The “flutes” sound like traditional baroque English music played my minstrels in Medieval times…but the flutes are an instrument called a “recorder”. (You know what recorders are…elementary school music class?)
Your channel is such a breath of fresh air. Especially compared to all other so-called "reaction" videos that are pure pantomime - unnatural, theatrical, with little to say and disinterested in the actual music. You are doing a great job noticing all the nuances of production, the different instruments, the vocals. And what is totally refreshing is your sincerity and well-poised delivery. Keep up the good work. I hope your channel in time gets as many likes and subscribers as it deserves.
Probably the best and most iconic rock songs of all time. Followed closely by Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen and Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd (live at Pulse concert) 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Stairway to Heaven is like a Led Zeppelin "sampler" of everything they do: Light, Shade, acoustic, electric, mythical lyrics, great vocals, Rock, great instrumentation, drama, everything. GOATs.
@@AirplayBeats This band has a catalog that is vast, and incredibly diverse. The live performances are a whole other world. You are just scratching the surface. When you think you know them, they hit you in a completely new way that is stunning. Heavy metal, hard rock, heavy blues, acoustic, ballads, electric funk, reggae, salsa, country, prog rock, rockabilly, soul.....their catalog is very wide and vast, but worth the journey. Each one of the band members are considered either the best or among the very best at their respective positions: Robert Plant (vocals), Jimmy Page (guitars + mandolin), John Bonham (drums), and John Paul Jones (bass, keyboards, mandolin). Best recommendation is to start at the first album and work your way thru all 9. If you don't want to do that, here's a few suggestions to give you some "range": Black Dog In My Time Of Dying Heartbreaker Immigrant Song Fool In The Rain Dazed and Confused Achillies Last Stand Trampled Underfoot Ten Years Gone Babe I'm Gonna Leave You Literally, I could have put 50 suggestions down here and any of them are amazing. Just like you said: "three for three" - if you do all 100 or so songs you'll end up saying: "Led Zep doesn't make a bad song." Good luck on the journey.
@@tektoniks_architects well you just took all the words right out of my mouth, thank you for that, saved me a lot of time but I am going to add one of my favorite song "Rumble On" 🤟🤪
@@AirplayBeats .. U two dudes got the jist of the instrumental build up , but U r off on the message of "Stairway to Heaven" = it is a song of hope ...... 🎶 and if U listen very hard ; the tune will come to U at last 🎼 💡
JPJ’s contributions are huge and integral but most of the composition, songwriting, arranging and producing was done by Page. There’s a group out there that wants to give excessive credit to JPJ. He is amazing and integral but not a rock visionary like Page. Stop it!
Four musicians brought together by God. No other way to explain it. By far the greatest rock band who ever lived. Gifted individually and together changed rock forever.
Three Irish farm boys sharing the same bedroom and our Mum would allow us one song at reasonable volume before all went quiet to be ready for work with our Dad the next day. This was played many nights. Next to that was 'Little Wing'. Stairway was played at every one of our weddings. Rest in Peace Mom and Dad, you beautiful souls.
Bro as a fellow irish, how was your mam letting you listen to just a song before bed😂 unless you meant going to work with your da as a kid, my bad if that’s the case
Page was the engineer and the driver, Bonham was the fireman, Jones the conductor, and Plant the signalman, 'all aboard for the most glorious R&B, non- stop express'!
Yes they worked with different engineers, but it’s all about how Page wants it to be. Thankfully they had complete control over their music, otherwise it might not have been this great. Page with his brilliance not only playing, but in the booth too, an absolute music genius.
According to vocalist Robert Plant "The lyrics were a cynical thing about a woman getting everything she wanted all the time without giving anything back." Since then, however it has come to have as many different meanings as there are listeners, which, to me is perfect because then everyone can make it their own. Guitarist Jimmy Page produced all their albums but they were 4 master musicians that could and did, take music wherever they wanted.
I'm a 64 year old white guy...heard this song for the first time when I was 11 yrs old (youngest child, listening to my older siblings tunes). You two had the same reaction I did 53 years ago! Cheers brothers...welcome to the Zeppelin tribe!
i've heard this song easily a thousand times and the lyric "and as we wind on down the road; our shadows taller than our soul" gives me goosebumps every single time. i don't know if i can say that about any other song.
