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Houses Of The Holy<\/em>, the fifth Led Zeppelin album and the primary to not be titled with a quantity, reached its fiftieth anniversary on Tuesday. To mark the event, Jimmy Page shared \u201cThe Seasons,\u201d a beforehand unreleased six-and-a-half-minute instrumental demo that finally advanced into \u201cThe Rain Song.\u201d<\/p>\n Notes from Page on this demo and the Houses<\/em> period:<\/p>\n My unique thought for the opening tracks for \u2018Houses of the Holy\u2019 was {that a} quick overture can be a rousing instrumental introduction with layered electrical guitars that might segue in to \u2018The Seasons\u2019, later to be titled \u2018The Rain Song\u2019. Again there can be a contrasting acoustic guitar instrumental motion with mellotron that would result in the primary vocal of the album and the primary verse of the track. <\/p>\n \u2018The Seasons\u2019 was a memo to myself as a reminder of the sequence of the track and varied concepts I\u2019d had for it in its embryonic stage. I\u2019d labored on it over one night at house. During the routining of the overture now titled \u2018The Plumpton and Worcester Races\u2019, the half time part was born and the overture formed in to the track, \u2018The Song Remains The Same\u2019. These rehearsals had been accomplished in Puddle Town on the River Piddle in Dorset, UK.<\/p>\n The first set of recordings had been accomplished at Olympic Studios with George Chkiantz.<\/p>\n We then got here to document at Stargroves, Sir Mick Jagger\u2019s nation house, and, like Headley Grange, with the Rolling Stones recording truck.<\/p>\n \u2018The Song Remains The Same\u2019 was performed on a Fender 12 string, the identical one used on Becks Bolero, with my trusty Les Paul number one on overdubs in an ordinary turning. The \u2018Rain Song\u2019 was an unorthodox tuning on acoustic and electrical guitars. On dwell reveals, it turned a work-out characteristic for the double neck.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Hear \u201cThe Seasons\u201d under, and once you\u2019re accomplished with that, blast \u201cOver The Hills And Far Away\u201d to have fun the arrival of spring.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n