10 Best Cover Songs In Classic Rock

After leaving the Yardbirds in search of a new direction, Jimmy Page put together Led Zeppelin to stretch the confines of what a rock band could do. While the band's debut record was still full of the traditional bluesy material Page had been used to playing, "Dazed and Confused" is where things really started to spread out.

The song was first heard on a record by the American singer-songwriter Jake Holmes, who gave it a much more somber performance. Knowing Zeppelin, the more dour tone didn't stay that way for too long. The tune starts off with a demented bass riff from John Paul Jones, which acts like some otherworldly force drawing you into the song. Page's first contributions come from more ambient guitar accentuations before exploding into a thunderous guitar riff. All the while, Robert Plant shreds his vocal cords as he tells of his lovelorn pain for a non-reciprocal lover.

The middle section of the song is where it gets even more interesting, with John Bonham channeling Thor with his incessant drum bashing, while Page was known to use a theremin to get even more unusual sounds from this tune. By turning this simple slow song into the sound of apocalyptic dread, Led Zeppelin set themselves up as one of the most experimental bands on the rock scene.