When The Levee Breaks is about the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. It was first recorded in 1929 by Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy and was then reworked by Led Zeppelin many years later. Zeppelin music has a number of influences and the blues was one of the biggest ones.

@chrisd7047

Жыл бұрын

It also talks about the Great Migration, 10s of thousands of black people leaving the South in the late 1800s, early 1900s. Many of them traveled straight up the Mississippi River and ended up in Chicago, which is why the lyrics mention Chicago. It's how Chicago became a hub for blues music.

@kimonoswithkatanas

Жыл бұрын

And how the blacks got shafted in the aftermath of the flooding!

@SteveHuffer

Жыл бұрын

And like all great blues songs, it also has a filthy subtext too.

@JimmieBuffet-qi3lk

Жыл бұрын

FACTS!!

@daniellittle830

Жыл бұрын

The Hindenburg has nothing to do with the levy oh, that's just a music video although both are true and a revelant

The airship Hindenburg in the video was a Zeppelin and the largest ever built. It burst into flames as it landed in Lakehurst, New Jersey back in 1936. Led Zeppelin is kind of a joke, Keith Moon of The Who said they'd go down like a lead balloon, which Jimmy Page later used when he remembered the joke and named the band Led Zeppelin. Loved the reaction, keep going as Led Zep has a vast store of banging tunes from a variety of genres.

@halah34

Жыл бұрын

In addition, this incident is likely where the phrase “Oh the humanity” became widespread. The event was being recorded and the commentator was basically lost for words.

@paulmahon1613

Жыл бұрын

I believe it was John Entwhistle who uttered that phrase.

@billwicketvogel1787

Жыл бұрын

1937

@halah34

Жыл бұрын

@@paulmahon1613 it was uttered during the broadcast of the incident.

@steveparker8065

Жыл бұрын

@@billwicketvogel1787 My bad! you are correct although in my defence I've seen 1939, 1936 and other dates listed. But your answer is the most common so I have to agree.

When the Zeppelin caught fire, the live radio announcer continued to relay the events as the explosion engulfed the dirigible and took the lives of many of the crew, passengers and grounds men. This broadcast was recorded, along with film footage and became a historic documentation. The announcer's tearful, immediate response, including the phrase, "Oh the humanity" has been noted by generations ever since. It was, in a sense, the first reaction video. It is fitting it now links to our latter day...

@ploppy9943

Жыл бұрын

Fun fact: The radio announcer who uttered the popular phrase, "Oh, the humanity!" was from a Chicago radio station called WLS. It's still a staple in the Chicago area. I used to live about 90 miles from Chicago and had a job as a delivery driver. I would listen to that station every day while making my deliveries. The morning shows were particularly entertaining.

Robert Plant on the harmonica is wicked good!

Have you ever heard someone cry, "Oh, the humanity!"? That's directly related to the Hindeburg disaster. It was famously recorded by a newsreel unit that was there to cover the landing of the Hindenburg in the US. (The Hindenburg was a Nazi airship. Newreels were short films that were played before the main feature in moviehouses. In a time of radio, newsreels were the only way for people to see moving images of recent events.) So the cameras were rolling as it burst into flames, and the announcer was quite hysterical, crying over the deaths. "Oh, the humanity!" is the phrase he used that is remembered to this day.

The airship is called Zeppelins. The Hindenburg or zeppelin was the first major air disaster caught on film. That's when airstrip builders learned that you should never store hydrogen close to oxygen. Static electricity set it

They don't teach about the crash of the Hindenburg in schools any more? "Oh the Humanity!"

A monster of a song. Robert Plant plays harmonica as well as he sings and Bonzo hammered the drums like no one ever. Every album blew us away as they were released.

Girl.. I was born in 78 and I don't care if you were born in 98 or 88, we can all agree that music transends generations

@JimmieBuffet-qi3lk

Жыл бұрын

Fact..... people are going to be listening to this a thousand years from now. If we make it that long. LOL!!

@m.c.1933

Жыл бұрын

I was born in 67, and I agree 100%

@melchiorvonsternberg844

Жыл бұрын

Hi kid...

@daviddragavon7555

Жыл бұрын

1954 for me (the wooley Mammoths 🦣 raised heck with our tomato garden). But your point is well taken, and you are absolutely right! Even though you and my oldest son are about the same age..

