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- How Led Zeppelin created their biggest hit song, their only top 10, the provocative 70s smash Whole Lotta Love through rough waters including conservative radio programmers and later a lawsuit. Jimmy Page’s Riff has been called the best ever, Robert Plant’s evocative vocal and the incredible rhythm section of John Paul Jones and John Bonham, this song is a bonafide rock classic.... Coming up.. the story of a provocative Top 5 smash created by a daredevil supergroup that challenged the gatekeepers of commercial radio conservatism...and wound up being sued for violation of copyright laws. There’s a whole lotta yearnin’ ...and a whole lotta schoolin' NEXT on Professor of Rock.
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Rolling Stone writer Steve Pond called Led Zeppelin the “last band of the 60s, and the first band of the 70s. Zeppelin was truly the band that captivated a new generation of fans that were not members of the personality cult of the 60s. Critics did not like them, but an emerging culture of uninhibited young fans grabbed on to Zeppelin IMMEDIATELY… It was a new age of fans- captivated by provocative music & a path of life they could call their own.
The song that characterized the approaching individualism of the 70s was released in November of 1969….Led Zeppelin’s ”Whole Lotta Love” In the early 60s; while most of his peers were busy groaning about acne & finding the right turtleneck, the great Jimmy Page worked tirelessly to become one of England’s most sought-after session players by the time he was only 18.
He was known as “Lil’ Jim P” to avoid confusion with another highly used studio musician named Big Jim Sullivan. If an artists needed a guitarist, they either went to Lil Jim, back in those days.
As the decade rolled along, Page was featured on a variety of notable recordings by the likes of Marianne Faithful, Johnathan King, Brenda Lee, Van Morrison, the Kinks, and even The Who.
Jimmy provided rhythm guitar licks for The Who on their first single “I Can’t Explain.” In ’66, Page got the idea of assembling a super group with Keith Moon & John Entwistle from The Who- Jeff Beck & John Paul Jones. When the guys talked about how they thought the supergroup would be received, Keith Moon shot back that the group would “go over like a lead zeppelin,” In other words, it would be a disaster.
I should note, however, that some say the quip actually came from Entwistle. Regardless, the joking remark stuck with Page, and he would bring it to the forefront a few years later. Late in ’66, Page replaced bassist Paul Samwell Smith and joined his buddy Jeff Beck as one of The Yardbirds. Less than two years later, Beck, too, departed, and despite frantic efforts to keep the band together, The Yardbirds imploded. Page went back to his idea of forming a supergroup that shared the same musical vision, and the tenacity to bust the status quo.
POLL: They created so MANY classic albums, what is your pick for the greatest Led Zeppelin album back to front?
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Houses of the Holy
Houses Of The Holy was the first Zep album I ever bought and remains my favorite today.
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Hands down Physical Graffiti. Every track is just a masterpiece.
One memory that comes to mind regarding this song is from when I was about 17 in the late 70s. My dad bought the family's first real stereo system, you know with the various separate components and two big speakers. He set it up, we listened to a couple songs, and he asked what I thought of the sound quality. I was surprised by the question... he didn't generally ask my opinion about anything. My dad was very much from a different generation--there was a 40 year age difference between us. I told him it was pretty good but I didn't think it had enough bass. The next day he packed it all up and returned it to the store. I assume he must have asked the sales person for something with more bass sound and came home with a different system. He set it up again and asked if I thought this one was any better. The song I chose to test it... Whole Lotta Love. Killer bass on that track, especially in the outro. I don't know what he thought of the song, he never offered an opinion. He just seemed happy that I was satisfied with his purchase. I miss him.
Awesome story! I can totally relate with my Dad.😀
Beautiful story. Thanks for sharing.
I feel your sadness at missing him. How wonderful that your dad leaned on your judgment! Bless him and you.
Your dad loved you enough to get the right gear for you.
You had a cool Dad!
"Imitation is the highest form of flattery." All the haters need to realize that. Nothing is new under the sun. For the skeptic that mock Led Zeppelin for imitating other bands, they need to create their own language, because they are committing plagiarism by speaking words created by our ancestors. By no means is this directed at The Professor. This is directed at everyone else that calls Led Zeppelin "thieves."
Loved this episode. I've been a Zep fan for five decades.
Led Zeppelin is a one-time thing in the entire history of the earth. Including any past or future civilizations. One time, and we got it. 🍻
There was no one else. There never will be.❤️🎶
🍻
Yes, Led Zep will never be equalled, and was never equalled even back in Atlantis or the Silurian Civilization of the late Carboniferous..
I saw Zeppelin at a small Chicago club in late 1968 or early '69, as a senior in highschool. The impact this unknown band (at the time) had was enormous. At that little club in 1968 I became a life long fan. The 60s was a troubled and turbulent decade with the war and 3 high profile political assassinations, especially for teens, and finally we had a band with power, frankness, rebellion and talent to match the mood. Now a granny at age 71, I still crank up the volume on whole lotta love 💕.☮️
Mee too. I'm the youngunn at 60.😄🤘
2-7-69 kinetic playground, Chicago! Wow. You were lucky!
Yeah
Kinetic Playground
That is pretty cool. My friend was in London in 1969 and he remembers seeing Zeppelin advertised for a Concert that evening. You are very fortunate to have seen them before the rest of us were able to know them. Especially in a small venue. I was able to see them in Mannheim Germany in the summer of 1980, 3rd to their last show.
When I was a boy of about 9 yrs old my "cool" aunt was babysitting me. I was looking at her albums and was attracted to the cover of Zeppelin Four. I asked if I could listen to it. She put it on the turntable, plugged in the headphones and my life instantly changed. This music will live forever.
There is nothing left to say about Zeppelin! Just cherish the memories!😊👍 from a 70 year old!
