Led Zeppelin's Modern Legacy
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- Опубліковано 6 сер 2023
- Today we're deep diving into the making of Led Zeppelin's iconic 'When the Levee Breaks,' focusing on the legendary drum break that has been sampled in countless chart-topping songs. We'll explore the band's roots, the song's origins, and the innovative recording techniques that led to this timeless beat.
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Lol the little Easter egg at the end 😅
haha I KNEW someone would catch it!
not really ;-)
What was the easter egg?
Was that billy conolly interviewing him?
Yes
Led Zeppelin live 1970>1972 are the absolute peak of how great a band can sound.
Completely unmatched until now and likely forever.
I can't really add anything to what you said! haha
I agree, Led Zeppelin is my all time fav!
Listen to Oakland 1970 and NY 1970. New updated boots are amazing.
@DimitriFantini except for my favourite album being Physical Graffiti which was mostly recorded after that. :)
Missing Kashmir or in My Time of Dying from the live set list is reason enough to extend that period a bit further.
Not to mention that some of the 1973 German concerts are hands off the BEST instrumental Zep ever.
@@CP-rg5mifully agree. I just meant live, not as a creative force. Plants voice before summer 1972 was absolutely unmatched.
They were, are and WILL ALWAYS BE the ultimate rock band..
Black Sabbath is the ultimate rock band
@kamatsutra7031 Not even close.🤣 Both bands were actually the best of friends in the 70s.
@@Ray-mb3vf Led Zeppelin which is not even close to Black Sabbath. Black Sabbath invented an entire genre, reinvented itself several times during its career, lasted much longer, had Ozzy, Ian Gillan, Ronnie James Dio, Bill Ward, Cozy Powell, Vinny Appice, Geezer Butler and Glenn Hughes in the lineup, man... Not to mention that their classic songs are original and not copied from others. Led Zeppelin is very good, but Black Sabbath is much bigger.
@@kamatsutra7031 They're not. And I fucking love both bands. But that's just fanboyism.
Zeppelin aint the greatest as some claim but for sure one of and yes the ultimate.
When the Levee Breaks is the Zeppelin song that got me into them at 14. Like a levee breaking, Zeppelin was a force of nature that no one could hold back.
that recording is truly a FORCE OF NATURE!!! I still am awed every time I hear it.
Bonzo’s drum track on Levee Breaks is so solid that it doesn’t even need a song. I sometimes air the drum track on my radio show just by itself.
@@Sublette217did you know that Bonzo's drum hook from "when the levee breaks" was sampled by the beastie boys for their hip hop vs rock song "rhymin and stealin"?
I did indeed. Also on Neneh Cherry’s “Trout” which duets with Michael Stipe and opens with the guitar from the start of Steppenwolf’s The Pusher.
for your next video can you please do how Rock artists inspire and influence by Bob Marley.
His groove in “Fool in the rain” was iconic as well.
don't worry, that's coming too!
@@DimitriFantini that's the Purdie shuffle!
You know it!
Is*
@@jorgenvandeburgt8670 toto & stealy dan also cover the "purdie shuffle" for some awesome songs..name them for bonus points
The break on “How Many More Times” the oh Rosie! Is very close to being the most hip hop thing I’ve ever heard… and the second verse on “The Lemon Song” the bass and drums and Robert sounds like he’s seriously rapping it’s insane how ahead of their time they were about of things!
Little Robert Anthony wants to, come and play...Funny you should say that being his initials are R.A.P.
Physical Graffiti was the pinnacle the sheer diversity it had everything on it rock blues rockabilly Ten years gone Kashmir Down by the seaside In the light total brilliance
I could listen to Kashmir all day every day
Absolutely! I bought it the day it was released, I'm still listening to it, permanently in my top ten albums ever...❤
I agree!!! Wanton Song had a very disco esq feel to it on the chorus. It’s to me the album that shows we can do it all…
Graffitti my absolute fave
I wish they made the live album after they made presents that was a good album
Zeppelin is the most influential band in music history. No other band has had a bigger impact on musicians and music. Their music is still current 50 years later and still played daily on the radio. They were just magical
I agree with you but there are plenty of bands from that era that are still played on the radio daily
Most influential band in music history has to be The Beatles..... as much as awesomely great Zeppelin was, that honor goes to The Beatles, I gotta admit. I'm a bigger fan of the Zep, however. 😊😊
Zeppelin is my favorite band but most influential has to go to the Beatles.
