How A Legendary 70s Rock Band Created A Song So EPIC, It Scarred Them For Life | Professor of Rock
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- The story of Led Zeppelin’s rock masterpiece, Kashmir from their 70s double album Physical Graffiti. How Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham all came together to create metaphysical song that scared Page and brought Plant to tears.
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In the Professor of Rock community we’ve talked about the media’s propensity for labeling & classifying an artist, or a band, to a specific genre of music. We get it…. Putting a piece of music into a category helps to market, or sell music as a product…yet many bands absolutely despise being pigeonholed.
Led Zeppelin, for example, has for the most part, been classified as ‘heavy metal.’ Along with Black Sabbath, and Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin have been called the FIRST heavy metal band.
The truth is, the 4 members of Zeppelin HATED being labeled a 'heavy metal act.'
In a stereotypical sense, Led Zeppelin was the quintessential rock band. They have the magnetic front man in Robert Plant. The virtuosic lead guitarist in Jimmy Page. The quiet genius bassist in John Paul Jones…and the wild, audacious drummer in John “Bonzo" Bonham.
It’s truly a blueprint for what a rock band is all about. But, what separated Zeppelin from being stereotypical was their cosmic force and mystery. They were provocative, without being gimmicky
Powerful without being blusterous. Artsy without being pretentious
Of all the classic songs Zeppelin recorded between 1968 and 1980, arguably their most original, mystical, and most progressive track for me is” Kashmir"…the epic third cut on side 2 from the amazing double LP Physical Graffiti, released in ’75. It was “Kashmir” that best exemplified the eminence of Zeppelin’s exceptional chemistry.
In 1973, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page were trekking through the Sahara Desert of Morocco- driving from Goulimine to Tantan.
Their destination was the Folklore Festival in Marrakech. They were traveling down a dilapidated, single-lane road, that seemed to go on forever.
The trip across that endless, arid, wasteland brought on the so-called highway hypnosis for Robert Plant, and inspired the creation of a song about a mythical journey that was originally titled “Driving to Kashmir.”
Although the lyrics that Robert Plant wrote for “Driving to Kashmir” had nothing to do with Kashmir, and he was a continent away when the spirit moved him, there was something about that “Kashmir” that triggered his musings. For those who don’t know, Kashmir is a lush section of the northern Himalayan mountain region on the northwest border of India and Pakistan.
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Poll: Led Zeppelin... What are your picks for best album and song for this EPIC band?
Physical, 6th record in and, even with the older material, it encompasses everything that was and is great about LZ. Achilles Last Stand or In The Light ftw.
1. Kashmir
2. Since I've Been Loving You
3. No Quarter
4. Achillies Last Stand
5. Immigrant Song
6. Dazed And Confused
7. Whole Lotta Love
8. Ramble On
9. Nobody's Fault But Mine
10. Four Sticks
Houses of the Holy was always the album that resonated with me the most as a teen. Physical Graffiti was a close second. Boogie with Stu, I was always getting yelled at for playing it too loud. 🙄
Their debut is my favourite album by them, but the best song is extremely difficult to decide. I can’t decide a favourite song, but I wanna mention No Quarter and Dazed and Confused. (but they have SO MANY other incredible songs!)
song: Whole Lotta Love (Led Zeppelin II) Best Plant vocals.
album: Led Zeppelin IV (obviously)
Kashmir is not a song , its an ethereal journey through musical mastery.
Well said!
It's an experience.
I never knew how GOOD Kashmir could be
until I saw them in concert,
1979 @ Knebworth,
the 2nd show.
As an American teenager of those times,
sadly,
I had gotten burnt out on hearing Kashmire played waaaay too much on the radio.
I had also heard the record played extremely loud with very good speakers - A LOT.
Too much, really...
(Or so I thought at the time...)
I THOUGHT I knew what it would sound like played live...
Boy, was I WRONG!!!
Hearing it live,
was truly a cosmic,
extremely moving,
experience.
First of all-
They played it so tight!
2nd - they managed to SWIRL the music thru the open air concert!
SWIRLING MUSIC !!!!
OUTDOORS !!!!!
I was so surprised-
It literally BLEW ME AWAY !!
(which is not easy to do, btw)
I remember feeling like I was being swept up into the air with that swirl, and I was IN Kashmir!
Of course, the volume of their music helped too!!
I could FEEL the music traveling thru my muscles, and resting nicely into my musical soul, making a permanent place for this very song to live with me throughout my life.
I feel privileged to have been able to experience it.
The volume REALLY matters with this song.
I later read that the police got complaints for noise from as far as 7 miles away!!!
SEVEN MILES!!! HA!!
Yes.
Very believable!!!
Love that!!
But they way they played it live, that doesn't translate on to vinyl.
It only sort of comes thru on the video of that concert,
but not fully.
However, I really LOVE listening & watching that concert on You Tube!!
It instantly takes me back.
Kashmire-
a glorious adventure
within the adventure.
Changed me forever.
I couldn't agree more!!!! Between my grandmother's world travels and Led Zeppelin songs I have been wanting to travel to some of these places since I was a child!
Kashmir is the same chords for 30 minutes. Lol. Why does everyone like this song so much? I'm not hating, I like Zeppelin. Well, mostly the songs they covered of early 1900s blues players are their best songs. To me anyhow.
In '69 I went to a Three Dog Night concert in Seattle, they had a backup band called,
Led Zeppelin, had never heard of them. Needless to say, the backup band blew them away, they yielded the stage to Led Zeppelin for most of the night. Never been to a better concert in my life. It was magic.
Great story!!! Love to see more detail
Wow, what an awesome story. I fell in love with Three Dog Night in my younger years 💕,,,,, they were in a league of their own 👍
You're a very lucky person!
Wow!! What a story!
I was there too..paul revere and the raiders also performed..it started early too..daylight out when both of these were playing..dont remember what time zep played?
That's The Daze!
I was playing my LZ albums and my daughter, at the age of 12 at the time, became instantly obsessed with the band. At that age, 12, she turned to me and said, “I know now why you say the music you listened to when you were a teenager was so much better than the stuff they make today. Their music speaks to me and makes me feel things that the music I normally listen to just doesn’t”.
It amazed me that at 12yrs old LZ had such an effect on her AND she was mature enough to described exactly how it made her feel.
It ended costing me an absolute fortune in T-shirt’s etc but I got to re-live through her how I felt when I first heard them.
I grew up on Led Zeppelin and I still think that there is a huge wealth of great music to tap into in the present day, you just have to look a little harder. Take a look into Ichika Nito, Polyphia, Chon, Animals as Leaders, or any of the "new guard" of guitarists. There will never be another Led Zeppelin, but there is so much going on now worth hearing.