Zep's recordings are timeless classics that will still be played for decades, possibly centuries to come. Such a rare combination of raw musicality, artistry and smart, innovative, production. They truly captured lightning in a bottle. One must-see is the RUclips video of Jimmy Page commenting on the making of Stairway to Heaven as he plays the record. Fascinating!
agreed - here it is here:
ruclips.net/video/DDo4CA13LbY/видео.html
I’ve watched that video several times. It’s so interesting listening to him describe what he was after composing Stairway. And his smile at the end is so gracious.
It’s like the man doesn’t know he’s a genius.
Saw them in Houston in 1977. All the bands came through Houston back in the day. My mom stood in line at a department store to buy our tickets for us since we were in school. Mom was the best.
I can’t type enough about my feelings and thoughts I have for Zeppelin. Every musician in the band were phenomenal.
Robert has the best Rock voice that has ever existed the sincere emotion in his voice is unmatched.
Hell, his voice still rocks.
Amen Br!!!the greatest!!and I heard Zeppelin when they first hit the radio ,his voice was almost haunting!!!but it drew you in and I wanted to hear more like an addiction!!love Zeppelin especially Robert's voice!!!
Seeing Zeppelin live in Cincinnati in the spring of '77 is my greatest musical experience. I quit my job because my boss told me I could have the day off. At the last minute he changed his mind. Jobs come and go but this is Zeppelin. I wouldn't have missed it for any reason.👍☮️
I live around Cincinnati, and I'm so jealous. I would have been 7 at the time, so that wasn't going to happen for me.😕
Good your boss was a dick anyways lol. I had a pt time job for 6yrs at a local small steel shop and my boss lent me his big old cad sev to take 8 of us for VH lol thanks MARIO lol
@@pipepicasso8112 I live North of Portsmouth Ohio. I was 17 and it was a amazing show. I've been to well over 100 concerts and that one is the most memorable.👍☮️
You did the right thing, your boss is in a senior living center, yelling at imaginary kids to "get off my damn lawn!"
Was there also my friend , Free ticket by friend for my Birthday!!
Man alive I remember hearing it at school, we had a really cool music teacher, I ran home after school, emptied my money box and ran to the local music store. Man , I can’t believe that’s about 47 years ago, once home I cranked it to 10 and let it ripi….in fact I still do it to this very day.
When I was in High School our Art Teacher was our Radio Station CLosed Circit in School to Cafeteria and Home Rooms and Study Halls during split assemblies 1973-1974 School Year for Me. And we got to play it all From Grateful Dead 💀 to Doors , Jimmy Hendrix on and on NRPS’s Panama Red
There will never be another Zeppelin. When those 4 guys came together we were given a gift of timeless music that can never be matched.
you're right there will never be another... because they would have been shut down for plagiarism do to stealing music is not allowed.
@@adamwal4591 OMG please find something new or different. Everyone has heard it and still no one cares! It's soo worn out! It's actually laughable because it's all you got. Led Zeppelin created MANY timeless masterpieces all by themselves.
@@teresacandeloro5687 Eurotrash cover band that stole "their" music.
@@adamwal4591 Pure stupidity. The only thing that would have happened is what DID happen: The original artist sued, they came to an agreement and the original got paid.
The original should be grateful that the mighty Led Zeppelin chose one of their songs that nobody would have ever heard again otherwise.
The only reason we're even talking about "You Need Love" by Jimmy Dixon is because of Led Zeppelin.
@@SealofPerfection "great" bands don't need to steal their music.
PS It's Willy Dixon.
Back in the late 60's I was way ahead of my friends, in the music I was listening to. FM radio was new, and referred to as underground radio. I loved buying a new album and turning my friends onto them, sometimes playing them a song on the telephone. I had been to a Pink Floyd concert, where they had sound effects playing from a reel-to-reel tape recorder, and I thought that was uncool. So when a friend of mine played Led Zeppelin for me (on the phone), I thought they were real Trippy, but told him they could never duplicate the songs on stage without a tape playing the far-out sounds, until................................... I went to a Led Zeppelin concert, and realized Jimmy Page was making those sounds playing his guitar with a violin bow! I became a fan for life!!!
Your COOL! Don’t hurt your wrist trying to pat your back.😂
In their prime, Led Zeppelin was a force of nature.
No other band had the power to shake you to the core of your soul and hours after a concert, you could still feel their music pulsing through you .......
Led Zeppelin II was the 1st record I ever bought back back in the seventies when I was but a mere teenager. We all certainly thought that Led Zeppelin was the greatest band in the world!
Maybe you all certainly thought that Led Zeppelin was the greatest band in the world -- Because Led Zeppelin IS the greatest band in the world! 😉🙃😎
In my area for decades the local radio station 97Rock Buffalo NY once a Year had a battle Stairway to Heaven vs FreeBird as greatest song of all time
Zeppelin 2 is my favorite album of theirs
We still think that!
Aren't they?
What can be said about LZ that hasn’t already been? Arguably the greatest guitarist, bass player, drummer, and lead singer/front man all in one super group. No one compares to Jimmy Page in the combination of player and songwriter, borrowing from so many styles and influences, he was like a musical genre sponge. Imo the truest musician in the band was Jonesy, nearly unmatched in his capabilities on bass. Just The Lemon Song alone should put him in the ranks of all time greats. He never repeats any runs in that song. He’s like an inexhaustible source. And that’s not even getting into his contributions of keyboard and mandolin. Plant…listen to the Danmarks Radio version of How Many More Times and you realize that he was even a better singer than the studio made him out to be. And Bonzo pretty much stands on his own too. Nearly unmatched in his playing on Physical Graffiti on songs like Wanton Song.
And yet, all this talent, and somehow the sum of all the parts still doesn’t equal what they became as a group. Every song in their catalog is special, some of them life-changing. I could go on, but like I said, what can I say that hasn’t been said already? They were not of this world.
