This is what they mean when you hear the term “Rock Gods”…. No auto tune, no stupid cellphones, no backup nonsense and no backup musicians. Huge killer sound coming out of 4 beacons of rock superiority.
In 1973, this was metal. In 1973, this was rock. In 1973, we had been wearing jeans and t-shirts for over ten years. Remember. This is 1973. An awesome time for live music and these guys were at the top of their mountain. The crowd was focused on what they were seeing because they didn't have phones to film it on. They were there to appreciate it in the moment. That's why these bands are so revered to this day. It was total respect because you never knew when they would be back in town.
Led Zeppelin is first and foremost, the greatest live band ever. They became the biggest band in the world through word of mouth alone. It's all about the live performances. They never released singles (although the record company did release a couple without their approval), but the word spread throughout the country, and the world, how great they were before they even played the venues. One of the reasons they became the greatest is that they absolutely loved playing live, often changing songs from show to show. At this stage they were doing 3.5 to 4 hour shows, sometimes 4 nights in a row. The chemistry was just right. As someone else put it, "they didn't set out to be the greatest band in the world, they just were."
One of the reasons John Paul Jones stays back is to stay in a position to see Bonham, They were very improvisational (not this song) in most songs. Jimmy Page and / or Robert Plant often led them into improvisation with no one knowing where it would go, but all coming back together at just the right time. So, JPJ and Bonham often watch each other to lay the foundation for what was happening. Absolute brilliance! Check out Whole Lotta Love from this show.
After the Beatles opened the way to everybody else, Led Zeppelin appeared and they managed to have a sound of their own and up to this day no one has ever since managed to create a new good sound like they have done... A bunch of 4 gifted musicians like no other group has achieved!
With Led Zeppelin there are going to be A LOT of songs that you like the live version better than the studio version. Not because the studio version isn’t good, but because the live version are so awesome that there’s really no comparison!
Once you've heard Led Zeppelin you can't go back. No other band sounds anything like them. Jimmy Page is just transported. He's off in his own world and noone does the "duck face" better.
Remember when you watched Achillies Last Stand live? Drumming in there was fabulous...worth a revisit! JPJ never left Bonzos side...Zeppelin were unique. Bonzo followed Jimmy...JPJ followed Bonzo and Robert threw in where appropriate! That is why they were so tight and right on time! JPJ is a musical genius as is Jimmy! He was just a quiet guy and left the frontman duties to Robert and Jimmy! Also notice...there is no rhythm guitar player like many bands have...Jimmy played both parts and if he couldn't JPJ did the fills on the bass etc. They were a well oiled machine!
The rythm section for Led Zeppelin is a force of nature. John Paul Jones did not want to stray from John Bonham's area, "the Back Line", if you will, because that is where the rhythm engine was happening. Also, the two "front men" for the band, Page and Plant, OWN that part of the stage. They were definitely a 2-front/2-back 4-piece. But, when JPJ would get on his keyboards, then the stage would expand, right to left, and he would be a bit more in the front area, a bit more in the spotlight, on the left side of the stage.
You can hear the late Zeppelin drummer John Bonham yell out "Alright here we go" right before the opening drum part. Bonham was such an integral part of Zeppelin that when he died in 1980, Zeppelin felt that they couldn't continue as a band without him and they decided to call it quits. It was the end of an era in the history of rock n roll.
Back in the early 70s, Led Zeppelin absolutely WAS called “Heavy Metal”. Remember all the bands you consider Heavy Metal NOW did not exist other than Sabbath. Originally the term was used to describe Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple. The meaning of course has since changed P.S. My favorite part of the reaction was you imploring Jonesy to get out front and rock out. Yeah that’s not a thing. But it made my day.
This video is from the band's concert film called "The Song Remains the Same" (1976). It's a film of a 1973 concert in New York that they didn't release as a film until 3 years later. It's a CLASSIC concert film!
For your info, the line isn't " making vows in the moonlight." It's actually, " Making love, just can't walk right." Among other sources, Heart does a cover of this song and you can clearly hear Ann Wilson say the second lyric.
This concert was made in to a movie which you should watch It has behind the scenes footage and fantasy clips for each band members Back then with no internet it was one of the rare times we got to see them live unless you were lucky enough to see them in concert
Yeah, whoever wrote that this is metal got it wrong because it's rock/hard rock. Jones usually stood close to Bonham when he was playing bass because together they were the foundational components of a song and needed to communicate and coordinate, especially when Page and/or Plant started to improvise. Great reaction to a great performance. Glad you enjoyed it. Looking forward to your next reaction to LZ live. :)
A year later: I prefer the live versions. I was a teen in the 70s and never saw Zeppelin except for album shots. It was several years before MTV. Those of us in nowhere, USA - fly over country did not see Zeppelin unless you got lucky to score tickets for Chicago against all those in Chicago and the burbs buying tickets. So as an older adult I love seeing them perform. How I wish you were diving into Zeppelin now instead of a year ago.
