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John Paul Jones was a happily married family man (married to this day to the same woman since 1967) who usually separated himself after the gigs. He would stay in a separate hotel (later Jimmy and Robert would go so far as staying on separate floors from Bonham because he was so out of control), and generally had little contact with the rest of the band that wasn't related to music or business. He wasn't completely immune from the rock and roll lifestyle and by his own admission did more drugs than he'd care to admit but he always kept it low key and was nowhere near the legendarily debauched monsters that Page and Bonham were.
Hmm, bassists and drummers live in each others back pockets musically, but at least for two of the most iconic early rock bands, they had very different takes on how to live life. The other band being The Who.
@@familydogg1234 As of Nov 7th of this year, yeah. Unless you have information that says differently. There is a Maureen Hegarty that died a few years ago but her obituary doesn't mention JPJ so I'm going to assume it's a different person until I know differently.
I knew Robert Plant pre Led Zep. We are from the same part of the Black Country. I used to play in the resident band at a weekly blues club (The Ship and Rainbow Wolverhampton if anyone remembers it) and Planty as he was known, was a regular visitor. He was always more than willing to get up on stage and jam with us. We used to joke it was harder to keep him off the stage. But when he wasn't singing he was a quiet sort of bloke believe it or not.
The set of pipes he had back then still make the hair on my arm stand up. His version of hey joe with band of joy maybe? Incredible. Those pipes eluded him after 72 and he was just an average singer after that but damn...when he was young I would have given an arm to see him sing live.
Normally I wouldn't confront someone in public like this, but since you made me sit through an ad for Nebula to see only a part of your documentary, I feel justified this time. I signed up for Nebula through an ad on legal eagle which promised that if I signed up and continued a bundle of Curiosity Stream and Nebula that would be mine for as long as I kept my subscription paid up. Well, I did - but you didn't. After a few years I got a notice that I'd no longer be able to subscribe to both for one low price. So now I subscribe to neither service as I don't really trust either of you to keep your word to consumers.
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx Specifically music streaming services are helping kill not just live music but music in general if you care about new artists. It's always been hard to make a living from being a musician full time which is why for most it's never their main occupation, but it's ironic in an age you can get the output from most artists at your fingertips, we're all being put in a position where we're making so little from it. I have a feeling that's partly why artists like KISS and Bruce Springsteen are selling off their back catalogues for huge sums while it's still worth something - them and their accountants probably know something we all don't. If you really want to support an artist you need to buy their merch which is usually the thing they get the biggest cut of, so shirts, fridge magnets, physical album releases (vinyl/CD) in cases where that benefits them too. Sadly that's the economy of the music business - it wasn't great when I started in the 90s and it's only really gotten worse since then.
I liked the Curiosity Stream, Nebula, et al bundle at first but the new has worn off. One of my complaints is the UI algorithm doesn't keep up with what you like or even what you've watched. I doubt I'll renew. It's only like $50/year tho so idk
The first time I heard Led Zeppelin a few years into their existence, it was Led Zeppelin and everyone else. The songs, production and musicianship were untouchable. They are as relevant to me today as they were when I first discovered their music.
@@lyndoncmp5751it's Led Zeppelin that are the one trick ponies. It's just rip off white man blues. Iommi invented heavy music and Sabbath were a million times more innovative than LZ. War pigs? Symptom of the universe? Supernaut? The sheer amount of riffs is almost too hard to believe. It's ridiculous.
They knew they had something special when the four of them first got together and jammed! And Jimmy Page had no idea how truly great they, as a band, would become. Jimmy later said as much.
I was lucky enough to see LZ twice in the summer of '69 at a relatively small venue in Chicago called The Kinetic Playground. And what made it even better was the 3 band bill each time as was common in those days. First show was Savoy Brown, Jethro Tull and Zep. A few weeks later it was Lighthouse, Santana and Zep! It's hard to put into words anything that would capture the overwhelming joy and power of these shows which were unlike anything any of us had ever seen. The sheer volume, the psychedelic stage lighting and the magnetic moves of Plant, Page and Anderson were captivating. These are precious memories.
Pretty much everything in this video can be found in a few minutes online or reading a Led Zeppelin Wikipedia article. Given how surface level the info is here, there's no way I'm going to nebula to pay a premium; no matter how much I enjoy Mary's content.
HAHAHA righto...I knew most if not all this information when I was 14 (1979). I first "discovered" Zeppelin in 77 and have worn out all forms of recording mediums of all their albums...cant stop myself from that being my "go to" music. Nebula...only the smart folks use this medium!! All the other mediums are SHIITE!! according to Mary's rehash history channel. Sorry I may be a bit of a negative Nancy. I want to be 1st to hear stuff I knew 45 yrs ago. Like Neil Youngs PONO...My hearing is shit now so I could enjoy hearing an MP3 just as much as a analog vinyl Album these days.
Yeah I know, literally having read a couple of books about them, it's all old news that's gone over in greater detail there, but her presentation of it is fine.
@@DirtyDirkDiggler Perhaps the question you should be asking yourself is, why are you asking that of a complete stranger? If you don't agree with someone that's fine but that doesn't magically grant you the right to demand answers from them because of it 😂
I remember the "Led Zeppelin Binge". You would just sit down with a few friends and starting with Led Zeppelin I play every album from beginning to end, non stop. That was the only band we would do that with.
Saw Zep back in the day 8 times. A friend of mine's brother in law (he was older and knew squat about Zeppelin and Page) recounted a story from The Firm era American tour. He was traveling on business and came to his hotel rather late and being hungry, wanted to have dinner. He enquired in the hotels restaurant but was told the kitchen was closed for the night. There was a group of people seated in the dining room. One of them, upon overhearing his plight, invited him over to their table to share in their food. This person, my friends brother in law found out, was none other than Jimmy Page himself!
I've read Hammer Of The Gods and lots of other Zep books but the Spitz book(which I'm currently reading) is certainly my favorite. Delves much more into the music process than HOTG yet it also includes all the other behind the scenes and on the stage tidbits.
@@mattrogers1946 Cole didn't write HOTG. It was written by Stephen Davis. Cole WAS however a primary "source". He did however write his own book about 20 years ago. I read it but remember little about it.
@@Chrisdrumz Have to agree, mostly, with Matt here. Cole was, as I understood HOTG's, the main writer behind the book. And tho, from what I've read about what Page and Plant said about the book, it was somewhat truthful and accurate, but exaggerated. Who knows? Who really cares? All that will matter to posterity is Led Zeppelin's music.
@@samr.england613 The contrast between HOTG and Spitz' book is striking. HOTG is mid 80's schlock for the most part. It has it's moments but Spitz' book is thoroughly enjoyable and knowledge filled.
@@Chrisdrumz I'm enthralled, and will check out Spitz's book. But, emphatically, all that's ever to going to matter, to posterity, is Zeppelin's music.
I worked in London with a smashing chap from Denver Colorado. In 1975 he managed to get two tickets to see Led Zeppelin at MSG during their Physical Graffiti tour. The tickets arrived 4 weeks before the show and he said him and his brother hardly slept a wink until the big day. He said the concert was so good, so unforgettable that he sometimes wonders if he dreamt the whole thing. He also said that when Kashmir began it felt as though the building was about to collapse.
The thing about Led Zeppelin that made them such a great band was the fact that you had 4 very fine musicians with totally different personalities come together to create music that has stood the test of time. Like all bands they had their high points and low points, but they stuck with their formula throughout their carrier as a band and losing John Bonham upset that formula. It could never be the same again and they all knew it. In this case they made the right decision to disband when they did because a key piece of them was now gone and it could not be easily replaced by just any drummer. The Who was another example of this. When they lost Keith Moon they lost a presence they simply could not easily replace but tried to carry on anyways. Sometimes it is better to just let it fade into the sunset and let the legacy of the music speak for itself.
