The Strange Tale of “Dazed and Confused”

The wheels of jus­tice turn slow­ly…

Jim­my Page per­formed “Dazed and Con­fused” with The Yard­birds back in 1968, then immor­tal­ized the song with his next band, Led Zep­pelin, while also giv­ing him­self full writ­ing cred­it. For almost 42 years, this has­n’t sat par­tic­u­lar­ly well with Jake Holmes, an Amer­i­can folk singer, who first wrote and record­ed “Dazed and Con­fused” in 1967. Now he has filed suit (see PDF of com­plaint here) and wants Page to make amends. Some mon­ey and half a writ­ing cred­it. You can watch the vin­tage Led Zep­pelin ver­sion above and lis­ten to Holmes’ orig­i­nal ver­sion below. The Led Zep ver­sion was cer­tain­ly changed in ways, but the sim­i­lar­i­ties are assured­ly there…