The “Doppler effect” on the guitar in the choruses is simply use of the fader on the track. I’ve heard the unmixed 8 track stems (which sadly did not include the super crazy theremin part from the bridge) and the Doppler effect guitar is Page playing triads with a slide guitar, (on the D, G and B strings for the guitar nerds) on the chords D up to E and slides down, .. we only hear the part after the sliding down has begun (genius self editing) while being panned around.
Hey Doug, love the channel. I rarely comment. But thought I'd let you know, this version is edited. Measures of the song are missing. It's impossible for me to listen to it. One of Jimmy Page's most iconic guitar sounds is omitted due that edit. I love how you're getting into Zeppelin. ✌️
Led Zeppelin 2 is a must , its the album that defined their sound and some of the best riffs Jimmy ever wrote. They took electrified blues to the next level with this album.
As a Zeppelin afficionado, to me Zeppelin are defined by not having a particular sound and are extremely eclectic and diverse and while Led Zeppelin II is fantastic, it doesnt show the true scope of Zeppelin like IV and Physical Graffiti, and even III and Houses of the Holy do. I'd put IV and PG ahead of it.
Back door man refers to hubby coming home in the front and the wife's secret lover runs out of the backdoor. I wanna be your back door man means he wants to be a secret lover. It's an old 20's 30's blues line from black southern blues players.
Correct. Although the song remains sexually charged either way, the lyrics sit better with me knowing where the expression comes from, rather than the explicitness that new listeners may assume.
@@thelonesomefisherman7425 Yeah we know that - we're not clueless. In the context of the song, the phrase is borrowed from a theme created by the early bluesmen singing about secret lovers. But if you want to believe it's merely about anal sex, suit yourself.
@JacoWium Umm, I know the old blues meaning you mentioned. It also has the meaning of anal sex in blues music. Back, whatever year, when their In Through The Out Door record was released, there was a controversy about the title being a reference to anal sex. I'm not posting this to get my jollies or to be crude, only to mention it as a part of music culture.
@@thelonesomefisherman7425 Yeah, you could be right, and I certainly won't argue about "in through the out door". I've never heard that phrase in any context other than the album title. Phrases and expressions change meaning over time. As a good example, the term "making love" used to mean merely making out a bit: a bit of kissing and some gentle touching perhaps. There was nothing sexual about it; it had no more than a promise of a blooming relationship. Over time, and due to the effects of the Hays Code on movie productions as well, the meaning came to be what we know it as today. Back to the blues: One of the pervasive themes in early blues was infidelity. Yes, there were some raunchy lyrics as well: "sugar in my bowl", "squeeze my lemon" etcetera etcetera. I cannot say, however, that I've ever heard a reference to "backdoor man" in any blues song recorded before 1940/50 where the double entendre makes more sense than the original meaning. I highly doubt any such claim. But, what would I know? I didn't write or perform those songs.
This was a UFO in 1969. I first heard it in 1972, when I was twelve years old. Impossible not to fall in love with the energy, consistency and enormous talent that this song exudes!
Women loved his hair as much as his singing. The “pre-echo” ate the end (“woman”, “you need”) was a bleed through from another take on the same tape. When Page heard it, rather than trying to eliminate it, he amplified it.😁 Today’s digital world cancels such happy accidents.
Again, bought this album the day it was released, and still got it! Robert Plant used to live less than a mile away from where I'm sitting, and Zep used to practice in the back room of a pub not 2 miles away. Saw them live at the Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music summer of 1970 and I've been a fan ever since (really pisses off my grandkids that Grandad can still rock at 72)! Keep rockin!
I love seeing whole lotta love's reactions, especially when he sings "shake for me, girl/I wanna be your back door man" because people are embarrassed by the strong sexual appeal of the lyrics "...I'll give you every inch of mine love...", but many don't know that it is a quote from Robert Johnson's "back door man" song that was released in the 30s!
A LOT of babies have been made to Led Zep 2 - I played it through and my stereo wanted a smoke afterwards... neat reaction, thanks for sharing, Doug \m/,
In 69 I had that LP for christmas.........I now wonder what my parents was thinking at the time. It was on repeat for a long time in my room when I was at home.
Saw LZ live in 1972 at the old Sydney Showground in my first year of college. Cost about $4 and was the first and best “big” concert I ever attended. They were superb live.
Doug, the MSG live version is definitely worth listening to. You get a theremin being played by Jimmy and section of classic Rhythm & Blues thrown in for great measure. You wont be disappointed. It's a classic.
