Lex nails it. Learning about and acquiring music took more effort. Bands like Zeppelin didn't get much radio exposure, so you heard their albums through friends and at parties. Then it was off to the record store. It was not disposable or forgettable.
While it's true Zeppelin didn't release singles for radio play, and some of their songs were deemed too long by certain radio stations, your point is very misleading because the Zep songs that did get radio play got a *ton* of radio play...like, "Stairway To Heaven", for instance. So every kid who listened to rock stations knew who Zeppelin was--they didn't need to hear about the band from "parties" or from their friends.
@@Cosmo-Kramer depends where you lived. Stairway would have been the only Zep song I heard on the radio in my neck of the woods in the 1970s. Every other Zep tune was from friend's vinyl. So there's that. I lived it.
@@Cosmo-Kramer thanks for the fact-check, but FM wasn't viable in a lot of markets until around LZ III, or come standard with too many car radios, and didn't equal the commercial value of AM competitors until around 1978. I was a Yardbirds fan before LZ I, worked in AM and FM radio - maybe got to play D'Yer Mak'er once a week. US, UK, European and Canadian markets all used different charts.
Yes, we had to buy records, sometimes singles, but ideally the entire album. I seem to recall pricing around 8-14 bucks in the early-mid 80's. Buying an actual album is so much better; take in the cover art, the liner notes, you'd read and re-read everything. This is why we know all the band members, the producers, recording studios and so on. You'd get introduced to music via friends just hanging out, at parties. Of course going to concerts was a big deal And we found places with these paper things called maps and streets had these metal signs so we could figure out where to turn...ha, ;)
I still have all their albums on vinyl, I have several that were released on single only and about 40 bootlegs that my friend from Chicago sent me back in that late '70s early '80s. Anybody that has never experienced going into a record store for hours and hours stoned like a son of a gun and digging through each and every album just hasn't lived. Or listening to your favorite radio station for hours at night listening to the King biscuit flower hour and Night at the Fillmore and all the radio shows that used to play these great albums, waiting in line for hours for a new album to drop or concert tickets to go on sale. Good times gone forever.
@@kurtsaxton823 you're so right mate,it makes me sad how the world is now,much better in the 80s/90s ( was born in 76 ) we'll never get those times again
Not to mention you could go to a concert for the meager price 12.00$ to 14.00$ in 1979 1980 befor ticket master f^@ked it all up! Unlike the crazy prices of today of 100$ to well over 300$
"People probably had record collections." Yes, and some of us still do! It's nice to see Lex trying to get a picture of how it was back in the day. You couldn't just hear the music you wanted to when you wanted to unless you bought the record (or tape...) It was very different terms. Sometimes, you'd take a record over to your friend's house just so you could play it while hanging out. A lot of us ended up listening to entire albums, too, not just the hits, because why not? The record is playing, so let it go! We heard some great songs that way. Like this one. i knew a guy who owned one record, and he took it with him everywhere, waiting for a chance to play it. He didn't own a turntable.
Brad, its been a joy to see how much you have transformed! When your channel started all you wanted to do is analyze, analyze and I see you actually seem to start to just let the music take you on a journey which is what music is supposed to do! It moves your soul! Lex, keep on rocking little lady!!!
Lex had it from the beginning. When she heard these great songs for the first time, she dug them as deeply as I did back in the day. This is so so very enjoyable! I love Brad's expensiveness and openness too!
Buying records was the most awesome experience! And playing the record in its entirety for the first time was amazing! Sinking into the whole experience of reading the album cover and inserts, lyrics, notes, etc. It felt like being part of the creative process. 🤘🏻💜💫
I was born in 1970 I remember I was 10 and I went over my friend Jason’s house and he said want to listen to some Zep besides Stairway to Heaven which is all I basically knew at that point…his dad had gotten him their first 4 albums so we sat there all day and listened to them….I still can remember the chill I got hearing Good Times Bad Times when he dropped the needle on the first song first side first album…lifelong fan ever since….haven’t t seen Jason in over 20 years but anytime we used to run into each other or talked on the phone we would laugh how we hung out that day…great times
Back story on this song: in medieval times (or maybe a lil before that), the custom was if you got the death penalty for certain crimes, you were given a choice. The choice was to pay what was called a "blood debt", which was compensate for the crime by paying $$$, or ELSE sentence was carried out & you got HUNG... if they couldn't pay, no slack was given... If you did the crime & got caught, you either paid or you got no mercy... keep in mind this was pre-1500 ad or something like that... That's why the lyrics say "what did ya bring me, my brother, TO KEEP ME FROM THE GALLOWS POLE?..." Many times, it was your family pooling resources & showing up at the last minute to save you, since you were standing there about to swing. So you better HOPE you had family OR were on GOOD terms with them...
This song is based heavily on an old English folk story/song called "the maid freed from the gallows". Led Zep just gave the story a darker ending and a pretty rocking arrangement.
Thank you for the reaction. Many different stores sold music. We bought hundreds of albums for $1 and $2 at used record stores in Raleigh. Who remembers the 8track tape display cabinets? They had holes you could reach in and grasp the tape to read it, but the hole was too small to pull the tape out.
Saw them last Sunday….great concert. Reworking of When the Levee Breaks was phenomenal…….the lead fiddle player on it is a MASTER. I’m just grateful I finally got to see Robert (it’s been 45 years since I saw Zeppelin) because I don’t know how much longer he will be doing longer, overseas tours like this one.
In 1970, the concerts were announced on the (rock) radio stations, and the tickets were sold in record stores, where we also bought the albums. We knew how to find the concert venues because we went often. But if we needed to find them, we used maps. Paper folding maps which they gave away for free at the gas stations. Yes, we listened to albums or cassette tapes. I still have all my vinyl. Over 300 which contain most of the music you guys play, like this song today. That’s why I enjoy your reactions. It’s sort of like time travel. Thanks.
Relaxing back into that beanbag chair and letting Zep rock you with a great sound system. Feel those vibrations through the bag and take a hit off the herb. I can feel it like yesterday.