They were the most talented band I’ve ever heard. No other band has each member be near the top or damn the best of all time at their instruments. Incredible. Everyone since tries to duplicate their sound but no one comes close.
Billy Connolly interviewing John Bonham is something I never knew I needed until now.
That’s why I do what I do :)
@DimitriFantini and because y9u do what you do, I'm a new sub.
Great channel mate. It's going to be huge, if you put 1/2 the effort into your other vids as you did this one.
that really means a lot to hear! Thanks mate!
for your next video can you please do how Rock artists inspire and influence by Bob Marley.
When the Levee Breaks is a masterpiece
My favorite song of all time
In 1983 or 1984 (I was 10 or 11), my sister, who was 7 years older, gave me a copy of In Through the Out Door. The first song on In Through the Out Door is, of course, In the Evening. It completely blew me away. I had never heard anything close. Page's solo sounds ata couple of places like he threw the guitar down the stairs. Brilliant, and totally a main component in my becoming a guitar player. And of course, a Zeppelin fan for life.
Thank you, Shelly, I miss you every day.
Those 4 albums in 3 years is insane
Great account of the band. Zepp's music is still as relevant and enjoyable today as it was back then and this is apparent by how much fans, new and old, still appreciate the music. The epitome of rock and roll; groovy, sexy, cool, and largely unmatched. The greatest that ever was and ever will be.
there's so much power in the music that it's impossible to deny!
Greatest band of all time, hands down.
Except for The Beatles.
Hands down, Agreed 100
My 2nd favorite band after Pink Floyd
Physical Graffiti as whole had me shook. The restraint in Kashmir and the sheer attack in songs like the Wanton Song and Sick Again showed Bonzos ability to fit the song perfectly. Their also drum tracks that if i heard isolated i could tell which was which
Every song on IV is quintessential Zeppelin. That said, Four Sticks is the greatest deep track of all time, IMHO. It is an exceptionally amazing Zeppelin tune
The Rover is the second greatest deep track of all time, BTW, but it's from another album of theirs, of course
Having four older brothers, Led Zeppelin was the first band I found myself. I bought Led Zeppelin IV on record at a garage sale, and I still get awesome vibes from hearing that noise (kind of guitar record scratch?) just before "hey hey mama said the way you move, gonna make you sweat gonna make you groove." Same with that intensifying rhythm sound before Immigrant Song (I bought Led Zeppelin III in the discount bin at the record store on cassette for $4 in 1991...one of the greatest investment of my life).
Those are some awesome finds man!!
My older sister got me into Zep in 1972
Best band ever 💯 From deep gems as The Rover to For your Life .. To the more popular stuff . Zep is untouched STILL!!
Yes Agreed 100
This is straight up a fun to watch history lesson!
thank you!!! We're working hard over here! 😜
My favorite band of all time.
and you have good reason!
Right, no equals!@@DimitriFantini
for your next video can you please do how Rock artists inspire and influence by Bob Marley.
Best drummer, singer, guitar playing that no other band could come close to. My generation of music was the absolute best time to be alive 🎉❤
When the Levee, Kashmir, and Achilles Last Stand just having Gonzo going nuts on them my favorites!
John Paul Jones bass playing is indeed of a class all its own. As a pianist Jons is remarkable.
I always appreciated him back then but when he joined Them Crooked Vultures in like 2009 he really reminded us of his greatness.
John Paul was probably the most complete musician in Zeppelin.
I am a huge Zeppelin fan since 82' and had no idea that bonzo's drum beat was that instrumental in so many genre's and His answer "not really" at the end of the video tells you that music is from the heart and soul and you have it or you don't.
