaging content, well-planned and well-paced, meaty (no fluff or superficiality) and opening up lots of layers for musicians and songwriters, composers, etc. It's nice to encounter such a great balance of obvious enthusiasm for the material with serious analysis and understanding... challenging enough to make me pause and backup every now and then, but generally a perfect pace for a fully engaging experience. Hope your audience count takes off!
Love Jimmy's Vox acoustic, beautiful guitar.
The live version if Thank You from Page&Plant Unledded is my fave ever...the solos are awesome. Love this song with electric solos, live bootleg versions from early days have ridiculously raunchy solos. Particularly Montreaux from early 70s. And my favorite parts of the live solos are always that first electric "rubbery" lick you mentioned. Thanks for posting!
You’re welcome my friend!
One of my favourite Songs of all time!
Thank you Jesus;)
Besides the guitar work in Since I've Been Loving You this short, melodic and haunting solo is almost my favorite Page soloing.
You’ve got good taste! Did you see my new SIBLY video???!!
@@CarlBaldassarreMusic:
Oh, yes, I started watching it last night and something distracted me. I'm about halfway through, now. I play my own phrasing over that song a time or two during the year. I dont try to copy Jim, #1). I can´t, #2). I´d rather play like me but capture the mood.
Your vid will help me figure out the chord progression. Each time I think I have it figured out it, it eludes me the very next time I attempt it. LOL!
Great insights👍And presented in a way I could for the most part follow.
I was really enticed by your story telling, admirable, thanks!
A labor of love and something that suits my research and analytical tendencies!
the last part of the video is really interesting too, thanks again for that !
Nice job!!! Great explanation.
Thank you Chris!!
This is AWESOME! Thanks AGAIN! i love this song! Jimmy can make his guitar sound so good with THIN strings and really differend tunings in strings..
Thin strings sound better actually. Watch Rick Beato's video on it
You’re very welcome. The pleasure is all mine!!
@@CarlBaldassarreMusic have you checked what strings jimmy used? he said rockers nowadays use way too thick strings!
I haven’t a clue. I know back in the day he used Ernie Ball Super Slinky. I use D’Addario 9-46.
@@CarlBaldassarreMusic and jimmy was doing live show's with a sello bow strings such a thing strings "and 60's materials"
Great song great work Carl!
Beautiful. Hope. Yes it is.
It hit me like a lightening bolt of truth!
This channel is way under-viewed
Just came across this series you're working on, and I'm loving it! I'm glad you brought up the live differences toward the end, because the BBC Sessions version of Thank You is one of my favorite Page solos ever.
Thank you. It’s such a fantastic live version and really stands alone as a totally different version from the studio. Btw…I’ll shall be posting a live version I performed recently on my 2nd website: www.ledzeppelinbybaldassarre.com
If you watch the version from Page & Plant's Unledded, it's better than everyone before or since. Not just because of the orchestras behind him, but Jimmy's soloing on that one is just otherworldly, again...
As far as Live vs Recording. LZ always put out a refined, neat product that was second to none, while the live performances were meant to be organic, feeding off the crowd and trying to be inspired and inspiring at the same time. This song is a prime example.
Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge and insights into these cherished songs.❤
You are so welcome!
Always love your zeppelin videos
Informative and entertaining, as usual.
Thank you!
thank you, so incredibly insightful and inspiring
That was majestic 29 minutes
Wow thanks man!
Der schönste Love-Song aller Zeiten meiner Meinung nach!
Really really great analysis of this song. It is so cool not to touch the "tablature side", which al the other youtubers do, but really dig in to the layers, dynamics and little guitarplay Page does of LedZep music.
I'm really curious - and hope - that Jimmy Page will see your video's. I think he will really likes your way of analysing his songs.
So much music happens before your fingers touch the fingerboard. I’m far more interested in understanding the “want” of the composer, the artist and piece itself. I’m glad you appreciate where I’m coming from and what I’m trying to convey. Be sure to check out all my Led Zeppelin II breakdowns and share my link with others if you don’t mind! Peace,
Carl Baldassarre
PS: It would be great to know if Jimmy Page saw these. I’m sure he’d be grateful that someone sees this side of his artistry. I care about the band and his legacy a 100 years hence and no one has really done a musicological analysis that I know of and I wanted to fill that void in a small way for them and future listeners. But I’ll need so many more subscribers if I’m ever going to make a mark….
