The Story of Led Zeppelin's Explosive Debut

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  • Опубликовано: 25 ноя 2024

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  • @EMBEEAY
    @EMBEEAY Год назад +362

    Unrelated, but I think it’s so cool how RUclips lets you do “square” layouts/cropping for videos like this, thought it was a short at first!

    • @niemand0
      @niemand0 Год назад +34

      Well, nice to see that someone is enjoying it. For me personally though, i don't like it at all. I hate shorts and their layout. Still, it works here, because album covers are the same layout.

    • @tungtobak
      @tungtobak Год назад +2

      It actually works well for me as I more often than not watch videos on half-screen on my desktop computer while doing something else on the other.

    • @rorybessell8280
      @rorybessell8280 Год назад +1

      Annoyed the hell out of me, had to turn on auto-rotation, rotate it and then go back and lock it. Honestly made me consider not watching the video

    • @toppsizfckd
      @toppsizfckd Год назад

      it's the snyder cut of the video, how it was originally intended to be experienced

    • @Stettafire
      @Stettafire Год назад

      I'll be honest, it sucks on mobile and it just makes things tiny and hard to see on PC. Not a fan

  • @RockandRollWoman
    @RockandRollWoman Год назад +70

    Hipgnosis, which designed Zep album covers, Floyd covers, and so much more, has published several books discussing their work. Highly recommend. Great video!

  • @vinylarchaeologist
    @vinylarchaeologist Год назад +164

    More astounding than Led Zeppelin's debut is the fact that two thirds of the Hindenburg's passengers actually survived that huge fire and crash!

  • @italyball2166
    @italyball2166 Год назад +86

    Man, you really need to make the cover story of Jethro Tull's "Thick As A Brick". That's, in my honest opinion, one of the most genial packaging ever made in the history of music

    • @mactavish100078
      @mactavish100078 Год назад +5

      Just bought that album on vinyl, had no idea it folded out into a whole ass newspaper!

    • @samnic1998
      @samnic1998 Год назад +2

      an episode focusing on newspaper style record covers would be cool - theres quite a few

    • @earthlingjohn
      @earthlingjohn Год назад +1

      @@mactavish100078
      And scattered throughout the whole ass newspaper can be found the lyrics of the whole ass album !

  • @zOsO0535
    @zOsO0535 Год назад +37

    Jimmy took the fractured ‘New Yardbirds’ on tour in Scandinavia. He didn’t leave the yardbirds, he was one of the final members of the Yardbirds.

    • @juliemanarin4127
      @juliemanarin4127 Год назад +2

      Exactly

    • @jaysworld8055
      @jaysworld8055 Год назад +1

      yeah and he tried to hold the band together too.

    • @victorblakey4260
      @victorblakey4260 Год назад +1

      Not only was ‘Led Zeppelin’ basically a renaming of ‘The New Yardbirds’, the name came from a review of one of the bands last gigs (as the new yardbirds) where the reviewer lamented the collapse of the original yardbirds, and suggested that the new songs being presented went down with the audience “like a lead zeppelin”.

    • @zOsO0535
      @zOsO0535 Год назад

      @@victorblakey4260 Few corrections mate. Once upon a time Jimmy Page somehow ended up in the same room with Keith Moon and began discussing the want of a super group, like Cream, that would include Clapton and other big names. In reponse to this proposal Keith Moon said, "That would go over as well as a led balloon." Seeing as a Zeppelin is a very exaggerated form of a balloon Jimmy Page thought that more emblematic. So no. Jimmy Page ironically made one of the best bands in the world based upon a comment that predicted its doom.

    • @Jimmysage3273
      @Jimmysage3273 4 месяца назад

      Everyone left the yard birds and jimmy was left with the band name Contract obligations left zeppelin with the only option of playing their first few shows as the new yard birds.

  • @aidenlosh9518
    @aidenlosh9518 Год назад +69

    I'd love to see a cover story for Rush's Permanent Waves album.

    • @WritteninBlood
      @WritteninBlood Год назад +3

      That would be so awesome.

    • @josephstone2112
      @josephstone2112 Год назад +2

      There actually is a video about the creation of that cover on the official Rush channel.

