So hard to pick favorites, when so many are so great. I can pick my 2 favorite live songs though, MSG (73) Since I’ve Been Loving You, & Earls Court May 25,1975 In My Time Of Dying.
Robert Plant wasn't convinced: "Sometimes me and Pagey have been tempted to stop all the loud stuff and do an Incredible String Band kind of thing, believe it or not." (Rolling Stone 1973) "I was thrilled to be around them. I thought their whole communion of audience and musical troupe was absolutely wonderful. However, somehow or other The Prince of Darkness drew me closer and closer to Alice Cooper and the ridiculousness of rock culture and I kept looking behind wistfully as I jumped on the starship and went off to commit more carnal atrocities ha, ha! The one thing we always wanted to do in Led Zeppelin was to finish off the showwith the String Band's A Very Cellular Song** - the bit that goes 'I was walking in Jerusalem just like John. goodnight, goodnight..' " Stuff like Ramble On and Going to California far surpass their blues re-workings..
@@alfonslemel5745 I understand, it must be overwhelming all that fame and pressure. I love all of their work. Both loud and gentle like Going to California....
Just another old guy reliving his youth vicariously through this lovely couple’s musical journey. I think Elie and Carol were born 50 years too late. 😎
Not late at all. "Rock Music fans arrive precisely when they need to." They'll carry on the great hard rock sounds like pollen blown along in a breeze to fertilize future growth in the pastures.
@sicotshit7068 💯 agreed but when you have a such an amazing voice, and why not use it to your best abilities? Robert Anthony Plant for me the greatest frontman of any rock band those high notes are simply legendary amazing.
@@mohammedjamil2277 I think Plants voice is amazing, & the greatest frontman, but I love his harmonica playing too. I’m not saying every song, nor the whole song, he just didn’t play it enough though.
best choice they made was slowing the tape down once the instruments were recorded, dropping the tone into ominous. the original recording from when, 1930s? sorry it and me are old o0 was what i'd call ehh guitar finger-pickin' Mississippi style. They pared it down, put it to tape then slowed the tape down. Worked well. Unless you were one of us cover bands trying to play it in a bar.
wassn't there a spiral staircase in that castle/home?? I think i remember reading that page put the microphone down the spiral staircase, but maybe i have the wrong track
@@w.geoffreyspaulding6588 I was 14years old and played my tennis raquet guitar, no air guitar back then.......geez what a time, saw them live in 1972 , Melbourne and Sdyney , Australia Tour..LOUD
The Led Zep version of this song is a cover of the original recorded by Memphis Mini and Kansas city Joe McCoy. Robert Plant is an insane harmonica player.
Top 3 Rock harmonica players for me with Mick Jaeger and Magic Dick from J Geils. Robert does not get enough credit, he not only is a great player, but makes it blend into their sound perfectly. Beyond great band, we are not worthy!
This song references many things about the Great Mississippi Flood. One of those things is many poor people being driven north to start new lives in places like Chicago. It's also one of the reasons that Chicago became a hot spot for southern Delta Blues.
The displacement caused by the 1927 flood laid the foundation for the Great Migration north in the 1950s and '60s, after the invention by International Harvester of a (relatively) inexpensive and largely effective cotton-boll harvesting machine made black labor less necessary, in the South. Until then, many black people who sought to leave lives of grotesque oppression and abject poverty in the South faced many obstacles from those who feared the loss of cheap labor. The invention of the cotton harvester made that labor ever-less necessary; white "defense councils" and other groups that implemented and enforced systemic Southern racism didn't want blacks around if they weren't needed by rich white people; and the laws and extra-judicial terror and violence that kept black trapped began to decline. As a result, black people began to abandon the Southern States in large numbers, and most went to places that already had black communities. Because of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, Chicago was one of those places -- and the rail yards and feedlots on the Southside needed workers. When the lyrics say, "I'm going to Chicago/and I can't take you," it refers to that initial 1920s displacement of desperately poor people who had lost *everything* .
Tens of thousand of black residents of the Delta were trapped on the levees, for several weeks, without food and clean water, before being rescued. As that was the only high place around, residents flocked there first, but breaks in the levee caused them to be stranded, as the levees became islands.
@@ramblerdave1339 and the way thousands were treated afterwards was appalling. Not allowed to leave the refugee camps so that the white planters would have enough labor for their plantations.
My son's brought up on Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd Now my grandsons 14 and 15 listen to this music hopefully it long lives in there lives and families for Years to Come. Greatest music produced
Love the reaction. Watching the two of you discover a new Zeppelin song is akin to watching a young child opening a Christmas present. Bonham is an animal!
Led Zep were brilliant at creating moods with their music. Whether it's the continuous rain and floods as here, or the threat and fear of No Quarter, a day by the beach in Down by the Seaside, they were just incredible. So many great songs.
I love this couple! Of all the reaction videos by other people, the couple crib is by far the most interesting to listen to in how they analyze and feel the music.
Ahh, yes...absolute favorite LZ track. Just one of their stellar re-imaginings of old blues classics. At the end when they say 'going to Chicago,' it's indicative of the thousands that were displaced by the floods and moved to the industrial north for factory jobs. The drum track has been sampled countless times 🔥
LZ: a band comprised of journeyman musicians. They helped ELECTRIFY the old classic Black blues tunes for a new generation ... and the movement has not stopped yet!!!
