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- How Led Zeppelin created their biggest hit song, their only top 10, the provocative 70s smash Whole Lotta Love through rough waters including conservative radio programmers and later a lawsuit. Jimmy Page’s Riff has been called the best ever, Robert Plant’s evocative vocal and the incredible rhythm section of John Paul Jones and John Bonham, this song is a bonafide rock classic.... Coming up.. the story of a provocative Top 5 smash created by a daredevil supergroup that challenged the gatekeepers of commercial radio conservatism...and wound up being sued for violation of copyright laws. There’s a whole lotta yearnin’ ...and a whole lotta schoolin' NEXT on Professor of Rock.
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Rolling Stone writer Steve Pond called Led Zeppelin the “last band of the 60s, and the first band of the 70s. Zeppelin was truly the band that captivated a new generation of fans that were not members of the personality cult of the 60s. Critics did not like them, but an emerging culture of uninhibited young fans grabbed on to Zeppelin IMMEDIATELY… It was a new age of fans- captivated by provocative music & a path of life they could call their own.
The song that characterized the approaching individualism of the 70s was released in November of 1969….Led Zeppelin’s ”Whole Lotta Love” In the early 60s; while most of his peers were busy groaning about acne & finding the right turtleneck, the great Jimmy Page worked tirelessly to become one of England’s most sought-after session players by the time he was only 18.
He was known as “Lil’ Jim P” to avoid confusion with another highly used studio musician named Big Jim Sullivan. If an artists needed a guitarist, they either went to Lil Jim, back in those days.
As the decade rolled along, Page was featured on a variety of notable recordings by the likes of Marianne Faithful, Johnathan King, Brenda Lee, Van Morrison, the Kinks, and even The Who.
Jimmy provided rhythm guitar licks for The Who on their first single “I Can’t Explain.” In ’66, Page got the idea of assembling a super group with Keith Moon & John Entwistle from The Who- Jeff Beck & John Paul Jones. When the guys talked about how they thought the supergroup would be received, Keith Moon shot back that the group would “go over like a lead zeppelin,” In other words, it would be a disaster.
I should note, however, that some say the quip actually came from Entwistle. Regardless, the joking remark stuck with Page, and he would bring it to the forefront a few years later. Late in ’66, Page replaced bassist Paul Samwell Smith and joined his buddy Jeff Beck as one of The Yardbirds. Less than two years later, Beck, too, departed, and despite frantic efforts to keep the band together, The Yardbirds imploded. Page went back to his idea of forming a supergroup that shared the same musical vision, and the tenacity to bust the status quo.
POLL: They created so MANY classic albums, what is your pick for the greatest Led Zeppelin album back to front?
Houses of the Holy
Houses Of The Holy was the first Zep album I ever bought and remains my favorite today.
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Hands down Physical Graffiti. Every track is just a masterpiece.
.....hmmmmm...."Houses Of The Holy" FEELS like a' cohesive' Album, but... for sheer SPRAWLINGNESS, I'm goin' with... ***"PHYSICAL GRAFFITI*** !! ...It was my first LP, So, I'm biased....even though it was WARPED, THANKS, Dad! ....ha-HAAA!!
One memory that comes to mind regarding this song is from when I was about 17 in the late 70s. My dad bought the family's first real stereo system, you know with the various separate components and two big speakers. He set it up, we listened to a couple songs, and he asked what I thought of the sound quality. I was surprised by the question... he didn't generally ask my opinion about anything. My dad was very much from a different generation--there was a 40 year age difference between us. I told him it was pretty good but I didn't think it had enough bass. The next day he packed it all up and returned it to the store. I assume he must have asked the sales person for something with more bass sound and came home with a different system. He set it up again and asked if I thought this one was any better. The song I chose to test it... Whole Lotta Love. Killer bass on that track, especially in the outro. I don't know what he thought of the song, he never offered an opinion. He just seemed happy that I was satisfied with his purchase. I miss him.
Awesome story! I can totally relate with my Dad.😀
Beautiful story. Thanks for sharing.
I feel your sadness at missing him. How wonderful that your dad leaned on your judgment! Bless him and you.
Your dad loved you enough to get the right gear for you.
You had a cool Dad!
"Imitation is the highest form of flattery." All the haters need to realize that. Nothing is new under the sun. For the skeptic that mock Led Zeppelin for imitating other bands, they need to create their own language, because they are committing plagiarism by speaking words created by our ancestors. By no means is this directed at The Professor. This is directed at everyone else that calls Led Zeppelin "thieves."
Loved this episode. I've been a Zep fan for five decades.
Led Zeppelin is a one-time thing in the entire history of the earth. Including any past or future civilizations. One time, and we got it. 🍻
There was no one else. There never will be.❤️🎶
🍻
Yes, Led Zep will never be equalled, and was never equalled even back in Atlantis or the Silurian Civilization of the late Carboniferous..
There will never be another Zeppelin. When those 4 guys came together we were given a gift of timeless music that can never be matched.
I saw Zeppelin at a small Chicago club in late 1968 or early '69, as a senior in highschool. The impact this unknown band (at the time) had was enormous. At that little club in 1968 I became a life long fan. The 60s was a troubled and turbulent decade with the war and 3 high profile political assassinations, especially for teens, and finally we had a band with power, frankness, rebellion and talent to match the mood. Now a granny at age 71, I still crank up the volume on whole lotta love 💕.☮️
Mee too. I'm the youngunn at 60.😄🤘
2-7-69 kinetic playground, Chicago! Wow. You were lucky!
