Just a quick query, and a chance for the SDMB to impress some possible new recruits.
So at lunch the conversation turns to Led Zeppelin. (Most of us have them on vinyl - we’re really old :eek: ).
One chap particularly likes the guitar work on ‘Black Dog’, but wants to know what the lyric ‘something something woman ain’t got no something’ is exactly, and whether it means anything.
Over to you Dopers!
I don’t know but I been told
A big legged woman ain’t got no soul.
I believe the big legged woman is an old blues reference,cheatin heartbreakin woman I do believe.
I’m sure others will be along to ‘flesh’ out the details.
10 minutes I’ve been waiting - what sort of response is that?!
OK, just kidding - thanks, Gut.
Jimmy Page interview:
NMM: WHAT WERE YOUR EARLIEST INFLUENCES IN THE BLUES?
JP: Well, chronologically speaking, as I heard them, B.B. King, Elmore James, Freddie King and Buddy Guy. Buddy Guy and Otis Rush are the ones that really did it for me.
Freddie King recorded “Big Legged Woman”.
Thanks, ‘don’t ask’.
Err, is there a poster called ‘don’t tell’?
Gut got it exactly right. If you really want to impress your friends with your Zep-knowledge, get a copy of Howlin’ Wolf’s song “Killin’ Floor” and play it to them, back to back with “The Lemon Song” from LedZep2.
(LZ version http://www.stuff.to/tori/lyrics/TheLemonSong.html):
I should have quit you, long time ago. (repeat 2 times)
I wouldn’t be here, my children, down on this killin’ floor.
I should have listened, baby, to my second mind (repeat 2 times)
(HW version http://members.tripod.com/~blueslyrics/lyrics/howlin_wolf/killing_floor.htm):
I should’a quit you, long time ago
I should’a quit you, baby, long time ago
I should’a quit you, and went on to Mexico
If I ha’da followed, my first mind
If I ha’da followed, my first mind