Rain Song is another epic song that is totally different than any of their other songs. It is a true love song...And it was inspired by George Harrison from The Beatles after he told Jimmy Page that led Zeppelin didn't have any ballads.
The rain song is their magnum opus in my opinion. That song belongs at the birth of a child, finding your first love, and your funeral. It’s appropriate for each stage of that.
I remember spinning this song around 1977 as a boy. It was around Halloween, with the leaves falling and the November rains about to come. This song was like no other. I couldn't stop listening. For the historical record, it was never played as much, if at all, on the radio like Stairway, etc. But for me, it was always in my top 5 of Zep tunes. It's so interesting to see how because of the internet, this song has risen by the listeners... without DJ's. Love watching you two. Your reactions are universal and just like mine many years ago. Zeppelin really is special.
You cant help but make a “stank face” with this track. The groove is just beyond filthy blues. They do an amazing job of reinventing and reinterpreting Memphis blues from the 20s. Yes. It’s been a century. And yes Zep is really a blues band at its core. They just turned it up a couple notches.
I was so fortunate to live through this time. From the British invasion started by the Beatles... Our own Beach boys... Into the mid '60s... The association... The Guess who... The Young rascals and on and on. The Haight Ashbury days... Janis Joplin... Jimi Hendrix... Jim Morrison and The doors.... And then came the great led Zeppelin... They single-handedly changed the music scene. To see them perform live in those days was other worldly... Of course we also had Yes... Emerson lake and Palmer... And Pink Floyd. Those concerts were also mind-blowing. There is no way that I could say which is my favorite led Zeppelin album or song. From the immigrant song to whole Lotta Love ramble on and there fourth the album which you were just listening to.... The song remains the same...Houses of the Holy...Kashmir.... I am incredibly grateful to have lived through it all. And those days you just thought it would last forever. I thank you guys for keeping the music alive. You're awesome!!!
Genius production of a killer song. When it was released it was mind blowingly killer, though it still is... No band like them. Thanks for your reaction!
The Mississippi River flooded terribly in 1927, causing massive destruction. Song, from an old blues number by Memphis Minnie and Kansas City Joe, conveys some of the stark terror which people must have felt, knowing what was to come.
Most bands have a particular sound and they mostly stick to that. Led Zeppelin doesn't do that. All their songs are unique. You can't hear one of their songs and think "Oh, this song is like this other song they did". It doesn't happen. The correct answer to "What is your favorite Zeppelin song" is "Yes!"
Brian Johnson, the lead singer of AC/DC, had a memorable meeting with Robert Plant. Robert Plant welcomed Brian Johnson to the Misty Mountains of Wales, where he filmed a scene for the led zeppelin movie “The Song Remains The Same” in 1976. He showed him his Celtic warrior outfit and sword, and told him about the history and culture of the Welsh people and the landscape. There’s a compilation video titled “Brian Johnson with Robert Plant - The Full Trek” that weaves all the RUclips clips from Brian Johnson’s Life on the Road into one. On a beautiful day in Wales, Robert Plant and Brian Johnson walked to Castell y Bere in the Dysynni Valley at the foot of Cader Idris, near where Led Zeppelin III was recorded. Robert & Brian ended a glorious day in Wales on the beach with a fantastic sunset... love watching you enjoy Zeppelin so much... you must watch The Full Trek... Robert is in his 70s in this program and it's so lovely to see two Rock icons having a chat about the old days..it will melt your heart.
I’ve seen the life on the Road one but not the compilation one. I’ll look for it. I’d LOVE to know where that bridge is where they met up! And the name Of that beach.
Thanks for doing my pick, SO glad you dug it!!!... yeah the mood they created with this one is like no other... My only request, PLEASE make the playback louder for us, Ive always got my volume all the way up and it’s never loud enough, thanks!... So thats Robert on the harmonica, sadly he only played it on a handful of Zep songs, which made me think of this one from a LIVE show I dont think youve done yet when they were younger in 1970 at the Royal Albert Hall. And Robert on harmonica, its Bring it On Home. I personally LOVE the studio version and you should really hear both, but here it is live, I think you'll dig it! ruclips.net/video/uX5yhpO52AA/видео.htmlsi=NkhZyJ6_Ck1kCjma Or if not that one, another big one for them is Dazed and Confused from the first album. The studio version is a must hear! Then you can some day treat yourself to the 25 minute live ‘73 performance. Here’s a link: ruclips.net/video/w772GXG5LnE/видео.htmlsi=qO3ypwuFkBAimrqb
Oh my…..one of my two favorite Zep songs. The other being Kashmir. My favorite band. In the past, seriously, I was known to pull off the road when this song came on so that I could just allow myself to get lost in the groove. So hypnotic.
Thanks! Guys...I am straight up bribing you to react to both the studio version of "Dazed and Confused" from Led Zeppelin's debut album (not a live performance) and the live version from the 1970 Royal Albert Hall live performance...I just sent you $100 a few days ago after your reaction to "When the Levee Breaks"...the heavy drumming ya'll love will blow you away in both versions...but seeing Page use the cello bow is worth doing the live version after the studio...ENJOY and THANKS!! ANdy
As someone said earlier this album was recorded in the old stately home called Headley Grange , the hallway had one of those spiral staircases and was part rotunda so the height of the celling was spectacular and made for some interesting echo's.