    • @ecurewitz
      @ecurewitz Год назад

      Or Moving Pictures

  • @PeterTea
    @PeterTea Год назад +15

    The Led Zeppelin I cover is also full of light and shade just like Zeppelin’s music.

  • @ikisss0412
    @ikisss0412 Год назад +16

    Your content on Led Zeppelin is amazing wow!!!

  • @derekroberts6654
    @derekroberts6654 Год назад +9

    i can see why it would be controversial but it fits the band and a great debut intro. I’m curious to see your take with Electric Light Orchestra and their fascination with “Wizard Of Oz” and why they used that scene for thier album “Elderado”.

  • @sumubi3133
    @sumubi3133 Год назад +6

    led zeppelin I is one of my favourite album because i love each song so much and the artwork is sooooooo beautiful

  • @lopolik
    @lopolik Год назад +5

    Into The Pandemonium, from Celtic frost, I thought it is interesting the Hieronymus Bosch's depiction of Hell was in the artwork, and I think it might be cool making a video how Hieronymus Bosch influenced a lot of the dark themed artworks of the more extreme and dark metal bands, like Slayer (Reign in Blood cover is also kind of similar to Hieronymus Bosch's paintings.)

  • @tony_fortunato
    @tony_fortunato Год назад +12

    I'd spend hours and hours watching these videos... I LOVE THIS CHANNEL ❤

  • @HunterPolk-gw4be
    @HunterPolk-gw4be Год назад +4

    I just found you out and I already LOVE your videos (this is the third one I watched)

  • @o-mega7515
    @o-mega7515 Год назад +3

    Hey Poly, quick video idea, do you think you could to a cover story/any other video format on Jethro Tull's "Thick as a Brick" if you haven't already? The album has some of the most unique packaging ever!

  • @MaxTovstyiMusic
    @MaxTovstyiMusic Год назад +2

    BTW Led Zeppelin I with BLUE logo and band name are super expensive, I wish I could afford one since it's my favourite band! Cool video as always.

  • @scottbubb2946
    @scottbubb2946 Год назад +2

    Strange to think about how Entwistle and Moon would have changed Zeppelin. Or Steve Winwood on vocals (as Page wanted). I wouldn't change LZ if I could. Especially not JP Jones, but it would be cool to go to an alternate universe where those guys did join the band. Just to hear what it would sound like.

  • @jpmojo
    @jpmojo Год назад

    I always enjoy any historical retelling of the Hindenburg… But enjoy even more since I grew up 3 miles away from Lakehurst though that happened 32 years before I was born the history is still there. The album cover makes the history for us locals connected to Led Zeppelin in a very unique way. Great video!

  • @marcsullivan7987
    @marcsullivan7987 Год назад +5

    Jeff Beck recorded Truth before LZ1, pioneering the innovations often given to this (also great) album

    • @juggert
      @juggert Год назад +5

      Love Jeff Beck. But the "light and shade" drum intro to "Good Times Bad Times" sound like they are announcing a new era in music. Announcing a new coming in pop music, if you will. Best recorded first notes by any band IMO

    • @lyndoncmp5751
      @lyndoncmp5751 Год назад

      Jimmy Page already inspired Beck when he wrote Beck's Bolero in 1966. It's just that Beck formed his own band first. Jimmy had to wait a bit longer, but we can see that the ideas were really Jimmy's because Jimmy kept coming up with them into and through the 1970s whereas, being blunt, though Beck was an an amazing guitarist he never really managed to write/compose anything that was on the level Jimmy kept coming up with. RIP Jeff though👍

    • @marcsullivan7987
      @marcsullivan7987 Год назад

      @@lyndoncmp5751
      Blow by Blow and Wired, and many other things (“Where Were You”, for example). And I LOVE Zep.
      Also, I’m a guitarist (and a staunch apologist of Page against the “he was sloppy” critique leveled), but Beck was a MUCH better player

    • @lyndoncmp5751
      @lyndoncmp5751 Год назад

      @@marcsullivan7987
      You seriously think those were on the same level as what Jimmy Page composed? Really? Beck was a mediocre songwriter/composer. That was his flaw.
      Page ate Beck alive on acoustic and being able to never play a song the same way live twice. That's just a fact.
      Cheers 👍

