I was at Earl's Court. After they played this it honestly felt like I had been completely steamrolled. It was a total assault. Breathtaking and beyond any expectations. They played it a bit differently every night. This version just happens to be one of the nights Page played a particularly long solo. ALL of the songs were played to their fullest because this was the band's big return to the UK after a two year absence, so they decided to give the fans some of the longest shows they ever played. Over 3 hours. It was a totally mind-shattering and utterly exhausting experience. After the show I watched 17,000 people stagger out to the subway station almost stunned into silence. The subway train was stuffed to the gills with people and everyone just clung to the handles and barely spoke. Partly because I think most of us were partially deafened (it was LOUD) and partly because I think we were all processing what we had just seen.
After watching Zeppelin Live, after a while you realize that John Bonham follows Jimmy, John Paul Jones follows John Bonham and Robert interrupts (in the most beautiful way) whenever the heck he wants. This is how they approach their live performances. Jimmy Page conducts the band and the ALL look to him, WHEN he is exhausted soloing, they instinctively know when to progress the song to completion.
No script for Zeppelin! When they play live they all play off each other and they all can feel and read each other! John Bonham played along with Jimmy he knew when Jimmy solo was going to end! They always improved live this one makes Zeppelin great all the members work together like a well-oiled machine! That's why when John Bonham passed away they quit because they knew they wouldn't have the same magic without Bonzo!
When a band is this tight , the members don’t play music They feel it .. Stunning version , with improvisation... 😉🎸 More powerful than the album cut ..,
Bonzo and Page talk to one another as they play, through their instruments. Either could decide when to start a piece and the other followed. Jones and Plant just stayed alert!
They have all said in interviews that when they went on stage, none of them knew exactly what was going to happen. That kept it exciting for them and made sure they never got bored with their music on long tours. Jimmy has said that when he went on stage, he entered a zone, he was somewhere else in his mind, and he didn’t come back to earth until it was over. He was just channeling this creativity from wherever it comes directly to his hands……
That makes complete sense. Jimmy always looks like he is somewhere else when he is playing, and he never plays a wrong note. I noticed it first watching "The Song Remains the Same" and at first I thought maybe it was the drugs--but he didn't start using heroin until a few years after SRS was filmed, so it wasn't that! I also came to the conclusion that he's just...not there, or barely there. Just a conduit for the music.
The proof they are the best band ever !!the tempo is so fast and Listen to this incredible rythm section !! Just ::OH My God !! Its live and they is three musician and one singer : They sound like a funky big band with 10 musicians !!!
Greatest improvisational band ever! They have cues when to come back into the song, with each of them doing their own thing at times. Many performances Plant, or even Page, would take them into something new unexpectedly, and the others would just jump in. They often did songs inside of songs when playing live.
They were heavily influenced by improvisational jazz. Every song from night to night was different. If you listen carefully, they use a specific musical phrase in a song to cue the other members to come back into the song, and they listened to each other to build on ideas. These were four master musicians and from the start they were tuned in to each other.
been rocking Zeppelin since the late '70s, yes I'm that old. Led Zeppelin live is my favorite ever, I often like the live version better than the studio versions
Zeppelin live always played differently ever concert, they extended certain songs and it was different every time! Jimmy did what he wanted and Bonzo followed along as well as JPJ and Robert, always so awesome, every concert I went to even ones that were multiple nights at the same venue were different then the night before! Great stuff! Love the 70,s and 80's!!!! Everyone played for 3 hours and did multiple encores! Great time glad I was a part of it!!!
I have this song as my ring tone. It went off in my drawer at work the other day, and all those young philistines didn’t have a clue what the “noise” was. I love it, not least all the double entendres.
You can often find the links to videos posted by your viewers - I think I may have posted a link to this song for you. I don't know about all bands but for Zep, of course they'd practice and figure out a song before recording it but their concerts were always a different animal intentionally. They always improvised and never played a song the same way twice. On stage, they'd give each other cues with nods, looks, etc. so you could be improvising your own bit but you had to pay attention to listen how the music shifted and know when it was time to go back to the actual song structure. You had to be a focused and agile musician. John Paul Jones said a concert was always a challenge because you had to focus and pay attention to all the cues and signals because you never knew what was going to be played live.