My first concert was seeing zep at madison Square garden in 73. My friend and I were heading to our seats (nose bleed) when they started playing. Never saw this video before. Thanks
Yep, a lot of a concert was spent trying to burn the memories into our brains. We knew it was a historic event as much as anything else. Really lucky to have been around back then.
Robert and Jimmy kept trying to get Jonesy to move forward and he would try, but always moved back. He was glued to Bonzo’s right side for 12 years. Zeppelin was the rare band, no doubt because of all the improv Jimmy would do, where the drummer, while keeping the beat, also followed the lead of the guitarist. Jonesy and Bonham communicated allot, with signals or eye contact so they worked as a single rhythm unit. They stayed tight so Jimmy and Robert could do their thing. Some people who don’t know any better accuse Jimmy or Robert of “hogging” the spotlight, but that’s the way Jonesy wanted it. He didn’t want to be recognized on sight, wasn’t interested in fame, preferred the shadows….that resulted in him having much more freedom while on tour to go outside the hotel, walking freely, unrecognized, while the others were basically prisoners. Robert describes trying to go out and having to “scamper back” to the hotel for safety, which he said was “no fun at all”. Fame has its downside. Jonesy managed to avoid it….a true studio musician at heart…….which, as you might know already Sal, was what he was before Zeppelin.
"Tight but Loose" was the name of a fanzine (old school blog, sort of) started and run by superfan Dave Lewis (His various Zeppelin books are truly excellent labors of love!). The expression describes perfectly what these guys excelled at in their live shows. I just missed 'em, dammit--at age 12 I was somewhat of a fan in '77, the year of their last American tour, but had become obsessed with them in '79, looking soooo forward to their next tour, which of course never came. I remember seeing my friend Chris in our high school hallway the day after Bonzo died. One of us said just one word to the other: "Shit." No explanation needed. Btw, Jones DOES move around quite energetically (for him, anyway, lol) in the excellent live footage from the Royal Albert Hall appearance in , I think it was, 1970. You can definitely mine that for gold in terms of superb live performances of songs from albums I and II. I was over the moon when that stuff came out on their official DVD in 2003!!
Dave Lewis is SUCH the Zep Hero! I have a coupole of his "labors of love," including his endlessly fascinating (if ur a zephed, lol) "Concert File," with all the songs they played in shows, how they sounded, the relevent bootlegs, all the way to Page/Plant NQ, etc. You go, Dave! Holy F, I just realized I'm replying to my OWN post from 4 months ago, LMFAO! I just saw the "Dave Lewis" name and began blabbing, haha! A fine comment to reply to!
I do think back in this day, some of Led Zeppelin songs were considered metal. That was back in these days lol. My father mentioned that to me a long time ago he was a hippy from the 60’s. Awesome work bro yet Again. Rock on!!¡
My late bass teacher once told me that the bass is technically an extension of the drums - both keep the beat and lay down the roots of a song. So it makes sense that the bass would be in the back along with the drums to follow what's going on in the front and keep the roots of the song going, depending on what the singer and guitarist do... especially if the band is prone to improvisation.
And now you know why LIVE versions far surpass studio versions. The sound might not be as clean as a perfectly mixed studio version, but their solos are fabulous and always one of a kind, never exactly the same. And how great they sound live without tune correction or editing
Great reaction video. Fun to see your expressions and hear your comments on the song and performance. It reminds me of my first reaction watching this concert opener in the movie.
Led Zeppelin concert in 1974 - best I've ever experienced. Every girl in the place wanted Robert Plant. I went with my boyfriend, who was a guitar player. He had binoculars and was focused on Jimmy Page. I kept taking them from him to focus on Robert Plant! His comment to me was "It smells a little musty in here!" My response "Dam right!"
The only way for my brother and cousins to see Led Zeppelin back in the late 70's was to catch a midnight showing of their concert film, The Song Remains The Same, from which this footage is from. There were several bands at their prime during the 70's, so it's debatable who was the best....to me, they all were great. LZ, The Who, Queen, Kiss, The Rolling Stones etc...
No, they're not metal, but are considered to be one of the root sources from which metal evolved, so, a "grandfather", of sorts, I suppose. John Paul Jones said Robert used to tell him to move to the front more often, and he said he would but would then find himself in back, next to the drums. Jonesy preferred his relative anonymity, compared to Jimmy and Robert. He said he'd read how when the Beatles toured, they rarely, if ever, left the hotel because of the uproar and he didn't want to deal with that, so, when touring, he would often sneak out of the hotel to go exploring by himself. I think that for Jimmy, a lot of his animation on stage came from how he first experienced his musical idols. Back then, musicians often had various moves; maybe a band had a synchronized little dance step, or occasionally played from one knee, or had other, dramatic poses - in other words, they were engaging and put on a show. There are pictures in both of Jimmy's books of him onstage as a teenager showing him playing on his knees or bent over low and dramatic. And, for all of Jimmy's shape-throwing, if you watch some of their full concerts, you'd see him just as often in front of the drums (he said he liked feeling the vibration of the big, bass drum) or slightly off to the side near Jonesy, almost as if the three musicians were plotting and conspiring as they played.