Yeah
Kinetic Playground
That is pretty cool. My friend was in London in 1969 and he remembers seeing Zeppelin advertised for a Concert that evening. You are very fortunate to have seen them before the rest of us were able to know them. Especially in a small venue. I was able to see them in Mannheim Germany in the summer of 1980, 3rd to their last show.
The best ever. I was 4 years old and mind you my family was on our way to church early Sunday morning (7:30am) and we were listening to the radio (am) on station 690 Khj with the reel Don steele and whole lotta love came on, I told my dad to turn it up, me being the youngest of 6 , he told everyone in the station wagon to be quiet because my song was on. I may have been only 4 , but I will never forget that day.
Great story, Mr. Camacho
When I was a boy of about 9 yrs old my "cool" aunt was babysitting me. I was looking at her albums and was attracted to the cover of Zeppelin Four. I asked if I could listen to it. She put it on the turntable, plugged in the headphones and my life instantly changed. This music will live forever.
Saw them in Houston in 1977. All the bands came through Houston back in the day. My mom stood in line at a department store to buy our tickets for us since we were in school. Mom was the best.
Robert has the best Rock voice that has ever existed the sincere emotion in his voice is unmatched.
Hell, his voice still rocks.
Amen Br!!!the greatest!!and I heard Zeppelin when they first hit the radio ,his voice was almost haunting!!!but it drew you in and I wanted to hear more like an addiction!!love Zeppelin especially Robert's voice!!!
There is nothing left to say about Zeppelin! Just cherish the memories!😊👍 from a 70 year old!
Back when I was a kid in the 80’s, 1987 and I was 13, my dad bought me a stereo for my room for Christmas. Inside where the cassette tape drawer was my dad had bought and placed every Led Zeppelin album! It was the best Christmas gift I ever got.
Zeppelin was the first band that really grabbed me.
At home in Birmingham UK in the late 60s my rather strict father wouldn’t allow “pop” music to be played, so with no money to speak of, I had an old valve radio and some cheap headphones (used to listen to pirate Radio Caroline broadcasting from a ship in the North Sea and Radio Luxembourg) then came Zeppelin I and II which I played relentlessly on an old stack mono Decca turntable.
Led III became my favourite - Tangerine - That’s the way - Friends - somehow you could make the lyrics fit the turmoil of adolescence… well that’s how I remember those amazing times.
Even better that John Bonham was a “local” (born and raised in nearby Reddich) and Robert Plant lived in Halesowen close to where I worked. I was a Brummie, and he was a Blackcountry lad, of course I never ever met him, but the local districts in the Midlands were close and tight-knit - I felt I knew him 🤣 and I loved Wales too, still do, I lived there for 15 years.
That’s how it was … memories from a 68 year-old fan now living in Romania. ❤️🇷🇴👍🏻
Seeing Zeppelin live in Cincinnati in the spring of '77 is my greatest musical experience. I quit my job because my boss told me I could have the day off. At the last minute he changed his mind. Jobs come and go but this is Zeppelin. I wouldn't have missed it for any reason.👍☮️
I live around Cincinnati, and I'm so jealous. I would have been 7 at the time, so that wasn't going to happen for me.😕
Good your boss was a dick anyways lol. I had a pt time job for 6yrs at a local small steel shop and my boss lent me his big old cad sev to take 8 of us for VH lol thanks MARIO lol
@@pipepicasso8112 I live North of Portsmouth Ohio. I was 17 and it was a amazing show. I've been to well over 100 concerts and that one is the most memorable.👍☮️
You did the right thing, your boss is in a senior living center, yelling at imaginary kids to "get off my damn lawn!"
Was there also my friend , Free ticket by friend for my Birthday!!
In their prime, Led Zeppelin was a force of nature.
No other band had the power to shake you to the core of your soul and hours after a concert, you could still feel their music pulsing through you .......
To this day, there is no other song that rivals the mid section of that song. The mood, the sounds, everything about it was original and unique, and still is.
My first concert ever.....A gangly nerdy teenager with busted glasses, jammed into standing room only......They came busting out with "Immigrant Song", and probably played two or three more songs before pausing to acknowlege the crowd, and the intensity grew from there. To me, they were larger than life. I wound up seeing them 7 more times through 1977.
Led Zeppelin were a mosaic of music talents glued together by each other
Zeppelin. Greatest rock and blues band EVER!!!
As the world turns soft, I crank up Led Zeppelin.
1979, I was 17 in grade 10. A huge KISS fan (still am). Myself and fellow classmate and guitar player, Willy Short, often spoke of KISS and others. He one day said..."Do you know Led Zeppelin?" "Yeah' I have heard of them and Stair Way to Heaven, but that's about it." He then told me that he was bringing in a Zeppelin album the next day and said give it a chance...just listen to it...especially the first song, Whole Lotta Love. Well I did that with a bit of apprehension I might add. Next day, I went home for lunch with Willy's Zeppelin album, Led Zeppelin II. I put it on and that very first riff had me sold. I listened to it repeatedly in its entirety and was simply gobsmacked and mesmerized. I was supposed to bring it back but told him I was so knocked out that I would bring it back tomorrow...he was simply beaming that I was hooked. About a week or so later (lol) I did bring him his album back but only after I bought my first Led Zeppelin album, Led Zeppelin II. The whole album is a master piece...bar none. Thank you Willy Short , wherever you are, for helping broaden my musical direction in a most wonderful way.
Man alive I remember hearing it at school, we had a really cool music teacher, I ran home after school, emptied my money box and ran to the local music store. Man , I can’t believe that’s about 47 years ago, once home I cranked it to 10 and let it ripi….in fact I still do it to this very day.