It's spiritual, not religious, there's a difference! It means a lot of deep different things to alot of people! Robert Plant is the singer. It's a beautiful song and always one of my favorites! To me it's about paying attention to your inner spirit and living life right, staying true to yourself! Been singing it since I was a young teenager ...yes, I know every word!! Great music, great reaction! ❤👊🎶🎤💃
When Ann Wilson and Heart played at the Kennedy Center honors for Led Zeppelin You know Robert Plant had to like Ann Wilson who doesn’t? he doesn’t allow no one to copy his music, remake nothing. Never has and never will. It took a lot for him to release that go watch that version. Kennedy honors award Ann and Nancy Wilson from Heart, surprise guest on drums the late brilliant John Bonham son Jason.. plant and page were surprised. Take note that Jason is playing Johns drums wearing his fathers famous Bonham hat so is the choir in back .. so touching and amazing
1979 Knebworth UK. Many people had started to stand up and jam, but those sitting on the grass behind them could now not see, bottles started to be thrown, angry words started to be said. Zeppelin stopped the show. The 4 or 5 (long time ago can't remember all the details) massive spotlights they had at the front of the stage were aimed at the audience, Robert Plant came to the mic and said "we will not continue until everyone is sitting down" with the spotlights sweeping across the stadium everyone slowly settled and sat. As soon as the last person's ass hit the ground the lights went out the stage lit up and the intro to Stairway started. INSTANTLY everyone was one their feet. It was awesome, I was blessed.
Simply the greatest song ever written by the ONLY band who could have composed it. The mastery of language and musicianship exemplified by masters of their craft. They heightened the art of composition. My favorite band ever and it’s not even close ❤️
The singer (Robert Plant) introduced it as a song about hope. I call it a song about a gold-digger who thinks gold (money) can buy anything, even her way into heaven.
These men are unequalled in their synergy. The four of them make the 5th element which is the essential Led Zeppelin - each a master of their instrument. Rock gods of lore.
High school graduation a lifetime ago and MacArthur Park and Stairway to Heaven were on the ballot for our graduation song. It wasn't even fair. Arguably one of the greatest rock songs ever put to page. If not the greatest. Great reaction to a truly legendary classic!
Jimmy composed pieces of this song for months...when they came to record there were still no lyrics...as they practiced it Robert sat with a small pad of paper for 45 min and wrote them...they then recorded this magnificent piece in 2 hours and 3 takes...best rock song ever.
“Stairway…” is considered one of the greatest masterpieces in Rock history. I am a die hard Zep fan since I was 13 (I am 62). I have seen them twice. The best test of great music (any genre) is how well they perform live. Look for Zeppelin live! “Since I’ve Been Loving You”
I ❤ Your channel! Great reaction and not over reacted. You guys are funny and knowledgeable about the classic rock genre . Keep up the great work and having an open mind! ❤️ ✌️ music 🎶 😊
Theyre my favorite band!!! Enjoy your downloads! Theyre all alive in their 70's not touring but, Bonham's son has a Zeppelin tribute band who tours. He plays drums, I saw them in Boston in June this year
This would lead you into the discovery of the Greatest Female Rock Band. Heart. Sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson. Their Tribute to Led Zeppelin at the Kennedy Center Honors - Heart - Stairway
The band has described this as a song of hope. Listen to the Heart tribute at the Kennedy Center honors of this song. Performed in front of the band's surviving members. You won't be sorry.
Recommend seeing the Heart in concert rendition at the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors for Led Zeppelin, vocalist Robert Plant was visibly moved to tears; it's a brilliant song and the engineer/producer is guitarist Jimmy Page, he had worked as a studio hand for years around London since he was very young, he learned all kinds of cool studio skills and tricks
Really rate you guys. If you haven’t done Kashmir then do it. It’s what all members of the band call their greatest…along with this. The last two minutes in particular is other worldly. Close your eyes and let it take you there! You’ll know what I mean when you hear it. (No pausing on the last two minutes 😅)
Your comment is 100% correct! I would also recommend pulling up the lyrics. Read them along with the song but don't let them distract from the instruments.
She’s trying to buy her way into heaven. But her stairway lies on the whispering wind (it’s fragile). The Piper (God) is calling her to join him and there’s still time to change the road you’re on.