Recently saw a video of how this song got written. They were working on another song for fourth album. Bonham just couldn't get the drum part the way they wanted. In his frustration he started plaing the drum riff. Page jumped in with some 50s style guitar and Jones jumped in with base line. Plant began singing what ever came to mind. Great story.
It's amazing how close the audience was to the stage back then. Now we have huge barriers and lots of security to control the crowds. Back then you could rest your elbows on the stage and trip up the guitarist!
*Morning Bro* Yup..... there isn't anything but stellar performances from the 2 days at MSG in 73.! And I understand listening to a studio version first, absolutely. Just like we did but Zeppelin LIVE, whole nuther level.! And different every night they performed.! Brilliant improvisation.! *David* .....
You should check out this song from Australia a year or two before when Robert's voice was in top form before the removal of nodules from his vocal chords.
Excellent decision listening to the studio tracks first. It not only lets you appreciate the song better but also lets you appreciate the live performances much more. you can see just how much they improvise on the spot depending on their mood at that time. zep never played the same song twice. you are 100% correct in saying zep is not metal. when they dropped their first album one of the "powers that be" in the record industry listened to it and his first reply was "that's heavy". he was right, that first album (along with a few others) has a "heavy" feel to it. That was the first time the term "heavy" was used to describe music. It later morphed into heavy rock which morphed into heavy metal. Hence Led Zeppelin is sometimes considered Heavy Metal. (but not really)
I thought your pause to check out the crowd was fine and kinda hilarious. I've gone to so many shows over the years, and a fair number of them were recorded. Always fun to try and find yourself in the crowd shots. I've managed to pick myself out twice. I'm famous, I tell you, famous!
It was very hard in the 60s and 70s to have a really good sound live, without being distorted. Recording tech has also come a long way since then. In the studio everything is controlled and done the way the artist really intends it to be heard.
Been diggin' your Zeppelin reactions and I'm sure you're getting tons of suggestions on which live performances to check out... so let me jump in and do my part as well. From the first album I suggest this, ruclips.net/video/o3XpvxdlhAA/видео.html a great performance of 'I Can't Quit You Babe' preceded by the song 'We're Gonna Groove' which at the time was unreleased. From the second album you can't do much better than the MSG '73 version of 'Whole Lotta Love'... And from the third album I'll go by your initial reaction to this song and treat you to this, ruclips.net/video/_PFmGicOEeY/видео.html 'Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp' from their acoustic set in '75... Bonham singing along and playing spoons and JPJ on stand-up bass. You'll love it.
The concert film was mostly reshot a year later in an empty hall in England, so a lot of it is lip synced and miming and they wore the same clothes. This was because a lot of the original footage was unusable. You call tell in certain shots Jones is wearing a wig because he cut his hair short, and Plant's tooth that you see missing is fixed. But the music is all live.
Jimmy would have told google it's not metal. JPJ didn't want a high profile or to get too involved in the fame thing. He just concentrated on the music.
Saw them in 1977 just before RP's son died and they cut the tour. Yes, that's how we looked. No tats, no piercings, and no green hair. More importantly no cell phones. We were in the moment. Problem was we were so stoned we can't remember much about the show. Ha ha. Watch The Song Remains the Same movie if you want to see the LZ 70s vibe.
Tribute to the early rock and roll of Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis! Early, early R&R from the 50's. The Stroll was a dance from that era and was mainly for couples. Had to have a specific girl to participate. You are right, this is not metal, or really even blues, though blues is there deep in R&Rs roots.
For some awesome John Paul Jones, for his bass try the live Dazed and Confused and for his keyboard work, try the live No Quarter, both from MSG 1973. Enjoy! 🎵
Led Zeppelin manager Peter grant was in charge of the show n he was ruthless at the time example if he saw someone with a mini movie camera or camera he would have security confiscate it break it on purpose smash it he didn't want anybody making money off the band same with selling copyright pictures he made sure nobody would try screw over the band
Do something from Danemarks live , maybe How Many More Times, or Babe I'm Gonna Leave You. Great show in their early days in an intimate setting with a very small audience. The beginnings of the greatness. OR from Royal Albert Hall 1971 I Can't Quit You Baby is a beauty
i strongly suggest when you start the houses of the hole album that you watch the live MSG version of the two songs. they blend together and i consider the live version to be better than the studio.
saw them 5/30/77 Wash DC I was sitting first level from the floor by Jimmy Page. I couldn’t take my eyes off of him. The audio is online for that show.