When I was in High School our Art Teacher was our Radio Station CLosed Circit in School to Cafeteria and Home Rooms and Study Halls during split assemblies 1973-1974 School Year for Me. And we got to play it all From Grateful Dead 💀 to Doors , Jimmy Hendrix on and on NRPS’s Panama Red
Zep just does something physiologically altering to me like nothing else I ever heard… I can’t describe it accurately, but I feel it instantly every time I immerse myself in the sonic ocean that is Led Zeppelin.
It's spiritual, they're transporting you spiritually. I love the band by far, but there's some spiritual deception in there. Plant knows it but won't say it outright. He just says he was "naive"
@@damonjones9606 I have to think though, if Led Zeppelin was getting help from the spiritual realm, they would’ve played better live than they did.
ZEP SUCKS!👿
Here here!!!
Todd, that was a very "heavy" statement dude. I can only compare it to a molecular reconstruction experience I had at a party. Someone passed me a bottle so yeah, I took a few slugs. The morning sunrise at the park was pretty far-out. Crap, the Head Nurse just called lights out. I'll catch you on the parallel plane Space Cap'n.....
I could never, EVER get tired of Led Zep!!! It shocks me that they never had another number one hit on the charts!!! Whaaat????
That’s because they aren’t generic.
They never did, not even this song. Number #1 in our hearts though.
Back in the late 60's I was way ahead of my friends, in the music I was listening to. FM radio was new, and referred to as underground radio. I loved buying a new album and turning my friends onto them, sometimes playing them a song on the telephone. I had been to a Pink Floyd concert, where they had sound effects playing from a reel-to-reel tape recorder, and I thought that was uncool. So when a friend of mine played Led Zeppelin for me (on the phone), I thought they were real Trippy, but told him they could never duplicate the songs on stage without a tape playing the far-out sounds, until................................... I went to a Led Zeppelin concert, and realized Jimmy Page was making those sounds playing his guitar with a violin bow! I became a fan for life!!!
Your COOL! Don’t hurt your wrist trying to pat your back.😂
I can’t type enough about my feelings and thoughts I have for Zeppelin. Every musician in the band were phenomenal.
I remember hearing it blaring from my sister's bedroom in 1978. I was eight years old. The next day I asked my parents for a guitar and I've been playing ever since 🎸🤘
Zep's recordings are timeless classics that will still be played for decades, possibly centuries to come. Such a rare combination of raw musicality, artistry and smart, innovative, production. They truly captured lightning in a bottle. One must-see is the UA-cam video of Jimmy Page commenting on the making of Stairway to Heaven as he plays the record. Fascinating!
agreed - here it is here:
ua-cam.com/video/DDo4CA13LbY/v-deo.html
I’ve watched that video several times. It’s so interesting listening to him describe what he was after composing Stairway. And his smile at the end is so gracious.
It’s like the man doesn’t know he’s a genius.
A friend of mine hitchchicked from Connecticut to Canada in 1980 to buy tickets for led zeppelin and the local paper dud a story on him, the ppl let him go in front of the line. Then the death of Bonam was released. The paper paid for his bus ticket back.
I also have friends who's parents bought Elvis presley tickets in Hartford Connecticut and he passed away before the show and instead of returning them they kept them. It costed $13.50
I have so much respect for the band for placing the value of the artistic concept of the album above all else.
It was a Saturday morning before we usually got up. The stereo is full blast playing "Whole lotta love". My dad was standing in the living room with a huge smile on his face as the family is entering. I'm smiling thinking "This is freaking insane!" Mom is yelling at dad "John turn that crap down!" dad didn't move just shook his head no and mouthed "this is rock and roll get used to it!"
I'll never forget that morning as it changed my life in the music world. Unfortunately mom never opened her mind enough to ever like that crap, as she put it. I sure did as an eight year old boy, thanks dad for those many memories, I wish we were sharing more. Led Zeppelin was one of many rock bands he shared with me, I'm still a rocker til I pass!
To any of the younger music lovers on here you need to hear all of the led zeppelin albums, they owned the 70s for good reason. They electrified the blues like no one else. As Muddy Waters said the blues had a baby and named it rock and roll. Great review professor of one of the best band ever!
It's interesting how blues inspired Zep and the Stones and then how Buddy Holly and Elvis more middle of the road rock and pop inspired the Beatles...
@@ProfessorofRock I never thought of that but it is absolutely true, well said
If by no one else you mean; Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Taste, Jeff Beck, Mountain and a whole list of others, I suppose you're right
Led Zeppelin II was the 1st record I ever bought back back in the seventies when I was but a mere teenager. We all certainly thought that Led Zeppelin was the greatest band in the world!
Maybe you all certainly thought that Led Zeppelin was the greatest band in the world -- Because Led Zeppelin IS the greatest band in the world! 😉🙃😎
In my area for decades the local radio station 97Rock Buffalo NY once a Year had a battle Stairway to Heaven vs FreeBird as greatest song of all time
Zeppelin 2 is my favorite album of theirs
We still think that!
Aren't they?
This jam was my introduction to Led Zeppelin. I was with a friend at his friends house & he asked me if I heard of Zeppelin as he put the album on a turntable.
My life changed at that moment. I never forgot that day & why I was there in the first place. 🤘😎🤘
My dad hated rock music and I played LZ's Hotdog for him. He said "Now that's music!" to which I replied "That's Led Zeppelin!". Great memory
Led Zeppelin IS the greatest rock n roll band...Ever! I was 13 years old in 1969 and bought the album because of the song Whole Lotta Love. I found that I loved all the songs. The artwork I couldn't stop looking at. I then bought the first album. I still have those first seven albums. The band has been my favorite ever since then. I'm very pleased I ran across this site and enjoyed listening to the Professor! Thank you very much!