Although there were great albums in the classic era, live music was where it really happened. Some bands had poor record sales but sold out huge arenas based on reputation for great concerts. Zeppelin could do both.
Yes...they had subtle cues as to when they come in...it is completely improvised...unique about Zeppelin...drums follow guitar...looks for a cue like they are psychic! JPJ follows Bonham and Robert just comes in when he hears cues from the band. THAT is what makes them right on time!! JPJ never takes his eyes off Bonham and Bonham follows Jimmy who goes off on his own!
They are just a well rehearsed band. Improvised sections are planned, everyone knows the cues for transitions. It's how any band does stuff like this. Go watch a tight blues band, it's just how it's done.
Yup, everyone is correct. There are cues that the band knows and looks for. The audience doesnt know them so it sounds magical to us but the guys know them
JPJ has said in interviews that the band called themselves the "band of nods," because they would give each other visual clues -a nod or a wink....when they were going to transition. You can really see Jimmy doing this with Jason Bonham on the Kashmir video you reviewed recently. Jimmy would look and stride toward Jason to remind him (almost like a dad taking his kid's hand) when a transition was coming.
When you deal with musicians of this caliber, they may talk a bit before the show about certain parts of songs but they just know each other and the music so well that it doesn't matter if the solo is 2 mins. or 5 mins. They know there parts and including when to take liberties and when to rein it back in. There are also visual clues they can give each other onstage. Cheers from the canadian Queen nut.
Page and Bonham had that connection. Jimmy had cues that were used throughout their live performances. Bonzo would let Page know if it was dragging on too long with a cue of his own. Bonzo controlled the songs - even the solos. As long as they were feeling it, they would let it rip. If it got flat, they'd quickly switch gears. Led Zeppelin were the masters at live improvisation. If you get caught trying to count verses in their live recordings, you get left behind.
*Morning Bro* Yup... Zeppelin performed live songs *DIFFERENT* every night.! Totally playing off each other and improvising on the fly.! Notice {almost always} Jonesy, {JPJ} sticks real close to Bonzo, {JHB} .! The "Engine Room" of the band worked incredibly well with each other.!
Robert loves his "cars"! Constantly working "underneath the hood", he has the perfect tools "guaranteed to run for hours". Come to him for service "every hundred miles!"
To me, this is one of the performances that shows how Zeppelin had no actual contemporaries. Find me another rock band that could pull this off and do in my time of dying and Kashmir. 3 totally different songs and styles and not just the same band but the same album
Relentless funk power. No limits. Top end is UNLIMITED!! And then they turn around and give you the rain song, ten years gone and no quarter. Neophyte listeners are continually stunned by their diversity. If you think you have them pegged as this or that, you'll be surprised again when they play their next song. That's why when their next album came out it was a new revelation.
Its fun to go through the live catalog to try and unravel how they played and signaled each other. The earlier live stuff is more scripted. As the band matured, so did the improvisation
When it comes to improvising the guitarist for example will play lead to the rhythm and play to his heart desires and then at his discretion comes in with the the riff that JPJ is doing together. Robert now knows it's his turn to come in. Yes lots of practice, that's the way bands used to improvised where now it's a dead art.
AFAIK, the improvisations were alchemy between the 4 of them that none of them have ever fully explained. Almost a telepathic ability for the 4 of them to know where each other were going musically. That is the reason they broke up when Bonham died, the chemistry between the 4 members created something that couldn't be duplicated. They did a great job in 07 at the O2, but there wasn't improvisation there.
