Lex nails it. Learning about and acquiring music took more effort. Bands like Zeppelin didn't get much radio exposure, so you heard their albums through friends and at parties. Then it was off to the record store. It was not disposable or forgettable.
While it's true Zeppelin didn't release singles for radio play, and some of their songs were deemed too long by certain radio stations, your point is very misleading because the Zep songs that did get radio play got a *ton* of radio play...like, "Stairway To Heaven", for instance. So every kid who listened to rock stations knew who Zeppelin was--they didn't need to hear about the band from "parties" or from their friends.
@@Cosmo-Kramer depends where you lived. Stairway would have been the only Zep song I heard on the radio in my neck of the woods in the 1970s. Every other Zep tune was from friend's vinyl. So there's that. I lived it.
@@Cosmo-Kramer thanks for the fact-check, but FM wasn't viable in a lot of markets until around LZ III, or come standard with too many car radios, and didn't equal the commercial value of AM competitors until around 1978. I was a Yardbirds fan before LZ I, worked in AM and FM radio - maybe got to play D'Yer Mak'er once a week. US, UK, European and Canadian markets all used different charts.
Yes, we had to buy records, sometimes singles, but ideally the entire album. I seem to recall pricing around 8-14 bucks in the early-mid 80's. Buying an actual album is so much better; take in the cover art, the liner notes, you'd read and re-read everything. This is why we know all the band members, the producers, recording studios and so on. You'd get introduced to music via friends just hanging out, at parties. Of course going to concerts was a big deal And we found places with these paper things called maps and streets had these metal signs so we could figure out where to turn...ha, ;)
I still have all their albums on vinyl, I have several that were released on single only and about 40 bootlegs that my friend from Chicago sent me back in that late '70s early '80s. Anybody that has never experienced going into a record store for hours and hours stoned like a son of a gun and digging through each and every album just hasn't lived. Or listening to your favorite radio station for hours at night listening to the King biscuit flower hour and Night at the Fillmore and all the radio shows that used to play these great albums, waiting in line for hours for a new album to drop or concert tickets to go on sale. Good times gone forever.
@@kurtsaxton823 you're so right mate,it makes me sad how the world is now,much better in the 80s/90s ( was born in 76 ) we'll never get those times again
Not to mention you could go to a concert for the meager price 12.00$ to 14.00$ in 1979 1980 befor ticket master f^@ked it all up! Unlike the crazy prices of today of 100$ to well over 300$
@@Ooofaa-Maa Not true. A great number of their songs were originated from Delta Blues, mostly from artists that came off the chitlin circuit like Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Robert Johnson himself, and then a lot more came from American Rockabilly and early Rock and Roll. To say all their songs came from early folk songs is a great overstatement. A portion of them did but a true Zeppelin fan knows that it was a combination of many different styles including Reggae also that made up Led Zeppelin. Classical music was also there. And also Gospel.
Back story on this song: in medieval times (or maybe a lil before that), the custom was if you got the death penalty for certain crimes, you were given a choice. The choice was to pay what was called a "blood debt", which was compensate for the crime by paying $$$, or ELSE sentence was carried out & you got HUNG... if they couldn't pay, no slack was given... If you did the crime & got caught, you either paid or you got no mercy... keep in mind this was pre-1500 ad or something like that... That's why the lyrics say "what did ya bring me, my brother, TO KEEP ME FROM THE GALLOWS POLE?..." Many times, it was your family pooling resources & showing up at the last minute to save you, since you were standing there about to swing. So you better HOPE you had family OR were on GOOD terms with them...
Kudos to Brad for nailing the content meaning on the first listen! This LP (III) was sometimes marginalized for being 'the acoustic album,' but personally it's a favorite. JPJ really shined, holding down both the bass and the mandolin on this track, for example. Great song!
"People probably had record collections." Yes, and some of us still do! It's nice to see Lex trying to get a picture of how it was back in the day. You couldn't just hear the music you wanted to when you wanted to unless you bought the record (or tape...) It was very different terms. Sometimes, you'd take a record over to your friend's house just so you could play it while hanging out. A lot of us ended up listening to entire albums, too, not just the hits, because why not? The record is playing, so let it go! We heard some great songs that way. Like this one. i knew a guy who owned one record, and he took it with him everywhere, waiting for a chance to play it. He didn't own a turntable.
Brad, its been a joy to see how much you have transformed! When your channel started all you wanted to do is analyze, analyze and I see you actually seem to start to just let the music take you on a journey which is what music is supposed to do! It moves your soul! Lex, keep on rocking little lady!!!
Lex had it from the beginning. When she heard these great songs for the first time, she dug them as deeply as I did back in the day. This is so so very enjoyable! I love Brad's expensiveness and openness too!
I was born in 1970 I remember I was 10 and I went over my friend Jason’s house and he said want to listen to some Zep besides Stairway to Heaven which is all I basically knew at that point…his dad had gotten him their first 4 albums so we sat there all day and listened to them….I still can remember the chill I got hearing Good Times Bad Times when he dropped the needle on the first song first side first album…lifelong fan ever since….haven’t t seen Jason in over 20 years but anytime we used to run into each other or talked on the phone we would laugh how we hung out that day…great times
This song is based heavily on an old English folk story/song called "the maid freed from the gallows". Led Zep just gave the story a darker ending and a pretty rocking arrangement.
Buying records was the most awesome experience! And playing the record in its entirety for the first time was amazing! Sinking into the whole experience of reading the album cover and inserts, lyrics, notes, etc. It felt like being part of the creative process. 🤘🏻💜💫
Saw them last Sunday….great concert. Reworking of When the Levee Breaks was phenomenal…….the lead fiddle player on it is a MASTER. I’m just grateful I finally got to see Robert (it’s been 45 years since I saw Zeppelin) because I don’t know how much longer he will be doing longer, overseas tours like this one.
Hey guys what's up! Greetings from South florida! Hey Lex, I used to wear that same shirt in high school. Yeah you can't go wrong with Led Zeppelin. I can definitely see why you like them so much. You guys rock! God bless you! Peace!
