One of their best songs! I don't know why anyone would consider this album weak, for me, it is incredible.

@juliemanarin4127

11 ай бұрын

Sure is...they have no weak albums!

@steverickenbacher7110

11 ай бұрын

I guess you had to be there. The album was not well received upon release. It was a bleak time in NYC (where I grew up) in the mid-70s, and the album itself is dark, brooding and a definite change in tone for Zeppelin. Add to that the fact that the band was going through a rough patch at the time, and you have a recipe for a less than happy album. Perspective is everything, and I do notice a ton of revisionist history where Presence is concerned.

@eximusic

11 ай бұрын

One of my favorite Zep albums. I like For Your Life. Although these songs don't sound like pure blues, they really channel the spirit of the blues more than any other white artists.

@edwardcapobianco2975

11 ай бұрын

I agree with you, Someone said Presence is Zeps worst album. They're out their mind. Zeppelin doesn't have a bad song, never mind a bad album! This album cooks!

@steverickenbacher7110

11 ай бұрын

@@edwardcapobianco2975 Yikes! You sound like a scientologist. LOL

Can't understand why anyone would dislike this album. It's a great album.

@smith9808

11 ай бұрын

So true, however it’s a testament to how great the previous 6 albums were as you can only compare it to them, which less face it, are considered better to the majority of people.

@rbmtn4879

11 ай бұрын

Not sure anyone dislikes it, but Presence is problematic because it's frontloaded with four good/great songs, then the last three sort of peter out and are among their worst.

@fearsomeforce2904

11 ай бұрын

I also think that people are not aware of this album because it received much less airplay than all the the prior ones. I also feel that folks who say the album is terrible have not actually listened to it carefully or at all!

@neillenet291

11 ай бұрын

@rbmtn4879 They are among the worst songs to you, but plenty of people like them. Music is a matter of personal taste and its subjective.

@vernhoke7730

11 ай бұрын

Never had any problems with this album. Bought it when it came out and listened to it dozens of times.

That screaming harmonica solo intro is everything 🔥. This track is a cover of an old Blind Willie Johnson song first recorded in 1928

@BBaldwin

11 ай бұрын

Not really a “cover”. I prefer to say more of an interpretation..the arrangement is light years beyond Blind Willie’s.

@kathybwell

11 ай бұрын

@@BBaldwin Led Zeppelin were masters at remastering old blues songs.

@JohnWhite-xc3md

11 ай бұрын

I couldn't agree more. Robert blows the roof off the dump with that harmonica! He is criminally underrated as a harp player.

@obyvatel

3 ай бұрын

@@JohnWhite-xc3md More like not rated at all. Custard Pie, When the Levee Breaks, and NFBM, he's amazing

Zeppelin doesn’t have 1 mediocre album ! All top tier 🔥❤️🎸

Killer cut from that album. It just keeps coming like a pitbull after an intruder. You can't get away from the groove, the slide guitar and drums bite down hard, then the harmonica - No Mercy. Runnnnnnnn!

@gerardodoherty9178

11 ай бұрын

You can run...

@m_v__m_v

11 ай бұрын

Well said lol

Led Zeppelin is the most diversified band in history. They where 4 virtuosos at their craft.Zeppelin is THE GREATEST BAND EVER!!!🥁☮☘

@rasicomega

2 күн бұрын

Zep was formed like a regular band but just happened to be a super group.

Aren't you guys glad you continued your journey? There are still some more gems to come!🎶🥁🎸👍 You guys are killing these reactions!!

@danielmoskowitz3060

11 ай бұрын

Agreed. 💯. But also, more ZAPPA please

@johnmccree8941

10 ай бұрын

That's if they are really serious.

@jgsrhythm100

10 ай бұрын

Lyrics fron this taken fron black blues artist Blind Willie Johnson( (1927) They are notorious for lifting lyrics. They were hugely influenced by black blues but give credit where due. Were royalties paid?

The tactical pauses in Bonz's drops? OMFG!!! His rythym is so complex but perfect GOAT DRUMMER EVER WITH NO EQUAL!

