I might have told this story in your original post but here goes. This song got me through withdrawals 2 years ago. I got off of opioids after 16 years, on my own, in about a month. I asked no quarter and the poison gave no quarter. Although still dealing with pain, I’m free and feel pretty victorious in my quest.
Congratulations! It is not easy getting off opioids, it's damn painful and it messed with everything inc. your body temperature. You are one brave warrior. I am back on morphine again for pain and am not looking forward to the withdrawals. The first time round was hell on wheels.
When I was in high school and for many years later, I listened endlessly to Zep, then I moved away and got into other music. Not because I was done with Zep, but they had stopped making music. As Plant said, music is about the present, not to commemorate the past. So true. That being said, many, many years later, I'm listening to Zep again, and that time off and listening to many, many other bands across the decades have confirmed one thing to me. There really never was, is or will be a better band.
I've been listening to LZ for close to 40 years. I swear every time I listen to any of their songs it's like the first time!! They are the best at taking you on a journey. I still get chills everytime..
I was reading somewhere that Peter Grant once (early on) told a reluctant Bonham that if he didn't do what Page wanted he could leave the band (but he used a less polite term for leave). I wonder if this was when Page wanted Bonham to follow his guitar rather than the bass guitar. Your comment just put that into my mind.
@@heliotropezzz333 I dont think anyone Told Bonham what or how to do anything..he was creative on his own a master..and also a strong bastard...if Peter Greant told him anything ..it was civil
I love the way all the band members enter into the middle of the song. Especially John Bonham and Jimmy Page. They slowly etch their way into the song. Such class.
Love watching these Led Zep reactions! Such intelligent reviews by a great commenter, with a really mellow, genuine, smooth and nice personality. Thank you. 🙌🏼💕
I've seen Zep in concert, and I probably saw Song Remains the Same in the theater 9 times. They are such phenomenal musicians, you don't just rock out or groove all the time or you'd miss a lot.
Really sharp observation about the Led Zep crowd. I think it says a lot about the era, and how music ruled the day. You have the smartest reactions on UA-cam! Thanks much.
Haven't seen you in a while and it's great that you are back. I love the reviews you do of the classic rock music by grew up with. From the 60s 70s and 80s. But you have to check out this five-piece phenomenally talented. Hard Rock Woman's Group from Japan, called Band-Maid. Great songs and musicianship, incredibly talented charismatic live performers ! In my humble opinion one of the best bands that has come around in over 30 years !
Chemistry man", their sessions required close attentive focus to each other at the same time staying self focused like they were linked as one machine. Extriodinary creative sound for the times. We never knew what to expect. We just knew being two years between albums it would be unlike anything you could imagine.
Back at this time Bonham was pioneering something so hip and cool as they all were really, but still to this day and still years to come way ahead of their time. Today it's computer musicians. It makes me want to cry like a baby realizing it's over my friend. In a realm of never ending time.. .and yet it's not enough!
I think that the song references J.R.R. Tolkien's lord of the rings series. I think it's about the part where they try to cross the Misty mountains and Salron sends a a blizzard. It's not children but hobbits. They also have a song called Misty mountain hop. Theres a line from the song ramble on "in the darkest depths of Mordor, I met a girl so fair, but Gollum and the evil one crept up and slipped away with her"
Brian P. They absolutely murdered this song that night. John Paul Jones was amazing and of course, Plant and Page were great. Jason Bonham was really good too.
Love your reaction. You hear every one of them, including the often overlooked John Paul Jones who played bass like a god. I really enjoy your respectful and intelligent analyses; it's such a pleasure seeing someone else wake up to Led Zep's greatness.
16:12 You could not be more correct. Having a 15.000 seat auditorium totally in sync is an amazing experience. and yeah, it's rare no matter who the band is.
I remember (hazily) seeing the movie premier at Denver's Paramount Theater (back when they still showed movies)... Towards the end of this song, it became hard to see the screen through the smoke being generated by the crowd! I initially thought "Wow what great special effects"! You could smell the source though! Lol.