I parked cars for the Seattle Pop Festival in 1969. The condition for my labor was that I could stop to watch Iron Butterfly and Led Zeplin. Led Zeplin didn't even have an album out yet. They played less than half an hour. At my Senior Prom, Heart played. Nancy also graduated that year from a neighboring high school. Heart played more Led Zeplin than anything else. Zep had two albums out by then. Whole Lotta Love was a game changer.
@@keneisner3445 and to add insult to injury, Led is actually spelled "Lead." As far as "Whole Lotta Love" being a game changer, I agree. It ushered in a new way to rip off other people's songs and musical styles while packaging it as original. Listen to The Small Faces version of "You Need Loving."
"Led Zeppelin changed the sound of music." Truer words were never spoken. I was there, and I have the hearing loss to prove it. The first band I paid to see, 1977. No regrets. Zero. Regrets. Long live Rock 'n' Roll.
Black Dog.. wicked track. Turned on so many younger with that being their first to hear,. Zeppelin changed my life, and I've seen it change so many others too. Gr8! Peace ☮💜Love
Mary. You have to understand how important FM radio was in North America during the 70's. FM was vital to bands like Zep. The DJ's were part of the magic sauce and its such a shame that crap like Spotify et al have taken over...especially when it was free...
The talent pool was deep for on-air personalities around Los Angeles during the superstation era - KMET , KLOS (KABC), KROQ, KNAC, KPPC, etc. Prior to FM underground , local AM Top 40 stations and their Boss Jocks ruled the roost.
~~ sadly the FM radio of the early 70's - with it's freewheeling style - playing deep cuts - and even entire records - gave way to the late 70's - with it's soulless, corporate drone of predictable playlists and then the great DJ's mostly faded away - MTV took over the 80's - then the 90's gave us concert ticket prices a thousand times higher than the 70's - even when adjusted for inflation ..
I only saw this video not the full video and it's pretty accurate, I've met Jimmy a few times thru my friendship with his girlfriend Scarlett and I can guarantee to you that he is not a monster and one of the sweetest chap I've ever met, very soft spoken and sweet, during that era drugs, sex and rock and roll went hand in hand with each other, that said Jimmy has been clean from drugs, drinking and smoking for decades so he is doing great🐉🙏🏻
Totally agree! I met Jimmy in 2005, a real Gentleman and I met Scarlett in 2018 from memory, she is an incredible Lady and amazing poet. Have seen her reading twice and still talk occasionally via Instagram. They are both beautiful Souls.
I very much loved that period of musical history, learned to play guitar and idolized all these bands as a young man. I heard many of them did sketchy things but didn't think about it much and also wrote it off as hype. Now as a more mature person, I can't help but to be disgusted by the debauchery among many celebrities, politicians and wealthy people. I've come to realize much more about evil in this world.
A fan of his music, sure. Personally I find it hard to be a fan of him as a person considering how he took advantage of his fame to get away with both immoral and illegal activity. At around 29 years old he had a girlfriend who was 14 then. Now he dates a woman 46 years younger than him. And he's just one of many who somehow got away with this.
It was one big pilgrimage in the 60s and 70s going to see all these groups I see hundreds of them in clubs pubs and a tiny bit of outdoors which could be uncomfortable most of the time.
Finally after some 40 plus years of rock documentaries a critic hits the giant sized nail on the head, that most rock-dock-heads have always missed; either from being thick, or vindictive. Bob Spitz (paraphrasing): "Zeppelin changed the sound of music. They had the volume. The unconventional vision. The stage attack. But most crucially...THEY HAD THE MUSIC. THE GREAT SONGS. TONS OF THEM!" 10:05
Yeah with pop music today being very generic and VERY basic cookie-cutter musically thanks to technology making artists lazy and lower income unfortunatley
They were always the Yardbirds 2.0 to me. I listened to blues back in my high school days, the Yardbirds and Fleetwood Mac were my two favs followed by John Mayal and the Animals. The 60's -70's were the best for music, I pity the kids today.
I don't don't feel that they were Yardbirds 2.0. The Yardbirds mostly recreated classic blues tunes with some of their own originals where as Led Zeppelin took some of those tunes and went to a whole new level with them. If anything, the Yardbirds, as they were, were actually holding back Page.
@@contemposuits1983 Jimi Page formed Led Zep to complete contractual obligations that the Yardbirds had, he even called them The New Yardirds at their first gigs. You can search on RUclips and watch Dazed and Confused and other Zep tunes by the Yardbirds. You will appreciate Plante over Keith Relf in short order.
Superb and well produced... Led Zeppelin was my introduction to rock music as I entered high school and they, in turn, introduced me to their influences over the subsequent years as I entered radio in my junior year and worked in broadcasting until 1993. I made a brief return for two full years (almost to the day, 2001-2002) in what had become the classic rock format. By then, everything had changed in both radio and artists. I thoroughly enjoyed your documentary. Well done, for the "family tree" of various bands and others within the music industry was incredibly intertwined back in those days and this shines a bit of light upon those relationships that many might not be familiar with.
When on earth did Zep fall? They still rule the world as the greatest band ever to grace this planet. Yes, like all of them back in the days, they did things that some feel were inappropriate, and they are right, but that does not make them evil, it makes them human. These were four ordinary guys thrown into a situation that few would be able to handle, and that was total and utter adulation from millions of people. The fact they continued to make exemplary music speaks volumes for just how down to earth they were underneath the weird stuff that happened to all rock idols of their era. I have been a rock and blues musician for over 50 years, without the fame and success they achieved, but enjoyed myself and have no regrets whatsoever. The question I ask myself, is what would I have done had I achieved the fame and adulation these four guys achieved? I fear the answer that is fairly obvious and I may not like what I see in the mirror every morning I wake up. Yet these guys are doing just fine because they rose above the weird stuff like the legends they are.
I loved it when people claimed that their incredible wealth and fame was the result of signing, in blood, a contract with Satan! (You know, selling their souls to the Evil One in exchange for wealth and fame.) For years I've pointed out that, if all it took to be that rich and famous was to sign a deal with the Devil, then there'd be a whole lot more Led Zeppelin's out there! hehe
I only saw them live once, at Knebworth Festival in the UK in August 1979. I'd been to a lot of festivals and concerts by then, even at 20 years of age, and I'd say that Led Zeppelin live stood head and shoulders above most. Their sound and energy on stage was epic.
@@gingercat777 Uff, I was up the hill about 50m infront of a first-aid tent, which was handy because I needed stitches after a fight with someone during The Tubes...So ended up seeing the show through one eye! Luckily, my ears were unscathed!
@@gingercat777 The thing is I was trying to stop someone pestering a poor guy bombed out in a sleeping bag. He took a wild swing at me, I ducked and he fell over. Then out of the blue his mate punched me in the face from the side, thinking I'd hit his mate FFS...
Led Zeppelin rises everytime the moon orbits the earth or the earth orbits the sun ! They never fell because they will be remembered as the best rock band ever !
The synchronicity of exposure to good music and the emerging technology of electrification and amplification deserves some credit, without denying the talent of knowing what to do with it.
It seems you have fallen into the trap of being the poorly informed critical hack producing clickbait rather than being an original creator of meaningful content. You may be judging yourself by your intentions but the world will judge you by your actions. Try sticking to subjects you know through first hand experience and leave the clickbait and hearsay alone.
She has a failed music career so she's falling into the common trap we see a lot these days of failed musicians creating hyper-opinionated very click baity youtube channels as a way to pay the bills. It's annoying but one thing we can do is not watch.
I don't get it. Millenials complain about "dad rock" but one of them put out this interesting, but unnecessary bit of whatever "Led Zep Lore" to get channel views. Seriously, if you wanna bury the past because of things like bad behavior, don't perpetuate the myths. Ridiculous
Mary I watched the content and it was terrific . You used the "Monsters" in the title as a big fan I thought that is unfortunate specially with thumbnails being what they are. But the history and the clips is awesome.
I have stopped watching channels that force advertising. I pay RUclips to not get advertising, I will not watch content that forces advertising down my throat!