@markiec8914

4 ай бұрын

The best or at least among the very best drummers in the modern era imho...

@tnightwolf

3 ай бұрын

In this album i do consider this as one of the prime examples of why John Bonham is the greatest Rock n' Roll drummer ever!

@user-ib2sh3rh6n

Ай бұрын

Bonzo is the greatest of all time and it's not close.

This album is their most underrated and is chock full of badassery. Plant really rocks that harmonica as hard as anyone. So glad you guys kept going…..and please include the live covert album Song Remains the Same in your journey! It has so many iconic live versions: You already did TSRTS/ Rain Song and just the solo from Stairway but you must do the full song, along with a crazy 26 minute Dazed and Confused, stellar version of No Quarter, a phenomenal and very bluesy Since I’ve Been Loving You, a Whole Lotta Live medley that is just an amazing jam session. They really show their almost telepathic improvisational skills on the whole record/ concert. Please include that as part of their canon. You guys rock, love all your reactions. You guys know your music. Thanks for the vids

@shmortisborg

11 ай бұрын

Im not sure thats a harmonica, I think it might be a guitar pedal similar to the one used on When The Levee Breaks and a few other of their songs.

@frankdascoli709

11 ай бұрын

@@shmortisborg it’s a harmonica, Levee is too

@gerib4234

11 ай бұрын

"badassery" 🤘Rock On☺️

@stephenodonnell8023

8 ай бұрын

I agree

One of the most ferocious, anxiety-ridden, angry Zep tracks in the catalog. Robert laying out the truth bombs - the mask is off.

“I’m deep down in the gutter with JPJ & Bonz” Yep, been there myself, many a times. Rock on brothers.

My roommate back in 1985 asked me a question while this song was playing. The timing was perfect when I responded, "N-n-n-n-n-n-n-noooo!"

Yesterday I determined, while in my truck jamming to Presence loudly, that this is the greatest rock and roll song of all time.

The greatest rock n roll song ever recorded. There…I said it.

"Presence" is a hard rocking, bluesy, funky, beast of an album. I love it! As a Zeppelin fan for many, many years, I also urge you, *please* don't listen to the people who will tell you not to react to the next album, "In Through The Out Door." It's a different kind of Zep album in many ways, but it's brilliant. It doesn't rock as hard as their other albums, but it's still great, and *very* worthy of a reaction. "Carouselambra" is amazing!

This is the song I’ve been waiting on from this album they are all great but this is the banger for me …man y’all are coming out hard today great work guys just keep um coming

I just LOVE when I see y'alls heads begin to bobble and drop into the Mighty Zep's groove. We're all helpless to it!

Down and dirty. It hums along, then Plant hits you with the harmonica.

JPJ and Bonham with that killer groove, and Plant with the best harmonica solo ever.

I don't always listen to Nobody's Fault but Mine, but when I do, so do my neighbors!

Led Zeppelin is the only group that I like every single song.

It is the "little" pauses that make this song more than what any other band would do

This is amazing live too! Bonzo perfect timing...Robert on that harmonica...JPJ bassline...Jimmy fabulous guitar work...how can you get any better!

@vicprovost2561

11 ай бұрын

I so liked it right away and it just got better over time, I can't wait for Tea For One, I saw Page/Plant do it in concert in 1998, they slayed it that night.

@dandrechsler6884

11 ай бұрын

This album has always been under rated. But my friends and I have always loved it. It just didn't disappoint

The bass on this song is HUGE!! 🤘

Tightest, hardest record by Zep. Yes. Now you see why I've got Presence as my 2nd favorite Zep album. It shows that Zep just kept getting better and better in their writing, playing, producing. We can only imagine what they would have done if Bonzo hadn't died. Great stuff.

@steverickenbacher7110

11 ай бұрын

We don't need to imagine.

@dholte1

10 ай бұрын

When it came out I listened to Achilles Last Stand over and over and over.