Yep…the natural progression for my friends and I was vinyl records and 8-track tapes, followed by cassette tapes (we had to have a tape in the “deck” while listening to the radio station to play our songs and be quick on the “RECORD” buttons - had to press “PLAY” at the same time to make it work! Eventually CD’s were invented and the Digital Revolution was off and running…
Hey guys what's up! Greetings from South florida! Hey Lex, I used to wear that same shirt in high school. Yeah you can't go wrong with Led Zeppelin. I can definitely see why you like them so much. You guys rock! God bless you! Peace!
I was born in 1960 and started listening to Zeppelin in 1970, and bought each album upon release, including Led Zeppelin 3. This is one of my favourite albums and I still get a thrill listening to this song (Bonham's right foot is amazing!) Glad you discovered this song and appreciate the lyrics. Cheers.
@@Ooofaa-Maa Not true. A great number of their songs were originated from Delta Blues, mostly from artists that came off the chitlin circuit like Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Robert Johnson himself, and then a lot more came from American Rockabilly and early Rock and Roll. To say all their songs came from early folk songs is a great overstatement. A portion of them did but a true Zeppelin fan knows that it was a combination of many different styles including Reggae also that made up Led Zeppelin. Classical music was also there. And also Gospel.
Back in the 70's my uncles used to record music off of the TV. They would put their tape recorder in front of the television and record from Soul Train and ABS. Any show that played music.
Kudos to Brad for nailing the content meaning on the first listen! This LP (III) was sometimes marginalized for being 'the acoustic album,' but personally it's a favorite. JPJ really shined, holding down both the bass and the mandolin on this track, for example. Great song!
I does have a little bit of Blue Grass sound. Blue Grass is from Appalachia and the people from that area are of Irish and Scottish heritage. Scots and Irish are Gaelic/Celtic
We had vinyl, then 8 track, and on to cassette. Don't even know what you young-uns have to choose from anymore. But be glad you got to hear the genius of Zeppelin, even Brad. 😆
when i first started buying records back in those days, they cost about $4.00. my mother would give me 20.00 to buy some pants. but i would buy 4 albums and get change back. yeah, the only way to hear this music from those days in the 70s was at parties or on the radio. gettin' stoned with your buddies. it was all basically 'word of mouth'. i had over a thousand records twice in my life. i had to unload them both times. now i have UA-cam to enjoy. and you two bring these songs to life.
Expect it was the same around the world. I heard Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love on the radio, loved it and bought the Led Zeppelin II vinyl album disc. Knew this album, III, was out when Immigrant Song was on the radio . A friend played me the first album and I bought it. The fourth album, Stairway to Heaven and all that, was airmailed to a Welsh friend living in Sydney and I had my copy two weeks before the Australian release. Radio and friends, that is how you kept abreast of music. There was always at least one radio station that played the contemporary music. Music not popular enough for radio you picked up from friends. I was listening to Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa and Jethro Tull without ever hearing them on radio thanks to friends. And a lot of hallucinogenics. It was the era. We went out to meet people, get stoned and listen to music.
as a huge LZ fan since I was 14/15 and now near 50, I can get behind Brad's resistance to LZ. Not every one gets taken in, the ones that do, they don't get out
Even back in the 60s, we had ways of hearing about concerts (radio, newspapers, posters, etc.). Scoring good seats required connections or being first in line when tickets went on sale. Records were readily available in cities with record stores (less selection at department stores) and weren’t so very expensive (if you had a job). When going to visit friends, we’d always go through their record collection to find something to listen to, then listen to a side or the whole thing, so we’d have access to more music than what we could buy ourselves.
@2:55 On target with that one Brad. Jimmy Page often talked about his “CIA”: Celtic, Indian, Arabic sounds he often integrated into his music. The Gaelic would fall into this category for the Celtic influence.
Radio was it, Brad. EVERYBODY had either Boom Boxes, transistor radios (slightly fatter than a cell phone), or a car with a bangin' 8 track or cassette tape player AND an FM radio . . . . . but radio was the platform by which we all had our first listen to all the new stuff. All of this music is new to you BUT, when it was new to us, IT WAS BRAND NEW TO EVERYONE! Try to imagine that . . . . .
I think I bought this album for $3 from Sears. Loved it, would poor hours over reading the information, looking at the album art, and sharing it with friends as invites to bring music would always be a common theme. We carried our music in milk crates or wooden crates we made ourselves. This is and always will be my favorite Zepplin song. It just has it all. To get exposed to music, people would visit and hang out in music stores, looking through the album selection, listening to something over the intercom and if your tastes were outside the norm of that music store, you simply took albums to a listening booth, and with headphones, played the album you were interested in. It was also a poor man's way of getting to listen to music they couldn't afford to buy, much like reading a book in the library instead of buying it or checking it out, you could listen to music in a music store. We also had college radio stations that would play the genre of your interests at some point in the week, going over trending hits, classic staples, and new upcoming possibilities within that genre of music. Whether at work, at home, driving, or out with friends socializing, the radio would be playing, and all would be listening, reacting, and celebrating together. As far as buying music, every town had a music store, and all the big-name stores had a music section. The music stores offered more catering to the music customer, but the availability of hot trendy albums or singles might only be kept up with via the big stores that had more readily available ordering times. Things were more interactive and social back then than today. It is ironic how social media actually makes people less social and less interactive, and less...
Twelve year old me heard Whole Lotta Love late one night on the radio, and that was it. Didn't know what I was hearing, but I knew I liked it! Zeppelin has been my favourite band ever since, and now I'm 65.
“Your brother brought me silver And your sister warmed my soul But now I laugh and pull so hard And see you swinging on the gallows pole.” That’s pretty cold 🥶
When I was a teen I joined the Columbia record club...They sold vinyl lp's ...When you joined you could select several albums for the price of one or two...You were then required to by several other albums for the regular price within a specified time...I can't remember the exact price, but I think they were between 3 or 4 dollars each unless they were double or triple albums...I was a member for four or five years...What a difference from the way you can get music today...Sometimes the good old days weren't so much...
Guys, radio was the vehicle at first that flooded early rock into the airwaves. Elvis, BeachBoys, Beatles, etc . Then there was the FM radio which was like an underground channel for rock music. Those channels played entire albums on the air. Most popular FM channels were heard very late at night. DJs were usually stoned and played long uninterrupted periods of music. Bands who visited the city would be interviewed on air late at night so that folks would get to know them and buy their music at a store.