Thank you for this one - another insightful and fascinating breakdown. Please keep up the awesome content - it is appreciated. As per live performances please consider doing The Band, And The Staples - The Weight ( from the film The Last Waltz ). Thanks again and God bless.
You were worried about how youd be able to focus for 12 minutes..OMG that made me burst out laughing! Just bc if you dig LZ..and there are those rock ppl that don't if u can believe it..you just can't get tired of it. Takes you on a journey..each and every song
This is one of their center piece songs that directly ties into Lord of the Rings. Robert wrote about the experience of the main characters who took on the quest (they carry news that must through to build a dream for me and you). He makes reference to their decision to brave the mines of Moria (they choose the paths where no one goes). Not Vikings but very close. Please read Lord of the Rings to understand Robert Plant and thereby Led Zeppelin. The Dogs of Doom who are howling are the Wargs who pursued them as they headed for the mountain pass. They were blocked trying to cross over the mountain by a tremendous snow storm (the snow drives back the foot that’s slow). I love your admiration and respect for Zeppelin. Thanks man!!
Back in the day, crowds at concerts were silent during performances. The Beatles were different. The crowd there was expecting to get into a frenzy, and they did. The reaction there was not so different to some of the religious services that have people worked to a frenzy.
I love LZ and especially this song live. When my friends and I were young, we were often bored in our hometown and we seemed to end up doing the same old thing. But every summer the midnigĥt movie would come and we would say to ourselves, let's go see jimmy page and LZ in their prime dazzle us. Then on the following night we would say let's go again because not all of the song's were on the record that were in the movie. Like Since I've Been Loving You and Black Dog. But watching Dazed and confused was outstanding.
I agree it gives a Viking vibe including the reference to Thor, but it refers to steel which wasn't invented until the 1850s. I don't think Zep songs have to be logical though. The ambiguity of the songs is often an appealing aspect, because people can use their imagination and put their own interpretation on them.
@@heliotropezzz333 Steel has been around far longer than that. Over 4000 years in fact. And the Vikings most definitely had access to it, as many grave sites which have been excavated attest to. I've always interpreted this song as an ode to the Norse people of the migration era of around 800-1000CE - a mother consoling her children while the men are off trying to carve out a space for them in what is now the UK. When you mention the 1850s, I think you must be referring to industrial steel production, but crucible steel itself as a tool of war for swords and armor was already well established for 1000+ years.
Nice to see you back on YT! You are by far one of the best reviewers on this site. Also excellent song choice, possibly my #1 song from Zepp. Idk if you take suggestions on here, but if you do, give (Joe Satriani- Made of Tears, Live version) a listen. Around the 4:30 mark he just goes off on the guitar.
I don’t get people that thumbs down to magical musicianship....really?...just too many haters in world...I know music is very personal like art....they must have tin ears...lol
Never really thought of this before, but this song has a very "California" vibe to it -- like what the jam-y groups--Quicksilver, the Dead, Spirit, and many others--were sorta going for at this stage. (But perfected IMHO.)
Close the door, put out the light You know they won't be home tonight, ohhoohohoh The snow falls hard an' don't you know The winds of Thor are blowin' cold cold cold col col col... They're wearin' steel that's bright an' true oh, oh, oh, oh, To build a dream for me an' you ah-hahhhh They choose the path where no-one goes They hold no quarter, oh hoh They ask, they ask no quarter, no quarter, ohhhhh Walkin' side by side with death The devil mocks their every step The snow drives back the foot that's slow The dogs of doom are howlin' more more more more more... They carry news that must get through To build a dream for me an' you ahhhh yes they do, they choose the path where no-one goes. They hold no quarter, They ask, (ask) They ask, (ask) They ask, (ask) They ask, (ask) no quarter (....arter) Oh what misery without quarter Oh the pain, the pain without quarter, oh-oh-oh Ooh yeah Ooh, ooh yeah, ooh yeah, ooh yeah, ooh yeah Ahh give me quarter, quarter, quarter, quarter Oh give me ......Oh give me .........