JMO
Agreed
You should write a 📖book.
How about the fact that they didn't use auto-tune?
@@annakimborahpa The truth is nobody really needed it back then. That alone says something..
Very well said. It might be just your opinion, but it’s the opinion of a lot of people I know, including myself.
Many of the sound effects on "Dark Side of the Moon" were done by an elderly couple whose main work was in the movie industry. Those man-made, creative effects are the real deal, not some computer-generated facsimile. Those were the days.
As much as I love the intro riff from Jimmy Page on Whole lotta love..... it's the JPJones bass lines that brings shivers....
Agreed...That bass line drives the whole song into the stratosphere...
I remember hearing it blaring from my sister's bedroom in 1978. I was eight years old. The next day I asked my parents for a guitar and I've been playing ever since 🎸🤘
A few observations:
Re: 'the greatest riff ever': Many music organizations have voted WLL number 1. The satiric online magazine 'The Onion' once did a story about the sad state of pop music. They reported that the remedy riff that would save the world from the poor state of pop music was a riff on sheet music found protected deep in a vault in a mountain, a riff that, once it is released at the right time to save music, can only be played by Jimmy Page.
Some of the old blues artists who made songs popular in the era of recording were actually recycling songs performed by an even earlier generation of blues artists.
Consider a Boeing 787. It is fundamentally the result of the Wright Brothers' idea, only after decades of progress and refinement. So, the LZ songs are the Boeings of the early blues masters/Wright Brothers. Yes, they are similar, in the same tradition, but also their own, completely different pieces.
You have just reviewed, and we still listen to a song recorded 52 years ago, in 1969. Did anyone in 1969 listen to a 1917 song?
Professor, I heard then twice at MSG. After their concerts, no one wanted to leave. At one of those concerts, after their 3-hour set, I was wondering what song was even left for them to play. Then they played WLL. Amazing moment.
Professor, you do amazing work!
The Wright brothers themselves copied an Australian aircraft designer. Where did the alledged original artists get their musical id as from?baby copying earlier musicians. As pointed out by Oasis' and dozens of other musicians, "We walk on the shoulders of giants".
@@kooringagnd As Newton is supposed to have said about Kepler, "if I have seen far, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants....." Zeppelin did that, and became a giant themselves....
Absolute truth. usually it’s young people who are saying they stole their music. That’s how the blues have always gone. For example, lead belly didn’t write midnight special. In fact, they don’t even really know who did. It was one of his biggest hits though.
Saw them live at Earls Court, London, England in May 1975 ...
Led Zeppelin never recorded a bad song.
and stole scores of songs
@@RobertMJohnson You are silly! Did Elvis Presley ever write a song? Did Frank Sinatra? Did Elton John? Did Meatloaf? People like you are like Satin. Always putting hate out there.
@@WeaponsEducation if you're feeling are hurt, that's on you for being afraid of the truth and not having the courage to grow up. I don't give a f about elivs, sinatra, john, meatloaf.
did the beatles and beach boys write songs? yep. did cream? yep. did AC/DC? yep. did van halen? yep. did Guns? yep. so did pearl jam.
zep wrote some songs, also, but there are few great rock bands that stole as much as did zeppelin. this is a FACT. and you are like a middle school girl to this point.
@@RobertMJohnson My feelings are not hurt! I have thick skin. I do know how the music business works. Every band gets ideas from other bands. Plus it all stems from classical music. Take care no worries. Tom
Not true. They did record fillers,’like any other band. But, each album had minimum 4 solid tracks. Houses of the Holy, IV, and the double album Physical Graffiti had concentrated more solid tracks then the rest.
This jam was my introduction to Led Zeppelin. I was with a friend at his friends house & he asked me if I heard of Zeppelin as he put the album on a turntable.
My life changed at that moment. I never forgot that day & why I was there in the first place. 🤘😎🤘
Zep just does something physiologically altering to me like nothing else I ever heard… I can’t describe it accurately, but I feel it instantly every time I immerse myself in the sonic ocean that is Led Zeppelin.
It's spiritual, they're transporting you spiritually. I love the band by far, but there's some spiritual deception in there. Plant knows it but won't say it outright. He just says he was "naive"
@@damonjones9606 I have to think though, if Led Zeppelin was getting help from the spiritual realm, they would’ve played better live than they did.
ZEP SUCKS!👿
Here here!!!
Todd, that was a very "heavy" statement dude. I can only compare it to a molecular reconstruction experience I had at a party. Someone passed me a bottle so yeah, I took a few slugs. The morning sunrise at the park was pretty far-out. Crap, the Head Nurse just called lights out. I'll catch you on the parallel plane Space Cap'n.....
Zeppelin was the first band that really grabbed me.
At home in Birmingham UK in the late 60s my rather strict father wouldn’t allow “pop” music to be played, so with no money to speak of, I had an old valve radio and some cheap headphones (used to listen to pirate Radio Caroline broadcasting from a ship in the North Sea and Radio Luxembourg) then came Zeppelin I and II which I played relentlessly on an old stack mono Decca turntable.
Led III became my favourite - Tangerine - That’s the way - Friends - somehow you could make the lyrics fit the turmoil of adolescence… well that’s how I remember those amazing times.
Even better that John Bonham was a “local” (born and raised in nearby Reddich) and Robert Plant lived in Halesowen close to where I worked. I was a Brummie, and he was a Blackcountry lad, of course I never ever met him, but the local districts in the Midlands were close and tight-knit - I felt I knew him 🤣 and I loved Wales too, still do, I lived there for 15 years.
That’s how it was … memories from a 68 year-old fan now living in Romania. ❤️🇷🇴👍🏻
To this day, there is no other song that rivals the mid section of that song. The mood, the sounds, everything about it was original and unique, and still is.