Back in the early 70's - 80's myself and my friends travelled to Liverpool every weekend to watch bands at one or another of the many theatres and clubs bands like Pink Floyd Yes Genisis Black Sabath Deep Purple Wishbone Ash Santana BJH Jethro Tull and many more now famous and some not so famous like Budgie Stray Bebop Deluxe Hawkwind The Sensational Alex Harvey Band Focus - just too many to mention of course we had all the albums also, but remember at that time most bands were touring every year so there was always someone playing somewhere good time for music lovers! and keep up the good work! thanks
This is a great one by them for sure. Yeah, I would argue that these concerts in the '60s and 70s and for me it would have been the mid to late seventies and into the early 80s, they definitely were much harder than today to coordinate, and to get to and just everything about it without the internet. Or cell phones. But I would say that on the other hand, when you got together at these things, everybody feels this incredible bond even though there could be tons of people there. You're all there for the same thing and it wasn't easy to get there but now you're there and this band is going to come out and totally kick ass and you're going to have a memory to last a lifetime. So much fun.
Lex, back in the day we heard music on the radio, as you said, and bought albums. We also shared music with each other, so a lot of what we heard came to us through word of mouth and other people's album collections. When cassettes became popular we copied albums for friends. There was also mail order music clubs like Columbia Records and Tapes or RCA Music Service. They ran ads in magazines or by direct mail where you could choose 7 or 10 or 15 albums for a penny (later a buck I think), on condition you buy a certain number at regular price in the next three years or some such. They didn't keep very good records, though, and many of us joined over and over and basically built decent collections for free, and many people probably never bought the regular price albums they were supposed to buy. I miss those times, but honestly there are pros and cons to both eras. Music was basically curated by the record companies then, so you didn't hear a lot of independent bands unless they became locally popular or ended up signed to a label. Whereas today anyone can publish their own music online, make videos, etc. So you get to hear a lot of stuff you wouldn't have in the 90s and before... but it can be too much, so you can never hear more than a small fraction of it all, and you have to wade through a lot of chaff to find the wheat. Brad, Gaelic refers to the Celtic people and language of Ireland, Scotland and Mann. The original inhabitants of Great Britain were also Celtic, of a different type with different but related language (Brythonic). After the Saxon and Norman invasions they were pushed back to Wales, Cornwall and some left Britain and inhabited an area of France called Brittany (named after the Britons who settled there). The Gauls, the original inhabitants of France and surrounding areas, were likewise Celts. This song isn't specifically Gaelic or Celtic but it does have a definite British Isles folk vibe.
Lex I still have my record collection from the 70's still listen to them every day just like the 70's ... Great song great reaction ... I still have multiple hifi systems from the 70's Pioneer and Sansui with huge speakers ment to be played loud sometimes the windows must rattle, thats how we did it back in the 70's
There was nothing like concerts in the 70s & 80s and up to about the middle 90s.....Everyone was there to experience with their eyes and ears not through a cell phone , only a lighter and some weed. haha. it was a beautiful experience. The best rock and roll bands ever too.... I miss those times but glad I lived it.
You got it Lex, Radio was the way pop songs were introduced but there were also radio programs that specialized in alternative and commercially less popular genres, sometimes air-ing once a week for 2 hours at 11:00PM. Next, we socialized and talked, generally when you bought a new vinyl album, you told your friends about it, and shared thoughts. As young teen age boys you would invite 2-3 friends to come over to your house after school to listen to the new albums you had. The same way young people today talk about the latest Marvel cartoon series episode after watching this or that, we talked about music. Walking into the record store where you were a regular, the store clerk would tell you that Led Zeppelin just released a new album, "just came in the store today!" or he/she would inform you about a new, unknown band that you should have a listen to. Buying records and what you could afford of course depends on peoples wealth and income, but generally, as a 15 year old boy you could afford 1 LP album per month, maybe you had a news paper route or restaurant dishwasher job on the week-ends to afford an album each week. Young working adults, let's say 25 years old would maybe buy 5-6 albums per month. You treasured your record collection and treated your albums with care. People had systems, alphabetical or chronologically or by genre, that they used to store their albums in order and if your sibling grabbed your album and put it back in the wrong place/order, it upset you, and I am not talking about a few OCD people, no, this was common. Your record collection was both a prized/pride affair and it was also somewhat of a status, this stuff was competitive in a way. The cost of a record player; expensive in that, it was a single use apparatus, not a functionality of your phone or computer, cost was a few Hundred Dollars with speaker(s). BUT BUT BUT! Soon in your journey, the sound quality of a record player would not satisfy, be good enough and you would start saving for a sound (stereo) system, separate pieces of equipment, a turn table (would play vinyl albums but without an amplifier and speakers would do you nothing), an amplifier or receiver (maybe even a separate pre-amp and main-amp), speakers, Then there were tape decks, equalizers, tuners and more. The thing is that while technology is far better today, people's stereo systems in the 70's had better sound quality than what people have today with cheap earbuds and so on because people emphasized their music systems and wanted good sound and quality. The stereo system was often an item of pride, proudly displayed in their living rooms. Prices are all over the map, from fall apart cheap to absolute ridiculously expensive. This world has not completely died, there's still a HiFi community today and in some cases people will spend $50,000 for the wires that run from their amp to the speakers, no joke. In the 70's, I would say that the price of a respectable stereo system that many people owned was 25% of the cost of a car. People saved up for it, and also because it was made from individual pieces of equipment, people would gradually up grade, piece meal, so buy a new turn table, at $700 but keep their old amp and speakers, and so on. They also did this because this industry was rapidly developing with better stuff on the market every few years and on going. Music was a very exciting and interesting social dynamic in the 70's and people my age, who lived it, miss it very much and have a hard time letting go and adopting to their phone being their music devise.
In the 70s Lex I earned $80/week while at uni and bought all of Led Zep’s records for between $5-10 per record. And a carton of beer was $6. It was easy to party, drink and listen to Led Zep all night long.