@charlietwo13

5 ай бұрын

1958 here and witness to live events... Rock on young ones to the greatest music of all times.

It's you're favorite, because this is the first studio version of a Led Zeppelin song that you've listened to. Everybody here would love to see you react to the studio versions of Stairway to Heaven and Since I've been loving you. Yes, we all know you've reacted to the live versions of these songs, but they pale in comparison to the masterpieces that were created in the studio versions, which are some of the greatest achievements in audio recording history. It would be sad if you go through life without ever hearing those two studio classics. It will be a whole new, eye opening experience for you. Peace

@mikell5087

Жыл бұрын

Much applause to this comment. When you react to music, react to music, DO NOT react to a video (especially a video of a live performance, but that applies to a music video also). The video is for watching you, not the music (video).

@petergray2588

Жыл бұрын

Totally agree. How can anything compare to the perfection of those 2 studio recordings

@EdA1

Жыл бұрын

Couldn’t agree more! They sold 300 million albums for a reason, the studio versions are masterpieces!

@greendragonpublishing

Жыл бұрын

Agreed! The live version of a popular song is changed, upscaled, modified - sometimes better, sometimes not, but it loses some of the original color and nuance, the format that made the song amazing/famous/popular. That's fine if you already know the original, but you lose something essential if you don't.

@Dmilewis

Жыл бұрын

Amen!!!

Robert Plant is just killing it on harmonica in this one.

The airships are called zeppelins. They were cargo and passenger vessels of the sky filled with either hydrogen or helium.

@M0rket

Жыл бұрын

Zeppelin also worked with Goodyear to create the iconic Goodyear blimps, before the breakout of WWII. Then they had a hand in building V2 rockets. A branch of the conglomerate has been Europe's leading dealer of Caterpillar construction machinery since '54. When you read their company history, they seem to gloss over certain parts of the past, perhaps understandably so.

@colinsleibenguth8422

Жыл бұрын

The German Zeppelins were filled with the highly flammable Hydrogen because the US wouldn't share the classified way to produce inflammable Helium.

Shout out to Memphis Minnie, the legendary singer and guitarist. UK bands heard AMERICAN blues music that mainstream US audiences never heard.

This is perhaps the most famous drum progression in history. Every drummer who is asked about famous drums progressions mentions this song.

That is Robert Plant on harmonica with lots of reverb, blending in with Jimmy's guitar. And this thunderous drum beat and how it was recorded are the stuff of legends.

That video is of a Zeppelin called the Hindenburg that crashed. It doesn't have a thing to do with the song, which is about a levee breaking and destroying a village after a flood on the Mississippi in 1927. The words were from a gal named Memphie Minnie. Musically - it was entirely Led Zeppelin. An epic masterpiece.

It’s her favorite Zeppelin song so far because it’s the studio version. So thankful she’s listening to a studio version finally. Zeppelin is great live, but you have to listen to the studio first. Not only, just first. You just have to!! You would have at least liked the previous Led Zeppelin songs just as much if you would have listen to the studio versions of them too. At least first.

@fordprefect4345

11 ай бұрын

Then there's the John Paul Jones climate change version really not to be missed

Led Zeppelin is the GOAT

I think this is about the levee break in 1927. I live across the street from the same levee! They've built it up since then but this is something always in the back of my mind!

The "no one was going to warn me..." part about the Hindenburg made me laugh. 🤣 I immediately wanted to shout out, "You know the Titanic sinks, right?"

@gordowg1wg145

Жыл бұрын

You forgot the spoiler alerts... 🤣

Thank you for your reaction, Britt! Speaking of "Thank You" that is the name of the next Led Zeppelin song you should check out!

@nancyj795

Жыл бұрын

Yes, "Thank You" is a great song.

@ihateusernames96

Жыл бұрын

Live 1969

@tinagilbert8902

Жыл бұрын

YES!!!!!!❤❤❤

The Hindenburg disaster was an airship or zeppelin that crashed and burned on May 6, 1937.

Cant go wrong with Zeppelin

The liquid is water. It was used as ballast to help stabilize the trim of the ship. You aren't completely wrong calling it an air submarine. They were also colloquially called air ships.