I'd think this was about Vikings ( because of the reference to Thor and it has that sort of vibe) but for the reference to steel (not invented until the 1850s), putting out 'the light' (not the candle) and 'no quarter', a term that didn't exist in Viking times, though the idea of showing no mercy they knew for sure.
that crowd is well behaved - you would find them also clapping at Genesis, Yes, ELP, King Crimson and numerous bands of quality. quality music attracts quality public.
John Paul Jones at his best. Great organ sounds while keeping a steady bass line maintaining it all together while Page and Bonham explode. No better musician than him throughout that era.
Well you do know led zeppelin is being sued for plagiarism right? Led zeppelin is a very good cover band . they have been sued on numerous occasions for ripping off music from other artist
@@allanobrien1964 I know they've been sued for plagiarism and I thought they'd now resolved those cases (through the courts) and credited original songwriters where due. There are issues where they've taken a song and changed it, (lyrics or music) so that original writers/composers get only partial credit. That seems fair, though it may not satisfy everyone. You know lots of original blues singers sung each others songs. Not all Zeppelin music is covers. They started off covering a lot of blues music, but when Plant started writing his own songs, they were unique, and Page has produced a lot of original music. You know Shakespeare didn't write many original stories (if any) but he's still acknowledged as a great storyteller, dramatist, poet and wordsmith. It's not always about what you have, but also about what you do with it. Tool seem to copy a lot of Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd music or at least are very influenced by it.
@@heliotropezzz333 i enjoy a variety of music and classic rock is a genre i dig . i enjoy led zeppelin , but i would listen to the eagles or rush before Zeppelin. I know , thats my choice and opinion ect. And as far as tool goes i enjoy their music and can see where you see the similarities between them and bands such as Pink Floyd. I think drug influences were a huge part of the similarities we all hear
After all these years, this song still gives me goosebumps.
You're back man..its just like an atomic blast of actual intelligence where reactions are concerned on UA-cam
I might have told this story in your original post but here goes. This song got me through withdrawals 2 years ago. I got off of opioids after 16 years, on my own, in about a month. I asked no quarter and the poison gave no quarter. Although still dealing with pain, I’m free and feel pretty victorious in my quest.
Congratulations! It is not easy getting off opioids, it's damn painful and it messed with everything inc. your body temperature. You are one brave warrior.
I am back on morphine again for pain and am not looking forward to the withdrawals. The first time round was hell on wheels.
That guitar riff is just intoxicating.
When I was in high school and for many years later, I listened endlessly to Zep, then I moved away and got into other music. Not because I was done with Zep, but they had stopped making music. As Plant said, music is about the present, not to commemorate the past. So true. That being said, many, many years later, I'm listening to Zep again, and that time off and listening to many, many other bands across the decades have confirmed one thing to me. There really never was, is or will be a better band.
Each of the members at their best. Definitely has an otherworldly atmosphere. It gives me chills.
I've been listening to LZ for close to 40 years. I swear every time I listen to any of their songs it's like the first time!! They are the best at taking you on a journey. I still get chills everytime..
Most drummers play along with the bass guitar but Bonham played to what Page was playing,
That is why he has all the triplets!
I was reading somewhere that Peter Grant once (early on) told a reluctant Bonham that if he didn't do what Page wanted he could leave the band (but he used a less polite term for leave). I wonder if this was when Page wanted Bonham to follow his guitar rather than the bass guitar. Your comment just put that into my mind.
@@heliotropezzz333 I dont think anyone Told Bonham what or how to do anything..he was creative on his own a master..and also a strong bastard...if Peter Greant told him anything ..it was civil
Bonham was a master ....
They intoxicate you and become part of your soul! That's what happened to me anyway. Keep listening
I love the way all the band members enter into the middle of the song. Especially John Bonham and Jimmy Page. They slowly etch their way into the song. Such class.
You have no idea how happy I am that you are back on the channel! 🙏👏👍
Love your articulated reactions. You pick up on all the subtleties in addition to the obvious gems.