In the 70's this was a metal guitar band and it was heavy which is the precise definition of heavy metal I have no idea what sponge bob thinks metal is.😅😅
Imagine walking onstage and straight into this powerhouse of a song. So energetic, Jimmy in particular just throwing himself straight into it. Marvellous. John Paul Jones is the most reticent and laid back, but just listen to his bass work and his keyboards - they're not laid back! As a friendly FYI, no one cares about Google "music type" listings, and no-one listening to this track gives 2 hoots about Aha!
John Paul Jones contribution is immense - both with bass and keyboards. He reminds me of John Entwistle, bassist of the Who, another bass player that left the theatrics to the singer and guitarist, yet remained the cornerstone of the beat, while Keith Moon was even wilder in his own way than John Bonham
To your comment about the crowd: This was back before mosh pits and going ape-sh!t crazy at concerts were a thing. Some people would dance in place, you'd see girls up on the shoulders of guys, beach balls getting bounced around, but as far as super radical stuff or the whole crowd bopping up and down in unison, nope. Plus, a lot of people were really, really stoned, so.... LOL
Most people know about the bell-bottom pants, but that was taken to the extreme with elephant-ears bell-bottoms. The idea was not to see the shoes & give the effect of floating.
Wanna see more JPJ? No quarter, from the same gig, or Trampled Underfoot live from Earls Court. Both times, playing bass with his feet while on the keys. Legendary performances too.
If you’re fortunate enough to listen to the original 1976 TSRTS (not reissues) you will be rewarded with the definitive version of Rock and Roll , blazing rock unlike anything you’ve ever heard !
People these days want to peg them as that, but they themselves reject that. Having been there at the time (I was 21 when Zep landed) I can tell you that they were known as a very hard rock band. If You liked hard rock, you liked Zeppelin.
@@w.geoffreyspaulding6588 heavy metal was just a new term for hard Rock! It started in the states zeppelin sabbath and deep purple and other hard rock bands from the '70s didn't like the term heavy metal! Hell even Lemy didn't like the term!
You are right about JPJ he was not the partying type i read in there book The Hammer Of The Gods from the 70s he went home as often as he could where the others partied there asses off If you watch Heart cover Stairway to Heaven at the Kennedy Center honors you will notice JPJs wife from the movie is sitting behind him
This is what they mean when you hear the term “Rock Gods”….
No auto tune, no stupid cellphones, no backup nonsense and no backup musicians. Huge killer sound coming out of 4 beacons of rock superiority.
Greatest opener I've ever seen. Saw them in 75 & 77. This was the opener in 75. You are already keyed up just being there and pow there they are.
Just imagine sitting in the studio with your band mates,and say right lets write some lyrics and music'' and you come up with this,GENIUS.
In 1973, this was metal. In 1973, this was rock. In 1973, we had been wearing jeans and t-shirts for over ten years. Remember. This is 1973. An awesome time for live music and these guys were at the top of their mountain. The crowd was focused on what they were seeing because they didn't have phones to film it on. They were there to appreciate it in the moment. That's why these bands are so revered to this day. It was total respect because you never knew when they would be back in town.
It is fun to watch you come to the realization the Led Zeppelin was/is the greatest rock band ever! Rock Gods!
I just love them live!!! Yes I was a teen in the 70s...that's what we looked like! Best time of my life!
Mine too, the 70s were one, big, wonderful blur, lol! Still Rocking though, all this time later...
Saw them at Knebworth UK in 79 on the first day i was 12 :) 4 month earlier i saw Rush on the Hemispheres tour ,i was 11 .Different times.
Led Zeppelin is first and foremost, the greatest live band ever. They became the biggest band in the world through word of mouth alone. It's all about the live performances. They never released singles (although the record company did release a couple without their approval), but the word spread throughout the country, and the world, how great they were before they even played the venues. One of the reasons they became the greatest is that they absolutely loved playing live, often changing songs from show to show. At this stage they were doing 3.5 to 4 hour shows, sometimes 4 nights in a row. The chemistry was just right. As someone else put it, "they didn't set out to be the greatest band in the world, they just were."
One of the reasons John Paul Jones stays back is to stay in a position to see Bonham, They were very improvisational (not this song) in most songs. Jimmy Page and / or Robert Plant often led them into improvisation with no one knowing where it would go, but all coming back together at just the right time. So, JPJ and Bonham often watch each other to lay the foundation for what was happening. Absolute brilliance! Check out Whole Lotta Love from this show.
After the Beatles opened the way to everybody else, Led Zeppelin appeared and they managed to have a sound of their own and up to this day no one has ever since managed to create a new good sound like they have done... A bunch of 4 gifted musicians like no other group has achieved!
With Led Zeppelin there are going to be A LOT of songs that you like the live version better than the studio version. Not because the studio version isn’t good, but because the live version are so awesome that there’s really no comparison!