There was a live radio broadcast as the disaster took place, very famous..."oh the humanity!" Guy narrated it, weeping bitterly. Much sampled

Each of Led Zeppelin's live performances was Improvised. Played in the moment, an actual part of they're recording contract. Creative Dominion, without this in my opinion the world would have lost the experience of Led Zeppelin 😈🤘. All the blues hits are my favorites, The Lemon song, In my Time of Dying, of course The Levee😈🤘 please keep up reactions, won't be disappointed

One of the best grooves of all time!

When the group first got together, someone said they were going to go down like a lead zeppelin (a Hindenberg reference); hence Led Zeppelin.

So, the song was written in 1929, about a disastrous flood of the Mississippi river a few years before. When Zeppelin created their version, they used a lot of blues-y riffs in their rock music.

@sarahbrown5073

Жыл бұрын

Yes, the lyrics were written by Memphis Minnie about the 1927 Mississippi River flood.

IT'S A ZEPPELIN, in the 1930's they were used as passenger airships along with military uses. They were a very popular way to travel to and from Europe until an airship called the Hindenburg caught fire as it was mooring in New York. A Zeppelin and a blimp like the 'Goodyear Blimp' are very similar.

Zeppelins were German blimps. Led Zeppelin got their name from the old figure of speech "it'll go over like a lead balloon." A Led Zeppelin. The Hindenburg was a Zeppelin, and the gas that it used to keep it aloft was hydrogen, the 1st element, and disturbingly flammable. An ember will make it explode. Helium, the second element, is also lighter than air, but inert. So, a valuable lesson was learned that day about which lighter-than- air gas to use for flying blimps. And decades later, this great band got a great name.

@LoganS-gf3zl

2 ай бұрын

Zeppelins have a rigid frame or skeleton and were sometimes referred to as rigid airships. A blimp is shaped a little the same but has no rigid skeleton, it’s just a specially shaped balloon.

My experience was when my oldest brother woke me out of sleep. Dave said I have two tickets to Led Zeppelin. I was thirteen like 50 years ago. I can play all these tunes, by heart and note for note. Led Zeppelin is like the Rolling Stones. Rockers of endurance!

One of my favs by them, as a drummer the sound John gets here is amazing. Look up how they recorded this song. It's phenomenal.

@jgold78

Жыл бұрын

Legend has it they moved the drum kit into the stairwell at the studio to get the echo.

@sarahbrown5073

Жыл бұрын

@@jgold78 Not a studio. It was recorded at Headly Grange, an old mansion that was once used as a poor house....but yes, the drums were in the stairwell.

@MepeLepeL

10 ай бұрын

@@jgold78 they recorded it in a big old mansion, they didnt get the echo naturally though. they ran it through a vintage echoplex unit

Some here have already given the background on the name Led Zeppelin for the band so that's covered. The songs origins have been taken care of as well, so maybe a bit of trivia. Although the Hindenburg disaster has nothing to do with the song, a picture of the disaster is the album cover for the 1st LZ album in 1968. There's a story that says when Zeppelin played the Netherlands early on they had to use a different name (the Nobs) as Lady von Zeppelin was outraged by the use of the Hindenburg exploding as their album cover.

I grew up in the 1960s and 1970s, and I get a kick out of watching you "kids" react to the music of that era. It was the golden age of music, and I am so fortunate to have experienced it firsthand.

The Zeppelin, which is similar to the Goodyear Blimp, was given the name "Led Zeppelin" by a band member who thought it would go over like a lead balloon. The song is about the flooding that occurred when a levee broke along the Mississippi River, which impacted poor black people who owned most of the affected land. Some of those affected by the flooding left and moved to Chicago. The video shows the Hindenburg disaster that took place in Lakehurst, NJ. The airship was supposed to be moored at the Empire State Building but was not able due to high winds. The mooring mast on the building was originally designed for this purpose.

You just watched a historical event happen. 1936 Lakehurst, NJ. There are recordings of the live radio broadcast. Zeppelin were filled with hydrogen gas, which made them a sort of ticking time bomb if something went wrong, which is the case here. "Oooh, the humanity!"

Wow first Rush now Led Zeppellin in one day, the two greatest bands and two best Drummers of all time imo. Keep digging into both bands these are the group's that other acts all aspire to be. 😊

@zzz7zzz9

Жыл бұрын

Amen.

