Trampled Under Foot

" Trampled Under Foot" is the fifth song of Physical Graffiti , sixth album of the group of Rock English Led Zeppelin left in 1975.

The song, exit of a session of jam, was written by Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones. The words are inspired by the song " Terraplane Blues" written in 1936 by the musician of Blues Robert Johnson. A Terraplane is an old American car manufactured of 1932 with 1939. The song uses the various parts of a Voiture like metaphors with the sex - " pump your gas, " " rev all night, " etc

" Trampled Under Foot" became a song impossible to circumvent in the concerts of Led Zeppelin as from 1975. Often, when she was played in concert by the group, the song extended with long solos from guitar and of keyboard and sometimes the group connected immediately on the song " Gallows Pole ". Just like " No Quarter " , " Trampled Under Foot" showed all qualities of Jones to the keyboard at the time of the concerts. One can see an excellent version of " Trampled Under Foot" in concert with the Earls Court Exhibition Centers in 1975 in the DVD Led Zeppelin DVD , in which one finds a wide solo of Jones on a Hohner Clavinet D6.

" Trampled Under Foot" often to the radio passed at the time of its exit and was placed at the 35ème place in signal 100 of the charts Billboard. It one of the songs was preferred of Robert Plant. It has sang it at the time of its round Now and Zen of 1988 but also at the time of the 21e birthday of his Carmen daughter with Jason Bonham with the battery.

Led Zeppelin did not leave any individual this song to the the United Kingdom until in 1997 for the exit of " Whole Lotta Coils " at the time of the 28 years of the song. There was despite everything some specimens of " Trampled Under Foot" as individual but all were removed before their exit. They are regarded today as true objects Collector.

" Trampled Under Foot" have a certain resemblance to the song " Superstition " of Stevie Wonder in which one also finds the use of Clavinet S.

The song has also a strong resemblance to " Renegade ", of the Styx. The words of the hit of Styx can even be sung on the rate/rhythm of " Trampled Under Foot".

Sources (in English)

Led Zeppelin: Dazed and Confused: The Stories Behind Every Song , by Chris Welch,
The Supplements off Guide to the Music Led Zeppelin , by Dave Lewis,

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