The Velvet Underground's self-titled, Let It Bleed, Nashville Skyline, Live at San Quentin, Hot Buttered Soul, Scott 4, The Band's self-titled, In a Silent Way, there's too many to name besides the obvious!
I'll never forget the day i first heard this album as a young kid. My uncle put it on and it shook me to my core. It was scary and new and blew my mind. It was hardcore, it was "adult music". That was it, i took it and ran and never looked back.
JPJ steps out of the shadows during the band’s Letterman interview right after the Kennedy Center honors. His humor betrays his breadth and superb timing.
1969 is one of the best years in rock history in my opinion. LZ 1 and 2, Beck-ola, Cream's Goodbye album, Blind Faith, Volunteers, Let it Bleed, CSN, Everybody Knows this is Nowhere, Kicking out the Jams, Abbey Road, Tommy etc........ To many amazing albums to list in one comment. Its very cool to see the younger generation getting into vinyl and classic music. I started buying music in the 90s when I was in my teens and my collection gravitated around music from the 60s and 70s, particularly anything blues based with Clapton, Peter Green, Jeff Beck (my Favorite guitarist ever!!), Jimmy Page (my second favorite guitarist ever), Rory Gallagher and Gary Moore. This music got me into playing guitar and I'm proud to say that I was the only guy in my high school under the headphones trying to decipher Yardbirds and Zeppelin riffs. You have excellent taste in music! Keep up the good work!!!!👍
This just happened to me within the last week. I bought my copy of Led Zeppelin 2 from a local thrift store that has been closed for over ten years, probably in 2007-2008. This has been my favorite album that i own, definitely the most significant record that I bought during my childhood. Over the weekend, I found out about disogs and went online to see which pressing I had (I have the same 1977 repressing) When I took a closer look at the cover to find any serial numbers I missed, I noticed a full name faintly written in pencil on the front cover by the edge that I had never noticed before "Tina". Tina was my great aunt who passed away somewhere between 1996-2000. Somehow, someway, I bought HER copy of this record years after she died and had no clue until this weekend. It ended up at the thrift store at the perfect time for me to find it, buy it, and for it to become my favorite album for years and years. This made me feel like my love of music was supposed to be this great and im not doing anything wrong. My mind is still blown.
@@abigaildevoe the world works in amazing ways. Your videos are great, I've been binging them since the Zeppelin 2 one popped into my feed after all this! Cheers :)
I was 17 years old at the end of 1969, saw live Led Zeppelin about 4 times, King Crimson, Family, Blind Faith, Neil Young, Rolling Stones, The Who, Pink Floyd, Fairport Convention, etc, never imagined how significant this music would be at the time, what a time to be alive, especially living in London, remember idiot dancing to Deep Purple at the Roundhouse Chalk Farm, also heard Abbey Road on huge speakers at the venue a week before the release, went there almost every Sunday in 1969/70. Cool that this music is still loved by new generations 😊
This was the very first Led Zeppelin album that I had listened to from the very beginning until the very end.You simply can’t help but love what these 4 guys did in the history of Rock and Roll.Thank you very much for the video Abby!!!
Led Zeppelin ii is one of those albums that just jumps out of the speakers and takes you on a wild sonic ride from start to finish and it's also an album that no matter where you first heard it it made a memorable and powerful impact on you
Ramble On to me is one of Led Zeppelin's best songs. Jonesy with playful bass lines in the verses, the change between the sweet acoustic guitar to the kicking electric guitar in the chorus, Bonham's groove throughout the song, and Plant's vocals make it a masterpiece to me. Also, Bring It On Home is so fun to jam to on the guitar!
When "Whole Lotta Love" came blasting out of the A.M. radio in 1969, it was a game changer for me. Fantastic heavy psych paving the way for the heavy metal sounds of the 70's.
I completely agree with your comment regarding Led Zeppelin II being the first album that sounded like a Led Zeppelin album. As a band, they truly came into their own and settled into a unifying groove. This was definitely my favorite vinyl album that I would put on after school during high school.
I also feel like “Thank You” was a very important moment on the album that humanizes Plant through its humble messaging. It’s also one of those songs like I feel like a lot of people might skip through, but if you take the time, you get rewarded with a true inner experience from a deceptively simple concept. I feel this way about Tangerine from Zep III as well.
JPJ's basslines are so freakin great on this album! B) When i was a bass player in a band, along with our own songs i'd always practice/ jam along to II everyday as well :P \m/
Finally Led Zeppelin II on a episode of vinyl monday !, I was waiting , great masterpiece , one of my favorite album of all time. excellent video; my favorite are Whole Lotta Love What is and what should never be The Lemon song Thank you Heartbreaker Living loving maid ( She's just a woman ) Ramble on Moby Dick Bring it on home 🙃😉
Robert Plant played in an old little venue in my hometown Aberdeen Scotland last November, then he appeared after in a local bar and did some karaoke.👍🏼
for me LZ II is the crowning glory of their catalog followed by HotH and LZ4. I think it really defined the riff and vibe that all us garage bands were trying to replicate in the 70's.
At the age of 14 in 1970, I heard one and two and my life changed forever. I had heard guitar sounds in hits of the day but this was a different league altogether. Very difficult to hear music like this in the UK as it was very limited. Several pubs in England started playing this stuff and we clinged to them like limpetsun til closing time! Thank you!!! Fantastic work but ramble on is my all time favourite.
Back in the 70s the Zeppelin catalog taught me to play guitar. Our garage band even learned the live 18 minute Dazed and Confused. Bow and echo box included. I never found Page to be a rigid player but a feel guitarist. His layering painted the canvas landscapes for his birds to fly on. Presence is the pinnacle of his style... for me. Thanks for the video.
I bought Zeppelin ll when I was 13 years old… 1971. You never saw photos of the band in music magazines/etc… So when I saw the cover, with the airmen on it, I thought the band had 10 members! 😂. I thought perhaps the woman on the cover was playing the keyboard bits, as they didn’t have a female vocalist… lol! This being said, next album I bought was Zep l, and I finally figured out there were only 4 members in the band! I have to say, I saw Zeppelin live “once”. One of the 1975 L.A. Forum shows. My god they were amazing live! Jimmy’s bow-solo and theremin on Whole Lotta Love… Kashmir live… unforgettable show by one of my personal musical Holy Trinity! Beatles YES Zeppelin. Leave me on a desert island with all 3 bands’ catalogues, I’m a happy castaway! Love your videos Abigail! I think you must be reincarnated from the 1960s. 🤗
Jimmy Page is all about getting the vibe rather than the perfect take. He’s like “They’ll get the idea.” Which I think is awesome. My brother is the opposite kind of guitarist from me. He thinks Page is the worst kind of sloppy. Next to Jack White. Two of my heroes. lol.
Love your channel Abbey. Sorry if I spelled it wrong? Oh well, what is and what never should be! 😂 You're so funny. I know the feeling, I do RUclips reviews myself. I even forgot to mention celebration day on my Zep 3 review. Lol
Dear Abby (Sorry, couldn't resist), your knowledge is as impressively extensive as your presentation of it is fun! I don't agree with all you said about The Mighty Zeppelin here, but why should that matter? It certainly won't keep me from subscribing to your channel, as I see you have many more cool albums that you discuss, in addition to my favorite group (and PhysGraf is MY fave of theirs). So I smashed "SUB," to be sure I won't lose track of your tracks! Thanks!