@timothytouhey8682

Жыл бұрын

Really? several drummers far better!!! And still breathing!

@curtiswilson3569

Жыл бұрын

@@timothytouhey8682 John bonham is number 1 ever… after that there are several options, but there is no question about number 1.

This is my favourite Led Zep song also. I've been listening to them for decades and love most of their stuff, but this is the one if I had to choose, with Kashmir and All of My Love close behind. The ship crashing and burning is the Hindenburg, a Zepplin which is the German name for an airship. Airships in those days were filled with hydrogen which is flammable. The Hindenburg crashed in 1937 in New Jersey with 35 fatalities. Led Zeppelin got it's name from Keith Moon of The Who, who when told Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin's founder was keen on creating a new supergroup with Moon, Jeff Beck, and Moon’s bandmate in The Who John Entwistle. Moon remarked that the project would go down “like a lead balloon”. From that Page then renamed the New Yardbirds "Led Zeppelin. The photograph of the Hindenburg crashing was used for the album cover of their debut album.

Yes. The Hindenburg was a large air ship known as a dirigible. In fact it was the largest ever built. It was the pride and joy of Nazi Germany. Historical significance was its catastrophic destruction when it burst into flames in the USA. It was also significant in that it was one of the first caught on film LIVE catastrophes. For that time period it was as significant and impactful as the footage of the 9/11 attack on Trade Center. It was shown in movie theaters and talked about on the radio with intensity. Dirigibles were also referred to as Zeppelin after the German inventor Ferdinand von Zeppelin who began his work on air ships in the late 19th Century. By the 1960s, the terminology or slang for something that is a colossal failure was that it would end up like the Hindenburg or take off like a "LEAD ZEPPELIN". The remainder of how the band was named is covered by other comments above. Great Post. Im subscribed! Love it.

I always said, if I could walk into a room in slow motion to any song. This would be it!

@mperezmcfinn2511

Жыл бұрын

Good choice.

🤔🤔😂😂🤣🤣👍👍. We so love you girl!!!!!!! You make our day!!!!!

I lol'ed twice ❤😂 air submarine- who am I hurting 😂 waterslides

Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, and several other famous rock guitarists grew up in England. They listened to old African-American blues records, which inspired their compositions. Most people don't realize the profound influence the Mississippi Blues artists from the 1930s and 40s had on rock and roll.

Memphis Minnie, 1932 singin about a real event Zepplinized.

A Perfect Circle does a fantastic rendition of this song, it's live at Red Rocks too! When the Levee breaks at Red Rocks is what you're looking for.

Just found you and love it. The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, and The Who started it all. This was the British invasion.

The Rolling Stones are my favorite because they seem to have a song for every mood and there music is the most widely varying Rock, Blues, Country and Soul. They evolved in time,

My father was 4 years old when the Hindenburg flew over our hometown in Massachusetts before it burned. He said he remembered it flying over because it was slow and loud. He said it was pretty cool to see.

Oh the humanity! 😅Yes this is something that you should have learned about in history class. That was a Hindenburg, the world’s biggest airship/blimp/zeppelin. It was designed by the Zeppelin airship company (see the connection?) and was the pride of Germany and the Nazis. Unfortunately for them they could not use helium to inflate it, since the USA had most of the world’s helium reserves, so they used highly flammable hydrogen instead. A local Chicago newsman from WLS was doing one of the first ever live broadcasts of the event just outside of NYC when the Zeppelin suddenly burst into flames and while he narrated the calamity live and exclaimed “Oh the humanity” and the rest is history.

This song is about a true event that took place I think back East somewhere in the 1920s or 30s. A levy broke during a rainstorm and ended up flooding a whole town and probably more.

Your so right on with the sensual lyrics of Robert Plant. He is amazing especially live

your wisnting the greatest rock and roll band ever girl

Britt, as others have mentioned, listen to more of Zeppelin's studio releases. Jimmy Page was brilliant in the studio, a real craftsman. Also, they were somewhat inconsistent live--they lived fast and Jimmy also occasionally suffered from stagefright. But if you want their best live stuff, the Royal Albert Hall show from 1970 is awesome. Great reaction. Be well.