We had tape recorders to tape songs off the radio and going to the dept stores to the music and Hi Fi stereo section also parties word of mouth we had music stores in the mall Specs music and record stores that are still around here and there not many but you could buy cassette tapes and vinyl records as well
Thank you for the reaction. Many different stores sold music. We bought hundreds of albums for $1 and $2 at used record stores in Raleigh. Who remembers the 8track tape display cabinets? They had holes you could reach in and grasp the tape to read it, but the hole was too small to pull the tape out.
when i first started buying records back in those days, they cost about $4.00. my mother would give me 20.00 to buy some pants. but i would buy 4 albums and get change back. yeah, the only way to hear this music from those days in the 70s was at parties or on the radio. gettin' stoned with your buddies. it was all basically 'word of mouth'. i had over a thousand records twice in my life. i had to unload them both times. now i have RUclips to enjoy. and you two bring these songs to life.
Yes we would buy albums, and sometimes then tell our friends which ones we bought so they didn't buy the same ones and then tape it on cassette and then share them with each other.
as a huge LZ fan since I was 14/15 and now near 50, I can get behind Brad's resistance to LZ. Not every one gets taken in, the ones that do, they don't get out
Yep…the natural progression for my friends and I was vinyl records and 8-track tapes, followed by cassette tapes (we had to have a tape in the “deck” while listening to the radio station to play our songs and be quick on the “RECORD” buttons - had to press “PLAY” at the same time to make it work! Eventually CD’s were invented and the Digital Revolution was off and running…
Brad/Lex, this is bluegrass style (fast country music usually with banjo and mandolins) . Also flamenco (Spanish music) guitar finger picking and fast arpeggios. Also folk rock mix and Celtic/Gaelic rock mixed in. So no more confusing bluegrass with blues (much slower and soulful) , ok? lol
When I was a teen I joined the Columbia record club...They sold vinyl lp's ...When you joined you could select several albums for the price of one or two...You were then required to by several other albums for the regular price within a specified time...I can't remember the exact price, but I think they were between 3 or 4 dollars each unless they were double or triple albums...I was a member for four or five years...What a difference from the way you can get music today...Sometimes the good old days weren't so much...
Gaelic is an ancient culture, religion and common language from 6 different regions known as the Celtic Nations. Ireland, Scotland, Wales, The Isle of Man, Cornwall, and Brittany in France. Zeppelin used Gaelic themes a few times in their songs.
In 1970, the concerts were announced on the (rock) radio stations, and the tickets were sold in record stores, where we also bought the albums. We knew how to find the concert venues because we went often. But if we needed to find them, we used maps. Paper folding maps which they gave away for free at the gas stations. Yes, we listened to albums or cassette tapes. I still have all my vinyl. Over 300 which contain most of the music you guys play, like this song today. That’s why I enjoy your reactions. It’s sort of like time travel. Thanks.
@2:55 On target with that one Brad. Jimmy Page often talked about his “CIA”: Celtic, Indian, Arabic sounds he often integrated into his music. The Gaelic would fall into this category for the Celtic influence.
Relaxing back into that beanbag chair and letting Zep rock you with a great sound system. Feel those vibrations through the bag and take a hit off the herb. I can feel it like yesterday.
Back in the 70's my uncles used to record music off of the TV. They would put their tape recorder in front of the television and record from Soul Train and ABS. Any show that played music.
Led Zeppelin took some flak for this album. After their first two storming, 'heavy' sounding hard blues-rock, they had some time in the countryside of Wales and wrote many of these more folk/acoustic inspired numbers. Various critics felt they'd run out of ideas but of course it showed the band was versatile and trying other things. And after all, rock and roll didn't come only from blues - it also came from country/folk, which when traced back goes back to English folk, Irish and Scottish folk (the Gaelic that Bred mentioned). I love this song and this album and the more acoustic-leaning songs. There's great footage of Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones doing an acoustic part in the middle of a LZ gig at Earl's Court, London, 1975. 20 years later, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page would revisit the acoustic/folk sound for their 'No Quarter' tour. Great stuff.
Nah, no radio for early Zeppelin. As Robert Plant once said, " Our music is something to be passed around in the back seat of a car, like a good joint!" Anyways, I love me some Bluegrass for about 10 minutes before it gets tiring. "Hot Dog" and "Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp" (pronounced something like Bronny Ra) are some other kickass bluegrass songs by Led Zeppelin.
We had vinyl, then 8 track, and on to cassette. Don't even know what you young-uns have to choose from anymore. But be glad you got to hear the genius of Zeppelin, even Brad. 😆
I was born in 1960 and started listening to Zeppelin in 1970, and bought each album upon release, including Led Zeppelin 3. This is one of my favourite albums and I still get a thrill listening to this song (Bonham's right foot is amazing!) Glad you discovered this song and appreciate the lyrics. Cheers.
I think I bought this album for $3 from Sears. Loved it, would poor hours over reading the information, looking at the album art, and sharing it with friends as invites to bring music would always be a common theme. We carried our music in milk crates or wooden crates we made ourselves. This is and always will be my favorite Zepplin song. It just has it all. To get exposed to music, people would visit and hang out in music stores, looking through the album selection, listening to something over the intercom and if your tastes were outside the norm of that music store, you simply took albums to a listening booth, and with headphones, played the album you were interested in. It was also a poor man's way of getting to listen to music they couldn't afford to buy, much like reading a book in the library instead of buying it or checking it out, you could listen to music in a music store. We also had college radio stations that would play the genre of your interests at some point in the week, going over trending hits, classic staples, and new upcoming possibilities within that genre of music. Whether at work, at home, driving, or out with friends socializing, the radio would be playing, and all would be listening, reacting, and celebrating together. As far as buying music, every town had a music store, and all the big-name stores had a music section. The music stores offered more catering to the music customer, but the availability of hot trendy albums or singles might only be kept up with via the big stores that had more readily available ordering times. Things were more interactive and social back then than today. It is ironic how social media actually makes people less social and less interactive, and less...
