"The Above Ground Sound" of Jake Holmes
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| name = "The Above Ground Sound" of Jake Holmes
| type = studio
| artist = Jake Holmes
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| released = June 1967
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| genre = Folk rock
| length = 29:57
| label = Tower
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| next_title = A Letter to Katherine December
| next_year = 1968
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"The Above Ground Sound" of Jake Holmes is the debut album of American singer songwriter Jake Holmes, released in June 1967 on Tower Records. The album consists of songs played on bass and two electric guitars with no drummer. Both this record and Holmes' subsequent record, A Letter to Katherine December, were not well received and neither made the charts.{{cite book|last=Hodgkinson |first=Will |title= Song Man: A Melodic Adventure, Or, My Single-Minded Approach to Songwriting |year=2008|pages=129}} Holmes played guitar. Tim Irwin also played guitar with Rick Randle on bass.
"Dazed and Confused"
The album is best known for the song "Dazed and Confused" because Led Zeppelin released their interpretation of the song on their 1969 debut album Led Zeppelin. Page was familiar with Holmes' song because his previous band, The Yardbirds, had covered the song.{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r40819|label= The Above Ground Sound" of Jake Holmes}}{{cite book|last=Schinder|first=Scott |title=Icons of Rock |year=2008 |pages=385|isbn=9780313338472 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CzWE_J3ZZfoC}} The Led Zeppelin song was not credited to Jake Holmes. While Holmes took no action at the time, he did later contact Jimmy Page in regards to the matter but received no reply.{{cite web |url=http://www.culturecatch.com/music/jake-holmes-dangerous-times |title=Theft As Ownership |access-date=March 10, 2009 |author=Robert Cochrane |date=September 17, 2008 |publisher=hippy.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090530035635/http://www.culturecatch.com/music/jake-holmes-dangerous-times |archive-date=May 30, 2009 |url-status=dead }} In June 2010, Holmes filed a lawsuit against the guitarist for copyright infringement in a United States District Court, claiming Page knowingly copied his work.[http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/music/led_zeppelin_sued_by_folk_singer_Onb6nSTXepES8W0KURCX0O Led Zeppelin sued by folk singer for alleged plagiarism]. New York Post. Retrieved July 6, 2010. The lawsuit was settled out of court, with future Led Zeppelin releases crediting "Dazed and Confused" to "By Page – Inspired by Jake Holmes.", and the case was permanently closed.
Track listing
All tracks composed by Jake Holmes
=Side one=
- "Lonely" – 2:38
- "Did You Know" – 2:52
- "She Belongs to Me" – 2:15
- "Too Long" – 2:47
- "Genuine Imitation Life" – 4:00
=Side two=
- "Dazed and Confused" – 3:53
- "Penny's" – 2:39
- "Hard to Keep My Mind on You" – 2:01
- "Wish I Was Anywhere Else" – 2:50
- "Signs of Age" – 4:02
Personnel
- Jake Holmes - guitar, vocals
- Tim Irwin - guitar (uncredited)
- Rick Randall - bass (uncredited)
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