Nothing beats Led Zeppelin 😁
The best ever. I was 4 years old and mind you my family was on our way to church early Sunday morning (7:30am) and we were listening to the radio (am) on station 690 Khj with the reel Don steele and whole lotta love came on, I told my dad to turn it up, me being the youngest of 6 , he told everyone in the station wagon to be quiet because my song was on. I may have been only 4 , but I will never forget that day.
Great story, Mr. Camacho
Nice to hear the chart position in Denmark being mentioned. Denmark being the first country LZ ever played in 😁
To any of the younger music lovers on here you need to hear all of the led zeppelin albums, they owned the 70s for good reason. They electrified the blues like no one else. As Muddy Waters said the blues had a baby and named it rock and roll. Great review professor of one of the best band ever!
It's interesting how blues inspired Zep and the Stones and then how Buddy Holly and Elvis more middle of the road rock and pop inspired the Beatles...
@@ProfessorofRock I never thought of that but it is absolutely true, well said
If by no one else you mean; Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Taste, Jeff Beck, Mountain and a whole list of others, I suppose you're right
I could never, EVER get tired of Led Zep!!! It shocks me that they never had another number one hit on the charts!!! Whaaat????
That’s because they aren’t generic.
They never did, not even this song. Number #1 in our hearts though.
A Whole Lotta Love is a great song even with the "borrowed" parts. The vocals and musicianship are hard to top. One othe things I love most about Zepplin is that their albums are so solid as a whole. The songs you don't hear on the radio are just as good. Amazing what they did in such a short period of time. Thanks again for another great video, Adam!
Thanks Dave!
It’s about what you do with the song, they elevate the borrowed parts and created a timeless classic that changed music.
The lyrics only are the "borrowed" parts...
Yeah, Led "borrowed" quite a bit over the years💰💰💰
@@mgibby63mg And only just a little bit of the lyrics.
Fascinating stuff...I first heard them at 15-16 years old...I was instantly blown away...at 17 I got to see them in concert 1 month before Roberts son tragically died...ending their last tour of the US...to this day it is the most magnificent live group I've ever seen.
I think Led Zeppelin is greatest band all time. More than Iconic. They're THE symbol of that era, hands down. The symbol, as a band, of rock music.
The story has been told many times before but this is one of the best presentations. Good personal touch.
Led Zeppelin IS the greatest rock n roll band...Ever! I was 13 years old in 1969 and bought the album because of the song Whole Lotta Love. I found that I loved all the songs. The artwork I couldn't stop looking at. I then bought the first album. I still have those first seven albums. The band has been my favorite ever since then. I'm very pleased I ran across this site and enjoyed listening to the Professor! Thank you very much!
You have very quickly became one of my favorite channels ever. You bring back sooo many awesome memories from the 80’s. Thanks for everything you do and keep the awesome videos coming
I'm listening to you and the way you put everything together, and suddenly I'm transported to 1969 -75 era of my life, and it is wonderful! Thank you Adam!
Funny thing, I was born in '69 but my main listening era is exactly 1969-75 - seems the creative juices were overflowing in that era. Perhaps the musical development of the sixties combined with maturing electronics for musical instruments? Still love the mellotron, such as used by King Crimson for example.
Let me throw in a random gem from Captain Beefheart: This Is The Day (Live From London/1974)
Be dazzled by the sweet tone of Dean Smiths' guitar.
1979, I was 17 in grade 10. A huge KISS fan (still am). Myself and fellow classmate and guitar player, Willy Short, often spoke of KISS and others. He one day said..."Do you know Led Zeppelin?" "Yeah' I have heard of them and Stair Way to Heaven, but that's about it." He then told me that he was bringing in a Zeppelin album the next day and said give it a chance...just listen to it...especially the first song, Whole Lotta Love. Well I did that with a bit of apprehension I might add. Next day, I went home for lunch with Willy's Zeppelin album, Led Zeppelin II. I put it on and that very first riff had me sold. I listened to it repeatedly in its entirety and was simply gobsmacked and mesmerized. I was supposed to bring it back but told him I was so knocked out that I would bring it back tomorrow...he was simply beaming that I was hooked. About a week or so later (lol) I did bring him his album back but only after I bought my first Led Zeppelin album, Led Zeppelin II. The whole album is a master piece...bar none. Thank you Willy Short , wherever you are, for helping broaden my musical direction in a most wonderful way.
I was driving home one night and listening to Whole Lotta Love when I was pulled over for speeding. The officer asked me if I knew how fast I was going and I said no - I was listening to Whole Lotta Love. He paused for a moment, returned my license, and told me to keep it under the speed limit. He understood what I was talking about.
I want this to be true ;)
@@diatonicdelirium1743 ,really, could well be possible though. My dad liked Zep, Iron Butterfly, CSN Y, Moody Blues, and a whole bunch more. Went to many a concert with him.(I was 20 or so, not a small kid), he didn't like Frank Zappa though, thought he was obscene. Go figure.
Boston Guarden Nov 1969, Zep's second album is being sold in the lobby. A biker gang decides to rumble on the floor during MC5 or Johnny Winter. A few min later a band I had seen only a couple of months earlier at the Tea Party (capacity 300) then the Carousel theater (capacity 2500) was taking the stage in front of close to 20,000. Page had on his famous dragon suit and was playing his no1 Les Paul. In 6 mom they went from clubs to Arenas on the strength of back to back masterpiece albums. I can still hear the echos of that opening riff from 53yr ago..
My first concert ever.....A gangly nerdy teenager with busted glasses, jammed into standing room only......They came busting out with "Immigrant Song", and probably played two or three more songs before pausing to acknowlege the crowd, and the intensity grew from there. To me, they were larger than life. I wound up seeing them 7 more times through 1977.