Me too. I've never in my 48 years on this planet have EVER heard anyone call that song she's just a woman. ???????? What? This isn't Billy Joel. Literally every time I hear it I scream at the screen "Why are you butchering the song title?" Great video though, as usual.
Ramble on is absolutely amazing, After listening to Zeppelin for 40 years, I would say it's the best song on the album, of course, the whole album is great.
Two things I love about "The Lemon Song" - Firstly, it sounds like every garage band I ever played in. Not the skill of the musicians, but just that dirty, groovy sound. You can hear the volume attenuate slightly as it pegs the board. At least that's what I think is happening. Secondly, John Paul Jones' bass in the breakdown is just so cool, so loose and comfortable. I've heard other bassists play it and they just kinda ape it, they don't have that effortless. free groove that Jonesy has.
I was also an OBSESSED Zeppelin fan (although 20+ years earlier than you). I bought this record on the recommendation of a friend in high school and within 6 weeks of hearing the opening riff to Whole Lotta Love I had all of the records (including CODA) on various media. I then read Hammer of the Gods 10x and nailed all the album covers to my bedroom wall in some sort of zeppelin mosaic? I dunno. I was a kid. It seemed awesome at the time (they were all super cheap represses - Don’t worry). I subscribed to fanzines….the whole shebang. I’ve now owned all of these albums many times over. And Achilles Last Stand is the most underrated (along with In The Evening) song in their catalog. My fav - Almost impossible to choose but Since I’ve Been Loving You. Yeah, that one. Page’s solo still gives me chills. ❤😊🎵
Back in 2006 8th grade was entirely about this band. My mom and I bonded super super deeply over Led Zeppelin Alice Cooper and Black Sabbath. My mom's car always had either Led Zeppelin II, Killer or Sabbath Bloody Sabbath in the cassette deck. I was so excited when my graduation present was Houses of the Holy and Led Zeppelin II on CD since the tapes had worn out really bad lol. You have to imagine my shock when I found out in 2007 about the London Concert!!!! Wow wow wow. Was too poor to go from Canada to England back then, but just the idea that they played one last show made me so happy.
My favourite album from 1969 is the Rolling stones - Let it bleed! As for Led Zeppelin II I bought this in 1972 from a market stall a water damaged sleeve but the vinyl perfect! I love how you continue with massive enthusiasm on vinyl Mondays!! Love it!!
Hi Abby, Great video. Well done. I was fortunate enough to see Zep in '77 (Day On The Green - Oakland). It was hot! It was loud! We were down front and had a blast.
The first Zeppelin album was such a revelation that my pals and I just couldn't wait for the next release. I was a sophomore in highschool and my buddies and I at lunch would run six blocks to the drugstore that sold the latest albums just to see if it was out yet. I think it was three weeks of doing this everyday when finally there it was. The folded ten dollar bill I carried in my blue jeans pocket just for that album, was flat as could be but was very well spent. I still have that album fifty plus years later. Led Zeppelin meant so very much to the youth when they emerged on the music scene.
Abigail, I congratulate you on your information and presentation. I don't know how you did so much research. I'm not a Led Zepplin expert, but I do appreciate your fine work, effort, and enthusiasm. Well done.
Hey! Thanks for going to bat for Iron Butterfly! I feel they were truly great, unfairly derided, and now almost completely forgotten. Fantastic band. If you haven't yet, check out their logical extension: Captain Beyond.
Damn, but that was a pretty damned complete overview of Zep 2!! Sweet! My LP sounded BIG upon my very first play. So I wondered why my other friends’ copies didn’t possess the same presence. Your explanation of this dichotomy certainly nails it! I love your Abbey Road and King Crimson reviews and I look forward to your next ‘look & listen’! My god but you are so keeeeeeey-UTE!! Cheers!
It's wonderful to see so much love from the younger generation for classic rock. I was 15 in 1969. Somebody ask me if I wanted to go to Raleigh ( 30 mins drive) and see LZ. I said, yeah, why not. I'm sorry I don't remember much about the concert to share with you except Jimmy's amp messed up a few times and the music was spotty but energetic. I saw them again in 1975 in Greensboro, NC. They were much better of course having matured musically as a group and had a much better sound system and light show. "No Quarter" was a highlight for me and "Moby Dick", I remember those well.
Thanks for this episode, awesome as always. Led Zeppelin II has always been my favourite Zeppelin album. Funny you say you don't like "Ramble On" as it's my favourite song here. John Paul Jones' bass riff is what sells that song to me, it's so cool. Also, that quiet verse/loud chorus does seem like grunge before grunge.
Led Zeppelin was finally L E D Z E P P E L I N I N G on their way... The first two albums were "a right cross followed by a major upper-cut". 🔊🎼🎸🎹🥁🎙📻 And many years latter it all sounds so damn good! Also giving credit to all these people some may never have heard of: Blues Singers and Players: Robert Johnson, Bukka White, Howlin Wolf, Blind Willie Johnson, Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe, Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Sleepy John Estes, Little Walter, John Lee Hooker, Big Bill Broonzy, Son House, LeadBelly...and more. Electrified Blues
In addition, I think Santana's first album and The Who's Tommy, both released in 1969 as well, were trailblazers in latin rock and rock concept albums, respectively.
Me and my friend used to take the line “Alimony! Alimony!” In She’s Just a Woman with “Ravioli! Ravioli! Give me the Formuloli!” From SpongeBob and then we would laugh for a half hour straight.
yeah. she wasn't alive in 1980 and shouldn't get right 20% of facts she spews here but i did notice that. i've written her a few emails and have duplicated duplicated (i did it on purpose that time) words i should have typed once! great video!
I bought this album on release in the UK with cash from selling my copy of The Beatles “ White Album”. When you’re a 15 year old schoolboy with no cash, life is full of tough decisions and I didn’t want to wait until LZ2 was wrapped in Xmas paper from my aunt/ grandma etc! The bass on “ Lemon Song” has so much ambience you’d think JPJ was in the room with you. Great job again Abby, lots of detail and insight delivered in such a charming engaging way. Mother fiddlesticking excellent.
Your in depth review of Led Zeppelin and LZ II have me going back and forth on google , and I am a huge fan , thank you! Oh yeah I am going to play this lp again it’s been too long !
Love you Abigail!!! You are a breath of fresh air to this old hippie!! So great to see a younger listener who appreciates good music an idnt seduced by the current Autotune/Pop music industry...Rock on, Anby!!!!👍😎🥰✌🤣🎶🎸
It's strange how Led Zeppelin seeps into one's subconscious. (They don't promise unconditional love like the Beatles, right?) Somehow Zeppelin is like the friend you lost touch with years ago who is still in your dreams.
