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Friday, March 16, 2012

Whole Lotta Helter Skelter - Beatles / Led Zeppelin


*edit 30/03/2014* It took over two years, but some miserable fuck at Universal Music Group finally took it upon himself to have this track removed from Soundcloud.  Not the end of the world, but annoying.  The video's still up at the moment, and a 320k mp3 can be downloaded from this link here... Makes you pine for the the good old days of EMI, eh?  And I notice there's been no online outcry over this, not even an solitary email of condolence... perhaps only people into shitty tedious over-hyped 'hip hop m@$hups' do that sort of thing?  Anyway, I'm not bitter or anything...*cough*

So after saying I don't 'do bootlegs' anymore, I gone and done another one.  I'm not setting out to make a habit of this, it's just that some nice source material came my way and I had a couple of evenings to kill. I don't think I need to say much else about this, really... it's all in the title and the artwork. Suffice to say, I'm of the opinion that if anyone else had attempted this, it would have been a disaster.  As it is, I think it's come out pretty jolly well.  


Could this be the one which finally gets me appreciated and blogged about with 25,000 plays and a mention in Uncut/Mojo/Old Fart Rocker Monthly and all that sort of stuff, after 10 long years of trying?  Yeah, dream on...  Anyway, find a decent stereo system to play this on, and turn the volume control up all the bloody way.  Please let me know in some way if it tickles your rock buds.

52 comments:

Martin said...

This makes me want a whole album of Zep and White Album mashes...
To put it politely, this is the top fucking bollocks!

Nice one!

The Time Machine said...

We downloaded it and played it three times the past week on the radio. It sounds awesome on the FM dial! Kudos!

The Time Machine Radio Crew
KEAO FM / KONI FM / KPMW FM / KRKH FM

ben_sH said...

Thanks, chaps! :)

Jeff in Park Slope said...

Excellent!
Thanks!

Anonymous said...

That may be the coolest thing I've listened to in 20 years.

Unbelievable! Well done!

Casey said...

The Beatles wish they were Led Zeppelin.

Let the flames begin. :)...

madhiker said...

Hope you don't mind, but:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPuyLJl83fM

ben_sH said...

I don't mind at all - keeps the YT crowd happy until I manage to finish a 'proper' video for it, which is taking some time! Thanks!

RickDaddy said...

Incredible. Great job! I'm so glad the Beatle stems are being put to good use. Now only if we had some Zep stems...

Rev. Dr. Moller. MDMA, THC and BAR. said...

This is extremely clever, thanks so much for sharing this.

Unknown said...

Effing awesome, dyood!

Anonymous said...

Toppermost of the poppermost, as they used to say. This is just so great.

Matt Blick said...

You have achieved the impossible. You've made The Beatles AND Led Zeppelin better!!!!

Anonymous said...

Ah, the mighty arms of Atlas, music lovers! If only Fluff had lived to hear this. Magnificent!
PS John Holmes put this out on 6Music on Saturday afternoon - return to your decks and prepare to be slightly notorious.

Walker said...

As I started my truck to leave work at 2 this morning, this song started. I was entranced. Thank you for what you do and thank you to KUT and Rick Daddy in Austin, Texas for sharing this with the world.

ben_sH said...

It's a pleasure, Mr. Walker, glad you liked it! Thanks to everyone else for the comments too, they really do mean a lot! / ben sH

DaveL said...

Terrific Stuff - winging its way around the Zep fan community!!

davdevalle said...

Extraordinary!

John Sweeney said...

Social Network Radio want to put this on the air email us at socialnetworkradiostaion@gmail.com so we can add it to our stations

The Desert Peddler said...

Just got a call from my husband he heard this on the radio and he said you have to find this for me :) !! Glad to have found you...we are rockin' it in Arizona!!! Will share with many friends!!

Empoprises said...

I found out about this via a Rob Michael share on Google+. The songs work well together, and are more similar than they would initially appear.

Chris Huff said...

Love it! and I detest most mashups. This was amazing. Did justice to both songs. Bonham drumming for the Beatles!

Drex said...

Love it - been listening to your work since about 2004, gets my vote as one of the best (albeit not the most complex) tracks.

rinso said...