“Your brother brought me silver And your sister warmed my soul But now I laugh and pull so hard And see you swinging on the gallows pole.” That’s pretty cold 🥶
Even back in the 60s, we had ways of hearing about concerts (radio, newspapers, posters, etc.). Scoring good seats required connections or being first in line when tickets went on sale. Records were readily available in cities with record stores (less selection at department stores) and weren’t so very expensive (if you had a job). When going to visit friends, we’d always go through their record collection to find something to listen to, then listen to a side or the whole thing, so we’d have access to more music than what we could buy ourselves.
Lex I still have my record collection from the 70's still listen to them every day just like the 70's ... Great song great reaction ... I still have multiple hifi systems from the 70's Pioneer and Sansui with huge speakers ment to be played loud sometimes the windows must rattle, thats how we did it back in the 70's
I does have a little bit of Blue Grass sound. Blue Grass is from Appalachia and the people from that area are of Irish and Scottish heritage. Scots and Irish are Gaelic/Celtic
Expect it was the same around the world. I heard Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love on the radio, loved it and bought the Led Zeppelin II vinyl album disc. Knew this album, III, was out when Immigrant Song was on the radio . A friend played me the first album and I bought it. The fourth album, Stairway to Heaven and all that, was airmailed to a Welsh friend living in Sydney and I had my copy two weeks before the Australian release. Radio and friends, that is how you kept abreast of music. There was always at least one radio station that played the contemporary music. Music not popular enough for radio you picked up from friends. I was listening to Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa and Jethro Tull without ever hearing them on radio thanks to friends. And a lot of hallucinogenics. It was the era. We went out to meet people, get stoned and listen to music.
Back in the early 70's - 80's myself and my friends travelled to Liverpool every weekend to watch bands at one or another of the many theatres and clubs bands like Pink Floyd Yes Genisis Black Sabath Deep Purple Wishbone Ash Santana BJH Jethro Tull and many more now famous and some not so famous like Budgie Stray Bebop Deluxe Hawkwind The Sensational Alex Harvey Band Focus - just too many to mention of course we had all the albums also, but remember at that time most bands were touring every year so there was always someone playing somewhere good time for music lovers! and keep up the good work! thanks
Guys, radio was the vehicle at first that flooded early rock into the airwaves. Elvis, BeachBoys, Beatles, etc . Then there was the FM radio which was like an underground channel for rock music. Those channels played entire albums on the air. Most popular FM channels were heard very late at night. DJs were usually stoned and played long uninterrupted periods of music. Bands who visited the city would be interviewed on air late at night so that folks would get to know them and buy their music at a store.
Lex, back in the day we heard music on the radio, as you said, and bought albums. We also shared music with each other, so a lot of what we heard came to us through word of mouth and other people's album collections. When cassettes became popular we copied albums for friends. There was also mail order music clubs like Columbia Records and Tapes or RCA Music Service. They ran ads in magazines or by direct mail where you could choose 7 or 10 or 15 albums for a penny (later a buck I think), on condition you buy a certain number at regular price in the next three years or some such. They didn't keep very good records, though, and many of us joined over and over and basically built decent collections for free, and many people probably never bought the regular price albums they were supposed to buy. I miss those times, but honestly there are pros and cons to both eras. Music was basically curated by the record companies then, so you didn't hear a lot of independent bands unless they became locally popular or ended up signed to a label. Whereas today anyone can publish their own music online, make videos, etc. So you get to hear a lot of stuff you wouldn't have in the 90s and before... but it can be too much, so you can never hear more than a small fraction of it all, and you have to wade through a lot of chaff to find the wheat. Brad, Gaelic refers to the Celtic people and language of Ireland, Scotland and Mann. The original inhabitants of Great Britain were also Celtic, of a different type with different but related language (Brythonic). After the Saxon and Norman invasions they were pushed back to Wales, Cornwall and some left Britain and inhabited an area of France called Brittany (named after the Britons who settled there). The Gauls, the original inhabitants of France and surrounding areas, were likewise Celts. This song isn't specifically Gaelic or Celtic but it does have a definite British Isles folk vibe.
In the 70s Lex I earned $80/week while at uni and bought all of Led Zep’s records for between $5-10 per record. And a carton of beer was $6. It was easy to party, drink and listen to Led Zep all night long.
Yes had to buy vinyl albums sometimes waiting weeks for one to come out and you lined up, paid and went home put on headphones and listened to it back to front and if it was a double album you’d listen to four sides and check out the lyrics to all the songs printed in the gatefold. You really savoured the music too, nothing to distract you it was delicious. Music is too available now and something precious has been lost it think.
I remember those days very well, hoping that the new album you bought by a favourite artist was as good as their last. Sometimes it was and sometimes it wasn't, if you were really lucky, it could even be better! But a new album was something special and exciting, it was there in your hand placing it on the turntable and listening eagerly to new songs you are really hoping you will love.
Music in the 70's was radio, then albums and cassettes. 8 tracks for a bit, but I always hated them because they would break a song in the middle, and you had to wait for the track to change. Garage bands would typically record on cassette, unless they had money for a reel to reel. High end home stereos in the early seventies might have a reel to reel tspe player, but I honestly don't know how much music was availabe in that format. As a teen in the late 70's and early 80's i had a box for my cassettes (like a briefcase) that held about 4 dozen cassettes. And a Hitachi boom box that could play loud enough for music while we played frisbee.
“How did music get dispersed…?” Great question.! FM radio for the most part. DJs had more control of what to play and FM offered the radio format for playing Album tracks and not just popular hits. Cassette tapes. Everyone shared homemade tapes. Sony, Memorex, IBM, Maxell, TDK were just a few popular tape brands of the day.
Grew up in that period it was not nearly as primitive as you imagine, average record was $6.00 or 7.00 dollars, then you had cassettes which were about the same and music was played on the radio primarily FM stereo stations..
In the 70’s 8-tracks ruled. Cassettes became popular a bit later. For the car, of course - every car had an 8-track player. Full albums (LPs) for home.