Hey, Doug, did you know : in the last part of the song, where you hear that "pre-echo" of Plant singing "Way down inside" as a pre echo then the Way Down inside.. full volume.. That happened because the recording was so HOT on the magnetic tape, that when the tape wound thru past the vocal part, it was so strong in bled thru to the tape previously recorded upon, and left a "GHOST" of the vocal that was just recorded and burned it in as a pre-ghost that came out by accident, and they left it in.. Trivia from a recording engineer...
"Way Down Inside", and the lines that followed, was the moment that Robert Plant stood on his toes, screamed, and his whole body shook. I think every girl, including me, wet her pants! For an 18 year old girl in 1974, it will always live in my memory at the best concert I've ever experienced!
Wiki "In 1962, Muddy Waters recorded "You Need Love", written for him by peer Willie Dixon. "You Need Loving" is a thinly veiled cover of "You Need Love". Small Faces were never sued by Dixon, even though "You Need Loving" only credits Ronnie Lane and Steve Marriott as writers. Guitarist Jimmy Page (initially of The Yardbirds and later of Led Zeppelin fame) has claimed to have been disappointed when, after coming up with a wicked guitar riff and requesting Robert Plant pen some lyrics, the singer returned with those of "You Need Loving", a tune Plant, a big Small Faces fan, had, according to Small Faces singer Steve Marriott in early '70s Canadian rock newspaper Beetle, said he had longed to record. Thus, "You Need Loving" became the basis for lyrics of Led Zeppelin's hit song "Whole Lotta Love" in 1969."
Weirdly, it's the band's most widely-known track in the UK, as a version of it was adopted as the opening credits of Top of the Pops, the BBC's weekly primetime show for the singles chart , for about 40 years.
It was replaced with Yellow Pearl, written by Phil Lynott and Midge Ure, who believe it our not toured with Thin Lizzy as lead guitarist for a very short while when Gary Moore left the band suddenly in 1979.
Back Doot Man is a secret lover. As in your lover is sneaking out or in the back door as your husband is coming in or going out the front door. It is also mentioned in "Since I've Been Loving You" in the lyrics 'I open my front door, hear my back door slam' There were more than a few songs with sort of explicit lyrics in the 60s and 70s, a lot of them were pop songs. I'm surprised my parents never changed the station while we were riding in the car.
Love that you mentioned "Pots n Pans" my father..aka Old Man.. always told me to turn down those dam Pots n Pans.. and still use that term that was embedded in my youthful mind!
It is interesting that after playing this song on guitar since this record came out that I only recently noticed what Jimmy Page (and John Paul Jones) are actually playing for the main riff. Someone called this to my attention recently, but I have never seen a guitar player play the part correctly or like the record. Here is what I discovered: The riff is played as B-D-B-D-EEEEEEEE, but if you listen, they are playing the D on both an open D string and on the 5th fret of the A string letting them both ring out. They are also both (guitar and bass) bending the fretted D (on the A string) slightly sharp. Also, if you play this on a Les Paul with distortion your finger will lightly hit the 5th fret on the D string and create the harmonic that you hear on the D note. In order to bend the D on the A sharp like they are doing on the record you have to push the string upward or your finger will deaden the open D string. I tried playing the riff like this on a Strat and on an Explorer, but the sound of the harmonic does not fully sound as pronounced as on the record unless you play it on a Les Paul on the bridge pick up. I am assuming that Jimmy Page is playing his sunburst Les Paul (that he bought from Joe Walsh) because it definitely doesn't sound like his Tele or a Danelectro.
The second album IMHO is their best. Every track, riff, solo, and production technique is iconic. So many things that became classic rock cliches used by other bands are found on Led Zep II.
Can you imagine what this song did to our fragile teenage minds when it was released? LOL Great reaction Doug but please give the Earls Court live version a listen (it is on youtube) for a journey in to performance perfection.
The middle part with all those weird sounds is Jimmy Page using a Theremin He also uses it on the song BLACK DOG and he used it extensively during their live shows
Radio stations usually played Heartbreaker and Livin' Lovin' Maid together (like they used to do with Queen's We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions, and I think I remember the same with Sgt. Pepper/With a Little Help from My Friends). Whenever I hear Heartbreaker and it ends, it seems like something is missing if the opening to Livin' Lovin' Maid doesn't immediately follow. My favorite song from the album is Ramble On, with its Lord of the Rings reference. Moby Dick is a tour de force for John Bonham.
Those drums and basline go well with the guitar and vocals. With Houses and Graffiti done... It would be great to hear 1, 2, 3, 4 in extended play lounge in order. Great song by Zep
When we appreciate Led Zeppelin's work we come across various styles of music and this mix is captivating, it instigates the listener's curiosity. Could you make a video reacting to the song Achilles Last Stand? Thanks!!
