"'Since I've Been Loving You" The Most Perfect Blues music

This is the Most Perfect Blues music, the most sung and heard by Rock and Blues music fans, but the most difficult for other musicians to imitate. Because besides being difficult to find a guitarist like Jimmy Page, it's also more difficult to find a vocalist who can match Robert Plant. Maybe, if you agree, only Ian Gillan [Deep Purple vocalist] can match.

Watch carefully, the audience during this Madison Square show, all stunned, amazed, amazed, even gawking at it, I'm sure, YOU DO.

"Since I've Been Loving You" was one of the first songs prepared for the Led Zeppelin III album. The song was recorded live in the studio with very little overdubbing. It was reportedly the hardest to record.

John Paul Jones played Hammond organ on the song, using the bass pedals instead of a bass guitar. John Bonham's preferred drum pedal, the Ludwig Speed King model 201, squeaks during the recording, and has been called the "Squeak King". The song is a slow blues in the key of C minor.

Robert Christgau was more enthusiastic in Newsday; "with John Paul Jones providing a great thick wall of organs behind Plant and Page", he regarded it as "the ultimate power blues". Years later, guitarist Joe Satriani enthused: "'Since I've Been Loving You' was a perfect example

"Since I've Been Loving You"
Led Zeppelin - Live at Madison Square Garden 1973

Been working from seven
To eleven every night
Really makes life a drag
I don't think that's right

I've really been the best, the best of fools
I did what I could, yeah
Cause I love you, baby, how I love you, darling
How I love you, baby, my beloved little girl, little girl

But baby, since I've been loving you, yeah
I'm about to lose my worried mind, oh yeah

Everybody trying to tell me
That you didn't mean me any good
I've been trying, Lord, let me tell you
Let me tell you, I really did the best I could

I've been, I've been working from seven
To eleven every night
I said it kinda makes my life a drag, drag, drag, drag
Lord, yeah, that ain't right, now, now

Since I've been loving you, yeah
I'm about to lose my worried mind
Watch out

I said I've been crying, yeah
Oh, my tears they fell like rain
Don't you hear them, don't you hear them falling?
Don't you hear them, don't you hear them falling?

Do you remember, mama, when I knocked upon your door?
I said you had the nerve to tell me
You didn't want me any more, yeah
I open my front door, I hear my back door slam
You know, I must have one of them newfangled
Newfangled back-door men

I've been a-working from seven, seven, seven
To eleven, eleven every night
It kinda makes my life a drag, a drag, drag
Ah yeah! It makes it a drag

Baby, since I've been loving you
I'm about to lose, I'm about to lose, lose my worried mind
Oh yeah
Just one more, just one more, ooh, yeah
Since I've been loving you, I'm gonna lose my worried mind

album: "Led Zeppelin III" (1970)