This album has some of the best performances ever recorded and this song to me is the highlight.
You are back! My favorite reactor!!!
Love watching these Led Zep reactions! Such intelligent reviews by a great commenter, with a really mellow, genuine, smooth and nice personality. Thank you. 🙌🏼💕
I've seen Zep in concert, and I probably saw Song Remains the Same in the theater 9 times. They are such phenomenal musicians, you don't just rock out or groove all the time or you'd miss a lot.
God, I so so love that guitar riff and the solo is so beyond anything else.
I love this song the best.
Good to have you back!!
my favorite led zepplin song,live of course
Still my favorite Song from TSRTS. I've been listening to this song for 35 years. I think Plant's voice was at his best in 73.
I could listen to the intro of this song for ever, and never get bored!
The Triad of classic reactions from STB: No Quarter, Since I've Been Loving You, Achilles Last Stand.
epic guitar solo.. epic band..
You deserve more subscribers you are quality.
STB I’m glad you’re back!
I have a bunch of favyZe
Having a “favorite Led Zeppelin song” is like having a favorite child.
This was just 1 song in a 3 and half hour experience, Ft.Worth Tx '77... I am so blessed. JPJ =GOAT
John Paul Jones was designated music arranger . Brilliant
Those Bonham triplets are legend !
This is a really good reaction video. Good job
I appreciate it
Finally your Back. Now I can look all the Zeppelin reactions Back!,,
Thea Walters they’re all on Vimeo
@@IEEteammateMATT1 I know but I like UA-cam vetter, despite all the comercials
@@theawalters1 get adblock its a blessing
Really sharp observation about the Led Zep crowd. I think it says a lot about the era, and how music ruled the day. You have the smartest reactions on UA-cam! Thanks much.
Cool, thanks!
Another “epic” under appreciated song.
Nothing in the last 30 years can touch this.
When Giant's Walked the Earth 🌎 Led Zeppelin 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Haven't seen you in a while and it's great that you are back. I love the reviews you do of the classic rock music by grew up with. From the 60s 70s and 80s. But you have to check out this five-piece phenomenally talented. Hard Rock Woman's Group from Japan, called Band-Maid. Great songs and musicianship, incredibly talented charismatic live performers ! In my humble opinion one of the best bands that has come around in over 30 years !
Awesome performance. Led Zep rules. Grear song choice STB.
Chemistry man", their sessions required close attentive focus to each other at the same time staying self focused like they were linked as one machine.
Extriodinary creative sound for the times. We never knew what to expect. We just knew being two years between albums it would be unlike anything you could imagine.
Back at this time Bonham was pioneering something so hip and cool as they all were really, but still to this day and still years to come way ahead of their time. Today it's computer musicians. It makes me want to cry like a baby realizing it's over my friend. In a realm of never ending time.. .and yet it's not enough!
I think that the song references J.R.R. Tolkien's lord of the rings series. I think it's about the part where they try to cross the Misty mountains and Salron sends a a blizzard. It's not children but hobbits. They also have a song called Misty mountain hop. Theres a line from the song ramble on "in the darkest depths of Mordor, I met a girl so fair, but Gollum and the evil one crept up and slipped away with her"
The live Celebration day version with Jason Bonham on drums is everything.
Brian P. They absolutely murdered this song that night. John Paul Jones was amazing and of course, Plant and Page were great. Jason Bonham was really good too.
Love your reaction. You hear every one of them, including the often overlooked John Paul Jones who played bass like a god. I really enjoy your respectful and intelligent analyses; it's such a pleasure seeing someone else wake up to Led Zep's greatness.
16:12 You could not be more correct. Having a 15.000 seat auditorium totally in sync is an amazing experience. and yeah, it's rare no matter who the band is.
They're mesmerized brother😊
Glad you found this one......
I remember (hazily) seeing the movie premier at Denver's Paramount Theater (back when they still showed movies)... Towards the end of this song, it became hard to see the screen through the smoke being generated by the crowd! I initially thought "Wow what great special effects"! You could smell the source though! Lol.