Thanks for getting the LED out... the greatest band ever. If you're looking for interesting songs of theirs, I recommend "Achilles Last Stand" and "Tea For One" (both from their album "Presence"), and "Carouselambra" (from "In Through the Out Door"). One of the only bands that don't have a single bad song (in my opinion).
When I was 11 or 12 I had finished getting ready for school with some time to kill. Always listened to music on my transistor radio. And this came on. While I did not understand the lyrics at the time I knew from the sound, singing and music it was far different and wilder then anything I ever heard. I wondered what my mom would think. I had been listening to rock consistently since I was 6 and my brother and I were never censored from the music. Even the druggy hippie stuff like White Rabbit. But, this was so different. But, mom was fine. My parents really did not have a problem with my brother and I listening to rock. But, up until then it was 90 percent tame light pop kind of stuff on the top 40. Until Zeppelin. I only heard it once or twice. I read later that Peter Grant and Jimmy Page wanted it taken off because they did not want singles out. However a little while later, just like this song, I heard Immigrant Song on the radio in the morning again. And again it disappeared. It wasn't until I was a teen that I really heard Zeppelin again and by then I was a full fledged Zep head. And have stayed one.
Fun fact: The main music programme on the BBC , & therefore most of UK TV in the 70s & 80s was 'Top of the Pops'. The opening signature tune was 'Whole Lotta Love', which also played under the run-down of the weekly charts. ( the outro might be a fade out of the last act of the show ). So, everybody of a 'certain age' knows this tune in their DNA. But, it was NOT this version. It was the cover version by the band CCS [ Collective Consciousness Society ] fronted by Alexis Korner, who, along with John Mayall ran the bands which were 'finishing schools' for musicians that made up the 'English Blues Revival'. Guitarists like Clapton, Page, Beck, Green, [ + Fleetwood & Mac ] passed through the JM Bluesbreakers. Alexis had 'Blues Incorporated', which had its own alumni [ Charlie Watts for one, if I remember correctly ]. Peter Grant would never have allowed the original to be used for something so commercial, unless he knew he could control it.
When i was much younger, and not yet knowing of Led Zepplin, it always seemed to me that Top of the Pops was incomplete. Then I heard Whole Lot of Love, and realised what was missing. This, along with Warrior on the Edge of Time (having read the monologue on the back of 'The Eternal Champion and thought... 'hey./.. what?') that started me down the path m,y older brother had already trodden.
Yes this is a great Rif driven piece: Here are a few others I rather like: Sunshine Of Your Love by Cream, Down Down by Status Quo, Layla by Derek & The Dominoes, Love Like A Man by Ten Years After, and Smoke On The Water by Deep Purple. Keep Reacting!
Very good comment, Doug! I hope you can also do the live version of this track from The Song Remains The Same soundtrack. It's a little bit longer, actually. But I think it also deserves some reaction from someone like you who is the authority in music! I would love to watch and hear from you your technical reaction/analysis. More power to you!
And don't forget Plant's follow-up 1980's group, The Honydrippers. Yes, it could be whispering sweet nothings, or a voice as sweet as honey. But we're talking Robert Plant here, so...
VERY entertaining take on Robert and the Boys here, lol! "Backdoor man" simply means the dude's sneaking out or sneaking in the back door so the neighbors/husband won't know he's cheating with the wife/GF. The great Tori Amos grew up crushing hard on Robert Plant. They ended up doing a wonderful cover of a Zep song together. Robert (jokingly?) asked her to marry him. She graciously demurred. By the way, "Whole Lotta Love"? Excellent, but there are many Zep tunes even better. Happy discovering!
I was 10 years old when this came out. I was a big Beatles fan and I still am. But when I heard that I knew everything had changed. I didn’t even know anything about sex at the time and I knew………….. It was not just the lyrics. The stuff they did on that song just wasn’t what you were used to hearing.
go back and listen for the dissonance of the D to almost a D sharp as he plays the riff. He intentionally, as he has pointed out, played the A string "D" note to D sharp with a quarter bend while leaving the open D string ringing, not muted. Once you hear that, you cannot deal with people playing the riff differently without the open D ringing against the bent D/Dsharp. As a guitarist, it requires a totally different hand position than most people are comfortable with who play it without the conflicting notes.
Surprisingly this was the only top ten single that Led Zeppelin had in the U.S. It made it to #4. Zeppelin only had 6 top 40 hits all together which is hard to believe but they were more of an album oriented band so.......