Agree
Once you've heard Led Zeppelin you can't go back. No other band sounds anything like them. Jimmy Page is just transported. He's off in his own world and noone does the "duck face" better.
LOVE THE DUCK FACE!!
Remember when you watched Achillies Last Stand live? Drumming in there was fabulous...worth a revisit! JPJ never left Bonzos side...Zeppelin were unique. Bonzo followed Jimmy...JPJ followed Bonzo and Robert threw in where appropriate! That is why they were so tight and right on time! JPJ is a musical genius as is Jimmy! He was just a quiet guy and left the frontman duties to Robert and Jimmy! Also notice...there is no rhythm guitar player like many bands have...Jimmy played both parts and if he couldn't JPJ did the fills on the bass etc. They were a well oiled machine!
Greetings from Ireland. Glad to know that you discovered this great rock band.☘️
The rythm section for Led Zeppelin is a force of nature. John Paul Jones did not want to stray from John Bonham's area, "the Back Line", if you will, because that is where the rhythm engine was happening. Also, the two "front men" for the band, Page and Plant, OWN that part of the stage. They were definitely a 2-front/2-back 4-piece. But, when JPJ would get on his keyboards, then the stage would expand, right to left, and he would be a bit more in the front area, a bit more in the spotlight, on the left side of the stage.
Yes, rhythm section is the base on which guitar and vocals lay over. Without those two in the back, there is no song.
You can hear the late Zeppelin drummer John Bonham yell out "Alright here we go" right before the opening drum part. Bonham was such an integral part of Zeppelin that when he died in 1980, Zeppelin felt that they couldn't continue as a band without him and they decided to call it quits. It was the end of an era in the history of rock n roll.
Imagine you haven't heard of LZ and you come along and see this as there opening song!!!!! Instant head blown.
Right!!!
Back in the early 70s, Led Zeppelin absolutely WAS called “Heavy Metal”. Remember all the bands you consider Heavy Metal NOW did not exist other than Sabbath. Originally the term was used to describe Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple.
The meaning of course has since changed
P.S. My favorite part of the reaction was you imploring Jonesy to get out front and rock out. Yeah that’s not a thing. But it made my day.
Love your reaction to LZ live. This was my favorite LZ song for a very long time.
This video is from the band's concert film called "The Song Remains the Same" (1976). It's a film of a 1973 concert in New York that they didn't release as a film until 3 years later. It's a CLASSIC concert film!
They had actually planned to scrap it. But when Plant got into a very serious car accident they got the wheels rolling to release the film.
@@josephlinnell9855 I love that film!! Can you imagine what a huge loss it would have been? Wow…I wonder why they thought to scrap it?
For your info, the line isn't " making vows in the moonlight." It's actually, " Making love, just can't walk right." Among other sources, Heart does a cover of this song and you can clearly hear Ann Wilson say the second lyric.
Actually it's "seems so long since we walked in the moonlight"
Uh, WRONG! Making vows that just can’t work right!
I was 13 in 1973. What an incredible time to be a teenager. House parties were off the charts. And to have LZ doing their thing was AMAZING!
This concert was made in to a movie which you should watch It has behind the scenes footage and fantasy clips for each band members Back then with no internet it was one of the rare times we got to see them live unless you were lucky enough to see them in concert
Yes I have multiple copies in different media modes lol
Yeah, whoever wrote that this is metal got it wrong because it's rock/hard rock. Jones usually stood close to Bonham when he was playing bass because together they were the foundational components of a song and needed to communicate and coordinate, especially when Page and/or Plant started to improvise. Great reaction to a great performance. Glad you enjoyed it. Looking forward to your next reaction to LZ live. :)
Bron aur stomp live is amazing. 1975 Earl's Court. After countless times of hearing this I always enjoy ride. God Bless my friend.
It's Rock Blues, great video as usual!!
John Paul Jones always said that it was his job to stick by the drummer.
A year later: I prefer the live versions. I was a teen in the 70s and never saw Zeppelin except for album shots. It was several years before MTV. Those of us in nowhere, USA - fly over country did not see Zeppelin unless you got lucky to score tickets for Chicago against all those in Chicago and the burbs buying tickets. So as an older adult I love seeing them perform.
How I wish you were diving into Zeppelin now instead of a year ago.
My first concert was seeing zep at madison Square garden in 73. My friend and I were heading to our seats (nose bleed) when they started playing. Never saw this video before. Thanks
Bass Players are usually chill back in the day, that was their persona
Such is the mind of a bass player
This is the beginning of metal. Zep, Sabbath, Who, Stones, Purple all gave birth to metal, and Zep is one metal's patents. That's musical history.
Yep, a lot of a concert was spent trying to burn the memories into our brains. We knew it was a historic event as much as anything else. Really lucky to have been around back then.