@jgsrhythm100

10 ай бұрын

Lyrics fron this taken fron black blues artist Blind Willie Johnson( 1927) They are notorious for lifting lyrics. They were hugely influenced by black blues but give credit where due. Were royalties paid?

@steverickenbacher7110

10 ай бұрын

They gave credit where due when forced to.@@jgsrhythm100

Presence was intended to be a full-blown guitar exploration. It succeeded magnificently.

Nobody’s fault but Zeppelin’s for this gem. It sounds like dive bombers in the studio the way Bonzo is hitting those skins. I love that start and stop rhythm. All of them are deep in their element. They have some great live versions of this too that you should check out. 🔥 🔥 🔥

@kathybwell

11 ай бұрын

Love the stops in this song too!

The Kings of syncopation. Straight up one of their best tracks and underrated. Love your reactions as always guys 🎶🤌🏼

Plant kicking everyone's ass from a wheelchair with a harmonica. Imagine what he would do standing up. I grew up outside of DC near Andrews AFB. When this first came on the air in Spring of 76, I pulled over because new Zeppelin on the radio required my full attention. When Jimmy Page came in with that sonic guitar intro, I thought the F-18's were taking off from Andrews. And then the onslaught continued as you just heard. It was that powerful.

@markiec8914

4 ай бұрын

Dang I didn't know they recorded this album sometimes after Plant had a car accident. That's remarkable.....

@Ed9870

4 ай бұрын

@@markiec8914 It was tough to get information in those days before internet. But apparently he and his wife, daughter and Page's daughter went off a steep turn on the Greek island of Rhodes while on vacation. Maureen Plant was almost killed and had to be airlifted back to London for transfusions. Plant suffered a dislocated ankle, which was reinjured during the recording of Presence when he tore his Achilles tendon after falling over speaker wires in the studio while on crutches. Thus the song Achilles Last Stand, which tells the story of being "in sandy lands on holiday" and so on. Unfortunately the rest of the album was recorded while he was wheelchair bound with this leg up. Remarkable vocal performance under duress.

Even at their most weakness moment, at their lowest they could still give us this? Led Zep Rules!!!!🤟

Their best album and one of Page’s best solos. Bonzo masterpiece after masterpiece on this album. What a band!

Their heaviest album in my opinion. Song jams!

Well we all know Robert Plant can sing and plays a real mean harmonica as well😊

The drum pattern on this is so incredibly clever

Just, what can you say? Zeppelin were monsters.

This is a reworking of the song by Blind Willie Johnson. I absolutely adore this song. I love the drop at the end of the guitar parts that start the song, where it seems to bottom out and expand before pulling back up. This is another great Zep-style blues; it's got a punch and snap and the guitar solo sounds bright and sharp. People forget about this album more often than not, so I'm glad you decided to continue without getting sidetracked by doing live stuff or any other Zep peripheral material.

That's why I say listen to all Zepplin

the 'harmonica' drop is the best in ALL of rock n roll......paired with john beating the hell out of his kit....best ''drop'' ever.

ALL Led´s are fire!!!

I listened to this whole album yesterday. Still very fresh.

Although it's a modern rock track, with even progressive sounding elements, the main guitar riff channels some deep Mississippi Delta blues.

This album was created during a difficult time for the band. There were more difficult times to come, as many Zep fanatics know. Newer generations were getting tired of big bands at the time, giving birth to the punk scene. Plant sang most of the album while in a wheelchair (Achilles Last Stand aka "The Wheelchair Song"). Drink and "other stuff" began taking it's toll on at least 2 members...😢 They had Peter Grant, but Jimmy was the boss and having his hand in everything was quite the exhausting task. HOWEVER...this album gets no where near the attention the previous recordings do/did. A shame because it is them at an amazing level, despite the distractions. ❤ You guys do a great job on your reaction videos. But I so eagerly await your Led Zeppelin reactions. Thank you for being true music lovers. Giving everything a fair shake! 👍🫵✌️🤙

@kathybwell

11 ай бұрын

Wow, never knew Plant sang most of this album while in a wheelchair - that's so impressive!

