While such iconic recording studios like Abbey Road in London, Muscle Shoals in Alabama and Electric Lady in New York come up over and over again in classic rock history, another studio that hosted the likes of Led Zeppelin, the Who, the Faces and many others was actually located in a truck…that was parked in Mick Jagger‘s driveway.
The Rolling Stones Mobile Studio, otherwise known as the RSM, is a mobile recording studio inside a DAF F1600 Turbo truck. (It’s still around today, though not in use.) Looking for an alternative to commercial recording studios, the Stones came up with the RSM as a way to record at Jagger’s Stargroves country estate in Hampshire, England; eventually, other bands started renting it out, too.
In 1972, according to Led Zeppelin: The Biography by Bob Spitz, Zeppelin recorded a number of songs there, including “The Rover,” “The Ocean,” and “Dancing Days,” an “uninhibited rocker that juxtaposed strains of Indian influence with a gutsy, combustive guitar riff” inspired by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant‘s recent sojourn to Bombay (now Mumbai).
As the story goes, “Dancing Days” got its name when Page and Plant were so delighted with the way the track came out that they ran out of the truck at Stargroves and danced around on the lawn. Engineer Eddie Kramer captured this moment on film in a photo of the pair that can be found on his website with the caption: “Jimmy and Robert dancing to the song ‘Dancing Days.’ The recording truck doors are open and I’m playing back the take that had just been recorded. So, the lads decided to get into it and have a dance about to this great track.”
“We were in this bloody great mansion of Mick Jagger’s, the reason being that each room had a different sound, particularly if you were going for a big drum sound,” Kramer told Classic Rock. “At Stargroves there was a really lovely conservatory room, with big bay windows and a 15-foot ceiling. [John] Bonham’s drums sounded f—king enormous when you were looking to capture songs like ‘D’yer Mak’er.'”
According to Kramer, Zeppelin decided to move from inside the house to the lawn and the truck whey they looked around and thought, “If that’s the backdrop, what else can we do?”
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Overall, the experience was a good one for Kramer, though his relationship at the time suffered somewhat.
“I think I was only there a week to record all those songs, in between nice dinners and a few beers,” Kramer recalled. “Bonham was a character. He kept bursting in on me and my girlfriend one night when he was drunk. At the time I was kinda pissed, but I laugh about it now. And then of course Robert stole my girlfriend. mean, that was inevitable, right? You didn’t stand much of a chance when he was about.”
Apart from the girlfriend-stealing incident, Kramer had nothing but praise for Plant.
“Robert had the ability to deliver almost an animalistic scream,” he said. “He was the ultimate sex guy up front, but he had the chops to back it up with. The critics poo-poo’d him and said he was a bit of a wailer, but that was a load of balls. The guy was a bloody marvel.”
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As Kramer went on to explain, “you can’t separate the four parts of Zeppelin.”
“When you think about the four of them, you had two highly skilled, highly trained musicians in John [Paul Jones] and Jimmy,” he said. “Then you had Bonzo, the bricklayer’s hod-carrier. He was a big boy; you didn’t want to mess with him, especially when he was drunk. But then he also had a very gentle side, which was amazing. Those four characters were amazingly complementary.”
Released in 1973 on Houses of the Holy, “Dancing Days” made a surprising reappearance in 1992 when Bobby Brown used an interpolation of the song’s riff in his own tune, “Humpin’ Around,” according to Behind the Songs: Classic Rock Chronicles. The combination was a successful one: “Humpin’ Around” went all the way to #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 that year.
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