Robert and Jimmy kept trying to get Jonesy to move forward and he would try, but always moved back. He was glued to Bonzo’s right side for 12 years. Zeppelin was the rare band, no doubt because of all the improv Jimmy would do, where the drummer, while keeping the beat, also followed the lead of the guitarist. Jonesy and Bonham communicated allot, with signals or eye contact so they worked as a single rhythm unit. They stayed tight so Jimmy and Robert could do their thing. Some people who don’t know any better accuse Jimmy or Robert of “hogging” the spotlight, but that’s the way Jonesy wanted it. He didn’t want to be recognized on sight, wasn’t interested in fame, preferred the shadows….that resulted in him having much more freedom while on tour to go outside the hotel, walking freely, unrecognized, while the others were basically prisoners. Robert describes trying to go out and having to “scamper back” to the hotel for safety, which he said was “no fun at all”. Fame has its downside. Jonesy managed to avoid it….a true studio musician at heart…….which, as you might know already Sal, was what he was before Zeppelin.
wow! hes a real one for that! respect
That's because jonesy like being in the background didn't feel comfortable up front some times
Great choice. Best rock hair too. Thanks.
They all wail in this track 🙌
"Tight but Loose" was the name of a fanzine (old school blog, sort of) started and run by superfan Dave Lewis (His various Zeppelin books are truly excellent labors of love!). The expression describes perfectly what these guys excelled at in their live shows. I just missed 'em, dammit--at age 12 I was somewhat of a fan in '77, the year of their last American tour, but had become obsessed with them in '79, looking soooo forward to their next tour, which of course never came. I remember seeing my friend Chris in our high school hallway the day after Bonzo died. One of us said just one word to the other: "Shit." No explanation needed. Btw, Jones DOES move around quite energetically (for him, anyway, lol) in the excellent live footage from the Royal Albert Hall appearance in , I think it was, 1970. You can definitely mine that for gold in terms of superb live performances of songs from albums I and II. I was over the moon when that stuff came out on their official DVD in 2003!!
Dave Lewis is SUCH the Zep Hero! I have a coupole of his "labors of love," including his endlessly fascinating (if ur a zephed, lol) "Concert File," with all the songs they played in shows, how they sounded, the relevent bootlegs, all the way to Page/Plant NQ, etc. You go, Dave! Holy F, I just realized I'm replying to my OWN post from 4 months ago, LMFAO! I just saw the "Dave Lewis" name and began blabbing, haha! A fine comment to reply to!
I do think back in this day, some of Led Zeppelin songs were considered metal. That was back in these days lol. My father mentioned that to me a long time ago he was a hippy from the 60’s. Awesome work bro yet Again. Rock on!!¡
Best band ever!
It was metal then...this was the hardest rock of the time...coming from the Beatles era...great review!
My late bass teacher once told me that the bass is technically an extension of the drums - both keep the beat and lay down the roots of a song. So it makes sense that the bass would be in the back along with the drums to follow what's going on in the front and keep the roots of the song going, depending on what the singer and guitarist do... especially if the band is prone to improvisation.
And now you know why LIVE versions far surpass studio versions. The sound might not be as clean as a perfectly mixed studio version, but their solos are fabulous and always one of a kind, never exactly the same. And how great they sound live without tune correction or editing
I was a teenager in mid 70’s early 80’s... best music ever and can not be reproduced... my kids only listen to MY music and love in!!
I was here for this! This and show at Colosium best rock shows by far I ever saw and I saw everyone!
❤❤❤Robert ❤❤❤
Great reaction video. Fun to see your expressions and hear your comments on the song and performance. It reminds me of my first reaction watching this concert opener in the movie.
The crowd and band are now 70+ just think about that
Led Zeppelin concert in 1974 - best I've ever experienced. Every girl in the place wanted Robert Plant. I went with my boyfriend, who was a guitar player. He had binoculars and was focused on Jimmy Page. I kept taking them from him to focus on Robert Plant! His comment to me was "It smells a little musty in here!" My response "Dam right!"
The only way for my brother and cousins to see Led Zeppelin back in the late 70's was to catch a midnight showing of their concert film, The Song Remains The Same, from which this footage is from.
There were several bands at their prime during the 70's, so it's debatable who was the best....to me, they all were great. LZ, The Who, Queen, Kiss, The Rolling Stones etc...
