Jake Holmes - The Above Ground Sound (1967) - Full Album (High Quality)
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- Опубліковано 18 лют 2015
- 01 - Lonely - 0:00
02 - Did You Know - 2:39
03 - She Belongs To Me - 5:31
04 - Too Long - 7:45
05 - Genuine Imitation Life - 10:33
06 - Dazed And Confused - 14:31
07 - Penny's - 18:22
08 - Hard To Keep My Mind On You - 21:01
09 - Wish I Was Anywhere Else - 23:03
10 - Signs Of Age - 25:54
![Jake Holmes - Genuine Imitation Life / Sleeping Woman [Live, Greenwich Village, 1967]](/img/n.gif)
This album is full of creativity, emotion and raw musical talent, really impressive!!.
Forget Zeppelin for a while, this is an epic album!
If you grew up in the 70s you either love Led Zeppelin or you despise them. I despise them. They were on the radio 24 hrs a day.
The opening notes to Stairway (or the Eagles "Hotel California") just make my stomach turn.
@@dang2443 Hotel California makes me sick too and I was born in 93. It's so painfully benign.
@@nicknickson3650 I hate the Eagles.
@@gregizzo4191 i didn't know you were allowed to say that
@@gmcintyre Tell me about it!
This album is so awesome! I can't believe it is not more famous!
I saw Holmes and his trio play several times in Albany New York around 1967. The guitarist then and on this recording is Ted Irwin. I have no idea what became of Irwin but obviously he had some fast fingers. Holmes would go on to make a boatload of money in the commercial jingle business. At least in New York City, one radio station tried to give this album a push but I don't think it ever sold much.
You're not thinking of Rupert Holmes in the jingle business are you?
@@multicaruana no I don't think he is, I'm pretty sure Jake holmes made some pretty famous jingles for some big companies
@@ayyowhat "Be all that you can be", "Gillette, the best a man can get", I drink Dr Pepper and I'm proud", "Come see the softer side of Sears".. the list actually goes on for quite a while. He also co-wrote the Four seasons album, "Imitation Life gazette" and the harry Belfonte album "Paradise in Gazankulu" as well as Sinatra's favourite of his own records "Watertown"
@@ayyowhat He did.
67, just think if Zep would have given him credit, he would have been big. Alot of us would have checked him out and grab an album for the same reason alot of us are here on utube...now he is old and too late...great stuff here
one of most underestimate album in music history :(
It's a masterpiece.
Seemingly, Page shoplifted him more than just an infamous Dazed and Confused, but the sound and tone as well
@@conmane3341if you listen to Jake's other albums you really hear just how much page borrowed and I can't say I blame page one bit it's damn good
The first song literally melted my face...calling it epic is an understatement.
Very underrated artist! Great stuff!!
wow never heard of him but he rocks
I had an original copy of this album in beautiful condition I found in an indie used record store in the 80's (Vintage Vinyl Records in Fords, NJ, still going strong today). Sadly, I took i to my college radio station a couple of years later to potentially play THAT ONE TRACK on the air, left it in my car on a blisteringly hot day and it melted & warped to the point of being unplayable. I'm not really sure if it would be worth anything as a collector's item now or even then, but I always considered it a great loss.
Worth about a hundred dollars
Oh damn, that sucks.
I wish I found this guy 40 years ago. I can only think where his songs coul'd have gone.
I recommend you also check out the Bronx child prodigy and genius, Laura Nyro. I wish I 'discovered' her 40 years ago! You probably know many of her songs as covers by others. She was inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame by Bette Midler in 2012 - see youtube.
so you mean you were influential back then?
Nice guitar. Way ahead of others of the time. And Jake - "Be all you can be in the ARMY!" The Above Ground Sound. Indeed.
???
i used to think tim buckleys guitarist could play fast runs with jazzy chords.
but this guy is even better.
WHat was Buckleys guitaritst name please?
@@marcgambell2767 Lee Underwood. Read his book about those days, it is beautiful.
Incredibile sto disco.... Non posso credere che sia rimasto sconosciuto
So remember this album and your right it went under the radar.
This album (and the ”fake” stereo-mix) and especially Ted Irwin is just mind-blowing. The second “A letter to Katherine December” is equally amazing, but very different
Very happy to find this.