I think she's a junkie and the Piper is a dealer leading her down a path to a heroin overdose - that's the stairway to heaven. "The stores are all closed but she can still get what she came for." I think the song speeds up because she got her fix and it ends the way it does because she's dead.
Thanks for this, guys! NOW, please react to Heart covering Stairway to Heaven live at the Kennedy Center Honors in the presence of Led Zeppelin! You won't regret it!
I agree, very cool seeing the 3 members, watching their song being played to them. Should be noted that Led Zepplins' drummer ( John Bonham) passed away years ago and that his son is the drummer on this version.
"Imagine seeing them live!" Saw them at Madison Square Garden - they played 4 hours - crowd went crazy and started climbing up the stage - front of stage collapsed - I've seen hundreds of concerts but that was the greatest live show I ever saw.
A lot of people don’t know that the guitar solo in this song is actually the THIRD one he came up with in the studio. I’ve always been curious what the other two could have been.
Nice! Yes indeed they are the G.O.A.T.S 🙌🏼 Y’all gotta check out there phenomenal live performances you’ll definitely be amazed by how talented each member of the band is 💯💯
Thank you! You guys have quickly become one of my top reactor channels. Your honest reaction, musical knowledge, and willingness to experiment with different music from the 70s and 80s. I'll be listening keep up the good work.
Greetings from Canada. Not flutes... that is the bassist/ keyboards man, John Paul Jones on three different recorders (live, he emulates the recorders on Mellotron). So we're glad to see you enjoy... but you GOTTA see this Stairway to Heaven LIVE MSG, NYC, 1973 to approach their true impact. Have soothing refreshments handy! Peace, love and bellbottoms.
Elvis had a stepbrother that was playing a Led Zeppelin record at Graceland, and Elvis heard it, and asked who it was, then Elvis went to see them live, and met them and found out they were fans of his, especially the lead singer Robert Plant, and Elvis invited them to one of his concerts. Although their music was different, they had a mutual respect for what each other did musically. For Elvis it was the change ups in their songs, and the fact that they were doing their own thing, and didn't sound or try to sound like anyone else, and he could relate to that, and respected that.
@@cattbutt7758there’s interviews about it, the met with Elvis a few times. Plant or Page tells about visiting Elvis in his hotel suite. All of their interviews are great, you can learn so much. Some are funny too, especially with Plant & his sense of humor.
Led Zeppelin had a cultivated image as the best of the heavier rock bands of the late 60s-early 70s. It helped that a lot of what they played sounded really good. Stairway to Heaven was typically in the #1 spot for things like a top 500 Greatest Songs of All Time Weekend on radio stations. I remember so well the song being played by bands at school dances that when I hear it now I’m taken back there. It was just about 50 years ago.
Yay everyone was up with their lighters… mesmerizing!! Total FIRE!! All four guys were goats in their own right. The song can mean different things to different people spiritually… I like the line.. you can always the change the road you are on… that is like hope…. So it is a spiritual song for me! It also totally rocks… as it did 50 plus years ago when I first heard it!❤
The producer (engineer) was the guitarist, Jimmy Page. Audiences didn't hold lighters up in those times. Robert Plant who wrote the lyrics said people could interpret them as they wished. The band wasn't particularly religious. I think it's about finding out there's more to life than material wealth and there are some things you just can't buy.
When I first heard this as a kid, my favorite part of the whole song was when it just finally breaks out really really hard and Robert Plant is screaming and Jimmy Page is going nuts and bottom is doing those crazy pills and John Paul Jones is just driving it's super hard on the base guitar and man that was my favorite thing. But now that I'm a much older and more mature musician, of course I still love that, but I'm actually fascinated more now with how they create that long elevating build. That is so damn impressive. And I love how all these lyrics Just Hook in later. We come back to that lady several times and the stairway. But we come back to lots of things. It's like he sets them up but then when he's screaming there in that part, one of the lines is, there comes a lady we all know., or something like that, and suddenly your mind connects it to the whole lady building The Stairway to Heaven out of glittering gold and that we originally talked about. And then of course he references her at the very very end and that acapella vocal bit.
The song basically concerns materialism that cannot get you to heaven. There is a tribute to Led Zeppelin at the Keenedy Center which is a must see, complete with strings, horns, choirs, and Heart (Ann and Nancy Wilson) providing the lead vocal. It is the best tribute I have ever seen in my 65 years of life. Enjoyed your reaction, TY.