This is a phenomenal version of their song. Such a complicated song and it's pulled off flawlessly here. But Please, please, please. "In my Time of Dying" from the same concert next. As good as "Trampled," is your listening to the second best song from the concert. As to the extended live songs. Zeppelin, like no other band, was famous for improving stuff on the spot live. That is a huge reason Page has a reputation as being sloppy. He is sloppy because much of what he plays live is unrehearsed and played on feel. Usually it works amazingly well like in this song. But sometimes it just dosn't work. LOL. The other members often improve stuff too but Page does it more than any other member. My guess is the other members are listening for some sort of "key" or "signal" that Page plays or does that tells them he is going into a "improved section" and when he's coming out of it. This is whats fun about Zeppelin. Without ever really buying any bootleg stuff for them except one cd over the years, there are several songs I have completely different versions of the same song by them. I mean I think I have four versions of "Whole Lotta Love" on cd and dvd. One version is almost normal length and another version is about 22 minutes long. And neither is the MSG version you watched here. An easy way to tell if the song has a lot of improved stuff is look at the length of the studio version. If the live version is a lot longer then it's probably improved. That being said, this song sounds "sped up" live to me. So this one might not apply. But the end of this song and the guitar in the middle is definitely improved. It's clear they went into Gallows Pole at one point and the improve started a little before that.
It comes from deep dives into their music, and personalities. For some, it becomes almost an obsession. So, you learn allot of things about them. So you “merely” love their music. That makes YOU the normal one! 😁
No live show was ever the same. Improv and feel dictated the tone and length of each composition. They loved playing together, and most of their shows were long.
So true!!!! I saw them in Chicago twice and although they played the same songs they didn't sound the same one night it was a 3-hour concert in the next time I went to see them it was a four and a half hour concert BRILLIANT
Thank you Salvo for the Vimeo link very much appreciate it also you do not have to obstruct Vimeo they'll let you put anything you want on there so you don't need any kind of distortion I appreciate you listening to that comment and taking it to heart ❤️ Great song great reaction..and yeah what Julie said
Don't worry about number of views...Zeppelin videos are regularly removed by the copyright owners, which is why it's sometimes hard to find video versions.
Eso fue en Lisboa, en la inauguración del SNAF, ante solo 800 personas, en el auditorio de los grandes almacenes de libros, música y equipos electrónicos.
Another really good reaction. Before you move on you really should check out in my time of dying at earls court. Very good, and you havent seen page play the slide guitar yet. Pretty incedible.
Zeppelin did A LOT of improv live. It's a matter of staying in constant contact with your band mates and playing together long hours. To know better what the improv is just be more familiar with the studio versions.
Eye contact, once Page knew he was out of things to say a simple look to Bonham and he knows 4 more beats and it's time to give Robert and JPJ whatever cue they need to know the verse is coming back around. Years of playing and rehearsing together they know what drum fill or cymbal crash cues what transition.
In response to your improv./live question: Hand signals (you can sometimes see them in videos), eye contact, nods, musical telepathy/intuition and very specific musical phrases are all involved in cuing different parts, outros, tempo changes and so on. Musical telepathy/intuition is very important I think, and the director of these transitions was usually but not always Jimmy Page … and he sometimes went completely off script, leading the rest of the band into unknown territory to great effect. This was why we were collecting all these bootleg recordings back in the 70s and 80s. They never really performed set-piece songs in the same way, night in, night out. In contrast, songs like Rock & Roll and Black Dog were almost always performed the same way every night. No variation. The set-piece songs were the longer ones like No Quarter, Dazed and Confused, Whole Lotta Love and a couple more. Trampled Under Foot is kind of in that category, and the different versions of it from the five nights at Earls Court in 1975 illustrate this clearly. The version in this video is the best one of the five in my opinion. It is a furious, take no prisoners' interpretation. Some nights were bummers or subpar, yet even when things broke down, which happened, it did so in interesting ways. They were never afraid of taking risks in live settings. Cheers 🍺 [edit: SpElLiNg]
All instrument solos were long...concerts lasted for 3 to 4 hours......very late in the night and very early in the morning getting out of most concert back then. Song were mostly created out of jam sessions and practices. It was structured. Then recorded in the studio with a set time on the albums. When in concert the members knew each other so well that the member would do a certain note or signal nonverbally to one another that it is time to do this or that to the song......you have to be in a rock band to understand this method.
basically the solos are drawn out and somewhat improvised. the entire band are great musicians they know pretty much what to play and listen for keys to move on. repetition from the get go breed familiarity within the group. what made Zep the greatest rock band ever was they were all masterminds and played freely never playing the song the same. some people didnt like this however, when they went to see them live they expected to hear the song like they were on the record.