I was young n dumb when I first heard a few songs from LZII. It was 1981 and I was 13. Something dawned on me though - as I’d sit patiently and wait for the Hammond B-3 fade back IN at the end of Thank You…or the mellow bass sound in What Is And….or it’s explosiveness on Bring It. I could immediately detect even at this young age, that: I was hearing something that was untouchable - of which it had zero competition. A true jewel in the crown. I was right too. John Paul Jones was so talented even back then - that he hadn’t ever the need to join a band such as Jimmy’s new venture. When they formed it’s as if they’d all been waiting for each other. It was lightning in a bottle. I refer to the second record today as British Motown. That’s right…John Paul is THAT GOOD. Excellent synopsis, by the way. I enjoyed your dialogue and your obvious research! (Also, I’ve never seen that pic of Pamela with Clive before!)
This is what's so delightful about the amazing Ms. Devoe. An old geezer like me who was 17 years old when, in the Fall of 1969, he first heard "Led Zeppelin II", the first LZ lp he'd heard and still his favorite, can learn far more about it than he ever knew before from an extremely savvy, brainy, funny and lovely young woman who's young enough to be his granddaughter. Vinyl Monday is a wonderment.
Your channel rocks! Got to 1:22 and stopped this one to watch Houses of the Holy first, as at the moment it's my jam and has been in my heart since I was a teen.
This morning was gray and bland doing laundry and stuff, then I remembered it was Abby Zep 2 Day, and everything brightened up. 😊❤ Great review, I didn't realize the production was that chaotic. Really interesting. Props on your outfit too 🥰.
For what it's worth I always called it Living Loving Maid. Oh, and where were all the classic rock girlies when I was in college? I feel that no one else at my university liked any of this, preferring early 90s dance music and hip hop. I was out on an island with this stuff.
Another excellent episode here. This was the first Zeppelin album I ever owned, I got it as a Christmas gift on cassette way back in '86, lol. It was number one on my wishlist that year, sixth grade, seems like yesterday. Also, I totally pegged your favorites here, except for "Ramble On", I guessed that as your number one and "She's Just a Woman" as your second fave, lol. AND HOLY COW !!! Don't tell me you are doing "Goat's Head Soup" next week ? This is going to be my most counted down to episode of Vinyl Monday since I have been aware of your show, can't wait !
Dear Rock N Roller Devoe, I watched all of this.. I always wish i could tell John Bonham that they have always been the best ever since they came out... on up till now.. Then I would show him how my phone plays every song made. Then I would put on The Humpty Dance for us to listen to.
As always this video was awesome. When I was a senior back in the day. My friends and I had talked a local rustic resort owner to rent us a cabin in the off season winter months. There were many, as I like to say, knitting parties out there But always playing in the eight track stereo was Led Zeppelin. Thanks for the stroll down memory lane. ;) peace ☮️ ✌️
I've listened to LZII literally well over 1000 times and know the intricacies of the mix and recording process inside and out but had never heard the story of the first "too hot" mastering by Bob Ludwig. Will seek that out. LZII literally taught me tp play guitar and is my fave. WIAWSNB is probably my favorite song along with How Many More Times and The Rain Song. WIAWSNB is perhaps their most original song -- there is no other artist, band or genre like it before or since. Plant's vocal is perfect for the song.
So glad you pointed out The Small Faces cover of “You Need Lovin” as an “inspiration” for Zep’s “Whole Lotta Love”. Everyone mentions them not crediting Willie Dixon, no one seems seems to notice how Plant is just straight-out copying Steve Marriott’s vocal in spots. I’ve read in a couple of places that the only reason Plant doesn’t share songwriter credit with Page on Led Zep I like he does on all the other albums is due to some kind of legal complications from some old contract he had signed back in his Band Of Joy days that he needed to be extricated from, and to whatever extent there are any original lyrics on that album, they’re largely Plant’s. The new lyrics to their unacknowledged cover of Jake Holmes’ “Dazed And Confused” are clearly Plant improvisations to my ear.
I love your colorful reviews! They are never boring and always informative! Nineteen Sixty-Nine was a great year for music and there is so much great albums to choose from. My favorite album is Abbey Road. But then again maybe it's Let It Bleed. Then again, the two Zeppelin albums. Maybe a tie!
"Thank You" was our wedding song. That song was quite hard to hear for a number of years after we divorced but now it's just another great Zep ballad. Abigail I dig your stuff. Subscribed!
Abby, you sparked a lot of thoughts with this episode. In no particular order: It was fitting that you details the dates for Heartbreaker and WLL around their anniversary, August 29 and 30, 1969. Consider that those recordings are 54 years old now, and still invite serious listening. You also refer to 2 hand-me-down guitars beloved by Page. According to the folklore - and one of his interviews - his very first guitar was left behind in the home his family had just moved into. You want to find Miss Pamela's diary, let's find the guy who left his guitar behind when he moved. Re: the turntable/hot mix topic: sometimes I hear people wonder about why an album is re-issued as a 'Remix" Recording technologies have always been ahead of playback technologies, sometimes by a lot. For example, those 1960s multi-track recordings were sometimes originally dropped as 'mono'. That is an extreme example but similar to the other developments in recording vs. playback. Re: Atlantic releasing WLL as a single, which only reaches #6: these were days of great audience changes. Page, for one, understood what the changes were. LZ fans did not buy singles, they bought albums. Along with containing songs longer than 2:30, albums were conceived as a whole portrait, with an opening, a theme, a sign-off. Music fans then were listening to longer more complicated music than the fans just a few years older than them. Yes, Eddie left in a cough. LZ was at peace with artifacts on their recordings. I think it is at the beginning of Black Country Woman that an engineer hears a plane overhead, wants to get rid of it, and Plant says, with a laugh "No, leave it!" The Onion was a satire publication, before the Babylon Bee. One of their famous articles (now some time ago) was about how bad popular music had become. They reported that the world could be saved only by a special riff kept deep in an underground vault, and could be played only by Jimmy Page, to save music. Re: Page's style: he was a studio musician on a large percentage of songs that came over during the British invasion, even before he gets with the Yardbirds. His playing couldn't have been too sloppy. One tic of his was to vary a repetitive lick on each repeat, so I imagine that he was sometimes improvising to himself. Re: all the heat about music authorship: blues was always a traditional music, written and played by a group of musicians and singers who borrowed from each other. LZ gets more attention because they sold more records. The "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" case is a good example. Some teenager is playing LZ1, his mom hears a certain song and says, "Hey I wrote that." But LZ had credited 'American Traditional", or words to that effect, on their album, because that is how it was credited on the album where they first heard it. Turns out that Page and Plant were fans of Joan Baez, who had recorded that song some time earlier. Did the Mom sue Joan Baez? No, because she didn't sell records in exponential numbers like LZ. "The Lemon Song" has a musical tribute to early Blues artists beyond the lyrics. Right around 1:25 there is a vamp, a traditional intro that a band would play when an artist was taking the stage. And what happens? LZ becomes an improvising jazz/blues band, featuring each player, just as if they were playing some club, until the 'going off the stage" vamp about 5:35. So it is different than just some cover. It is an homage (how 'bout that French?). My take on this issue of copying is different. I listened to Memphis Minnie, I like her music, I have been to her grave. The LZ version of "Levee" is a Boeing 787 compared to the Wright Brother's first plane. Yes, the Wright Brothers were some inspiration to Boeing. That's it. I attended a lot of concerts during the era you cover in Vinyl Monday. There were many excellent, professional, satisfying concerts then, but none were like LZ. Concert versions of songs were not only longer, you would also hear echoes of other songs, completely different songs, during the extended versions. They each were musicians, playing with each other for your entertainment, musicians at the top of their game.