You REALLY should listen once to Heart-Stairway to Heaven. Kennedy Center Honors. An Event honoring the band. The band members were in the audience watching. One of the original band member's sons is on Drums. Obama and hs wife were there. Lead singer from Heart did lead vocals. Robert Plant, the lead singer was crying. The song done amazingly well.
I secondthirdANDFOURTH that suggestion! Ten minutes of slow burn blues then controlled chaos and thunderous fury and gospel pleadings! Magnificent, one of the best things Humanity's ever done.
We saw page and Plant at The Rosemont Horizon in Chicago It was incredible look up the video for Chicago and you will go completely insane about how they do and the people that they have in the concert with them it's the Cairo Egyptian something something It's in it's incredible I hope you see it
Just for an interesting contrast check out Heart doing this in front of Led Zep at the Kennedy Center Honors. It’s an iconic performance that had Zep mightily impressed.
Y’all just heard the if not most iconic riff and possibly best and most important rock song maybe ever ! I’m not starting nothing , just saying it’s hard to make an argument as to why it wouldn’t be. Been popping those goosebumps up over here for 50+yrs ! Great reactions and keep digging in to the oldies because they haven’t been surpassed and probably never will. ✌🏼❤️
The “flutes” sound like traditional baroque English music played my minstrels in Medieval times…but the flutes are an instrument called a “recorder”. (You know what recorders are…elementary school music class?)
This is actually a keyboard called the Mellotron
Your channel is such a breath of fresh air. Especially compared to all other so-called "reaction" videos that are pure pantomime - unnatural, theatrical, with little to say and disinterested in the actual music. You are doing a great job noticing all the nuances of production, the different instruments, the vocals. And what is totally refreshing is your sincerity and well-poised delivery. Keep up the good work. I hope your channel in time gets as many likes and subscribers as it deserves.
Thank you so much!!
Probably the best and most iconic rock songs of all time. Followed closely by Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen and Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd (live at Pulse concert) 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
For real
Word!
Agreed!
The official number one rock song of ALL time
Still falls number one or two, on top 100 or 500 lists every year.
"To be a rock, and not to roll" 🤘
Stairway to Heaven is like a Led Zeppelin "sampler" of everything they do: Light, Shade, acoustic, electric, mythical lyrics, great vocals, Rock, great instrumentation, drama, everything. GOATs.
This song for sure had alllll the elements in it. Thanks for watching.
@@AirplayBeats This band has a catalog that is vast, and incredibly diverse. The live performances are a whole other world. You are just scratching the surface. When you think you know them, they hit you in a completely new way that is stunning. Heavy metal, hard rock, heavy blues, acoustic, ballads, electric funk, reggae, salsa, country, prog rock, rockabilly, soul.....their catalog is very wide and vast, but worth the journey. Each one of the band members are considered either the best or among the very best at their respective positions: Robert Plant (vocals), Jimmy Page (guitars + mandolin), John Bonham (drums), and John Paul Jones (bass, keyboards, mandolin).
Best recommendation is to start at the first album and work your way thru all 9. If you don't want to do that, here's a few suggestions to give you some "range":
Black Dog
In My Time Of Dying
Heartbreaker
Immigrant Song
Fool In The Rain
Dazed and Confused
Achillies Last Stand
Trampled Underfoot
Ten Years Gone
Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
Literally, I could have put 50 suggestions down here and any of them are amazing. Just like you said: "three for three" - if you do all 100 or so songs you'll end up saying: "Led Zep doesn't make a bad song."
Good luck on the journey.
@@tektoniks_architects well you just took all the words right out of my mouth, thank you for that, saved me a lot of time but I am going to add one of my favorite song "Rumble On" 🤟🤪
@@emilymartinez6961 I love Ramble On ! And that bass!
@@AirplayBeats .. U two dudes got the jist of the instrumental build up , but U r off on the message of "Stairway to Heaven" = it is a song of hope ...... 🎶 and if U listen very hard ; the tune will come to U at last 🎼 💡
John Paul Jones, bass, keyboards, arraingment, songwriting. Unsung hero
He’s brilliant-a genius.
Not at all...
Never knew he wrote this!