"Be the backdoor man..." meant something different in those days. More like being "the guy who leaves via the back door, when the husband comes home through the front door". Though that doesn't make a huge difference ;-)
Anybody actually gonna talk about the song? Forget further suggestions! When I first heard this in 1969, aged 15, it blew my mind. The album Led Zeppelin is still so brilliant and full of great, classic tracks. It's stood the test of time. If anything should be suggested, it should be another song from the album.
He Doug You muss Check Mystery live album Caught in the whirlwind of time - looking for something else! This is so amazing! Combi Rush , Marillion, Camel , Floyd .
I would love to hear your analysis on Portal by Snarky Puppy. It's just a fantastic, melodically rich and rhytmically exciting tune. One of their masterpieces for sure.
wow This is a change Doug you didn't bash Robert you either understand why he did what he did or you're on his bandwagon.. Good for you Doug. Robert was a all time frontman at the time. Outstanding.
im not asking you to react to it (even though i think you would be amazed) but please listen to Vogel im käfig, the complete version (6:21 minutes). Its absolute insane how good that is. dont do a reaction if you dont want to but do yourself a favour and listen to it cause i personally think it's one of the best songs, if not the best song i've ever heard
@paulfranklin8636 Whole Lotta Love was #1 in Germany in April 1970 but yes they rarely released singles (none in the UK) and those they did release were usually chopped up and edited.
To stay on the british side of the track, you might like to study the songs Neil Innes composed for the movie The Rutles (Eric Idle, 1977.) It will knock you off your chair.
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The “Doppler effect” on the guitar in the choruses is simply use of the fader on the track.
I’ve heard the unmixed 8 track stems (which sadly did not include the super crazy theremin part from the bridge) and the Doppler effect guitar is Page playing triads with a slide guitar, (on the D, G and B strings for the guitar nerds) on the chords D up to E and slides down, ..
we only hear the part after the sliding down has begun (genius self editing) while being panned around.
Hey Doug, love the channel. I rarely comment. But thought I'd let you know, this version is edited. Measures of the song are missing. It's impossible for me to listen to it. One of Jimmy Page's most iconic guitar sounds is omitted due that edit. I love how you're getting into Zeppelin. ✌️
Led Zeppelin 2 is a must , its the album that defined their sound and some of the best riffs Jimmy ever wrote. They took electrified blues to the next level with this album.
Have to agree with this. The whole album hangs together as an entity, not just the individual tracks.
Best Led Zep album 😁
Also one of the best album covers , very iconic and clever
As a Zeppelin afficionado, to me Zeppelin are defined by not having a particular sound and are extremely eclectic and diverse and while Led Zeppelin II is fantastic, it doesnt show the true scope of Zeppelin like IV and Physical Graffiti, and even III and Houses of the Holy do.
I'd put IV and PG ahead of it.
III
Back door man refers to hubby coming home in the front and the wife's secret lover runs out of the backdoor. I wanna be your back door man means he wants to be a secret lover. It's an old 20's 30's blues line from black southern blues players.
Correct. Although the song remains sexually charged either way, the lyrics sit better with me knowing where the expression comes from, rather than the explicitness that new listeners may assume.
Actually, it is also a double entendre reference to a sex act. You figure it out. 😮 😂
@@thelonesomefisherman7425 Yeah we know that - we're not clueless. In the context of the song, the phrase is borrowed from a theme created by the early bluesmen singing about secret lovers. But if you want to believe it's merely about anal sex, suit yourself.
@JacoWium Umm, I know the old blues meaning you mentioned. It also has the meaning of anal sex in blues music.
Back, whatever year, when their In Through The Out Door record was released, there was a controversy about the title being a reference to anal sex.
I'm not posting this to get my jollies or to be crude, only to mention it as a part of music culture.
@@thelonesomefisherman7425 Yeah, you could be right, and I certainly won't argue about "in through the out door". I've never heard that phrase in any context other than the album title.
Phrases and expressions change meaning over time. As a good example, the term "making love" used to mean merely making out a bit: a bit of kissing and some gentle touching perhaps. There was nothing sexual about it; it had no more than a promise of a blooming relationship. Over time, and due to the effects of the Hays Code on movie productions as well, the meaning came to be what we know it as today.
Back to the blues: One of the pervasive themes in early blues was infidelity. Yes, there were some raunchy lyrics as well: "sugar in my bowl", "squeeze my lemon" etcetera etcetera. I cannot say, however, that I've ever heard a reference to "backdoor man" in any blues song recorded before 1940/50 where the double entendre makes more sense than the original meaning. I highly doubt any such claim. But, what would I know? I didn't write or perform those songs.