Thank you for this one - another insightful and fascinating breakdown. Please keep up the awesome content - it is appreciated. As per live performances please consider doing The Band, And The Staples - The Weight ( from the film The Last Waltz ). Thanks again and God bless.
This is always been my favorites,
You were worried about how youd be able to focus for 12 minutes..OMG that made me burst out laughing! Just bc if you dig LZ..and there are those rock ppl that don't if u can believe it..you just can't get tired of it. Takes you on a journey..each and every song
This is one of their center piece songs that directly ties into Lord of the Rings. Robert wrote about the experience of the main characters who took on the quest (they carry news that must through to build a dream for me and you). He makes reference to their decision to brave the mines of Moria (they choose the paths where no one goes). Not Vikings but very close. Please read Lord of the Rings to understand Robert Plant and thereby Led Zeppelin. The Dogs of Doom who are howling are the Wargs who pursued them as they headed for the mountain pass. They were blocked trying to cross over the mountain by a tremendous snow storm (the snow drives back the foot that’s slow). I love your admiration and respect for Zeppelin. Thanks man!!
Back in the day, crowds at concerts were silent during performances. The Beatles were different. The crowd there was expecting to get into a frenzy, and they did. The reaction there was not so different to some of the religious services that have people worked to a frenzy.
Very good point about the audience. They know when to STFU so they don't miss anything. Too bad Beatles fan didn't get the memo.
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I love LZ and especially this song live. When my friends and I were young, we were often bored in our hometown and we seemed to end up doing the same old thing. But every summer the midnigĥt movie would come and we would say to ourselves, let's go see jimmy page and LZ in their prime dazzle us. Then on the following night we would say let's go again because not all of the song's were on the record that were in the movie. Like Since I've Been Loving You and Black Dog. But watching Dazed and confused was outstanding.
Musta been awesome!
The song is actually talking about the Vikings no quarter means no Mercy that's what the Vikings did
I agree it gives a Viking vibe including the reference to Thor, but it refers to steel which wasn't invented until the 1850s. I don't think Zep songs have to be logical though. The ambiguity of the songs is often an appealing aspect, because people can use their imagination and put their own interpretation on them.
@@heliotropezzz333 Steel has been around far longer than that. Over 4000 years in fact. And the Vikings most definitely had access to it, as many grave sites which have been excavated attest to. I've always interpreted this song as an ode to the Norse people of the migration era of around 800-1000CE - a mother consoling her children while the men are off trying to carve out a space for them in what is now the UK. When you mention the 1850s, I think you must be referring to industrial steel production, but crucible steel itself as a tool of war for swords and armor was already well established for 1000+ years.
True, we listened to the music and erupted at the end.
No quarter, no mercy.
Nice to see you back on YT! You are by far one of the best reviewers on this site. Also excellent song choice, possibly my #1 song from Zepp. Idk if you take suggestions on here, but if you do, give (Joe Satriani- Made of Tears, Live version) a listen. Around the 4:30 mark he just goes off on the guitar.
This live version is GOD.
thank you
This is my 2nd favorite cut from the Song Remains the Same!!!
The key to a good R&R band is, the drummer has to be able to kick everyone else in the bands ass. (physically not figuratively)
Fire!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
When you hear John Bonham’s right foot(nicknamed by Robert Plant as his rabbit foot) going off-that’s triplets nothing like it!
A very thoughtful reaction , very culrured
My favorite Jimmy Page solo through the whole song ❤ it screams masterful, it's so pretty 😍😍😍
Bonham is such a sick groove drummer
I don’t get people that thumbs down to magical musicianship....really?...just too many haters in world...I know music is very personal like art....they must have tin ears...lol
It's a thumbs down to me Dave - not the music. I've blocked a number of fools who swears to sabotage my channel. Lol
Well, the movie will be there when you are ready!!! Maybe his best solo, surely his jazziest.
With that absolutely killer blues lick at 7:30
I agree ,one of Jimmy's best,also bongo was never more on point.