First saw LZ on Long Island, NY in 1971. Still the loudest concert to date. Left awestruck and never to forget. Saw them again at Madison Square Garden 2 nites in a row for their Physical tour. Years later I met Eddie Kramer at a studio I managed in Hempstead NY. It was like meeting a god.... Never again will I be rocked by music like Led Zep did to me back then....
I saw Zeppelin twice, in 1975 and 1977. Tickets were 7.50 US dollars. Glad I was part of that time. Although I appreciate no, the medium of RUclips to learn much of the groups we knew very little about. Back then, Rolling Stones magazine was our only source of information and your our local rock radio station.
Lemme rephrase this for you: “Give me what I want for free because you owe it to me for nothing because I have been conditioned to assign no monetary value to creativity and content. Despite you putting days of effort at a time into these videos, built off the back of years of hard work getting to this point, even in the face of poor, increasingly unpredictable revenue on RUclips, which your livelihood hangs in the balance of, give it to me for nothing” Support her on her platform of choice or don’t, but think before you post.
@@Stratocus so because of your situation, every creator should make ‘extravagant’ content at a loss for the benefit of all? beyond your own point of view, consider the systemic problems of platforms like RUclips that might have caused this situation, rather than the creators themselves. My sympathies to you, I believe that education should be free and open, but we conflate education with media and the costs associated in its production, and we don’t unfortunately live in a world where artists can create exactly the art they want to and support themselves by giving it away for nothing. It is systemic; RUclips’s revenue model, content moderation policies, greed of its centralised billionaire owners who do NOT care about you or the welfare of the creators that generate ad revenue for them, so they’re forced away. It isnt a huge ask to say “hey, RUclips isn’t working out for me, but I’m over here trying to shift away from this broken unsustainable model”. Best wishes, I hope we can all get to utopia one day, I personally don’t think late capitalism will be in the picture like it is now though. If you’re ever getting something for free, remember you are the product.
Most excellent documentary and treatment of THE GREATEST ROCK BAND, EVER! It so cool that nearly 60 years later they still have a growing fanbase, and people such as yourself do a great job shining their light to new listeners. Keep it up. I first heard them via LZ II in the summer of 1969 when my brother came home for college Summer Break. I was all of nine years old and I found "my" music. My friends and I collected their albums as they were released and we saw them in concert in 1975 and 1977. Good times, indeed!
I had the fortunate chance to talk to jimmy page at a fundraising event when i was a teenager. I wanted to get his autograph but event security wouldn’t let me within sight of him. Somehow he happened to see me and pushed his people aside to come up and say hello. I was so starstruck I didn’t know what to say but he kept on a small conversation about how busy things were. Very nice man.
I don't get it what your title is supposed to imply. What monsters? Or, when did Zeppelin fall? They and the Beatles are still the most revered bands of all time. It was simply tragic when Bonzo died. I remember the hushed hallways in my high school at the time 'Did you hear the drummer for Led Zeppelin and Stairway to Heaven just died?' 'Oh no!' This was nothing but a standard history of the band which is always appreciated but a little too high brow and click baity me thinks.
Led Zeppelin, the four greatest musicians in the world, all in the same band, period. Thee only band out of the thousands I've heard that I remember exactly where I was the first time I heard them.
My mother worked at the BX in Germany. Tons of people were coming in and buying "Meet the Beatles". So she bought one for me and my two brothers. Ten years later I was a very different person
Led Zep..and jimmy page is what made me pick up the guitar back in my early teens.. the ultimate blues rock gods. and the greatest band to ever strut about the stage. no guitarist ever looked as good as page in his dragon suit with that les paul slung low, i also worship his playing the mystique of the black magic stuff added to the whole package. earn loads of dough , play great music, then party with groupies whilst experimenting with anything and everything... sounds like the ultimate rock n roll dream to me great vid mary :)
Highly recommended: the recent brilliant video essay on Led Zeppelin entitled Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know by the Foul Quince youtube channel, which is of the highest level out there.
As for the "Nebula" subscription issue of late; I too signed up using one of the creator's code and was promised continued free Nebula along with maintained Curiosity Stream subscription. But now, for whatever reason, CS is no longer allowing this tie-in. Okay. I agree. I'm not happy about this. But I'm old enough to know that things change, and corporations and corporate minds can never be trusted. The very essence of corporate thinking is not about quality of service/product. Nor any real regard for the needs/desires of the consumers. It is strictly and solely about more money, more money, more money in "MY" pocket, by whatever means possible. So, as-far-as the services go, I do really like them both. I am hating having to choose. But there are so many of the Nebula creators making so many channels about things I will never, ever care about, yet there is no way to filter those out of my list so I only see the channels I want, or new channels I can then decide on. If Nebula had that, it would be 100% that's the one I would choose. But.... so it may just end up in a coin toss.
The authorized documentary 'Becoming Led Zeppelin' STILL hasn't found a distributor. A work in progress version was screened in September 2021 at the Venice Film Festival and Jimmy Page, himself, was there...Now?...Crickets...
9:33 Brunette did not write "Train Kept-a Rollin'" but his cover version did influence other covers by Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin, and Aerosmith. If I remember correctly, the song was written by Tiny Bradshaw.
Mary! You have such a beautiful posh accent!! I’m from east London so not the same British accent as you haha! I love the sultans of swing video you did!
Terry Reid did not recommend Bonzo. It was Plant who told jimmy about John. And john refused to consider it for several weeks, and didn't return any phone calls. Finally after several telegrams, and coaxing from Plant and Grant he agreed.
Keith Moon said "that'll go down like a lead balloon". John Entwistle replied "more like a lead zeppelin". Why does no one ever tell this story correctly?
They were singularly awesome. Extraordinary. Innovative. Passionate, dedicated. Their accomplishments far overshadowed their challenges. It would have been fantastic had they been able to record and release another studio album.
Massive success and power has the potential to distort ones personality, and the success Led Zeppelin enjoyed together with the way they were managed by Peter Grant, made them a law onto themselves, thus they were fully insulated and protected from the consequences of their terrible behavior . But I don't think they started out as truly bad people except maybe for John Bonham who seemed to have a screw loose, I mean the stuff he got up to, is hard to understand.
Love Led Zep for the music, and hate them for, unlike the Rolling Stones, not giving the song credits to so many of the blues artists they stole songs from and claimed as their own.
If you did a little research before posting, you'd discover those old blues guys ripped off each other long before any of the guys in Zeppelin were even born....
Just a word of caution Mary, and I do realize it's coming too late in the day now, but as interesting as Spitz' book undoubtedly is, and as many previously unknown facts as he turns up (how Peter Grant got control of LZ away from Mickie Most for example), he also gets quite a lot wrong. Compare his summing up of Stone The Crows circa 1969 with the historical record (Jimmy McCulloch and/or Peter Green were at least 3 years away from any involvement in 1969) and you start to realize that Spitz focus is definitely on telling a good story and he's not going to let the facts get in the way. Not saying his overall picture of Zeppelin is wrong but there are enough discrepancies that it's probably not wise to repeat any of his assertions without fact checking them first.
Ok. My head is spinning from all the names..historical and current..all the renowned musicians surfaced to tell a story. I have loved Led Zeppelin for 50 years. I still love their music. I still feel a need to protect them when others degrade them. This intro vid is nice. I could relax and listen. I need to now hear the whole story. Ok Nebula...now you've got my attention. Thanks, MS. 👍
There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold And she's buying a stairway to Heaven When she gets there she knows, if the stores are all closed With a word she can get what she came for Ooh, ooh, and she's buying a stairway to Heaven
I remember watching it in a movie theatre. We were blown away! The surround sound along with full size visuals. My friends and I, must have watched that over 100 times!
That’s all we had until Jimmy Page released that double DVD of live material. I still cannot make it through the 20 minute drum solo on Disc 1. I liked Disc 2 because it had various performances.
...when the Twin Towers appeared, the only time they appeared,.. at the start of Stairway'...a shiver ran down my back. The stairways ultimately became exactly that.. for those still trapped inside, stairways to heaven...