I don't imagine. I was at Led Zeppelin concerts and I probably was on footage...I didn't care...there wasn't computers or smartphones in the 70's....only music and long 4 hour concerts 😅😅😅😅
Not one of Jimmy’s best solos on this version. The night before on May 24th was possibly the best version they have ever done. Having said that , they still play with a vengeance and the last few minutes are stellar. They give glances to one another especially Page to Bonham that’s only because Bonzo follows Page. They are so in sync that after a while it’s like mind reading.
Some bands had very rehearsed solo sections (Pink Floyd) other bands would go with total improvisation (Grateful Dead). I think Zeppelin was somewhere in the middle of that spectrum using both strategies.
"A constant attack." Love it! Well-put. Yeah, no chorus here, and pretty much the same (killer) riff thruout, except the middle organ jam, but even there...Bonzo's drumming is especially remarkable here. He would try crazy shit in concert, and usually succeed magnificently! Energy is the name of this band's live game. I think they used visual and musical "cues" to let each other know where/when the song was going. Jimmy was usually leading it, I think. I've heard Bonham drum impatiently (as I hear it, lol!) on bootlegs, sort of telling Jimmy "get on with it!" after a particularly indulgent Dazed and Confused Bow Solo, for example, lol. DO yourself a favor and listen to "Superstition" by the legendary Stevie Wonder. You like the funk of this song? JPJ said he based the rythm of it on THAT song. And you CAN hear it, the similarity! Just a great song, too! (But this one's better, lol!)
the fluidity and continuity of the guitar solo leaves you breathless is seamless from start to finish and Bonham literally solos during the instrumental part
There are signals to go in and out of improv sections and even to provoke changes in the improv both visual and with some bands that becomes telepathic. A great example of that is the band Phish.
Link to unedited version of this video: vimeo.com/703246242/4b310fb0f5
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I was at Earl's Court. After they played this it honestly felt like I had been completely steamrolled. It was a total assault. Breathtaking and beyond any expectations. They played it a bit differently every night. This version just happens to be one of the nights Page played a particularly long solo. ALL of the songs were played to their fullest because this was the band's big return to the UK after a two year absence, so they decided to give the fans some of the longest shows they ever played. Over 3 hours. It was a totally mind-shattering and utterly exhausting experience. After the show I watched 17,000 people stagger out to the subway station almost stunned into silence. The subway train was stuffed to the gills with people and everyone just clung to the handles and barely spoke. Partly because I think most of us were partially deafened (it was LOUD) and partly because I think we were all processing what we had just seen.
Ditto 🤯🤪
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After watching Zeppelin Live, after a while you realize that John Bonham follows Jimmy, John Paul Jones follows John Bonham and Robert interrupts (in the most beautiful way) whenever the heck he wants. This is how they approach their live performances. Jimmy Page conducts the band and the ALL look to him, WHEN he is exhausted soloing, they instinctively know when to progress the song to completion.
There is a certain amount of truth to that, although I don't think it is 100%.
This is magnificent!! Must do In My Time Of Dying from this concert before you go on!!
100% this.
Yes!
Agree wholeheartedly!!!!
Julie knows!
Will see if he does. He seems to be resistant to that one for some reason.
They even threw in a little of Gallows Pole at the end.
No script for Zeppelin! When they play live they all play off each other and they all can feel and read each other! John Bonham played along with Jimmy he knew when Jimmy solo was going to end! They always improved live this one makes Zeppelin great all the members work together like a well-oiled machine! That's why when John Bonham passed away they quit because they knew they wouldn't have the same magic without Bonzo!
When a band is this tight , the members don’t play music
They feel it ..
Stunning version , with improvisation... 😉🎸
More powerful than the album cut ..,
Bonzo and Page talk to one another as they play, through their instruments. Either could decide when to start a piece and the other followed. Jones and Plant just stayed alert!