No, they're not metal, but are considered to be one of the root sources from which metal evolved, so, a "grandfather", of sorts, I suppose. John Paul Jones said Robert used to tell him to move to the front more often, and he said he would but would then find himself in back, next to the drums. Jonesy preferred his relative anonymity, compared to Jimmy and Robert. He said he'd read how when the Beatles toured, they rarely, if ever, left the hotel because of the uproar and he didn't want to deal with that, so, when touring, he would often sneak out of the hotel to go exploring by himself. I think that for Jimmy, a lot of his animation on stage came from how he first experienced his musical idols. Back then, musicians often had various moves; maybe a band had a synchronized little dance step, or occasionally played from one knee, or had other, dramatic poses - in other words, they were engaging and put on a show. There are pictures in both of Jimmy's books of him onstage as a teenager showing him playing on his knees or bent over low and dramatic. And, for all of Jimmy's shape-throwing, if you watch some of their full concerts, you'd see him just as often in front of the drums (he said he liked feeling the vibration of the big, bass drum) or slightly off to the side near Jonesy, almost as if the three musicians were plotting and conspiring as they played.
Page hated that they were labeled a metal band, and I agree they're not metal....they were very versatile.
Recently saw a video of how this song got written. They were working on another song for fourth album. Bonham just couldn't get the drum part the way they wanted. In his frustration he started plaing the drum riff. Page jumped in with some 50s style guitar and Jones jumped in with base line. Plant began singing what ever came to mind. Great story.
Jimmy Page, the ultimate rock star god...he's just so cool...
It's amazing how close the audience was to the stage back then. Now we have huge barriers and lots of security to control the crowds. Back then you could rest your elbows on the stage and trip up the guitarist!
greatest band ever
*Morning Bro* Yup..... there isn't anything but stellar performances from the 2 days at MSG in 73.! And I understand listening to a studio version first, absolutely. Just like we did but Zeppelin LIVE, whole nuther level.! And different every night they performed.! Brilliant improvisation.! *David* .....
this was the first metal, the term was coined when a writer used as a description of them
That's right,lets go
You should check out this song from Australia a year or two before when Robert's voice was in top form before the removal of nodules from his vocal chords.
I was 14 when I saw them live in S.F. in 1968.
Excellent decision listening to the studio tracks first. It not only lets you appreciate the song better but also lets you appreciate the live performances much more. you can see just how much they improvise on the spot depending on their mood at that time. zep never played the same song twice.
you are 100% correct in saying zep is not metal. when they dropped their first album one of the "powers that be" in the record industry listened to it and his first reply was "that's heavy". he was right, that first album (along with a few others) has a "heavy" feel to it. That was the first time the term "heavy" was used to describe music. It later morphed into heavy rock which morphed into heavy metal. Hence Led Zeppelin is sometimes considered Heavy Metal. (but not really)
This and Whole lotta Love were always their encore songs...
That’s The Way (Live at Earl’s Court) would be a good, live, acoustic one to do.
I thought your pause to check out the crowd was fine and kinda hilarious. I've gone to so many shows over the years, and a fair number of them were recorded. Always fun to try and find yourself in the crowd shots. I've managed to pick myself out twice. I'm famous, I tell you, famous!
It was very hard in the 60s and 70s to have a really good sound live, without being distorted. Recording tech has also come a long way since then. In the studio everything is controlled and done the way the artist really intends it to be heard.
This was the hits when I was in preschool and kindergarten. I grew up on Led Zep, the Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, and ACDC
Been diggin' your Zeppelin reactions and I'm sure you're getting tons of suggestions on which live performances to check out... so let me jump in and do my part as well. From the first album I suggest this, ruclips.net/video/o3XpvxdlhAA/видео.html a great performance of 'I Can't Quit You Babe' preceded by the song 'We're Gonna Groove' which at the time was unreleased. From the second album you can't do much better than the MSG '73 version of 'Whole Lotta Love'... And from the third album I'll go by your initial reaction to this song and treat you to this, ruclips.net/video/_PFmGicOEeY/видео.html 'Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp' from their acoustic set in '75... Bonham singing along and playing spoons and JPJ on stand-up bass. You'll love it.
The concert film was mostly reshot a year later in an empty hall in England, so a lot of it is lip synced and miming and they wore the same clothes. This was because a lot of the original footage was unusable. You call tell in certain shots Jones is wearing a wig because he cut his hair short, and Plant's tooth that you see missing is fixed. But the music is all live.
Jimmy would have told google it's not metal. JPJ didn't want a high profile or to get too involved in the fame thing. He just concentrated on the music.
Btw…it’s Bonham who shouts…”OK, Let’s Go!” Just as they start….
ZIP ZAP ZEP! was the headline in the daily news the next day. i was there. 3hr show
They are right up there with pink floyd, queen and dire straits as the best live band ever.
Saw them in 1977 just before RP's son died and they cut the tour. Yes, that's how we looked. No tats, no piercings, and no green hair. More importantly no cell phones. We were in the moment. Problem was we were so stoned we can't remember much about the show. Ha ha. Watch The Song Remains the Same movie if you want to see the LZ 70s vibe.
Tribute to the early rock and roll of Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis! Early, early R&R from the 50's. The Stroll was a dance from that era and was mainly for couples. Had to have a specific girl to participate. You are right, this is not metal, or really even blues, though blues is there deep in R&Rs roots.