@@recvehicle8888 They did take the Jeff Beck Groups’s sound and run with it, claiming it as their own. Plant also sang like Steve Marriott until he found his own voice, which was feminine and finally masculine by 1979.
I bought Terry Reids( Mickey Most’s produced mfp album ) in the sixties and I still play it, its truly brilliant and Terry Reid a world class act & vocal
I am big led Zeppelin fan. Seen jimmy page twice in concert in my teen and 20's. If it wasn't for Page i never would gave discovered the yardbird's,from there i never would have discovered Jeff Beck. From there i would have never discovered Jazz music . I would never have wanted to pick up the guitar. I would never have loved the drums because of john Bonham or discovered other drumming greats . So they are my greatest discovery . 6:32
First album, first song: GTBT. It was as apparent as a massive head-on collision and if anything else changed Rock drumming overnight. Jimmy’s production skills shone brightly with this first record. It’s’ crisp sound set it apart from everything else coming out of London in early 1969. Jimmy had caught lightning in the bottle with this group I think it’s safe to say!
There's Zeppelin and then there's Zeppelin. The Band that rose and never fell. No doubt the GOAT of Rock and Blues music since '69. Greatest band I ever saw live and proudly listen to at least one LZ song daily. "Trample Under Foot" is a fun song and a fave! ❤❤ 👏 👏 👏 ❤ 🎸🎶 🇬🇧 🎤 🎹 🥁 🇬🇧 💯 🔥👍
Absolutely right on the spot , I love how you tell the story. People think they know the story, and they don't have a clue . If I can I'm going to join, you explain it also well. Cheers
I had read that LZ was not as they were publicly represented. Since some of them were married, they put out stories of sex and groupies that were false. Supposedly they simply just went back to their hotels and got some much needed sleep after their concerts. Anyway, that’s what I read and I have no idea if it’s true or not. I did meet a woman who was president of the Colorado LZ fan club. She met Plant personally and said he was a real gentleman. She had photos in her home.
Then you need to read the book written by their road manager for practically their entire existence, Richard Cole. His book, 'Stairway to Heaven; Led Zeppelin uncensored'.....they were far worse than anything I ever imagined....quite disgusting, actually.
@@ilguitaro That book has been said to have been highly exaggerated due to Cole being recently canned by LZ at that time. Not like he's going to be nice about anything.
I'll never forget what Ginger Baker said of John Bohnam; " He couldn't swing a bag of shit!". Obviously, he was referring to his supposed lack of swing on the drums.
But then again that's Ginger Baker for you. I have never been blown away by Ginger Baker's drumming. Being an opinionated asshole doesn't make you a great musician or a drummer.
@@andyhinds542 ~~ Ginger was very good at what he did - which was much different than what Bonham did - but Baker was not only known to verbally tear others down - he would start a barroom brawl at the drop of a hat - so he was willing to back up his opinions - right or wrong - with his blood & guts - the man was a true maniac ..
Nice sneak peak. I like the way you constructed the history. For me, the whole of blues rock music begins with Led Zeppelin. I've read Hammer of the Gods, a few times, so I know a fair amount about early Led Zepp. The rock anti-hero, if you will. Very nice!
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No thanks - I’ll give it a miss and Spitz’s book…
Bert Weedon is worth a look at.
Why would I pay for Docs when I can find them everywhere for free?
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Nice, I don't watch nearly enough stuff over there 😁
John Paul Jones was a happily married family man (married to this day to the same woman since 1967) who usually separated himself after the gigs. He would stay in a separate hotel (later Jimmy and Robert would go so far as staying on separate floors from Bonham because he was so out of control), and generally had little contact with the rest of the band that wasn't related to music or business. He wasn't completely immune from the rock and roll lifestyle and by his own admission did more drugs than he'd care to admit but he always kept it low key and was nowhere near the legendarily debauched monsters that Page and Bonham were.
Hmm, bassists and drummers live in each others back pockets musically, but at least for two of the most iconic early rock bands, they had very different takes on how to live life. The other band being The Who.
@@arthegon Keith Moon was a Loon,John Entwistle was no angel either I assure you lolol
@@mjh5437 They were all head cases back in them days,I remember seeing them at the Marquee Wardour St 1965
They wernt that great but we're They loud
Are you sue Jonesy is still with Mo?
@@familydogg1234 As of Nov 7th of this year, yeah. Unless you have information that says differently. There is a Maureen Hegarty that died a few years ago but her obituary doesn't mention JPJ so I'm going to assume it's a different person until I know differently.
I knew Robert Plant pre Led Zep. We are from the same part of the Black Country. I used to play in the resident band at a weekly blues club (The Ship and Rainbow Wolverhampton if anyone remembers it) and Planty as he was known, was a regular visitor. He was always more than willing to get up on stage and jam with us. We used to joke it was harder to keep him off the stage. But when he wasn't singing he was a quiet sort of bloke believe it or not.
I met Robert Plant in Narragansett Rhode Island in 1991 at the Pier House Inn he got drunk tall dude !
I believe it
Robert was probably the lesser of the evil.
The set of pipes he had back then still make the hair on my arm stand up. His version of hey joe with band of joy maybe? Incredible. Those pipes eluded him after 72 and he was just an average singer after that but damn...when he was young I would have given an arm to see him sing live.
@@rickchyczewski576 Smoking and abusing your vocal chords 24/7 will do that. Such a shame.
Rise and Fall of Zeppelin ? They never fell ...
Just what I was thinking.
They broke up after one of their best albums, sadly.
Zeppelin is still rising
Never ever
They are legends and legends never die!
Normally I wouldn't confront someone in public like this, but since you made me sit through an ad for Nebula to see only a part of your documentary, I feel justified this time. I signed up for Nebula through an ad on legal eagle which promised that if I signed up and continued a bundle of Curiosity Stream and Nebula that would be mine for as long as I kept my subscription paid up. Well, I did - but you didn't. After a few years I got a notice that I'd no longer be able to subscribe to both for one low price. So now I subscribe to neither service as I don't really trust either of you to keep your word to consumers.
Streaming services are rip-offs.
@@asnark7115 Do you realize you just gave a content maker ( Mary Spender) your time of day? Perhaps you should take your own advice.
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx Specifically music streaming services are helping kill not just live music but music in general if you care about new artists. It's always been hard to make a living from being a musician full time which is why for most it's never their main occupation, but it's ironic in an age you can get the output from most artists at your fingertips, we're all being put in a position where we're making so little from it. I have a feeling that's partly why artists like KISS and Bruce Springsteen are selling off their back catalogues for huge sums while it's still worth something - them and their accountants probably know something we all don't.
If you really want to support an artist you need to buy their merch which is usually the thing they get the biggest cut of, so shirts, fridge magnets, physical album releases (vinyl/CD) in cases where that benefits them too. Sadly that's the economy of the music business - it wasn't great when I started in the 90s and it's only really gotten worse since then.
It's a shame they can legally do that. No one has ethics.
I liked the Curiosity Stream, Nebula, et al bundle at first but the new has worn off. One of my complaints is the UI algorithm doesn't keep up with what you like or even what you've watched. I doubt I'll renew. It's only like $50/year tho so idk
Worked for LZ building the stage etc at Knebworth in 1979. Best 6 weeks of my life. My maths teacher was also John Bonhams form master at school.
we had a teacher that said he went to every philly show ever
Wonder if ole Bonzo favored vodka in school
The first time I heard Led Zeppelin a few years into their existence, it was Led Zeppelin and everyone else. The songs, production and musicianship were untouchable. They are as relevant to me today as they were when I first discovered their music.
I leaned towards Sabbath more as I got older ...vol 4 and sabotage are heavy metal perfection
Yeah. Light years ahead of their contemporaries.
@ACDZ123
I got bored of Sabbath quickly. One trick ponies.
@@lyndoncmp5751it's Led Zeppelin that are the one trick ponies. It's just rip off white man blues. Iommi invented heavy music and Sabbath were a million times more innovative than LZ. War pigs? Symptom of the universe? Supernaut? The sheer amount of riffs is almost too hard to believe. It's ridiculous.