@@dalmac5978" Although the birth and growth of the cassette began in the 1960s, its cultural moment took place during the 1970s and 1980s" - Wikipedia It said that at first the quality was not nearly good enough to record music on and play it back.
There was nothing like concerts in the 70s & 80s and up to about the middle 90s.....Everyone was there to experience with their eyes and ears not through a cell phone , only a lighter and some weed. haha. it was a beautiful experience. The best rock and roll bands ever too.... I miss those times but glad I lived it.
You two have done such a good job covering Zeppelin's work. Was surprised to see this come up. Now, the next one..........Nobody's Fault But Mine. Pretty heavy little diddy.
I remember that one. It was rainy warm spring day walking and watching the tadpoles. I remember the day well. Unfortunately, i forget my coworkers names now.
Their genius version of an black American song , mandolin ,and European instruments and a voice and virtuoso playing that captures a west African spirit force in origin. There will never be another led zeppelin on this side of armageddon.
Radio was it, Brad. EVERYBODY had either Boom Boxes, transistor radios (slightly fatter than a cell phone), or a car with a bangin' 8 track or cassette tape player AND an FM radio . . . . . but radio was the platform by which we all had our first listen to all the new stuff. All of this music is new to you BUT, when it was new to us, IT WAS BRAND NEW TO EVERYONE! Try to imagine that . . . . .
This is a version of Lead Belly's classic "The Gallis Pole" Led Zeppelin took old blues songs and turned the volume of them up by 100. Should try Lead Belly's version. so different but still awesome
Brad, you're exactly right. AND, what they didn't list in the lyrics that were showing on the screen at the end of the song, after the "I'd like nothing more than to see you swinging from the gallows pole", the lyrics are the hangman's laughs: "Ha-ha-haaa, ha-ha-haaaa. Ha-ha-haaa, ha-ha-haaaa. Ha-ha-haaa, ha-ha-haaaa. Ha-ha-haaa, ha-ha-haaaa."
Haha!, We found our way with Maps, and other than the radio which didn’t play everything we bought eight track tapes, and vinyl records, we heard the music by sharing with our friends and relatives, back in the 70s there was also the midnight special on Friday night tv, as I remember it came on sometime after Lawrence Welk, LMAO. I watch Lawrence Welk with my grandparents, and then my grandparents watch the midnight special and whoever was on it with me, don’t know how many people who share generations like that anymore.
Lex nails it. Learning about and acquiring music took more effort. Bands like Zeppelin didn't get much radio exposure, so you heard their albums through friends and at parties. Then it was off to the record store. It was not disposable or forgettable.
Exactly!
While it's true Zeppelin didn't release singles for radio play, and some of their songs were deemed too long by certain radio stations, your point is very misleading because the Zep songs that did get radio play got a *ton* of radio play...like, "Stairway To Heaven", for instance. So every kid who listened to rock stations knew who Zeppelin was--they didn't need to hear about the band from "parties" or from their friends.
@@Cosmo-Kramer depends where you lived. Stairway would have been the only Zep song I heard on the radio in my neck of the woods in the 1970s. Every other Zep tune was from friend's vinyl. So there's that. I lived it.
@@hlawrencepowell Well, I wasn't talking about people who grew up in East Jabip.
@@Cosmo-Kramer thanks for the fact-check, but FM wasn't viable in a lot of markets until around LZ III, or come standard with too many car radios, and didn't equal the commercial value of AM competitors until around 1978. I was a Yardbirds fan before LZ I, worked in AM and FM radio - maybe got to play D'Yer Mak'er once a week. US, UK, European and Canadian markets all used different charts.
I believe this is a very old folk song, brought to life by Zeppelin.
If the info I read is correct, this song is about 1200-1400 old. Originates somewhere in the British isles.
Listen to the words carefully too-in the end the hangman screws them all over.
Its actually a 17th century Irish folk song
@@kendogthunder So Brad was right about the Gaelic part!
@@vanyadolly well, we could both be right or wrong. Nobody knows who actually wrote this song.
Yes, we had to buy records, sometimes singles, but ideally the entire album. I seem to recall pricing around 8-14 bucks in the early-mid 80's. Buying an actual album is so much better; take in the cover art, the liner notes, you'd read and re-read everything. This is why we know all the band members, the producers, recording studios and so on. You'd get introduced to music via friends just hanging out, at parties. Of course going to concerts was a big deal And we found places with these paper things called maps and streets had these metal signs so we could figure out where to turn...ha, ;)
And the navigator was the guy that had smoked one less doob than everyone else before you left the house.
I can remember buying LP's for $1.00 - 2.00 when I was young..actually spent hours pouring through them at the 5 and dime store.
I still have all their albums on vinyl, I have several that were released on single only and about 40 bootlegs that my friend from Chicago sent me back in that late '70s early '80s. Anybody that has never experienced going into a record store for hours and hours stoned like a son of a gun and digging through each and every album just hasn't lived. Or listening to your favorite radio station for hours at night listening to the King biscuit flower hour and Night at the Fillmore and all the radio shows that used to play these great albums, waiting in line for hours for a new album to drop or concert tickets to go on sale. Good times gone forever.
@@kurtsaxton823 you're so right mate,it makes me sad how the world is now,much better in the 80s/90s ( was born in 76 ) we'll never get those times again
Not to mention you could go to a concert for the meager price 12.00$ to 14.00$ in 1979 1980 befor ticket master f^@ked it all up! Unlike the crazy prices of today of 100$ to well over 300$
This is their adaptation of an old folk song....and one of my favorites...I can almost see Celtic people dancing around while this tune is playing!
@Penderyn Oh, I hadn't forgotten...being of Scots/Irish decent this song just makes me feel like whirling about.......must be the Celt in me!
Leadbelly actually did an amazing version in 1940
All their songs are adaptations of old folk songs…
@@Ooofaa-Maa Not true. A great number of their songs were originated from Delta Blues, mostly from artists that came off the chitlin circuit like Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Robert Johnson himself, and then a lot more came from American Rockabilly and early Rock and Roll. To say all their songs came from early folk songs is a great overstatement. A portion of them did but a true Zeppelin fan knows that it was a combination of many different styles including Reggae also that made up Led Zeppelin. Classical music was also there. And also Gospel.
