@@roadwarrior144 when Panama was recorded, Eddie Van Halen ran the microphone outside of the studio and recored the engine sounds of his Lamborghini to use in the song. That's what you hear in the bridge.
Of all the transformations and character changes in the show, I always found Joes change from the well respected, super admired amazing at his job cop, to the burdensome, boring, weird, punching bag whos wife hates him
A morning at the police station… inside, Joe starts by laying down on the floor and rolling side to side in the captain’s office… it is the one that hasn’t been remodeled since the 70s and has the orange shag carpeting, it feels good to Joe with the shag rubbing Joe’s back…. After that Joe plays with a ball from evidence room for about twenty minutes then finds a window on the east side of the building where there is a lot of sun and he takes a nap on the floor where the direct sunlight warms him up….after a long nap Joe goes into the bathroom where he shits in a box then tracks the litter halfway through the building before stopping in the chief’s office where he gets yelled at for coughing a hairball up on the floor….. eventually he finds his way into the dispatching office where he lays his head in the lap of his favorite dispatcher and she rubs behind his ears as she answers the phones…… Joe is definitely an inside cop…..
"Panama" is indeed awesome, but apparently Peter was awesome enough to pause the song on the "now" and harness that awesomeness to propel his car across the canyon.
Shame Sally Fields wasn't in on the ride. I don't know if it would be better or worse. She could say 'We just "Panama'd" that canyon! I want to "Panama" a house! I want to "Panama" something!'. But she could also have said 'I wanna "Jump" a house' etc, etc, and that would murder Panama right there and then.
@@InZimbabwe Coma Guy (from 2020) - Peter admits never having read a book - Lois forces him to go to the library and check out Orwell's 1984 but Peter gets confused and gets the Van Halen album.
@@depression666 Let me guess, you listen to Limp Bizkit. Panama is an awesome song. Though certainly not their best. And Van Halen isn't even close to being the best band around. But they've managed to have some pretty good radio hits. I listen to modern rock radio today and it's just forgettable tunes that don't have the balls to be edgy anymore.
@@bimoprasetyo6862 Look for the letter F on the keyboard. Now, look for the G on the keyboard. You see how they are directly next to each other? That’s probably enough sufficient evidence for most people to conclude that the word “grom” is indeed a typo of the word “from.” This fact should be self-explanatory
Nah bro have you seen the episode when they make fun of the French ambulance 🚑? Sounds like two gay dudes . Bro me and my girl almost pee’d on ourselves we just got back from Paris. That’s probably the best.
It is, but I have to slow down a bit when, ‘I can barely see the road from the heat coming off it, I say I reach down between my legs and Ease the seat back.’
@@pilot.wav_theory modern family guy has mostly just gotten...darker? like lost some of that "playful pain". though i havent watched the simpsons yet. could u enlighten me
@@kaiseremotion854 the newer simpsons is more careless and unfunny than the classic simpsons. If i had to choose wich one is worse i would say family guy
When I was a teenager I was pretty reckless and I had this old 1990's Buick 4-door that I was messing with and sometimes I'd go race it in downtown St Louis and sometimes I won most times I lost but I'll never forget racing at 3 a.m. past Uncle Bill's with a bunch of my goth club friends and smoking a Dodge Challenger with my Buick to this song. Rest in peace Eddie. We all miss you
@@Dakota277 *I know that. My point was, they're both Lamborghinis, thus awesome. "This mansion or that mansion." "This yacht or that yacht." As compared to talking about, "This bologna sandwich or that bologna sandwich."*
@@billybatts9491 *Thank you. Was the other guy technically correct? Absolutely. 100%. However, once you achieve a certain level of awesomeness, does it really matter beyond bookkeeping?* *By the way, it works in the other direction also: "It's not this crack pipe. It's the other crack pipe."*
Family guy is like a 40 year old left handed pitcher. It may not have the mustard on its fastball like it used to, but it can still rear back and deliver a great one like this. Still good
Ain’t no stopping NooooooooooôoooooooooooooooooooooooooöoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooóooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooøooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooöoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooóooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooøoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooòoooooooooooooooooooooooooooōooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooW
Cars making a jump over cliffs never make sense to me in movies or shows. Like where's the ramp? How can you get air to clear the landing especially when the other side is at the same height level?