  • @fifbeatle1
    @fifbeatle1 Год назад +2

    Perfect timing man 😂
    Right now I'm writing a paper on Led Zeppelin for my ELA project in school

  • @freeviolet7199
    @freeviolet7199 Год назад +2

    I would love to have a video like this about any of the rush albums, I'm thinking specifically perminant waves

  • @TheCharlesAtoz
    @TheCharlesAtoz Год назад +1

    great channel, as usual

  • @iggydeohgee
    @iggydeohgee Год назад +17

    Disappointed you didn't mention how Eva met the band before the show, found them to be polite young men. Only when she was on her way out did she see the cover art and flipped her 💩.

    • @juliemanarin4127
      @juliemanarin4127 Год назад +1

      Yep lol

    • @DanielSnyder-bz8kp
      @DanielSnyder-bz8kp Год назад

      Me too, I thought they would tell that story. I think I read that in Hammer Of The Gods book when I was in jr. high school. Ironically I cut school to sit under a bridge and read it.

  • @IgnatiusAlpha
    @IgnatiusAlpha Год назад

    Great video as always. It's by far their best album, in my opinion. Perfect from front to back.

  • @joshuafornelli8673
    @joshuafornelli8673 Год назад +1

    You got me to sign up for Nebula. Love your stuff.

  • @luvbasses5487
    @luvbasses5487 Год назад

    First album, first song: Good Times Bad Times. This was a statement as apparent as a head on collision. The would-be competition of the day surely took note...upon burying head in hand.

  • @gearandalthefirst7027
    @gearandalthefirst7027 Год назад +2

    First of a long, long line of heavy music using black and white, hyper-saturated photos of death as album covers. D-Beat to death metal, helluva trend to start!

  • @looselytelling
    @looselytelling Год назад

    A Radiohead cover story would be very cool especially delving into the artwork of Stanley Donwood, a lot of people talk about how the music fits the album and each one has such meaning to it. Its fascinating and I'd be awesome if you covered it, no pressure though :3

  • @JamesInfinity
    @JamesInfinity Год назад +2

    LETS GO LED ZEPPELIN VIDEO

  • @tylerhackner9731
    @tylerhackner9731 Год назад +3

    Legendary debut

  • @DaveNarn
    @DaveNarn Год назад +1

    Good news .. I guess.
    The cause of the Hindenburg explosion was found to be static electricity from the rain storm the zeppelin was landing in.
    As the mooring ropes got wet, they grounded the ship. As the fabric of the ship got wet it began arching until it reached a leaking hydrogen bag at the tail end - then BOOM!

  • @AngelOfDC
    @AngelOfDC Год назад +3

    YEAHHHHH NEW POLYPHONIC

  • @Steinwelt
    @Steinwelt Год назад +2

    Very unconventional 1 by 1 ratio. I like it

  • @tonyrun5802
    @tonyrun5802 Год назад +2

    2:41 it's not entirely true. Based on the weather data on that day, studies suggested it sparked due to electric charges channeling from the ground through the docking ropes and into the gas chamber, which supposedly was compromised prior to the arrival. I'll try to link sources but this was pretty much it

    • @jaustill237
      @jaustill237 Год назад

      Yeah, odd that he mentioned that it was about to dock when historic video clearly show I bbn in the process of docking.

  • @rams6702
    @rams6702 Год назад +1

    awe hell yeah, cover stories!
    if you're gonna do more rock, can you do Hendrix's and how he hates all of them

  • @JS-yj7ow
    @JS-yj7ow Год назад

    Actually, the cause of the Hindenburg fire is fairly well understood with new video evidence, and experimental recreation.
    There’s a good NOVA program on it.

  • @carlybfilmclub5851
    @carlybfilmclub5851 Год назад

    The new intro is sick bro

  • @alfioinsaudo4179
    @alfioinsaudo4179 Год назад +1

    Il miglior gruppo hard rock del pianeta

  • @mr.k905
    @mr.k905 Год назад

    Great video! What's the "shrieking monkeys" (great band name btw.) font called? I love it!!