This is actually an old English folk song.
Led Zeppelin did just about every style of music
Back story on this song: in medieval times (or maybe a lil before that), the custom was if you got the death penalty for certain crimes, you were given a choice. The choice was to pay what was called a "blood debt", which was compensate for the crime by paying $$$, or ELSE sentence was carried out & you got HUNG... if they couldn't pay, no slack was given...
If you did the crime & got caught, you either paid or you got no mercy... keep in mind this was pre-1500 ad or something like that...
That's why the lyrics say "what did ya bring me, my brother, TO KEEP ME FROM THE GALLOWS POLE?..."
Many times, it was your family pooling resources & showing up at the last minute to save you, since you were standing there about to swing. So you better HOPE you had family OR were on GOOD terms with them...
Kudos to Brad for nailing the content meaning on the first listen! This LP (III) was sometimes marginalized for being 'the acoustic album,' but personally it's a favorite. JPJ really shined, holding down both the bass and the mandolin on this track, for example. Great song!
Is it mandolin or banjo?
@@edwardcoit9748 both, but Jimmy played the banjo I believe
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Thank you.
Actually he got it wrong. His sister hung, he went free.
I love LZIII. It’s definitely up there as far as Zeppelin albums go, though I find it’s pretty hard to rank them.
I could hear the opening 10 seconds of this song in my head when I saw the thumbnail!
One of their best!
"People probably had record collections." Yes, and some of us still do!
It's nice to see Lex trying to get a picture of how it was back in the day. You couldn't just hear the music you wanted to when you wanted to unless you bought the record (or tape...) It was very different terms. Sometimes, you'd take a record over to your friend's house just so you could play it while hanging out. A lot of us ended up listening to entire albums, too, not just the hits, because why not? The record is playing, so let it go! We heard some great songs that way. Like this one.
i knew a guy who owned one record, and he took it with him everywhere, waiting for a chance to play it. He didn't own a turntable.
I like that guy with no turntable. He sounds loyal and dedicated.
@@justinatest9456 Should put a character like that in a movie.
Yeah before I sold my house I had 1500 records 33 and third LPs I had 78 RPMs 45s I CD collection real the real tapes cassettes
Yes! I had over 3,000 on my record collection!
The one record guy would be a great character for tv or film 🤣.
Yes Lex Jimmy Page is playing the banjo and John Paul Jones is playing the mandolin.
Brad, its been a joy to see how much you have transformed! When your channel started all you wanted to do is analyze, analyze and I see you actually seem to start to just let the music take you on a journey which is what music is supposed to do! It moves your soul! Lex, keep on rocking little lady!!!
I’ve noticed that too. About time!
I could see Lexie rockin' out back than...
Lex had it from the beginning. When she heard these great songs for the first time, she dug them as deeply as I did back in the day. This is so so very enjoyable!
I love Brad's expensiveness and openness too!
I haven't watched them for some time and noticed the same thing. he seems to be having fun with this now
I was born in 1970 I remember I was 10 and I went over my friend Jason’s house and he said want to listen to some Zep besides Stairway to Heaven which is all I basically knew at that point…his dad had gotten him their first 4 albums so we sat there all day and listened to them….I still can remember the chill I got hearing Good Times Bad Times when he dropped the needle on the first song first side first album…lifelong fan ever since….haven’t t seen Jason in over 20 years but anytime we used to run into each other or talked on the phone we would laugh how we hung out that day…great times
This song is based heavily on an old English folk story/song called "the maid freed from the gallows". Led Zep just gave the story a darker ending and a pretty rocking arrangement.
LOVE their version of this!!!!!
@@neillenet291 i seen that on their credits as “traditional” like it’s an old standard folk song….kind of like “Whiskey in the Jar” 🤓
Buying records was the most awesome experience! And playing the record in its entirety for the first time was amazing! Sinking into the whole experience of reading the album cover and inserts, lyrics, notes, etc. It felt like being part of the creative process. 🤘🏻💜💫
Definitely top 5 on my personal list of Zep songs.
Such a great album! Plant is my favorite singer....ever! Can't wait to see him in a few weeks on his tour with Allison Krauss!
Saw them last Sunday….great concert. Reworking of When the Levee Breaks was phenomenal…….the lead fiddle player on it is a MASTER. I’m just grateful I finally got to see Robert (it’s been 45 years since I saw Zeppelin) because I don’t know how much longer he will be doing longer, overseas tours like this one.
They are awesome together.
You have to see their live 'Page & Plant' version of this, it's epic!
Drummer goes ham!
That version is played with Moroccan and Egyptian musicians too!
Good as the studio version is, the Unplugged version towers over it like a cathedral.
The buildup in this song always gets me going. Love it.
Hey guys what's up! Greetings from South florida! Hey Lex, I used to wear that same shirt in high school. Yeah you can't go wrong with Led Zeppelin. I can definitely see why you like them so much. You guys rock! God bless you! Peace!
I had that shirt, too, that first album is fire.
Kick ass song
this has always been my fav Zep song....such a sad story but so well told!!
Mine too, along with How Many More Times (which has the greatest base line of all). I also like the "No Quarter" live version.
Gaelic is a language used by Irish, Scottish and other Western European countries
Yes,Zep lll is my favorite album, I fell in love with their acoustic side because of this album,and this is one of my favorites from them.
We had tape recorders to tape songs off the radio and going to the dept stores to the music and Hi Fi stereo section also parties word of mouth we had music stores in the mall Specs music and record stores that are still around here and there not many but you could buy cassette tapes and vinyl records as well
Thank you for the reaction. Many different stores sold music. We bought hundreds of albums for $1 and $2 at used record stores in Raleigh. Who remembers the 8track tape display cabinets? They had holes you could reach in and grasp the tape to read it, but the hole was too small to pull the tape out.
when i first started buying records back in those days, they cost about $4.00. my mother would give me 20.00 to buy some pants. but i would buy 4 albums and get change back. yeah, the only way to hear this music from those days in the 70s was at parties or on the radio. gettin' stoned with your buddies. it was all basically 'word of mouth'. i had over a thousand records twice in my life. i had to unload them both times. now i have RUclips to enjoy. and you two bring these songs to life.