JPJ’s contributions are huge and integral but most of the composition, songwriting, arranging and producing was done by Page. There’s a group out there that wants to give excessive credit to JPJ. He is amazing and integral but not a rock visionary like Page. Stop it!
Oh yeah, and Page wrote this song (music)
Four musicians brought together by God. No other way to explain it. By far the greatest rock band who ever lived. Gifted individually and together changed rock forever.
I don't know if you guys are aware, but Stairway to Heaven is the most requested song on the radio world-wide in history.
honestly... "When the Levee breaks" is probably one of Zeppelin's best and definitely worth a listen.
Also "You're time is gonna come", "What is and what should never be", "Ten years gone", "Babe I'm gonna leave you"....!
Just listen to it everything they've got because everything they've got is worth listening to.
Check out John Paul Jones with the Playing For Change Band When the Levee Breaks
I’m waiting for it & their reaction 🇦🇺
No doubt, incredible song 👍
Three Irish farm boys sharing the same bedroom and our Mum would allow us one song at reasonable volume before all went quiet to be ready for work with our Dad the next day. This was played many nights. Next to that was 'Little Wing'. Stairway was played at every one of our weddings. Rest in Peace Mom and Dad, you beautiful souls.
Bless Ireland 🇮🇪 free Palestine 🇵🇸 🙏 🙌 👏 ✨️ ❤️ 🇵🇸
Bro as a fellow irish, how was your mam letting you listen to just a song before bed😂 unless you meant going to work with your da as a kid, my bad if that’s the case
Their "engineer" is the lead guitarist, Jimmy Page.
Page was the engineer and the driver, Bonham was the fireman, Jones the conductor, and Plant the signalman, 'all aboard for the most glorious R&B, non- stop express'!
Yes they worked with different engineers, but it’s all about how Page wants it to be. Thankfully they had complete control over their music, otherwise it might not have been this great. Page with his brilliance not only playing, but in the booth too, an absolute music genius.
Eddie Kramer was thier recording engineer as well as Jimi Hendrix's
Jimmy was producing really ... Jimmy's recipe' John Paul Jones Arrangements mostly
According to vocalist Robert Plant "The lyrics were a cynical thing about a woman getting everything she wanted all the time without giving anything back." Since then, however it has come to have as many different meanings as there are listeners, which, to me is perfect because then everyone can make it their own. Guitarist Jimmy Page produced all their albums but they were 4 master musicians that could and did, take music wherever they wanted.
Every senior prom in the early 70s them was Stairway to Heavan.
Not religious, per se, but there is definitely a spiritual vibe to this song.
Oh yeah. Turn on the black lights, break out the bong, and put on some Led Zeppelin. 😄
"Something big's coming"
Great call on that one. 👏
I'm a 64 year old white guy...heard this song for the first time when I was 11 yrs old (youngest child, listening to my older siblings tunes).
You two had the same reaction I did 53 years ago!
Cheers brothers...welcome to the Zeppelin tribe!
i've heard this song easily a thousand times and the lyric "and as we wind on down the road; our shadows taller than our soul" gives me goosebumps every single time. i don't know if i can say that about any other song.
The last line is my favorite, ever. "To be a rock and not to roll."
The first philharmonic I heard play this…. The conductor said “this will be revered like Mozart in 200 years”.
Probably the most iconic lead break of all time, but as time goes on, I appreciate Bonham on the drums more and more. Insane.
Greatest rock band ever. Led Zeppelin are ancient….modern….and futuristic all at the same time. They influenced everyone.
is there a greater band ever in world history ? - NO !
Agree with you... personally, l don't think of LZ as a rock band . A variety band? Some of their best songs are not rock...cheers
1969-1973 are the best 5 years in rock & roll history
led zeppelin they were and are gods, and they knew it, unmatched.
Led Zeppelin = Rock Gods .
"And as we wind on down the road, our shadows taller than our souls..."
