Hey Pope - loved this reaction - this is a phenomenal song and I love your reaction. Their music is timeless indeed. Many of their songs were so well recorded and produced - it stands up to the quality of modern recording standards - it might even be better than many modern recordings. Well, on Led Zeppelin's mammoth 1977 US tour (which was two years after the album, Physical Graffiti was released) they used this "intro" of this song "The Rover" and then went into the last song on Physical Graffiti --- "Sick Again." It turned out to be a phenomenal number live. Here is one of the most well sounding, well known Led Zeppelin bootlegged recording - ever heard or known of - it's a live recording from the LA Forum, June 23rd, 1977 (LZ played the sold out LA Forum - six nights in one week). The video which is overlayed - over the song -- is a collage of pro-shot (by Led Zeppelin) and bootlegged video footage (from fans) --- from their 1977 US tour. It is all video clips -- from about 5 to 7 different venues, but it's all clips from -- "The Rover" intro - right into "Sick Again." This could be another live Led Zeppelin review for you and should garner a good amount of views for you. Bonzo is going nuts on this song -- and you can see clips of Jimmy excited (like a little kid) interacting w Bonzo -- pointing at him, jumping towards him, etc... it's high energy Led Zeppelin - at their best ! Many consider the audio in this link - one of Led Zeppelin's best shows ever and definitely the best on their 1977 US tour. PS: I'm a Led Zeppelin historian and an editor of their wikipedia page and individual wiki pages of the members. Love your reactions ane opinions of their songs. I'm now a subscriber. Here is the YT link ruclips.net/video/1iFwqXSQn20/видео.html I'd love to see your review of this song - please 🙂👏✨️🎊🎉🙌
It is so underrated. I grew up with this band. They have so much stuff, it’s easy to forget that some of the more obscure songs are some of their best. This is definitely one.
Most mornings my playlist for showering and getting ready for work: 1. The wanton song 2. The rover 3. Sick again If I have any more time… 4. Custard pie 5. For your life All of them are those 4-6 minute rockers that just kick ass. Great reaction as always man! Keep gettin the Led out 👍
Hit the nail on the head there. It's like they are just jamming away and suddenly Page rips into that outro riff out of nowhere and takes the song to another level!
It's always struck me how amazing Zep are at endings, whether it's fade-outs (this, Achilles Last Stand), sudden endings (The Crunge, Nightflight) or a power chord (Trampled Underfoot). They always know how to close a song.
I'll just throw this one out there: "Hot's On for Nowhere" another great Zep number. Or "Gallow's Pole" while you're at it. "Darlene" is another. "Boogie with Stu" It doesn't really matter. "Down by the Seaside" If you shot Zeppelin songs like apples in a barrel, you'd hit a fire number every time.
@@boki1693 Yeah Bonham really swings on that number. I suspect most casual fans might overlook the album Presence because it was overshadowed somewhat by its monumental predecessor Physical Graffiti, and then not toured upon for over a year due to Plant's near fatal car crash. Followed by the movie release and all that hoopla. So it tends to be a somewhat forgotten classic, to the extent that anything Zeppelin did could ever be forgotten.
@@Ed9870 I so agree with everything you said. Physically is my favorite album by them and it came out right around the time I really started getting into Zeppelin. I used to hardly ever listen to Presence and Achilles Last Stand used to bore me to tears. But over the years it is maybe my second or thirds favorite album by them now.
@@boki1693 Me and you both. I came in with Graffiti, Custard Pie" kicked it off and that record never let up. Such variety. As for "Achilles", it was actually a song Robert Plant wrote about his Greek Island vacation with his family that would start in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. He couldn't wait. "How could we say no?" "The mighty arms of Atlas hold Heaven from the earth" "sandy lands on holiday" and so on. While in Rhodes, in the Mediterranean Sea, he and wife Maureen were both almost killed in a car wreck. When Zeppelin went to record the song, Plant was still on crutches with a shattered ankle. During the sessions, he tripped over a cable and injured his Achilles tendon. After that, he was consigned to a wheelchair for awhile. Hence the name "Achilles Last Stand" because he sat through its recording. A year later, Heart ripped off the galloping riff and called it "Barracuda".