Easy……. You’ll always notice that the other side of any river, gorge, creek or canyon…..is always at a lower height…. And the height difference depends on speed, angle and the hypotenuse of the derivative and of course.,,… the depth of the driver side cup holder….
American Dad had Stan and Francine riding their bikes to while the song "Thunder in your Heart" is playing the background. Family Guy has Peter driving his car while blasting the song "Panama" from his radio.
Combine euro beat and a gulf oil paint job and you can have the ultimate racecar no matter what car it is got a 65 bone stock Volkswagen Beetle wrap it and play some Euro beat and boom you have a car that can beat an Aston Martin Valkery
Another good one is where Cleveland leaves “Cleveland show” but sends one of those voice cards to Peter and he gets pulled over and you hear the entire interaction on the bday card lol
This episode ("Coma Guy") was from last year. The plot centers around Peter admitting that he has never read a book in his life. Lois forces Peter to go to the library to check out Orwell's 1984 - but Peter gets confused and gets Van Halen's 1984 album. (He becomes obsessed and starts wearing David Lee Roth spandex costumes). This scene starts with the Giant Chicken challenging him to a drag race - Peter plays Panama and the rest is history
The animation is so good. The almost unnoticeable front end lift on the wagon when he hits the gas, so slight most people probably missed it. Driving over the leaves so they kick up which I bet is an homage to Keaton Batman when the Batmobile drives over the leaves at dusk and they fly up behind him (because that’s what I always think of) and the buttery smoothness of the scenery going by. So good.
My first time hearing this song as a kid was playing Gran Turismo 3, it was one of my favorite songs in that game. Now every time I hear it I think of that amazing game.
“Suspect is head towards Unjumpable Canyon! It’s totally unjumpable!” That part sounded something out of an 80s Saturday Morning Children’s Cartoon, ngl..
There are two types of people in the comments: 1) Older folks talking about the greatness of this song from Eddie Van Halen. 2) Younger folks talking about the greatness of this song from Gran Turismo 4.
The less members of the band remaining means less people to say no. They said Led Zepplin was impossible to get into TV shows and commercials until they started dying off.
“Panama kicks too much ass, and shreds way too hard, you’ll never catch him”
There was a brief moment I thought I heard an engine rev on the actual song track, maybe THAT was the guitar?
@@roadwarrior144 Nah, it was a car lol
Facts
Negative dispatch just need to wait for that running a little bit hot tonight
@@roadwarrior144 when Panama was recorded, Eddie Van Halen ran the microphone outside of the studio and recored the engine sounds of his Lamborghini to use in the song. That's what you hear in the bridge.
This scene accurately describes the entirety of Panama while doing anything ever.
You do realize this song is written about a stripper from my area back in the day. 😂
@@codybrandoncargle3129 and?
@@kostakatsoulis2922 And it’s great song! 😁
@@codybrandoncargle3129 yes it is : )
@@codybrandoncargle3129 yes yes we've all met your mother
"Break off pursuit, Panama kicks way too much ass and shreds way too hard"
🤣 rest in peace Eddie.
Shreds ***
@@KennethKinoshita gotta LOVE autospell.
You definitely didn't mean "shred"
Legends never die my friend
@@stephenoshea4207 They’re just missing in action
You'll never catch him
That scene is legendary
What movie is this refrencing?
@@suntansuperman598 References the song 'Panama' by Van Halen.
@@suntansuperman598 practically every scene where the car jumps over canyon which is impossible to do
One of my favorites! LOL
Lmao legendary.
"All units, this is dispatch. We gotta red station wagon blastin' Panama and being awesome and partyin' and being rad."😄
"not in my town he's not" lol
This...this is exactly what I feel every time this plays!
@@playzify6357 Pursute? What is pursute? Is it similar to pursuit?
@@playzify6357 do you mean dispatch
Stick butt, break off pursuit. Panama kicks ass and shreds way too hard. You'll never catch him.
"Get off this channel, Joe!"
"Come on! I wanna be an outside cop!"
I'm now picturing Joe acting like a cat wanting to be let outside the station.