Checkout Greta Van Fleet. The closest to LZ any modern band can come.
Fantastic job of breaking down all the parts of an incredible song. Thank you.
You my friend have a very astute daughter.
Money well spent…..
We had a party the day Physical Graffiti was released and aired on the radio. We were all mesmerized by the songs. My personal favorite that day was Ten Years Gone. But everyone loved the guitar riffs in Kashmir. Led Zeppelin in my opinion is the greatest rock band in history.
You have a +1
Ten Years Gone. . Is of thr favorite in our home.
Ten Years Gone is a GREAT song.
also, check out the cover with the Black Crowes featuring Jimmy Page.
Agreed. Physical is the best Zep album and Ten Years Gone is probably my favorite song from this masterpiece.
Physical graffiti is such a great and powerful album, every song is great it's as if it's a greatest hits album
Ii first heard L Z in the early Covid lockdown. I had heard about LZ when I was in high-school in the '60s but never heard their music. Very straight laced family. So, at the tender age of 76, I heard this for the first time. I was stunned. I had to remind myself several times to breathe. Since then I've become a LZ junkie..
Great story! Once you dive deep, you realize how diverse their sound was......glad you have had the chance to know their music.
Good for you! If you haven't yet, listen to the albums "Led Zeppelin II" and "In through the Out Door".
@@Pulse992 at a page and plant concert I needed to use the bathroom and they were playing in through the out door...well I couldn't resist entering the bathroom through the out door laughing...yes I do believe I was high😂
Never too old to fall in love with LZep 💞
Listen to Led Zeppelin through headphones. Sound will come from multiple directions and then you'll really get a clear picture of how far ahead of their time they really were
I never considered, "Led Zeppelin", heavy metal. Actually they were in a league of their own because "Led Zeppelin" had a lot of Soul, a Lot of Soul!
They were maybe classified as "heavy metal" for about 10 minutes in the 70s.
Hard Blues ?
THEY STOLE TOO MUCH TURNED ME OFF TO THEM. I'M A HEEPSTER LIKED A LOT OF LESSOR KNOWN GROUPS.
LOOK UP ASH RA TEMPLE SONG AMBOSS.
I think they would have definitely gone heavy metal if they pushed into the 80's, with examples being Aerosmith, AC/DC, and Kiss. They were hard rock, but transformed themselves into heavy metal to fit into musical trends within the industry.
@ Ruthie Little I agree..They were a unbelievably versatile musician's label them what you want they were amazing. An no band in my opinion will EVER touch them
The older I get, the more appreciate what these lads did at such a young age. To create something so powerful and timeless. It’s just as haunting and enchanting today as it was when it was first heard back in the day
Was in a car accident at 18 and after forced to stay with my grandparents while healing. The healing process involved a lot of sleeping, and one day I woke up to Kashmir on the radio. It was not a normal wake up, it was magical. Kashmir has long been one of my favorite songs (from any artist/band).
I just posted a similar experience!! Waking up very young to Kashmir was like waking up to another reality! Great way to be introduced to THAT song!!
They were, are and WILL ALWAYS BE the ultimate rock band…
Best dam band in the land
Ultimate copycats
They were close . But that titled goes to Van Halen with Roth.
GOD bless 🙏🏻✝️🇺🇸!!!!!
Let’s Go Brandon!!!!!
Best rock cover band ever.
That’s just, like, your opinion, man.
(It’s pointless to argue about music)
I never thought of ZEP as heavy metal. Definitely just ROCK.
Blues-Based Hard Rock
That's because they were the first to do it. Lot has changed since then.
To me, they're the kings of metal.
Agree. Black Sabbath was heavy metal back then. Pages' riffs were bluesy. Bonham's drumming was rock to hard rock. Metal they weren't.
how much heavier do you want a metal to be than Led(/Lead) ? ;)
Listening to Kashmir is like watching the flame of a campfire it's mesmerizing 🔥🔥
👍
THISSSSS⬆️⬆️⬆️🙌🏻
Well said
Page’s piercing guitar riff, Bonhams mesmerising rhythm, Jones’s haunting orchestral electric piano, and Plant’s wise and maybe weathered vocal, it’s timeless, genreless, brilliant.
Being a teenager in the ‘70’s? Thank you God. I was 12 when this album came out, and it is definitely in my top 10 of all-time greatests. But man, were we spoilt for choice back then.
Yes! Growing up in the seventies was great!
I was 13 but it was the same. Great music then and still is
I was 13 but it was the same. Great music then and still is
Wasn't that a great time??? I missed it all, except the Beatles, bc we had to fight the fuqing dictator who shitted our country.
indeed they were the times of our lives :) the absolute best music was created during that decade. the last 3 of the 60's and all the 70's, even through that disco crap rock n roll kicked ass in the 70s
I am 63 years old and I still listen to Kashmir at least once a week. Your summation of the effect of this song is perfect. I could never put it into words, but I've never been able to get that song out of my mind.
A few years older than you and it still moves me as the first day I had heard it! Seniors are the original rockers.
almost 62, here…i’ve got the Complete Led Zeppelin Collection downloaded on itunes, and bluetooth it to the stereo in my jeep…using new school tech to get my old school on…!😎 it’s the only music i play while out driving…i’m in my jeep a lot, so i probably hear Kashmir at least every other day…i own 4 Jimmy Page guitars…a Les Paul #1, Les Paul #2, a Les Paul Black Beauty, and a Jimmi Page Fender “Dragon” Telecaster…i’ve probably played Stairway, one of the first songs i ever learned to play when i was 12, over 20-30,000 times…i’m a fan of the band…lol!😂
I'm 68 and I still listen to it all the time, too.
Same here. Every time I hear that song, time stops and I get lost in the sound of that phenomenal music. What a master piece.
The first time I heard “Kashmir” was a cosmic and life-changing experience. It solidified the band as one of the all-time greats, free of convention and incredibly original.
I have to admit, the first time I heard Kashmir, it made me think of James Bond, and thought it would be a great intro song for a James Bind movie.
In any case, although I still like Stairway to Heaven, I still believe Kashmir is a much better song, musically, vocally, etc. And that is taking nothing away from how great and timeless Stairway to Heaven still is.
Find if you can, the version from MTV Unplugged.
I felt like that with Kashmir, and with Tocatta by ELP.
For me it mimics a buzz of sorts. Takes you to another place. Very few songs can pull that off.
@@floydvaughn836 lollipop for dessert we have
Let me ask everyone this. Has there ever been a band of four so in tune with each other as Led Zeppelin? Four guys that just clicked to a magnitude never before seen or ever will be duplicated. Each a grand master of their role, never over shining the others. Just brutal perfection through and through.