@@robbierichards3911 one trick ponies? LZ covered all genres of music. Most versatile band ever.
Jpj said of that train kept rollin that he looked up halfway thru and everybody had a huge smile on their faces and he knew the band was set
They knew they had something special when the four of them first got together and jammed! And Jimmy Page had no idea how truly great they, as a band, would become. Jimmy later said as much.
I love how he adds at the end "It was pretty bloody obvious, to be honest." lol
I was lucky enough to see LZ twice in the summer of '69 at a relatively small venue in Chicago called The Kinetic Playground.
And what made it even better was the 3 band bill each time as was common in those days. First show was Savoy Brown, Jethro Tull and Zep. A few weeks later it was Lighthouse, Santana and Zep! It's hard to put into words anything that would capture the overwhelming joy and power of these shows which were unlike anything any of us had ever seen. The sheer volume, the psychedelic stage lighting and the magnetic moves of Plant, Page and Anderson were captivating. These are precious memories.
I am incredibly jealous of you. That must have been glorious. I was still in the oven until july of 69.
I used to be able to walk to Kinetic Playground, I lived close to it. I saw Johnny Winter there. Winter tore up the stage when he was young.
I was 18. and saw them at Madison square garden for 9 dollars. Best 9 I ever spent.
Pretty much everything in this video can be found in a few minutes online or reading a Led Zeppelin Wikipedia article.
Given how surface level the info is here, there's no way I'm going to nebula to pay a premium; no matter how much I enjoy Mary's content.
HAHAHA righto...I knew most if not all this information when I was 14 (1979). I first "discovered" Zeppelin in 77 and have worn out all forms of recording mediums of all their albums...cant stop myself from that being my "go to" music. Nebula...only the smart folks use this medium!! All the other mediums are SHIITE!! according to Mary's rehash history channel. Sorry I may be a bit of a negative Nancy. I want to be 1st to hear stuff I knew 45 yrs ago. Like Neil Youngs PONO...My hearing is shit now so I could enjoy hearing an MP3 just as much as a analog vinyl Album these days.
Yeah I know, literally having read a couple of books about them, it's all old news that's gone over in greater detail there, but her presentation of it is fine.
thanks for the heads up. we won't wait
@@garydiamondguitaristterrible presentation - at what point did she answer (or even touch upon) the question posed in the name of the video?
@@DirtyDirkDiggler Perhaps the question you should be asking yourself is, why are you asking that of a complete stranger? If you don't agree with someone that's fine but that doesn't magically grant you the right to demand answers from them because of it 😂
If this is the first half, I can't say I'm going to be missing anything by not seeing the second half. Additional cudos for the click-bait title.
"Kudos"
Yup. Total clickbait. Thumbs down from me.
I remember the "Led Zeppelin Binge". You would just sit down with a few friends and starting with Led Zeppelin I play every album from beginning to end, non stop. That was the only band we would do that with.
And PInk Floyd
That's probably why the term Zeppeleptics got popular in NJ
@@1fnklown Don't forget to add "Zeptember"
A month long tribute to the greatest band ever
Used to do a thing annually called the Rolling Stones Marathon...
@@good-bye_blue_sky 93.3 GET the Led Out, I used to love hearing that, you knew something good was coming on the radio at work or where ever.
Saw Zep back in the day 8 times. A friend of mine's brother in law (he was older and knew squat about Zeppelin and Page) recounted a story from The Firm era American tour. He was traveling on business and came to his hotel rather late and being hungry, wanted to have dinner. He enquired in the hotels restaurant but was told the kitchen was closed for the night. There was a group of people seated in the dining room. One of them, upon overhearing his plight, invited him over to their table to share in their food. This person, my friends brother in law found out, was none other than Jimmy Page himself!
That tracks with everything I've heard about Page. A legit good guy.
“Hammer of the Gods” was the quintessential biography, read it 5 times as a teenager.
Did ya read it in reverse?
@@PaulFormentos Yes, there were all sort of secret messages 😝😈
@@baalbezub6848
Probally more factual when read in reverse 😂
Its a great work of fiction, according to Robert...
So you give us a juicy question in the thumbnail (that you don't explain or answer) and then proceed to give us a regurgitated history of the band 🥱
It’s called click bait.
Absolutely agree
Really! It's like "Hey guys, I made a video about someone's book" LOL.
@@Edward-MTBKRLol YES!
at least it was Zeppelin
Nah, tuned out at that opening. I’m not watching something I can’t finish.
Smart man. I wasted 14 minutes if my life watching this
You didn't miss anything that isn't available free elsewhere
I've read Hammer Of The Gods and lots of other Zep books but the Spitz book(which I'm currently reading) is certainly my favorite. Delves much more into the music process than HOTG yet it also includes all the other behind the scenes and on the stage tidbits.
Hammer Of The Gods was Cole's pathetic money grab after he was sacked by the band.
@@mattrogers1946 Cole didn't write HOTG. It was written by Stephen Davis. Cole WAS however a primary "source". He did however write his own book about 20 years ago. I read it but remember little about it.
@@Chrisdrumz Have to agree, mostly, with Matt here. Cole was, as I understood HOTG's, the main writer behind the book. And tho, from what I've read about what Page and Plant said about the book, it was somewhat truthful and accurate, but exaggerated. Who knows? Who really cares? All that will matter to posterity is Led Zeppelin's music.
@@samr.england613 The contrast between HOTG and Spitz' book is striking. HOTG is mid 80's schlock for the most part. It has it's moments but Spitz' book is thoroughly enjoyable and knowledge filled.
@@Chrisdrumz I'm enthralled, and will check out Spitz's book. But, emphatically, all that's ever to going to matter, to posterity, is Zeppelin's music.
I worked in London with a smashing chap from Denver Colorado. In 1975 he managed to get two tickets to see
Led Zeppelin at MSG during their Physical Graffiti tour. The tickets arrived 4 weeks before the show and he said
him and his brother hardly slept a wink until the big day. He said the concert was so good, so unforgettable that
he sometimes wonders if he dreamt the whole thing. He also said that when Kashmir began it felt as though the
building was about to collapse.
The thing about Led Zeppelin that made them such a great band was the fact that you had 4 very fine musicians with totally different personalities come together to create music that has stood the test of time. Like all bands they had their high points and low points, but they stuck with their formula throughout their carrier as a band and losing John Bonham upset that formula. It could never be the same again and they all knew it. In this case they made the right decision to disband when they did because a key piece of them was now gone and it could not be easily replaced by just any drummer. The Who was another example of this. When they lost Keith Moon they lost a presence they simply could not easily replace but tried to carry on anyways. Sometimes it is better to just let it fade into the sunset and let the legacy of the music speak for itself.
I parked cars for the Seattle Pop Festival in 1969. The condition for my labor was that I could stop to watch Iron Butterfly and Led Zeplin. Led Zeplin didn't even have an album out yet. They played less than half an hour. At my Senior Prom, Heart played. Nancy also graduated that year from a neighboring high school. Heart played more Led Zeplin than anything else. Zep had two albums out by then. Whole Lotta Love was a game changer.
Interesting.
Led Zeppelin is the band's name.
@@keneisner3445 and to add insult to injury, Led is actually spelled "Lead."
As far as "Whole Lotta Love" being a game changer, I agree. It ushered in a new way to rip off other people's songs and musical styles while packaging it as original. Listen to The Small Faces version of "You Need Loving."
@@chriskennedy2846 The freak out section of Whole Lot of Love Ruined what could have been a passable hard rock song.
@@chriskennedy2846 It certainly was a game changer for Willie Dixon's bank account!
"Led Zeppelin changed the sound of music." Truer words were never spoken.
I was there, and I have the hearing loss to prove it. The first band I paid to see, 1977.
No regrets.
Zero. Regrets. Long live Rock 'n' Roll.
Excellent (as usual) ! I love the way it was put together.