You can hear early West Coast SF sound, Zombies, Byrds and Turtles influences on many of these songs from 1965-66 before this albums release in 1967. As far as DAC, The Yardbirds were playing a heavier and extended version of this on tour as well before Zepp with Page seeing Holmes perform the song in Greenwich Village NYC in August 1967 as he opened for the Yardbirds and within 2 months , the Yardbirds were performing it live in October 1967 as "I'm Confused" and the song has evolved from there with the Yardbirds version is closer to the original Jake Holmes version. Peter Grant was now managing the Yardbirds from mid-1967, so the craziness was already beginning even back then. Page should have just given credit because even though the songs are night and day apart, the basic structure is there and Page saw him perform the song live. As far as Plant stealing Holmes vocal style, Plant recorded "Our Song" in late 1966 or early 1967 and it was released in March 1967 and Holmes first album was released June 1967, so I don't buy that Plant stole his style because there are artists in the same time period with similar styles. But you're also leaving out another artist who was performing in 1966-67 at that time with the same style as Plant and Holmes and that is Terry Reid who was with the Jaywalkers who opened for the Rolling Stones in 1966 and it was Graham Nash of the Hollies that told Reid to sign his band with Columbia Records UK. Plant and Reid's style are very similar and I doubt they were influenced by Holmes.
Este é o primeiro e o melhor álbum de Jake Holmes.
i really love this guy
Only 43k views for this masterpiece !!! and if i didn't hear it at radio yesterday i'd never known this artist !
Strange it's so unknown
Let's also not forget, kids....that Dazed and Confused is not the only song that Jimmy Page ever stole. How Many More Times, Bring It On Home and Whole Lotta Love and Lemon Song just to name a few.
so how many albums did this guy sell?
@@boneeatsdog not many, which gives hmi more cred
Right man, more than 40 stolen songs, check Homer Simpson's thoughs regarding his rip-off ability: There's Jimmy Page, the greatest thief of American black music who ever walked the Earth". Kids never asked themselves why Page couldn't produce any music after the end of Zeppelin? Clapton, The Stones, Pink Floyd and the other bands could create new music 40 years after, Page and Plant could only produce some lousy solo albums with very few inspiration...
Absolute bullshop.
When the Levee Breaks
Thanks!!!
Uno de los mejors albunes de este canta autor
great album wonderfull sound
This is good!
This shit slaps so hard
i slapted that shit right off the table
It's sad most of the comments are just talking about led zeppelin, instead of this amazing album
I dont even know how I found this. Seems timeless.
neither do i. lol
oh, i remembered. i heard Led Zeppelin had plagiarized dazed and confused.
@@fidbob I found it today, because I googled "dazed and confused" thinking about Fuck Joe Biden. LOL
@@proejo Let's go Brandon! Let's go Page! 😎
you can tell he listened to Jackson C frank, you can hear the riff when he sings genuine imitation life.
(this album is brilliant)
I can also hear Morgen sound in here
in time order first to last goes Jackson C frank in 1965 -> jake holmes and giles Giles and Fripp in 1968 -> morgen in 1969
I will end the monolog when I say that this is what I was needing at this point in my life.....
IMHO: I've listened to both and really like and appreciate both. LZ DAC song is vaguely similar to JH DAC. But LZ song is much more complex with so many added features. Without a doubt credit should be given where credit is due. That is the honorable thing to do. I find each song to be equally captivating and unique in quality, wording and delivery and both deserve esteem.
'Added features' make this sound like a car. Let's just call it plagiarism. I'm glad Page was finally called out on this.
I think the zep ver better...but they stole it...and so many more...just greed
Holmes' lyrics are a class above
@@tommoyer4697 Without Page´s greed you would never know about Holmes.. other than Sherlock Holmes, that is 🤣 All this talk about "plagiarism" is so old and boring... in the blues world, everybody used the same old stuff recycled over and over - and no one cried Foul..
Slight correction, this album came out in 1967 not 1968
On first pressings of ZEps album JimmyPage takes full credit as the song writer
Very creative. How did some of us miss this guy?....Nice raw sound.....missing a drum?
I don't think it's missing drums, I think this is rather special as is
@@RobCabreraCh agree
The same way we've missed most of the rest of the great music - because it was never promoted. UA-cam and the internet in general are now giving these gems the exposure that they never had. Yet the radio continues to play commercial promoted crap.
A LOT OF THIS ALBUM MADE IT INTO ZEPPELIN MUSIC.
I HEAR STUFF HERE THAT IS THE FOUNDATION OF ZEPPELIN'S SOUND.
"made it".. insinuating he copied it.. like WTF are you talking about! This was before the internet! This is more legit music than you'll ever hear in your life time....