.
Finally found somebody of my thinking, I do think that upon hearing Rush and Yes have similar technical proficiency but my first thoughts were only Zeppelin and right as a quartet, noone came near except probably early Queen.
For me, I would say The Who. Listen to Live at Leeds and tell me I'm wrong. Or Pink Floyd at their peak. But sure, Led Zeppelin had what you described in spades, and all the way through their careers to boot.
Having been born in the mid 1960s, I grew up with a wide variety of music. I could happily listen to a classic rock station all day, but my current favorite band, in my opinion, ticks a few of the boxes you and Adam mentioned.
I don’t think I have ever fan-girl-ed about a band as much since my college days when I really got in to Pink Floyd.
The band I’m very excited to have concert tickets for is a young band out of Canada by the name of The Dead South. At first glance, it is common to try and pigeon hole them as a particular genre based on the instrument lineup of acoustic guitar, mandolin, cello, and banjo. When they started playing together at least one or two of the members considered themselves diehard heavy metal fans.
If you listen to a few of their songs you’ll find that each musician gets a chance to shine with their instrument.
The comments section of their videos usually have several comments from people saying things like “I’m usually a heavy metal fan, but…” or “I don’t usually like country/bluegrass music, but…”
I could listen to their House of Blues set on repeat all day. Time will tell if they will have what it takes to … well, stand the test or time.
For the first part, I think Ten Years After is an example of a four piece band perfectly in tune with each other. However Alvin did over shine the others eventually, though I feel that was pushed by the management aswel who wanted to commercialize Alvin's status as a guitar player.
I agree!!!
Physical graffiti is my "if I could only have one album on a deserted island" album. Truly magical in it's entirety.
Good call. Same here.
Likewise.
I am 54 y.o. and I cannot count how many times I have expressed the same statement! Good on ya!
I always liked "Trampled underfoot" as with "Kasmir" the two best songs on the album in my opinion.
Same
Ok, here we go... My friends talked me into doing mushrooms and taking a hike in the mountains. We put them in a big mac, ate, and started walking. Rob who had done this before took us to this grassy patch that was so covered in tall trees that it barely let the sun light through. We all sat in different places and we could hear all the sounds of nature. I'm a city boy, so this was pretty amazing already. He sits a small cassette player on a rock and turns on the music. One of the songs was Cashmere. As I lay back on the cold soft grass and marvel at the colorful autumn leaves I hear this echoing drum beat. It sounds like a giant walking. The strings and guitars were swirling around me putting me in a trance. I thought I must have been a indigenous person in a past life. I took off my shoes and shirt and walked around the area touching everything. Man I was tripping! Haha. Every time I hear Cashmere I think of that hike.
I remember reading all about Jason Bonham's fears and overwhelming anxiety about playing with Plant n Page when the tours were being considered back then. Jason was so afraid he could never do his fathers work justice enough to go thru with it and later reading Plants and Pages loving approval for how incredible Jason was it brought tears to my eyes back then.
Jason was the bomb at the Kennedy Center Honors Led Zeppelin gig, and got to see him with his Led Zeppelin Experience…the first time I SAW JBLZE, they opened for Heart…JBLZE was AWESOME…! what was really special to me was when Heart came out and for 2/3 of their own show absolutely kicked ass with their own music, then for the final 1/3 of the concert, has Jason come back out, and play drums as Heart played several Zep songs…as you may know, Heart is the only band that are officially blessed by Led Zeppelin to play their songs…
@@tee8584 I've seen Heart 6 times thru the years and just like a Fine wine or a Dry Aged Ribeye those Women Only got SOOOO Much Better. Theres only 2 bands I Deeply Regret not being able see live and of course Zepplin w Bonzo himself I also never had the Privilege of seeing them with Jason the other Band is Pearl Jam when 10 was released I was MIND BLOWN I couldn't Stop listening to that Album they Mesmerized the Hell outta me So yea I've never been Blessed to see either Live. Living with regrets has No Place never did never will in my life So those
@@tee8584 So yea I'll Freely admit to ya that I'm kinda Jealous of you seeing them live. Please feel free to Rub it in my face using Words I can Realistically Visualize watching it Vicariously Thru You. LOL
@@crzyking6821 I saw Page/ Plant in 1998 in Indy and even though it obviously wasn't Zeppelin it was a great show. Standing a few feet away from Jimmy Page while he played the Song Remains the Same and later played the middle break in HowManyMoreTimes with a cello bow was just about as good as it gets for a Zeppelin freak born too late to see the real deal. It was like Beatlemania in that arena. Loudest , craziest crowd I've ever seen.
I like Pearl Jam but preferred the Vitalogy album and the stuff after. I thought they evolved into something original and unique from the other bands from that scene . My wife is a huge fan from day one so I got us tickets to their show in Cincinnati , during which they paid tribute to the fans killed in 79 at the Who concert at the same venue. I can tell you sincerely that they are one killer live band who really know how to put on a rock and roll show. I expected a good show but I seriously underestimated that band's live act. Vedder drank 2 fifths of wine and got pretty ripped ( as did I) and had a good time . They played for hours , until the PRICK promotor turned on the house lights so they would stop ! I don't know if it still is , but at one time the entire concert was on RUclips @ Pearl Jam live in Cincinnati 2006 Full Show. It's worth checking out if you like them
Jimmy and Robert have said that Jason was a huge asset in helping them to remember how they arranged many of their songs for live performances. But regarding Jason's drumming ability, he gave it his all and was quite good, but having seen Zeppelin live twice, '75 and '77 and then listened to them at The Q with Jason, the biggest difference between '77 and '01 was not having John on drums...Robert was right when he said, when John died there could never be Led Zeppelin again.
My favorite Led Zeppelin song. Period. The song builds tension with its competing 3/4 and 4/4 rhythms, and when they come together on the 24th beat (8 bars of 3 and 6 bars of 4), we are wound up like a spring waiting to release that tension, which the crashing descent powerfully provides. Awesome song.
Big time. The tension is so think they needed to give the listener a few breaks.
That's not what's happening. Its 3/4 and 4/4 at the same time - not consecutive bars.
Ugh. 🤦🏼♂️
Just sounds like sex building towards...the natural culmination. Led Zeppelin was often described as "Cock Rock."
The BEST rock and roll song of all-time. It’s the perfect song. Rich, dense, melodic, lyrically ethereal and instrumentally brilliant. It has everything. This is a masterpiece that doesn’t get enough credit for how insanely great it is. It’s hands down Zeppelin’s best song in the catalog and it absolutely holds up today, and I would argue, more powerful now, than ever. 👍🏾👏🏾
I would say that Kashmir transcends rock. It's a sublime work of musical art, beyond genres and classifications.