Drums were actually recorded in a multi story old stairwell with microphones at different intervals and then ran through a compression device. Probably the most sampled drums in Hip Hop. There's a video about how Zeppelin influenced Hip Hop and it talks about this track. This was recorded using The Rolling Stones mobile studio.
Top one Zep tune for me cause of the drums. Just immense. Love your reaction, you showed so much respect, no interruptions and babbling on about whatever. Good one guys.
Not gonna lie....I listened to Zeppelin but they weren't my go to. In the late Eighties a radio station played Zeppelin from around 11pm to 1am... As I was delivering pizzas I heard No Quarter for the first time.. I didn't get it...Each Saturday the song grew on me...love it now
A microphone was hung from the ceiling at Headley Grange, where the group recorded, to get the echo, etc. The massive, booming drum sound is the key to the track (along with the harmonica wail). I think recording engineer Andy Johns (Glyn Johns' brother) came up with the idea.
I think they attempted this live only once, because they could not duplicate that drum sound in concert. The technology wasn’t there yet. What’s fun is that I went to see Jason Bonham’s Zeppelin tribute band last October and Jason talked about this. And then he said “but we have the technology now!” And they proceeded to do a GREAT version of Levee. I was in Zep heaven.
@@Brandi6666 oh yeah. Well….they had to make accommodations like that all the time when they played live. Like with A hikes Last Stand: In the studios Page did six or so overdubs. Obviously, live, he could not cover all of them, so did the best he could. Which was excellent. And whereas in the studio, JPJ could do his keyboards and bass separately, in concert it had to be keyboards and bass peddles. But any band has to do that when taking studio tracks live. So…IF they could have produced that enormous drum sound live, they would have done it. Plant would have done his incredible harmonica solo with Page’s guitar, and would have forgone his vocalizations over the harmonica he did in the studio .
Led Zeppelin was a staple of of my youth from junior high straight through college. (It’s been 26 years since college now). Still have them as one of my all time favs. However just listening to this takes me back to when I was 15.
Headley Grange: The Cottage where Led Zep recorded this Epic All-time Bestseller IV album. Bonzo brought this signature drumming riff & played it in the hallway while Jimmy's genius placement of mics along the staircase gives the signature echo sound. One of the most sampled piece by Rap, R&B, Hip-hop artists. Long Live Levee Breakers Led Zep !! ❤🎸🥁🪇🎹🎤🔊🎶🎼
Yes, the drums and that haunting harmonica played by a very young Robert Plant drove this song. I agree with you, on the top 5 best LZ songs EVER! Thanks for reacting, very entertaining.
In 1929, Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie recorded “When the Levee Breaks” for Columbia Records. Although McCoy received the credit, Minnie wrote the lyrics, speaking from the perspective of a man who lost everything in the devastating natural disaster. “When the Levee Breaks” became a standout on Led Zeppelin’s untitled fourth album. Even on a record boasting “Stairway to Heaven,” “Black Dog,” and “Rock and Roll,” the album closer is a defining moment in the group’s catalog. “When the Levee Breaks” is seven minutes and eight seconds of bluesy bombast. Still, it’s the first two bars of solo drumming which remain one of the most sampled beats of the modern era. Bonham’s groove has a life of its own. Its rhythmic magic transcends genre; Beastie Boys, Eminem, Björk, and Massive Attack have all utilized the beat. What we hear first is a kick drum placed perfectly in space. Next, its echo trails behind, creating an auditory afterimage. This groundbreaking sound came from the reverberation of two microphones hanging in the stairwell. Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page and producer Andy Johns coupled the natural room reverb with effects, including an analog echo machine.
I hear that a lot, "the most sampled beat of the modern era," I don't know many songs by those artists that are in 12/8, or in divisions of 3. Yeah, Great Flood of 1927, the pictures are crazy, the Levee Camps were bad.. kinda wild it flooded again in 1929, the river was something like 80mi wide just south of Knoxville. There's a book called 'The Great Betrayal,' businessmen in New Orleans blew the levees as to divert water through the bayou, displaced a lot of people. A major factor in the Depression, and why Hoover was elected, funnily, and sadly, where the idea for "Hoovervilles" came from; and, the political radicalism of Huey Long, only person ever impeached for blasphemy, love him or hate him, he was a character [that actually did well for people, maybe one of America's only "real" populists]. lol. Do you write reviews, or is that from a fan site?
Okay, now it's time to sample another signature Zep style; mystical soundscapes punctuated by rocket-launching riffs: "Over The Hills And Far Away", "What Is And What Should Never Be" and "Ramble On" (which many consider their best song). Can't wait to watch you react to those three. Really enjoying your channerl. So much fun to watch someone discovering a band that meant so much to me growing up. I was fortunate (and old) enough to have seen them in concert, on the 1977 tour of their album, Presence. You see the t-shirt for that tour all over the place now (even Target!). Anyway, looking forward to those reactions.