This was a UFO in 1969. I first heard it in 1972, when I was twelve years old. Impossible not to fall in love with the energy, consistency and enormous talent that this song exudes!
Women loved his hair as much as his singing. The “pre-echo” ate the end (“woman”, “you need”) was a bleed through from another take on the same tape. When Page heard it, rather than trying to eliminate it, he amplified it.😁 Today’s digital world cancels such happy accidents.
As others have already commented, you must listen to all of LZII.
For it's time, an absolute classic and still holds up 55 years later 👍
Led Zeppelin 2 was by far my favourite of their albums. I enjoyed every track on it
R.I.P. John Bonham
(1948-1980)
Led Zeppelin - Babe I’m Gonna Leave You - unique and excellent
Again, bought this album the day it was released, and still got it! Robert Plant used to live less than a mile away from where I'm sitting, and Zep used to practice in the back room of a pub not 2 miles away. Saw them live at the Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music summer of 1970 and I've been a fan ever since (really pisses off my grandkids that Grandad can still rock at 72)!
Keep rockin!
I love seeing whole lotta love's reactions, especially when he sings "shake for me, girl/I wanna be your back door man" because people are embarrassed by the strong sexual appeal of the lyrics "...I'll give you every inch of mine love...", but many don't know that it is a quote from Robert Johnson's "back door man" song that was released in the 30s!
A LOT of babies have been made to Led Zep 2 - I played it through and my stereo wanted a smoke afterwards... neat reaction, thanks for sharing, Doug \m/,
This song and Ramble On are my favorites.
In 69 I had that LP for christmas.........I now wonder what my parents was thinking at the time. It was on repeat for a long time in my room when I was at home.
Saw LZ live in 1972 at the old Sydney Showground in my first year of college. Cost about $4 and was the first and best “big” concert I ever attended. They were superb live.
I was there too, in the rain! 16 years old.
Doug, the MSG live version is definitely worth listening to. You get a theremin being played by Jimmy and section of classic Rhythm & Blues thrown in for great measure. You wont be disappointed. It's a classic.
Hey, Doug, did you know : in the last part of the song, where you hear that "pre-echo" of Plant singing "Way down inside" as a pre echo then the Way Down inside.. full volume.. That happened because the recording was so HOT on the magnetic tape, that when the tape wound thru past the vocal part, it was so strong in bled thru to the tape previously recorded upon, and left a "GHOST" of the vocal that was just recorded and burned it in as a pre-ghost that came out by accident, and they left it in.. Trivia from a recording engineer...
Not the only one, I had several records that had that same pre-echo on some songs, Rush, Saga, Black Sabbath, Yes, King Crimson, David Bowie...
"Way Down Inside", and the lines that followed, was the moment that Robert Plant stood on his toes, screamed, and his whole body shook. I think every girl, including me, wet her pants! For an 18 year old girl in 1974, it will always live in my memory at the best concert I've ever experienced!
1969...Can you imagine hearing this for the first time aged 15?
The seventies was a great decade.
I lived it with them.
I was 15 too!!! I loved it!!! I didn't really know what it was I liked but I liked it!! It was hot that's all I knew lol.
Wiki "In 1962, Muddy Waters recorded "You Need Love", written for him by peer Willie Dixon. "You Need Loving" is a thinly veiled cover of "You Need Love". Small Faces were never sued by Dixon, even though "You Need Loving" only credits Ronnie Lane and Steve Marriott as writers. Guitarist Jimmy Page (initially of The Yardbirds and later of Led Zeppelin fame) has claimed to have been disappointed when, after coming up with a wicked guitar riff and requesting Robert Plant pen some lyrics, the singer returned with those of "You Need Loving", a tune Plant, a big Small Faces fan, had, according to Small Faces singer Steve Marriott in early '70s Canadian rock newspaper Beetle, said he had longed to record. Thus, "You Need Loving" became the basis for lyrics of Led Zeppelin's hit song "Whole Lotta Love" in 1969."
Weirdly, it's the band's most widely-known track in the UK, as a version of it was adopted as the opening credits of Top of the Pops, the BBC's weekly primetime show for the singles chart , for about 40 years.
That's where I remember it from, it was used for many, many years after the track came and went, even adapted later.
Ah yes, the version by the Collective Consciousness Society, no less!! Quintessentially 70's!
It was replaced with Yellow Pearl, written by Phil Lynott and Midge Ure, who believe it our not toured with Thin Lizzy as lead guitarist for a very short while when Gary Moore left the band suddenly in 1979.
