When composing Led Zeppelin’s Fifth album, Jimmy page wanted the project to include an opening track of sorts. In the youtube description to “The Seasons” video oh his youtube page, he wrote “My original idea for the opening tracks for ‘Houses of the Holy’ was that a short overture would be a rousing instrumental introduction with layered electric guitars that would segue in to ’The Seasons’, later to be titled ‘The Rain Song’. Again there would be a contrasting acoustic guitar instrumental movement with melotron that could lead to the first vocal of the album and the first verse of the song. ‘The Seasons’ was a memo to myself as a reminder of the sequence of the song and various ideas I’d had for it in its embryonic stage. I’d worked on it over one evening at home. During the routining of the overture now titled ‘The Plumpton and Worcester Races’, the half time section was born and the overture shaped in to the song, ‘The Song Remains The Same’.
Replay 8/31: Madam Radar, Trashy Annie, Olive Vox, The Genders and more
Hubbs September 4, 2025
Texas metal legends Pantera return to Austin for a live show, and we pay tribute to the band members we’ve lost along the way. Plus, Trashy Annie’s lead singer is stepping into the spotlight as a contestant