Hi guys. I'm the one who originally recommended led Zeppelin to you two last year. I recommended the studio versions of Stairway to Heaven and Since I've Been Loving You. You did Stairway, loved it, and it started you on your Led Zeppelin journey. Sometime later, you did the live version of Since I've Been loving You. I was really saddened that you didn't get to experience the true magic of the studio recording of that song. I really think you should do another reaction to the studio version of Since I've Been loving You. It is a totally different experience from the live version. I guarantee, it will touch your soul in the same way Stairway to Heaven did. Peace
What more can you say? Awesome in every way. I recommend, well.... everything - but you could look at No Quarter or The Rain Song - both off the Houses of the Holy album.
For years I ignored this song as "just another traditional" song, but there came a point where I finally had to realize the heaviness and power of the song. After that it became one of my Zep favorites. Jimmy's slide work on it is outstanding, the drums are outstanding, the vocals are outstanding, so what is there not to like about it?
Thank you for an excellent reaction and any song by Led Zeppelin is great, you could try “ Fool in the Rain “. Please keep enjoying yourselves and making these excellent reactions.
I love watching young folks like these lovely people who react the same way I did when I heard this when it first came out and I was just a teenager. Awesome!!!
Memphis Minnie wrote this song 🎵 in 1929 about the Mississippi flood in 1927. Led Zeppelin gives homage to her in the album credits in 1973, months or within a year when she died at a nursing home. ❤
The drum sound on this song is the most sampled drum sound in history. Many have tried to top it but failed. Even the shotgun blast snare drum sound of the 80s can't top it. It's a masterpiece.
Great reaction Guys ! Seeing you youngsters react to Zep for the first time makes an old Freak like me remember just how Exceptional this music is, thanks! I think my problem is that there were so many Great bands back then, we were spoiled for choice musically !!..
You guys are great together, very fun reactions you’re not overly technical about the music but more about feeling and sensation, mood and the world it creates 🤘🏽
Top 5 of my favorite Zep tunes. About 30 other Zep tunes are also in my top 5.
My sentiments exactly!! 😁🤘✌️
So hard to pick favorites, when so many are so great. I can pick my 2 favorite live songs though, MSG (73) Since I’ve Been Loving You, & Earls Court May 25,1975 In My Time Of Dying.
Exactly!!! LOL! Making a top 10 list of Led Zeppelin songs is an exercise in futility, too many great songs, lucky us!
Just another 30?
@@sicotshit7068 LOVE those two as well
One of the most sampled drum tracks in music history, there will never be another Bonzo
There will NEVER be another band like the mighty Zeppelin!
Monster. This song is a monster on its own. Nobody will ever match the mighty Zeppelin. No one ever.
Robert Plant wasn't convinced:
"Sometimes me and Pagey have been tempted to stop all the loud stuff and do an Incredible String Band kind of thing, believe it or not." (Rolling Stone 1973)
"I was thrilled to be around them. I thought their whole communion of audience and musical troupe was absolutely wonderful. However, somehow or other The Prince of Darkness drew me closer and closer to Alice Cooper and the ridiculousness of rock culture and I kept looking behind wistfully as I jumped on the starship and went off to commit more carnal atrocities ha, ha! The one thing we always wanted to do in Led Zeppelin was to finish off the showwith the String Band's A Very Cellular Song** - the bit that goes 'I was walking in Jerusalem just like John. goodnight, goodnight..' "
Stuff like Ramble On and Going to California far surpass their blues re-workings..
@@alfonslemel5745 I understand, it must be overwhelming all that fame and pressure. I love all of their work. Both loud and gentle like Going to California....
Reverend!!
🍄🌲🍄💥✨🌈
Just another old guy reliving his youth vicariously through this lovely couple’s musical journey. I think Elie and Carol were born 50 years too late. 😎
Not late at all. "Rock Music fans arrive precisely when they need to." They'll carry on the great hard rock sounds like pollen blown along in a breeze to fertilize future growth in the pastures.
damm I feel old, but glad these two nice young ones appreciate that good stuff existed long ago.
When Bonham carries a song on his back you KNOW it's going to be something special. 🙂
Such an epic song lead by John Bonham's drumming. The harmonica part was played by Robert Plant!
I wish he played the harmonica more often, he’s an amazing harmonica player.
@sicotshit7068 💯 agreed but when you have a such an amazing voice, and why not use it to your best abilities? Robert Anthony Plant for me the greatest frontman of any rock band those high notes are simply legendary amazing.
@@mohammedjamil2277 I think Plants voice is amazing, & the greatest frontman, but I love his harmonica playing too. I’m not saying every song, nor the whole song, he just didn’t play it enough though.
The drums weren't recorded in a studio...but in the hallway of a massive stately home called Headley Grange.
best choice they made was slowing the tape down once the instruments were recorded, dropping the tone into ominous. the original recording from when, 1930s? sorry it and me are old o0 was what i'd call ehh guitar finger-pickin' Mississippi style. They pared it down, put it to tape then slowed the tape down. Worked well.
Unless you were one of us cover bands trying to play it in a bar.
Yes it gave it that amazing deep rich sound, Bonham absolutely loved the sound he got out of them, obviously we do too.
@@JR-tr1df Its still my favourite Zeppelin track...I have to stop and listen whenever I hear it.
wassn't there a spiral staircase in that castle/home?? I think i remember reading that page put the microphone down the spiral staircase, but maybe i have the wrong track
@@RichardCuller-y4q I can’t remember if it was spiral but its 3 floors open staircase, & yes microphones hung from different levels.
and that's how you play the drums
And that's how you play the bass...JPJ underrated hero. The whole thing is the drums and that bass riff.