@lesblatnyak5947

11 ай бұрын

Imo I think the suits started having way to much influence on the record business. Kathy b well good thing plants voice wasn't in a wheelchair 😊

That's why they're known as The Mighty Led Zeppelin!

FIRE!!’ Go Robert on the harmonica!!❤❤

Over the years, this has become one of my top 10 solos by Jimmy Page. It’s not the flashiest, but it’s so beautifully paced and constructed, swinging and tight, subtly psychedelic with that intro (played by bending the strings BEHIND the nut!), adding some trademark “sloppy” runs, then sliding right back into an amazingly tasty bending lick that both elevates the song into the finale, and leaves space for Bonzo’s incredible drumming. Brilliant.

Gents listening to this live ..especially on 1977 tour in NYC or La..even Seattle is real good ..the song is so freaking powerful. Once again a fine job by the both of you.

Quite the line up today.

@traviscook5768

11 ай бұрын

For real! 🤘

Perfect! Nocap, I have been listening to Led Zeppelin for the past 6 hours straight! (I have all of their albums, first edition, because I'm old 😁) I can absolutely take another dose! Robert Plant really shines in this! Listen for the call and response! (Edited because my phone hates me and I hate it right back.)

... oh baby baby... I can't wait for the rest. Thanks for the video!

It's a great album!!! Discovering their music must be so mind blowing. It was for me. Still listening to these master pieces today. ✌️👍🎼🎶🎸

Pull up at the red light and let blast 😂😮

Hands down their most underrated album...way ahead of its time. 😛👍

Hi guys, another gem for Zep...

The last three songs are just as killer!

When you went to see Led back in the day, you knew you were going to see a show!!

Quick story; I bought the Presence CD right when it came out and took it over to a friend's house who had the most high-end stereo system I've ever seen…massive speakers and all the associated gear. We put it on and during Nobody's Fault But Mine we had it cranked when suddenly during Jimmy's solo one of the speakers cut out. We shut everything off to check it out, and the fuse in the back of the speaker had blown. And not just the fuse's little metal filament was broken, but the glass case that the filament was in had shattered. Such is the power of Led Zeppelin.

First album I bought was 2 then one. Then got them all in succession. Get this. I lost them all in a damn divorce. There are people who didn't want the band to progress with the music. That's why after Physical Graffiti some fans are not too keen on the albums after it.

@juliemanarin4127

11 ай бұрын

I love every one!!

Best song on the album, in my option.

What a BOP! The blues cooked in fish grease.

One of my favorites...it has everything musically you could ask for!!🎵🎸 Roberts harmonica playing is the best!!🎸🎶🎤 Cant wait to see what y'all think of Tea For One, I love it so much!!🎶

I love their use of silence to let the groove breath. It hits you like a hammer when the groove comes in again. Really smart, really raw, and definitely funky.

@aWOKEn1445

2 ай бұрын

Agree wholeheartedly!

This is my favorite song on this album, glad you guys enjoyed it too.

@jeremywanner4526

11 ай бұрын

I dig For Your Life as well

Don’t sleep on Presence. Bonz was singing with his drums on this one!

The reason why you don't get a lot of calls for this album is that only real Ledheads have gone this far down the rabbit hole.

I like your reaction. The More I hear Led Zeppelin the more I miss them.!

Well I guess I ain't the only one who thinks this is Zep's FUNKIEST tune....great stuff gentlemen!

Pure joy watching you guys hear this masterpiece for the first time. Been on my playlist for 30 years!!

I've been waiting for you guys to get to this one!!! A total gem of a tune!!! Keep up the great work!!😎😎😎

I don’t know how the drums did not spontaneously combust!

The blues plugged in and turned up to 11!! A Rock n Roll masterpiece!

You’re right this song was better liked than the whole album to a lot of fans.

Possibly their most underrated song commercially ever along with Ten Years Gone.

Just Pure Greatness....what else can you say? Not a Damn thing !!! LED ZEPPELIN ❤❤❤❤❤

Three 70’s jammers today. Nobody’s Fault. One of the greatest. Skynard’s That Smell. Another jammer and The Who’s Who Are You. Three monster tracks. All in a row. Thank you🙏🙏🙏😥

"that's monstrous right there" Yep! Well said.