The Hindenburg was a Zeppelin (the inventor Baron Von Zeppelin created these very famous rigid airships) this Zeppelin was named in honor of the famous WWI German General and Hero Paul Von Hindenburg. It was a NAZI rigid airship that flew across the Atlantic between Berlin and New York (landing in New Jersey) in the late 1930s before WWII. It was still enough of a novelty that a newsreel crew was sent to photograph and record the landing when it suddenly burst into flames. The newsreel reporter famously cried "Oh the humanity". Another reporter who wasn't there assumed it would be a normal non-event called in to his newspaper that it was a perfectly normal landing. Needless to say that reporter was fired for missing the biggest story of the decade. When the Levee Breaks has nothing to do with the Hindenburg tragedy, it's about the flooding of the Mississippi River in 1927. However, the Hindenburg tragedy does have to do with why Led Zeppelin got there name.

It's the Hindenburg Disaster. Hindenburg is the name of that particular airship - The Graf Zeppelin is the type of airship. I've no idea why this piece of film was paired with "When the Levee Breaks," there's no connection at all. It could have been shown as the background to any Led Zeppelin song. The connection, as others have explained, is with the name Zeppelin, that's all.

Best Rock Band as it took Pink Floyd a few years to really hit their stride, Zeppelin was great right from the start. For more Zeppelin blues rock of the highest caliber, try Since I've Been Loving You. The studio mix is pristine and legendary, then the live video from the Song Remains the Same is beyond amazing, seeing the effect they have on fans and even security is cool and gives you an idea of the grip they had on us back in the day, you would do anything to see them but they always were instant, multiple sell outs wherever they went. Try that song out, if you have, do You Shook Me or Tea For One. Enjoy! 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎶

Haha yeah look up,the Hindenburg tragedy. Also zeppelin is a name for a balloon. Led is short for lead so their a name is lead balloon. There is a saying they say when something is falling or crashing “going down like a lead balloon” my favorite two songs are “Kashmir” and “fool in the rain” hope you react to one of those soon! Great reaction!

@robbob5302

Жыл бұрын

Spoiler alert. The blimp explodes.

Like I said about led Zeppelin there first choice of names was going to be called Supergroup Keith Moon drummer for the WHO said that name is going down like a "Led Zeppelin" referring to the Hindenburg crash. The first air disaster caught on film.

@SIR-DanielHunter

9 ай бұрын

You should watch the live film of the Hindenburg and the reporter describing the crash. That's the famous quote from the reporter. 👉Awe The Humanity👈 This is a fan made video had nothing to do with Zeppelin other than the Hindenburg was a Zeppelin. The song is about a real flood that my poor grandma had escape from in I think the 1920s as a little girl in Mississippi. What no body ever notices the singer Robert plant is using old blues singers niches. Little at the end sing he sings Oooh ooh Oooh. That's comes the scarey bluesman 👉Howlin Wolf 👈 theres also some 👉Robert Johnson👈 The godfather of blues that is said to have sold his soul to the devil at the cross roads in the delta of Mississippi not far from where I grew up. I never went to the cross at night. 😮

led zeppelin was a rock band that took the blues and twisted them to what no one ever did before and came up with there owen sound

The greatest band ever… but also probably one of the best songs ever…. In history.

The story I heard about them is when they were starting, their style was so different that they were told they would fall like a lead balloon. They took it at turned it into Led Zeppelin.

@emcsquared8681

Жыл бұрын

There’s a saying “it’s going to go down like a lead Zeppelin”.

@shevawn4927

Жыл бұрын

I heard that too!

@rogerdaly6326

Жыл бұрын

Keith Moon told Jimmy Page the type of music Page wanted to do would go over like a lead ballon. When it came time to name the band Page remembered the joke and Led Zeppelin was born.

@mperezmcfinn2511

Жыл бұрын

Keith Moon's comment was in response to the band being booked as "the New Yardbirds." After the Yardbirds imploded, Page assembled a new lineup, intent on continuing down the heavy psychedelic direction the band was moving in before the breakup. Since the Yardbirds were a well established group, with a substantial following, he wanted to capitalize on their name recognition. Except, he wasn't even one of the founding members. Besides, this new lineup was clearly a much different band. It was after Page told Moon they were going with "the New Yardbirds" that he said "the New Yardbirds? That's gonna go over like a Lead Zeppelin." In other versions he said "Lead Balloon." But Page thought Zeppelin sounded cooler.

