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From '' Fair Warning ''
Label: Flying High Records – FH 6504
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: US
Released: 1980
Tracklist
A1 By The Lake
A2 White Lightnin'
A3 Mary Beth
A4 Let Me Be Your Lover
A5 Tell Me
B1 Fair Warning
B2 Communication Breakdown
B3 Sister's Blue
B4 What Does It Take
B5 I Feel Good
Guitar, Lead Vocals – Joe Copeland
Keyboards, Lead Vocals – Danny Haynes
Bass, Lead Vocals – Donnie McCutchen
Drums, Vocals – Randy Dehart
Notes
Stamped back cover REVIEWER COPY NOT FOR SALE
Dedicated to John Lennon
Flying High Records (Parent Label: Richey Recordsbased in Fort Worth, TX. Slim Richey was the president.)
© ℗ Flying High Records 1980
Pressed By – A+R Record Manufacturing Corporation – 8011-58
🎵 [SONG INFO]
"Communication Breakdown" is a song by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, from their 1969 self-titled debut album. It was also used as the B-side of the group's first single in the US, "Good Times Bad Times". A promotional video was released, with the group miming to the recording, which is included on the Led Zeppelin DVD (2003).
Background and composition
The song's original title was "Too Good", and it had been performed during the band's 1968 Scandinavian Tour. It developed from a guitar riff played by Jimmy Page, while the rest of the band wrote the song around it. Bassist John Paul Jones later said "This is Page's riff – you can tell instantly". Singer Robert Plant could not receive a songwriting credit owing to a previous record contract, and consequently it was credited simply to the other three band members.
Personnel
According to Jean-Michel Guesdon and Philippe Margotin:
Robert Plant – Vocals
Jimmy Page – Guitars, Backing Vocals
John Paul Jones – Bass, Organ, Backing Vocals
John Bonham – Drums, Backing Vocals
Live versions
"Communication Breakdown" was part of the group's initial live set in 1968. It was played at every gig until 1970, after which it was featured as an encore. The group played it on at least one show for all subsequent tours, including their residency at Earl's Court, London in 1975, the second appearance at the 1979 Knebworth Festival, and the band's final tour in 1980. Plant played it on some of his solo tours, while Jones performed it live with Diamanda Galás in 1994.
On the Led Zeppelin BBC Sessions, released in 1997, this song was featured three times, each with a slightly different improvisation by the group.
Three live versions–taken from performances at the TV program Tous en scène in Paris in 1969, at Danmarks Radio in 1969 and at the Royal Albert Hall in 1970–can also be seen on the Led Zeppelin DVD. The version of "Good Times Bad Times/Communication Breakdown" released on 15 April 2014, on iTunes, is from 10 October 1969 in Paris, on the European Tour of Autumn 1969.
Legacy
The Dictators' bassist Andy Shernoff states that Page's guitar riff of rapid downstrokes in "Communication Breakdown" was an inspiration for the Ramones' guitarist Johnny Ramone's downstroke guitar style. Ramone stated in the documentary Ramones: The True Story that he built up skill at his downstroke playing style by playing the song over and over again for the bulk of his early career.
The song was used in the American animated sitcom The Simpsons. In a 2006 episode titled "G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)", a group of soldiers with guitars play the riff during a recruitment drive at a crowded stadium. According to author Jonathan Pieslak, the scene is "clearly satirical ... the ending scene references rock music and implies that being in the military is somehow like being at a rock concert".
Cover versions
1972
The Phoenix
1983
The Dickies
1986
CJSS
1987
The Rods
1990
Iron Maiden
1991
Dead Moon
1992
Four Pink Flowers
1993
Mr. Hyde
John Varity
1994
Led Zeppelin Jam
Cinnamon
1995
The Jeff Healey Band
1996
Yardbirds Experience
1997
Van Halen
The Jason Bonham Band (Band of the son of the Led Zeppelin drummer, John Bonham)
Jean-Marc Parent
2002
The Flaming Lips
Disengage
2003
The Fleshtones
Jason Miller
The Golden Cups (titled コミュニケーション・ブレイクダウ)
2004
Gary Cherone
2005
The Rockies
2006
Studio 99
2007
Lez Zeppelin
2008
Marko Pavic
Crazy Baldhead
2010
Kazda & Indigo Strings (Jan Kazda, Indigo Streichquartett)
Studio One
2018
Earthless
2020
The Curious
Little Big Horn (released in 2020, recorded much earlier)
2021
Jack Russell's Great White
Mr.Feedback
2022
D.O.A.