It's spiritual, not religious, there's a difference! It means a lot of deep different things to alot of people! Robert Plant is the singer. It's a beautiful song and always one of my favorites! To me it's about paying attention to your inner spirit and living life right, staying true to yourself! Been singing it since I was a young teenager ...yes, I know every word!! Great music, great reaction! ❤👊🎶🎤💃
Robert Plant is from another time.❤
When Ann Wilson and Heart played at the Kennedy Center honors for Led Zeppelin You know Robert Plant had to like Ann Wilson who doesn’t? he doesn’t allow no one to copy his music, remake nothing. Never has and never will. It took a lot for him to release that go watch that version. Kennedy honors award Ann and Nancy Wilson from Heart, surprise guest on drums the late brilliant John Bonham son Jason.. plant and page were surprised. Take note that Jason is playing Johns drums wearing his fathers famous Bonham hat so is the choir in back .. so touching and amazing
Ann Wilson did a good job , emotional
Now you know why this is considered the greatest rock song ever written....Led Zeppelin = The GOATs
One of the greatest songs ever.
The Perfect Song. Period.
#1 song of the 1970s!
I love watching younger people react to the old classic rock greats. Makes me envious that they get to hear it for the first time.
1979 Knebworth UK. Many people had started to stand up and jam, but those sitting on the grass behind them could now not see, bottles started to be thrown, angry words started to be said. Zeppelin stopped the show. The 4 or 5 (long time ago can't remember all the details) massive spotlights they had at the front of the stage were aimed at the audience, Robert Plant came to the mic and said "we will not continue until everyone is sitting down" with the spotlights sweeping across the stadium everyone slowly settled and sat. As soon as the last person's ass hit the ground the lights went out the stage lit up and the intro to Stairway started. INSTANTLY everyone was one their feet. It was awesome, I was blessed.
You guys have been to the top of the mountain , and....it is good. 🎸🤘🔥
This song was always voted number 1 on every rock n roll radio station Memorial Day weekend when they’d do their top 500 rock count down songs!
I remember that. This was always number 1
I remember those days. Even March madness brackets this would be #1.
@@stevemd6488it still is every year, lowest it’s gone is number two.
Simply the greatest song ever written by the ONLY band who could have composed it. The mastery of language and musicianship exemplified by masters of their craft. They heightened the art of composition. My favorite band ever and it’s not even close ❤️
In your head forever, every led Zeppelin song you hear, will be your next favorite song 🙃🙃🙃😆😅😅😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣😭😭
Saw these guys on the 77 America tour. Incredible. Best concert ever.
The summer this came out, all us kids would have the transistor radio on in the yard, and we'd stop when this came on and sing along.
Jimmy Page broke all the rules with the construction of this song...and it works!
Arguably the best guitar solo in rock history. Definitely in top 5.
PAGE: "I was taught as a studio musician that you never speed up. I was keen on writing a song that broke that cardinal rule."
The singer (Robert Plant) introduced it as a song about hope. I call it a song about a gold-digger who thinks gold (money) can buy anything, even her way into heaven.
These men are unequalled in their synergy. The four of them make the 5th element which is the essential Led Zeppelin - each a master of their instrument. Rock gods of lore.
High school graduation a lifetime ago and MacArthur Park and Stairway to Heaven were on the ballot for our graduation song. It wasn't even fair. Arguably one of the greatest rock songs ever put to page. If not the greatest. Great reaction to a truly legendary classic!
Page said to plant I want to write a song that will define us for life ,and he did just that
Jimmy composed pieces of this song for months...when they came to record there were still no lyrics...as they practiced it Robert sat with a small pad of paper for 45 min and wrote them...they then recorded this magnificent piece in 2 hours and 3 takes...best rock song ever.
Headley Grange 😁
“Stairway…” is considered one of the greatest masterpieces in Rock history. I am a die hard Zep fan since I was 13 (I am 62). I have seen them twice. The best test of great music (any genre) is how well they perform live. Look for Zeppelin live! “Since I’ve Been Loving You”
Check out 'Heart' covering this song at the Kennedy Center Honors!! It had the band (LZ), weeping in their balcony box!!
I ❤ Your channel! Great reaction and not over reacted. You guys are funny and knowledgeable about the classic rock genre .
Keep up the great work and having an open mind!
❤️ ✌️ music 🎶
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Theyre my favorite band!!! Enjoy your downloads! Theyre all alive in their 70's not touring but, Bonham's son has a Zeppelin tribute band who tours. He plays drums, I saw them in Boston in June this year
People were going CRAZY😂
You review Zepplin i be here for every one!
Hey guys love the Zep huh ! Always expect the adventure !Also reading the lyrics with the song is a very different feeling !