John Henry Bonham was the GOAT! The greatest drummer that ever drew breath. No contest.
Recorded in the 3 story entryway at Headley Grange. He was a beast.
Nothing like 50 year old music!!! Still can remember when this first came out
1971….Zeppelin IV
@@w.geoffreyspaulding6588 I was 14years old and played my tennis raquet guitar, no air guitar back then.......geez what a time, saw them live in 1972 , Melbourne and Sdyney , Australia Tour..LOUD
The Led Zep version of this song is a cover of the original recorded by Memphis Mini and Kansas city Joe McCoy. Robert Plant is an insane harmonica player.
It's a complete reworking. Far more than a cover. Its 95% their own stuff.
That's Memphis Minnie.
❤❤❤Robert on harmonica is more than a girl can bear❤❤❤
The greatest band ever.. playing what might arguably be the best song ever.
Wow I keep going back and seeing you two reacting to some of the greatest talent that ever graced this green earth with presence.❤😊
My favorite Zeppelin tune is always the next one I listen to.
" You shook me " is another excellent Zeppelin song!! May I say, Elie you are a very fortunate man.
That song shows what all they do with the solos, keyboard harmonica guitar, & Bonzo’s drums. Add in amazing Plant vocals, & a debut album to boot.
GFox Your last comment is so true. But they are a great couple…..
@@sicotshit7068 typo……debut album
@@w.geoffreyspaulding6588 yes, I know it’s debut, stupid auto correct.
This song and album were recorded at Headley Grange about 3 miles from where I live 😊
I used to live in Grayshott and visited it a few times.
so???
Thought I'd make friendly conversation with another poster, sorry it upset you.
They are so fantastic! Every song! Robert...the singer...on that harmonica!
Top 3 Rock harmonica players for me with Mick Jaeger and Magic Dick from J Geils. Robert does not get enough credit, he not only is a great player, but makes it blend into their sound perfectly. Beyond great band, we are not worthy!
The drumming is a relentless onslaught upon the senses like a deluge. The drums convey our vulnerability to nature.
It is a song that hypnotises, encapsulates and captivates the mood of a Louisiana Blues. Another Zeppelin masterpiece.
This song references many things about the Great Mississippi Flood. One of those things is many poor people being driven
north to start new lives in places like Chicago. It's also one of the reasons that Chicago became a hot spot for southern
Delta Blues.
Spot on!
The displacement caused by the 1927 flood laid the foundation for the Great Migration north in the 1950s and '60s, after the invention by International Harvester of a (relatively) inexpensive and largely effective cotton-boll harvesting machine made black labor less necessary, in the South.
Until then, many black people who sought to leave lives of grotesque oppression and abject poverty in the South faced many obstacles from those who feared the loss of cheap labor.
The invention of the cotton harvester made that labor ever-less necessary; white "defense councils" and other groups that implemented and enforced systemic Southern racism didn't want blacks around if they weren't needed by rich white people; and the laws and extra-judicial terror and violence that kept black trapped began to decline.
As a result, black people began to abandon the Southern States in large numbers, and most went to places that already had black communities.
Because of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, Chicago was one of those places -- and the rail yards and feedlots on the Southside needed workers.
When the lyrics say, "I'm going to Chicago/and I can't take you," it refers to that initial 1920s displacement of desperately poor people who had lost *everything* .
Tens of thousand of black residents of the Delta were trapped on the levees, for several weeks, without food and clean water, before being rescued. As that was the only high place around, residents flocked there first, but breaks in the levee caused them to be stranded, as the levees became islands.
@@ramblerdave1339 and the way thousands were treated afterwards was appalling. Not allowed to leave the refugee camps so that the white planters would have enough labor for their plantations.
Led Zeppelin is one of those few bands we'll still be listening to 50 years from now. Maybe even 100 years from now. Unlikely, but maybe.
Floyd for sure……..and I’m hoping for Zeppelin. They deserve it
My son's brought up on Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd
Now my grandsons 14 and 15 listen to this music hopefully it long lives in there lives and families for Years to Come. Greatest music produced
es muy probable que aun se escuchen despues de 100 años
Love the reaction. Watching the two of you discover a new Zeppelin song is akin to watching a young child opening a Christmas present. Bonham is an animal!
This song is a true force of nature and just like a force of nature breaking a levee, Zeppelin and Bonham, in particular, could not be held back.
Love the way U's respond to Zeppelin Music, they sure knew how to make us Rock.
This song is hypnotizing in the most beautiful way.
Led Zep were brilliant at creating moods with their music. Whether it's the continuous rain and floods as here, or the threat and fear of No Quarter, a day by the beach in Down by the Seaside, they were just incredible. So many great songs.
the harmonica here is the best harmonica you'll ever hear.
Great reaction guys … “Over the hills and far away”, is another Zeppelin classic.
I love this couple! Of all the reaction videos by other people, the couple crib is by far the most interesting to listen to in how they analyze and feel the music.
Zeppelin expanded the hard rock genre. So much great music.
Coming to you from across space and time, a truly haunting song.