“No, keep it rolling Jimmy, yeah!” Love it my brother. You’ve barely cracked the surface of the LZ discography. Maybe the greatest band of all time. Can’t wait for more. Juno
Hey bro. Yeah man, this song is criminally underrated for sure lol. I just heard it for the third time and, it is great. Thx buddy for sharing. Rock on!!¡
Here's some Zep "homework": Heartbreaker/Livin' Lovin' Maid Moby Dick, live, 1973, Madison Square Garden Bring It On Home In The Light Come On Everybody/Something Else, live, Royal Albert Hall 1970 That's The Way The Girl I Love She Got Long Black Wavy Hair You have a lot of live Zep to get to as well....great journey. Great channel!
Physical Graffiti is an absolute superb album..... do the whole lot.... Try "In My Time of Dying" or "In The Light" from the album before the obvious Kashmir.... as with all Zeppelin albums I am still hearing things in the music I hadn't noticed before... still after 40 plus years.
This song started as an instrumental way back when they were writing and recording for their 3rd album. Time went by and it got reworked a bit and could have been ready by their album, Houses of the Holy (the album before Physical Graffiti) but Jimmy held it back again to add more guitar overdubs and it was released on Physical Graffiti. The lyrics discuss Robert's awareness of travelling the world and witnessing "Of all this wonder of earthly plunder. Will it leave us anything to show?" I think he was beginning to yearn for some of the (already) long-gone, simpler times where "If we could just join hands" - that it might mean something while he can "see the candle burning low." and wonders "Is the new world rising from the shambles of the old".
Love the drums in the Rover. Try hots on for nowhere. Another gem with great drumming also ten years gone may be my favorite Zep tune. But as you say they are all great. My brother got me hooked as kid 40 years ago and never looked back You seem to have a feel for classic rock. It is timeless by the masters Two other recommendations are the Stones Can’t you hear me knocking. And for a newer band Vampire Weekend and Step to change it up Enjoy your reactions. It’s fun to watch people experience the greats for the first time
Stick-to-it-iveness, you need it, you got it, Good on you, Pope. Watch what Zep does with a 200- 300 year-old folk song Gallows Pole (it really is that old... 1700s or early 1800s folk tune). Zep OWNS it now. Peace.
always LOVED this one -started with zep from the start first album electrified me when it came out -saw them in jan of 1975 before physical g came out -i was never the same they did 2 full sets like the dead-then saw them inn april of 1977-presence had just been released....2 full sets including a long acoustic portion in the first set - tickets to led zep were hard to come by-had to work for them-mail order just exactly right and be very lucky-the top of the tier in the last great and now historic renaissance of western civilizations music, from my living experience (..and i remember my small record collection BEFORE the beatles!) = the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, and the Grateful Dead. I saw the Grateful Dead 78 times...... so many great trips TRIPS if you understand and i think u do!!!-
this was a two album set that was chocked full of genius... the physical graffiti concert at the LA Forum they went ham on the Rover... 10 minute extended version a three minute solo and an outro that left me sobbing and Bonzo broke a couple drums
I know you did dazed and confused live from london. This was very early in their career. Please do the MSG version. 29 minutes of absolute magic. You will be glad you did. Its what the london version grew up to be!