Awesome episode! The mighty Led Zeppelin's ultimate party album, IMO. No doubt those Ludwig copies got well worn at countless parties when this was released. Wish I'd been there. Fun nerdy fact: Nirvana did a cover of "Heartbreaker" at their earliest gig, a house party, and Kurt did a *great* job on the riff!
I stumbled upon this video and - much to my surprise - made it through to the end. Brings back some pleasant memories of my youth in the mid-80's. It's funny, though, that I've only ever referred to the second song on side 2 as "Livin' Lovin' Maid". I don't think I've ever heard anyone call it "She's Just a Woman" in my entire life.
I heard III, II and IV in that order. III has that first heard first loved status with me. IV was a complete blast when I finally heard it. But II begins with one of the biggest riffs in history and drags you right into it. And right up to the end of Living Loving Maid (never till now heard it referred to by the subtitle) it feels exactly like a great rock album should. Ramble On has some lovely textures and a big chorus but I don't care about it much, either. I would play Moby Dick up to the drum solo and skip the rest for Bring it on Home which I liked for its weird opening vocal (didn't quite understand the black voice thing at that age) and the sudden change to the rockout. Because the second half of side two was often skipped I still consider it a patchy record. Then again, that thunder in the mountains moment when JPJ comes in with that giant bass in Whole Lotta Love .... Oh, my copy was a new late '70s reprint and it didn't have the cough at the start of WLL. First I heard that was on the Remasters compilation in the '90s. Another great celebration of a classic. For which, many thanks.
I remember being a little kid when Zeppelin II came out. I don't remember specifically it coming out but I remember my dad jamming on his Macintosh system through his Acoustic Research speakers while me and friends played outside and the house was a rockin' you could say. I couldn't have been much more than almost 3 years old when it came out but I remember WLL rocking out. I may have some of the memories from years after that that release I'm drawing on? He didn't just jam on it one time. But I definitely remembered the music and sound of that Macintosh system which one day will be set up in my house! Right now it's stored in his closet and has been for the past 30 years or so. He just doesn't want to let anybody use it but he won't ever use it again himself either. BTW, and I'm not trying to be rude or preachy here, it's What Is And What Should Never Be for that title. When I was finally old enough to be buying my own Led Zeppelin records it took me a while to get used to that song title. I would screw it up trying to write it down and forget exactly what it was haha. But I liked it and it didn't take too long! And you're right about that 1977 pressing and there being a lot of Led Zeppelin repressings then. I don't know when Columbia Record Club started up but if you have CRC on your cover or label that may be the reason there are so many pressings from 1977. Back in the mid-1990s I bought Zeppelin I, Zeppelin II, Zeppelin III, Zeppelin IV, Houses Of The Holy, and Physical Graffiti at a pawn shop I'd stopped at for $1 each. The guy had wanted $2 each but I talked him down to $1 each. They were in great shape and had NM sound. A lot of those were CRC pressings that sounded great and were from that 1977 window. So I'm guessing the record club deal must have started somewhere around 1977 but I've never looked it up :-) Brian in Fort Worth 🎶
We had a AM radio station...on weekends they had a rock show with call in requests and dedications....I used to call in and request "Thank you" and dedicate it to my first GF.
yet another fantastic episode! i've entered another one of my seasonal led zeppelin phases, specifically lz 1, so i felt you really captured the spirit of the music. also, i was very proud of myself for recognising the monty python intermission music, great reference.
Shake it and jump! ‘scuse me, gotta pick me heart off the floor. Libido vibrating so much, had to save my bass from feinting to the ground. Looking great, Abbey!
WOW! You have much more information about this album than I would have ever imagined. Undisputed best Rock band of all time. Watched whole video. thanks 🎸🌻🦄
what’s your favorite album from 1969? comment below!
I'm gonna look like a badly tied shoelace after this one
The Stooges S/T
The Velvet Underground's self-titled, Let It Bleed, Nashville Skyline, Live at San Quentin, Hot Buttered Soul, Scott 4, The Band's self-titled, In a Silent Way, there's too many to name besides the obvious!
I know its a boring pick but Abbey Road. Its the final album by the greatest band in history with outstanding production whats not to love?
@@danielboxx-see the let it be episode, and the section on don’t let me down, before commenting
Bring It On Home is criminally underrated and underappreciated in my opinion. It might be my favorite Zeppelin riff.
I used to have that riff as my ring tone. I would never answer until it had finished
Yes It really is one of their best riffs
@@pedronight2150Definitely. Very inventive idea to fuse blues with rock in this manner.
Yezzir how eventually singing along/headbanging to top seller is kinda curse em heh heh
When I got my first electric guitar, I made it a point to learn Bring It On Home.
Zep is the GOAT of heavy rock. Love Zep II. And............loved your analysis.
“Bring it on home is OK” you kidding? It’s an absolute BEAST!
I'll never forget the day i first heard this album as a young kid. My uncle put it on and it shook me to my core. It was scary and new and blew my mind. It was hardcore, it was "adult music". That was it, i took it and ran and never looked back.
I think you can't talk about Led Zeppelin II without talking about JPJ, his bass playing and arranging is so very strong on this one.
John Paul Jones bass was never recorded/mixed quite the same way after the first two.😢
he's my favorite member. And arguably, he had the more interesting career post Zeppelin musically among the members.
@@themadmattster9647 Thank you is the most beautiful organ job by J.P.J .
JPJ steps out of the shadows during the band’s Letterman interview right after the Kennedy Center honors. His humor betrays his breadth and superb timing.
1969 is one of the best years in rock history in my opinion. LZ 1 and 2, Beck-ola, Cream's Goodbye album, Blind Faith, Volunteers, Let it Bleed, CSN, Everybody Knows this is Nowhere, Kicking out the Jams, Abbey Road, Tommy etc........ To many amazing albums to list in one comment. Its very cool to see the younger generation getting into vinyl and classic music. I started buying music in the 90s when I was in my teens and my collection gravitated around music from the 60s and 70s, particularly anything blues based with Clapton, Peter Green, Jeff Beck (my Favorite guitarist ever!!), Jimmy Page (my second favorite guitarist ever), Rory Gallagher and Gary Moore. This music got me into playing guitar and I'm proud to say that I was the only guy in my high school under the headphones trying to decipher Yardbirds and Zeppelin riffs. You have excellent taste in music! Keep up the good work!!!!👍
1971 would like to say hi
I've always thought 1969 was a very strong candidate for musics best year.
Too many!
This just happened to me within the last week.
I bought my copy of Led Zeppelin 2 from a local thrift store that has been closed for over ten years, probably in 2007-2008. This has been my favorite album that i own, definitely the most significant record that I bought during my childhood. Over the weekend, I found out about disogs and went online to see which pressing I had (I have the same 1977 repressing)
When I took a closer look at the cover to find any serial numbers I missed, I noticed a full name faintly written in pencil on the front cover by the edge that I had never noticed before "Tina".