You boys make this old man so happy...."YOU GET IT!"

Guys please tell me, do you think this sounds as if it could have been made yesterday, it’s still so fresh ?

@michaelfried3123

11 ай бұрын

fresh as a daisy...

You guys are brave for checking this one out! Unusual rhythms and timing, very syncopated.

It's a good video to see some brothers appreciating Zeppelin. When I was in the service, I got introduced to hip hop like NWA, Tupac, and West Side Connection, and I got my buddies turned on to bands like Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and Lynyrd Skynyrd but Zeppelin is still the greatest rock band of all time hands down. Their music is as raw as it gets

Their time signatures are so bizarre, in a GREAT way

La, I always get a kick out of watching you practically fall backwards out of your chair, shaking your head in disbelief as your being blown away by Jones and Bonzo 😁

By far one of their best songs imo. Often overlooked (by "mainstream") but definitely just another banger song! Also a bad album (by critics) when, imo, is just another incredible piece of art!

I can't yell you guys how absolutely WONDERFUL it is to see you guys discover the soundtrack of my life! I'm 75, and grew up to the Stones, Who, Zepplin, Cream, Rush, Beatles, Grand Funk, ELP, Yes, Moody Blues, Blind Faith, Traffic, Spencer Davis, Jeff Beck, James Gang, and SO many others! Seeing your reactions is like being 18 again! Keep them coming!😊

Btw. I saw zeppelin in Dallas 1974. $6. Floor seats. Big promotion on the light show. Light bulbs going off in sequence. Best concert ever (after srv shows)

Prescence is a MASTERPIECE.

One of my favorite Zeppelin songs. Bonham kills it. And that harmonica solo...what?!? Awesome!

Nobody's Fault But Mine! Yes! This album reaction is pulling me in! ❤❤❤

even though everything in this song is top notch.. the silent counts is what i get most impressed about, every time i listen. it’s like almost falling off a cliff and then you grab on at the last second. brilliance

This song was first recorded by Blind Willie Johnson in 1927. The harmonica on this Zeppelin version is played by Robert Plant, Keith Harwood was the recording engineer and mix engineer. Another outstanding track, people who say Presence wasn't a good record are completely lost in the sauce.

I've been a Led fan for 30 something years. played their music in my band, and it still hits hard all these years later. Love it hope you do In Through The Out Door too, as a big JPJ fan who played his parts that's definitely his album

Another great Led Zeppelin cover of a Blind Willie Johnson song

- Led Zeppelin just keeps killin' it! :) ...

Pregnant Pause Master Class! In my top 5 LZ songs!! Everyone has their moment to shine.....Ooooweeee!!!!

Love this gem. Can't help but immediately think of Dread Zeppelin's cover of this. If you ever do a reaction to Dread Zeppelin, and you really should, make it this cover.

@pipepicasso8112

11 ай бұрын

Absolutely Mon!

@loupi4bama

11 ай бұрын

@@pipepicasso8112 How does one describe them? Led Zeppelin, Elvis Presley, and Bob Marley had a band of babies? IDK.😆

Presence was a moment in time, great songs but disjointed, Zeppelin were going there difficult times, they almost got through, but tragedy came all to quickly 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢, Zeppelin forever in my heart

Arguably their greatest song and there are many.

Killer riff, killer bass, killer drop bombing ass drums, one of the best displays of harmonica in a blue's rocking song... But those pauses though... Say so much, without saying anything... OMG... Banger through and through. Great reaction as usual guys, thanks for keeping it real.

It's a Zep jam session! Thanks for your reaction.

I find it interesting that so many people find it necessary to try to defend their position as to why they like or dislike this album or attack others for the same thing. Everyone has their own opinion. Why the need to be convinced that your opinion is the only one that’s relevant or correct? Great track and reaction La & Che. ✌️

I love Zep's version. Has anyone mentioned this was a Blind Willie Johnson song.