Led Zeppelin took some flak for this album. After their first two storming, 'heavy' sounding hard blues-rock, they had some time in the countryside of Wales and wrote many of these more folk/acoustic inspired numbers. Various critics felt they'd run out of ideas but of course it showed the band was versatile and trying other things. And after all, rock and roll didn't come only from blues - it also came from country/folk, which when traced back goes back to English folk, Irish and Scottish folk (the Gaelic that Bred mentioned). I love this song and this album and the more acoustic-leaning songs. There's great footage of Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones doing an acoustic part in the middle of a LZ gig at Earl's Court, London, 1975. 20 years later, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page would revisit the acoustic/folk sound for their 'No Quarter' tour. Great stuff.
Their genius version of an black American song , mandolin ,and European instruments and a voice and virtuoso playing that captures a west African spirit force in origin. There will never be another led zeppelin on this side of armageddon.
Yes we would buy albums, and sometimes then tell our friends which ones we bought so they didn't buy the same ones and then tape it on cassette and then share them with each other.
Music in the 70's was radio, then albums and cassettes. 8 tracks for a bit, but I always hated them because they would break a song in the middle, and you had to wait for the track to change. Garage bands would typically record on cassette, unless they had money for a reel to reel. High end home stereos in the early seventies might have a reel to reel tspe player, but I honestly don't know how much music was availabe in that format. As a teen in the late 70's and early 80's i had a box for my cassettes (like a briefcase) that held about 4 dozen cassettes. And a Hitachi boom box that could play loud enough for music while we played frisbee.
My mom n dad had these cool looking wooden orange crates, or at least they were made to look like orange crates, that were standing up on end full of 33 speed albums. Like 1970s CD racks lol. We had one hell of an album collection. I grew up on Led Zeppelin, Early AC/DC, Black Sabbath etc.I remember my dad would put on Black Sabbath’s first album and crank it up to where the walls were shaking. The song “Back Sabbath” with the rain and thunder at the beginning used to scare the SHIT out of me!
One of my very favourite Led Zep tracks. Yes, we used to buy albums. Bands like Led Zep, Pink Floyd etc were legendary because they included great ‘album tracks’ as well as the songs on the radio. Often we would enjoy the album tracks more than the popular songs.
Back then there was real album rock radio. Music stores pushed a lot of it too. The way it got out back then is similar to today. Rock community was tight and word got out. Not as fast as today but it would spread fast enough for our time. We were less complicated back then 😎great reaction guys. 🤘
“How did music get dispersed…?” Great question.! FM radio for the most part. DJs had more control of what to play and FM offered the radio format for playing Album tracks and not just popular hits. Cassette tapes. Everyone shared homemade tapes. Sony, Memorex, IBM, Maxell, TDK were just a few popular tape brands of the day.
Haha!, We found our way with Maps, and other than the radio which didn’t play everything we bought eight track tapes, and vinyl records, we heard the music by sharing with our friends and relatives, back in the 70s there was also the midnight special on Friday night tv, as I remember it came on sometime after Lawrence Welk, LMAO. I watch Lawrence Welk with my grandparents, and then my grandparents watch the midnight special and whoever was on it with me, don’t know how many people who share generations like that anymore.
I was lucky enough to see Zep in 1977 when I was 14. It was my dream come true.
Lex nails it. Learning about and acquiring music took more effort. Bands like Zeppelin didn't get much radio exposure, so you heard their albums through friends and at parties. Then it was off to the record store. It was not disposable or forgettable.
Exactly!
While it's true Zeppelin didn't release singles for radio play, and some of their songs were deemed too long by certain radio stations, your point is very misleading because the Zep songs that did get radio play got a *ton* of radio play...like, "Stairway To Heaven", for instance. So every kid who listened to rock stations knew who Zeppelin was--they didn't need to hear about the band from "parties" or from their friends.
@@Cosmo-Kramer depends where you lived. Stairway would have been the only Zep song I heard on the radio in my neck of the woods in the 1970s. Every other Zep tune was from friend's vinyl. So there's that. I lived it.
@@hlawrencepowell Well, I wasn't talking about people who grew up in East Jabip.
@@Cosmo-Kramer thanks for the fact-check, but FM wasn't viable in a lot of markets until around LZ III, or come standard with too many car radios, and didn't equal the commercial value of AM competitors until around 1978. I was a Yardbirds fan before LZ I, worked in AM and FM radio - maybe got to play D'Yer Mak'er once a week. US, UK, European and Canadian markets all used different charts.
Definitely top 5 on my personal list of Zep songs.
Led Zeppelin did just about every style of music
Yes, we had to buy records, sometimes singles, but ideally the entire album. I seem to recall pricing around 8-14 bucks in the early-mid 80's. Buying an actual album is so much better; take in the cover art, the liner notes, you'd read and re-read everything. This is why we know all the band members, the producers, recording studios and so on. You'd get introduced to music via friends just hanging out, at parties. Of course going to concerts was a big deal And we found places with these paper things called maps and streets had these metal signs so we could figure out where to turn...ha, ;)
And the navigator was the guy that had smoked one less doob than everyone else before you left the house.
I can remember buying LP's for $1.00 - 2.00 when I was young..actually spent hours pouring through them at the 5 and dime store.
I still have all their albums on vinyl, I have several that were released on single only and about 40 bootlegs that my friend from Chicago sent me back in that late '70s early '80s. Anybody that has never experienced going into a record store for hours and hours stoned like a son of a gun and digging through each and every album just hasn't lived. Or listening to your favorite radio station for hours at night listening to the King biscuit flower hour and Night at the Fillmore and all the radio shows that used to play these great albums, waiting in line for hours for a new album to drop or concert tickets to go on sale. Good times gone forever.
@@kurtsaxton823 you're so right mate,it makes me sad how the world is now,much better in the 80s/90s ( was born in 76 ) we'll never get those times again
Not to mention you could go to a concert for the meager price 12.00$ to 14.00$ in 1979 1980 befor ticket master f^@ked it all up! Unlike the crazy prices of today of 100$ to well over 300$
I believe this is a very old folk song, brought to life by Zeppelin.
If the info I read is correct, this song is about 1200-1400 old. Originates somewhere in the British isles.
Listen to the words carefully too-in the end the hangman screws them all over.
Its actually a 17th century Irish folk song
@@kendogthunder So Brad was right about the Gaelic part!
@@vanyadolly well, we could both be right or wrong. Nobody knows who actually wrote this song.
"People probably had record collections." Yes, and some of us still do!