Of all the transformations and character changes in the show, I always found Joes change from the well respected, super admired amazing at his job cop, to the burdensome, boring, weird, punching bag whos wife hates him
@@dustinbird9170 you didnt finish your thought
@@herrikudo lmao you are correct. I found it the weirdest
A morning at the police station… inside, Joe starts by laying down on the floor and rolling side to side in the captain’s office… it is the one that hasn’t been remodeled since the 70s and has the orange shag carpeting, it feels good to Joe with the shag rubbing Joe’s back…. After that Joe plays with a ball from evidence room for about twenty minutes then finds a window on the east side of the building where there is a lot of sun and he takes a nap on the floor where the direct sunlight warms him up….after a long nap Joe goes into the bathroom where he shits in a box then tracks the litter halfway through the building before stopping in the chief’s office where he gets yelled at for coughing a hairball up on the floor….. eventually he finds his way into the dispatching office where he lays his head in the lap of his favorite dispatcher and she rubs behind his ears as she answers the phones……
Joe is definitely an inside cop…..
"Panama" is indeed awesome, but apparently Peter was awesome enough to pause the song on the "now" and harness that awesomeness to propel his car across the canyon.
and to achieve a ballistic trajectory with no ramp!
Yes, I also watched the video.
The song didn’t pause. That part was in slow motion.
Shame Sally Fields wasn't in on the ride. I don't know if it would be better or worse. She could say 'We just "Panama'd" that canyon! I want to "Panama" a house! I want to "Panama" something!'. But she could also have said 'I wanna "Jump" a house' etc, etc, and that would murder Panama right there and then.
@@grahamspragg7494 then Panama me
This part and the part where Peter whistles and his car smashes through the kitchen wall are my two favorite parts of the episode.
What episode is this?
@@InZimbabwe Coma Guy (from 2020) - Peter admits never having read a book - Lois forces him to go to the library and check out Orwell's 1984 but Peter gets confused and gets the Van Halen album.
@@jamesrawlins735 of course he gets the van halen album instead
@@isaacgonzo
Who wouldn't?
@@jamesrawlins735I thought the librariran gave him the album by accident.
It’s an unproven fact that listening to Panama adds horsepower and increases your speed by 50%.
Well now it's PROVEN.
It's true
deja vu
Danger zone is another song that does this.
Freebird adds 270% mnimum
"dear god he's gonna do it he's gonna time his jump for the greatest harmonized sound drop in 80's rock history"😂
0:51
"You're right! It's the part that goes: Ain't No Stopping Now!"
@@MiyaTakamura NEEEEAAAWWW
@@MiyaTakamura 0:58
PANAMA!!
“Any car can make that jump when you got family. “
-Dom Toretto
Good thing he’s a Family Guy
Hahahahahajanahja omg so funny
Too bad that didn't work for Evil Kneivel when he jumped across the Snake River
@@KingDusk278 HE SAID IT!
LMFAOOO
This scene was really fun and creative . Kudos to the family guy writers!
I like how the bar is so low for Family Guy now that an actually funny scene is considered good writing 😂
@@trainknut Should a funny scene be considered bad writing?
@@cdf360 no, but it's literally a sitcom, it's SUPPOSED to be funny.
@@trainknut yea, it’s supposed to be funny, that’s called good writing.
@@trainknut Funny scenes by definition are good writing, if not they wouldn't br funny.
One of the greatest songs ever written!
More like one of the worst songs written
Only 2nd to How You Remind Me by Nickelback
@@depression666 well family guy disagrees with that statement.
@@depression666 name checks out for comment.
@@depression666 Let me guess, you listen to Limp Bizkit. Panama is an awesome song. Though certainly not their best. And Van Halen isn't even close to being the best band around. But they've managed to have some pretty good radio hits. I listen to modern rock radio today and it's just forgettable tunes that don't have the balls to be edgy anymore.
If you grew up with this song, you already experienced it’s greatness time and time again.
I didn’t grow up with it, I was brought up on Van Halen
Absolutely!!!!
Gran Turismo
You merely adopted the Van Halen, I was born in it, molded by it.”In Bane”
This is probably the best scene grom the entire show
grom = From ?
@@bimoprasetyo6862 From ? = from?