I didn't know about the RS list, but for me... YES! THIS IS #1
Back Doot Man is a secret lover. As in your lover is sneaking out or in the back door as your husband is coming in or going out the front door. It is also mentioned in "Since I've Been Loving You" in the lyrics 'I open my front door, hear my back door slam' There were more than a few songs with sort of explicit lyrics in the 60s and 70s, a lot of them were pop songs. I'm surprised my parents never changed the station while we were riding in the car.
Bass player bluesman Willie Dixon wrote BACK DOOR MAN, covered by The Doors. Robert sings of him in SINCE I'VE BEEN LOVING YOU.
Love that you mentioned "Pots n Pans" my father..aka Old Man.. always told me to turn down those dam Pots n Pans.. and still use that term that was embedded in my youthful mind!
It is interesting that after playing this song on guitar since this record came out that I only recently noticed what Jimmy Page (and John Paul Jones) are actually playing for the main riff. Someone called this to my attention recently, but I have never seen a guitar player play the part correctly or like the record. Here is what I discovered: The riff is played as B-D-B-D-EEEEEEEE, but if you listen, they are playing the D on both an open D string and on the 5th fret of the A string letting them both ring out. They are also both (guitar and bass) bending the fretted D (on the A string) slightly sharp. Also, if you play this on a Les Paul with distortion your finger will lightly hit the 5th fret on the D string and create the harmonic that you hear on the D note. In order to bend the D on the A sharp like they are doing on the record you have to push the string upward or your finger will deaden the open D string. I tried playing the riff like this on a Strat and on an Explorer, but the sound of the harmonic does not fully sound as pronounced as on the record unless you play it on a Les Paul on the bridge pick up. I am assuming that Jimmy Page is playing his sunburst Les Paul (that he bought from Joe Walsh) because it definitely doesn't sound like his Tele or a Danelectro.
The second album IMHO is their best. Every track, riff, solo, and production technique is iconic. So many things that became classic rock cliches used by other bands are found on Led Zep II.
IV and Physical Graffiti, then II.
Suggest When The Levee Breaks.
Episode 684
1-4 are amazing albums. Essential to listen.
Great reaction Doug to this iconic Zeppelin track.
Yours is the best reaction channel on Y.T. by a long way! Cheers,
Yes, Zeppelin 2 is a Great Album !!! Some classics
As much as I love whole lota love I rock and roll the most.
4 out of 5 rutting bull elks choose Whole Lotta Love to set the mood, come mating season !
- Field and Stream Magazine survey
Can you imagine what this song did to our fragile teenage minds when it was released? LOL Great reaction Doug but please give the Earls Court live version a listen (it is on youtube) for a journey in to performance perfection.
Remember that "back door man" didnt mean, in the 70s , what it does now.
Bass player bluesman Willie Dixon wrote BACK DOOR MAN, covered by The Doors. Robert sings of him in SINCE I'VE BEEN LOVING YOU.
What does it mean now?
On the album the lead echo in the middle, is an artifact of reusing badly erased tape. they heard it, liked it.,
Coolest part of the song.
My favorite Zep song!
You have to listen to the album. Headphones at 1am. The conditions when I listened to it the 1st time.
Listening to it slide from one ear to the other, magic stuff
The middle part with all those weird sounds is Jimmy Page using a Theremin He also uses it on the song BLACK DOG and he used it extensively during their live shows
I am not aware of any theremin on "Black Dog".
Dunno why but this track always flusters me 😂 😅 maybe the beat 😅 its pretty badass
Doug, great job, I have always felt the 2nd album was their best, generally held responsible for heavy metal
Radio stations usually played Heartbreaker and Livin' Lovin' Maid together (like they used to do with Queen's We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions, and I think I remember the same with Sgt. Pepper/With a Little Help from My Friends). Whenever I hear Heartbreaker and it ends, it seems like something is missing if the opening to Livin' Lovin' Maid doesn't immediately follow. My favorite song from the album is Ramble On, with its Lord of the Rings reference. Moby Dick is a tour de force for John Bonham.
Those drums and basline go well with the guitar and vocals. With Houses and Graffiti done... It would be great to hear 1, 2, 3, 4 in extended play lounge in order. Great song by Zep
Bonzo’s playing a melody with those cymbals😮
Led Zeppelin 2 is for sure one of the top ten rock album ever 😊
And no autotune!
Feels like a back-beat rhythm, yet it's not! I noticed that you noticed ("He waits to give you the snare").
It's never the first song that comes to mind when I think of the band. That distinction goes to "Dazed and Confused" 😁😎
Quark strangeness and charm, whole album
When we appreciate Led Zeppelin's work we come across various styles of music and this mix is captivating, it instigates the listener's curiosity.
Could you make a video reacting to the song Achilles Last Stand?