Tina was my great aunt who passed away somewhere between 1996-2000. Somehow, someway, I bought HER copy of this record years after she died and had no clue until this weekend. It ended up at the thrift store at the perfect time for me to find it, buy it, and for it to become my favorite album for years and years. This made me feel like my love of music was supposed to be this great and im not doing anything wrong. My mind is still blown.
that's beautiful. it sounds like that copy was meant to make its way back to you
@@abigaildevoe the world works in amazing ways. Your videos are great, I've been binging them since the Zeppelin 2 one popped into my feed after all this! Cheers :)
I was 17 years old at the end of 1969, saw live Led Zeppelin about 4 times, King Crimson, Family, Blind Faith, Neil Young, Rolling Stones, The Who, Pink Floyd, Fairport Convention, etc, never imagined how significant this music would be at the time, what a time to be alive, especially living in London, remember idiot dancing to Deep Purple at the Roundhouse Chalk Farm, also heard Abbey Road on huge speakers at the venue a week before the release, went there almost every Sunday in 1969/70. Cool that this music is still loved by new generations 😊
i don’t think you can possibly conceive of how much i envy you omg you ate that
In '69 I was 21, called the world my own.
Lucky bastard
This was the very first Led Zeppelin album that I had listened to from the very beginning until the very end.You simply can’t help but love what these 4 guys did in the history of Rock and Roll.Thank you very much for the video Abby!!!
Led Zeppelin II quite literally dragged the 1960s kicking and screaming into the 1970s.
Even after smoking salvia I couldn’t imagine literally seeing a decade drag another decades through time and space
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You know I'm talking musically, right? Not physically 😂.
It's "What Is and What Should Never Be". Great video Abby!
Led Zeppelin ii is one of those albums that just jumps out of the speakers and takes you on a wild sonic ride from start to finish and it's also an album that no matter where you first heard it it made a memorable and powerful impact on you
Ramble On to me is one of Led Zeppelin's best songs. Jonesy with playful bass lines in the verses, the change between the sweet acoustic guitar to the kicking electric guitar in the chorus, Bonham's groove throughout the song, and Plant's vocals make it a masterpiece to me.
Also, Bring It On Home is so fun to jam to on the guitar!
Been listening to this album since the day it came out and had no idea what went into making it. You do a superb job.
LZ 2 was my first Zep album and still has special place status. And (being a Tolkien fan) Ramble On, sonically and lyrically, is my favorite song.
When "Whole Lotta Love" came blasting out of the A.M. radio in 1969, it was a game changer for me. Fantastic heavy psych paving the way for the heavy metal sounds of the 70's.
It literally dragged the 1960s kicking and screaming into the 1970s.
Yep...AM Radio, Top-40 stations.
AM Radio is all we had until the '72 Buick.
I completely agree with your comment regarding Led Zeppelin II being the first album that sounded like a Led Zeppelin album. As a band, they truly came into their own and settled into a unifying groove. This was definitely my favorite vinyl album that I would put on after school during high school.
I also feel like “Thank You” was a very important moment on the album that humanizes Plant through its humble messaging. It’s also one of those songs like I feel like a lot of people might skip through, but if you take the time, you get rewarded with a true inner experience from a deceptively simple concept. I feel this way about Tangerine from Zep III as well.
The remastered reissue on vinyl supervised by Pagey himself sounds amazing when played on a top end system. The drums are impressive.
JPJ's basslines are so freakin great on this album! B)
When i was a bass player in a band, along with our own songs i'd always practice/ jam along to II everyday as well :P \m/
Finally Led Zeppelin II on a episode of vinyl monday !, I was waiting , great masterpiece , one of my favorite album of all time.
excellent video;
my favorite are
Whole Lotta Love
What is and what should never be
The Lemon song
Thank you
Heartbreaker
Living loving maid ( She's just a woman )
Ramble on
Moby Dick
Bring it on home
🙃😉
This episode coming out as I just got tickets to see Robert Plant live on tour is literal perfect timing!!
no way!! have so much fun
@@abigaildevoe thank you!!
Robert Plant played in an old little venue in my hometown Aberdeen Scotland last November, then he appeared after in a local bar and did some karaoke.👍🏼
Going to bat for Iron Butterfly? You just earned my total respect, Abby!
Me too!
There's a 1990 interview with Page & Plant where Page says: "we recorded this on Tour." Robert Says: "on a Tour of recording studios."
Lol Percy is witty 😂
for me LZ II is the crowning glory of their catalog followed by HotH and LZ4. I think it really defined the riff and vibe that all us garage bands were trying to replicate in the 70's.
Nice "Groupie" vibe/look!! The bass work of John Paul Jones, is, quite simply masterful and most impressive playing on the album
At the age of 14 in 1970, I heard one and two and my life changed forever. I had heard guitar sounds in hits of the day but this was a different league altogether. Very difficult to hear music like this in the UK as it was very limited. Several pubs in England started playing this stuff and we clinged to them like limpetsun til closing time! Thank you!!! Fantastic work but ramble on is my all time favourite.
Abigail .. Vinyl Monday Rules !! 🎸
Back in the 70s the Zeppelin catalog taught me to play guitar. Our garage band even learned the live 18 minute Dazed and Confused. Bow and echo box included. I never found Page to be a rigid player but a feel guitarist. His layering painted the canvas landscapes for his birds to fly on. Presence is the pinnacle of his style... for me. Thanks for the video.
I bought Zeppelin ll when I was 13 years old… 1971. You never saw photos of the band in music magazines/etc… So when I saw the cover, with the airmen on it, I thought the band had 10 members! 😂. I thought perhaps the woman on the cover was playing the keyboard bits, as they didn’t have a female vocalist… lol!
This being said, next album I bought was Zep l, and I finally figured out there were only 4 members in the band!
I have to say, I saw Zeppelin live “once”. One of the 1975 L.A. Forum shows. My god they were amazing live! Jimmy’s bow-solo and theremin on Whole Lotta Love… Kashmir live… unforgettable show by one of my personal musical Holy Trinity!
Beatles
YES
Zeppelin.
Leave me on a desert island with all 3 bands’ catalogues, I’m a happy castaway!
Love your videos Abigail! I think you must be reincarnated from the 1960s. 🤗
Jimmy Page is all about getting the vibe rather than the perfect take. He’s like “They’ll get the idea.” Which I think is awesome. My brother is the opposite kind of guitarist from me. He thinks Page is the worst kind of sloppy. Next to Jack White. Two of my heroes. lol.
Ramble On is my favorite song by Led Zeppelin.
Definitely a gem.
Love your channel Abbey. Sorry if I spelled it wrong? Oh well, what is and what never should be! 😂 You're so funny. I know the feeling, I do RUclips reviews myself. I even forgot to mention celebration day on my Zep 3 review. Lol
Dear Abby (Sorry, couldn't resist), your knowledge is as impressively extensive as your presentation of it is fun! I don't agree with all you said about The Mighty Zeppelin here, but why should that matter? It certainly won't keep me from subscribing to your channel, as I see you have many more cool albums that you discuss, in addition to my favorite group (and PhysGraf is MY fave of theirs). So I smashed "SUB," to be sure I won't lose track of your tracks! Thanks!