For me, The Rover is the marauding ship that is the Zeppelin.....and its at port preparing for its next journey. It's being a touch reflective. It KNOWS there has to be improvement. But it also knows how great it is and that it will make these adjustments. And that guitar is playing like its smoking a big fat Cuban cigar. Haha
Yeah you know you would really dig the album cover cuz it's got all these cutouts and you can change the inner sleeve around and change the scenes in the windows it's pretty amazing yeah I don't know all the songs that you've done offer this album over to do some research figure it out because I don't know what to recommend you know it's an interesting song is they never released it on a album It's called Hey Hey What Can I Do you might have to check that out I actually got it on a compilation album that was released on Atlantic Records they had a yes song That Wasn't released and they have the Zeppelin song that was a released yes did that Simon and Garfunkel Song America man talk about Total Transformation of that little song
Interesting point Popenyco that you felt the song sounds fairly modern. Certainly incredible to think that it was conceived in 1975! It's another one of those classic Led Zep songs that from the moment it starts you don't know where it's going to go, right through to the outro where the riff suddenly changes. How about Bonzo's drumming!
Actually was written and recorded during the Hedley Grange sessions in 1971. It was not a fit for the fourth album so it went into the vault and became filler for the double album four years later
@@robertj5881 I checked this out, yes you are half right as it was originally written as an acoustic number during the recording of III but then changed to an electric number in 1972. The guitar overdubs were added in 1974. So it was kind of like a "work in progress" over a few years from 1970.
@@ivanhecimovic8397 I believe the vocal track was laid in the 71 because there's no way Robert was going there in 75. The rest of the layering obviously was built around the vocals
“The Rover” is one of the greatest driving songs ever. Find a road where you can go drive fast and CRANK this song! It’s even better in a fast sports car.
I could watch Led Zeppelin and Yes reactions all day long. You would love 'The Song Remains the Same' studio version Remastered. ruclips.net/video/dRnKvXqti6M/видео.html
Great reaction Led Zeppelin Way before their time
The riff!.... That lyric "If we could just join hands"!!!!
Hey Pope - loved this reaction - this is a phenomenal song and I love your reaction. Their music is timeless indeed. Many of their songs were so well recorded and produced - it stands up to the quality of modern recording standards - it might even be better than many modern recordings.
Well, on Led Zeppelin's mammoth 1977 US tour (which was two years after the album, Physical Graffiti was released) they used this "intro" of this song "The Rover" and then went into the last song on Physical Graffiti --- "Sick Again."
It turned out to be a phenomenal number live.
Here is one of the most well sounding, well known Led Zeppelin bootlegged recording - ever heard or known of - it's a live recording from the LA Forum, June 23rd, 1977 (LZ played the sold out LA Forum - six nights in one week).
The video which is overlayed - over the song -- is a collage of pro-shot (by Led Zeppelin) and bootlegged video footage (from fans) --- from their 1977 US tour.
It is all video clips -- from about 5 to 7 different venues, but it's all clips from -- "The Rover" intro - right into "Sick Again."
This could be another live Led Zeppelin review for you and should garner a good amount of views for you. Bonzo is going nuts on this song -- and you can see clips of Jimmy excited (like a little kid) interacting w Bonzo -- pointing at him, jumping towards him, etc... it's high energy Led Zeppelin - at their best !
Many consider the audio in this link - one of Led Zeppelin's best shows ever and definitely the best on their 1977 US tour.
PS: I'm a Led Zeppelin historian and an editor of their wikipedia page and individual wiki pages of the members.
Love your reactions ane opinions of their songs. I'm now a subscriber.
Here is the YT link
ruclips.net/video/1iFwqXSQn20/видео.html
I'd love to see your review of this song - please 🙂👏✨️🎊🎉🙌
It is so underrated. I grew up with this band. They have so much stuff, it’s easy to forget that some of the more obscure songs are some of their best. This is definitely one.
Almost 50 years and it never gets old. Amazing
Best Groovy Hard Rock drummer ever man Holy sh*t
Most mornings my playlist for showering and getting ready for work:
1. The wanton song
2. The rover
3. Sick again
If I have any more time…
4. Custard pie
5. For your life
All of them are those 4-6 minute rockers that just kick ass.