@@bimoprasetyo6862 Look for the letter F on the keyboard. Now, look for the G on the keyboard. You see how they are directly next to each other? That’s probably enough sufficient evidence for most people to conclude that the word “grom” is indeed a typo of the word “from.” This fact should be self-explanatory
@@cdf360 😮 ohhh,
I just Noticed That,
THANKS FOR TELLING 😊
Nah bro have you seen the episode when they make fun of the French ambulance 🚑? Sounds like two gay dudes . Bro me and my girl almost pee’d on ourselves we just got back from Paris. That’s probably the best.
Oh c'mon! The "Yeah we're runnin' a little bit hot tonight" guitar solo is the best part of the song.
It is, but I have to slow down a bit when, ‘I can barely see the road from the heat coming off it, I say I reach down between my legs and Ease the seat back.’
Yea but it is the part where the song slows down so the car does too. It’s all about the contrast, that’s what makes it great.
My favorite part of any rock song!
Its not really a solo, more of a breakdown
Cant push the machine if it's running a lil hot. Gotta back down and let her cool a bit
"This is officer Stickbutt..."
No wonder I can't make a jump like that, I'm always listening to Lowrider
Which one? War or Cypress Hill?
@@rondutertre3367 both? 😆
😄
@@rondutertre3367 ZZ Top, please.
You guys rock!
R.I.P. Eddie Van Halen, we will never forget about this moment from Family Guy.
Ok. That was funny. Good to know Family Guy can still have moments like that.
Yeah at least its not total garbage like the simpsons has become
@@pilot.wav_theory modern family guy has mostly just gotten...darker? like lost some of that "playful pain". though i havent watched the simpsons yet. could u enlighten me
@@kaiseremotion854 the newer simpsons is more careless and unfunny than the classic simpsons. If i had to choose wich one is worse i would say family guy
Honestly the show has improved from Season 14 onwards.
@@bigdank166 ur smokin
This is one of the best jokes in Family Guy history. It’s stunning.
Well "Panama" was featured in Gran Turismo 4, which may explain why the driver of the red station wagon could drive as fast as shown here.
Peter was in a drag race with the chicken which led to this scene
Peter got that stage 4 turbo kit
@@chrissss696 nah he remembered to get the oil change
When I was a teenager I was pretty reckless and I had this old 1990's Buick 4-door that I was messing with and sometimes I'd go race it in downtown St Louis and sometimes I won most times I lost but I'll never forget racing at 3 a.m. past Uncle Bill's with a bunch of my goth club friends and smoking a Dodge Challenger with my Buick to this song. Rest in peace Eddie. We all miss you
little fact about the song: (at marker 0:35) that sound is Eddie's Lamborghini Countach revving.
Miura S buddy, not Countach
*"It's not this Lamborghini... it's the other Lamborghini."*
@@Dakota277 *I know that. My point was, they're both Lamborghinis, thus awesome. "This mansion or that mansion." "This yacht or that yacht." As compared to talking about, "This bologna sandwich or that bologna sandwich."*
@@billybatts9491 *Thank you. Was the other guy technically correct? Absolutely. 100%. However, once you achieve a certain level of awesomeness, does it really matter beyond bookkeeping?*
*By the way, it works in the other direction also: "It's not this crack pipe. It's the other crack pipe."*
It would seem I found another furry in the wild
"Just gotta wait for that running a little bit hot tonight part" 💀💀💀
Fun fact: speed limits no longer apply if you are playing Panama on max volume.
neither does take off speed
REALLY?! THEN I OUTTA BE PLAYING PANAMA IN MY 2008 PONTIAC G8 GT RIGHT NOW WHILE DOING 250 MPH!
@@p.t.archive3020 its all fun and games until you meet the local tree
A literal speedrun. Panama%. How to lose your hearing and either be arrested for over 100 or be dead from that corner you couldn't take at full speed.
As someone from New England, this scene is very realistic
Except that it's actually named Jumpable Canyon. Just inside Maine off 95.
@@dixonpinfold2582 You're talking about the one just outside of Kittery? Bang a left where the old library used to be?
@@SynthApprentice If you see the rotary; you went too far. Now you need to bang a Uey.