Bonzo,hate when that happens
Never really thought of this before, but this song has a very "California" vibe to it -- like what the jam-y groups--Quicksilver, the Dead, Spirit, and many others--were sorta going for at this stage. (But perfected IMHO.)
Close the door, put out the light
You know they won't be home tonight, ohhoohohoh
The snow falls hard an' don't you know
The winds of Thor are blowin' cold cold cold col col col...
They're wearin' steel that's bright an' true oh, oh, oh, oh,
To build a dream for me an' you ah-hahhhh
They choose the path where no-one goes
They hold no quarter, oh hoh
They ask, they ask no quarter, no quarter, ohhhhh
Walkin' side by side with death
The devil mocks their every step
The snow drives back the foot that's slow
The dogs of doom are howlin' more more more more more...
They carry news that must get through
To build a dream for me an' you ahhhh yes they do,
they choose the path where no-one goes.
They hold no quarter,
They ask, (ask)
They ask, (ask)
They ask, (ask)
They ask, (ask) no quarter (....arter)
Oh what misery without quarter
Oh the pain, the pain without quarter, oh-oh-oh
Ooh yeah Ooh, ooh yeah, ooh yeah, ooh yeah, ooh yeah
Ahh give me quarter, quarter, quarter, quarter
Oh give me ......Oh give me .........
The foot that's slow could also mean elderly people or disabled, or wounded, people in the group.
I'd think this was about Vikings ( because of the reference to Thor and it has that sort of vibe) but for the reference to steel (not invented until the 1850s), putting out 'the light' (not the candle) and 'no quarter', a term that didn't exist in Viking times, though the idea of showing no mercy they knew for sure.
This is my favorite, their is a version of this I can't locate. Don't know why cause it was a live release !
that crowd is well behaved - you would find them also clapping at Genesis, Yes, ELP, King Crimson and numerous bands of quality.
quality music attracts quality public.
Nice 😍
the song is NO QUARTER
s showcase for JPJ
A showcase for JPJ, but in the end Plant's voice brings it all together.
absoluyly
hittit
Have you done a reaction on Ten Years Gone?
way better live
John Paul Jones at his best. Great organ sounds while keeping a steady bass line maintaining it all together while Page and Bonham explode. No better musician than him throughout that era.
Never read rolling stone reviews… they were so wrong about Zeppelin!!!!
Lord of the rings
I have to tell you page always pride themselves that nothing about the music wasn't choreographed! All of it was laid out note for note beat for beat.
I like my Zeppelin loud and this was too soft. 🔈
Peace
Its all about the democrats " they chose the path that noone goes "
Please , please , please react to this same song but by tool. You will be blown away
Agree 💯.....Most Definitely.
Tool is no way as good as Led Zep. I listened to it. Somehow it lacks the heart and soul that Zep has.
Well you do know led zeppelin is being sued for plagiarism right? Led zeppelin is a very good cover band . they have been sued on numerous occasions for ripping off music from other artist
@@allanobrien1964 I know they've been sued for plagiarism and I thought they'd now resolved those cases (through the courts) and credited original songwriters where due. There are issues where they've taken a song and changed it, (lyrics or music) so that original writers/composers get only partial credit. That seems fair, though it may not satisfy everyone. You know lots of original blues singers sung each others songs. Not all Zeppelin music is covers. They started off covering a lot of blues music, but when Plant started writing his own songs, they were unique, and Page has produced a lot of original music. You know Shakespeare didn't write many original stories (if any) but he's still acknowledged as a great storyteller, dramatist, poet and wordsmith. It's not always about what you have, but also about what you do with it. Tool seem to copy a lot of Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd music or at least are very influenced by it.
@@heliotropezzz333 i enjoy a variety of music and classic rock is a genre i dig . i enjoy led zeppelin , but i would listen to the eagles or rush before Zeppelin. I know , thats my choice and opinion ect. And as far as tool goes i enjoy their music and can see where you see the similarities between them and bands such as Pink Floyd. I think drug influences were a huge part of the similarities we all hear