Could someone please give me the lowdown on the song “Dream On?” It appears on Aerosmith’s first album, but it seems that Led Zeppelin may also have done a version. This version is not on any of their albums, not even in the complete studio recordings, but the MP3 is readily available. Everyone I know seems to agree that Led Zeppelin did sing this song, and I could swear I’ve heard radio DJ’s announce it as Led Zeppelin.
I have MP3’s of both versions, and they sound very similar. Neither one sounds like Tyler or Plante is singing.
Who originally sang this song? Who wrote it? Did Led Zeppelin ever do a version? If so, when, and how was it released?
According to my extensive (read: 2 minutes on Google) research, the song Dream On was written by Steve Tyler. I didn’t run across any references to Led Zep doing a cover… though I’m sure many bands have done covers of it.
[mini-hijack] I used to have the tab for Dream On, which included a detailed tab of the intro guitar part. I seem to have lost it, and I’ve forgotten how to play the intro… and can’t seem to find it online! Anyone have the tab for that that they’d be willing to e-mail me? Pretty please??[mini-hijack]
COME ON!!! I find those on Napster all the time. It’s when somebody hears a song, somehow got the mp3 and renamed it for a joke or did it out of ignorance. I call them FUCKUPS. Sometimes I’ll be really happy because I look up live shit in Napster’s search and come up with a wierd ass and highly unlikely remake. I play it and it’s not even a remake, it’s the original.
That’s like everybody saying how great Sublime’s cover of “Sunday, Bloody Sunday” is. The fact that there sounds like there is about a trillion calm fans in the crowd and the recording is exceptionally good for being live tells you it is NOT Sublime. As for Zep doing ‘Dream On’…I doubt it. But ALOT of people, even people that were teenagers when the song came out, think it’s a zep song, and considering it was Aerosmith’s first record, that was probably the exact sound they were going for.
Aerosmith originally wrote and recorded the tune I believe in 72 or 73. Record execs didn’t particularly care for it, but in time it was re-released in the mid 70s and has been their staple tune ever since.
“Dream On” was definately an Aerosmith song. Written by Steven Tyler way back when he was 18 or 19, before Aerosmith even got together really, IIRC. It has long been one of their most popular songs, though it wasn’t really well known outside the Boston area until Aerosmith hit it big with their second or third album, when the single was rereleased.
If Led Zeppelin ever did a cover version of it, they did not release it commercially. Though, Aerosmith did perform with Page and Plant at Led Zeppelin’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, but I doubt they performed it there. Most likely, Steven Tyler just sounds different now then when he recorded it. Or it could be a live version.
Lemme flex my Aero-muscles here… The song Dream On is on their first album, Aerosmith. Steven Tyler has said at that point he didn’t particularly care for the tone of his voice, and so he purposely changed it for the songs on the album. I had wondered about that before I learned it, since his voice sounds a bit different on that album than any of the rest.
He went back to ‘normal’ for the second album, Get Your Wings, and has sounded that way ever since. The info is from the Aerosmith biography, Walk This Way, which is a pretty interesting book. Lots of sex, drugs, and … well, you know.
The only time anyone has ever re-done that song is for a tribute album. Led Zep would never have done it – most bands considered Aerosmith nasty upstarts with too much 'tude for their own good.
I wuz a big Zep fan throughout the 70’s. Saw them on July 7, 1977 at the Oakland Collesium, and it was about the last show they played before Robert Plant’s son passed away.
This is the first I’ve EVER heard about Zep covering Dream On. Gimme a break, this was the Aerosmith signature song. Led Zep had come out whit the 4th albumn by that point, with Rock n Roll, Black Dog and Stairway to Heaven on it. Zep never would have covered this song…
(It’s not)