Yes we would buy albums, and sometimes then tell our friends which ones we bought so they didn't buy the same ones and then tape it on cassette and then share them with each other.
I saw Page and Plant do this song live in the 90s. Been a favorite of mine ever since.
I was lucky enough to see Zep in 1977 when I was 14. It was my dream come true.
Being from Kentucky and my late father being of Irish descent growing up in a small Kentucky town, this song reminds of me a good bluegrass song.
Indeed! Bluegrass’ roots from the British Isles, as you no doubt know.
as a huge LZ fan since I was 14/15 and now near 50, I can get behind Brad's resistance to LZ. Not every one gets taken in, the ones that do, they don't get out
Gailic is the very old form of old irish. (and scottish ???). Celtic was known throughout the british isles and beyond.
Yep…the natural progression for my friends and I was vinyl records and 8-track tapes, followed by cassette tapes (we had to have a tape in the “deck” while listening to the radio station to play our songs and be quick on the “RECORD” buttons - had to press “PLAY” at the same time to make it work! Eventually CD’s were invented and the Digital Revolution was off and running…
And I thought I was the only one to do this!!!
@@doubler8684 I think everyone did that back then
And hope the DJ didn't say anything
@@ksfmiller the worst was the trend where they would talk up to when the vocals started.
Lol!! I had a cassette converter in my 8 track in my car!
Brad/Lex, this is bluegrass style (fast country music usually with banjo and mandolins) . Also flamenco (Spanish music) guitar finger picking and fast arpeggios. Also folk rock mix and Celtic/Gaelic rock mixed in.
So no more confusing bluegrass with blues (much slower and soulful) , ok? lol
You left out English folk.
When I was a teen I joined the Columbia record club...They sold vinyl lp's ...When you joined you could select several albums for the price of one or two...You were then required to by several other albums for the regular price within a specified time...I can't remember the exact price, but I think they were between 3 or 4 dollars each unless they were double or triple albums...I was a member for four or five years...What a difference from the way you can get music today...Sometimes the good old days weren't so much...
Gaelic remark was spot-on
Gaelic is an ancient culture, religion and common language from 6 different regions known as the Celtic Nations. Ireland, Scotland, Wales, The Isle of Man, Cornwall, and Brittany in France. Zeppelin used Gaelic themes a few times in their songs.
I love how Lex keeps trying to find stuff Brad likes from Led Zeppelin.
Very Appalachian-like influence. Which is influenced by Celtic music (Gaelic)
And English folk.
In 1970, the concerts were announced on the (rock) radio stations, and the tickets were sold in record stores, where we also bought the albums. We knew how to find the concert venues because we went often. But if we needed to find them, we used maps. Paper folding maps which they gave away for free at the gas stations. Yes, we listened to albums or cassette tapes. I still have all my vinyl. Over 300 which contain most of the music you guys play, like this song today. That’s why I enjoy your reactions. It’s sort of like time travel. Thanks.
@2:55
On target with that one Brad. Jimmy Page often talked about his “CIA”: Celtic, Indian, Arabic sounds he often integrated into his music. The Gaelic would fall into this category for the Celtic influence.
When that bass comes in with that descending riff....its pay off time baby!
The Gaels were a tribe of the Celtic people. Mostly Scottish, some Irish. Today, it's people who speak Gaelic.
The Bretons (inhabitants of the Brittany peninsula in north-western France) are also Gaelic in origin, I believe.
Relaxing back into that beanbag chair and letting Zep rock you with a great sound system. Feel those vibrations through the bag and take a hit off the herb. I can feel it like yesterday.
Back in the 70's my uncles used to record music off of the TV. They would put their tape recorder in front of the television and record from Soul Train and ABS. Any show that played music.
Songs like this just added to the lore and mystique of The Mighty Zep!
When I was trying to learn to play acoustic guitar I always found this song to be just fun to play.
Gaels lived in Ireland, Scotland, England...about 1,000 years ago.
People in Ireland and Scotland still call themselves Gaels, they didn't go anywhere. Some in fact speak Gaelic.
@@bluebird3281 Yes, but I hate typing a lot and felt that was too much to explain
Led Zeppelin took some flak for this album. After their first two storming, 'heavy' sounding hard blues-rock, they had some time in the countryside of Wales and wrote many of these more folk/acoustic inspired numbers. Various critics felt they'd run out of ideas but of course it showed the band was versatile and trying other things. And after all, rock and roll didn't come only from blues - it also came from country/folk, which when traced back goes back to English folk, Irish and Scottish folk (the Gaelic that Bred mentioned). I love this song and this album and the more acoustic-leaning songs. There's great footage of Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones doing an acoustic part in the middle of a LZ gig at Earl's Court, London, 1975. 20 years later, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page would revisit the acoustic/folk sound for their 'No Quarter' tour. Great stuff.
Love Led Zep lll, nearly as much as Physical Graffiti!
Nah, no radio for early Zeppelin. As Robert Plant once said, " Our music is something to be passed around in the back seat of a car, like a good joint!"
Anyways, I love me some Bluegrass for about 10 minutes before it gets tiring. "Hot Dog" and "Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp" (pronounced something like Bronny Ra) are some other kickass bluegrass songs by Led Zeppelin.
Great song by the greatest band in rock history...Robert Plant is the ultimate story teller!
He's actually using lyrics that someone ELSE wrote, Fred Gerlach to be precise.
@@neillenet291 He could sing me the phone book and be sexy...thank you for the history behind it!
...you mean greatest cover band of all time.
@@nuffaction5464 yeah, they did great covers, but their originals were even better.
Calm down, take it easy...