It's nice to see Lex trying to get a picture of how it was back in the day. You couldn't just hear the music you wanted to when you wanted to unless you bought the record (or tape...) It was very different terms. Sometimes, you'd take a record over to your friend's house just so you could play it while hanging out. A lot of us ended up listening to entire albums, too, not just the hits, because why not? The record is playing, so let it go! We heard some great songs that way. Like this one.
i knew a guy who owned one record, and he took it with him everywhere, waiting for a chance to play it. He didn't own a turntable.
I like that guy with no turntable. He sounds loyal and dedicated.
@@justinatest9456 Should put a character like that in a movie.
Yeah before I sold my house I had 1500 records 33 and third LPs I had 78 RPMs 45s I CD collection real the real tapes cassettes
Yes! I had over 3,000 on my record collection!
The one record guy would be a great character for tv or film 🤣.
Brad, its been a joy to see how much you have transformed! When your channel started all you wanted to do is analyze, analyze and I see you actually seem to start to just let the music take you on a journey which is what music is supposed to do! It moves your soul! Lex, keep on rocking little lady!!!
I’ve noticed that too. About time!
I could see Lexie rockin' out back than...
Lex had it from the beginning. When she heard these great songs for the first time, she dug them as deeply as I did back in the day. This is so so very enjoyable!
I love Brad's expensiveness and openness too!
I haven't watched them for some time and noticed the same thing. he seems to be having fun with this now
Buying records was the most awesome experience! And playing the record in its entirety for the first time was amazing! Sinking into the whole experience of reading the album cover and inserts, lyrics, notes, etc. It felt like being part of the creative process. 🤘🏻💜💫
I was born in 1970 I remember I was 10 and I went over my friend Jason’s house and he said want to listen to some Zep besides Stairway to Heaven which is all I basically knew at that point…his dad had gotten him their first 4 albums so we sat there all day and listened to them….I still can remember the chill I got hearing Good Times Bad Times when he dropped the needle on the first song first side first album…lifelong fan ever since….haven’t t seen Jason in over 20 years but anytime we used to run into each other or talked on the phone we would laugh how we hung out that day…great times
Back story on this song: in medieval times (or maybe a lil before that), the custom was if you got the death penalty for certain crimes, you were given a choice. The choice was to pay what was called a "blood debt", which was compensate for the crime by paying $$$, or ELSE sentence was carried out & you got HUNG... if they couldn't pay, no slack was given...
If you did the crime & got caught, you either paid or you got no mercy... keep in mind this was pre-1500 ad or something like that...
That's why the lyrics say "what did ya bring me, my brother, TO KEEP ME FROM THE GALLOWS POLE?..."
Many times, it was your family pooling resources & showing up at the last minute to save you, since you were standing there about to swing. So you better HOPE you had family OR were on GOOD terms with them...
Yep exactly!
Here the hangman takes the Silver, takes the Gold, sleeps with his sister and still hangs him.
I could hear the opening 10 seconds of this song in my head when I saw the thumbnail!
One of their best!
This song is based heavily on an old English folk story/song called "the maid freed from the gallows". Led Zep just gave the story a darker ending and a pretty rocking arrangement.
Yes Lex Jimmy Page is playing the banjo and John Paul Jones is playing the mandolin.
Yes,Zep lll is my favorite album, I fell in love with their acoustic side because of this album,and this is one of my favorites from them.
this has always been my fav Zep song....such a sad story but so well told!!
Mine too, along with How Many More Times (which has the greatest base line of all). I also like the "No Quarter" live version.
I still have my record collection… started in 1971…
Thank you for the reaction. Many different stores sold music. We bought hundreds of albums for $1 and $2 at used record stores in Raleigh. Who remembers the 8track tape display cabinets? They had holes you could reach in and grasp the tape to read it, but the hole was too small to pull the tape out.
Such a great album! Plant is my favorite singer....ever! Can't wait to see him in a few weeks on his tour with Allison Krauss!
Saw them last Sunday….great concert. Reworking of When the Levee Breaks was phenomenal…….the lead fiddle player on it is a MASTER. I’m just grateful I finally got to see Robert (it’s been 45 years since I saw Zeppelin) because I don’t know how much longer he will be doing longer, overseas tours like this one.
They are awesome together.
Kick ass song
The buildup in this song always gets me going. Love it.
In 1970, the concerts were announced on the (rock) radio stations, and the tickets were sold in record stores, where we also bought the albums. We knew how to find the concert venues because we went often. But if we needed to find them, we used maps. Paper folding maps which they gave away for free at the gas stations. Yes, we listened to albums or cassette tapes. I still have all my vinyl. Over 300 which contain most of the music you guys play, like this song today. That’s why I enjoy your reactions. It’s sort of like time travel. Thanks.
We listened to the radio! We had map books to get directions to get to a concert. We went to the record store to buy our vinyl! It was awesome!
Gaelic is a language used by Irish, Scottish and other Western European countries
Led Zep forever! The "off-beat" of this song is crazy good!
Relaxing back into that beanbag chair and letting Zep rock you with a great sound system. Feel those vibrations through the bag and take a hit off the herb. I can feel it like yesterday.
Yep…the natural progression for my friends and I was vinyl records and 8-track tapes, followed by cassette tapes (we had to have a tape in the “deck” while listening to the radio station to play our songs and be quick on the “RECORD” buttons - had to press “PLAY” at the same time to make it work! Eventually CD’s were invented and the Digital Revolution was off and running…
And I thought I was the only one to do this!!!
@@doubler8684 I think everyone did that back then
And hope the DJ didn't say anything
@@ksfmiller the worst was the trend where they would talk up to when the vocals started.
Lol!! I had a cassette converter in my 8 track in my car!
Hey guys what's up! Greetings from South florida! Hey Lex, I used to wear that same shirt in high school. Yeah you can't go wrong with Led Zeppelin. I can definitely see why you like them so much. You guys rock! God bless you! Peace!
I had that shirt, too, that first album is fire.
I was born in 1960 and started listening to Zeppelin in 1970, and bought each album upon release, including Led Zeppelin 3. This is one of my favourite albums and I still get a thrill listening to this song (Bonham's right foot is amazing!) Glad you discovered this song and appreciate the lyrics. Cheers.
