• From: over yonder....in PA
  • Registered: 2009-02-09
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Topic: the river and when the levee breaks?

Does anybody notice that the riff for "the river" and the riff for "when the levee breaks" are extremely similar?

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  • From: N.Wales, UK
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Re: the river and when the levee breaks?

It has Black Dog in there for me.... hmm

  • From: over yonder....in PA
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Re: the river and when the levee breaks?

My friend pointed that out to me, and I was like, "yea, that sounds like basically the same riff"...haha

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  • From: Sandy Eggo
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Re: the river and when the levee breaks?

In the interview in the first tab book Joe commented that he wanted to do his own When The Levee Breaks without getting sued, so good catch!

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Re: the river and when the levee breaks?

Yep, always thought that Levee breaks would be to coolest cover ever ... but then again, it´s in the category of "songs that can´t be played any better anyway", so it´s good to have "The River" as a kind of Joe´s own take on the Levee breaks atmosphere ... well, if anyone could do the song better than the original, Joe could probably. Would still be very worth a try IMHO. wink

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Re: the river and when the levee breaks?

The thing is...Zeppelin did it but it was a cover. The song is actually by Memphis Minnie and .... oh shoot can't think of the man's name but anyway just saying it really isn't a Zeppelin tune per se

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Re: the river and when the levee breaks?

Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie originally did When the Levee Breaks. ☺. It finally came to me. Guess it's menopause brain fog. Lol

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Re: the river and when the levee breaks?

Well when the levee breaks the river will come out of it!

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