We had vinyl, then 8 track, and on to cassette. Don't even know what you young-uns have to choose from anymore. But be glad you got to hear the genius of Zeppelin, even Brad. 😆
I was born in 1960 and started listening to Zeppelin in 1970, and bought each album upon release, including Led Zeppelin 3. This is one of my favourite albums and I still get a thrill listening to this song (Bonham's right foot is amazing!) Glad you discovered this song and appreciate the lyrics. Cheers.
I think I bought this album for $3 from Sears. Loved it, would poor hours over reading the information, looking at the album art, and sharing it with friends as invites to bring music would always be a common theme. We carried our music in milk crates or wooden crates we made ourselves. This is and always will be my favorite Zepplin song. It just has it all. To get exposed to music, people would visit and hang out in music stores, looking through the album selection, listening to something over the intercom and if your tastes were outside the norm of that music store, you simply took albums to a listening booth, and with headphones, played the album you were interested in. It was also a poor man's way of getting to listen to music they couldn't afford to buy, much like reading a book in the library instead of buying it or checking it out, you could listen to music in a music store. We also had college radio stations that would play the genre of your interests at some point in the week, going over trending hits, classic staples, and new upcoming possibilities within that genre of music. Whether at work, at home, driving, or out with friends socializing, the radio would be playing, and all would be listening, reacting, and celebrating together. As far as buying music, every town had a music store, and all the big-name stores had a music section. The music stores offered more catering to the music customer, but the availability of hot trendy albums or singles might only be kept up with via the big stores that had more readily available ordering times. Things were more interactive and social back then than today. It is ironic how social media actually makes people less social and less interactive, and less...
“Your brother brought me silver
And your sister warmed my soul
But now I laugh and pull so hard
And see you swinging on the gallows pole.”
That’s pretty cold 🥶
The hangman absolutely had "pull" in the court! 🤣🤣🤣
Even back in the 60s, we had ways of hearing about concerts (radio, newspapers, posters, etc.). Scoring good seats required connections or being first in line when tickets went on sale. Records were readily available in cities with record stores (less selection at department stores) and weren’t so very expensive (if you had a job). When going to visit friends, we’d always go through their record collection to find something to listen to, then listen to a side or the whole thing, so we’d have access to more music than what we could buy ourselves.
Gaelic is a good description, Scottish and/or Irish roots music.
Gaelic is the language...
The first half sounds more old English folk to me. Nothing Gaelic about the words.
I so loved him when I was just a kid.
Lex I still have my record collection from the 70's still listen to them every day just like the 70's ... Great song great reaction ... I still have multiple hifi systems from the 70's Pioneer and Sansui with huge speakers ment to be played loud sometimes the windows must rattle, thats how we did it back in the 70's
One of Zeppelin's best.
I does have a little bit of Blue Grass sound. Blue Grass is from Appalachia and the people from that area are of Irish and Scottish heritage. Scots and Irish are Gaelic/Celtic
Expect it was the same around the world. I heard Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love on the radio, loved it and bought the Led Zeppelin II vinyl album disc. Knew this album, III, was out when Immigrant Song was on the radio . A friend played me the first album and I bought it. The fourth album, Stairway to Heaven and all that, was airmailed to a Welsh friend living in Sydney and I had my copy two weeks before the Australian release. Radio and friends, that is how you kept abreast of music. There was always at least one radio station that played the contemporary music. Music not popular enough for radio you picked up from friends. I was listening to Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa and Jethro Tull without ever hearing them on radio thanks to friends. And a lot of hallucinogenics. It was the era. We went out to meet people, get stoned and listen to music.
Such a jam. LEX, UP THE IRONS🤘
Back in the early 70's - 80's myself and my friends travelled to Liverpool every weekend to watch bands at one or another of the many theatres and clubs bands like Pink Floyd Yes Genisis Black Sabath Deep Purple Wishbone Ash Santana BJH Jethro Tull and many more now famous and some not so famous like Budgie Stray Bebop Deluxe Hawkwind The Sensational Alex Harvey Band Focus - just too many to mention of course we had all the albums also, but remember at that time most bands were touring every year so there was always someone playing somewhere good time for music lovers! and keep up the good work! thanks
Nice synchro at the end with violin and Robert's voice
When you're 14 yrs old in 1981 hearing this for the first time getting your mind blown
Guys, radio was the vehicle at first that flooded early rock into the airwaves. Elvis, BeachBoys, Beatles, etc .
Then there was the FM radio which was like an underground channel for rock music. Those channels played entire albums on the air. Most popular FM channels were heard very late at night. DJs were usually stoned and played long uninterrupted periods of music.
Bands who visited the city would be interviewed on air late at night so that folks would get to know them and buy their music at a store.
Lex, back in the day we heard music on the radio, as you said, and bought albums. We also shared music with each other, so a lot of what we heard came to us through word of mouth and other people's album collections. When cassettes became popular we copied albums for friends.
There was also mail order music clubs like Columbia Records and Tapes or RCA Music Service. They ran ads in magazines or by direct mail where you could choose 7 or 10 or 15 albums for a penny (later a buck I think), on condition you buy a certain number at regular price in the next three years or some such. They didn't keep very good records, though, and many of us joined over and over and basically built decent collections for free, and many people probably never bought the regular price albums they were supposed to buy.
I miss those times, but honestly there are pros and cons to both eras. Music was basically curated by the record companies then, so you didn't hear a lot of independent bands unless they became locally popular or ended up signed to a label. Whereas today anyone can publish their own music online, make videos, etc. So you get to hear a lot of stuff you wouldn't have in the 90s and before... but it can be too much, so you can never hear more than a small fraction of it all, and you have to wade through a lot of chaff to find the wheat.
Brad, Gaelic refers to the Celtic people and language of Ireland, Scotland and Mann. The original inhabitants of Great Britain were also Celtic, of a different type with different but related language (Brythonic). After the Saxon and Norman invasions they were pushed back to Wales, Cornwall and some left Britain and inhabited an area of France called Brittany (named after the Britons who settled there). The Gauls, the original inhabitants of France and surrounding areas, were likewise Celts.