2026
The Pink Fairies
#ledzeppelincover
#southernrock
#communicationbreakdown
#kingpeach
From '' Fair Warning ''
Label: Flying High Records – FH 6504
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: US
Released: 1980
Tracklist
A1 By The Lake
A2 White Lightnin'
A3 Mary Beth
A4 Let Me Be Your Lover
A5 Tell Me
B1 Fair Warning
B2 Communication Breakdown
B3 Sister's Blue
B4 What Does It Take
B5 I Feel Good
Guitar, Lead Vocals – Joe Copeland
Keyboards, Lead Vocals – Danny Haynes
Bass, Lead Vocals – Donnie McCutchen
Drums, Vocals – Randy Dehart
Notes
Stamped back cover REVIEWER COPY NOT FOR SALE
Dedicated to John Lennon
Flying High Records (Parent Label: Richey Recordsbased in Fort Worth, TX. Slim Richey was the president.)
© ℗ Flying High Records 1980
Pressed By – A+R Record Manufacturing Corporation – 8011-58
🎵 [SONG INFO]
"Communication Breakdown" is a song by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, from their 1969 self-titled debut album. It was also used as the B-side of the group's first single in the US, "Good Times Bad Times". A promotional video was released, with the group miming to the recording, which is included on the Led Zeppelin DVD (2003).
Background and composition
The song's original title was "Too Good", and it had been performed during the band's 1968 Scandinavian Tour. It developed from a guitar riff played by Jimmy Page, while the rest of the band wrote the song around it. Bassist John Paul Jones later said "This is Page's riff – you can tell instantly". Singer Robert Plant could not receive a songwriting credit owing to a previous record contract, and consequently it was credited simply to the other three band members.
Personnel
According to Jean-Michel Guesdon and Philippe Margotin:
Robert Plant – Vocals
Jimmy Page – Guitars, Backing Vocals
John Paul Jones – Bass, Organ, Backing Vocals
John Bonham – Drums, Backing Vocals
Live versions
"Communication Breakdown" was part of the group's initial live set in 1968. It was played at every gig until 1970, after which it was featured as an encore. The group played it on at least one show for all subsequent tours, including their residency at Earl's Court, London in 1975, the second appearance at the 1979 Knebworth Festival, and the band's final tour in 1980. Plant played it on some of his solo tours, while Jones performed it live with Diamanda Galás in 1994.
On the Led Zeppelin BBC Sessions, released in 1997, this song was featured three times, each with a slightly different improvisation by the group.
Three live versions–taken from performances at the TV program Tous en scène in Paris in 1969, at Danmarks Radio in 1969 and at the Royal Albert Hall in 1970–can also be seen on the Led Zeppelin DVD. The version of "Good Times Bad Times/Communication Breakdown" released on 15 April 2014, on iTunes, is from 10 October 1969 in Paris, on the European Tour of Autumn 1969.
Legacy
The Dictators' bassist Andy Shernoff states that Page's guitar riff of rapid downstrokes in "Communication Breakdown" was an inspiration for the Ramones' guitarist Johnny Ramone's downstroke guitar style. Ramone stated in the documentary Ramones: The True Story that he built up skill at his downstroke playing style by playing the song over and over again for the bulk of his early career.
The song was used in the American animated sitcom The Simpsons. In a 2006 episode titled "G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)", a group of soldiers with guitars play the riff during a recruitment drive at a crowded stadium. According to author Jonathan Pieslak, the scene is "clearly satirical ... the ending scene references rock music and implies that being in the military is somehow like being at a rock concert".
Cover versions
1972
The Phoenix
1983
The Dickies
1986
CJSS
1987
The Rods
1990
Iron Maiden
1991
Dead Moon
1992
Four Pink Flowers
1993
Mr. Hyde
John Varity
1994
Led Zeppelin Jam
Cinnamon
1995
The Jeff Healey Band
1996
Yardbirds Experience
1997
Van Halen
The Jason Bonham Band (Band of the son of the Led Zeppelin drummer, John Bonham)
Jean-Marc Parent
2002
The Flaming Lips
Disengage
2003
The Fleshtones
Jason Miller
The Golden Cups (titled コミュニケーション・ブレイクダウ)
2004
Gary Cherone
2005
The Rockies
2006
Studio 99
2007
Lez Zeppelin
2008
Marko Pavic
Crazy Baldhead
2010
Kazda & Indigo Strings (Jan Kazda, Indigo Streichquartett)
Studio One
2018
Earthless
2020
The Curious
Little Big Horn (released in 2020, recorded much earlier)
2021
Jack Russell's Great White
Mr.Feedback
2022
D.O.A.
2026
The Pink Fairies
#ledzeppelincover
#southernrock
#communicationbreakdown
#kingpeach