This is so entertaining and awesomely put together!
thanks Maru that truly means a lot!
I never got to see LED Zeppelin but I got to see page and plant in 1998 walking into Clarksville at the Civic arena in Pittsburgh.
I saw that tour in Boston. Still the greatest show I've ever attended
Shouldn't 'Black Dog' be considered one of the top 5 greatest rock and roll guitar pieces of all time?
Why, yes.
The closing lead is pure mercurial 🔥.
The time signatures, WOW
No
Yes, Yes, and HELL YES.
Story about the drum echo sound on Levee coming from bouncing off the walls of the house and nothing else really needs to go away. Im glad that you stuck to the facts in your video instead of perpetuating the hearsay that is running rampant in the lore of the song! Really great work my man i enjoyed it.
Those rumors echo around as if they were in Headley Grange themselves!
Echoplex
There were 2 mikes on the drums up the stairwell.
Bonzos dynamics
@@c.e.anderson558 yes and then the sound was run through a Binson Echorec which is documented in this video as well as everywhere else.
Rick beato did an indepth video about how the drums were actually recorded by going to the roots of those who actually did the recording.
9:17 British rock in the 60's always had its roots in black American blues. We listened, borrowed, improvised and took it to a new level. But we never forgot our roots.
The GOATS...PERIOD! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥😎
for sure!
Dimitri, you get it. This is the song. You fucking get it!!! Thank you for making this!!! You get it, everything. Yes!
Thank you that means a lot to hear!!!
Greatest band of all time and whole lot of love has to be the best riff ever written..
Fascinating creative artists at their best!
Well done and considering ,thanks for the peek behind the curtain:))godbless
Excellent presentation. Totally enjoyed it.
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
We're gonna groove,bring it on home, Achilles Last Stand,four sticks!!
And all the other songs too,I just rattled those off quick..I may have to think & give a new four..........sticks.....tracks
I just discovered you today. GREAT JOB, MARVELOUS. You earned this subscriber.
Achilles last stand blows me away
Well now I know what episode to make next!
Fantastic video essay.
Interviewer was Billy Connolly, Scottish comedian.
the legend
Ironically this is my favorite rainy day song from them even though they have "The Rain Song"
Rick Beato has a couple Levee videos. Thanks for your take on this rock epic.
When the Levee Breaks is also sampled in Depeche Mode's Never Let Me Down Again, as well as Bjork's Army Of Me
Really?
Yeah, I can hear it now. Been listening to DM since the late 80s, always wondered why it sounded so familiar.
The were, are, and always will be the preeminent rock band that influenced every music genre that came after them.
love this breakdown history style vid
I’m glad to hear that thank you!!
When you hear people talk about the "rock gods" this is who they're talking about.
right?
Nice work. Bravo
Music School mi Hearties !!
Atlantic Records did not "take notice of Zeppelin's live shows." Ahmet Ertegun and Jerry Wexler were approached in NYC by Jimmy Page and Peter Grant with Led Zeppelin 1 in hand. Wonderful documentary.
Great history lesson here!!
history is my middle name haha
Four Sticks!
On the video to-do list!
Old school hiphop artists have a very wide palette of musical taste.
Lots of them are outside rock, into classical and jazz too which makes sense as they used to sample those very same artists.
They suck big time can't even play an instrument are compose there own music.
Bullshit
Cool beans...learned several things from this...including the origin of the song...
Well done, kudos to you and yours
that was a most enjoyable use of 20min, thanks for posting
Glad you enjoyed your time here!!
Thanks for teaching me something.
Awesome and the best! Its nice that newer generations are realizing what real music, rather the best music, sounds like!!! Pure talent!!!
May I suggest an edit in postscript? Certainly in relation to "Levee" being sampled.
The Drumulator drum machine, made by UK company E-Mu, offered a "Rock Chip" Eeprom upgrade - owners could snap in a chip of 8-bit Bonzo samples taken from "When The Levee Breaks".
And so, THIS set of samples was used by plenty of artists in the 80s; you can hear it on Tears For Fears "Shout", and the whole of Cocteau Twins' "Treasure" album.