They have all said in interviews that when they went on stage, none of them knew exactly what was going to happen. That kept it exciting for them and made sure they never got bored with their music on long tours. Jimmy has said that when he went on stage, he entered a zone, he was somewhere else in his mind, and he didn’t come back to earth until it was over. He was just channeling this creativity from wherever it comes directly to his hands……
That makes complete sense. Jimmy always looks like he is somewhere else when he is playing, and he never plays a wrong note. I noticed it first watching "The Song Remains the Same" and at first I thought maybe it was the drugs--but he didn't start using heroin until a few years after SRS was filmed, so it wasn't that! I also came to the conclusion that he's just...not there, or barely there. Just a conduit for the music.
FYI Robert sang a line at the end taken from “Gallows Pole” from LZ 3.
The astonishing thing is there are only three people playing instruments.
The greatest, on a different planet
What Julie Manarin said! In My Time of Dying from this show is KILLER!
The proof they are the best band ever !!the tempo is so fast and Listen to this incredible rythm section !! Just ::OH My God !! Its live and they is three musician and one singer : They sound like a funky big band with 10 musicians !!!
Greatest improvisational band ever! They have cues when to come back into the song, with each of them doing their own thing at times. Many performances Plant, or even Page, would take them into something new unexpectedly, and the others would just jump in. They often did songs inside of songs when playing live.
No Quarter was famous for this....Jones would go in a million different directions from night to night.
Yes, In my time of dying from this concert
Trampled underfoot is the right title for this song. I was at one of the Earls court shows and it just blew us all away.
As Percy once said "At anytime,we were all captain of the ship." Rock on Sal! :-)
You have to do "in my time of dying" from this same concert before moving on. Believe me, and so many others,...its incredible
Truth.
Did you hear how Robert sang gallows pole? And towards the end listen to Bonzo when Robert starts saying Push, Push Push
Their just Jammin'🎸🥁🎹😁
They were heavily influenced by improvisational jazz. Every song from night to night was different. If you listen carefully, they use a specific musical phrase in a song to cue the other members to come back into the song, and they listened to each other to build on ideas. These were four master musicians and from the start they were tuned in to each other.
No script just looking at each other , That was their CHEMISTRY 👍
been rocking Zeppelin since the late '70s, yes I'm that old. Led Zeppelin live is my favorite ever, I often like the live version better than the studio versions
Zeppelin live always played differently ever concert, they extended certain songs and it was different every time! Jimmy did what he wanted and Bonzo followed along as well as JPJ and Robert, always so awesome, every concert I went to even ones that were multiple nights at the same venue were different then the night before! Great stuff! Love the 70,s and 80's!!!! Everyone played for 3 hours and did multiple encores! Great time glad I was a part of it!!!
They were killing it
Bonham is a freaking freight train on this!!!! I love this, thank you...
I have this song as my ring tone. It went off in my drawer at work the other day, and all those young philistines didn’t have a clue what the “noise” was. I love it, not least all the double entendres.
Speechless!!!! This guys kill it 🔪👑🎸🥁🎙😜
I have the feeling that ten years gone is gonna be a top 5 for you
Agreed.
You can often find the links to videos posted by your viewers - I think I may have posted a link to this song for you. I don't know about all bands but for Zep, of course they'd practice and figure out a song before recording it but their concerts were always a different animal intentionally. They always improvised and never played a song the same way twice. On stage, they'd give each other cues with nods, looks, etc. so you could be improvising your own bit but you had to pay attention to listen how the music shifted and know when it was time to go back to the actual song structure. You had to be a focused and agile musician. John Paul Jones said a concert was always a challenge because you had to focus and pay attention to all the cues and signals because you never knew what was going to be played live.
By far the best version. JPJ playing keys with hands and bass with feet. And the funky Bonham fills not on the original recording.
Although there were great albums in the classic era, live music was where it really happened. Some bands had poor record sales but sold out huge arenas based on reputation for great concerts. Zeppelin could do both.
Just when you thought you found your favorite song you end up finding another along the way. Love the channel bro!
Yes...they had subtle cues as to when they come in...it is completely improvised...unique about Zeppelin...drums follow guitar...looks for a cue like they are psychic! JPJ follows Bonham and Robert just comes in when he hears cues from the band. THAT is what makes them right on time!! JPJ never takes his eyes off Bonham and Bonham follows Jimmy who goes off on his own!