If I'm ever in a police chase, this is exactly how I want it to go
Same here, man. Same here.
Better watch your back, I’ll be in hot pursuit with the greatest soundtrack in history.
Leslie Gore
I love this song
This bit is just too cinematic for a show like this. And I love it.
Imagine if the entire show looked like this!
Bruh they went full-on Lucky Star initial D on this shit
Family guy is like a 40 year old left handed pitcher. It may not have the mustard on its fastball like it used to, but it can still rear back and deliver a great one like this. Still good
yeah those are words
@@beyondobscure sports reference. Really think about, I clearly haven’t
R.I.P. Eddie.
I still love this scene because of how totally awesome, partying and being rad
This song is so great in Gran Turismo 4!
I imported it into GT6 😄
Ain’t no stopping
NooooooooooôoooooooooooooooooooooooooöoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooóooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooøooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooöoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooóooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooøoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooòoooooooooooooooooooooooooooōooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooW
*PANAMAAAAA*
+1 for the use of the Heavy metal umlaut
"It's like a pair of eyes. You're looking at the umlaut, and it's looking at you."
The first time I crossed from Costa Rica, to Panama, I was blasting this on my phone and portable speaker. Greatest moment of my life
Indeed it has been scientifically proven that Panama kicks too much ass
RIP Eddie and thank you Diamond Dave for an iconic career
F in the chat for Eddie
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Cars making a jump over cliffs never make sense to me in movies or shows. Like where's the ramp? How can you get air to clear the landing especially when the other side is at the same height level?
Easy……. You’ll always notice that the other side of any river, gorge, creek or canyon…..is always at a lower height…. And the height difference depends on speed, angle and the hypotenuse of the derivative and of course.,,… the depth of the driver side cup holder….
@@scottsmith5623 bullcrap, just time your jump with the the greatest harmonized sound drop in 80's rock history
It’s a cartoon Nobhead
Then definitely Stay away from fast and furious
Apparently it looks cool, and writers weren’t very good at physics.
Family guy has some of the funniest shit I’ve ever seen on it like content that enhances my enjoyment of the original work / reference
American Dad had Stan and Francine riding their bikes to while the song "Thunder in your Heart" is playing the background.
Family Guy has Peter driving his car while blasting the song "Panama" from his radio.
American Dad also had Steve drifting in the Saudi Arabian desert while blasting Rock The Casbah by The Clash.
Definitely on my Top 5 Family Guy scenes! Just EPIC!!!
Peter in this clip is literally me every gta heist
"I wanna be an outside cop" 😂😂😂
Every now and again modern family guy has these moments and their glorious.
Yup, Panama is that of a great song.
Little known fact, Eurobeat increases any vehicle’s traction and stability by 50% just by being played on the stereo.
Combine euro beat and a gulf oil paint job and you can have the ultimate racecar no matter what car it is got a 65 bone stock Volkswagen Beetle wrap it and play some Euro beat and boom you have a car that can beat an Aston Martin Valkery
Only in games kid, not in real life
Eurobeat = awd
@@Nightdare based off real life
Now we need the Eurobeat version of Panama.
This felt like such a classic Family Guy. It definitely deserves a top 10 or 20 spot
That was easily one of the top 10 best moments in Family Guy history.
Another good one is where Cleveland leaves “Cleveland show” but sends one of those voice cards to Peter and he gets pulled over and you hear the entire interaction on the bday card lol
How... in my 20 years of family guy watching have I never seen this?!?!
This episode ("Coma Guy") was from last year. The plot centers around Peter admitting that he has never read a book in his life. Lois forces Peter to go to the library to check out Orwell's 1984 - but Peter gets confused and gets Van Halen's 1984 album. (He becomes obsessed and starts wearing David Lee Roth spandex costumes). This scene starts with the Giant Chicken challenging him to a drag race - Peter plays Panama and the rest is history
When I was younger, I honestly thought this was a song about "Hagen-Daus". I was shocked to learn he's saying Panama. 🤣
Cannonball for me lol
Panama is a great song. So cool to listen to it. R.I.P Van Halen
No way he would have made that jump if he hadn’t timed it perfectly to the aint no stoppin now part
Blasting panama and partying and being awesome and rad lol😂🤣
THAT *HARMONIZATION* WAS FYRE!!! PURE FYRE!!! 🔥🔥🔥
The animation is so good. The almost unnoticeable front end lift on the wagon when he hits the gas, so slight most people probably missed it. Driving over the leaves so they kick up which I bet is an homage to Keaton Batman when the Batmobile drives over the leaves at dusk and they fly up behind him (because that’s what I always think of) and the buttery smoothness of the scenery going by. So good.