  • @1337megahacker
    @1337megahacker Год назад

    The band name and Atlantic Records logo were actually turqoise on the very first press of the album

  • @starry_lis
    @starry_lis Год назад +1

    how long until it's okay to make a WTC album cover?

  • @brizzieleif5258
    @brizzieleif5258 Год назад

    The orange graphic wasn't the original artwork design it was actually turquoise, orange came later with the reissued copies

  • @wayneclayton5426
    @wayneclayton5426 Год назад

    I've seen the original art work. Pen & ink on a piece of tracing paper copied straight from the photograph. Only about 7 x 7 inches big. Blown up to fit the album cover.

  • @still-standingrunner810
    @still-standingrunner810 Год назад +1

    I want one of these videos for the cover of Aqualung

  • @robgronotte1
    @robgronotte1 Год назад

    Huh? The normal way the end of the Yardbirds is presented is that all the other members left the band so that Page was the only member left. LZ even played some shows as the "New Yardbirds" to fulfill concert contracts, before coming up with their new name.

  • @ladyhonor822
    @ladyhonor822 Год назад

    Absolutely Fabulous.
    Philadelphia USA 🇺🇲☦️🙏😇❤️💋🩰

  • @Goatchild90
    @Goatchild90 Год назад

    Always knew that cover is iconic, since I first saw it

  • @thomasglynn2282
    @thomasglynn2282 Год назад

    Static electricity is what set the fire off, when they dropped the landing lines they were wet, and as soon as they came in contact with the ground it sparked

  • @williamsimpson7410
    @williamsimpson7410 Год назад +1

    You should do a video on Kashmir

  • @EvanFrenchMusic93
    @EvanFrenchMusic93 Год назад

    I hope someday you do a video about the story and legacy of the velvet underground and nico album

  • @hahahhahahahufool2114
    @hahahhahahahufool2114 Год назад

    You should do a video on Jaco Pastorius! Seeing that you already did one on Jimi Hendrix.

  • @hahahhahahahufool2114
    @hahahhahahahufool2114 Год назад

    Polyphonic, I am BEGGING you to do a video on Jaco Pastorius! This shall mark my Day 1.

  • @pauldecoster
    @pauldecoster Год назад +1

    By the way, could you do a video on Hall and Oates?

  • @marrow94
    @marrow94 Год назад +1

    These “The Nobs” are pretty good, huh

  • @jeremywanner4526
    @jeremywanner4526 Год назад

    Check out JCM-Led Zeppelin Stories if you’re a die hard Led-head.Its an amazing series!

  • @BoHorn
    @BoHorn Год назад +1

    Jimmy didnt “leave” the band, there is a lot of errors in this video but thats a weird one to mess up.

  • @tenasantiago8218
    @tenasantiago8218 Год назад

    Please do an iron maiden video 😅. Your content is among the best of the best on youtube 🙌🙌

  • @haven2161
    @haven2161 Год назад

    Do you have any specific instrument that you play?

  • @alanlittlemoon8194
    @alanlittlemoon8194 Год назад

    Maybe an episode about the formation of LZ and the forgotten genius Terry Reid.

  • @evanneal4936
    @evanneal4936 Год назад +1

    The whole thing with eva von hindenburg is strange because she and the other hindenburgs related to the airship were all German and not from the Netherlands where Copenhagen is... so why was she so mad when they were not even playing in her country? Its so strange that at first I thought it can't be true information but it is probably more likely that this particular aristocrat, despite being named "hindenburg" was not actually really related to "the hindenburgs" and was using it as a scam to sue led zeppelin. Or by complete coincidence she happened to live in Amsterdam at the time I guess.

  • @michaelsaville9985
    @michaelsaville9985 Год назад +14

    The story I heard was it was John Entwistle who said “it will go over like a lead zeppelin”. In North America we say “lead balloon” but in England it’s more popular to say “zeppelin”. I could be wrong on either one but this is just what I heard

    • @nicholsonfile
      @nicholsonfile Год назад +1

      Like all good quotes, they are unverified.