How go you know? 50 years ago, oh yeah you were at the rehearsals? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
They are just a well rehearsed band. Improvised sections are planned, everyone knows the cues for transitions. It's how any band does stuff like this. Go watch a tight blues band, it's just how it's done.
And the cues are melodic or rhythmic, like, "when I play this section, you'll know where it ends to do the thing"
Yup, everyone is correct. There are cues that the band knows and looks for. The audience doesnt know them so it sounds magical to us but the guys know them
Interspersed with a bit of gallows pole .
Totally improvised at that moment.
Utterly astonishing
Onslaught of unique talent!
JPJ has said in interviews that the band called themselves the "band of nods," because they would give each other visual clues -a nod or a wink....when they were going to transition. You can really see Jimmy doing this with Jason Bonham on the Kashmir video you reviewed recently. Jimmy would look and stride toward Jason to remind him (almost like a dad taking his kid's hand) when a transition was coming.
When you deal with musicians of this caliber, they may talk a bit before the show about certain parts of songs but they just know each other and the music so well that it doesn't matter if the solo is 2 mins. or 5 mins. They know there parts and including when to take liberties and when to rein it back in. There are also visual clues they can give each other onstage. Cheers from the canadian Queen nut.
They were incredible live! Wait until you see In My Time of Dying from this same concert. They were also doing 3.5 to 4 hour shows non-stop.
Jimmy Page is using a what I can describe as a Wawa pedal to get that unique sound out of that guitar. Great song.
Page and Bonham had that connection. Jimmy had cues that were used throughout their live performances. Bonzo would let Page know if it was dragging on too long with a cue of his own. Bonzo controlled the songs - even the solos. As long as they were feeling it, they would let it rip. If it got flat, they'd quickly switch gears. Led Zeppelin were the masters at live improvisation. If you get caught trying to count verses in their live recordings, you get left behind.
*Morning Bro* Yup... Zeppelin performed live songs *DIFFERENT* every night.! Totally playing off each other and improvising on the fly.! Notice {almost always} Jonesy, {JPJ} sticks real close to Bonzo, {JHB} .! The "Engine Room" of the band worked incredibly well with each other.!
They were on fire .....
Robert loves his "cars"! Constantly working "underneath the hood", he has the perfect tools "guaranteed to run for hours". Come to him for service "every hundred miles!"
To me, this is one of the performances that shows how Zeppelin had no actual contemporaries. Find me another rock band that could pull this off and do in my time of dying and Kashmir. 3 totally different songs and styles and not just the same band but the same album
Damn right 👍👍👍
Now wrap your head around the fact this concert was 3 hours and 45 minutes long.
Led Zeppelin was not polished or Perfect.....just magical.
Relentless funk power. No limits. Top end is UNLIMITED!! And then they turn around and give you the rain song, ten years gone and no quarter. Neophyte listeners are continually stunned by their diversity. If you think you have them pegged as this or that, you'll be surprised again when they play their next song. That's why when their next album came out it was a new revelation.
One of my favorites!
i love how fast this version is.
Its fun to go through the live catalog to try and unravel how they played and signaled each other. The earlier live stuff is more scripted. As the band matured, so did the improvisation
Over the hills far away. Earls court. May 25th... 1975... now!! The 25th.. knot the 24th.... theee most crazzy Page Mental Solo.. A MUST!!!
When it comes to improvising the guitarist for example will play lead to the rhythm and play to his heart desires and then at his discretion comes in with the the riff that JPJ is doing together. Robert now knows it's his turn to come in. Yes lots of practice, that's the way bands used to improvised where now it's a dead art.
Jimmy always gave a nod to Bonham and JPJ when it was time to wrap it up.
AFAIK, the improvisations were alchemy between the 4 of them that none of them have ever fully explained. Almost a telepathic ability for the 4 of them to know where each other were going musically. That is the reason they broke up when Bonham died, the chemistry between the 4 members created something that couldn't be duplicated. They did a great job in 07 at the O2, but there wasn't improvisation there.