Thanks!!
Thanks for getting the LED out... the greatest band ever. If you're looking for interesting songs of theirs, I recommend "Achilles Last Stand" and "Tea For One" (both from their album "Presence"), and "Carouselambra" (from "In Through the Out Door"). One of the only bands that don't have a single bad song (in my opinion).
Great reaction as always. Thank you
Not the full version off the album though Doug.
Yeah, this was the radio-friendly version.
When I was 11 or 12 I had finished getting ready for school with some time to kill. Always listened to music on my transistor radio. And this came on. While I did not understand the lyrics at the time I knew from the sound, singing and music it was far different and wilder then anything I ever heard. I wondered what my mom would think. I had been listening to rock consistently since I was 6 and my brother and I were never censored from the music. Even the druggy hippie stuff like White Rabbit. But, this was so different.
But, mom was fine. My parents really did not have a problem with my brother and I listening to rock. But, up until then it was 90 percent tame light pop kind of stuff on the top 40. Until Zeppelin. I only heard it once or twice. I read later that Peter Grant and Jimmy Page wanted it taken off because they did not want singles out.
However a little while later, just like this song, I heard Immigrant Song on the radio in the morning again. And again it disappeared.
It wasn't until I was a teen that I really heard Zeppelin again and by then I was a full fledged Zep head. And have stayed one.
Nice! Led Zeppelin 2 is my favorite album.
The term “back door man” is an old blues term meaning a secret lover who enters the house by the back door so he won’t be seen by the neighbors.
I heard this song when i was 14 and by '72, at 16, I was hooked on Bonzo's drumming.
There was never a better era to be young.
Fun fact: The main music programme on the BBC , & therefore most of UK TV in the 70s & 80s was 'Top of the Pops'. The opening signature tune was 'Whole Lotta Love', which also played under the run-down of the weekly charts. ( the outro might be a fade out of the last act of the show ). So, everybody of a 'certain age' knows this tune in their DNA.
But, it was NOT this version. It was the cover version by the band CCS [ Collective Consciousness Society ] fronted by Alexis Korner, who, along with John Mayall ran the bands which were 'finishing schools' for musicians that made up the 'English Blues Revival'. Guitarists like Clapton, Page, Beck, Green, [ + Fleetwood & Mac ] passed through the JM Bluesbreakers. Alexis had 'Blues Incorporated', which had its own alumni [ Charlie Watts for one, if I remember correctly ].
Peter Grant would never have allowed the original to be used for something so commercial, unless he knew he could control it.
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Radio version, you should hear the whole song from the album.
Go Doug!
You gotta check out some live Led Zeppelin!!!!! Dazed and Confused MSG 1973 in particular. So much going on there
When i was much younger, and not yet knowing of Led Zepplin, it always seemed to me that Top of the Pops was incomplete.
Then I heard Whole Lot of Love, and realised what was missing.
This, along with Warrior on the Edge of Time (having read the monologue on the back of 'The Eternal Champion and thought... 'hey./.. what?') that started me down the path m,y older brother had already trodden.
Glad we could get the Led out......
Yes this is a great Rif driven piece: Here are a few others I rather like: Sunshine Of Your Love by Cream, Down Down by Status Quo, Layla by Derek & The Dominoes, Love Like A Man by Ten Years After, and Smoke On The Water by Deep Purple. Keep Reacting!
And Robert still like to play it at his own concerts, arrangements and his voice a bit diffrent. But it’s still amazing
Doug, you’re the GOAT
Yo, church ladies unite. Plant be given’ every inch of his love!!!
As you discovered, it’s one of the all time great air-drumming tracks.
It's my favourite band before I got into Rush!
Very good comment, Doug! I hope you can also do the live version of this track from The Song Remains The Same soundtrack. It's a little bit longer, actually. But I think it also deserves some reaction from someone like you who is the authority in music! I would love to watch and hear from you your technical reaction/analysis. More power to you!
And don't forget Plant's follow-up 1980's group, The Honydrippers. Yes, it could be whispering sweet nothings, or a voice as sweet as honey. But we're talking Robert Plant here, so...
VERY entertaining take on Robert and the Boys here, lol! "Backdoor man" simply means the dude's sneaking out or sneaking in the back door so the neighbors/husband won't know he's cheating with the wife/GF. The great Tori Amos grew up crushing hard on Robert Plant. They ended up doing a wonderful cover of a Zep song together. Robert (jokingly?) asked her to marry him. She graciously demurred. By the way, "Whole Lotta Love"? Excellent, but there are many Zep tunes even better. Happy discovering!