Amazing stuff, class of 69 then off to Tampa U. Saw them in Tampa stadium in 73. Tripping with my buds and a beautiful girl. 55,000 kids. 30 feet from stage. I saw all the big names in the 70's but this was the best concert ever. I even managed to graduate !
I remember the first time I heard ‘Immigrant Song”! It was during the Album Rock/FM era that I so miss. To hear newly released albums on the radio played in whole with no commercial interruption was fantastic. Thank you for the history behind the music. New subscriber and bing watching all your RUclips videos daily.
I love listening to you because you know of what you speak. It isn't me wasting my time listening to someone who is ignorant of the subject they are TRYING to discuss. I give u two 👍🏽👍🏽
Back when I was a kid in the 80’s, 1987 and I was 13, my dad bought me a stereo for my room for Christmas. Inside where the cassette tape drawer was my dad had bought and placed every Led Zeppelin album! It was the best Christmas gift I ever got.
“Whole Lotta Love” is one of the best examples of tape “print-through” out there. That’s what is happening in the middle part where Robert Plant sings “Wa-ay down inside
Woman you need”
…you can, when you don’t have any background noise in the room, hear Plant faintly singing those lines right BEFORE he is heard in the mix of the song. It’s kind of like a reverse echo, but not the kind Adam was talking about.
Print-through happens when magnetic tape with sound on it is pressed against another part of the tape without sound on it, for a period of time. Such as on a tape reel. The magnetism of the tape is enough to make watered down copy on the next layer of tape on the reel.
Page could have edited most of this out, but it sounds so cool, I’m glad they didn’t.
Led Zeppelin rocks my world every day. I have all the albums. I cruised every weekend with Zep blasting in my 8 track. When any one asks me favorite album or song I say, "Led Zeppelin" every time!
In 1975, I wanted an 8-Track so bad and the one I wanted was $39.99 at Radio Shack. That was half my weekly take home pay! I just had to make do with my AM radio :)
I bought that 8-track in '72 and spent nearly all I had for it. I installed it in my '63 Corvair Monza. We were poor twenty somethings at the time sharing a house together and couldn't afford a stereo system, so we would park the Corvair next to the house and run wires from the car to speakers inside the living room. It was hard on the car battery and someone had to run outside to change cartridges, but it worked! And Zeppelin II was a favorite!
My dad hated rock music and I played LZ's Hotdog for him. He said "Now that's music!" to which I replied "That's Led Zeppelin!". Great memory
I have so much respect for the band for placing the value of the artistic concept of the album above all else.
I waited on Jimmy Page when they were touring in 78. I kept that tip for years because it came from his front pocket!
Somehow I didn't get into Zeppelin until about 10 years ago. I only knew "Stairway To Heaven," which is in my all-time top 25 favorite songs. I finally decided it was time to get the Zeppelin tunes into my musical life. They were more of an album band, and I was all about the top 40. I think seeing "Whole Lotta Love" peaking at #4 in '69/'70 is what started my curiosity. I listened to it & loved it. That's when I went down the rabbit hole & never looked back. I never knew "Whole Lotta Love," because it didn't play on the radio. It wasn't even played on the oldies show I listened to in the late 80's, as far as I know. I now understand. I get the whole Zeppelin vibe! 😎
Just goes to show, you're never to old...
Welcome to the fan club 🌞
I listened to zed zeppelin back in the early 90s in high school in so. Cali.
Remember that Zepp stole Whole Lotta... from Willie Dixon. They also stole Stairway To Heaven from the band Spirit. Page embellished them and took them to new levels, but still, they were plagiarized.
@@flyingfishsurf'You Need Love' is Blues. There is a long tradition of relentless 'borrowing' when it comes to the blues . The main thing that Zep did wrong was not giving credit. And the court said no to the Spirit lawsuit of Taurus v Stairway to Heaven. Similar but not plagiarized. It's a fine line between inspiration and copying. I am not saying Zep never crossed the line. But they paid for it when the courts said so. And I don't let it get in the way of my enjoyment of their music.
I spent many a night doing 70s things, coming home, and putting on the headphones to listen to "Whole Lotta Love." The "freakout" and its following power guitar riffs blew me away. Still, I gotta agree with those who said that "Houses of the Holy" stands as my favorite Zeppelin album.
My favourite band back in the day, without a doubt. I still have my collection of Led Zeppelin tee shirts, programme from Knebworth 1979 and, of course, vinyl albums.
I have all their vinyl albums. I even have a couple bootlegs on vinyl. I wish I could say I saw them like you can.😊✌🏼
The greatest band ever!
Thanks for the belly laugh. Distortion from a 100 watt Marshall Plexi with EL34 “values.” Almost as good as the newscaster talking about poloponies. As a lifelong professional musician, I love your behind the scenes stories of the great old songs. Props to you for the great content. But, being the “Professor of Rock”, you desperately need to know they’re referring to tubes. The Brits call them valves… not values. 😜
I know, right?
In truth, Led Zeppelin's songs were too good for American singles radio.
The band never wanted Top 40 "hits" that mostly appealed to the lowest common denominator.
They were too good for that fickle format.
I can listen to Zep's songs over and over again, getting the same strong mood altering experience every time. One of their best tunes, Ramble On, can evoke the feelings of wanting to get up and out of town, if only in our imaginations. The blues rock of Robin Trower and Jimi Hendrix are a close second.
The first album I ever bought was Led Zeppelin In through the out door, that got me hooked, when I went into the Navy cassette tapes had just come out and I used to listen to LZ 2,3, Houses of the Holy and Physical Graffiti exclusively. The only other albums I listened to then were Pink Floyd darkside of the moon, and Jethro Tull Aqualung
I love Led Zeppelin! 💜 Jimmy, Bonzo and JPJ were all incredibly talented musicians. Add Robert Plant's vocals...perfection. I knew they took licks here and there, especially from older blues songs. Haven't many bands done the same?