It's a dirigible, also known as a blimp. They still fly when I think over important football games over here in United States. The Goodyear blimp I think or maybe it's been dead for a long time. But anyway yeah this was a historical day. But they used a weird relief of it as the front album cover of their very first album when they just exploded on the world in the late 1960s. And from a distance, it looks really really phallic. There's even more context in this direction. So after that disaster, everything that everybody thought was going to be the wonderful solution to Aviation, it was fuel-efficient everything about it was great it could float along at low altitudes it could negotiate fairly well even though it was a bit clumsy, because that's all they really needed in those early days. And then it got so popular they used it for public transport and it first people were nervous and then it became accepted. And then this happened. Think about it. So sometime after that, by the time I was a kid in the late sixties and early 1970s, it was always afraid as you could say, oh yeah and you would roll your eyes about either an idea that you had or an idea that somebody else had that just totally tank and turned out to just be ridiculously bad. And you would say, oh yeah, that went over like a lead balloon.

Keith Moon of the Rock band, "The Who" went to see them perform early after they had just newly formed as a group and was asked about what he thought of them, he wasn't impressed and said they would "go down like a lead balloon" ( how wrong he was) LOL. And that's how the idea of the name of this new band, (at the time) came about and "Led Zeppelin" was born and the rest is history!

"The "Rain Song" is one of their best. It is their only ballad. George Harrison of the Beatles said Zeppelin couldn't write one, so Jimmy Page wrote one.

@MarioCrosby

Жыл бұрын

Only ballad? Come on now: That's The Way, Thank You, All My Love etc...

@eddhardy1054

Жыл бұрын

So 'The Rain Song' is their only ballad...what about 'Tangerine' from Led Zeppelin III?

@eddhardy1054

Жыл бұрын

​@@MarioCrosby Bugger! I just came back to edit my answer to add 'That's the Way' but I see I'm too late 🤣 Yeah as we both seem to know, but Thomas doesn't, Zeppelin did loads of ballads 😊

@MarioCrosby

Жыл бұрын

@@eddhardy1054 That's OK, I missed Tangerine, so we're even. 😆

@eddhardy1054

Жыл бұрын

@@MarioCrosby I guess between us we covered most of the ballads...although you did most of the heavy lifting 😉😊

It's a Zeppelin get it led Zeppelin

An image from the recording of this crash was used on Led Zeppelin's debut album cover. There were many studies done of the causes for this crash, but non produced a definitive answer. But it wasn't aided by the fact that the ship was electrically charged having just passed through storms shortly before the attempted docking, and the fact that the paint used to cover it was heavily impregnated with powdered aluminum, a primary ingredient in solid rocket fuel and thermite, a product which burns so hot it can melt rock. And then there is the hydrogen. "What's the worst that could happen?" As an additional piece of the story, the reason the Nazi government used hydrogen rather than the much safer helium is that the US, which holds about 98% of the world's known helium reserves, refused to sell helium to the Nazi government due to the military uses of the Zeppelins. And the fluid being dumped from the airship is water, which was used as ballast to control the ship's buoyancy.

Interesting fact about the recording...When they recorded this track they went up to Headly Grange, which was a large poorhouse in Hampshire England, that was rented and converted into a recording studio for them. They often went to eccentric locations to write and record. When they got there, John Bonham (their drummer) was intrigued by the acoustics of the grand entry staircase. So he set up his drum kit and some mics in the stairwell, and recorded the drum tracks. A lot if the drum sounds you are hearing are not actual strokes being played, but rather echoes. The metronome time signature that the song is played in is decided by this reverberation. Just an example of how out of the box they were as a bans, but especially Bonham was as a drummer. Best ever.

You need to check out some Robert Plant together with Alison Krauss. They've collab'd for years and their voices together are like BUTTAH. They're on tour even still, this year.

Great to hear the studio version !! They might be great to see live but their studio version of songs are soo much better to listen to !!