"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"! The World Is Too Old & There's Too Much History Recorded For Others Not To Be Moved By Those Who Proceeded Them... Therefore We Make Choices To Better Ourselves Using The Sound, Look & Style Of Masters In Their Own Craft! Maybe, if we all work on ourselves, sincerely working towards a greater version of who we are, gradually becoming 'Our Very Own Uniqueness' - Then The Whole World Might Just Be A Safer, Lovelier & Honest Place To Live?!?! IMHO ~ Peace!
Sometimes imitation done to sell records.
@@user-qb1sm3rk9r Sure - I can see that for sure...
Plus, We are sooo much alike - Us Humans!!!
Monsters & otherworldly creatures are so full of hope at one day being a lot like us - They try & try but nothing beats a God Made Human - Rich!!!
Always loved this album.
Magnifique
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Queen said no computer on our records but here Mr Jake Holmes said no drums here on my area ^^
This is an YES new record?
genius
uhm.. it was released in 1967 :)
+Jelle Dalm sorry the led zep version is 69
+Dragostego thanks, I'm aware of that ;)
This Guy Is Awesome!
P.S. Sorry That Jimmy Page Took From You!
who are the players?
Fucking masterpiece right there.
🤙🤘👍👌
If you're not underground...
14:31 - Jimmy Page: "I wish I wrote that."
Robert Plant: "You will, Jimmy, you will..."
Musicians complaing about Page acting like a black muscian? Chuck Berry sound was actually invented by his piano player then of course James Brown. Most of Brown's music was written by other band members, at best Brown gave it a tiny bit of polish. He once bragged he made most of his money from advertising agencies paying him a royalty for use of "his" music.
Fuck are you talking about
@@halloweenjean speak English not manglish.
John Neal is really James Patrick James...and no John, Jimmy Page isn't playing guitar on this lp. Jake Holmes plays all the guitar 'licks' on this effort. Page stole the song, rearranged it, then signed his name to it. Page wishes he could play this well!!
+bodensick thanks for knowing this
+bodensick And they reached a out of court settlement...in 2012! I hope Jake's retirement is comfortable - Pagey owes him that. Wikipedia is the Axis - "he knows everything"
along with Ted Irwin.
"..Page wishes he could play this well!!.." well, so you ARE really Sick, Boden guy 🤣... get real man.. if it wasnt for James Patrick, no one in the world would know squat about this Holmes and this embryonic stage song .. and you wont be able to cry Theft !! 😘 I only wish Jimmy stole more - he made famous many lackluster numbers doing that
And Jimmy Page may have played at the same locations and same time as the band Spirit, but Jimmy Page had never heard the song "Taurus" and even if it sounds like Stairway, that is only a coincidence. Jimmy Page actually criticized Rolf Harris for his version of Stairway - but at least he gave credit.
henry intro by soccer mommy it's kinda similar to second song did you know.
the fucking children of the elite finidng underground msuic and makking a career off it and their trustfunds upringing
yes he is a good unique singer but it was The Yardbirds that stole Dazed and Confused first not the band of Led Zeppelin
Jimmy Page in Yardbirds then going to Led Zep yes
@@xblood1978 yeah right,,, Kimmy was obvlivious to the music scene, even to the acts that he shared tours with,,, yeah,,,
@@johnnyguitar7921 who the fucks Kimmy you bloody loser .. I'm trying to state a fact here...Keith fucko Relf the drunk was the Jake Holmes fan he loved obscure music
@@xblood1978 Idiot.
First song makes me think of tool.
Or Gentle Giant
This guy ended up being a HUGE singer of TV commercial jingles in the 70s and 80s. Selling out?
more like making a living.
I guess anyone paying their bills is a sellout...
he didn't sell out he bought in
eyeh8nbc I was born in 1972 so I was of that prefect age to hear a ton of Jake Holmes via cheesy 1980s TV commercial jingles, even if I had no clue who he was in those days, just that I kept hearing that voice on ads from the Army (Be all that you can be), Sure deodorant (Raise your hand if you're Sure), Dr. Pepper (Be a Pepper), Legos (Zack/Jack he's a Lego Maniac) and Come see the softer side of Sears. Who'd ever thought he actually recorded some great stuff in the late '60s that bear little resemblance to those cheesy TV commercials he did.
lol,,,, well, yes he did,,, but at least it wasnt like, i dont know,,,, he made this great perfect album with his name on it,,, thats good enough,,, he or the people behind this album probably got hired as ghostwriters and players for the ZEP
What an amazing album.... courtesy of Ted Irwin AKA Jimmy Page ....Guitar/production ànd Jake Holmes AKA Roy Harper Guitar Vocals...Check out Pageys Violin Bow in Too Long
Are you saying that Roy and Jimmy really played the music but they were acting as ghost performers?