I'm sure there are only 24 frets and 6 strings on a guitar so im sure it happens a lot
I was 4 years old and the song came on on am radio , the station was “Khj”. My whole family tripped out. Mind you I am a first generation mexican born and raised in California. My mom and dad thought the song was interesting. My older brothers and sisters loved it. To bad the song was cut to be vin played on the radio. Funny thing. It was on the way to church.
When I was 12 my uncle took my siblings and I on a road trip to a family reunion. He played Led Zeppelin on cd in the car. It blew my mind. I begged for a zeppelin album for Xmas that year. When I opened the wrapping paper and got the Les Zeppelin Early Days greatest hits album I ran to my room and played it immediately. I went to bed with headphones on every night for months listening to that album. It absolutely rocked my world. The opening riff of Whole lotta love still sends shivers down my back.
As much credit as Led Zeppelin has been given... it is still not enough. Acknowledged as they are for being rock gods... and they're still underrated. I just love Zep so damn much.
Me too, they are so loved and appreciated, but I completely agree they still feel underappreciated, there are so many aspects to them in which they are unmatched.
they need to be held to account for stealing so many riffs from other artists
@@RobertMJohnson oh right, Communication Breakdown, Dazed and Confused, Babe I am Gonna Leave You, Good Times Bad Times, Whole Lotta Love, Heartbreaker(2 GOAT riffs imo), Moby Dick, Ramble On, Thank You, Bring it on Home, Immigrant Song, Black Dog's 3 riffs, When the Levee Breaks, Going to California, Misty Mountain Hop, No Quarter, Over the Hills and Far Away, Song Remains the Same, The Ocean, The Rain Song, Dancing Days Custard Pie, The Rover's several riffs, Houses of the Holy, Trampled Under Foot, In the Light's 3 riffs, Ten Years Gone, In My Time of Dying's multiple riffs, some little songs named Stairway to Heaven, Kashmir, Achilles Last Stand (with just about a dozen riffs) are all stolen!! Right, thanks where you all this time, man. Oh right, they stole all of them from a less known band named Led Zeppelin and their lead guitarist Jimmy Page. Oh my God, what a bunch of cheaters they are.
@@RobertMJohnson “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn.” -T. S. Eliot
Led Zeppelin, like the Beatles, were the "good poets" of music.
@@RobertMJohnson Who cares? All the original artists got paid. That is how it was done.
They should all be grateful that Zep did their material, otherwise it would have remained forgotten.
The great thing about Led Zeppelin’s body of work is that every song (~70 songs) is unique in it’s own right. No “hit cloning!” Love them!
I was born in 74...birthday is tmrw actually.. lol...but I didnt get into Zepoelin until my teenage years in the late 80s early 90s...man they blew me away...changed my life...started playing drums and actually became a pretty successful drummer...the funny thing is I would of got into them so much sooner but they had this satanic evil stigma to them mostly from my parents probably...I was afraid to listen to them when I was 8 or 10...Iwas listening to Van Halen and Prince and M.J or whatever was on pop radio but not Zep...no way...I wasny going to hell over a band!...lol...how naive and gullible was I?...lol...Favorite band of all time!!!!...great vid!!!
I would love to have been a witness to the first Led Zeppelin rehearsals. They figured out pretty quickly that they had amazing chemistry and their sound just took off.
John Paul Jones has stated several times that when they first got together in that room at that first rehearsal, they only played a couple of notes, and Jones was awestruck at how powerful they sounded. He could hardly believe it.
I’m pretty sure that the first song they played was “Train Kept Rolling”. They were all 4 blown away!!!
Led Zeppelin were a mosaic of music talents glued together by each other
For those crying rivers About Plagiarizing nonsense. Everybody stole something from the all the way back from the dawn of time. Second and most importantly Zeppelin elevated those bits to levels the originals could never hope to reach and made them global. Lastly
Zeppelin is in the history books as the most covered and sampled band IN HISTORY, any genre. So take your Tissue and wipe those tears and Just enjoy the greatness that its zeppelin
I have great memories of this song and the early Led Zeppelin albums. I was too young to appreciate the music when my Dad had these originals, but he would play them on the cabinet-style record player we had in our house. He was a drummer in his younger days and played in high school bands with the likes of future legends Randy Bachman and Freddy Turner - all from the same school that one one Neil Young attended. I was only 4 or 5 at the time but I clearly remember hanging of the side of the cabinet to watch the record on the turntable - transfixed by the Atlantic label going round and round with this strange music swirling around from speaker to speaker. I also clearly remember being fascinated by the album cover from both Zep II and III. If you remember the LZ III album cover had a rotating disc that moved small photos around cutouts in the design on the cover - magic for a curious young kid - and to this day I remain a fan of military bomber jackets that adorned the cover of LZ II (and very likely a subliminal influence on my becoming a pilot in later life!).
My appreciation of the actual music didn’t come until a few years later when I was a teen and a good friend sat me down to listen to LZ IV. I was hooked and it reminded my of those earlier albums that I recovered from my Dad’s collection. Whole Lotta Love remains one of my all time favourites along with the Immigrant Song and Kashmir. I would have loved to see them live!
This is the first song I heard from Zep back in 82, when I was 12, on my sister's cassette. I was absolutely blown away! That's what started my love affair with them, and Rock in general. They're why I started playing guitar. My sister always had the best music! My brother, not do much lol.
The first song I ever heard from Led Zeppelin is Over The Hills And Far Away back in March 1994.
What'd your brother listen to?
Great song!
