American Songwriter

John Paul Jones Called This Led Zeppelin Riff the Most Difficult He Ever Wrote, but It’s Not the One You Might Think

John Paul Jones said the opening track from Led Zeppelin's debut album, "Good Times Bad Times", had some of the hardest riffs ...
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John Paul Jones breaks down his Led Zeppelin bass approach – and what separated his and Jimmy Page's riffs

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“I wrote Black Dog on a train. There was a Muddy Waters song with a riff that never ended...” How John Paul Jones wrote Led Zeppelin's Black Dog

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Paul Jones with his 1962 Fender Jazz Bass Armed with years of experience as a session bassist and arranger, John Paul Jones ...
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The Classic Riff That Inspired the Beatles’ ‘I Feel Fine’ and Led Zeppelin’s ‘Moby Dick’

Paul McCartney once said The Beatles only steal as much from musicians as others steal from them. That seems reasonable enough, and McCartney was the first to acknowledge he lifted the bass line from ...