How fitting that last song on last album is the blues with some soulful crooning thrown in. Beautiful.

Jimmy's guitar solo on this is insane... 😎

zep were always VERY bluesy, and roberts voice was soulful as hell!! even when he was 20 years old!

My favorite band of all time. Everyone else is a distant second. I’ll have to thank my older brothers for getting me into them.

Great song, what a way to end it all

@ 1:22 The suggestion for the name actually came up during sessions for "Beck's Bolero" in '66. Jeff Beck had Page, John Paul Jones, Keith Moon (who was having issues with The Who), and Nicky Hopkins playing with him during sessions, and the thought of forming a group was bandied about, to which Moon commented that it would go over like a lead balloon/Zeppelin. Page stored the idea away and finally used it when The New Yardbirds were no more.

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2 жыл бұрын

Doh, here... that was a much more succinct version of the story I had heard. Thanks!

I've always known that Zep was a band made of great composers and musicians, of great improvisation skill, but as I've listened to more and more reactions to their music, the one thing that really stands out is their energy and emotion, second to none. Plant's vocals here, especially at the end, case in point. You just don't find that level of emotion anymore.

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2 жыл бұрын

John Doh here. I'd like to get Dave to listen to some Zappa at some point but he needs careful grooming before he can wear that moustache.

@markacuna4418

2 жыл бұрын

Hell no

Good point on letting music breathe👍🏼👍🏼

Led Zeppelin IS MOST DEFINITELY A BLUES BAND. An ACID ROCK BLUES BAND. Next up: In My Time Of Dying, When The Levee Breaks, Kashmir, In The Light - all have incorporated a bit if psychedelia as well.

I dig your take on the daughter angle. It wouldn't be the first time Plant had done that. "The Ocean" is about her. I know "All of My Love" on this album is about his boy he lost to a rare sickness.

Man this Terrific 🎵 is soo underrated!! It’s kick ass!! Well of course it is, it’s from the 🐐 ‘s of rock 😎.

The greatest band in history! I'm a new subscriber...more Zeppelin please! Check out all their live performances!!

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2 жыл бұрын

John here.. We will definitely be hitting more Led Zeppelin. Probably leaning toward the studio releases first though.

You can't classify LZ's music as just one type of genre. They covered different styles. They also did folky songs and even a reggae song. LZ never aimed to release singles precisely because they wanted to let the music breathe and allow for creativity and invention. The meaning of those lyrics is so obvious and it's not what the literalist thinks it is.

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2 жыл бұрын

Doh, here... Sometimes our literalist, Dave, is being overly literal when he knows darn well there is likely a different meaning. He's not being showy for an audience, this is who he is in his every day life. That's one part of our friendship I find rather entertaining which is why I've convinced him to allow us to post videos on KZread. For one thing, I find most reactioneers to be engineering a response to improve viewership and thus income. If you look at the videos we've posted thus far, you can see that there are two with barely a notice. This won't change as I'm VERY eclectic in my musical tastes.

Wake up and listen to Zep. They will always be amazing.

Oh they were for sure a blues band! Amongst every other genre!! I swear to you they invented they're own genre lol. Singed the GOATS

Dude you should check all their work out! GOATS!😎👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

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2 жыл бұрын

We will be dropping another Led Zep reaction next week!

Led Zeppelin started (first 2 albums) heavily leaning into the blues along with a fair bit of folk rock and some psychedelic rock. The one thing about them is they could, and did, try their hand at practically everything up to and including reggae! No musical genre was beyond them. They were the best of the '70's and remain one of the most influential bands ever (in terms of influencing other musicians) for good reason. Each member was a GOAT. Each contributed heavily to the bands output, no one was there to "fill in". Great reaction guys, I especially like how Al Franklin guest appeared! LOL..... (I wonder if you have had that comment yet....)

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2 жыл бұрын

No mention of Al Franken... curious what you mean, though.

