"Black Dog" was performed for the final time at the Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert in 2007, during Led Zeppelin's headling set. For these final 1980 performances, Page introduced the song from stage. It was recalled to the set for the Knebworth Festival 1979 and the 1980 Tour of Europe. In 1975 it was used as an encore medley with " Whole Lotta Love", but was hardly used on the band's 1977 US concert tour. It was retained for each subsequent concert tour until 1973. It was first played live at Belfast's Ulster Hall on 5 March 1971, a concert which also featured the first ever live performance of " Stairway to Heaven". "Black Dog" became a staple of Led Zeppelin's live concert performances. Record World said it has "incredible sounds with Robert Plant vocal to match." Live performances The song was released as a single in the United States on 2 December 1971, in continental Europe (the United Kingdom did not receive the single release), and in Australia with " Misty Mountain Hop" as the B-side. For his guitar parts, Jimmy Page used a Gibson Les Paul to record multiple overdubs. In live performances, Bonham eliminated the 5Ĥ variation so that Robert Plant could perform his a cappella vocal interludes and then have the instruments return at the proper time. He added a winding riff and complex rhythm changes, that biographer Keith Shadwick describes as a "clever pattern that turns back on itself more than once, crossing between time signatures as it does." The group had a difficult time with the turnaround, but drummer John Bonham's solution was to play it straight through as if there was no turnaround. īassist John Paul Jones, who is credited with writing the main riff, was inspired by Muddy Waters' controversial 1968 album Electric Mud. The song was recorded with recording engineer Andy Johns at Island Studios on Basing Street in London. The title is a reference to a nameless black Labrador Retriever that wandered around the Headley Grange studios during the recording of the album.
"Black Dog" is built around a call and response dynamic between the vocalist and band, with its start and stop a cappella verses inspired by Fleetwood Mac's 1969 song " Oh Well", according to biographer Dave Lewis. Problems playing this file? See media help.
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