@@CarlBaldassarreMusic well, who knows… social media has a huge reach. Let’s wait and see ;-)
Great video overall, beautiful appreciation for the artistry of LedZep. And Carl's playing of Page's chordplay and solos is nothing short of lifelong mastery. Theory-wise, I think Carl is, imho, basically saying that the natural C puts this song in the key of G. And if you play the G major scale here the notes work. But I would agree with Larry that Thank You, is like so many Zeppelin tunes based on the blues. It can and should be looked at as in the key of D. The blues is rarely going to have a strict scale or mode use from a player like Page. A key of D blues scale would be mixolydian-ish, but also use flat 3, flat 5, and major 7 sometimes when you're on the 5 chord of A7. Almost anything goes in the blues, and the C chord here is just the flat 7 chord. In the bridge, when Plant's lyric is "Nothing more", there's a classic 2-5-1 of A: Bm to E7 to A, which then is the 5 chord of D. Again no criticism here, just a way of looking at things from a non-classical pov.
Wow. Beautiful.
Thanx. Really enjoy these insights.
Wish you would show how to play the outro from Thankyou.
With the glissando embellishments behind Plants' vocals. Never able to figure it out
i am hard of hearing and this album was the first album i listened to on headphones. so it was the first album that i actually heard. i was visiting my aunt and uncle in Pa. my cousin was in vietnam and they let me use his 8track player and headphones. this song and album blew my young mind. thank you was my favourite song on the album. it made a boring trip where i was left to amuse myself one of the best ever. i saved up for some headphones. it changed my life. whooo my life was saved by rock and roll. with a shout out to lou reed.
Thank you for sharing your story!
thank you carl. you are a top notch guitar player. not many people can play jimmy page as well as you. led zep was the reason i got into the great blues musicians. in turn i started to introduce my friends to real music other than kiss and horrible top am hits that saturated the 70s. not all mind you,i will keep an eye out for your great outlooks on music.
Hi Carl, you mention about the lyrics possibly being based on something from Kipling or the book of psalms. Take a listen to jumi Hendrix if 6 was 9, released 1967. Very similar lyrics, not to take away from this beautiful song, which was my first dance with.my wife at our wedding. You're doing great work. Thank you
Zeppelin threw in what were supposed to be homages/nods to other acts now and then, yet now everything they did id called plagiarism even when it was only meant as a brief tribute. Its so annoying. Obvious some, not much, was stolen but a lot of it was just tribute to their musical heroes.
I often come and listen to Carl's led zep 2 videos. They are superb.
Thank you kind sir!!
If I may suggest; there’s a live version of this song I’d like to recommend all to look into. A show they did in Vancouver on 21.3.70 was broadcast on FM radio has been for years a famous bootleg for us Zeppelin die hards. It’s called Pb (pure blues) or Mudslide. Either one you find, it’s the same show. The version of Thank You here is just wonderful. John Paul opens it with a church-like Hammond Organ intro. Bonzo’s drumming here is a reminder as to why he couldn’t ever be replaced. Lastly, Jimmy’s solo is just dripping with emotion.
I think you’ll all enjoy it as it’s in perfect stereo FM clarity!
Love that era and the interpretation of Thank You in those days is all you need to ever learn how to play!!!
@@CarlBaldassarreMusic ah...so it sounds like you’re familiar w that version. It truly is wonderful. LZ II made want to play bass! It’s a great example of what I call British Motown. Jones has cited Jamerson and Duck Dunn as two of his major influences.
Very cool Sir,Ienjoy singing this song on Karaoke bars,2 keys down!!!
THANK YOU! You are a true believer in God! Only God can create a Stairway to Heaven!
Having been born and brought up in Worcestershire (Elgar country), I've always 'gone along' with much of his music - especially along the Malvern Hills (try and find the Ken Russell old black and white Elgar film he made for the BBC back in the sixties. The Introduction and Allegro for Strings is so peacefully wild and free - yet - there is another (movement) of another of his compositions that stays in my mind for similar aesthetic reasons.
I've read things about Elgar over the years and quietly suspected that, after - while a struggling composer - his having met and married a middle-class lady (Elgar was working class) ten years older than he, her financial status was a considerable asset to his early yearnings to compose. When at long last he began to be appreciated - in Germany before his own country - his social position subsequently rose and became prominent to the English people, I found that he socially encountered and became very friendly with a woman a little younger than himself. I quietly suspect his feelings deepened for her - but - being a respectable English Knight - his high social status had to remain what it had risen to...so - not only did he not further his emotional interacting with this unpretentious young female along that aesthetic line, he wouldn't even go so far as tell her anything about his spiritual 'problem' by informing her of the true emotion in his soul for her...
I'm quietly of the conviction that the nearest he chose to go in that was to put the psychological aspect of his aesthetic situation concerning her into a movement of a subsequent composition of his...and this also, to my mind, has to be another particular recording. I genuinely feel the overall circumstances of his love for her were put by him into the andante movement of his violin concerto - and it is, to me, most clearly performed by Jascha Heifetz. I'll leave it at that.