@H0tchips

2 жыл бұрын

@@LiteralistReactions Just thought it was funny how the "hidden person" could have been, and sounded a TINY bit like... Al Franklin. So was just making a light hearted joke. At the end of the day, I thought it was a great reaction. Cheers.

First, from my pedantic, obnoxious English prof's POV, lead is a metal. Led is the past-tense of the verb lead. So from a literalist standpoint, the band's name means the zeppelin is being led. First time I ever thought of it this way, TBH. Second, I don't understand how literalism plays into rock lyrics. 90% of these lyrics are figurative. Can you LEAD me to a video that explains what a literalist reaction is? (See what I did there?) I don't expect you to explain it to me here. All that being said, I'm intrigued. You guys are a fresh take. May I suggest early ELP for the classical music lover? Quite the rabbit hole, but it'll get all the synapses firing and the hair standing up on your neck.

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2 жыл бұрын

@Kathy Ratino - John Doh here... We took your advice and have recorded ELP doing Fanfare. Look for that to post in the coming weeks. To explain Dave's literalism, he was raised to see things in black and white with no room for grey. Since that time, he has changed and sees things much more openly, but it is still his fun hobby to view things literally. He does it to create a discussion/argument (in the good sense) and encourage people to share their feelings. It's verbal fencing. So, grab your weapon and take a swing, he's a big boy.

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2 жыл бұрын

@@LiteralistReactions Fanfare is awesome. Of course, it's instrumental, so there's nothing to take literally. Anyway, looking forward to watching!

Zeppelin has no genre. They started out as Blues but wanted to be something else above all others. Plant was always poetical and I would like to agree that you are on point.

and they say ,the boys lost it by the time of this album ?...really :)

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2 жыл бұрын

Doh, here... it's clear what they had lost was the sense of "family" within the band. You can blame everything from drugs, to money, to pressures, but they were no longer one cohesive unit working together toward a unified goal. John Paul Jones was alone in the studio when the bones of this track were laid down. Some people have a hard time with relationships, preferring to dump them rather than work on them in earnest.

It’s the Key board! The Meletone! Spellings off.

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2 жыл бұрын

Yes, very cool.

I really liked the in through the outdoor album. Some say it was zeppelin just going through the motions but I totally disagree. I mean that album has got it all....a full on samba....complete with wistle....bohnam created some epic moments as usual......rest his soulful soul.....

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Doh, here... I agree with you, I love that album. I bought it new when it came out and did a pretty good job of preserving the outer paper it came with. It's a great album with some awesome moments.

Not about a baby...about a woman!!

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2 жыл бұрын

John Doh here... that's Dave's Literalist view on the lyrics. It's been part of the fun in our personal music discussions over the last ten years, we're just now sharing these types of discussions with the world by recording them. Thank you!

@mrpyther5944

2 жыл бұрын

You are so right. It was so common for songwriters in the '70s to refer to their woman as "girl" or "baby" or "child". The title line may have been inspired by his daughter, but the verses at the end are clearly about a woman. Same with "All My Love". The refrain may have been inspired by the loss of his son, but the verses make absolutely no sense being about a young son.

Bonzo’s feel on this song is so very important that I’m not certain that any other drummer would’ve made this song tick the way it does. Look up Willie Dixon’s version of You Shook Me. The drummer here in this is where John and other young Brits got got their ideas. It’s all about “feel.”

His daughter Carmen is very much alive he wrote a song call all of my love dedicated too his son karack who died in 1977 at the age of 5 yrs old wile he was on tour wife called him at the hotel m told him what's going on he drop everything n rushed home which he died in matter of hours that was a dark. Day I remember that day when it happened so I had too correct both of you guys you two need too do your research better 😂

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2 жыл бұрын

John here and it sounds like someone didn't listen to the video all the way to the end. :-)

@markacuna4418

2 жыл бұрын

Ps Carmen is a professional belly dancer

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2 жыл бұрын

@@markacuna4418 Ya gotta have goals, I always say