The two best songs on this album are "What Is and What Should Never Be" and "Ramble On" 😁❤️
Great song...great use of a Theremin too !!
Never released singles, so Auntie Beeb didn't play it (or ban it), but others (pirate) stations did. Anyway we heard it, and bought the albums.
Should check out the live version from The Song Remains the Same. Jimmy plays a therapist and Roberts. Tight Jeana are what the church ladies swoon
I was 10 years old when this came out. I was a big Beatles fan and I still am. But when I heard that I knew everything had changed. I didn’t even know anything about sex at the time and I knew………….. It was not just the lyrics. The stuff they did on that song just wasn’t what you were used to hearing.
References the Doppler effect present in the song. Such an epic dude. ''He is getting ready to say Amen'' XD This chap is brilliant.
Checkout "The Lemon Song" ,the 4th track on Led Zeppelin 2.
Led Zep 2's my fave Led Zep album
LZ I and LZ II are the MUST !
go back and listen for the dissonance of the D to almost a D sharp as he plays the riff. He intentionally, as he has pointed out, played the A string "D" note to D sharp with a quarter bend while leaving the open D string ringing, not muted. Once you hear that, you cannot deal with people playing the riff differently without the open D ringing against the bent D/Dsharp. As a guitarist, it requires a totally different hand position than most people are comfortable with who play it without the conflicting notes.
Surprisingly this was the only top ten single that Led Zeppelin had in the U.S. It made it to #4. Zeppelin only had 6 top 40 hits all together which is hard to believe but they were more of an album oriented band so.......
Mainstream pop chart radio stations hardly ever played Zeppelin so they weren't in the focus of the pop buying public.
They had no singles in the UK.
"Be the backdoor man..." meant something different in those days. More like being "the guy who leaves via the back door, when the husband comes home through the front door". Though that doesn't make a huge difference ;-)
Bass player bluesman Willie Dixon wrote BACK DOOR MAN, covered by The Doors. Robert sings of him in SINCE I'VE BEEN LOVING YOU.
Anybody actually gonna talk about the song? Forget further suggestions! When I first heard this in 1969, aged 15, it blew my mind. The album Led Zeppelin is still so brilliant and full of great, classic tracks. It's stood the test of time. If anything should be suggested, it should be another song from the album.
One of the Best Ever!!
He Doug You muss Check Mystery live album Caught in the whirlwind of time - looking for something else!
This is so amazing! Combi Rush , Marillion, Camel , Floyd .
I would love to hear your analysis on Portal by Snarky Puppy. It's just a fantastic, melodically rich and rhytmically exciting tune. One of their masterpieces for sure.
listen to the uncut version, the 'shroom break is a bit longer. and this is the 2nd album.
0:44 by the way Dissection is a honorable mention 😅👍 if you are interested in Melodic Black Metal
Ha! That's great. Cheers, fella.
This is the #1 riff ever
How have you NEVER heard this album? It's one of their best. When they came into their own and left a lot of that "basic" blues behind.
“ Heartbreaker” kicks off side two. Try it please!
wow This is a change Doug you didn't bash Robert you either understand why he did what he did or you're on his bandwagon.. Good for you Doug. Robert was a all time frontman at the time. Outstanding.
The backdoor man was a salesman who specialised in selling backdoors.
Sometimes he brought along his brother the screendoor man, and a locksmith.
😂😂😂
Man, I was drinking coffee while I was reading your comment. I tried hard to keep it in :D
Can I be your front door man? was a chat up line that never worked; they clearly weren't Led Zep fans!
Jimi page uses a violin ball when he plays this song on stage.
Theremin in the middle part of the song… The lemon song is a great one as well. Where Robert gets his lemons squeezed…
im not asking you to react to it (even though i think you would be amazed) but please listen to Vogel im käfig, the complete version (6:21 minutes). Its absolute insane how good that is. dont do a reaction if you dont want to but do yourself a favour and listen to it cause i personally think it's one of the best songs, if not the best song i've ever heard
For comparison, you may want to listen to the original song too:
You Need Love - Willie Smith & The Juke Joint Rockers
Led Zeppelin never had a #1 hit song in the U.S. "Whole Lotta Love" reached number #4 in the U.S. and is their all-time highest rated single.
They never had a No.1 single anywhere....not even in the UK...they're simply weren't a singles band
Largely because they didn't like to release singles.
@paulfranklin8636
Whole Lotta Love was #1 in Germany in April 1970 but yes they rarely released singles (none in the UK) and those they did release were usually chopped up and edited.
To stay on the british side of the track, you might like to study the songs Neil Innes composed for the movie The Rutles (Eric Idle, 1977.) It will knock you off your chair.