Great reaction as always man! Keep gettin the Led out 👍
Wonton is my Fave Zep song...toss in Out on the Tiles too!!
Ten Years Gone
Jimmy page is the riff master! It’s like every song is a masterpiece.
That’s one of my favorite zeppelin songs.
One of the greatest guitar outros ever put to record. My favorite Zep album.
Hit the nail on the head there. It's like they are just jamming away and suddenly Page rips into that outro riff out of nowhere and takes the song to another level!
It's always struck me how amazing Zep are at endings, whether it's fade-outs (this, Achilles Last Stand), sudden endings (The Crunge, Nightflight) or a power chord (Trampled Underfoot). They always know how to close a song.
They were a phenomenon of the Universe. It was their Fate to be the best.
This tune is so badass. The groove is viscous. The vocal/lyrics are epic. “If we could just join hands”. Total killer Zeppelin track.
Thanks for bringing these old tunes back to life.
My favorite song off this album!! The Rover!!
Hell yeah everyone!!! Here we go, it’s time to get the Led out with Popenyco!!! Let’s do this bro!!! Luv your passion for these rock legends!!¡
A great Zep song that often gets overlooked. Keep rocking!
75 76...Zepp, Topped themselves .. With this LP. Which is unbelievable!! Rock-It...🎸🎶🎵🎶😉
I'll just throw this one out there: "Hot's On for Nowhere" another great Zep number. Or "Gallow's Pole" while you're at it. "Darlene" is another. "Boogie with Stu" It doesn't really matter. "Down by the Seaside"
If you shot Zeppelin songs like apples in a barrel, you'd hit a fire number every time.
Why do so many people not to seem to like Hots on for Nowhere? It is in my top 10 zepp songs of all time yet no one ever mentions it.
@@boki1693 Yeah Bonham really swings on that number. I suspect most casual fans might overlook the album Presence because it was overshadowed somewhat by its monumental predecessor Physical Graffiti, and then not toured upon for over a year due to Plant's near fatal car crash. Followed by the movie release and all that hoopla. So it tends to be a somewhat forgotten classic, to the extent that anything Zeppelin did could ever be forgotten.
@@Ed9870 I so agree with everything you said. Physically is my favorite album by them and it came out right around the time I really started getting into Zeppelin. I used to hardly ever listen to Presence and Achilles Last Stand used to bore me to tears. But over the years it is maybe my second or thirds favorite album by them now.
@@boki1693 Me and you both. I came in with Graffiti, Custard Pie" kicked it off and that record never let up. Such variety.
As for "Achilles", it was actually a song Robert Plant wrote about his Greek Island vacation with his family that would start in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. He couldn't wait. "How could we say no?" "The mighty arms of Atlas hold Heaven from the earth" "sandy lands on holiday" and so on. While in Rhodes, in the Mediterranean Sea, he and wife Maureen were both almost killed in a car wreck. When Zeppelin went to record the song, Plant was still on crutches with a shattered ankle. During the sessions, he tripped over a cable and injured his Achilles tendon. After that, he was consigned to a wheelchair for awhile. Hence the name "Achilles Last Stand" because he sat through its recording. A year later, Heart ripped off the galloping riff and called it "Barracuda".
" Tea For One". A hidden gem.
Yes most definitely a underrated song.
One of their great
Love the song. Great reaction! 🙂
Yes , the versatile masters. Wizards of music. Rockstars Forever.
One of the best riff ever. One of their very great song among all the great they've done
This whole album is SO good!
“No, keep it rolling Jimmy, yeah!”
Love it my brother.
You’ve barely cracked the surface of the LZ discography.
Maybe the greatest band of all time.
Can’t wait for more.
Juno
Great great song always been one of my favourites
One of the greats. In an ocean of great songs they did.
Magnificent!!
That’s Rock and Roll ‘defined’!!!