This is a phenomenal version of their song. Such a complicated song and it's pulled off flawlessly here. But Please, please, please. "In my Time of Dying" from the same concert next. As good as "Trampled," is your listening to the second best song from the concert.
As to the extended live songs. Zeppelin, like no other band, was famous for improving stuff on the spot live. That is a huge reason Page has a reputation as being sloppy. He is sloppy because much of what he plays live is unrehearsed and played on feel. Usually it works amazingly well like in this song. But sometimes it just dosn't work. LOL. The other members often improve stuff too but Page does it more than any other member. My guess is the other members are listening for some sort of "key" or "signal" that Page plays or does that tells them he is going into a "improved section" and when he's coming out of it. This is whats fun about Zeppelin. Without ever really buying any bootleg stuff for them except one cd over the years, there are several songs I have completely different versions of the same song by them. I mean I think I have four versions of "Whole Lotta Love" on cd and dvd. One version is almost normal length and another version is about 22 minutes long. And neither is the MSG version you watched here. An easy way to tell if the song has a lot of improved stuff is look at the length of the studio version. If the live version is a lot longer then it's probably improved. That being said, this song sounds "sped up" live to me. So this one might not apply. But the end of this song and the guitar in the middle is definitely improved. It's clear they went into Gallows Pole at one point and the improve started a little before that.
GOATS! BONZO...THE GREATEST! 😎👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Wish I had intelligent observations to make like the other subscribers. I just LOVE their music
It comes from deep dives into their music, and personalities. For some, it becomes almost an obsession. So, you learn allot of things about them. So you “merely” love their music. That makes YOU the normal one! 😁
@@w.geoffreyspaulding6588 Thank you
Amen. I try saying things and the next day it’s just looks stupid!
No live show was ever the same. Improv and feel dictated the tone and length of each composition. They loved playing together, and most of their shows were long.
So true!!!! I saw them in Chicago twice and although they played the same songs they didn't sound the same one night it was a 3-hour concert in the next time I went to see them it was a four and a half hour concert BRILLIANT
@@susannebass5503 wow, so lucky to have that treasured memory!
Thank you Salvo for the Vimeo link very much appreciate it also you do not have to obstruct Vimeo they'll let you put anything you want on there so you don't need any kind of distortion I appreciate you listening to that comment and taking it to heart ❤️ Great song great reaction..and yeah what Julie said
Page would play a specific run of notes to flag the solo was going to end or change in so many bars.
in this specific song Jimmy raised his hand when he was going to finish the solo. John Bohnam told his son.
They are the goat🎸🎸🐎
Don't worry about number of views...Zeppelin videos are regularly removed by the copyright owners, which is why it's sometimes hard to find video versions.
Eso fue en Lisboa, en la inauguración del SNAF, ante solo 800 personas, en el auditorio de los grandes almacenes de libros, música y equipos electrónicos.
Another really good reaction. Before you move on you really should check out in my time of dying at earls court. Very good, and you havent seen page play the slide guitar yet. Pretty incedible.
Page is a god
Zeppelin did A LOT of improv live. It's a matter of staying in constant contact with your band mates and playing together long hours. To know better what the improv is just be more familiar with the studio versions.
to answer your question, its called reheaseal, they of course train together so they know each other, thats why they broke up after Bonham died
Eye contact, once Page knew he was out of things to say a simple look to Bonham and he knows 4 more beats and it's time to give Robert and JPJ whatever cue they need to know the verse is coming back around. Years of playing and rehearsing together they know what drum fill or cymbal crash cues what transition.
No disrespect to all of the other great guitar players I've had the pleasure of listening too but Jimmy Page is in a league of his own!
In response to your improv./live question:
Hand signals (you can sometimes see them in videos), eye contact, nods, musical telepathy/intuition and very specific musical phrases are all involved in cuing different parts, outros, tempo changes and so on. Musical telepathy/intuition is very important I think, and the director of these transitions was usually but not always Jimmy Page … and he sometimes went completely off script, leading the rest of the band into unknown territory to great effect.