This song isn't specifically Gaelic or Celtic but it does have a definite British Isles folk vibe.
Another cracking track from Led Zep 3
In the 70s Lex I earned $80/week while at uni and bought all of Led Zep’s records for between $5-10 per record. And a carton of beer was $6. It was easy to party, drink and listen to Led Zep all night long.
That beer will be long gone, but the records can be with you forever!
Buying records was also a great place to meet people. 👍❤🤙
One of my favorite led zep number
"I wonder how many cool cats listen to that in the seventies." Nice Lex. That made me smile.
Lex just gets it. Happy Brad likes this song.
One of my favorites.
Yes had to buy vinyl albums sometimes waiting weeks for one to come out and you lined up, paid and went home put on headphones and listened to it back to front and if it was a double album you’d listen to four sides and check out the lyrics to all the songs printed in the gatefold. You really savoured the music too, nothing to distract you it was delicious. Music is too available now and something precious has been lost it think.
I remember those days very well, hoping that the new album you bought by a favourite artist was as good as their last. Sometimes it was and sometimes it wasn't, if you were really lucky, it could even be better! But a new album was something special and exciting, it was there in your hand placing it on the turntable and listening eagerly to new songs you are really hoping you will love.
I Iove the way the music just builds up to the final crescendo.
Music in the 70's was radio, then albums and cassettes. 8 tracks for a bit, but I always hated them because they would break a song in the middle, and you had to wait for the track to change. Garage bands would typically record on cassette, unless they had money for a reel to reel. High end home stereos in the early seventies might have a reel to reel tspe player, but I honestly don't know how much music was availabe in that format. As a teen in the late 70's and early 80's i had a box for my cassettes (like a briefcase) that held about 4 dozen cassettes. And a Hitachi boom box that could play loud enough for music while we played frisbee.
In the 70s, my dad took his briefcase to work and I took my cassette briefcase to partues.
Excellent song.
One of my favorite Zep tunes
Led Zep forever! The "off-beat" of this song is crazy good!
“How did music get dispersed…?” Great question.! FM radio for the most part. DJs had more control of what to play and FM offered the radio format for playing Album tracks and not just popular hits. Cassette tapes. Everyone shared homemade tapes. Sony, Memorex, IBM, Maxell, TDK were just a few popular tape brands of the day.
Love this song!
Grew up in that period it was not nearly as primitive as you imagine, average record was $6.00 or 7.00 dollars, then you had cassettes which were about the same and music was played on the radio primarily FM stereo stations..
In the 70’s 8-tracks ruled. Cassettes became popular a bit later. For the car, of course - every car had an 8-track player. Full albums (LPs) for home.
@@dalmac5978 Now you got me looking to see when cassettes were introduced it is quite possible this 66 year old memory as failed me again, :).
@@dalmac5978" Although the birth and growth of the cassette began in the 1960s, its cultural moment took place during the 1970s and 1980s" - Wikipedia
It said that at first the quality was not nearly good enough to record music on and play it back.
There was nothing like concerts in the 70s & 80s and up to about the middle 90s.....Everyone was there to experience with their eyes and ears not through a cell phone , only a lighter and some weed. haha. it was a beautiful experience. The best rock and roll bands ever too.... I miss those times but glad I lived it.
You two have done such a good job covering Zeppelin's work. Was surprised to see this come up. Now, the next one..........Nobody's Fault But Mine. Pretty heavy little diddy.
Ahhh yes Nobody's Fault But Mine!! A Top 3 Zeppelin song for me.
@@quincee3376 Couldn't agree more.
@@curiousman1672 just curious (no pun intended) what are your Top 3 Zeppelin songs?
One of my favorite bands of all times!! Y'all should do Bron-Y-Aur Stomp from Zeppelin.
The MTV Unplugged version of this song is also great.
One of my favorite zep songs
This MUST SEE/HEAR Classic Hits Different,, Timbuk 3 "Life Is Hard" (Official Music Video Even Has Lyrics)
I remember that one. It was rainy warm spring day walking and watching the tadpoles. I remember the day well. Unfortunately, i forget my coworkers names now.
I still have my record collection… started in 1971…
Their genius version of an black American song , mandolin ,and European instruments and a voice and virtuoso playing that captures a west African spirit force in origin. There will never be another led zeppelin on this side of armageddon.
Brad and Lex, thanks for playing songs that many have long forgotten, keep rocking!
Radio was it, Brad. EVERYBODY had either Boom Boxes, transistor radios (slightly fatter than a cell phone), or a car with a bangin' 8 track or cassette tape player AND an FM radio . . . . . but radio was the platform by which we all had our first listen to all the new stuff. All of this music is new to you BUT, when it was new to us, IT WAS BRAND NEW TO EVERYONE! Try to imagine that . . . . .
This is a version of Lead Belly's classic "The Gallis Pole" Led Zeppelin took old blues songs and turned the volume of them up by 100. Should try Lead Belly's version. so different but still awesome
It's a traditional folk song dating back hundreds of years.
I love Leadbelly's version too.
Another vote for listening to Leadbelly doing this. It's pretty close to an obligation.
It's actually an old English folk song originally.
Brad, you're exactly right. AND, what they didn't list in the lyrics that were showing on the screen at the end of the song, after the "I'd like nothing more than to see you swinging from the gallows pole", the lyrics are the hangman's laughs: "Ha-ha-haaa, ha-ha-haaaa. Ha-ha-haaa, ha-ha-haaaa. Ha-ha-haaa, ha-ha-haaaa. Ha-ha-haaa, ha-ha-haaaa."
Haha!, We found our way with Maps, and other than the radio which didn’t play everything we bought eight track tapes, and vinyl records, we heard the music by sharing with our friends and relatives, back in the 70s there was also the midnight special on Friday night tv, as I remember it came on sometime after Lawrence Welk, LMAO.
I watch Lawrence Welk with my grandparents, and then my grandparents watch the midnight special and whoever was on it with me, don’t know how many people who share generations like that anymore.