Hey bro. Yeah man, this song is criminally underrated for sure lol. I just heard it for the third time and, it is great. Thx buddy for sharing. Rock on!!¡
LZ's got endless bangers bro, when you get a chance you should check out their song In The Light off that same Physical Graffiti album.
Badass song right there🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘vocals for the ages
Deeper down the Led Zeppelin rabbit hole my friend .
Enjoy ..I will 🤘
Here's some Zep "homework":
Heartbreaker/Livin' Lovin' Maid
Moby Dick, live, 1973, Madison Square Garden
Bring It On Home
In The Light
Come On Everybody/Something Else, live, Royal Albert Hall 1970
That's The Way
The Girl I Love She Got Long Black Wavy Hair
You have a lot of live Zep to get to as well....great journey. Great channel!
Tasty lyrics: Is the new world rising, from the shambles of the old...
Glad you dug this, my man!!
Physical Graffiti is an absolute superb album..... do the whole lot.... Try "In My Time of Dying" or "In The Light" from the album before the obvious Kashmir.... as with all Zeppelin albums I am still hearing things in the music I hadn't noticed before... still after 40 plus years.
In My as Time of Dying!!! Derived from Blind Willie Johnson's "Jesus make up my dyin' bed"...1927 or 28
My favorite Zep song.
64 and rock in this bad ass song
One of the best albums of all time. My favorite Zep album.
Now you know where the 80’s hair bands got their sounds!
This song started as an instrumental way back when they were writing and recording for their 3rd album. Time went by and it got reworked a bit and could have been ready by their album, Houses of the Holy (the album before Physical Graffiti) but Jimmy held it back again to add more guitar overdubs and it was released on Physical Graffiti. The lyrics discuss Robert's awareness of travelling the world and witnessing "Of all this wonder of earthly plunder. Will it leave us anything to show?" I think he was beginning to yearn for some of the (already) long-gone, simpler times where "If we could just join hands" - that it might mean something while he can "see the candle burning low." and wonders "Is the new world rising from the shambles of the old".
Every song is fucking good!! (almost, minus just a few) It's crazy! Go Pope!!
Classic Rock Star
Love the drums in the Rover. Try hots on for nowhere. Another gem with great drumming also ten years gone may be my favorite Zep tune. But as you say they are all great. My brother got me hooked as kid 40 years ago and never looked back You seem to have a feel for classic rock. It is timeless by the masters
Two other recommendations are the Stones Can’t you hear me knocking. And for a newer band Vampire Weekend and Step to change it up
Enjoy your reactions. It’s fun to watch people experience the greats for the first time
Stick-to-it-iveness, you need it, you got it, Good on you, Pope. Watch what Zep does with a 200- 300 year-old folk song Gallows Pole (it really is that old... 1700s or early 1800s folk tune). Zep OWNS it now. Peace.
Led Zeppelin owns everything they cover in a good way they just bring it to life better
@@Allen.Mir3681 ABSOLUTELY & every other band is scratching their heads saying damn it Zeppelin did it again…deep sigh 😔 ZEP GOAT!!!!
Great song. My second favorite to “In My Time of Dying”. Ironically, the song after The Rover on the album.
always LOVED this one -started with zep from the start first album electrified me when it came out -saw them in jan of 1975 before physical g came out -i was never the same they did 2 full sets like the dead-then saw them inn april of 1977-presence had just been released....2 full sets including a long acoustic portion in the first set - tickets to led zep were hard to come by-had to work for them-mail order just exactly right and be very lucky-the top of the tier in the last great and now historic renaissance of western civilizations music, from my living experience (..and i remember my small record collection BEFORE the beatles!) = the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, and the Grateful Dead. I saw the Grateful Dead 78 times...... so many great trips TRIPS if you understand and i think u do!!!-
1 of my favourites this. Awesome drumming
this was a two album set that was chocked full of genius... the physical graffiti concert at the LA Forum they went ham on the Rover... 10 minute extended version a three minute solo and an outro that left me sobbing and Bonzo broke a couple drums
I was there. 👍❤🤙
I know you did dazed and confused live from london. This was very early in their career. Please do the MSG version. 29 minutes of absolute magic. You will be glad you did. Its what the london version grew up to be!
love this song
THIS is my favorite LZ song. I always think maybe it’s something else, but it’s not. It’s this one, with that PERFECT guitar solo.