This was why we were collecting all these bootleg recordings back in the 70s and 80s. They never really performed set-piece songs in the same way, night in, night out. In contrast, songs like Rock & Roll and Black Dog were almost always performed the same way every night. No variation. The set-piece songs were the longer ones like No Quarter, Dazed and Confused, Whole Lotta Love and a couple more. Trampled Under Foot is kind of in that category, and the different versions of it from the five nights at Earls Court in 1975 illustrate this clearly. The version in this video is the best one of the five in my opinion. It is a furious, take no prisoners' interpretation.
Some nights were bummers or subpar, yet even when things broke down, which happened, it did so in interesting ways. They were never afraid of taking risks in live settings.
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the 2007 celebration day concert was great jason bonham did the drums for his dad
All instrument solos were long...concerts lasted for 3 to 4 hours......very late in the night and very early in the morning getting out of most concert back then. Song were mostly created out of jam sessions and practices. It was structured. Then recorded in the studio with a set time on the albums. When in concert the members knew each other so well that the member would do a certain note or signal nonverbally to one another that it is time to do this or that to the song......you have to be in a rock band to understand this method.
try driving the speed limit if this is playing. Page is GOAT!
Did you see the part where Jimmy played the guitar over his head or was that edited out?
a constant attack, great description
page was in charge and would signal when it was time to move on
The 26 minute version of Dazed and Confused was completely written out.
basically the solos are drawn out and somewhat improvised. the entire band are great musicians they know pretty much what to play and listen for keys to move on. repetition from the get go
breed familiarity within the group. what made Zep the greatest rock band ever was they were all masterminds and played freely never playing the song the same. some people didnt like this however, when they went to see them live they expected to hear the song like they were on the record.
They knew and felt each other. The Zepp loosely tight Magic. Thats why it all ended after Bonhams Death.
Misty Mountain Hop from the same concert is pretty good.
I don't imagine. I was at Led Zeppelin concerts and I probably was on footage...I didn't care...there wasn't computers or smartphones in the 70's....only music and long 4 hour concerts 😅😅😅😅
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this is their version of robert johnson's teraplan blues
Told you earls costs was amazing
rock on brudda!
they always figured you had the album already so they would change it up in concert a 3 min song could go 20 min live
Not one of Jimmy’s best solos on this version. The night before on May 24th was possibly the best version they have ever done.
Having said that , they still play with a vengeance and the last few minutes are stellar.
They give glances to one another especially Page to Bonham that’s only because Bonzo follows Page. They are so in sync that after a while it’s like mind reading.
Only Jimmy knows
Some bands had very rehearsed solo sections (Pink Floyd) other bands would go with total improvisation (Grateful Dead). I think Zeppelin was somewhere in the middle of that spectrum using both strategies.
All improve. That is how great they were.
Salvo , it’s more like miles Davis and jazz than heavy rock
Totally improvised but they just knew through a sixth sense
"A constant attack." Love it! Well-put. Yeah, no chorus here, and pretty much the same (killer) riff thruout, except the middle organ jam, but even there...Bonzo's drumming is especially remarkable here. He would try crazy shit in concert, and usually succeed magnificently! Energy is the name of this band's live game. I think they used visual and musical "cues" to let each other know where/when the song was going. Jimmy was usually leading it, I think. I've heard Bonham drum impatiently (as I hear it, lol!) on bootlegs, sort of telling Jimmy "get on with it!" after a particularly indulgent Dazed and Confused Bow Solo, for example, lol. DO yourself a favor and listen to "Superstition" by the legendary Stevie Wonder. You like the funk of this song? JPJ said he based the rythm of it on THAT song. And you CAN hear it, the similarity! Just a great song, too! (But this one's better, lol!)
It's a bit of a jam session..it's quite easy to gesture
JIMMY PAGE = GOAT
Talk-to-text, sorry about the typos LOL
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I suggested the May 24th version but looks like you didn’t get it, hard to imagine but it’s way better than this believe it or not
is it really? I will try and and get to it soon G.L.
the fluidity and continuity of the guitar solo leaves you breathless is seamless from start to finish and Bonham literally solos during the instrumental part
There are signals to go in and out of improv sections and even to provoke changes in the improv both visual and with some bands that becomes telepathic. A great example of that is the band Phish.