A Zeppelin was an inflatable air ship also known as a blimp or dirigible. The Hindenburg was filled with hydrogen and made from a flammable fabric. It was being filmed and announced live on radio when it caught fire. The Goodyear Blimp is a modern example that is filled with Helium and made from a rubberized fabric. There is an old expression, “ you’ll never get that lead zeppelin off the ground.” The band name is a play on that spelling it Led Zeppelin, imo. I used to have a poster of Robert Plant above my bed in HS. 😉

1:02 Harmonica into a mic into an amplifier with some subtle reverb effects. IMO. Such a soulful instrument in caring hands 🙏

Not sure where that video came from; I’m guessing some guy created it for his own entertainment. I can see how it’s confusing for a song reaction, since the events in the video have nothing to do with this particular song. As other comments explain, this is a cover of a song by Memphis Minnie about the Great Mississippi flood of 1927, which, as a point of reference, was actually worse than Katrina. Beyond that, this is an incredible song that I feel you should listen to again (do another reaction, if you like) without the distraction of that video.

You have to listen to their song since I've been loving you live at msg 1973 bring it on home Robert opens the song with the harmonica

The name of the band is coined by Robert Plant. “ This will go over like a lead zeppelin.” They dropped the a in lead. Just like Def Leppard. Like Deaf Leopard. It’s a rock thing. The giant air submarine was named a Zeppelin by German engineers and manufacturers.

DO more Studio versions of their songs.... "In My Time of Dying" "All of My Love", "No Quarter", "Fool in the Rain", "The Lemon Song", "The Ocean", "Thank You".......

@joescott8877

Жыл бұрын

Yes, but WITHOUT any distracting videos to free-associate to...

Zep is a hard band to react to, I think. They have a huge catalog and are considered by many (including myself) a top 5 all time rock n roll band. They have Godfather status. I would start with the first album and work your way back.

The manager of Led Zeppelin. Told the guys during a band practice session. Guys that song went over like a Led Zeppelin. Hince their name.

On a side note, there is actually a German family with the surname Zeppelin and they built a lot, if not all, of the war balloons (Zeppelins) built during WW1 that bombed London. Today (last i was in Germany ~20 yrs ago) there was still a Zeppelin museum in SW Germany if anyone is interested.

You might like the song but you will never get the colossal impact unless you just listen to it, without stopping to analyze or comment on the video, or anything else. Close you eyes, listen, then say what you will. This needs to be felt and absorbed, not yattered about.

@bradsense7431

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely agree. I am afraid she is performing for us rather than reacting.

@36karpatoruski

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@@bradsense7431 I just unsubscribed from her, the interruptions are unwatchable and unlistenable. The worst on the entire KZread channel.

The documentary took away from the song. Sit down and listen to the song without the distraction. You missed a lot.

Here's some trivia. The Germans had been using Zeppelins for 30 years and we're about to launch a massive airship service. Since America would not sell them Helium, they used the dangerous hydrogen gas. There is a conspiracy theory the Hindenburg fire was deliberate, but I don't think so. It was physics, weather, static electricity and 💥💥💥. They were amazing ships.

The thing in the video is a Zepplin or Airship also known as a derrigble balloon. Today they are most commonly called Blimps. Think of the sandwich shop Blimpie. If you have ever been to an outdoor football game or watched one on TV you may have seen the famous Goodyear Blimp flying over the stadium and city shooting footage. All of the guys in the band had been in other bands when Led Zepplin started. The story goes that Jimmy Page was telling another musician friend about his new band and he reacted by saying, “That will go over like a lead balloon”. That became the inspiration for the name.

"Who am I hurtin'?" - Well as a dyed-in-the-wool aviation geek, I'd have to say, "My feelings, m'dear, my feelings..." 😉 The "sky-submarine" is an 'airship' or 'blimp': a type of steerable, powered, balloon that uses lighter-than-air gas for buoyancy rather than hot air. Until the late 1930s they were considered a viable alternative to fixed-wing aircraft and were used for military and commercial purposes. Some of the first and best airships were built by the German Count von Zeppelin who's company was named after him. "Zeppelin" thus became a generic alternative word for 'airship'. Zeppelins bombed Britain during the First World War. The Hindenburg was the last and largest Zeppelin ever built. She was built in 1936 and made 63 flights in the next year-and-a-half, including 10 to the USA. In May 1937 the Hindenburg was approaching her mooring mast at Lakehurst, New Jersey, when she burst into flames and crashed as you saw in the video, killing 35 of the 97 people on board. Her arrival was being broadcast live on local radio and when she went down, the presenter's fraught commentary became iconic. The cause of the fire was never determined, but the highly flammable hydrogen gas that she used for buoyancy, together with flammable dope (varnish) used in her fabric envelope, made her demise so swift and unstoppable. This accident, together with the bad-weather crash of the similar British airship R-101, destroyed the public's confidence in airships and they faded from the aviation scene, although you still see them today in specialist roles (the Goodyear blimps are the best known example). Modern airships use non-flammable, but less efficient, helium instead of hydrogen. When Jimmy Page and Robert Plant were forming their new band, Keith Moon (drummer of The Who) joked that they'd go down "like a lead balloon". Page remembered the joke and named the band 'Led Zeppelin'. Their first album had a black and white image of the burning Hindenburg on the cover. 'When The Levee Breaks' is a song about a disaster by a band named after an airship that had a disaster, hence the video.