You got this song exactly right in both analysis and emotional impact....not easy on an initial listening!
Ahh, yes...absolute favorite LZ track. Just one of their stellar re-imaginings of old blues classics. At the end when they say 'going to Chicago,' it's indicative of the thousands that were displaced by the floods and moved to the industrial north for factory jobs. The drum track has been sampled countless times 🔥
LZ: a band comprised of journeyman musicians. They helped ELECTRIFY the old classic Black blues tunes for a new generation ... and the movement has not stopped yet!!!
Rain Song is another epic song that is totally different than any of their other songs. It is a true love song...And it was inspired by George Harrison from The Beatles after he told Jimmy Page that led Zeppelin didn't have any ballads.
The rain song is their magnum opus in my opinion. That song belongs at the birth of a child, finding your first love, and your funeral. It’s appropriate for each stage of that.
This usually always gets the top favs ....Never a dull review about this one in large part the Bonham and Jimmy's surreal production ..
The joy this brought you both. Great stuff. Watching you guys watch this was a treat. Thank you, guys... "Like"!!
I remember spinning this song around 1977 as a boy. It was around Halloween, with the leaves falling and the November rains about to come. This song was like no other. I couldn't stop listening. For the historical record, it was never played as much, if at all, on the radio like Stairway, etc. But for me, it was always in my top 5 of Zep tunes. It's so interesting to see how because of the internet, this song has risen by the listeners... without DJ's. Love watching you two. Your reactions are universal and just like mine many years ago. Zeppelin really is special.
You cant help but make a “stank face” with this track. The groove is just beyond filthy blues. They do an amazing job of reinventing and reinterpreting Memphis blues from the 20s. Yes. It’s been a century. And yes Zep is really a blues band at its core. They just turned it up a couple notches.
I was so fortunate to live through this time. From the British invasion started by the Beatles... Our own Beach boys... Into the mid '60s... The association... The Guess who... The Young rascals and on and on. The Haight Ashbury days... Janis Joplin... Jimi Hendrix... Jim Morrison and The doors.... And then came the great led Zeppelin... They single-handedly changed the music scene. To see them perform live in those days was other worldly... Of course we also had Yes... Emerson lake and Palmer... And Pink Floyd. Those concerts were also mind-blowing. There is no way that I could say which is my favorite led Zeppelin album or song. From the immigrant song to whole Lotta Love ramble on and there fourth the album which you were just listening to.... The song remains the same...Houses of the Holy...Kashmir.... I am incredibly grateful to have lived through it all. And those days you just thought it would last forever. I thank you guys for keeping the music alive. You're awesome!!!
Carol's enthusiasm for this song is wonderful🙏
Genius production of a killer song. When it was released it was mind blowingly killer, though it still is... No band like them. Thanks for your reaction!
Carol is rockin in that shirt!
I grew up with the best bands it's cool to see younger generations enjoying the music from that era. Rock Onnn!
LED Zeppelin hits the deep end off a soul,if a human has a soul!
The Mississippi River flooded terribly in 1927, causing massive destruction. Song, from an old blues number by Memphis Minnie and Kansas City Joe, conveys some of the stark terror which people must have felt, knowing what was to come.
That harmonica will always give me chills in this song!
Robert on harmonica….badass!!!☮️
Most bands have a particular sound and they mostly stick to that. Led Zeppelin doesn't do that. All their songs are unique. You can't hear one of their songs and think "Oh, this song is like this other song they did". It doesn't happen.
The correct answer to "What is your favorite Zeppelin song" is "Yes!"
YES!
YES
Another great led zeppelin cover song. The original was written by Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy in 1929
Master class in harmonica. Always love that.
I love seeing people getting turned on to the music I grew up on. Welcome to my world
Brian Johnson, the lead singer of AC/DC, had a memorable meeting with Robert Plant.
Robert Plant welcomed Brian Johnson to the Misty Mountains of Wales, where he filmed a scene for the led zeppelin movie “The Song Remains The Same” in 1976. He showed him his Celtic warrior outfit and sword, and told him about the history and culture of the Welsh people and the landscape. There’s a compilation video titled “Brian Johnson with Robert Plant - The Full Trek” that weaves all the RUclips clips from Brian Johnson’s Life on the Road into one.
On a beautiful day in Wales, Robert Plant and Brian Johnson walked to Castell y Bere in the Dysynni Valley at the foot of Cader Idris, near where Led Zeppelin III was recorded.
Robert & Brian ended a glorious day in Wales on the beach with a fantastic sunset... love watching you enjoy Zeppelin so much... you must watch The Full Trek... Robert is in his 70s in this program and it's so lovely to see two Rock icons having a chat about the old days..it will melt your heart.
I’ve seen the life on the Road one but not the compilation one. I’ll look for it. I’d LOVE to know where that bridge is where they met up! And the name Of that beach.
Per ogni brano che ascolto dei Led non riesco a trattenere le lacrime per la gioia che la mia anima prova...
I’m from the American south and this song blew me away ..
You guys must love it!!
Enjoying your channel!!❤
Top 5 of my Zeppelin also!!
when you listen to 'Dazed and Confused' by Led Zeppelin, it will be your #1 favorite....
Yes, another top 5 Zeppelin track for me. It scared us in 1969, LOL!