This is their adaptation of an old folk song....and one of my favorites...I can almost see Celtic people dancing around while this tune is playing!
@Penderyn Oh, I hadn't forgotten...being of Scots/Irish decent this song just makes me feel like whirling about.......must be the Celt in me!
Leadbelly actually did an amazing version in 1940
All their songs are adaptations of old folk songs…
@@Ooofaa-Maa Not true. A great number of their songs were originated from Delta Blues, mostly from artists that came off the chitlin circuit like Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Robert Johnson himself, and then a lot more came from American Rockabilly and early Rock and Roll. To say all their songs came from early folk songs is a great overstatement. A portion of them did but a true Zeppelin fan knows that it was a combination of many different styles including Reggae also that made up Led Zeppelin. Classical music was also there. And also Gospel.
This is actually an old English folk song.
I love how Lex keeps trying to find stuff Brad likes from Led Zeppelin.
Back in the 70's my uncles used to record music off of the TV. They would put their tape recorder in front of the television and record from Soul Train and ABS. Any show that played music.
I saw Page and Plant do this song live in the 90s. Been a favorite of mine ever since.
Kudos to Brad for nailing the content meaning on the first listen! This LP (III) was sometimes marginalized for being 'the acoustic album,' but personally it's a favorite. JPJ really shined, holding down both the bass and the mandolin on this track, for example. Great song!
Is it mandolin or banjo?
@@edwardcoit9748 both, but Jimmy played the banjo I believe
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Thank you.
Actually he got it wrong. His sister hung, he went free.
I love LZIII. It’s definitely up there as far as Zeppelin albums go, though I find it’s pretty hard to rank them.
I does have a little bit of Blue Grass sound. Blue Grass is from Appalachia and the people from that area are of Irish and Scottish heritage. Scots and Irish are Gaelic/Celtic
We had vinyl, then 8 track, and on to cassette. Don't even know what you young-uns have to choose from anymore. But be glad you got to hear the genius of Zeppelin, even Brad. 😆
Gaelic remark was spot-on
when i first started buying records back in those days, they cost about $4.00. my mother would give me 20.00 to buy some pants. but i would buy 4 albums and get change back. yeah, the only way to hear this music from those days in the 70s was at parties or on the radio. gettin' stoned with your buddies. it was all basically 'word of mouth'. i had over a thousand records twice in my life. i had to unload them both times. now i have UA-cam to enjoy. and you two bring these songs to life.
Expect it was the same around the world. I heard Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love on the radio, loved it and bought the Led Zeppelin II vinyl album disc. Knew this album, III, was out when Immigrant Song was on the radio . A friend played me the first album and I bought it. The fourth album, Stairway to Heaven and all that, was airmailed to a Welsh friend living in Sydney and I had my copy two weeks before the Australian release. Radio and friends, that is how you kept abreast of music. There was always at least one radio station that played the contemporary music. Music not popular enough for radio you picked up from friends. I was listening to Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa and Jethro Tull without ever hearing them on radio thanks to friends. And a lot of hallucinogenics. It was the era. We went out to meet people, get stoned and listen to music.
as a huge LZ fan since I was 14/15 and now near 50, I can get behind Brad's resistance to LZ. Not every one gets taken in, the ones that do, they don't get out
I still have my vinyl record collection of over 500 7" singles and more than 100 albums and still enjoy playing them, memories.
Even back in the 60s, we had ways of hearing about concerts (radio, newspapers, posters, etc.). Scoring good seats required connections or being first in line when tickets went on sale. Records were readily available in cities with record stores (less selection at department stores) and weren’t so very expensive (if you had a job). When going to visit friends, we’d always go through their record collection to find something to listen to, then listen to a side or the whole thing, so we’d have access to more music than what we could buy ourselves.
LOVE their version of this!!!!!
@@neillenet291 i seen that on their credits as “traditional” like it’s an old standard folk song….kind of like “Whiskey in the Jar” 🤓
When I was trying to learn to play acoustic guitar I always found this song to be just fun to play.
Great song by the greatest band in rock history...Robert Plant is the ultimate story teller!
He's actually using lyrics that someone ELSE wrote, Fred Gerlach to be precise.
@@neillenet291 He could sing me the phone book and be sexy...thank you for the history behind it!
...you mean greatest cover band of all time.
@@nuffaction5464 yeah, they did great covers, but their originals were even better.
Calm down, take it easy...
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On target with that one Brad. Jimmy Page often talked about his “CIA”: Celtic, Indian, Arabic sounds he often integrated into his music. The Gaelic would fall into this category for the Celtic influence.
I Iove the way the music just builds up to the final crescendo.
That 12 string acoustic guitar is sooo full of sound! Everything else is perfect as well!!!!!
You have to see their live 'Page & Plant' version of this, it's epic!
Drummer goes ham!
That version is played with Moroccan and Egyptian musicians too!
Good as the studio version is, the Unplugged version towers over it like a cathedral.
Radio was it, Brad. EVERYBODY had either Boom Boxes, transistor radios (slightly fatter than a cell phone), or a car with a bangin' 8 track or cassette tape player AND an FM radio . . . . . but radio was the platform by which we all had our first listen to all the new stuff. All of this music is new to you BUT, when it was new to us, IT WAS BRAND NEW TO EVERYONE! Try to imagine that . . . . .
I think I bought this album for $3 from Sears. Loved it, would poor hours over reading the information, looking at the album art, and sharing it with friends as invites to bring music would always be a common theme. We carried our music in milk crates or wooden crates we made ourselves. This is and always will be my favorite Zepplin song. It just has it all. To get exposed to music, people would visit and hang out in music stores, looking through the album selection, listening to something over the intercom and if your tastes were outside the norm of that music store, you simply took albums to a listening booth, and with headphones, played the album you were interested in. It was also a poor man's way of getting to listen to music they couldn't afford to buy, much like reading a book in the library instead of buying it or checking it out, you could listen to music in a music store. We also had college radio stations that would play the genre of your interests at some point in the week, going over trending hits, classic staples, and new upcoming possibilities within that genre of music. Whether at work, at home, driving, or out with friends socializing, the radio would be playing, and all would be listening, reacting, and celebrating together. As far as buying music, every town had a music store, and all the big-name stores had a music section. The music stores offered more catering to the music customer, but the availability of hot trendy albums or singles might only be kept up with via the big stores that had more readily available ordering times. Things were more interactive and social back then than today. It is ironic how social media actually makes people less social and less interactive, and less...