It's not Metal! It's Led Zeppelin!
For some awesome John Paul Jones, for his bass try the live Dazed and Confused and for his keyboard work, try the live No Quarter, both from MSG 1973. Enjoy! 🎵
Led Zeppelin manager Peter grant was in charge of the show n he was ruthless at the time example if he saw someone with a mini movie camera or camera he would have security confiscate it break it on purpose smash it he didn't want anybody making money off the band same with selling copyright pictures he made sure nobody would try screw over the band
Do something from Danemarks live , maybe How Many More Times, or Babe I'm Gonna Leave You. Great show in their early days in an intimate setting with a very small audience. The beginnings of the greatness. OR from Royal Albert Hall 1971 I Can't Quit You Baby is a beauty
i strongly suggest when you start the houses of the hole album that you watch the live MSG version of the two songs. they blend together and i consider the live version to be better than the studio.
I absolutely could not agree more. Those two together are THE experience. They show qhat Zeppelin can do...which is everything musically.
saw them 5/30/77 Wash DC
I was sitting first level from the floor by Jimmy Page. I couldn’t take my eyes off of him. The audio is online for that show.
In the 70's this was a metal guitar band and it was heavy which is the precise definition of heavy metal
I have no idea what sponge bob thinks metal is.😅😅
Imagine walking onstage and straight into this powerhouse of a song. So energetic, Jimmy in particular just throwing himself straight into it. Marvellous. John Paul Jones is the most reticent and laid back, but just listen to his bass work and his keyboards - they're not laid back!
As a friendly FYI, no one cares about Google "music type" listings, and no-one listening to this track gives 2 hoots about Aha!
John Paul Jones contribution is immense - both with bass and keyboards. He reminds me of John Entwistle, bassist of the Who, another bass player that left the theatrics to the singer and guitarist, yet remained the cornerstone of the beat, while Keith Moon was even wilder in his own way than John Bonham
Please react to the 72 version as well to see peak robert plant cause by this gig high range was gone
no joke, they're one of the best "jam bands" live. Jones and Bonham hold it together while Plant and Page have fun on top.
The Book of Love and The Stroll were both songs from the early 60’s.
To your comment about the crowd:
This was back before mosh pits and going ape-sh!t crazy at concerts were a thing. Some people would dance in place, you'd see girls up on the shoulders of guys, beach balls getting bounced around, but as far as super radical stuff or the whole crowd bopping up and down in unison, nope. Plus, a lot of people were really, really stoned, so.... LOL
Fuck the lyrics. It's the MUSIC that counts
Eventually you will watch the film in its entirety. It would make a great reaction vid.
Salvo, LZ is blues/rock at is best on the border to metal
Most people know about the bell-bottom pants, but that was taken to the extreme with elephant-ears bell-bottoms. The idea was not to see the shoes & give the effect of floating.
Wanna see more JPJ? No quarter, from the same gig, or Trampled Underfoot live from Earls Court. Both times, playing bass with his feet while on the keys. Legendary performances too.
Plant....all that hair...💕
Now you know where Guns N’ Roses Metallica Van Halen got there swagger One and only Led Zeppelin
If you’re fortunate enough to listen to the original 1976 TSRTS (not reissues) you will be rewarded with the definitive version of Rock and Roll , blazing rock unlike anything you’ve ever heard !
Google is convenient but it's less than reliable, Zeppelin is hard rock...period.
This is proto metal! Zeppelin spawned on what would become metal! There aren't they are known as the godfather's of metal even before Black Sabbath!
People these days want to peg them as that, but they themselves reject that. Having been there at the time (I was 21 when Zep landed) I can tell you that they were known as a very hard rock band. If You liked hard rock, you liked Zeppelin.
@@w.geoffreyspaulding6588 heavy metal was just a new term for hard Rock! It started in the states zeppelin sabbath and deep purple and other hard rock bands from the '70s didn't like the term heavy metal! Hell even Lemy didn't like the term!
Lyrics don’t mean a thing with Zep song like this.
It’s just Thermonuclear rock and roll high explosives.
Definitely not metal. Led Zeppelin was so amazing. Best live band
Check out Going to California live acoustic set at Earls Court! Here’s a link to the official LZ video ruclips.net/video/nhVfuacsLDw/видео.html
He reacted to that performance just a couple of days ago.
@@jmar7631 Dang, I forgot! Been watching too many reactions! Thanks!
Google, and so many others, lump a lot of things into one big genre.
But remember.....there's "metal" and there's "heavy metal".
You are right about JPJ he was not the partying type i read in there book The Hammer Of The Gods from the 70s he went home as often as he could where the others partied there asses off If you watch Heart cover Stairway to Heaven at the Kennedy Center honors you will notice JPJs wife from the movie is sitting behind him
And why didn't you finish the song? And other two? There are three others. Saw them in 69, 73, 75 and 77 all in Seattlle