My favourite changes hourly.
And that's how one of the greatest rock albums in history ended.
Thanks for doing my pick, SO glad you dug it!!!... yeah the mood they created with this one is like no other... My only request, PLEASE make the playback louder for us, Ive always got my volume all the way up and it’s never loud enough, thanks!... So thats Robert on the harmonica, sadly he only played it on a handful of Zep songs, which made me think of this one from a LIVE show I dont think youve done yet when they were younger in 1970 at the Royal Albert Hall. And Robert on harmonica, its Bring it On Home. I personally LOVE the studio version and you should really hear both, but here it is live, I think you'll dig it! ruclips.net/video/uX5yhpO52AA/видео.htmlsi=NkhZyJ6_Ck1kCjma
Or if not that one, another big one for them is Dazed and Confused from the first album. The studio version is a must hear! Then you can some day treat yourself to the 25 minute live ‘73 performance. Here’s a link: ruclips.net/video/w772GXG5LnE/видео.htmlsi=qO3ypwuFkBAimrqb
Oh my…..one of my two favorite Zep songs. The other being Kashmir. My favorite band. In the past, seriously, I was known to pull off the road when this song came on so that I could just allow myself to get lost in the groove. So hypnotic.
Zep's best jam! To my ears and mind. & I thank some Gods these folks get it, & got it good! 🤘
" In my time of dying " is quite heavy
Glad to see the Zep return! Ty for reaction.
what an amazing, charming couple. To see the effect the music has on you is joyous. May you always find peace, love, health and happiness
Thanks!
Guys...I am straight up bribing you to react to both the studio version of "Dazed and Confused" from Led Zeppelin's debut album (not a live performance) and the live version from the 1970 Royal Albert Hall live performance...I just sent you $100 a few days ago after your reaction to "When the Levee Breaks"...the heavy drumming ya'll love will blow you away in both versions...but seeing Page use the cello bow is worth doing the live version after the studio...ENJOY and THANKS!! ANdy
As someone said earlier this album was recorded in the old stately home called Headley Grange , the hallway had one of those spiral staircases and was part rotunda so the height of the celling was spectacular and made for some interesting echo's.
Drums were actually recorded in a multi story old stairwell with microphones at different intervals and then ran through a compression device. Probably the most sampled drums in Hip Hop. There's a video about how Zeppelin influenced Hip Hop and it talks about this track. This was recorded using The Rolling Stones mobile studio.
Top one Zep tune for me cause of the drums. Just immense. Love your reaction, you showed so much respect, no interruptions and babbling on about whatever. Good one guys.
"In the light" on acid dopest shit ever
I saw them live in 75!!!! Best concert ever saw....and I saw a lot
If you don’t get the GOATS…You don’t get life! 🤷🏻♂️😎🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
No Quarter (Live, 1973)
Not gonna lie....I listened to Zeppelin but they weren't my go to. In the late Eighties a radio station played Zeppelin from around 11pm to 1am... As I was delivering pizzas I heard No Quarter for the first time.. I didn't get it...Each Saturday the song grew on me...love it now
Kashmir, When the Levee Breaks, Since I've Been Loving You, No Quarter and Dazed and Confused. Top 5
In the light
That’s a heavy f*cking groove.
A microphone was hung from the ceiling at Headley Grange, where the group recorded, to get the echo, etc. The massive, booming drum sound is the key to the track (along with the harmonica wail). I think recording engineer Andy Johns (Glyn Johns' brother) came up with the idea.
I think they attempted this live only once, because they could not duplicate that drum sound in concert. The technology wasn’t there yet. What’s fun is that I went to see Jason Bonham’s Zeppelin tribute band last October and Jason talked about this. And then he said “but we have the technology now!” And they proceeded to do a GREAT version of Levee. I was in Zep heaven.
Cant see how they thought it would work, being the harmonica work🤷
@@Brandi6666 what do you mean? You mean referring to Jason’s band? Their vocalist played harmonica.
@@helenespaulding7562 no led zep with plant singing and playing the harmonica bits simultaneously
@@Brandi6666 oh yeah. Well….they had to make accommodations like that all the time when they played live. Like with A hikes Last Stand: In the studios Page did six or so overdubs. Obviously, live, he could not cover all of them, so did the best he could. Which was excellent. And whereas in the studio, JPJ could do his keyboards and bass separately, in concert it had to be keyboards and bass peddles. But any band has to do that when taking studio tracks live. So…IF they could have produced that enormous drum sound live, they would have done it. Plant would have done his incredible harmonica solo with Page’s guitar, and would have forgone his vocalizations over the harmonica he did in the studio .
That harmonica crying out. Top Zep tune although all their songs are favourites.
Led Zeppelin was a staple of of my youth from junior high straight through college. (It’s been 26 years since college now). Still have them as one of my all time favs. However just listening to this takes me back to when I was 15.
Headley Grange: The Cottage where Led Zep recorded this Epic All-time Bestseller IV album.
Bonzo brought this signature drumming riff & played it in the hallway while Jimmy's genius placement of mics along the staircase gives the signature echo sound.
One of the most sampled piece by Rap, R&B, Hip-hop artists.