Black Dog.. wicked track. Turned on so many younger with that being their first to hear,. Zeppelin changed my life, and I've seen it change so many others too. Gr8! Peace ☮💜Love
Best band and most versatile . Album after album was awesome
Mary. You have to understand how important FM radio was in North America during the 70's. FM was vital to bands like Zep. The DJ's were part of the magic sauce and its such a shame that crap like Spotify et al have taken over...especially when it was free...
After the internet Itunes and all that it seems like my culture from 70s to early 2000s is over,.
The talent pool was deep for on-air personalities around Los Angeles during the superstation era - KMET , KLOS (KABC), KROQ, KNAC, KPPC, etc. Prior to FM underground , local AM Top 40 stations and their Boss Jocks ruled the roost.
~~ sadly the FM radio of the early 70's - with it's freewheeling style - playing deep cuts - and even entire records - gave way to the late 70's - with it's soulless, corporate drone of predictable playlists and then the great DJ's mostly faded away - MTV took over the 80's - then the 90's gave us concert ticket prices a thousand times higher than the 70's - even when adjusted for inflation ..
Lucky for me: the first half of music documentaries are always the most interesting. I enjoyed this.
I only saw this video not the full video and it's pretty accurate, I've met Jimmy a few times thru my friendship with his girlfriend Scarlett and I can guarantee to you that he is not a monster and one of the sweetest chap I've ever met, very soft spoken and sweet, during that era drugs, sex and rock and roll went hand in hand with each other, that said Jimmy has been clean from drugs, drinking and smoking for decades so he is doing great🐉🙏🏻
Totally agree! I met Jimmy in 2005, a real Gentleman and I met Scarlett in 2018 from memory, she is an incredible Lady and amazing poet. Have seen her reading twice and still talk occasionally via Instagram. They are both beautiful Souls.
People should get banned for making these titles trying to besmurge great muscians! It's a shame?Mary would stoop sooo low
@@Airhead348 jimmy page is a rapist though. you should get banned for being a fucking dog
Preeeetty sure, Scarlett, was NOT his girlfriend since that is his daughter. CHARLOTTE, was Scarlett's mother so...
I have met Jimmy and can say he is such a down to earth person, very decent and giving.
This RUclips article is shallow at best
I was lucky to see Led 2 times best concert. I ever watch. Best hard rock band
I very much loved that period of musical history, learned to play guitar and idolized all these bands as a young man. I heard many of them did sketchy things but didn't think about it much and also wrote it off as hype. Now as a more mature person, I can't help but to be disgusted by the debauchery among many celebrities, politicians and wealthy people. I've come to realize much more about evil in this world.
yes but majority of what you read about Led Zeppelin is bullshit, there's no evidence that Page was a pedophile
Rock Gods or Monsters? They were human just like any of us mere mortals. Big fan of Sir James Patrick Page (OBE).
SIR Jimmy? When did that happen?
A fan of his music, sure. Personally I find it hard to be a fan of him as a person considering how he took advantage of his fame to get away with both immoral and illegal activity. At around 29 years old he had a girlfriend who was 14 then. Now he dates a woman 46 years younger than him. And he's just one of many who somehow got away with this.
@@stevekubien6680 2005
@@athmaid Pagey also avid Crowley lover.....
@@IO1070IO The Rappers of today are even worse than all those old Rockers,look at R.Kelly,P.Diddy and all the rest.
And we are all very fortunate to be on the planet to get to hear and see all these events happen!
It was one big pilgrimage in the 60s and 70s going to see all these groups I see hundreds of them in clubs pubs and a tiny bit of outdoors which could be uncomfortable most of the time.
Finally after some 40 plus years of rock documentaries a critic hits the giant sized nail on the head, that most rock-dock-heads have always missed; either from being thick, or vindictive. Bob Spitz (paraphrasing): "Zeppelin changed the sound of music. They had the volume. The unconventional vision. The stage attack. But most crucially...THEY HAD THE MUSIC. THE GREAT SONGS. TONS OF THEM!" 10:05
The 70's WERE epic Rock years. Lived it.
70s rock is garbage
Wow what a great story. Sadly one that will never be repeated in history again. That era is long gone.
Yeah with pop music today being very generic and VERY basic cookie-cutter musically thanks to technology making artists lazy and lower income unfortunatley
They were always the Yardbirds 2.0 to me. I listened to blues back in my high school days, the Yardbirds and Fleetwood Mac were my two favs followed by John Mayal and the Animals. The 60's -70's were the best for music, I pity the kids today.
I don't don't feel that they were Yardbirds 2.0. The Yardbirds mostly recreated classic blues tunes with some of their own originals where as Led Zeppelin took some of those tunes and went to a whole new level with them. If anything, the Yardbirds, as they were, were actually holding back Page.
@@contemposuits1983 Jimi Page formed Led Zep to complete contractual obligations that the Yardbirds had, he even called them The New Yardirds at their first gigs. You can search on RUclips and watch Dazed and Confused and other Zep tunes by the Yardbirds. You will appreciate Plante over Keith Relf in short order.
led zep were Gary Glitter 1.0
I pity the way this country has gone and its heading,at 77 I've seen some changes but never thought I'd see days like these no hopers
Superb and well produced... Led Zeppelin was my introduction to rock music as I entered high school and they, in turn, introduced me to their influences over the subsequent years as I entered radio in my junior year and worked in broadcasting until 1993. I made a brief return for two full years (almost to the day, 2001-2002) in what had become the classic rock format. By then, everything had changed in both radio and artists. I thoroughly enjoyed your documentary. Well done, for the "family tree" of various bands and others within the music industry was incredibly intertwined back in those days and this shines a bit of light upon those relationships that many might not be familiar with.
When on earth did Zep fall? They still rule the world as the greatest band ever to grace this planet. Yes, like all of them back in the days, they did things that some feel were inappropriate, and they are right, but that does not make them evil, it makes them human. These were four ordinary guys thrown into a situation that few would be able to handle, and that was total and utter adulation from millions of people. The fact they continued to make exemplary music speaks volumes for just how down to earth they were underneath the weird stuff that happened to all rock idols of their era.
I have been a rock and blues musician for over 50 years, without the fame and success they achieved, but enjoyed myself and have no regrets whatsoever. The question I ask myself, is what would I have done had I achieved the fame and adulation these four guys achieved? I fear the answer that is fairly obvious and I may not like what I see in the mirror every morning I wake up. Yet these guys are doing just fine because they rose above the weird stuff like the legends they are.
I dont care what others call Led Zeppelin.....for me they were MONSTERS....bigger than life!!!!
I loved it when people claimed that their incredible wealth and fame was the result of signing, in blood, a contract with Satan! (You know, selling their souls to the Evil One in exchange for wealth and fame.) For years I've pointed out that, if all it took to be that rich and famous was to sign a deal with the Devil, then there'd be a whole lot more Led Zeppelin's out there! hehe
Or, maybe Satan only wants to buy the souls of truly talented people.
Well...if that were the case Zep would be the Devil by itself.@@samr.england613
No pop music has ever been bigger than life,if you think it has you must lead a strange life
I must say that Robert Plant exuded Lust all over the stage. Never saw a sexier man in my whole life. Now I’m 76 and he’s still got it. That was 1969!
I only saw them live once, at Knebworth Festival in the UK in August 1979. I'd been to a lot of festivals and concerts by then, even at 20 years of age, and I'd say that Led Zeppelin live stood head and shoulders above most. Their sound and energy on stage was epic.
How far back were you?......wasn't it fun trying to find your mates when you went for food/drink/toilet?
@@gingercat777 Uff, I was up the hill about 50m infront of a first-aid tent, which was handy because I needed stitches after a fight with someone during The Tubes...So ended up seeing the show through one eye! Luckily, my ears were unscathed!
@@markdonovan1540 Yup, it was that kind of day and night 😊
@@gingercat777 The thing is I was trying to stop someone pestering a poor guy bombed out in a sleeping bag. He took a wild swing at me, I ducked and he fell over. Then out of the blue his mate punched me in the face from the side, thinking I'd hit his mate FFS...