@@ProfessorofRock My brother would to all the top 40 usually. No offense to these bands, but Air Supply, Loverboy, Cliff Richards. Like I said, my sister had the best albums. Zep, Bad Company, Journey etc. She used to listen to this one band called Shooting Star. They were really good! If you haven't heard them, look them up sometime. My first album that I bought when I was 11 back in 81 was the record Paradise Theater from Styx. My dad gave me the money to buy for cleaning out his Semi. He was a truck driver. I loved the song Too Much Time On My Hands. I would always buy a whole record or cassette when I liked a song. I never did fool with singles. Love you and your show man! God Bless you and your family, and stay safe!🙏❤🙏❤🙏
@@carmstrong6507 Over the Hills and Far Away is one of my absolute favorites of Zeppelins. Fantastic song!
The 1st time I heard Whole Lotta Love-I was nine & my uncle played the single on my grandmother's stereo "It scared the Hell outta ME!" true story
Thanks for the credit to Willie Dixon. I hope he was paid well in the settlement. So many British rockers were inspired by Delta Bluesmen. Those old guys labored in obscurity and poverty for most of their lives, but their genius drove so much of early rock and roll, and generated a "Whole Lotta of Wealth" for others to benifit from.
Well, the irony there is that Dixon really never wrote anything, he stole all those songs from other unknown bluesmen from the south. All the old-timer blues guys like Muddy Waters & Buddy Guy etc. knew this and kinda looked at Dixon more as a savvy businessman than a writer or musician.
@@tedwojtasik8781 - The TRUTH. 👍
The point is to do something new and hopefully better with the song, no musician will really object to that. The plagiarism cases are usually taken by representatives of the artists, not the artists themselves.
I always heard the story as Keith Moon said the concept would "go over like a lead balloon" (which is a pretty common expression, even today) and Page changed lead to Led and balloon to Zeppelin (german airship).
I was 10 years old when I first heard of Led Zeppelin. At that time I was listening to The Partridge Family, The Jackson 5, and The Osmond Brothers. At 10 years old it was all Top 40 and Bubble Gum.
As I got older and I to my pre-teen and early teen years I was listening to a lot of albums with headphones. Once I heard Whole Lotta Love in stereo I was mesmerized and hooked on Led Zeppelin. They went on to become my favorite band (like so many others). Because of them I fell in love with R&B and Blues. I fell in love with early Fleetwood Mac and other bands like that. But Zeppelin would always be number one in my heart. To this day, they remain my favorite band and I feel the best rock band in the world.
One thing sticks out about this band, and although Page was the guitar player and Page the vocalist, Page used his instrument like and extension of vocals and Plant’s voice was like that of an instrument.
They way Eddie Van Halen and David Lee Roth did or Neal Schon and Steve Perry did.
Zeppelin was everything. Blues, rock, country, folk, and so much more. The most versatile band of all time. They were great songwriters. The music and the lyrics are top notch. It just wasn’t Stairway To Heaven when it came to the music and lyrics. There is track after track.
Thank you for this feature.
My story is almost identical!!!
I saw Led Zeppelin 1969 Seattle International Pop Festival before #2 was released , they played the entire album in between " Vannilla Fudge " and the " Doors ". Infuckingcredible!! I was 16.
A friend of mine hitchchicked from Connecticut to Canada in 1980 to buy tickets for led zeppelin and the local paper dud a story on him, the ppl let him go in front of the line. Then the death of Bonam was released. The paper paid for his bus ticket back.
I also have friends who's parents bought Elvis presley tickets in Hartford Connecticut and he passed away before the show and instead of returning them they kept them. It costed $13.50
the amp used on this song was a VOX "Super Beatles" 100 watt head, run through a Rickenbacker Transonic cab. *this is according to Mr. Page. The Vox head was left over from the Yardbirds, and the Transonic was part of their backline when touring the US.
Exactly! 👍
I remember cruising around in my 63 Pontiac Tempest listening to this on 8 track, instead of left and right speakers I had a big one in front and back and when the music jumped from speaker to speaker it felt like it was going through my body. Although I grew up with this music and it was a constant backdrop in my life I never took time to actually learn anything about the bands. Now some 50 to 60 years later thanks to you and programs like this I’m finding it very interesting and it’s bringing back some great memories. I must say though having no children to date myself it freaks my out a little when you talk about your father and I realize we’re probably the same age.
I liked that you used the clip from This Might Get Loud, where Jack White and The Edge look like school kids when Page starts playing the opening riff to "Whole Lotta Love." Though it is very easy riff to play on guitar, nobody plays it like Page. There is an attitude and a tone in those fingers that no one else can produce!
One of the bands I wish I had seen live. Closest was Jimmy Page at MSG in a benefit concert with Clapton and Beck. And back in the 80s my friends and I would go to midnight showings of the Song Remains the Same concert film at the old 8th Street Playhouse in the Village, sitting close to the screen imagining we were at the show.
Has to be the greatest Rock band of all time!! If I had to choose my favourite track of all time Whole Lotta Love would be it.
I will always be sad that Zep or any of their members never made it to South Africa.
Love your channel Prof.
Professor of Rock, you are the best I’ve seen or heard in this field of music. You would have been the best on television 📺 back in the days when it was popular on MTV, which if it’s still on air is junk. Thanks for the time and educational videos!!!!
Your dad's experience was similar to mine. My grandma bought it for my birthday in 1980. I ran upstairs and played it all the way the through. I'll never forget where I was when I first heard 'Whole Lotta Love'. It was the lodestone through my musical career that lasted 20 years. Led Zeppelin: accept no substitutes.
The critics didn't like them, what a shocker. I'm convinced that the people running the music industry are about the last people who should be.
It’s not my channel, but one of my favorite ZEP songs is No Quarter. It’s so unique in its intro and approach. I’d love to get your take and the history behind it.
I LOVE No Quarter!
After I watched the song remains the same in the theater back in the day, I knew my favorite Led Zepp song was No quarter...
It’s so far removed from everything on the album, and it’s so far outside of the music of the day. It was similar to what TOOL was doing in the 90’s. In fact TOOL covered it.