I hope I haven't rambled on again too much - but if my assertion as to the background impetus in Elgar's mind of what social happenings had occurred with him at that time - the neutral listening by anyone may hear something similar to my gentle suggestion...
I'm not convinced a line can be drawn between Dora Penny and the Led Zeppelin song. Perhaps you posted your essay into the wrong video Jonathan?
@@mattcartwright8272 Not at all. The words of 'Thank You' could easily have been similar to the thoughts Elgar had for that woman (possibly Dora Penny - as Elgar - believe it or not - used to cycle from Worcester to Wolverhampton and back to watch the Wolves play with a young woman he knew) - perhaps my being a willful optimist led to my mentioning the Andante movement played by Heifetz - have you listened to it and thought them not a million miles apart aesthetically..?
Hey thanks so much Carl. These are terrific and my own guitar has been pulled out a lot more lately from your inspiration. I would love a Dazed, Levee, SIBLY, Rain Song and Ten Years Gone personally, but I'm excited for more vids!
Thank you Ben! I’ve put out a couple more!!
Thanks for really looking into this song, not knowing theory I’d have never known why it’s so special. I know a bit though so I’m digging what you’re saying 😉. I’d love to know if Plant knew what he was doing or it was just the genius. Mind blowing stuff.
I miss those bootlegs. Blueberry Hill, Destroyer, Bonzo's Birthday...I had recorded them onto cassette tapes, and ultimately lost them to a guitarist's garage.
Luckily I've still got mine, Three Days After has a epic version of Thank You.
@@stevechisholm84 Not sure if I've heard that one or not.
Great stuff you understand and appreciate Pages work he’s not a sloppy overrated guitar player. There’s a great version of thank you by jun 626 he plays a live from the bbc version from around 1970 the Zeppelin version is on UA-cam also but if you haven’t check out Jun 626 he is awesome and plays a lot of Zep but other artists too. He also has a version of traveling riverside blues it blows me away how close to page he gets. If u get a chance do a video on traveling riverside blues that last lick has a million notes page on fire . Keep the videos coming. I always knew Jimmy was great but watching you and jun now I know why he’s so great
That’s wonderful. Jimmy Page is still under-rated! I hope that these episodes increase the appreciation for the band and Jimmy!
@@CarlBaldassarreMusic it’s funny because you lend Creedence to what I always thought about him. I’ve been playing over 40 years not to your level however what you said about him not being sloppy is right on, in the studio he’s meticulous but live he’s reaching and stretching so of course your going to misfire from time to time. But no one plays with the passion and feeling he does. A real artist in every sense of the word. Last I think a lot of the negitive about him comes from people who don’t play guitar. Thanks again keep the videos coming. Also check out jun 262 great stuff peace
Many years ago, as a kid, I listened to Leonard Bernstein giving young people lectures on music that were full of passion and poetry. He communicated his vast knowledge of music in ways that made it understandable to nubbiest w/out much music theory or vocabulary. Your style of expressing the complexities remind me so much of Bernstein, who really understood music so very well Thank you !
Well my friend…you have paid me the highest compliment ever!! He is basically my hero and I would listen to him hoping he’d never stop talking. He would fill me with such awe and wonder about music, history and the arts. My favorite teacher had a master class with him and i lived vicariously through that story. Anyway…you nailed it and I’m so honored that my approach resembles Lenny’s in the slightest ways!! Gratefully yours, Carl…the other Mr. B :))))
Fantastic insights. Thanks so much for sharing them.
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I just found your channel. Thanks for the great content!
keep it up
Well said. I know people who played that song at there wedding. Both Wedding March and Bride/Groom dance. You have a great outline to the Review of that Song.
Thank you;)
Led II, my favorite album from the band.
Life changing!
Thank YOU for taking the time to break this song down. I have to give you credit for re-sensitizing my ears to these songs. PS is that a Brian Moore guitar behind you? 👍
Hi Keith! Good catch. Yes it’s a Brian Moore
It’s my main stage guitar.
Brilliant catch. I’m surprised anyone recognized it.
Great study. Thank you ;-)
Have a listen to this on the BBC sessions album remixed by Jimmy Page - It's epic with electric solo at the end in my opinion the best recorded version.
Thank You! This is one of my favorite Zeppelin songs (among many). So many great insights. There's also a great live version on the BBC Sessions. Also - i'm digging that sweater vest! Would love to hear you talk about your Les Paul sometime.
You’ve got great taste in sweater vests!! Thank you so much!! I hope you subscribed?? Btw…hit the notification bell. UA-cam is not prioritizing my videos.
@@CarlBaldassarreMusic Yep - I've been subscribed for a few months now, and have notification turned on. Just hang in there, and keep putting out the great content - your channel will definitely grow!