Above everyone!!!
You cant talk about Led Zep without including their manager Peter Grant.
You need to watch the whole thing 😂
True enough. He was the muscle when it was needed. The music industry was a dog show!
@@MarySpender does the nebula one have more about rise as well?
@@MarySpenderOh hello!
Well, I enjoyed your taste anyway.
And their road manager Richard Cole.
Led Zeppelin rises everytime the moon orbits the earth or the earth orbits the sun ! They never fell because they will be remembered as the best rock band ever !
Your insight from being there in the '70s and knowing everything about everything is astonishing. You must be a very content person.
No mention of The New Yardbirds. I don't know how many shows were performed under that name, but word is that was Zeppelin.
The synchronicity of exposure to good music and the emerging technology of electrification and amplification deserves some credit, without denying the talent of knowing what to do with it.
It seems you have fallen into the trap of being the poorly informed critical hack producing clickbait rather than being an original creator of meaningful content. You may be judging yourself by your intentions but the world will judge you by your actions. Try sticking to subjects you know through first hand experience and leave the clickbait and hearsay alone.
She has a failed music career so she's falling into the common trap we see a lot these days of failed musicians creating hyper-opinionated very click baity youtube channels as a way to pay the bills. It's annoying but one thing we can do is not watch.
I don't get it.
Millenials complain about "dad rock" but one of them put out this interesting, but unnecessary bit of whatever "Led Zep Lore" to get channel views.
Seriously, if you wanna bury the past because of things like bad behavior, don't perpetuate the myths.
Ridiculous
Rock began and Zeppelin became the amplifier - in more ways than one!
Mary I watched the content and it was terrific . You used the "Monsters" in the title as a big fan I thought that is unfortunate specially with thumbnails being what they are. But the history and the clips is awesome.
Even in 2024, this is Led Zeppelin's world. We're just part of it.
Mary, your voice is priceless. Thanks for doing what you do. Beautiful work.
LZ1 was just 24 years after WW2.
I have stopped watching channels that force advertising. I pay RUclips to not get advertising, I will not watch content that forces advertising down my throat!
Please, keep us updated on all of your viewing habits…
Just skip through
First saw LZ on Long Island, NY in 1971.
Still the loudest concert to date.
Left awestruck and never to forget.
Saw them again at Madison Square Garden 2 nites in a row for their Physical tour.
Years later I met Eddie Kramer at a studio I managed in Hempstead NY.
It was like meeting a god....
Never again will I be rocked by music like Led Zep did to me back then....
Wot? Literally the greatest rock 'n' roll band in history... they never fell!
I saw Zeppelin twice, in 1975 and 1977. Tickets were 7.50 US dollars. Glad I was part of that time. Although I appreciate no, the medium of RUclips to learn much of the groups we knew very little about. Back then, Rolling Stones magazine was our only source of information and your our local rock radio station.
The band Cream were the first heavy rock band.
I saw Goodbye Cream.
@@barbaraspector6689 Lucky you!
No more monsters than anyone else would be in that position - if they had had the talent.
mmmwell Page his relationship with groupie Lori Mattix wasn't something I would do if I had the talent. Groupie or not , he was 28 and she was 14 FFS
speak for yourself...i always hated this band...them the doors and nirvana
No one will ever be better than Led Zeppelin. If they aren't Gods, there are NO Gods.
Not a fan of this 2 part paywall model
Shouldn't care that much about some random persons opinion to sit through the first half anyway
Lemme rephrase this for you:
“Give me what I want for free because you owe it to me for nothing because I have been conditioned to assign no monetary value to creativity and content. Despite you putting days of effort at a time into these videos, built off the back of years of hard work getting to this point, even in the face of poor, increasingly unpredictable revenue on RUclips, which your livelihood hangs in the balance of, give it to me for nothing”
Support her on her platform of choice or don’t, but think before you post.
You've made one comment on this channel. Mary Spender's making videos for fans, not random incels on the internet. Move on.
@@Stratocus so because of your situation, every creator should make ‘extravagant’ content at a loss for the benefit of all? beyond your own point of view, consider the systemic problems of platforms like RUclips that might have caused this situation, rather than the creators themselves. My sympathies to you, I believe that education should be free and open, but we conflate education with media and the costs associated in its production, and we don’t unfortunately live in a world where artists can create exactly the art they want to and support themselves by giving it away for nothing. It is systemic; RUclips’s revenue model, content moderation policies, greed of its centralised billionaire owners who do NOT care about you or the welfare of the creators that generate ad revenue for them, so they’re forced away. It isnt a huge ask to say “hey, RUclips isn’t working out for me, but I’m over here trying to shift away from this broken unsustainable model”. Best wishes, I hope we can all get to utopia one day, I personally don’t think late capitalism will be in the picture like it is now though. If you’re ever getting something for free, remember you are the product.
This is so much more than a teaser video.
Most excellent documentary and treatment of THE GREATEST ROCK BAND, EVER! It so cool that nearly 60 years later they still have a growing fanbase, and people such as yourself do a great job shining their light to new listeners. Keep it up.
I first heard them via LZ II in the summer of 1969 when my brother came home for college Summer Break. I was all of nine years old and I found "my" music. My friends and I collected their albums as they were released and we saw them in concert in 1975 and 1977. Good times, indeed!
LZ II was released in October of 1969. That's when I got into LZ at the age of 14.
Is Bob Spitz getting a cut of the Nebula proceeds since the content was essentially researched and organized by him?
I had the fortunate chance to talk to jimmy page at a fundraising event when i was a teenager. I wanted to get his autograph but event security wouldn’t let me within sight of him. Somehow he happened to see me and pushed his people aside to come up and say hello. I was so starstruck I didn’t know what to say but he kept on a small conversation about how busy things were. Very nice man.
I don't get it what your title is supposed to imply. What monsters? Or, when did Zeppelin fall? They and the Beatles are still the most revered bands of all time. It was simply tragic when Bonzo died. I remember the hushed hallways in my high school at the time 'Did you hear the drummer for Led Zeppelin and Stairway to Heaven just died?' 'Oh no!' This was nothing but a standard history of the band which is always appreciated but a little too high brow and click baity me thinks.
OK, after many years of seeing ads for Nebula, you've just sold me a subscription :)
Led Zeppelin, the four greatest musicians in the world, all in the same band, period. Thee only band out of the thousands I've heard that I remember exactly where I was the first time I heard them.
My mother worked at the BX in Germany. Tons of people were coming in and buying "Meet the Beatles". So she bought one for me and my two brothers. Ten years later I was a very different person
Led Zep..and jimmy page is what made me pick up the guitar back in my early teens..
the ultimate blues rock gods. and the greatest band to ever strut about the stage.
no guitarist ever looked as good as page in his dragon suit with that les paul slung low, i also worship his playing
the mystique of the black magic stuff added to the whole package.
earn loads of dough , play great music, then party with groupies whilst experimenting with anything and everything...
sounds like the ultimate rock n roll dream to me
great vid mary :)
Highly recommended: the recent brilliant video essay on Led Zeppelin entitled Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know by the Foul Quince youtube channel, which is of the highest level out there.
As for the "Nebula" subscription issue of late;
I too signed up using one of the creator's code and was promised continued free Nebula along with maintained Curiosity Stream subscription.
But now, for whatever reason, CS is no longer allowing this tie-in. Okay. I agree. I'm not happy about this. But I'm old enough to know that things change, and corporations and corporate minds can never be trusted. The very essence of corporate thinking is not about quality of service/product. Nor any real regard for the needs/desires of the consumers. It is strictly and solely about more money, more money, more money in "MY" pocket, by whatever means possible.
So, as-far-as the services go, I do really like them both. I am hating having to choose. But there are so many of the Nebula creators making so many channels about things I will never, ever care about, yet there is no way to filter those out of my list so I only see the channels I want, or new channels I can then decide on.
If Nebula had that, it would be 100% that's the one I would choose. But.... so it may just end up in a coin toss.