Well said.
Out on the Tiles is pretty good too.
@Gary Snow It was the Golden Age of rock music my friend, the early 70s were to rock like the Renaissance was to painting and sculpting.
@@maxgonzalez214 totally
The drums in this song is unreal. My favorite song on physical graffiti is probably “in my time of dying.” That song is so intense and has some of my favorite drumming from Bonham as well
Ten Years Gone
his drumming is so much and just enough all at once...
Part of the soundtrack of my life! Led Zeppelin playing in the background as I grew up from an obnoxious kid into a father and family man. I’m a grandfather now and I still put on Kashmir late at night and in my mind I stare at the stars, wandering under those snowy mountain peaks and dusty desert roads.
It's definitely one of those epic songs that takes you to another dimension. Thanks for sharing.
Man, what a beautiful post!
Beautiful post indeed 🙏🧚
@@ProfessorofRock I have been a LZ fan since I was 14 in 1969. They are my favorite band of all time. I saw them 8 times in 7 years from 1970 - 1977.
My vote for the most powerful LZ song live is "Kashmir." Their 1977 performance of Kashmir is their best imo. It was transcendent. Jimmy played White Summer before kicking into Kashmir in 1977. Jimmy literally stood up from the stool he was sitting on, and kicked the stool back as the band launched into Kashmir.
The most powerful official audio *recording* of Kashmir is from the 2007 O2 concert. The audio recording of that 2007 performance, for me, most approaches the power and intensity of the song I experienced in 1977.
The intro "Dawn at the Great Pyramid" is the perfect intro to Kashmir, from the Kashmir: Symphonic Led Zeppelin release.
Robert's wife Maureen, was from India, bty.
Back to 1975, and the release of PG. Kashmir, as it was mixed and recorded for PG, for me, was not impressive. It was not powerful. I was 19 year old at the time, and the words to the song did not bowl me over.
But after experiencing the song live in 1977, Kashmir was and still is my favorite LZ song. But only the live O2 recording. I never listen to the studio version of Kashmir. After hearing it live, the studio version is just weak to me. I'd rather hear the O2 version or not at all.
I feel the same way about most of the songs from HOTH. I never listen to that album either. BUT, many songs from HOTH are my most favorite LZ songs.... LIVE. Like TSRTS, No Quarter, and OTHAFA.
One last thing, it bugged me that you showed a picture of Plant with the Kashmir and LZ spelled out, but with the spelling of Led Zeppelin as "Led Zepplin...." 😀
Kashmir is my favorite Zeppelin song. I have been a Zeppelin fan since I was a little kid. I bought their first album when I was 7years old. I only played it when I was alone at home, lest my parents were to take the album away from me.
Kashmir is unquestionably their greatest song. Whenever I need to be picked up, if my PTSD is getting to me, or my intractable migraine is pounding my head, I put on Kashmir to overkill my senses.
I love the song, love it.
My husband and I when we first heard Physical Graffiti, we both thought Kashmir was the best Led Z song EVER!! Got to see them at the Forum just weeks after the album release. Kashmir live was INCREDIBLE!!
My love for Led Zeppelin and Robert Plant was just more than EVERYTHING. My husband even had long curly hair, but his eyes were green. My children have the curls too.
Led Zeppelin is most definitely the greatest band of all time!
No one can even come close to being THAT good. It took an orchestra to imitate them.
I remember seeing my 16 year old nephew wearing a Led Zeppelin shirt and explaining how much he loved their music. The timeless element and how their music shall always be relevant is incredible.
This is hands down, the best Zeppelin song ever. If I am having a bad day, it can turn it right around. It just happened again yesterday.
Led Zeppelin in the 8 track, headphones on every night going to sleep for almost a year. Listening to Led Zeppelin is like being in a dream, another world! So mystical, ethereal alluring. They were amazing
I listened to "The Rain Song" & "Ten Years Gone" EVERY night for years!!
I FOUND A RECORD CLUB OF AMERICA ORDER FORM WITH EIGHT TRACK AS OPTION.
The first time I heard Kashmir, I was mesmerized. The rhythm and cadence of the song against the drumbeat was the most ethereal combination I had ever heard. Kashmir, for me, is the ultimate Led Zeppelin song.
I held my father's hand as he took his last breath listening to this song. It means so much to me.
I hope my wife will do the same when my time comes and my journey begins.
I’m sitting here with tears running down my cheeks thinking of my now short life. My husband had promised me the same thing but he died four years ago. I guess I’ll have to somehow get someone else to ‘play me out’. ❤️
Wow, that’s very powerful. Sorry about you dad.
Hell of a song to hear as your last on this rock...damn good choice by your father.
I would do that for you if at all possible.
Heard this song for the first time in 1977.I was 6 years old,this is my favorite song of all time.
What can you say ? They are the original and greatest gods of rock. Timeless, the music still hits the spot just as sweet as it did the first time I heard them.
They were in a genre of their own. No one will ever do that again ✌️
I second that!
I'm a Led Head, always been. I considered them Hard Rock, but never metal. They did it first, in so many ways. Always will be a major influence on music.
WOW best song and album from a band that I started listening to in 1969 at the age of 5 lol. Best song for myself is When the Levee Breaks tied with about well 4 more Living Loving Maid and Heartbreaker, Dazed and Confused, and Achilles Last Stand. Zeppelin II is my most favorite album the mixture on that album of what Plant and Page call light and shade is remarkable. I was lucky enough to see mighty Led Zeppelin at one of the last shows in America on July 23rd 1977 in Oakland, CA. My brother who was 11 year's older and my sister who's 8 years older took me and it was my very first concert. The 1970's growing up what a great time. Thank you for posting this. I appreciate it very much.
Its been one of my favorites since it first came out! I've been listening since then. I'm 73. This band is part of my generation!👍 ❤
The 2007 live performance with Jason on the drums is just majestic. It moves me no matter how many times I hear it.
The Unledded performance was something, too. That drummer was great. ruclips.net/video/9vbeilE0UrQ/видео.html
Of all the versions I've heard, that performance is head and shoulders above the rest to me. I get goose bumps whenever I play it!
I was real impressed by Plant in that performance. He was fantastic, I didn't think he could still bring it at that age...man was I wrong.
Yeah. The celebration day version is really great. They brought it home one last time and cemented their reputation with a performance to remember. But i think robert was right to lay it to rest there.