Outstanding piece of musical art! Best mashup I've heard ever! Keep doing what you do so well!

Salvatore said...

Love it! Even though I hate mashups! Maybe, the best mash-up ever!

¡Mateo es así! said...

Heard this on Sirius this weekend. Found out it was you, of long-ago Boom Selection days! This mix is so on point, not a single missed opportunity. Well done, thank you!

marutanaka said...

how about a round of applause for soundhog? many thanks. :)

randy said...

Someone posted this to FB, where I first listened to it. Congratulations on a brilliant mashup and thank you for sharing this with us. Well done!

Fred Garnett said...

Fantastic, thank you. Incidentally McCartney wrote Helter Skelter in response to the Who's I Can See for Miles - how about a Who/R.E.M mashup? Just a thought... but in the meantime, thanks so much I've played this several times :-)
Anyone else think that Springsteen ripped off the Beach Boys Wild Honey for We Take Care of Our Own?

Cazfreeman said...

You are a genius! It just works so well.

maxwedge said...

Howard Stern mentioned and played your Led Zep / Beatler Helter Skelter song on his Sirius satellite raido show in American on Jan 7th, 2013. He said he loved it !!!! That's how I found you last night and your stuff is TERRIFIC, keep it up and thanks!

Giulia. said...

WOW!!!!
Great job! ;)

Anonymous said...

This song ended up on BWTB on Sirius XM and it was fucking awesome to hear.

Anonymous said...

I found your remix via Jimmy Page's official site...so you have his attention and he likes it! Congratulations .

alexobond said...

One of the best mash up I ever hear

Anonymous said...

Wow just an amazing mash up. Made the end of a tough day totally rocking. Thanks

Anonymous said...

Oh boy! This... this is what music is about! Such a perfect mix.

DJ KenBaxter said...

As far as the online outcry about SoundCloud deleting songs:
I've given up on them. All i uploaded has been "disabled". Where's freedom of remixing? Where's fair use?

I did not visit your site for a while but THIS has to be the most amazing mashup EVER! Add your "Barleycorn - Ramble On" to this as well. Awesome!

As someone else stated on SC: keep on keeping ... please!

Your's truly DJ KenBaxter

Anonymous said...

This rocked me - truly amazing work. It's like it was meant to be.

Sagar said...

This is fucking brilliant. Thanks for taking the time to make this. The world owes you more gratitude. :)

Jason said...

I'm not even a Zeppelin fan, but this riff kicks the bejesus out of Helter Skelter — in a good way, I mean. Fricking brilliant work.

ben_sH said...

Thanks folks! Sorry for not replying to all this earlier. My fault. As far as Soundcloud goes, the problem is they've basically given Universal (and probably some others) a spare set of keys to the place, so stuff's getting automatically deleted all over the place. On the flipside, you've got YouTube actually automatically *creating* it's own "Topic" videos from mp3 files, and nobody's getting paid for those. It's all gone very strange out there...

Anonymous said...

I know I'm a bit late but WOW, simply put, WOW. This straight up one of the best rock tracks I've ever heard. You produced this like they would have, genius. I admire the integrity, vision, and musical sense you've got. I'd like to think that somewhere John and George are digging this jam.

Anonymous said...

Superb - well done amazing work involved in making a seamless 'new' song !

Unknown said...

Just heard tis on CBC Vinyltap. F___ing amazing!!! Great job!!!

DJ Kenny said...

F**king awesome

Nobody said...

Soundhog, you wouldn't happen to have the original video available, would you? Or at least a better quality copy of the video you uploaded to Youtube? I miss it.

Anonymous said...

Must've listened to this a HUNDRED times this month! Just amazing!

Anonymous said...

I posted a comment months ago saying your mix was better than either. Upon listening to it anew, I now wish to amend that: you have crafted THE GREATEST, ASS-KICKING ROCKNROLL SONG OF ALL TIME. Congratulations.

LoadMaster said...

And of course, there is this particular mash-up, based on the same LZ tune:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd0b42chX5A

GordN YYC said...

Thanks man, been looking for this for some time!

Anonymous said...

Just heard this today on xm little Steven’s underground garage. Here now to play it for my husband. It’s fantastic!