The authorized documentary 'Becoming Led Zeppelin' STILL hasn't found a distributor. A work in progress version was screened in September 2021 at the Venice Film Festival and Jimmy Page, himself, was there...Now?...Crickets...
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Brunette did not write "Train Kept-a Rollin'"
but his cover version did influence other covers by Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin, and Aerosmith.
If I remember correctly, the song was written by Tiny Bradshaw.
Mary,
This was really interesting. Thanks for putting this together and sharing it. 😎
Mary! You have such a beautiful posh accent!! I’m from east London so not the same British accent as you haha!
I love the sultans of swing video you did!
The music never fell.
Terry Reid did not recommend Bonzo. It was Plant who told jimmy about John. And john refused to consider it for several weeks, and didn't return any phone calls. Finally after several telegrams, and coaxing from Plant and Grant he agreed.
Keith Moon said "that'll go down like a lead balloon". John Entwistle replied "more like a lead zeppelin". Why does no one ever tell this story correctly?
Funny she got this wrong because it's well documented.
They were singularly awesome. Extraordinary. Innovative. Passionate, dedicated. Their accomplishments far overshadowed their challenges. It would have been fantastic had they been able to record and release another studio album.
Answer - both. Now move along folks.
Wow, Mary! I first watched you about four years ago, but only briefly. You have matured and settled into a gifted producer and music historian.
Zep's first album is closer to WWI than it is to today.
Mathematically yes, but culturally no. There was a massive cultural watershed in the 60s with pop, the Pill and penicillin.
Massive success and power has the potential to distort ones personality, and the success Led Zeppelin enjoyed together with the way they were managed by Peter Grant, made them a law onto themselves, thus they were fully insulated and protected from the consequences of their terrible behavior . But I don't think they started out as truly bad people except maybe for John Bonham who seemed to have a screw loose, I mean the stuff he got up to, is hard to understand.
Love Led Zep for the music, and hate them for, unlike the Rolling Stones, not giving the song credits to so many of the blues artists they stole songs from and claimed as their own.
If you did a little research before posting, you'd discover those old blues guys ripped off each other long before any of the guys in Zeppelin were even born....
Well done, Mary! The content is awesome
Thank you, Mary Spender, for putting this together. Fascinating.
Just a word of caution Mary, and I do realize it's coming too late in the day now, but as interesting as Spitz' book undoubtedly is, and as many previously unknown facts as he turns up (how Peter Grant got control of LZ away from Mickie Most for example), he also gets quite a lot wrong. Compare his summing up of Stone The Crows circa 1969 with the historical record (Jimmy McCulloch and/or Peter Green were at least 3 years away from any involvement in 1969) and you start to realize that Spitz focus is definitely on telling a good story and he's not going to let the facts get in the way. Not saying his overall picture of Zeppelin is wrong but there are enough discrepancies that it's probably not wise to repeat any of his assertions without fact checking them first.
Ok. My head is spinning from all the names..historical and current..all the renowned musicians surfaced to tell a story. I have loved Led Zeppelin for 50 years. I still love their music. I still feel a need to protect them when others degrade them. This intro vid is nice. I could relax and listen. I need to now hear the whole story. Ok Nebula...now you've got my attention. Thanks, MS. 👍
It really doesn't matter what anyone says about Led Zeppelin. Their music speaks for itself, and that's all our posterity will care about: The Music!
There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to Heaven
When she gets there she knows, if the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for
Ooh, ooh, and she's buying a stairway to Heaven
Everyone should watch "The song remains the same" ..... then you'll "get" what Zeppelin is about. I love that film ever since I was a teen.
I remember watching it in a movie theatre. We were blown away!
The surround sound along with full size visuals. My friends and I, must have watched that
over 100 times!
That’s all we had until Jimmy Page released that double DVD of live material. I still cannot make it through the 20 minute drum solo on Disc 1. I liked Disc 2 because it had various performances.
What are they about other than ripping off other musicians
...when the Twin Towers appeared, the only time they appeared,.. at the start of Stairway'...a shiver ran down my back. The stairways ultimately became exactly that.. for those still trapped inside, stairways to heaven...
@@recvehicle8888 They did take the Jeff Beck Groups’s sound and run with it, claiming it as their own. Plant also sang like Steve Marriott until he found his own voice, which was feminine and finally masculine by 1979.
I bought Terry Reids( Mickey Most’s produced mfp album ) in the sixties and I still play it, its truly brilliant and Terry Reid a world class act & vocal
I dont see any monsters, just great rock n roll artists
I am big led Zeppelin fan. Seen jimmy page twice in concert in my teen and 20's. If it wasn't for Page i never would gave discovered the yardbird's,from there i never would have discovered Jeff Beck. From there i would have never discovered Jazz music . I would never have wanted to pick up the guitar. I would never have loved the drums because of john Bonham or discovered other drumming greats . So they are my greatest discovery . 6:32
Don't fall off your high horse, child. Ta ta.
YOU R AWESOME. GREAT REPORTING....IF GREAT MUSIC MAKERS...THANK YOU!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤
Blues/Folk/eclectic/creative rock
First album, first song: GTBT. It was as apparent as a massive head-on collision and if anything else changed Rock drumming overnight. Jimmy’s production skills shone brightly with this first record. It’s’ crisp sound set it apart from everything else coming out of London in early 1969. Jimmy had caught lightning in the bottle with this group I think it’s safe to say!
There's Zeppelin and then there's Zeppelin. The Band that rose and never fell. No doubt the GOAT of Rock and
Blues music since '69. Greatest band I ever saw live and proudly listen to at least one LZ song daily. "Trample
Under Foot" is a fun song and a fave! ❤❤ 👏 👏 👏
❤ 🎸🎶 🇬🇧 🎤 🎹 🥁 🇬🇧 💯 🔥👍
Absolutely right on the spot , I love how you tell the story. People think they know the story, and they don't have a clue . If I can I'm going to join, you explain it also well. Cheers
I had read that LZ was not as they were publicly represented. Since some of them were married, they put out stories of sex and groupies that were false. Supposedly they simply just went back to their hotels and got some much needed sleep after their concerts. Anyway, that’s what I read and I have no idea if it’s true or not. I did meet a woman who was president of the Colorado LZ fan club. She met Plant personally and said he was a real gentleman. She had photos in her home.
Then you need to read the book written by their road manager for practically their entire existence, Richard Cole. His book, 'Stairway to Heaven; Led Zeppelin uncensored'.....they were far worse than anything I ever imagined....quite disgusting, actually.
@@ilguitaro That book has been said to have been highly exaggerated due to Cole being recently canned by LZ at that time. Not like he's going to be nice about anything.
@@cobrakai9969 Well he didn't get sued.....
These Rock'n'Roll Geniuses, can be a Gentleman all day long, and can be rockin' 'till the break of day, with someone else. Yes, it's that complicated.
@@ilguitaro you mean the heroin addict that ripped them off for 200k? Maybe some of that book was true but ulterior motives abound.
From Led Zep 4 I was a devotee of this incredible band. A very good minidocumentary.
I'll never forget what Ginger Baker said of John Bohnam; " He couldn't swing a bag of shit!". Obviously, he was referring to his supposed lack of swing on the drums.
But then again that's Ginger Baker for you. I have never been blown away by Ginger Baker's drumming. Being an opinionated asshole doesn't make you a great musician or a drummer.
@@andyhinds542 ~~ Ginger was very good at what he did - which was much different than what Bonham did - but Baker was not only known to verbally tear others down - he would start a barroom brawl at the drop of a hat - so he was willing to back up his opinions - right or wrong - with his blood & guts - the man was a true maniac ..
Nice sneak peak. I like the way you constructed the history. For me, the whole of blues rock music begins with Led Zeppelin. I've read Hammer of the Gods, a few times, so I know a fair amount about early Led Zepp. The rock anti-hero, if you will. Very nice!
LOVED THIS, MARY. GREAT JOB. Nebula sounds amazing.