@@dommccaffry3802 The performance was tight. ruclips.net/video/PD-MdiUm1_Y/видео.html
“I am a traveler of both time and space….to be where I have been.” Kashmir is my favorite Zeppelin song!! I am so happy to see you cover it! It seems most people favor Stairway, which is a great song, but hey, all LZ songs are great. But Kashmir, so very much an experience on another level!!
The entire album is a masterpiece! I'm partial to The Rover, Ten Years Gone, and Down By the Seaside, as well. You know you did good, when someone listens to an album, and thinks MAN, this is something!!!- until they put Physical Graffiti on next, and forget all about it, lol.
The beat and riff are just hypnotic. 30 seconds in, and you really are moving through Kashmir
MONSTER song
There’s no doubt about it. Kashmir was my gateway song that helped me discover, and then become completely obsessed with, Led Zeppelin.
Achilles' Last Stand gives me the same vibe. Hyperbole is never sufficient to describe Zeppelin. No other band in rock history has come close to the uniqueness and power of their music.
Totally agree, Pink Floyd was another of those bands.
Jimmy Page says Achilles is his favorite song to play live.
@@tomthelen8069 Yes! Stylistically Floyd set the bar impossibly high.
There is something about their music that makes me reflect on my own life. And enjoy the importance of living.
as my life cycles, each cycle begins with Stairway to Heaven and each cycle ends with No Quarter. From their live album The Song Remains the Same. Led Zepplin are the Alpha and the Omega.
That sounds like a verse of a great rock song itself.
I stayed in Kashmir for a month on a houseboat in 1983. Great time - like an Eden.
This song is always used as a “yardstick” for other bands. Usually the best song from another band is thought of, by me, as their “Kashmir”. Stairway gets all of the press, but I think Kashmir is the quintessential Zeppelin track.
Yes, I've said many times that people always used to say Stairway was their best, but Robert Plant once said it was Kashmir. Since then, Kashmir has been the "yardstick" as you put it.
Ten years gone for me. Kashmir gets repetitive and boring after a while.
@@Cactusfruitsquisher “Different Strokes For Different Folks.” Or to each their own.
For me its always been Heartbreaker/Living Loving Maid. This band has so many hits its like trying to hit a moving target. Each to their own. I hope we can all agree that LZ was the best band ever(except for Tenacious D :P).
I still remember the first time I heard "Kashmir" was on a Saturday Morning on KMET-FM :The Mighty Met" in L.A. They were an AOR (Album Oriented Rock) station that loved to play clips off of albums, especially newly released Albums. Physical Graffiti had just come out and many FM rock stations were playing songs off of it. Bought the Album soon after.
Physical Graffiti was the first Zeppelin album I bought as a teenager and still remains my favorite. A lot more bangers on there than just Kashmir.
The drums for me, is what sets this song apart. I wait for it....every time. The rest is just accompaniment. RIP Bonzo
Yes BONZO was in a class all by himself
When the song is presented to me, regardless of the circumstance, I have no choice but to listen and wait for the double cymbal crash near the end.
Bonham is great! But so is Plant.
Led Zeppelin was my favorite group as a rascal teenager! Born in 60'. The mesmerizing affect of Kashmir was amazing when first heard!! Went to a video of Zeppelin at the university, when 19, with a slightly older girl that started a powerful love affair. Fond memories based on Led Zeppelin"s amazing music!
While I've been a Zeppelin fan since the early seventies, this album was the one that cemented my feelings for the band. I bought this album my junior year of high school when it came out in 1975, it took a bit of my hard earned part time work cash at around $12 or $13. Kashmir, for me, is their best song hands down.
I was a senior that year. Though kashmir was my favored trip song, Custard Pie, sick again, Trampled under foot, black country woman and boogie with stu were all there as another favorite. Me, I can't listen to them anymore...not that I don't enjoy them, but it takes weeks to get them out of my head. If I do, it opens a door to the demonic and dope......I just can't do that in good conscience.
It's my favourite album of all time. It just has more to offer than II and IV. I agree that Kashmir is their best song.
Vernon, you know of what you speak....
That was a fortune in those days!!!
My first Zeppelin concert was at long beach the day I was discharged from the Navy in July 1975. I had been over seas and had never listened to the new album. I'll never for get it was a midnight show. And zeppelin was still playing as dawn was breaking. With that huge window that over looked the bay. It was a spectacular show on Acid and temple bar hash. I had never seen a laser lite show. They kicked the lasers lights off to stairway to heaven. As the lights painted a image of a stairway. It was beautiful, that was my independence day celebration on a July 4th
When I was a teenager in the 80s I delivered local newspapers on a bicycle and my boom box was always playing Led Zeppelin pretty damn loud, so I’m sure I turned my neighborhood onto Zeppelin wether they liked it or not👍🏼
Kashmir is still one of my favorite songs…….that song takes me to places I never want to leave!!!!
Kashmir causes such an intense, visceral reaction in my psyche every time I hear it, I am only ever able to listen to it in small doses -- never over and over again like some other songs. In fact, it's one of the few songs I can actually remember all the details of the moment I heard it for the first time: where I was, time of day, what I was doing etc. I stopped dead in my tracks, immobile. Changed forever. Nothing has ever come close for me, musically.
Kashmir literally got me into music. Still my favorite song after 18 years
Secret to Kashmir is Bonzo’s drums that seemingly wanders away from the rest of the band and then suddenly syncs up while driving the song onward. Study his impressive work on this one.
John Bonham was so raw, so real; he blew me away when I saw "The Song Remains The Same". His passion was so deep he had to throw away the sticks and play the drums with his hands. It was visceral.
Zeppelin, no one like them. Classic creativity throughout all their albums. I turned 70 this year. I miss the 60-70's classics.
I would climb on the picnic table and attempt the lyrics to kashmir for hours on end...led zeppelin captavated me ss a teenager and has been a constant throughout my.life...part of my own spiritual journey...their music lives inside me to this very day and im grateful for it always..
In zeppelin i trust
In my time of dying was my favorite song on that album. Bonham's playing the drums is incredible to listen to. There is a reason why they gave it up after he died.
When I started to appreciate Led Zeppelin on my own instead of listening with my Dad, Kashmir was my re-entry point and it remains my favorite song of all time.
Kashmir has been my most favorite rock song since I was a child in the 70's. Still give me chills of pleasure every time I here it. Will never get tired of hearing it.
For this traveller through both time and space…descending into Kashmir was out of this World ! A Truly unforgettable mind blowing experience ! and is why I love this masterpiece so much…it was meant to be !
The No Quarter version is my favorite. Many years ago I went up on a high mountain here in Northern Norway on a warm summer day, I sat down on the top of the mountain and it was so majestic I felt I could see just about the entire world from there. I smoked a nice hashish joint and listen to that version, and it was by far the most spiritually intense thing I've ever experienced. The song is just the absolute cleanser for mind and soul.