Twelve year old me heard Whole Lotta Love late one night on the radio, and that was it. Didn't know what I was hearing, but I knew I liked it! Zeppelin has been my favourite band ever since, and now I'm 65.
“Your brother brought me silver
And your sister warmed my soul
But now I laugh and pull so hard
And see you swinging on the gallows pole.”
That’s pretty cold 🥶
Just another perfect gem by the boys. JPJ is fabulous here.
When I was a teen I joined the Columbia record club...They sold vinyl lp's ...When you joined you could select several albums for the price of one or two...You were then required to by several other albums for the regular price within a specified time...I can't remember the exact price, but I think they were between 3 or 4 dollars each unless they were double or triple albums...I was a member for four or five years...What a difference from the way you can get music today...Sometimes the good old days weren't so much...
Guys, radio was the vehicle at first that flooded early rock into the airwaves. Elvis, BeachBoys, Beatles, etc .
Then there was the FM radio which was like an underground channel for rock music. Those channels played entire albums on the air. Most popular FM channels were heard very late at night. DJs were usually stoned and played long uninterrupted periods of music.
Bands who visited the city would be interviewed on air late at night so that folks would get to know them and buy their music at a store.
Brad and Lex, thanks for playing songs that many have long forgotten, keep rocking!
Great song thanks for shared 💪🏻🇨🇷
One of Zeppelin's best.
Back in the early 70's - 80's myself and my friends travelled to Liverpool every weekend to watch bands at one or another of the many theatres and clubs bands like Pink Floyd Yes Genisis Black Sabath Deep Purple Wishbone Ash Santana BJH Jethro Tull and many more now famous and some not so famous like Budgie Stray Bebop Deluxe Hawkwind The Sensational Alex Harvey Band Focus - just too many to mention of course we had all the albums also, but remember at that time most bands were touring every year so there was always someone playing somewhere good time for music lovers! and keep up the good work! thanks
This is a great one by them for sure. Yeah, I would argue that these concerts in the '60s and 70s and for me it would have been the mid to late seventies and into the early 80s, they definitely were much harder than today to coordinate, and to get to and just everything about it without the internet. Or cell phones. But I would say that on the other hand, when you got together at these things, everybody feels this incredible bond even though there could be tons of people there. You're all there for the same thing and it wasn't easy to get there but now you're there and this band is going to come out and totally kick ass and you're going to have a memory to last a lifetime. So much fun.
Another cracking track from Led Zep 3
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Lex, back in the day we heard music on the radio, as you said, and bought albums. We also shared music with each other, so a lot of what we heard came to us through word of mouth and other people's album collections. When cassettes became popular we copied albums for friends.
There was also mail order music clubs like Columbia Records and Tapes or RCA Music Service. They ran ads in magazines or by direct mail where you could choose 7 or 10 or 15 albums for a penny (later a buck I think), on condition you buy a certain number at regular price in the next three years or some such. They didn't keep very good records, though, and many of us joined over and over and basically built decent collections for free, and many people probably never bought the regular price albums they were supposed to buy.
I miss those times, but honestly there are pros and cons to both eras. Music was basically curated by the record companies then, so you didn't hear a lot of independent bands unless they became locally popular or ended up signed to a label. Whereas today anyone can publish their own music online, make videos, etc. So you get to hear a lot of stuff you wouldn't have in the 90s and before... but it can be too much, so you can never hear more than a small fraction of it all, and you have to wade through a lot of chaff to find the wheat.
Brad, Gaelic refers to the Celtic people and language of Ireland, Scotland and Mann. The original inhabitants of Great Britain were also Celtic, of a different type with different but related language (Brythonic). After the Saxon and Norman invasions they were pushed back to Wales, Cornwall and some left Britain and inhabited an area of France called Brittany (named after the Britons who settled there). The Gauls, the original inhabitants of France and surrounding areas, were likewise Celts.
This song isn't specifically Gaelic or Celtic but it does have a definite British Isles folk vibe.
The hangman absolutely had "pull" in the court! 🤣🤣🤣
Lex I still have my record collection from the 70's still listen to them every day just like the 70's ... Great song great reaction ... I still have multiple hifi systems from the 70's Pioneer and Sansui with huge speakers ment to be played loud sometimes the windows must rattle, thats how we did it back in the 70's
The 60's and 70's took all the good lyrics. This was genius.
Such a jam. LEX, UP THE IRONS🤘
Gaelic you're pretty much right on it
Love this song!
There was nothing like concerts in the 70s & 80s and up to about the middle 90s.....Everyone was there to experience with their eyes and ears not through a cell phone , only a lighter and some weed. haha. it was a beautiful experience. The best rock and roll bands ever too.... I miss those times but glad I lived it.
You got it Lex,
Radio was the way pop songs were introduced but there were also radio programs that specialized in alternative and commercially less popular genres, sometimes air-ing once a week for 2 hours at 11:00PM.
Next, we socialized and talked, generally when you bought a new vinyl album, you told your friends about it, and shared thoughts. As young teen age boys you would invite 2-3 friends to come over to your house after school to listen to the new albums you had. The same way young people today talk about the latest Marvel cartoon series episode after watching this or that, we talked about music.
Walking into the record store where you were a regular, the store clerk would tell you that Led Zeppelin just released a new album, "just came in the store today!" or he/she would inform you about a new, unknown band that you should have a listen to.
Buying records and what you could afford of course depends on peoples wealth and income, but generally, as a 15 year old boy you could afford 1 LP album per month, maybe you had a news paper route or restaurant dishwasher job on the week-ends to afford an album each week. Young working adults, let's say 25 years old would maybe buy 5-6 albums per month. You treasured your record collection and treated your albums with care. People had systems, alphabetical or chronologically or by genre, that they used to store their albums in order and if your sibling grabbed your album and put it back in the wrong place/order, it upset you, and I am not talking about a few OCD people, no, this was common. Your record collection was both a prized/pride affair and it was also somewhat of a status, this stuff was competitive in a way.
The cost of a record player; expensive in that, it was a single use apparatus, not a functionality of your phone or computer, cost was a few Hundred Dollars with speaker(s).