I was 6 years old. I listened to the radio every night to take my mind off of the “eyes watching me” from the knot filled panels on my walls. The radio gave me comfort above my parents telling me “the eyes” are watching over me to protect me from what ever evil my mind conjured, a boy with a heathy imagination and scared of the night. As I fell into twilight, the radio offering me an attempt at peaceful sleep, I suddenly awakened at the terrific screams and moans of a mad scientist, demons at the door! Scratches and cry’s!!! Then: BOMP BOMP! That RIPPING lead guitar!!! BOMP BOMP! Again more screaming lead guitar!! …. I was hooked! I had to have it! LED ZEPPELIN ll. The next morning I begged my mother for the $7.00 it cost to purchase the album, my very first album! Ive been playing guitar ever since. It made an impact on my life!
I think Led Zeppelin is greatest band all time. More than Iconic. They're THE symbol of that era, hands down. The symbol, as a band, of rock music.
For those crying rivers About Plagiarizing nonsense. Everybody stole something from the all the way back from the dawn of time. Second and most importantly Zeppelin elevated those bits to levels the originals could never hope to reach and made them global. Lastly
Zeppelin is in the history books as the most covered and sampled band IN HISTORY, any genre. So take your Tissue and wipe those tears and Just enjoy the greatness that its zeppelin
Led Zeppelin rocks my world every day. I have all the albums. I cruised every weekend with Zep blasting in my 8 track. When any one asks me favorite album or song I say, "Led Zeppelin" every time!
In 1975, I wanted an 8-Track so bad and the one I wanted was $39.99 at Radio Shack. That was half my weekly take home pay! I just had to make do with my AM radio :)
I bought that 8-track in '72 and spent nearly all I had for it. I installed it in my '63 Corvair Monza. We were poor twenty somethings at the time sharing a house together and couldn't afford a stereo system, so we would park the Corvair next to the house and run wires from the car to speakers inside the living room. It was hard on the car battery and someone had to run outside to change cartridges, but it worked! And Zeppelin II was a favorite!
When I was 12 my uncle took my siblings and I on a road trip to a family reunion. He played Led Zeppelin on cd in the car. It blew my mind. I begged for a zeppelin album for Xmas that year. When I opened the wrapping paper and got the Les Zeppelin Early Days greatest hits album I ran to my room and played it immediately. I went to bed with headphones on every night for months listening to that album. It absolutely rocked my world. The opening riff of Whole lotta love still sends shivers down my back.
Many of you aren't aware that this was first heard on AM pop stations. At the time there was only two sources of Rock and Roll. Both were AM stations. The local one, and another far away that I could pick up only at night (AM signals carried a long way) These stations thankfully. played a mix of everything from bubble-gum, to country crossovers. This song was so impactful because we weren't inundated with FM specialty stations until about 1973. I was 13. Changed my direction in music for a long time.
I might mention, that virtually all my peers carried around pocket transistor radios. They were glued to our ears like kids today and their cell phones. We sang along, and talked about music. WE were involved!
Music was everything back then. I'm older than you, but the radio was an incredibly vital part of life. Transistor radios became big in the early to mid 60s, and car radios were only AM. The sound was tinny, but with the advent of stereo record players, we finally heard the great depths and instrumentations of songs like whole lotta love. If you're old enough to remember the early days of rock and roll, you'll get it when I say today's music is mostly....ho hum, oh well, yawn... But still, there really is some great stuff today even if the impact is quickly forgotten as over stimulated youth hurries on to the next fad. Guess ya can't stop progress.
@@denisefarmer366 You're exactly right. I am 65. The stations then also played a lot of oldies- (50's to early 60's). So I was exposed to the entire genre of rock by the time I was 10, or so. They played a wide variety of music, and continued playing rock's history till I went FM in 74'. If I had started as a yound kid listening to the head-banger FM stations, that I listened to from 74' on, I would have missed a lot! Even that amount of exposure was a drop-in-the-bucket, compared to the tsunami, that kids are inundated with today. It's a shame that I remember it all so clearly, but sometimes, can't remeber why I walked outside!
@@billybobbubbawubba9457
Love your name! That forgetting part you mentioned, so true. On early AM as you said, all genres were played. But mostly I remember "our" music. I'm 71 and am familiar with most AM radio from about 1958 and beyond due to having an older brother. Glad to hear that someone else remembers. I also tuned into FM around 1973. Just seemed like a logical progression.☮️🤣
1977 i was 15 & i took my first trip on a train , to ny city (first) , climbed the steps to the top of the empire state building (first), then to the garden to see led zeppelin in concert!
As much credit as Led Zeppelin has been given... it is still not enough. Acknowledged as they are for being rock gods... and they're still underrated. I just love Zep so damn much.