I've never been so haunted by the chord variations in 'Rain Song' then any other I've ever heard. Especially the unplugged version. Kashmir comes a close second.
They had a lot of eclectic influences, which showed up in their music. That's what I've come to appreciate about them as I get older.
For sure. I feel the same. Not many artists you can say that about.
What’s eclectic about it, it’s basically African American musical
@@beyourself2444 and folk (Battle of Evermore, Gallows Pole, Fantasy (misty mountain), Eastern (kashmir) etc etc etc
@@beyourself2444 I was told by an older Jewish friend of mine that the main riff of Kashmir is very similar to an old Jewish prayer/song.
Really, they started off by blatantly ripping off old blues (respectfully in their view), made themselves into something unique. "Kashmir" transcends so many genres, sounds like some producer brilliantly programmed some great samples together but the song is clearly the product of the four band members.
Kashmir was and still is my all time favorite. I heard it when it 1st came out...back in 1975, I was barely 14 y.o., me and my friends sat around spinning albums in each other's bedrooms, that album I had until 2001, when I left all my albums behind in S.D., in order to leave my ex with no fall out. I sure wish I had that rattan trunk of albums today!!! Us girls fantasized about RP...what it would be like to meet him. I did YEARS later, working for Pace Concerts when he toured thru Houston solo. What a surreal moment in time that was!!!
I was born the day i absorbed this song. It seemed like it came from my own ancient and living soul. RIP Led Zep.
Jimmy says it’s his favorite song ! I loved playing Jimmy’s style and was lucky to work with Terry Manning and when Perry Baggs my best friend died Jimmy consoled me ! I’m forever in awe !
Pages favourite song to play at least, is Archilles last stand
“Kashmir” is my second favorite Led Zep song. My favorite has been, and remains “When The Levee Breaks”. As far as their best album, it’s either 2 or 4. I’m partial to 4 cuz of “WtLB” but “Whole Lotta Love” “Ramble On” “Thank You” all rock.
Outstanding choices, however...
Check out... "Achilles last stand" Dude the PRESENCE of LZ was slowly eroding by the time that album came out, but I had a friend who was obsessed with that particular song from the album, dude! I developed the EAR for that song and let me tell you the insane insanity of Bonzos drumming in that song proved to me that he must of had alien DNA, not only he's "four sticks" drumming, but the Cat is also QUAD DOUBLE BASE DRUMMING❗!❗! Dude give "Achilles his last STANDing (Ovation) a hero, warrior in his-history, that's for sure! 👊😉
2 is amazing
Definitely two of the all-time great tracks from led Zeppelin.
Over the Hills and Far Away
Sir, YOU ARE LIVING MY DREAM!
What you do daily could not be considered work. Especially if your daily conversation includes Led Zeppelin at all.
Learning, sharing, informing, reliving, experiencing Led Zeppelin. What a
Mission! To get to eat, sleep and breathe
Led Zeppelin everyday would be so awesome. Saw ‘em ‘75 & ‘77. The firm,
3 Plant solo’s tour’s, 2 Page and Plant tours. Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin
Experience.
I tell you not to brag, only for perspective as to how obsessed I really am.
Thanks man, Great work.
Artie Miller
Nice work here. It is said that without historical perspective (knowing where we are coming from) we have no direction forward. Luckily, I was born in 1955. I was 9 when the Beatles hit America. I was 12 when Jimi Hendrix hit America. I was 14 when Led Zeppelin hit America. I had an older brother, 8 years older than me who took me to the Elvis movies, and was in bands from the time I was 8 years old. I started playing guitar in 1965 when I was 10. I moved to Marin County (from Los Angeles), just north of San Francisco in 1966, Just in time to be witness, first hand, to the full-blown hippie movement. My brother's band 'Pyewackett' Played the Fillmore West, among other NorCal venues. I got to go with him to see various psychedelic shows. He wanted to take me to Monterey in 67 but my parents wouldn't allow it. In 1969, my parents moved to Pacific Palisades, and soon after (late 1970) I left home and returned to Marin County (at the ripe age of 15 and a half). I had found my spiritual home and needed to be there where it was a daily occurrence to see all of the 60s San Francisco rock heroes going about their daily lives (none of them ever got mobbed there then). You name them, and I got to meet them time and again. Later, in my twenties, I rehearsed and recorded in the same studios as they used. Played in the same local clubs. Shopped in the same music stores. I was an incredibly lucky young man. To audition musicians back then, all I had to do was put an ad in the local BAM (Bay Area Music) magazine, and book days at HUN Sound in San Rafael. It was a spectacular time period, which sadly ended in 1980, with the death of Bonham and the on-rush of the useless yuppie MBA movement that wiped away all the cool and casual that had come before (all thanks to the Reagan/Falwell 'moral majority' and its desire to return America to the 1950s). So, when you ask for my favorite Zeppelin songs, That's impossible. I was 20 when Kashmir came out. It was part of the continuum. 3 years prior had seen the release of Houses of the Holy and Dark Side of the Moon in the same summer. The LSD in 1973 was spectacular! "Yellow Sunshine" barrels. In one of the richest and most beautiful counties in America. A drive through the forest to the coast. The best music in the world blasting on the car stereo . . . and now I am 66, and the internet has democratized third-rate, homogenized, corporate pablum. My country is on the verge of civil war because of the culture wars of fascist traitors. Robots will have all the jobs in another 30 years (you all had better make sure they are madated as 'income proxies' for all the humans they replace/displace from the workforce). 30% of the populace are on the march backwards into the dark ages. And the concept of artists speaking truth to power and leading a cultural (r)evolution has been swallowed up by spineless and soulless, common, comercial sell-outs. Bottom-feeders magnifying the specks of shit on the bottom of the barrel as if they are diamonds under an electron microscope; while parading proudly in crony-capitalist reach-around-circle-jerks. It all ended in 1980. It's been downhill ever since. Spiraling like a vortex down a drain. The corporatist Yuppies and MBAs destroyed America in service to their own greed and power-lust, and now it's too late to save the day. Drama manufactured for profit. And there isn't an artist alive who can save us from ourselves; who can pave the path forward as was the case in the 60s and 70s. Why? Because the corporatists won't allow it. The avenues of expression have not been democratized. They have been exceedingly, excruciatingly, narrowed to myopic toll-roads by the gate-keepers of the gilded, exclusionary exclusivity. The pay-to-play tilted playing fields. It's all over now, but for the screaming and crying. "Solve et Coagula". It must be dissolved to be reformed. The myth of death and rebirth made material. As the saying goes, "Be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it." The right-wing in America is going to get everything it wants, and soon after it will be in utter horror for what it has reaped upon itself. On the one hand, I am glad I won't be here to see it, and on the other hand, I'm a bit pissed I wont be here to laugh my ass off about it all. In any case, true artistry is lost in the wilderness right now, and will take decades to return to its cultural leadership role. That's why they ended art in school. It had too much social and cultural power that the corporatist just couldn't allow anymore. So, next up: Art by robots and algorithms. Product to placate and sooth into somnambulism. The internet didn't democratize art. It glorified the lowest-common-denominator in its race to the bottom. It unleashed an army of third-rate wanna-bes onto the tower of babel, with turbo-charged bullhorns. Bottom-feeders competing for scraps. Enjoy the 'roaring twenties' 2.0! Corporate fascism is a dead-end street.