Long Live Levee Breakers Led Zep !! ❤🎸🥁🪇🎹🎤🔊🎶🎼
Yes, the drums and that haunting harmonica played by a very young Robert Plant drove this song. I agree with you, on the top 5 best LZ songs EVER! Thanks for reacting, very entertaining.
Love the enthusiam about this song. Zepplin was special. 300 million records sold? The numbers don't lie.
In 1929, Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie recorded “When the Levee Breaks” for Columbia Records. Although McCoy received the credit, Minnie wrote the lyrics, speaking from the perspective of a man who lost everything in the devastating natural disaster. “When the Levee Breaks” became a standout on Led Zeppelin’s untitled fourth album. Even on a record boasting “Stairway to Heaven,” “Black Dog,” and “Rock and Roll,” the album closer is a defining moment in the group’s catalog.
“When the Levee Breaks” is seven minutes and eight seconds of bluesy bombast. Still, it’s the first two bars of solo drumming which remain one of the most sampled beats of the modern era. Bonham’s groove has a life of its own. Its rhythmic magic transcends genre; Beastie Boys, Eminem, Björk, and Massive Attack have all utilized the beat.
What we hear first is a kick drum placed perfectly in space. Next, its echo trails behind, creating an auditory afterimage. This groundbreaking sound came from the reverberation of two microphones hanging in the stairwell. Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page and producer Andy Johns coupled the natural room reverb with effects, including an analog echo machine.
I hear that a lot, "the most sampled beat of the modern era," I don't know many songs by those artists that are in 12/8, or in divisions of 3.
Yeah, Great Flood of 1927, the pictures are crazy, the Levee Camps were bad.. kinda wild it flooded again in 1929, the river was something like 80mi wide just south of Knoxville. There's a book called 'The Great Betrayal,' businessmen in New Orleans blew the levees as to divert water through the bayou, displaced a lot of people. A major factor in the Depression, and why Hoover was elected, funnily, and sadly, where the idea for "Hoovervilles" came from; and, the political radicalism of Huey Long, only person ever impeached for blasphemy, love him or hate him, he was a character [that actually did well for people, maybe one of America's only "real" populists]. lol. Do you write reviews, or is that from a fan site?
I can't quit you, babe. 1970 Albert hall
live is a must.
Okay, now it's time to sample another signature Zep style; mystical soundscapes punctuated by rocket-launching riffs: "Over The Hills And Far Away", "What Is And What Should Never Be" and "Ramble On" (which many consider their best song). Can't wait to watch you react to those three. Really enjoying your channerl. So much fun to watch someone discovering a band that meant so much to me growing up. I was fortunate (and old) enough to have seen them in concert, on the 1977 tour of their album, Presence. You see the t-shirt for that tour all over the place now (even Target!). Anyway, looking forward to those reactions.
One of my favourite lps. Every cut a winner.
Led Zeppelin knew how to end an album.
Hi guys. I'm the one who originally recommended led Zeppelin to you two last year. I recommended the studio versions of Stairway to Heaven and Since I've Been Loving You. You did Stairway, loved it, and it started you on your Led Zeppelin journey. Sometime later, you did the live version of Since I've Been loving You. I was really saddened that you didn't get to experience the true magic of the studio recording of that song. I really think you should do another reaction to the studio version of Since I've Been loving You. It is a totally different experience from the live version. I guarantee, it will touch your soul in the same way Stairway to Heaven did.
Peace
What more can you say? Awesome in every way.
I recommend, well.... everything - but you could look at No Quarter or The Rain Song - both off the Houses of the Holy album.
For years I ignored this song as "just another traditional" song, but there came a point where I finally had to realize the heaviness and power of the song. After that it became one of my Zep favorites. Jimmy's slide work on it is outstanding, the drums are outstanding, the vocals are outstanding, so what is there not to like about it?
Thank you for an excellent reaction and any song by Led Zeppelin is great, you could try “ Fool in the Rain “. Please keep enjoying yourselves and making these excellent reactions.
So glad to have found your channel..much respect and success.
I love watching young folks like these lovely people who react the same way I did when I heard this when it first came out and I was just a teenager. Awesome!!!
Mr. Plant plays a mean harmonica!! Great reaction guys!
Memphis Minnie wrote this song 🎵 in 1929 about the Mississippi flood in 1927. Led Zeppelin gives homage to her in the album credits in 1973, months or within a year when she died at a nursing home. ❤
The drum sound on this song is the most sampled drum sound in history. Many have tried to top it but failed. Even the shotgun blast snare drum sound of the 80s can't top it. It's a masterpiece.
I’m not sure if I even have a top five of Led Zeppelin. I can imagine everything in my mind, every thought & emotion you’d be going thru Thx guys
My understanding is that there was a metal staircase at the studio, and they placed John Bonham's drum kit for thus song to help create that song.
Great reaction Guys !
Seeing you youngsters react to Zep for the first time makes an old Freak like me remember just how Exceptional this music is, thanks!
I think my problem is that there were so many Great bands back then, we were spoiled for choice musically !!..
I like their instrumental material. I LOVE their hard driving songs like this!! 🙂🙂
They mix it up perfectly.
john bonham was a rare but great drummer robert plant said once john was the only drummer he new who tuned the drums himself before every gig
You guys are great together, very fun reactions you’re not overly technical about the music but more about feeling and sensation, mood and the world it creates 🤘🏽