lynn alright man, thanks for breaking ice on this one
yeah, i've heard a lot of versions too...
you shoulda heard my first 3 passes at this........!! LOL
bad karaoke if you've never seen robert plant and jimmy page's "
No Quarter" video, well, they do a masterful version of "
When the levee breaks" .....
the way they broke it down, it just occurred to me that putting this thing at half speed, was the way to do it the way i heard it.
i mean, i grew up with this song, and always loved how the guitar and drums were so happy and upbeat, and the lyric was all about death and destruction!!
hehehe
so, i knicked the drum idea from that version of 'levee', and once i did that, it literally
fell together in about 10 minutes.
i added the acoustic intro with the electric slide, to kind of introduce the song without giving it away, you're not sure what it is til the lyric comes in, and when it does, everyone who knows the song instantly gets it.
anyway, that was the idea.
heh
thanks for 'getting it'