@@PlaysWithChildren yes they were under contract on different labels atthe time ... a bit like Keith moon on the becks stuff
@@xblood1978 Interesting. How did you come to know this information?
@@PlaysWithChildren it's in the book
@@xblood1978 What book?
Does he sound like robert plant or does robert sound like him
That's a joke, right? This was 1967
The guitar reminds me a bit of eight Miles high or guitar part
Great recording. I think that maybe Mr Charles Manson must have heard this. Listen to ‘Lie’ or ‘The Love and terror cult’.
1:40 I can hear a bit of the stairway to heaven solo (live version)
Worth checking Phil Ochs, Zeppelin never ripped off his stuff, too political. Page is a conservative like Jagger.
Damned it Jimi and Rob copycats! Jake must be paid his dues
Ah yes the REAL version of Dazed and confused
Goddamn. Plant even copied the way he sang.
Hmmm I'm gonna need to find a better copy of this : Compression isn't doing it favours.
The Zep rip off factor from this guy is huge.
How come Janis Joplin famous but not this guy? Hmm 🤔
Come on, man.
@Caring Mouse
Bullshite🎭🎬
If he is going to rip someone off, he should at least change the name of the song. The acoustic version on here is the best. I wont tell the name of the song, for the record is so high, that maybe no one will find the ripoff.
Is it me or is this Tool.
phydeauxddog its you
@@martinbe5111 his vocals reminds me of the singer.
i dont know, you probably read someones opinions about it,,, doesnt really sounbd like Tool
For those talking about zeppelin stealing songs or sounds.
Go check out greta von fleet.
Zeppelin has been stolen.
Serves them right
This guy is great, but I still prefer Led Zeppelin.
Not sorry to say this, but Ive lost some respect for Led Zepplin
good guitarist. great singer...but a little dodgy on their originality!
Yeah, it's too bad that Zepplin & their fans have such a problem with kids who sound like them or those who use riffs that are similar to theirs - "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"! The World Is Too Old & There's Too Much History Recorded For Others Not To Be Moved By Those Who Proceeded Them... Therefore We Make Choices To Better Ourselves Using The Sound, Look & Style Of Masters In Their Own Craft! IMHO ~ Peace!
Siphiwe Ziqubu never thought Zeppelin was that big of a deal. I know so many band that can make them sound like weak ass bitches.
@@charlessunu Uh, also one of the best drummers of all time! Bonham is credited for making their sound... and his death is the reason we'll never see Led Zeppelin perform again.
@@nolawest5183 Dear Lord, why did you start capitalizing every word halfway through?
In case you did not know ,lead guitar on all tracks on this album are played by a James Patrick James , better known as Jimmy Page (led zeppelin) ! note track 6 is Dazed And Confused (writen by Jimmy Page)
Barbra Burton uhhh, no. Also Jimmy page eventually gave Jake Holmes credit for Dazed and Confused.
Barbra Burton No, Jimmy Page didn't play in this album. They never played together. Page stole this music: @2010
Barbra Burton How can you get something so completely wrong and try to pass it off as fact? Tim Irwin was the guitarist on this album, along with Jake himself. Jimmy Page stole this song after seeing Jake Holmes play it at a club in Greenwich Village. He never gave him credit for writing the song until Jake took him to court about 40 years later.
Barbra Burton Hi Barbra, I love how you don't let facts get in the way of a good story. You are truly an amazing piece of misinformation and I find that extremely refreshing. Thank you for putting a smile on my face. ;-)
Funny! Made me laugh. The people above me are too dense to get it I guess.
too bad zeppelin is a turd this is incredible
+Emili York Don't blame Plant, Jones or Bonham! Pagey stole the song when Jake opened up for the Yardbirds two year before Zeppelin has born. I sure Bonham never knew. I imagine Plant and Jones only knew after Pagey got sued in 2010.
+Larry Beckham well i find it hard to believe that the band remained ignorant to the origins of a song they all played together, also jake was in their general scene so they'd probably heard of him, but maybe they were all super naive.
+Larry Beckham Don't forget it was also on the Yardbirds-Live at the Anderson Theatre LP
I agree !!
Bob Cabo ty man