I Never Knew I Was The Only One Who Called It “Livin’ Loving Maid”
Me too. I've never in my 48 years on this planet have EVER heard anyone call that song she's just a woman. ???????? What? This isn't Billy Joel. Literally every time I hear it I scream at the screen "Why are you butchering the song title?" Great video though, as usual.
Been listening to Zeppelin for over 40 years. Everyone called it living loving maid, When played on the radio, they also call it living loving maid.
Ramble on is absolutely amazing, After listening to Zeppelin for 40 years, I would say it's the best song on the album, of course, the whole album is great.
Great album and review....my favorite track...Heartbreaker !!
My mom saw them twice in 72 and 73. I got LZ2 on vinyl back in 6th grade. I think it's my favorite album too. Zep was always so mystifying to me.
Two things I love about "The Lemon Song" - Firstly, it sounds like every garage band I ever played in. Not the skill of the musicians, but just that dirty, groovy sound. You can hear the volume attenuate slightly as it pegs the board. At least that's what I think is happening. Secondly, John Paul Jones' bass in the breakdown is just so cool, so loose and comfortable. I've heard other bassists play it and they just kinda ape it, they don't have that effortless. free groove that Jonesy has.
I was also an OBSESSED Zeppelin fan (although 20+ years earlier than you). I bought this record on the recommendation of a friend in high school and within 6 weeks of hearing the opening riff to Whole Lotta Love I had all of the records (including CODA) on various media. I then read Hammer of the Gods 10x and nailed all the album covers to my bedroom wall in some sort of zeppelin mosaic? I dunno. I was a kid. It seemed awesome at the time (they were all super cheap represses - Don’t worry). I subscribed to fanzines….the whole shebang. I’ve now owned all of these albums many times over. And Achilles Last Stand is the most underrated (along with In The Evening) song in their catalog. My fav - Almost impossible to choose but Since I’ve Been Loving You. Yeah, that one. Page’s solo still gives me chills. ❤😊🎵
This girl here is quite the musicologist. I'm very impressed.
Yeah, she reads Wiki listings and album credits like a champ.
Great way to learn plus documentaries and after that it's retaining all the info in your head.@@MackeyWilliams
Back in 2006 8th grade was entirely about this band. My mom and I bonded super super deeply over Led Zeppelin Alice Cooper and Black Sabbath. My mom's car always had either Led Zeppelin II, Killer or Sabbath Bloody Sabbath in the cassette deck. I was so excited when my graduation present was Houses of the Holy and Led Zeppelin II on CD since the tapes had worn out really bad lol. You have to imagine my shock when I found out in 2007 about the London Concert!!!! Wow wow wow. Was too poor to go from Canada to England back then, but just the idea that they played one last show made me so happy.
My favourite album from 1969 is the Rolling stones - Let it bleed! As for Led Zeppelin II I bought this in 1972 from a market stall a water damaged sleeve but the vinyl perfect! I love how you continue with massive enthusiasm on vinyl Mondays!! Love it!!
Best outfit ever in this episode Abigail sheesh
Great album and the best band
Yes, if I had to single out one favorite band, I would have to go with Led Zeppelin.
I got married last year to "Thank You" coming down the aisle. The organ playing out the ending is when my wife walked down.
Hi Abby, Great video. Well done. I was fortunate enough to see Zep in '77 (Day On The Green - Oakland). It was hot! It was loud! We were down front and had a blast.
The first Zeppelin album was such a revelation that my pals and I just couldn't wait for the next release. I was a sophomore in highschool and my buddies and I at lunch would run six blocks to the drugstore that sold the latest albums just to see if it was out yet. I think it was three weeks of doing this everyday when finally there it was. The folded ten dollar bill I carried in my blue jeans pocket just for that album, was flat as could be but was very well spent. I still have that album fifty plus years later. Led Zeppelin meant so very much to the youth when they emerged on the music scene.
Abigail, I congratulate you on your information and presentation. I don't know how you did so much research. I'm not a Led Zepplin expert, but I do appreciate your fine work, effort, and enthusiasm. Well done.
Hey! Thanks for going to bat for Iron Butterfly! I feel they were truly great, unfairly derided, and now almost completely forgotten. Fantastic band. If you haven't yet, check out their logical extension: Captain Beyond.
Damn, but that was a pretty damned complete overview of Zep 2!! Sweet! My LP sounded BIG upon my very first play. So I wondered why my other friends’ copies didn’t possess the same presence. Your explanation of this dichotomy certainly nails it! I love your Abbey Road and King Crimson reviews and I look forward to your next ‘look & listen’! My god but you are so keeeeeeey-UTE!! Cheers!
It's wonderful to see so much love from the younger generation for classic rock. I was 15 in 1969. Somebody ask me if I wanted to go to Raleigh ( 30 mins drive) and see LZ. I said, yeah, why not. I'm sorry I don't remember much about the concert to share with you except Jimmy's amp messed up a few times and the music was spotty but energetic. I saw them again in 1975 in Greensboro, NC. They were much better of course having matured musically as a group and had a much better sound system and light show. "No Quarter" was a highlight for me and "Moby Dick", I remember those well.
Thanks for this episode, awesome as always. Led Zeppelin II has always been my favourite Zeppelin album. Funny you say you don't like "Ramble On" as it's my favourite song here. John Paul Jones' bass riff is what sells that song to me, it's so cool. Also, that quiet verse/loud chorus does seem like grunge before grunge.
"Ramble On" kills...JPJ is amazing on this, IMO...this tune is LZ personified. Acoustic and Electric!
I'm baffled anyone would not like ramble on, c'mon Abigail 🤣
My first copy of Zeppelin II was bought at a rummage sale when I was 13 along with Inna Gadda Da Vida. I finished wearing the grooves off of both.
Led Zeppelin was finally L E D Z E P P E L I N I N G on their way... The first two albums were "a right cross followed by a major upper-cut". 🔊🎼🎸🎹🥁🎙📻 And many years latter it all sounds so damn good! Also giving credit to all these people some may never have heard of: Blues Singers and Players: Robert Johnson, Bukka White, Howlin Wolf, Blind Willie Johnson, Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe, Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Sleepy John Estes, Little Walter, John Lee Hooker, Big Bill Broonzy, Son House, LeadBelly...and more. Electrified Blues
Keep up the great research love your videos I am 66 this was my first zepplin album and it still is my favorite
In addition, I think Santana's first album and The Who's Tommy, both released in 1969 as well, were trailblazers in latin rock and rock concept albums, respectively.
Me and my friend used to take the line “Alimony! Alimony!” In She’s Just a Woman with “Ravioli! Ravioli! Give me the Formuloli!” From SpongeBob and then we would laugh for a half hour straight.
Infamy, infamy, they’ve all got it in for me !
Zeppelin played a German tour in 1980. There’s quite a bit of video of it out there.
You’re doing an amazing job researching these classics.
yeah. she wasn't alive in 1980 and shouldn't get right 20% of facts she spews here but i did notice that. i've written her a few emails and have duplicated duplicated (i did it on purpose that time) words i should have typed once! great video!