I’ve never heard of this!! I’m going to have to do some investigating. Got any leads/links?
This was a very informative video.
I’m happy you liked it!
Cool video, great job!
Thank you, I’m so glad you enjoyed it!!
Love the Video!
Thanks so much!
Bohnam set the archetypal rock drum beat but so many people who try to play him don't really understand what he was doing and that he did it purposefully and differently or didn't do it at all depending on the song being played.
That technique was playing behind the main count on his snare drum in what is essentially -- in his case as a right handed drummer -- a right hand led flam where the left hand hits the snare slightly or even majorly after the hi hat hit which is directly on the count.
This technique gives a fatness to the beat and he varies that delay somewhat from song to song with some songs like "Black Dog" and "No Quarter" having delays you could drive a semi truck through.
The effect is a push pull feel where your driving forward but also being restrained simultaneously. "No Quarter" is interesting because in the break down part he stops using the delay entirely giving a sense of urgency in that section where propelling forward compositionally is required.
He also uses it on songs like Fool In the Rain which is why so many people who play that song muck it up in terms of replicating it. You cannot play Fool In the Rain without that flam snare delay but what makes it even more challenging is his ghost note on the half time shuffle is dead on a count. So the push pull is both on hi-hat and on snare simultaneously.
Indeed it's his liberal use of delays on snare and even cymbal hits and where he starts a roll that really makes Bohnam a master of the subtle variation that has massive effect without calling attention to itself.
Compositionally Bohnam was a genius because it was what he didn't play that really separates his approach. The song ALWAYS came first.
GREATEST DRUMMER OF ALL TIME
Ever heard of a guy named " Neal Peart?"
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John is the focus, understandably.
However, Robert's harp playing is incredible.
why did he stop?.
I’d like to know the same thing
Plant's harp playing on "when the levee breaks" has reverse echoes as an effect so it's hard to reproduce live.
LOVED this 💘🏄♀️
thanks I'm so glad!!
Led Zeppelin, the perfect musical storm ❤❤❤
EVERYONE skips over _Four Sticks_ and _The Battle of Evermore_ when they talk about the fourth album. Is it just that nobody understands them? They're two of my favorite tracks by any band, period, and definitely at the top of my Led Zep list. 🤔🤨🧐😠
Nobody I know ever skipped over "The battle of Evermore"
@@beverlytrader9363 - This video failed to mention either one...
So… you’re saying I should do another!
@@DimitriFantini I thought this was a really good video. But here's an idea that just occurred to me. What about a video (or a couple, if one would be too long) focusing on tracks like Battle of Evermore, Four Sticks, Down by the Seaside, Out on the Tiles, The Crunge (Where's that confounded bridge?!) - all the kick-ass Zep tunes that everyone else just sort of overlooks? Dig into the songs a bit from the chord and melody aspect, also from the playing; in other words, how do Jimmy and John Paul work together to make it sound so interesting and effortless at the same time?
That would be cool, and if the success of Rick Beato's channel is any indication, there's an appetite for that sort of thing online.
@@a2ndopynyn that's a great idea, I'll start doing some investigating!
Great video! Zeppelin rules
thanks! glad you dug it!
Damn, what a video dude. Happy to see that I Will be able to say that I followed u since u had 4k subs hahaha
Awesome, Zep still rules. New subber for sure.
Thank you so much!!!
I was really hoping you were going to showcase the songs that sampled the drumming more. There are so many.
I did! But had to trim them out for copyright reasons :( Will try to find other ways to showcase this kind of stuff more in future videos!
Thank you!!!
My first and only drum lesson I had was to learn this song.
Changed my life....entirely.
Music was always a part of my life...but this single song...had I not learned it...completely different trajectory.
🤟
Me too am a fan of Zeppelin
me too.