    • @michaelsaville9985
      @michaelsaville9985 Год назад +2

      For sure. There’s so much folklore surrounding Zeppelin that it’s impossible to verify everything

    • @knottsscary
      @knottsscary Год назад +1

      I think you mean Keith Moon, that's what almost all the quotes say

    • @lyndoncmp5751
      @lyndoncmp5751 Год назад

      Brandon
      Supposedly it was John Entwistle and not Keith Moon according to Richard Cole who worked with both The Who and Zeppelin. He's the only insider who has talked about it.

    • @knottsscary
      @knottsscary Год назад

      @@lyndoncmp5751 I might be mistaken but in the official Led Zeppelin book I believe Page said it himself that it was Keith Moon

  • @midwestogkush1969
    @midwestogkush1969 Год назад

    The who's manager found out jimmy was trying to scoop entwistle and moon and there manager asked Jimmy page how would ya like to play with broken fingers ... jimmy changed his mind apparently

  • @BoynamedMagnus183
    @BoynamedMagnus183 Год назад

    I would love a video about how The Rolling Stones Shaped the 70`s!!!😊😊😊

  • @CaseyWinehouse
    @CaseyWinehouse Год назад

    So does this whole channel just explain the things people find out immediately as soon as they’re introduced to a band? Would love to hear your over-explanation of Chocolate Starfish…

  • @PaulTheSkeptic
    @PaulTheSkeptic Год назад

    "How to listen like a musician." It's funny that you say that. One of my podcasts they said how their musician friend told them to listen to this or that little thing and they said that that's not how they listen. They don't hear music like that. I was quite surprised by this. I'm a musician. Most people don't hear music like I do. I had no idea. I thought everyone who was a little more into music could do that. Interesting.

  • @squarl5922
    @squarl5922 Год назад

    Yes

  • @marciashiraishi5891
    @marciashiraishi5891 Год назад

    What the hell, Mrs. Eva Von Zeppelin should be proud to have her last name associated with the greatest rock band in the world. There was no disrespect there

  • @Simon.the.Likeable
    @Simon.the.Likeable Год назад

    "Oh the humanity..."

  • @ikisss0412
    @ikisss0412 Год назад

    YESSS LED ZEPPELINNN

  • @chevken1831
    @chevken1831 Год назад

    Oh, the humanity!

  • @piersonsauberan9058
    @piersonsauberan9058 Год назад +3

    jimmy page in the studio like yeah this tragedy goes hard let's put it on our first (and second) album

  • @baronrogers806
    @baronrogers806 Год назад +2

    By asking politely :*)

  • @LanceEads
    @LanceEads Год назад +1

    Is that Syd Barrett's mirrored telecaster at 00:32?

  • @panrick
    @panrick Год назад

    What do you mean when you said “to this day, nobody knows the cause of the fire”? -that’s not true. It was caused when a mooring line touched the ground, causing an electrostatic discharge that ignited leaking hydrogen. They’ve known the cause since the disaster happened.

  • @darrylbennett4297
    @darrylbennett4297 Год назад

    Jimmy didn’t leave the yardbirds. The yardbirds left Jimmy Page. Jimmy owned the rights to the band, and was trying to get new members for the new yardbirds.

  • @david.leikam
    @david.leikam Год назад

    I would recommend you checkout, NOVA: Hindenburg - The New Evidence (2021). 👍

  • @TheHippie27
    @TheHippie27 Год назад +2

    I'm really happy for you that you can run a separate, paid service providing more content, and earn what you are rightfully deserved for the content you create! But honestly, as someone who can barely justify the expense of paying for spotify and netflix, it kind of sucks to see hints at videos I can't afford to watch while otherwise enjoying your content. I don't know if others feel the same, but that has been my feeling for the past few months... hope that doesn't come off too harsh!
    Long story short, I love your content and want to see more!

  • @pitersjezups2692
    @pitersjezups2692 Год назад

    Do a video on phonk

  • @JMK65
    @JMK65 Год назад

    Page left the group???

  • @jackbonney3267
    @jackbonney3267 Год назад

    "Blimp go boom"

  • @CODYj423
    @CODYj423 Год назад +2

    "sounded like a catastrophe"
    An example of Poly's turn of phrase that makes his analysis and music history bits legendary. 🎉

  • @thesis_gaia7960
    @thesis_gaia7960 Год назад

    Santos dummont invented airships

  • @delavan9141
    @delavan9141 Год назад +1

    I always like you videos in their beginning, but then your poetic descriptions just become so over-wrought that the whole thing descends into ridiculousness.