I especially love the long version on TSRTS. I saw it in the move first before buying Houses of the Holy! Damn! They never made a bad album; Song Remains the Same, the Rain Song, No Quarter, Over the Hills…,The Ocean, Dancing Days….GOD! How can they have SO MANY GREAT SONGS ON ONE ALBUM?? And this was EVERY album!!! Presence and In Through the Out Door have criticized, but I love those albums too!
@@rigovalenz that version is magnificent, from the keyboard interlude through Jimmy's inspired solo. That and Rain Song are the highlights of that MSG show for me. Only SIBLY comes close.
Whole Lotta Love was used for eight years as the theme for BBCs Top of the Pops unfortunately it was a cover by CCR not the original it only got replaced when according to the bosses "music tastes have changed" electro pop was in
I was 12 when Stairway came out. I went to the record store and ended up buying LZ3 by mistake. That's still my favorite LZ album. The next purchase was LZ2 and "Whole Lotta Love" became my motivation to start buying upgraded stereo system. LZ catapulted me into my teens.
What I find strange is the fact that on Led Zeps Official YT channel, Whole Lotta Love is is chopped by about 40 or so seconds. The cut was from the mid-section of the song. Seeing how JP wouldn't cut the song for release way back then, why do it now??
I remember very well when Led Zeppelin blasted onto the scene way back when. Awesome band - I've been a fan since that first album.
Led Zeppelin 2 was recorded on the road in different studios and you can't even tell. That's a testament to the Led Zeppelin sound.
The story I heard about the name "Led Zeppelin" was that it was Keith Moon who said the group would go over "like a lead balloon" and then Entwistle commented further "like a lead Zeppelin" to further emphasize the enormity of the anticipated boondoggle.
Yeah I think Richard Cole was around at the time and he said it was Entwistle.
That’s the way I heard it, too!!! I’ve got a bunch of Zeppelin books and I think that story is in a Cole book.
Trapper Keeper?! OMG i haven't heard those words put together in ages! Makes me nostalgic. Does that mean I'm finally old?
Many of you aren't aware that this was first heard on AM pop stations. At the time there was only two sources of Rock and Roll. Both were AM stations. The local one, and another far away that I could pick up only at night (AM signals carried a long way) These stations thankfully. played a mix of everything from bubble-gum, to country crossovers. This song was so impactful because we weren't inundated with FM specialty stations until about 1973. I was 13. Changed my direction in music for a long time.
I might mention, that virtually all my peers carried around pocket transistor radios. They were glued to our ears like kids today and their cell phones. We sang along, and talked about music. WE were involved!
Music was everything back then. I'm older than you, but the radio was an incredibly vital part of life. Transistor radios became big in the early to mid 60s, and car radios were only AM. The sound was tinny, but with the advent of stereo record players, we finally heard the great depths and instrumentations of songs like whole lotta love. If you're old enough to remember the early days of rock and roll, you'll get it when I say today's music is mostly....ho hum, oh well, yawn... But still, there really is some great stuff today even if the impact is quickly forgotten as over stimulated youth hurries on to the next fad. Guess ya can't stop progress.
@@denisefarmer366 You're exactly right. I am 65. The stations then also played a lot of oldies- (50's to early 60's). So I was exposed to the entire genre of rock by the time I was 10, or so. They played a wide variety of music, and continued playing rock's history till I went FM in 74'. If I had started as a yound kid listening to the head-banger FM stations, that I listened to from 74' on, I would have missed a lot! Even that amount of exposure was a drop-in-the-bucket, compared to the tsunami, that kids are inundated with today. It's a shame that I remember it all so clearly, but sometimes, can't remeber why I walked outside!
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Love your name! That forgetting part you mentioned, so true. On early AM as you said, all genres were played. But mostly I remember "our" music. I'm 71 and am familiar with most AM radio from about 1958 and beyond due to having an older brother. Glad to hear that someone else remembers. I also tuned into FM around 1973. Just seemed like a logical progression.☮️🤣
I pick up Zeppelin 1 and Deja Vu by CSNY at the same time and was a fan of both but wasted no time picking up Led Zeppelin 2 as sone as it came out later that year. I wore those 3 albums out. Of course I had to wait til night time when everyone else were asleep 😂 😝 lol.
I saw them live in 1974. I was overwhelmed, as a 16 year old visiting the big city, it was amazing. When Bonzo did the 22 minute solo while everyone else left the stage was mind boggling. Made me try the drums a couple of times, but I guess I have no timing/rhythm sense. Still one of the best bands of their era
Led Zeppelin didn't need a #1 hit, because they had #1 musicians who produced #1 albums.
Every thing you say about Led Zepplin I completely agree. I am 63 now and as with yr dad I too had never heard and I’d say never will hear another band play such insane music that kinda changed my outlook on my whole life. Proof that freedom of one self to express whoever we r in whatever way we feel with freedom cannot b surpassed. They took music to a level that sure there has been other bands have glimpse of that power and aggressive style of the four of zepplin. But I don’t think I’ve heard any other similar style of hard dock line that turn around and in the next breathe have the subtle poise similar to Cat Stevens incredible feel. They could do it all and made no apology either. I am forever grateful to have had the openness to hear it. And again make no apology for having them tattoo on my skin. Sorry to say this but they owned me. It’s just how it is when yr mind is opened and becomes aware of LED ZEPPELIN
Whole Lotta Love was on the jukebox in the local, small town, milk bar. When lads my age 15 to 20 had heard this it was played more and more. The volume was just right for a jukebox and the playlist often had repeats of the song. No sooner had it finished it would be selected again, and again. The guy running the place was in his mid 50s I guess and got to the point where he could stand it no longer and would just go over and pull the cord out of the socket, scowling back to behind the counter. Looking back it was a good laugh to get him riled up again the next day. Needless to say when the record distributor came next time it was taken off the machine. Something rarely done on the most played song.