This truly captured how I felt driving in my 78 Toyota Celica with my tape deck blasting Van Halen 1984 when I was a teenager in the 80's. 😛
Who else eased the seat back, reached down between their legs......
Something about this song makes you wanna drive fast 😂 first time I went over 100 mph was when I listened to Panama
Props to the camera guy for making that jump.
With a song as epic as Panama, perhaps the cops need a song even more epic to combat it.
Panama kicks too much ass and shreds way too hard for that to even happen
Love the labyrinth, had it on vhs
He’s gonna time his jump for the greatest harmonised sound drop in 80’s rock history!
There's no way he's going to jump that canyon, unless he times it perfect lol
Sounds like somebody has been playing Gran Turismo (4)
That game made me love old Subaru wrx's.
My first time hearing this song as a kid was playing Gran Turismo 3, it was one of my favorite songs in that game. Now every time I hear it I think of that amazing game.
When Panama is playing whatever vehicle your driving instantly becomes a sports car
that charger looks more like a charger than a real charger
The most legendary moment in season 18. change my mind
Fact: That red wagon is a 1975 - 1978 Ford LTD Station Wagon
I WAS WAITING FOR THIS COMMENT, EXACTLY THIS ONE 👍🏻
Nice little nod to our dearly departed King Edward. Rip.
Top Jimmy, he's the King.
“Suspect is head towards Unjumpable Canyon! It’s totally unjumpable!”
That part sounded something out of an 80s Saturday Morning Children’s Cartoon, ngl..
The legend of Panama
we’ve all watched this more than once
As an imaginary rebel, I can confirm this is indeed _the_ way to escape the cops!
0:24- Negative dispatch, just need to wait for that “runnin a little hot tonight part.”
The fact that they relate it so well to whatever there talking about
Awesome 🤘
I tried this in my truck… it was epic.
Another great guitar solo we all know from the 80s. Love that music era.🎸🎸
Saw them in concert a couple years ago….all they played was this song. I was not disappointed!
There are two types of people in the comments:
1) Older folks talking about the greatness of this song from Eddie Van Halen.
2) Younger folks talking about the greatness of this song from Gran Turismo 4.
Group 1 reporting in.
This reminds me of a Need for Speed game I used to own.
Goat song
Man you instant win in Gran Turismo 4 when this song play
People think it's the canal, but it's actually this song what's carrying Panama's tourism value.
I wanna be an outside cop.. 🤣
That was 1 minute and 20 seconds of ass kicking, shredded radness.
Panamaaaaaaaaaaaaa.......!
I thought I’d seen every fg episode 20 times over, but somehow I missed this gem
This made me howl with laughter.
Why does it sound like Cleveland says “your right, ain’t no stoppin me now”
Probably the same voice actor.
Because it’s the same voice actor
the animation here is phenomenal thank you
Never chase someone blasting Van Halen's Panama over the stereos!
If only Evel had this at Snake River! It would be a different world today.
Why is this animation giving so much initial d vibes
Just gotta wait for that runnin a little bit hot tonight part😂
fucking great
Doctor: "You only have a minute and twenty-one seconds left to live."
Me: ( watches this video )
Multiple unskippable ads would really suck wouldn't it
Never seen a Ford LTD Squire take that jump from the 80s is just masterpiece.
Any car can do it, you just need the most awesome harmonized sounddrop in rock history
No doubt this is the best video on the Internet
I wonder how long it took for them to get the rights to play the song.
I think Van Halen must have been fans of the show because they also let Family Guy use Drop Dead Legs during the Multiverse episode (for "Hot Meg")
@@jamesrawlins735 who knows 🤷♂️
The less members of the band remaining means less people to say no. They said Led Zepplin was impossible to get into TV shows and commercials until they started dying off.