Me too, they are so loved and appreciated, but I completely agree they still feel underappreciated, there are so many aspects to them in which they are unmatched.
they need to be held to account for stealing so many riffs from other artists
@@RobertMJohnson oh right, Communication Breakdown, Dazed and Confused, Babe I am Gonna Leave You, Good Times Bad Times, Whole Lotta Love, Heartbreaker(2 GOAT riffs imo), Moby Dick, Ramble On, Thank You, Bring it on Home, Immigrant Song, Black Dog's 3 riffs, When the Levee Breaks, Going to California, Misty Mountain Hop, No Quarter, Over the Hills and Far Away, Song Remains the Same, The Ocean, The Rain Song, Dancing Days Custard Pie, The Rover's several riffs, Houses of the Holy, Trampled Under Foot, In the Light's 3 riffs, Ten Years Gone, In My Time of Dying's multiple riffs, some little songs named Stairway to Heaven, Kashmir, Achilles Last Stand (with just about a dozen riffs) are all stolen!! Right, thanks where you all this time, man. Oh right, they stole all of them from a less known band named Led Zeppelin and their lead guitarist Jimmy Page. Oh my God, what a bunch of cheaters they are.
@@RobertMJohnson “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn.” -T. S. Eliot
Led Zeppelin, like the Beatles, were the "good poets" of music.
@@RobertMJohnson Who cares? All the original artists got paid. That is how it was done.
They should all be grateful that Zep did their material, otherwise it would have remained forgotten.
My 14 year old son just got a record player for Christmas. I need to go out and find Led Zeppelin's albums on vinyl now, so he can experience them. The first album he played on it was Johnny Cash "Live at San Quentin".
A Whole Lotta Love is a great song even with the "borrowed" parts. The vocals and musicianship are hard to top. One othe things I love most about Zepplin is that their albums are so solid as a whole. The songs you don't hear on the radio are just as good. Amazing what they did in such a short period of time. Thanks again for another great video, Adam!
Thanks Dave!
It’s about what you do with the song, they elevate the borrowed parts and created a timeless classic that changed music.
The lyrics only are the "borrowed" parts...
Yeah, Led "borrowed" quite a bit over the years💰💰💰
@@mgibby63mg And only just a little bit of the lyrics.
I was 4 years old and the song came on on am radio , the station was “Khj”. My whole family tripped out. Mind you I am a first generation mexican born and raised in California. My mom and dad thought the song was interesting. My older brothers and sisters loved it. To bad the song was cut to be vin played on the radio. Funny thing. It was on the way to church.
Every thing you say about Led Zepplin I completely agree. I am 63 now and as with yr dad I too had never heard and I’d say never will hear another band play such insane music that kinda changed my outlook on my whole life. Proof that freedom of one self to express whoever we r in whatever way we feel with freedom cannot b surpassed. They took music to a level that sure there has been other bands have glimpse of that power and aggressive style of the four of zepplin. But I don’t think I’ve heard any other similar style of hard dock line that turn around and in the next breathe have the subtle poise similar to Cat Stevens incredible feel. They could do it all and made no apology either. I am forever grateful to have had the openness to hear it. And again make no apology for having them tattoo on my skin. Sorry to say this but they owned me. It’s just how it is when yr mind is opened and becomes aware of LED ZEPPELIN
I love that moment when Jack White and the Edge stopped being rock stars and became kids again while listening and watching Jimmy play. You can see Jack just put his guitar down and smile glowingly as he just watches and the glee in Edge’s face as he watches Jimmy’s fingers actually play it. Beautiful. 🥹🌻
Your dad's experience was similar to mine. My grandma bought it for my birthday in 1980. I ran upstairs and played it all the way the through. I'll never forget where I was when I first heard 'Whole Lotta Love'. It was the lodestone through my musical career that lasted 20 years. Led Zeppelin: accept no substitutes.
It was 1980. I was 10 yrs old. I just discovered FM. Up till then it was bubble gum top 40, and disco on the local AM dial. It was Grease (which I loathed) and Boney M (even more). As God is my witness I swear the first song I ever heard on FM was Whole Lotta Love. It was the musical equivalent of being taken by the lapels and bitchslapped! I loved it!! I played this on a tape in front of a bunch of friends back then, and because they never heard the likes of this before, they thought I was nuts!
This is the first song I heard from Zep back in 82, when I was 12, on my sister's cassette. I was absolutely blown away! That's what started my love affair with them, and Rock in general. They're why I started playing guitar. My sister always had the best music! My brother, not do much lol.
The first song I ever heard from Led Zeppelin is Over The Hills And Far Away back in March 1994.
What'd your brother listen to?
Great song!
@@ProfessorofRock My brother would to all the top 40 usually. No offense to these bands, but Air Supply, Loverboy, Cliff Richards. Like I said, my sister had the best albums. Zep, Bad Company, Journey etc. She used to listen to this one band called Shooting Star. They were really good! If you haven't heard them, look them up sometime. My first album that I bought when I was 11 back in 81 was the record Paradise Theater from Styx. My dad gave me the money to buy for cleaning out his Semi. He was a truck driver. I loved the song Too Much Time On My Hands. I would always buy a whole record or cassette when I liked a song. I never did fool with singles. Love you and your show man! God Bless you and your family, and stay safe!🙏❤🙏❤🙏
@@carmstrong6507 Over the Hills and Far Away is one of my absolute favorites of Zeppelins. Fantastic song!
Led Zeppelin II was how my mom put me to bed as a baby, she said it was the only way to get me to sleep, place me next to the speakers on the floor, and play the album. Would put me to sleep almost instantly. The album is now my favorite album of all time.
I spent many a night doing 70s things, coming home, and putting on the headphones to listen to "Whole Lotta Love." The "freakout" and its following power guitar riffs blew me away. Still, I gotta agree with those who said that "Houses of the Holy" stands as my favorite Zeppelin album.
I can't say my favorite song by Zeppelin. If I had to pick one it would be Kashmir. Driving through the woods stoned with a girlfriend looking for a party, man Jimmy Page really makes you more high than the pot. The riff on Kashmir is... enchantig??? Intoxicating??? We never got to the party and just kept rewinding the one song.