Aloha, if we could just join hands?...excellent reaction...
You got mad hard, and an open mind brother. I really appreciate you
Heck yeah!!! That open E string at the beginning
For me, The Rover is the marauding ship that is the Zeppelin.....and its at port preparing for its next journey. It's being a touch reflective. It KNOWS there has to be improvement. But it also knows how great it is and that it will make these adjustments. And that guitar is playing like its smoking a big fat Cuban cigar. Haha
The rabbit hole of the gods runs deep…. And is fertile!
We use to do a fifteen minute version of the Rover, the drummer and guitarist would get carried away almost half a century ago
Pure times
Down by the Seaside" one of my best
This is a killer reaction.
Love the guitar and drums on this one
"The Golden Boy", by Freddie mercury and Montserrat Caballe.
Dirty riff is badass
Love this song. Typically Jimmy Page throws in a riff to end on, at 5.31 on your video, that most bands would build a whole song around
Haven't heard that one in years
Yeah you know you would really dig the album cover cuz it's got all these cutouts and you can change the inner sleeve around and change the scenes in the windows it's pretty amazing yeah I don't know all the songs that you've done offer this album over to do some research figure it out because I don't know what to recommend you know it's an interesting song is they never released it on a album It's called Hey Hey What Can I Do you might have to check that out I actually got it on a compilation album that was released on Atlantic Records they had a yes song That Wasn't released and they have the Zeppelin song that was a released yes did that Simon and Garfunkel Song America man talk about Total Transformation of that little song
Masterpiece 🍃
This is a rare zep song that isn't about death.. Destruction... And wizard battles
Best outro Zep ever did.
Interesting point Popenyco that you felt the song sounds fairly modern. Certainly incredible to think that it was conceived in 1975!
It's another one of those classic Led Zep songs that from the moment it starts you don't know where it's going to go, right through to the outro where the riff suddenly changes.
How about Bonzo's drumming!
Actually was written and recorded during the Hedley Grange sessions in 1971. It was not a fit for the fourth album so it went into the vault and became filler for the double album four years later
@@robertj5881 I checked this out, yes you are half right as it was originally written as an acoustic number during the recording of III but then changed to an electric number in 1972. The guitar overdubs were added in 1974. So it was kind of like a "work in progress" over a few years from 1970.
@@ivanhecimovic8397 I believe the vocal track was laid in the 71 because there's no way Robert was going there in 75. The rest of the layering obviously was built around the vocals
“The Rover” is one of the greatest driving songs ever. Find a road where you can go drive fast and CRANK this song! It’s even better in a fast sports car.
i love you, this made me so happy!
So fucking great
Not sure if this needed that flanger on the guitar. The cold raw bang of Jimmy's guitar makes everything better.
Love Bonzo on this one
Is it me but why do I think the outro is the best dam thing of this song? I mean I love the entire song but that outro!
Pope! 🔈🔉🔊
Tangerine is underrated as hell
Check it out
Unlike most bands none of led zeppelins songs sound the same 🤣
I could watch Led Zeppelin and Yes reactions all day long. You would love 'The Song Remains the Same' studio version Remastered. ruclips.net/video/dRnKvXqti6M/видео.html
I don’t think you reacted to You Shook Me. Probably my favorite Zeppelin song.
ruclips.net/video/N8C5Fb4BfHo/видео.html
It's an okay song, but I know it mostly from the fade out cos In My Time Of Dying is next on the record.
that riff is just NASTY!
my dude these cats set the bar were and are the bar flat the fuck out ...........