Yes. Greed is trumping the USA.
You would get more people reading a long comment like this one if you use paragraphs to make it easier to read.
I was in high school [ Chicago ] and was one of the first to buy there first release, all I can say is WOW they were always great. I have toured with my own original blues band for over 35 years. and am grateful to have been able to hear their musical creations.
I remember hearing a small part of the end of it on the radio in 1975. I was in 9th grade at the time. It was THE most amazing thing I had ever heard and I had no idea what it was. Realize, disco was on the rage and radio, where I lived, very rarely played Led Zeppelin. It was virtually unheard of to hear them on the radio. The small part of the song I had heard haunted me relentlessly for some time. It was quite a while (I actually have no idea how long) before I found out what it was and I finally heard the whole song. It has been in my possession ever since.
Kashmir is my favourite Led Zeppelin song. I discovered them in the summer of 1976 at band camp. There were no drugs but the high was real.
When I was in my teens I didn’t care what I got for my birthday or Christmas as long as the latest Zeppelin album was there. I would sit in the living room with my headphones on flipping the record over and over listening to every detail. I can hear when music is played well and knew there was something different and special about the band but as a non musician I didn’t know exactly what it was.
Recently I heard a RUclips presenter give an enlightened explanation. He said that in many bands the drummer and the bassist sync with each other but in Zeppelin Bonham and Page cue on each other. There are many bands I love but never more than Zeppelin.
When I was five, an older cousin would bring his Led Zeppelin records to our house. We'd go down to the basement and listen to them for hours. this was how I became a fan from a young age.
Epic song! Watch the documentary “It Might Get Loud”. Jimmy plays the intro and you become awestruck just seeing where that sound came from!
When I was stationed in Panama, the AFRN djs loved playing Kashmir at my request so they could use the restroom or take a smoke break!
When I was stationed in Germany, we would call in the daily forecast to AFRN-Würzburg and make requests. I called in one morning to give them the weather forecast and make some requests. Before hanging up, the DJ asked me to “request” a song he wanted to play, but wasn’t allowed to unless it was requested. I agreed and told him that if there’s anything else he needed requests to play, just say the weather guys requested it.
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Fort Davis & Fort Clayton. 2/90 - 6/92.
My favorite as a dj was Frampton's "Do you feel like we do" That was a lunch break. LOL
@@Tedoco50 no doubt!
Admittedly, Kashmir was the first Led Zep song I heard, but I was hooked. It conjured up thoughts in my imagination that are still with me today. My favourite. Cheers
Kashmir was to Fast Times at Ridgemont High as Bohemian Rhapsody was to Wayne's World
Hagar's tune played a better driving part than Kashmir i believe
Although the reference that sets it in motion is incorrect.
Absolutely agree.
@@dukecraig2402 true but probably intentional and meant as a joke
@@rezalbb ha. I’ve never made it all the way through this guy’s videos so I missed that. Wonder if the scene was already shot before the attempt to get the rights failed. Maybe it just turned out to be a happy accident since it was so like that character to screw up the advice he got.
IMO their most progressive song is another masterpiece, Achilles Last Stand. Jimmy said it is his most difficult song to play.
LZ has so many masterpieces it is crazy! Of course, Kashmir, Achilles Last Stand and Stairway To Heaven stand out because of epicness, length and mystery, but tons of songs can be defined as favourites.
My favourite song of all time is Rock and Roll, and The Rover is Led Zeppelin in a nutshell, maybe the most Zeppelinean song of them all.
They are the GOAT.
One listen to Achilles and you can see/hear the birth of Metallica.
some bands did create a masterpiece. most just didn't.
zeppelin, on the other hand, created multiple.
kashmir. achilles last stand. since I've been loving you. stairway to heaven. some might count in whole lotta love or dazed & confused on that list as well.
for me, over the hills and far away is 'zeppelin in a nutshell'. it contains a folk music style acoustic intro, a harmonic percussion style, a great main guitar riff and lovely lyrics. and the live versions are served with an outstandig guitar solo, hectic but loose.
@@the_rover1 Yes, it is another great example of Led Zep in a nutshell. Amazing song!
I am right there with you on "The Rover!"!!!!
I still get the same reaction now as when I first heard it. Goose bumps up my back to the top of my head and a general floating feeling. Transcendental, magical...words that fit the song and the feeling.
I have gotten lost within their music, no need for drugs or alcohol. The high from the music has no limits. The dances within my soul leaves a buring desire to swim, and bathe in every note. To feel every color and fiber of each instrument.
To become a lover with the whole experience of the musical wizards.
Then in the end, now a new born wanting more.
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Countless times I’ve played this and most LZ tracks under the influence of various substances as well as sober, on all formats and twice live with Page and Plant AND I emphatically agree, Kashmir creates it’s own universe. It’s a singular song other bands can only dream of creating. Side note, I’m a fan of In The Light as well which I regard just as highly if not more.
Oh man, you just named my two favorite songs of theirs.
Interesting, because In the Light, too me is also iconic and is the second best song on the marvelous collection of songs that is Physical Graffiti.
I feel the same way the drumming sticks in your mind and stays in your head all day
Page did live at Crowley’s house at Lochness. God knows what followed him from there. It doesn’t matter what we believe- it’s about what he did. I think maybe he left for a reason. I have also heard he was on lots of psychedelics- and possibly suffering from what doctors call an “illness” where he perceived reality entirely differently from most. One persons illness is another’s gift- if he had no desire to harm anyone it’s obviously not that problematic to an artist. I know someone who snuck backstage and caught him talking baby language to himself back in the early 70’s. Or maybe as Page saw it- he was talking to his guitar… He was a weirder guy than most realize, and he played a telecaster for the first few albums and also at times in the Les Paul years. Zeppelin 2 the heartbreaker solo- thats no Les Paul. I don’t think anything on that album is. And that’s no Les Paul in this video lol
@@bojangles6444 don't try to bring supernatural shit into it, superstition just breeds delusion
For me... That opening rhythm just opens your head space to something you just can't fathom. It's like OMG here we go... the most mesmerising sound ever!