The video has nothing to do with this song. The lyrics of this song are from a blues song from the 1920s, it's about a literal flood.

Hi. Research this song. This is actually an old song with roots from long ago. You might be very surprised. 😮

The Hindenburg was a Zeplin. It was an air ship that carried passengers and was thought to be a viable alternative to airplanes. It was filled with Hydrogen, a very flammable gas. During docking in the states the gas ignited and killed all aboard and much of the ground crew trying to dock it, and that event ended the future career of the Zeplin as a viable form of air travel.

LMAO at your reaction girl, Love it😀

OMFG listen to the song. “This song is so good. Let me stop it every five seconds for a minute and a half.” I can’t believe someone actually ruined When The Levee Breaks. 👍

@rsw1227

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She FINALLY does a studio version of a song only to be totally distracted by a video that has NOTHING to do with the song! It's very disappointing. I like her personality but her choices to do live versions first, puts me off. Peace

@phoboskittym8500

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Thats how reaction videos work, they have to avoid copywrite, you avoid this by talking through it and stopping every so often... Blame the labels...

@ClaytonMacleod

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@@phoboskittym8500 I know how it works. Every so often isn’t every five seconds. Heh.

The Hindenberg used Hydrogen gas instead of Helium which makes the Hydrogen filled one extremely explosive. Zeppelins used the hydrogen because it gave twice as much lift. Other airships used Helium which was not explosive.

Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie originally recorded this in 1928. Memphis Minnie was born across the MS River from Nawlins in a town called Algiers. The same place Dr. John aka Mac Rebennack hailed from.

Air submarine? Um, Zeppelin? The video is confusing because it has everything to do with zeppelins and nothing at all to do with the song. The song is a straight up lament about a broken levee.

TALK ALL YOU WANT, BUT STOP PAUSING IT!!!1 WE WATCH TO THE LISTEN TO THE MUSIC, NOT ALL YOUR LONG COMMENTS, COMMENT AFTER THE SONG!

Greetings from Bonnie Scotland -The name Led Zeppelin originated from a remark made by the drummer of the rock band The Who, as Zeppelin were originally were called The Yardbirds Two, but Jimmy Page did not like that name (He had previously played with "The Yardbirds") So, when Jimmy Page mentioned the name The Yardbirds Two to Keith Moon the response was = "That will go down like a Lead Balloon" and so Lead Balloon became "Led Zeppelin".

You are a beautiful young woman.. I hope you continue to enjoy music like this... I know as an older woman, how liberating it is to have a wide variety of interests... Well done!

The Hindenburg is kinda common knowledge. Like the Titanic.I'm surprised ! I guess with millennials and gen z I probably shouldn't be. : ))

Yes, you should have learned about it. But you miss the point. The Hindenburg has more to do with the name of the band, not the song.

@TheBeatenPaths

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Doesn't say much about the school system.

@warrenbridges1891

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@@TheBeatenPaths Some kids today don't even know which years WWII spanned.

@TheBeatenPaths

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@@warrenbridges1891 ......or that it even occurred.

@warrenbridges1891

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@@TheBeatenPaths I saw an interview with women who had university degrees, who couldn't name the axis powers. Or even American allies.

Two threads here. The Zeppelin - referring to the airship and the name of the band - and the levee, both explained by others here. I saw Led Zeppelin in in 1972. It’s now a generational thing.

The original purpose of the tower at the top of the Empire State building was a mooring post for Zeppelins to attach and unload passengers.

Holy effing pausing… let the song breath.,, stop pausing every 30 seconds.