  • @karenyoung60
    @karenyoung60 Год назад

    🖤🖤🖤

  • @tommonk7651
    @tommonk7651 Год назад

    They could have always changed their name to "Shrieking Monkeys"....

  • @johnvertudazo7205
    @johnvertudazo7205 Год назад +1

    Hindenburg

  • @dagonzalez1757
    @dagonzalez1757 Год назад +1

    Your videos are always a little bit quieter than the rest, not sure why

  • @the80sdumpster
    @the80sdumpster Год назад

    They first put out the text in turquoise? Why gloss over that?

  • @aeroglyphe
    @aeroglyphe Год назад

    Some facts are not acurate as to why the Yardbirds dismembered.

  • @SpookyLuvCookie
    @SpookyLuvCookie Год назад

    square and not square

  • @1glassMilk
    @1glassMilk Год назад

    Yes the Zeppelin also looks like an advocado... showing that Led Zeppelin would be populair all over the world, from Europe to tropical countries. :P

  • @juliemanarin4127
    @juliemanarin4127 Год назад

    Because it would go down like a lead balloon! Lol

  • @mazgaming6842
    @mazgaming6842 Год назад

    Hello Polyphonic!
    pls leave a reply pls thank you

  • @tjg555
    @tjg555 Год назад

    pretty sure that's spelled The Knobs, dude...

  • @guldenaydin9918
    @guldenaydin9918 Год назад

    🌈💝

  • @grahamjones4974
    @grahamjones4974 Год назад +5

    It’s hilarious that there are people in this world who actually think that Queen is better than Led Zeppelin 😂

  • @thejollyjoker187
    @thejollyjoker187 Год назад

    So, this is a Nebula advertisement and incidentally we mention the click bait name of Led Zeppelin. And that's how we manipulate people to give us 24K views. Nice.. instant dislike.

  • @JohaDahlgaard
    @JohaDahlgaard Год назад

    I am danish, and I beg you, don't ever pronouce Copenhagen like that again. Might make you look fancy, but no one, as in absolutely no dane would ever call it "HaRgen" if you asked them what the capital is named in english. "Haegen" not Hargen.

  • @paulbrookes413
    @paulbrookes413 Год назад +1

    Disastrous Start 😄

  • @pauldecoster
    @pauldecoster Год назад

    No matter what sleaze came out from their personal lives, you just can’t stay away from these guys, can you?

  • @eshep71
    @eshep71 Год назад +1

    Don't do one on the cover of Led Zeppelin 4.
    People today would be offended with the fact that it contains a literal depiction of a derogatorily used term.
    Perhaps it was a form of protest but there is certainly no mistaking the usage.
    I'm surprised they haven't been retroactively cancelled..

    • @drunkdragonborn
      @drunkdragonborn Год назад

      What depiction? I own the album physically and I don't know what you mean...

    • @lopolik
      @lopolik Год назад +1

      what are you even talking about? Led Zeppelin 4 was just an old man carrying a bundle of sticks. The main thing is the 4 symbols, representing each member of the band, and the the it has a song ''four sticks'', but that artwork is not offensive at all, the Houses of the Holy artwork was deemed more controversial.

    • @eshep71
      @eshep71 Год назад

      @@lopolik do you know the term they used for that exact thing in England?
      They would throw gay men into the fire along with the sticks...linking them to the term.

    • @lopolik
      @lopolik Год назад

      @@eshep71 Yes I know it. But are you suggesting that Led Zeppelin meant it in this way? The 19th-century rustic oil painting on the front of the album was purchased by Robert Plant from an antique shop in Reading, Berkshire, England. Isn't it possible that Led Zeppelin used it as an artwork just because they liked it? Not because it vaguely means what you THINK it means.

    • @lopolik
      @lopolik Год назад

      @@eshep71 that's a big stretch of your imagination, I get what you're saying, but you are literally the first person I heard say that that cover has something to do with the meaning of the term that I can't even type on youtube (it got deleted I wrote it)