I was 10 years old when I first heard of Led Zeppelin. At that time I was listening to The Partridge Family, The Jackson 5, and The Osmond Brothers. At 10 years old it was all Top 40 and Bubble Gum.
As I got older and I to my pre-teen and early teen years I was listening to a lot of albums with headphones. Once I heard Whole Lotta Love in stereo I was mesmerized and hooked on Led Zeppelin. They went on to become my favorite band (like so many others). Because of them I fell in love with R&B and Blues. I fell in love with early Fleetwood Mac and other bands like that. But Zeppelin would always be number one in my heart. To this day, they remain my favorite band and I feel the best rock band in the world.
One thing sticks out about this band, and although Page was the guitar player and Page the vocalist, Page used his instrument like and extension of vocals and Plant’s voice was like that of an instrument.
They way Eddie Van Halen and David Lee Roth did or Neal Schon and Steve Perry did.
Zeppelin was everything. Blues, rock, country, folk, and so much more. The most versatile band of all time. They were great songwriters. The music and the lyrics are top notch. It just wasn’t Stairway To Heaven when it came to the music and lyrics. There is track after track.
Thank you for this feature.
My story is almost identical!!!
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I can listen to Zep's songs over and over again, getting the same strong mood altering experience every time. One of their best tunes, Ramble On, can evoke the feelings of wanting to get up and out of town, if only in our imaginations. The blues rock of Robin Trower and Jimi Hendrix are a close second.
I love Boogie Chillen' in the Zeppelin medleys.
I saw LED Zeppelin in 1977 in Greensboro, North Carolina. I was a senior in high school. Words truly cannot describe what it was like that night. I still have the t shirt from the tour. I will always cherish the fact that I actually witnessed these guys live in concert!! Something I can't really convey in my feeble words.
I'm listening to you and the way you put everything together, and suddenly I'm transported to 1969 -75 era of my life, and it is wonderful! Thank you Adam!
Funny thing, I was born in '69 but my main listening era is exactly 1969-75 - seems the creative juices were overflowing in that era. Perhaps the musical development of the sixties combined with maturing electronics for musical instruments? Still love the mellotron, such as used by King Crimson for example.
Let me throw in a random gem from Captain Beefheart: This Is The Day (Live From London/1974)
Be dazzled by the sweet tone of Dean Smiths' guitar.
Somehow I didn't get into Zeppelin until about 10 years ago. I only knew "Stairway To Heaven," which is in my all-time top 25 favorite songs. I finally decided it was time to get the Zeppelin tunes into my musical life. They were more of an album band, and I was all about the top 40. I think seeing "Whole Lotta Love" peaking at #4 in '69/'70 is what started my curiosity. I listened to it & loved it. That's when I went down the rabbit hole & never looked back. I never knew "Whole Lotta Love," because it didn't play on the radio. It wasn't even played on the oldies show I listened to in the late 80's, as far as I know. I now understand. I get the whole Zeppelin vibe! 😎
Just goes to show, you're never to old...
Welcome to the fan club 🌞
I listened to zed zeppelin back in the early 90s in high school in so. Cali.
Remember that Zepp stole Whole Lotta... from Willie Dixon. They also stole Stairway To Heaven from the band Spirit. Page embellished them and took them to new levels, but still, they were plagiarized.
@@flyingfishsurf'You Need Love' is Blues. There is a long tradition of relentless 'borrowing' when it comes to the blues . The main thing that Zep did wrong was not giving credit. And the court said no to the Spirit lawsuit of Taurus v Stairway to Heaven. Similar but not plagiarized. It's a fine line between inspiration and copying. I am not saying Zep never crossed the line. But they paid for it when the courts said so. And I don't let it get in the way of my enjoyment of their music.
Led Zeppelin 2 was recorded on the road in different studios and you can't even tell. That's a testament to the Led Zeppelin sound.
My favourite band back in the day, without a doubt. I still have my collection of Led Zeppelin tee shirts, programme from Knebworth 1979 and, of course, vinyl albums.
I have all their vinyl albums. I even have a couple bootlegs on vinyl. I wish I could say I saw them like you can.😊✌🏼
I was 12 the first time I heard Whole Lotta Love. My friends older brother played it for me. He told me to sit between the left and right speakers of his stereo and listen with my eyes closed. It blew me away. I've been a Zeppelin fan ever since.
The first time I heard "whole lotta love", I was about 11 years old. It was being played on a radio station in Melbourne, Australia, at 11PM . I was listening to it on a cheap clock radio. It was a hot summer night, and I was sweating. I still remember that night 40 years later. Not long after that song played, Riders on the storm came on. I still remember my mind being blown all those years ago.
Absolutely love the Petty T-shirt. As a Valley dude from the 70s, Free Fallin' is the anthem of my coming of age.
The great thing about Led Zeppelin’s body of work is that every song (~70 songs) is unique in it’s own right. No “hit cloning!” Love them!
I would love to have been a witness to the first Led Zeppelin rehearsals. They figured out pretty quickly that they had amazing chemistry and their sound just took off.
John Paul Jones has stated several times that when they first got together in that room at that first rehearsal, they only played a couple of notes, and Jones was awestruck at how powerful they sounded. He could hardly believe it.
I’m pretty sure that the first song they played was “Train Kept Rolling”. They were all 4 blown away!!!
Thanks for the credit to Willie Dixon. I hope he was paid well in the settlement. So many British rockers were inspired by Delta Bluesmen. Those old guys labored in obscurity and poverty for most of their lives, but their genius drove so much of early rock and roll, and generated a "Whole Lotta of Wealth" for others to benifit from.