BUT BUT BUT! Soon in your journey, the sound quality of a record player would not satisfy, be good enough and you would start saving for a sound (stereo) system, separate pieces of equipment, a turn table (would play vinyl albums but without an amplifier and speakers would do you nothing), an amplifier or receiver (maybe even a separate pre-amp and main-amp), speakers, Then there were tape decks, equalizers, tuners and more.
The thing is that while technology is far better today, people's stereo systems in the 70's had better sound quality than what people have today with cheap earbuds and so on because people emphasized their music systems and wanted good sound and quality. The stereo system was often an item of pride, proudly displayed in their living rooms. Prices are all over the map, from fall apart cheap to absolute ridiculously expensive. This world has not completely died, there's still a HiFi community today and in some cases people will spend $50,000 for the wires that run from their amp to the speakers, no joke. In the 70's, I would say that the price of a respectable stereo system that many people owned was 25% of the cost of a car. People saved up for it, and also because it was made from individual pieces of equipment, people would gradually up grade, piece meal, so buy a new turn table, at $700 but keep their old amp and speakers, and so on. They also did this because this industry was rapidly developing with better stuff on the market every few years and on going. Music was a very exciting and interesting social dynamic in the 70's and people my age, who lived it, miss it very much and have a hard time letting go and adopting to their phone being their music devise.
Excellent song.
In the 70s Lex I earned $80/week while at uni and bought all of Led Zep’s records for between $5-10 per record. And a carton of beer was $6. It was easy to party, drink and listen to Led Zep all night long.
That beer will be long gone, but the records can be with you forever!
Another great song by Zep. You can't help but jump to the beat.
Songs like this just added to the lore and mystique of The Mighty Zep!
Led Zeppelin took some flak for this album. After their first two storming, 'heavy' sounding hard blues-rock, they had some time in the countryside of Wales and wrote many of these more folk/acoustic inspired numbers. Various critics felt they'd run out of ideas but of course it showed the band was versatile and trying other things. And after all, rock and roll didn't come only from blues - it also came from country/folk, which when traced back goes back to English folk, Irish and Scottish folk (the Gaelic that Bred mentioned). I love this song and this album and the more acoustic-leaning songs. There's great footage of Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones doing an acoustic part in the middle of a LZ gig at Earl's Court, London, 1975. 20 years later, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page would revisit the acoustic/folk sound for their 'No Quarter' tour. Great stuff.
Love Led Zep lll, nearly as much as Physical Graffiti!
Brad nailed it! Ruthless hangman. Lex nailed it ...banjo! Years ago in days of old. Or A long long time ago in a place far far away.
Their genius version of an black American song , mandolin ,and European instruments and a voice and virtuoso playing that captures a west African spirit force in origin. There will never be another led zeppelin on this side of armageddon.
Yes we would buy albums, and sometimes then tell our friends which ones we bought so they didn't buy the same ones and then tape it on cassette and then share them with each other.
When you're 14 yrs old in 1981 hearing this for the first time getting your mind blown
I so loved him when I was just a kid.
Great track to lead off the 2nd side of LZ3. Celebration Day is another underrated track from that album, it is even better live. Enjoy! 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎶
"I wonder how many cool cats listen to that in the seventies." Nice Lex. That made me smile.
Another obscure one is Custard Pie. Good one to check out.
Sick Again is another great track, interestingly the last track on the album, Custard Pie being the first.
One of my favorite led zep number
Buying records was also a great place to meet people. 👍❤🤙
Music in the 70's was radio, then albums and cassettes. 8 tracks for a bit, but I always hated them because they would break a song in the middle, and you had to wait for the track to change. Garage bands would typically record on cassette, unless they had money for a reel to reel. High end home stereos in the early seventies might have a reel to reel tspe player, but I honestly don't know how much music was availabe in that format. As a teen in the late 70's and early 80's i had a box for my cassettes (like a briefcase) that held about 4 dozen cassettes. And a Hitachi boom box that could play loud enough for music while we played frisbee.
In the 70s, my dad took his briefcase to work and I took my cassette briefcase to partues.
Gaelic is a good description, Scottish and/or Irish roots music.
Gaelic is the language...
The first half sounds more old English folk to me. Nothing Gaelic about the words.
My mom n dad had these cool looking wooden orange crates, or at least they were made to look like orange crates, that were standing up on end full of 33 speed albums. Like 1970s CD racks lol. We had one hell of an album collection. I grew up on Led Zeppelin, Early AC/DC, Black Sabbath etc.I remember my dad would put on Black Sabbath’s first album and crank it up to where the walls were shaking. The song “Back Sabbath” with the rain and thunder at the beginning used to scare the SHIT out of me!
Love the Maiden shirt! Have like 5... Zeppelin is just one of those bands you can create a playlist for any mood with and never miss.
One of my very favourite Led Zep tracks. Yes, we used to buy albums. Bands like Led Zep, Pink Floyd etc were legendary because they included great ‘album tracks’ as well as the songs on the radio. Often we would enjoy the album tracks more than the popular songs.
Lex just gets it. Happy Brad likes this song.
Back then there was real album rock radio. Music stores pushed a lot of it too. The way it got out back then is similar to today. Rock community was tight and word got out. Not as fast as today but it would spread fast enough for our time. We were less complicated back then 😎great reaction guys. 🤘
One of my favorites.
“How did music get dispersed…?” Great question.! FM radio for the most part. DJs had more control of what to play and FM offered the radio format for playing Album tracks and not just popular hits. Cassette tapes. Everyone shared homemade tapes. Sony, Memorex, IBM, Maxell, TDK were just a few popular tape brands of the day.
When that bass comes in with that descending riff....its pay off time baby!
AWOL One - Rhythm
One of the best tracks ever made!
Nice synchro at the end with violin and Robert's voice
Haha!, We found our way with Maps, and other than the radio which didn’t play everything we bought eight track tapes, and vinyl records, we heard the music by sharing with our friends and relatives, back in the 70s there was also the midnight special on Friday night tv, as I remember it came on sometime after Lawrence Welk, LMAO.
I watch Lawrence Welk with my grandparents, and then my grandparents watch the midnight special and whoever was on it with me, don’t know how many people who share generations like that anymore.