If you can remember Led Zeppelin...you didn't really listen to them! I partied like Hell to these records! And loved every second. Great Post!
I bought this album on release in the UK with cash from selling my copy of The Beatles “ White Album”. When you’re a 15 year old schoolboy with no cash, life is full of tough decisions and I didn’t want to wait until LZ2 was wrapped in Xmas paper from my aunt/ grandma etc! The bass on “ Lemon Song” has so much ambience you’d think JPJ was in the room with you. Great job again Abby, lots of detail and insight delivered in such a charming engaging way. Mother fiddlesticking excellent.
I discovered your channel, love your reviews, and you do a great job with the period fashion. Great stuff!
Ramble On is a vibe.
Your in depth review of Led Zeppelin and LZ II have me going back and forth on google , and I am a huge fan , thank you! Oh yeah I am going to play this lp again it’s been too long !
Love you Abigail!!! You are a breath of fresh air to this old hippie!! So great to see a younger listener who appreciates good music an idnt seduced by the current Autotune/Pop music industry...Rock on, Anby!!!!👍😎🥰✌🤣🎶🎸
It's strange how Led Zeppelin seeps into one's subconscious. (They don't promise unconditional love like the Beatles, right?) Somehow Zeppelin is like the friend you lost touch with years ago who is still in your dreams.
I was young n dumb when I first heard a few songs from LZII. It was 1981 and I was 13. Something dawned on me though - as I’d sit patiently and wait for the Hammond B-3 fade back IN at the end of Thank You…or the mellow bass sound in What Is And….or it’s explosiveness on Bring It. I could immediately detect even at this young age, that: I was hearing something that was untouchable - of which it had zero competition. A true jewel in the crown. I was right too. John Paul Jones was so talented even back then - that he hadn’t ever the need to join a band such as Jimmy’s new venture. When they formed it’s as if they’d all been waiting for each other. It was lightning in a bottle. I refer to the second record today as British Motown. That’s right…John Paul is THAT GOOD. Excellent synopsis, by the way. I enjoyed your dialogue and your obvious research! (Also, I’ve never seen that pic of Pamela with Clive before!)
This is what's so delightful about the amazing Ms. Devoe. An old geezer like me who was 17 years old when, in the Fall of 1969, he first heard "Led Zeppelin II", the first LZ lp he'd heard and still his favorite, can learn far more about it than he ever knew before from an extremely savvy, brainy, funny and lovely young woman who's young enough to be his granddaughter. Vinyl Monday is a wonderment.
Your channel rocks!
Got to 1:22 and stopped this one to watch Houses of the Holy first, as at the moment it's my jam and has been in my heart since I was a teen.
This morning was gray and bland doing laundry and stuff, then I remembered it was Abby Zep 2 Day, and everything brightened up. 😊❤
Great review, I didn't realize the production was that chaotic. Really interesting.
Props on your outfit too 🥰.
For what it's worth I always called it Living Loving Maid. Oh, and where were all the classic rock girlies when I was in college? I feel that no one else at my university liked any of this, preferring early 90s dance music and hip hop. I was out on an island with this stuff.
I was literaly about to listen to my Led II CD TODAY, WOW
I love that you love Iron Butterfly and I would love to hear you talk more about them!
Another excellent episode here. This was the first Zeppelin album I ever owned, I got it as a Christmas gift on cassette way back in '86, lol. It was number one on my wishlist that year, sixth grade, seems like yesterday. Also, I totally pegged your favorites here, except for "Ramble On", I guessed that as your number one and "She's Just a Woman" as your second fave, lol.
AND HOLY COW !!! Don't tell me you are doing "Goat's Head Soup" next week ? This is going to be my most counted down to episode of Vinyl Monday since I have been aware of your show, can't wait !
WOW as young as you seem you know your music ............I am 72 and grew up with this great music and you kick my A**
Great 1969 choices! Zeppelin II definitely opened the door to the 70s. I’d add Let it Bleed as a benchmark - it closed the door to the 60s love vibe.
Great video. Thanks for the shout out for Iron Butterfly.
Dear Rock N Roller Devoe, I watched all of this.. I always wish i could tell John Bonham that they have always been the best ever since they came out... on up till now.. Then I would show him how my phone plays every song made. Then I would put on The Humpty Dance for us to listen to.
Looked into your eyes and got mesmerized. Missed everything you said. Oh well, I'll try again later.
Girl the way you take the effort to dress up to the times is just awesome. Lots of kisses and hugs. Here take some acid, let's create worlds!
As always this video was awesome. When I was a senior back in the day. My friends and I had talked a local rustic resort owner to rent us a cabin in the off season winter months. There were many, as I like to say, knitting parties out there But always playing in the eight track stereo was Led Zeppelin. Thanks for the stroll down memory lane. ;) peace ☮️ ✌️
I've listened to LZII literally well over 1000 times and know the intricacies of the mix and recording process inside and out but had never heard the story of the first "too hot" mastering by Bob Ludwig. Will seek that out. LZII literally taught me tp play guitar and is my fave. WIAWSNB is probably my favorite song along with How Many More Times and The Rain Song. WIAWSNB is perhaps their most original song -- there is no other artist, band or genre like it before or since. Plant's vocal is perfect for the song.
Lady, your zeppelin is on fire.
I just gotta say this is one of if not the best outfit you put together
So glad you pointed out The Small Faces cover of “You Need Lovin” as an “inspiration” for Zep’s “Whole Lotta Love”. Everyone mentions them not crediting Willie Dixon, no one seems seems to notice how Plant is just straight-out copying Steve Marriott’s vocal in spots.
I’ve read in a couple of places that the only reason Plant doesn’t share songwriter credit with Page on Led Zep I like he does on all the other albums is due to some kind of legal complications from some old contract he had signed back in his Band Of Joy days that he needed to be extricated from, and to whatever extent there are any original lyrics on that album, they’re largely Plant’s. The new lyrics to their unacknowledged cover of Jake Holmes’ “Dazed And Confused” are clearly Plant improvisations to my ear.
"" Everyone mentions them not crediting Willie Dixon""
And nobody mentions the Small Faces didn't credit Dixon either, and that's a far bigger steal.
I love your colorful reviews! They are never boring and always informative! Nineteen Sixty-Nine was a great year for music and there is so much great albums to choose from. My favorite album is Abbey Road. But then again maybe it's Let It Bleed. Then again, the two Zeppelin albums. Maybe a tie!
Good to see a mention of Garnet Mimms, one of the all-time great soul singers.
My favorite Led Zeppelin album 😎
"Thank You" was our wedding song. That song was quite hard to hear for a number of years after we divorced but now it's just another great Zep ballad. Abigail I dig your stuff. Subscribed!
thanks! i hope that song reminds you of only the good years
Thank you Abby. My daughter and two granddaughters made it worth it.@@abigaildevoe
Abby, you sparked a lot of thoughts with this episode. In no particular order:
It was fitting that you details the dates for Heartbreaker and WLL around their anniversary, August 29 and 30, 1969. Consider that those recordings are 54 years old now, and still invite serious listening. You also refer to 2 hand-me-down guitars beloved by Page. According to the folklore - and one of his interviews - his very first guitar was left behind in the home his family had just moved into. You want to find Miss Pamela's diary, let's find the guy who left his guitar behind when he moved.