Nice. As soon as that song starts, it's like diving into a pool of mystical sound and that never ending tension of the beat keeps the music in the perfect place. Kashmir is just such a musical achievement.
Oh, my all-time FAVORITE Zeppelin song of all time!! 😍
I was a pre-teen/teen listening to the radio while my mom worked swing shifts. I found myself listening to a rock station and herd this song and fell in love with it. I started listening to the rest of their music and realized I loved almost all of it. Since then they've been my absolute favorite rock band. I play them in the car while taking my kids to school hoping they gain a little appreciation for them.
Just one word: EPIC!
Everyone's talking about "Stairway to heaven" what it comes to Led Zeppelin. Kashmir is IMO the most underrated song of LZ. For me one of those songs that NEVER gets boring when listening to it every day.
Kashmir makes stairway to heaven just another song that fills out an album.
achilles last stand is the best led zeppelin song
@@westter8164 of course it is! I won't apologise. Achilles last stand is the Top! Then the song remains the Same. !! Then Kashmere. Holds the next place with Dancin Days and No Quarter and Immigrant Song ! These songs all hold their place as way ahead of Stairway. Zep has the rightful place as Greatest band of all, but a few other bands are so deserving of 2nd, like a volcanic eruption, so powerfully near Zep in significance! My pick for 2nd GOAT could be very well be the catalog of KANSAS ! TALENT BEYOND SUPERHUMAN, without the underworldly occultic power given to L Z by SATAN. IMO, Rush is truly the Most Divinely Inspired. There It Is! THERE IT IS !!!, Jack Black! ( what a wanna be) !!
Wake up! Walk in the light !!!
Kashmir is not underrated at all...
Out of the tiles is their most underrated song.
My first hearing made me dance. The driving beat and otherworldly poetry in the lyrics gave me a sense of the trudging toward some distant goal of rest and bliss. It remains my favorite of LZ's tunes. Simple, powerful, and mystical all in one.
Cashmere is one of my favorite Zepplin songs. Gives me chills as soon as it starts every time
Those four incredibly talented guys banding together is the reality beyond dreams. It's something so powerful, prolific and sophisticated that it transcends many fantasies.
Yet, here we are; the lucky generations that get to experience their music. I myself, feel blessed. :)
My first rock concert was Led Zeppelin June 10, 1977 at Madison square garden. It was like I died and went to heaven. Kashmir was the epitome of that experience.
WOW! Now that would've been SWEEEEEEET!
That's amazing dude! Mine too! I think they did two to six shows on consecutive nights at MSG. I saw one of them. It was my first concert too. I was 14. They played for like 3 hours straight and did 3 or 4 encores.
Love REAL SINGER VOICES!!!! Can not copy this can not replace this magic!!!!
I've only ridden a horse one time in my life and I was able to get up to a canter. Because horses run a little off center, the entire time I felt like I was sliding off the saddle but I never did. It was a such a strange sensation...
Kashmir always feels like that to me. It sounds like the music is sliding off the beat constantly but it never does.
I just enjoy your work so much. Thank you and please keep it up!
I love playing that song.. I'm partial to the Celebration Day version as it is boiled down to the 4 musicians playing it live without the little extras.. It's more concise and I love the relaxed tempo, which gives me the option of experimenting if i want to, without worrying about getting back to basic riffs.. It's very hypnotic and hella fun .. I first saw them in 1969, then several more times including their very last performance in the USA..
The Celebration Day version of Kashmir has my all time favorite rock scream. Even out does Daltry’s wail in We Won’t get Fooled again.
Brilliant segment Professor. You really did justice to one of the most epic transcendental songs of all time. You really bring out the complexity and deep meaning of the main themes most wonderfully. Bravo! Bravo!
The best rock and roll band to ever step on a stage.
Led Zeppelin will always have a special place in my heart. I cannot pick one song as a favorite but, Kashmir is up there on my list. Thanks, Professor for doing a video on a LZ song. 👍
This song was in DADGAD tuning on guitar, which was something Jimmy Page picked up from British Celtic/Folk guitarist Davey Graham. It's amazing how that influence ended up in a rock anthem.
Didn't you hear the professor? 👂 it was in DADGAFD...on a 7-string guitar, of course
@martindanielthomas the footage shows a 6. Maybe a Freudian slip. I wasn't in the studio with Page, but most historians agree it was DADGAD. DADGAFD probably would do a lot of the same things, just a different take, so it would be interesting to hear.
I hate when people try to categorize Led Zeppelin as "Heavy Metal" or that they started it, Black Sabbath, yes! Led Zeppelin no! I don't even consider Deep Purple as Heavy Metal. Heavy or Hard Rock, yes. Zep is too much rooted in Blues, especially the early albums, to be metal. And their whole portfolio was so diverse. Love Kashmir! My favorite Album is is the first Led Zeppelin, think of how monumental the material on this album is! Turning this folk song "Babe, I'm gonna leave you" from the acoustic into this building force of emotion and driving guitar and drums and then back again. It's like an emotional roller coaster ride! I love Plants vocals through that entire album.
Agree. To me Led Zeppelin was always folk music.
They were just like first band to have pop hits that were that heavy for songs like whole lotta love. But so many of their songs weren’t heavy. Even in same song sometimes from light to heavy.
I used to hate that categorisation also. I kinda think it's more of a compliment now. You just can't put them in any bag, they are in a league of their own, perhaps they invented heavy metal? Although heavy metal is very different today. They came, saw listened, stole, borrowed, invented, and conquered. I don't think there ever will be comparison to them.
Metal is blues rooted. And Zep is metal. Sorry.
Led Zeppelin is very influential but no Metal indeed.
I see them more as Hard Rock, and Proto Metal at most.
By the mid 80s I was burned out on Zepplin, could not stand to hear it along with most classic rock bands. I was a Dead Head that worked in Punk clubs. I embraced Jam Bands, Cow Punk and alt rock. By the late 90s I was working as a lighting guy and worked a couple Plant and Page shows and became a fan again. I think that Plants work over the last 20 years is amazing, and the Plant Alison Krauss shows are in my top 5 list. I even ran into Jimmy Page at a Bluegrass conference. Kashmir literally brings me to tears. It is almost perfection as a song.
Oh yeah..got my Tickets to see Allison and Robert this summer.
Led Zeppelin! The first two albums are just phenomenal and should be played as one. What a great catalog of music to pull from but Kashmir.. Yeah that is something special!