I don't think you even mentioned Four Sticks, one of my favorites. The weird time signature...it almost didn't make it on the album because nobody could figure out how to count the damned thing in. Some later rockers who tried to recreate old classics said you have no idea what kind of power Plant was playing with until you try to sing this song. But most of all, I see it as a capstone of their long arc, marrying the driving sexual groove of their early classic, "Whole Lotta Love," with the ethereal chord progressions of their latter day epic, "Kashmir." Then there are the stories of Bonzo trying to up his game after seeing Ginger Baker play, of the attempts collapsing in frustration leading to them accidentally writing "Rock and Roll" in about 15 minutes, and the fact that it was so complicated and driving that they only ever played it live twice!
what do you think ... should I do a deep dive on Four Sticks??
@@DimitriFantini I would certainly love to see one. On the one hand, I don't think it's very high on most people's list of favorite zeppelin songs, but on the other hand that means that more people would have something interesting to learn from the dive. Look into to it...see what you think
@@DimitriFantini you know I am all in..😉
@@DimitriFantini PLEASE do it, yes
On it!!
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Greatest band of all time.
The Levee drum beat can be heard in Depeche Mode’s Get Right With Me
A Led Zeppelin song was used in Schoolly D’s song, “Signifying Rapper,” from his Smoke Some Kill album.
A video that involves Led Zeppelin AND Dr. Dre? How can I not like (and "Like") it
that's what I'm trying to say!
Idk which artists you mentioned in your video, but I read somewhere on YT, that Enigma's _Return To Innocence_ uses this sampled drum beat, just slowed down and played in reverse.
that's correct! A favorite song of mine. I had it in this video but had to cut it (and several others) due to copyright restrictions.
Only two rock bands sold the most records and made the most money during their time, the Beatles and Led Zeppelin.
I'm more than 5 minutes in, & no mention of jp/ John Paul Jones"...... who in my mind was the glue that held led zep together"..... why does everyone do him bad"....... moreover, he'z the best musian in the band".....
Definitely you can hear in the demo version his bass line is a bit more funky, but I think his tone and power were shown off more in the final version of Levee, the everything glues together is so powerful.
I would love to get Cube, Dogg and Dre together with Plant and Page. Get them to warp the minds of rappers! Jones just may be over the top with that bass :)
Going to California is such an underrated track omg
The first album I heard from them was the 3rd album. I really liked it not knowing that was their most acoustical album.
I think late 1968 thru 1971 was there best years imo. Especially the first 2 albums. Just so raw and badass. I mean cream and Hendrix was one of the first supergroups but every single bandmate in zeppelin is pros at what they did
Respect should be earned by actions, and not acquired by years.
(Robert Plant) "hey Stevie, do you mind if we use that show stopper of yours .... "you need lovin'"?" (Steve Marriot - Small Faces) "sure thing Rob, knock yourself out". True. How "whole lotta love" came about
"When The Levee Breaks" was the inspiration for Montrose "Rock Candy". Montrose drummer Denny Carmassi was playing around with a drum beat that sounded alot like Levee . Ronnie Montrose heard it and played the Rock Candy guitar riff into a cassette recorder. He said if he didn't record it they wouldn't be able to remember it the next day. Without that cassette recorder, there wouldn't have been a Rock Candy on the first Montrose album. Thanks Bonzo, and thanks to Denny Carmassi. Now, count it off...1,2...
The best drum fills of all time and musical composition, and engineering are from the song Whole Lotta Love. It has the best breakdown in recorded music.
If I’m not mistaken PM Dawn used it also
Not to mention every other genre of music. Trevor Horn sampled John Bonham’s iconic kick drum from ‘When The Levee Breaks’ to get that immense grunty bass drum sound for ‘Relax’ by Frankie Goes To Hollywood. And that was 1981 (I think) - and of course the classic drum break from Levee became one of the most sampled beats of the next 40+ years.
The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Band of all bands
I think Becks song E-pro samples it as well.I could be mistaken.
Didn’t know this! Got a link?
Led Zeppelin were basically signed before they ever toured, thanks to Page/Grant having a ton of industry clout.
TIL!
Ramble on is a masterpiece
Yeah one of there best an absolutely classic
Trout by Neneh Cherry uses the Levee drum track.