Well, the irony there is that Dixon really never wrote anything, he stole all those songs from other unknown bluesmen from the south. All the old-timer blues guys like Muddy Waters & Buddy Guy etc. knew this and kinda looked at Dixon more as a savvy businessman than a writer or musician.
@@tedwojtasik8781 - The TRUTH. 👍
The point is to do something new and hopefully better with the song, no musician will really object to that. The plagiarism cases are usually taken by representatives of the artists, not the artists themselves.
I am 62 and my daughter grew up in a household where the Beatles, Eagles and Led Zeppelin were usually playing. So when she was 15 (13 years ago) and I was teaching her how to drive, she would only go if I played Zeppelin. Thanks for bringing up this memory! I recently discovered your channel and I am enjoying watching your past videos!
I was mesmerized by that freak out section as a teenager and it was one of the pieces that fueled my interest in more experimental music. The thing I particularly like about it in this song though is how well it integrates with the rest of the song...it feels natural and organic and I can't imagine the song without it.
In the late 70s, I was driving through Chicago listening to WLS-AM playing Whole Lotta Love. That version skipped the freak out section. I was shocked to say the least.
Are you sure you didn't mean "natural and orgasmic?" 😄
@@Macdelaven I lived in Woodstock Virginia in The Shenandoah Valley. At night, I could pick up WLS and WABC in NYC on a little one speaker transistor radio that I kept by my pillow. Even at that low quality, I was blown away by WLL! Both stations played it! All next day, I couldn’t wait to hear it again that night!
When I finally bought the album and listened in headphones, I was waylaid!!!
Wish I was around to see them live.
The greatest band ever!
WLL is my go-to when my anxiety is at it's highest. I can be in the middle of an anxiety attack. I play WLL LOUD and by the time the last notes ring out, i am completely calm. Thank you, John Henry Bonham!
I remember cruising around in my 63 Pontiac Tempest listening to this on 8 track, instead of left and right speakers I had a big one in front and back and when the music jumped from speaker to speaker it felt like it was going through my body. Although I grew up with this music and it was a constant backdrop in my life I never took time to actually learn anything about the bands. Now some 50 to 60 years later thanks to you and programs like this I’m finding it very interesting and it’s bringing back some great memories. I must say though having no children to date myself it freaks my out a little when you talk about your father and I realize we’re probably the same age.
Many of the sound effects on "Dark Side of the Moon" were done by an elderly couple whose main work was in the movie industry. Those man-made, creative effects are the real deal, not some computer-generated facsimile. Those were the days.
I remember the first time I heard ‘Immigrant Song”! It was during the Album Rock/FM era that I so miss. To hear newly released albums on the radio played in whole with no commercial interruption was fantastic. Thank you for the history behind the music. New subscriber and bing watching all your UA-cam videos daily.
A few observations:
Re: 'the greatest riff ever': Many music organizations have voted WLL number 1. The satiric online magazine 'The Onion' once did a story about the sad state of pop music. They reported that the remedy riff that would save the world from the poor state of pop music was a riff on sheet music found protected deep in a vault in a mountain, a riff that, once it is released at the right time to save music, can only be played by Jimmy Page.
Some of the old blues artists who made songs popular in the era of recording were actually recycling songs performed by an even earlier generation of blues artists.
Consider a Boeing 787. It is fundamentally the result of the Wright Brothers' idea, only after decades of progress and refinement. So, the LZ songs are the Boeings of the early blues masters/Wright Brothers. Yes, they are similar, in the same tradition, but also their own, completely different pieces.
You have just reviewed, and we still listen to a song recorded 52 years ago, in 1969. Did anyone in 1969 listen to a 1917 song?
Professor, I heard then twice at MSG. After their concerts, no one wanted to leave. At one of those concerts, after their 3-hour set, I was wondering what song was even left for them to play. Then they played WLL. Amazing moment.
Professor, you do amazing work!
The Wright brothers themselves copied an Australian aircraft designer. Where did the alledged original artists get their musical id as from?baby copying earlier musicians. As pointed out by Oasis' and dozens of other musicians, "We walk on the shoulders of giants".
@@kooringagnd As Newton is supposed to have said about Kepler, "if I have seen far, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants....." Zeppelin did that, and became a giant themselves....
Absolute truth. usually it’s young people who are saying they stole their music. That’s how the blues have always gone. For example, lead belly didn’t write midnight special. In fact, they don’t even really know who did. It was one of his biggest hits though.
I liked that you used the clip from This Might Get Loud, where Jack White and The Edge look like school kids when Page starts playing the opening riff to "Whole Lotta Love." Though it is very easy riff to play on guitar, nobody plays it like Page. There is an attitude and a tone in those fingers that no one else can produce!
Nice tribute. As a 15 year old, used to light up, throw the headphones on and enjoy the ride of this tune
I saw them live in 1974. I was overwhelmed, as a 16 year old visiting the big city, it was amazing. When Bonzo did the 22 minute solo while everyone else left the stage was mind boggling. Made me try the drums a couple of times, but I guess I have no timing/rhythm sense. Still one of the best bands of their era
Whole Lotta Love is one song that I remember exactly where I was when first heard it: Thanksgiving weekend, 16 years old, zooming on the freeway through Portland, OR, in a convertible with the top down, at night, with my foster sisters and a couple of guys from a local band. This song blasting on the radio, my sisters and I completely blown away hearing it. Over 50 years ago! Good times.
