LED ZEPPELIN's 'Black Dog' Gets 'Encore' Treatment

October 21, 2006

James Reaney of London, Ontario, Canada's The London Free Press reports that LED ZEPPELIN's rock classic "Black Dog" has always deserved encore treatment — and tomorrow (Sunday, Oct. 22) it gets one.

"Hearing a 65-piece band playing LED ZEPPELIN is an experience," says Phil Murphy, conductor of the London community ensemble Encore . . . the Concert Band. Helping Encore find its inner "Black Dog" tomorrow at 2 p.m. at Central secondary school are guest performers — clarinet player Wesley Ferreira and harpist Kathleen Gahagan.

Yep, that's ZEP — "Black Dog". Clarinet. Harp. Encore.

"I'm not the star. Wesley is a fantastic player," Gahagan says.

It's true the brilliant clarinet player and UWO Don Wright music faculty grad has the stellar Jimmy Page (guitar) and Robert Plant (vocal) roles in making good "Black Dog"'s vow to "make you sweat . . . make you groove."

It's also true Ferreira amazes Murphy — a pretty amazing clarinet player himself back in the day.

But it wasn't until Gahagan and her harp fit into Murphy's thundering herd behind Ferreira that "Black Dog" was finally fit for Encore. A few approaches had been considered, but none seemed to have the right ZEP for the "Black Dog" arrangement.

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