Re: the turntable/hot mix topic: sometimes I hear people wonder about why an album is re-issued as a 'Remix"
Recording technologies have always been ahead of playback technologies, sometimes by a lot. For example, those 1960s multi-track recordings were sometimes originally dropped as 'mono'.
That is an extreme example but similar to the other developments in recording vs. playback.
Re: Atlantic releasing WLL as a single, which only reaches #6: these were days of great audience changes. Page, for one, understood what the changes were. LZ fans did not buy singles, they bought albums. Along with containing songs longer than 2:30, albums were conceived as a whole portrait, with an opening, a theme, a sign-off. Music fans then were listening to longer more complicated music than the fans just a few years older than them.
Yes, Eddie left in a cough. LZ was at peace with artifacts on their recordings. I think it is at the beginning of Black Country Woman that an engineer hears a plane overhead, wants to get rid of it, and Plant says, with a laugh "No, leave it!"
The Onion was a satire publication, before the Babylon Bee. One of their famous articles (now some time ago) was about how bad popular music had become. They reported that the world could be saved only by a special riff kept deep in an underground vault, and could be played only by Jimmy Page, to save music.
Re: Page's style: he was a studio musician on a large percentage of songs that came over during the British invasion, even before he gets with the Yardbirds. His playing couldn't have been too sloppy. One tic of his was to vary a repetitive lick on each repeat, so I imagine that he was sometimes improvising to himself.
Re: all the heat about music authorship: blues was always a traditional music, written and played by a group of musicians and singers who borrowed from each other. LZ gets more attention because they sold more records. The "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" case is a good example. Some teenager is playing LZ1, his mom hears a certain song and says, "Hey I wrote that." But LZ had credited 'American Traditional", or words to that effect, on their album, because that is how it was credited on the album where they first heard it. Turns out that Page and Plant were fans of Joan Baez, who had recorded that song some time earlier. Did the Mom sue Joan Baez? No, because she didn't sell records in exponential numbers like LZ.
"The Lemon Song" has a musical tribute to early Blues artists beyond the lyrics. Right around 1:25 there is a vamp, a traditional intro that a band would play when an artist was taking the stage. And what happens? LZ becomes an improvising jazz/blues band, featuring each player, just as if they were playing some club, until the 'going off the stage" vamp about 5:35. So it is different than just some cover. It is an homage (how 'bout that French?).
My take on this issue of copying is different. I listened to Memphis Minnie, I like her music, I have been to her grave. The LZ version of "Levee" is a Boeing 787 compared to the Wright Brother's first plane. Yes, the Wright Brothers were some inspiration to Boeing. That's it.
I attended a lot of concerts during the era you cover in Vinyl Monday. There were many excellent, professional, satisfying concerts then, but none were like LZ. Concert versions of songs were not only longer, you would also hear echoes of other songs, completely different songs, during the extended versions. They each were musicians, playing with each other for your entertainment, musicians at the top of their game.
Awesome episode! The mighty Led Zeppelin's ultimate party album, IMO. No doubt those Ludwig copies got well worn at countless parties when this was released. Wish I'd been there.
Fun nerdy fact: Nirvana did a cover of "Heartbreaker" at their earliest gig, a house party, and Kurt did a *great* job on the riff!
I stumbled upon this video and - much to my surprise - made it through to the end. Brings back some pleasant memories of my youth in the mid-80's. It's funny, though, that I've only ever referred to the second song on side 2 as "Livin' Lovin' Maid". I don't think I've ever heard anyone call it "She's Just a Woman" in my entire life.
I heard III, II and IV in that order. III has that first heard first loved status with me. IV was a complete blast when I finally heard it. But II begins with one of the biggest riffs in history and drags you right into it. And right up to the end of Living Loving Maid (never till now heard it referred to by the subtitle) it feels exactly like a great rock album should. Ramble On has some lovely textures and a big chorus but I don't care about it much, either. I would play Moby Dick up to the drum solo and skip the rest for Bring it on Home which I liked for its weird opening vocal (didn't quite understand the black voice thing at that age) and the sudden change to the rockout. Because the second half of side two was often skipped I still consider it a patchy record. Then again, that thunder in the mountains moment when JPJ comes in with that giant bass in Whole Lotta Love .... Oh, my copy was a new late '70s reprint and it didn't have the cough at the start of WLL. First I heard that was on the Remasters compilation in the '90s. Another great celebration of a classic. For which, many thanks.
Evening Abigail, Dave from sunny Plymouth...
One of the best - Moody Blues on the Threshold of a Dream
Take Care
I remember being a little kid when Zeppelin II came out. I don't remember specifically it coming out but I remember my dad jamming on his Macintosh system through his Acoustic Research speakers while me and friends played outside and the house was a rockin' you could say. I couldn't have been much more than almost 3 years old when it came out but I remember WLL rocking out. I may have some of the memories from years after that that release I'm drawing on? He didn't just jam on it one time. But I definitely remembered the music and sound of that Macintosh system which one day will be set up in my house! Right now it's stored in his closet and has been for the past 30 years or so. He just doesn't want to let anybody use it but he won't ever use it again himself either.
BTW, and I'm not trying to be rude or preachy here, it's What Is And What Should Never Be for that title. When I was finally old enough to be buying my own Led Zeppelin records it took me a while to get used to that song title. I would screw it up trying to write it down and forget exactly what it was haha. But I liked it and it didn't take too long!
And you're right about that 1977 pressing and there being a lot of Led Zeppelin repressings then. I don't know when Columbia Record Club started up but if you have CRC on your cover or label that may be the reason there are so many pressings from 1977. Back in the mid-1990s I bought Zeppelin I, Zeppelin II, Zeppelin III, Zeppelin IV, Houses Of The Holy, and Physical Graffiti at a pawn shop I'd stopped at for $1 each. The guy had wanted $2 each but I talked him down to $1 each. They were in great shape and had NM sound. A lot of those were CRC pressings that sounded great and were from that 1977 window. So I'm guessing the record club deal must have started somewhere around 1977 but I've never looked it up :-)
Brian in Fort Worth 🎶
We had a AM radio station...on weekends they had a rock show with call in requests and dedications....I used to call in and request "Thank you" and dedicate it to my first GF.
yet another fantastic episode! i've entered another one of my seasonal led zeppelin phases, specifically lz 1, so i felt you really captured the spirit of the music. also, i was very proud of myself for recognising the monty python intermission music, great reference.
Another wonder from you Abi, well researched and wonderfully presented - as always 😊👍🤠 Keep going!
Shake it and jump! ‘scuse me, gotta pick me heart off the floor. Libido vibrating so much, had to save my bass from feinting to the ground. Looking great, Abbey!
WOW! You have much more information about this album than I would have ever imagined. Undisputed best Rock band of all time. Watched whole video. thanks 🎸🌻🦄
I'm pretty sure 1967 was the top year, but 1968 and 1969 are up there too! And 1966 is no slouch either! Those four years were unbelievable musically!