I always heard the story as Keith Moon said the concept would "go over like a lead balloon" (which is a pretty common expression, even today) and Page changed lead to Led and balloon to Zeppelin (german airship).
I’m a huge Led Zeppelin fan. I had the opportunity to see Robert Plant in concert a few years back in Oklahoma. My seat was on the balcony looking down at the stage. After they finished a song and the applause quieted down I said “ I love you Robert!” He looked up at me like “ Shut up Dave!” Lol. Love the Zeppelin!
“Whole Lotta Love” is one of the best examples of tape “print-through” out there. That’s what is happening in the middle part where Robert Plant sings “Wa-ay down inside
Woman you need”
…you can, when you don’t have any background noise in the room, hear Plant faintly singing those lines right BEFORE he is heard in the mix of the song. It’s kind of like a reverse echo, but not the kind Adam was talking about.
Print-through happens when magnetic tape with sound on it is pressed against another part of the tape without sound on it, for a period of time. Such as on a tape reel. The magnetism of the tape is enough to make watered down copy on the next layer of tape on the reel.
Page could have edited most of this out, but it sounds so cool, I’m glad they didn’t.
i can remember very vividly where i was when i first heard whole lotta love by zepplin. i was 15, riding with my family going shopping. mom and dad, big sister, my four brothers and me were in our chevy station wagon, were listening to an am radio station out of lancaster pa. when it came on, i very quicly asked my dad to turn it up, by the time it was over all of us kids were tapping our fingers along with it. i wondering who it was, they didnt say who it was till a few songs later, they said that they started that set of songs with a new group from england named led zepplin. needless to say i was very much drawn into the band and into rock and roll more than what i was before. wasnt long after that i was paying more attention to what was on the radio. listening for other songs that sparked my interest as well, beatles, stones, elvis, buddy holly. it was a great time to be alive and be a teenager. music more or less exploded for me after awhile and have been playing guitar ever since. beatles, doors, stones, animals, steppenwolf, on ed sullivan. yes i saw the beatles the first time on ed sullivan. saw a bunch of bands, watched it every sunday night just to see what band was going to be on. temptations, james brown, crazy world of arthur brown, i was hooked. but still remember the very early days of rock and roll being played on AM radio stations. was a great time to be alive. nothing like riding with your freinds, radio blasting, catching a buzz with best friends, not hurting anyone just enjoying life.
On sooooo many of their songs we get Zep paying homage to their blues roots. To listen to RP belting out these snippets and then to afterwards go find and listen to the original blues version brings it into clarity and connects this British powerhouse to their American blues predecessors.
In 1970, I was 5 years old. I remember listening to Tito Puente and the Benny Goodman Orchestra because they were the only vinyl albums we owned. I was already a music junkie. We had a local radio station, 99.3 WIBZ. When I learned to tune the channel, I never went back to AM. Zeppelin 2 helped form my childhood identity. A whole lot of love was all I ever wanted.
Love the stories about your Dad Adam, they always add a real perspective, and give a nice personal touch...Here's to Dads everywhere!
Agree
Made me like this so much more with that personal touch and having the Blackfoot ID connection.
In the very early 80s we just moved into a new house. Everything was settled in and most of the boxes had been emptied. I found a box of old
8 tracks my dad still had, he'd long since moved on to cassettes. He didn't care much about them so he let me look through them and play them. Most of them were music I was familiar with having heard my dad play them often. At the very bottom of the box I found two crusty Zeppelin tapes. They were Led Zeppelin II and Houses of the Holy. I asked my dad about them and he said somebody gave them to him, but he never bothered to listen to them. I did and have loved Led Zeppelin ever since.
I remember my friends and I being totally mesmerized by this song and we all took turns listening to it on headphones...which was an other worldly experience in the early days of stereo.
The first time I heard LZ2 I had not yet been born. My father cranked the old Dynaco system as my mom sat with her belly up against the loudspeakers.
You have very quickly became one of my favorite channels ever. You bring back sooo many awesome memories from the 80’s. Thanks for everything you do and keep the awesome videos coming
Zeppelin, favorite group EVER!!!!!
I was driving home one night and listening to Whole Lotta Love when I was pulled over for speeding. The officer asked me if I knew how fast I was going and I said no - I was listening to Whole Lotta Love. He paused for a moment, returned my license, and told me to keep it under the speed limit. He understood what I was talking about.
I want this to be true ;)
@@diatonicdelirium1743 ,really, could well be possible though. My dad liked Zep, Iron Butterfly, CSN Y, Moody Blues, and a whole bunch more. Went to many a concert with him.(I was 20 or so, not a small kid), he didn't like Frank Zappa though, thought he was obscene. Go figure.
I remember wasting time in class with a buddy, sitting in the back of the room at our desks in our jean jackets with our walkman wired down our sleeve to listen in class, competing to see who could name every album song, in order, from 1 to Coda...While doodling their logo on anything in range, as you said. Thank you for this great review of one of the greatest bands of all time, and my #1.
One of the bands I wish I had seen live. Closest was Jimmy Page at MSG in a benefit concert with Clapton and Beck. And back in the 80s my friends and I would go to midnight showings of the Song Remains the Same concert film at the old 8th Street Playhouse in the Village, sitting close to the screen imagining we were at the show.
Before Zeppelin and Whole Lotta Love there was Cream and Sunshine of Your Love. Both with unforgettable intros. Had the two Zeppelin 45s in 1970 and played the shit out of them on my younger sisters crappy portable turntable. Still sounded great to me.
I remember very well when Led Zeppelin blasted onto the scene way back when. Awesome band - I've been a fan since that first album.