This would lead you into the discovery of the Greatest Female Rock Band. Heart. Sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson. Their Tribute to Led Zeppelin at the Kennedy Center Honors - Heart - Stairway
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Guys, this is the greatest rock song of all time.
Stairway was simply a song of hope.
The song is really about hope and your journey to the end of your destination.... This is the number 1 Rock Song of All time ..........
The band has described this as a song of hope. Listen to the Heart tribute at the Kennedy Center honors of this song. Performed in front of the band's surviving members. You won't be sorry.
Recommend seeing the Heart in concert rendition at the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors for Led Zeppelin, vocalist Robert Plant was visibly moved to tears; it's a brilliant song and the engineer/producer is guitarist Jimmy Page, he had worked as a studio hand for years around London since he was very young, he learned all kinds of cool studio skills and tricks
Live...50 yd line Tampa Stadium..1971...there are no words....one of the best nights. In my memories! (And my 21st birthday)
Really rate you guys. If you haven’t done Kashmir then do it. It’s what all members of the band call their greatest…along with this.
The last two minutes in particular is other worldly. Close your eyes and let it take you there!
You’ll know what I mean when you hear it. (No pausing on the last two minutes 😅)
Your comment is 100% correct! I would also recommend pulling up the lyrics. Read them along with the song but don't let them distract from the instruments.
Also "You're time is gonna come", "What is and what should never be", "Ten years gone", "Babe I'm gonna leave you"....!
YES!! If only I could go back and experience all of this for the first time again.
Watch Led Zepplin live at Madison Square Garden “Since I’ve Been loving you” it’s incredible!
1973
My favorite song ever.
This song just builds and builds higher and higher incrementally… just like a stairway to Heaven 💫
"Since I've Been Loving You", is another great one !!
She’s trying to buy her way into heaven. But her stairway lies on the whispering wind (it’s fragile). The Piper (God) is calling her to join him and there’s still time to change the road you’re on.
I think she's a junkie and the Piper is a dealer leading her down a path to a heroin overdose - that's the stairway to heaven. "The stores are all closed but she can still get what she came for." I think the song speeds up because she got her fix and it ends the way it does because she's dead.
ICONIC AND TIMELESS
"Su-um big comin" " ... good call
as soon as you hear “and as we wind on down the road” it’s like a completely different song
Thanks for this, guys! NOW, please react to Heart covering Stairway to Heaven live at the Kennedy Center Honors in the presence of Led Zeppelin! You won't regret it!
Yes that is a must watch. Best cover of any song i've ever heard.
Probably should react to some Heart tunes first.
I agree, very cool seeing the 3 members, watching their song being played to them.
Should be noted that Led Zepplins' drummer ( John Bonham) passed away years ago and that his son is the drummer on this version.
That was an epic performance!🎶🥁🎸
Yes, the long version.
The official #1 Classic Rock song of all time. Thanks for your reaction.
"Imagine seeing them live!" Saw them at Madison Square Garden - they played 4 hours - crowd went crazy and started climbing up the stage - front of stage collapsed - I've seen hundreds of concerts but that was the greatest live show I ever saw.
Jimmy page, guitarist, produced stairway to heaven. The engineer was Andy Johns. Classic song 🔥🔥🔥
A lot of people don’t know that the guitar solo in this song is actually the THIRD one he came up with in the studio. I’ve always been curious what the other two could have been.
Didn’t know that, now I’m really curious
This was the number one song every year, back in those days. We had the best music.
Nice! Yes indeed they are the G.O.A.T.S 🙌🏼
Y’all gotta check out there phenomenal live performances you’ll definitely be amazed by how talented each member of the band is 💯💯
We are definitely going to look into their live performances. Thanks for watching!!!
Thank you! You guys have quickly become one of my top reactor channels. Your honest reaction, musical knowledge, and willingness to experiment with different music from the 70s and 80s. I'll be listening keep up the good work.
Thank you so much!
Greetings from Canada. Not flutes... that is the bassist/ keyboards man, John Paul Jones on three different recorders (live, he emulates the recorders on Mellotron). So we're glad to see you enjoy... but you GOTTA see this Stairway to Heaven LIVE MSG, NYC, 1973 to approach their true impact. Have soothing refreshments handy! Peace, love and bellbottoms.
Elvis had a stepbrother that was playing a Led Zeppelin record at Graceland, and Elvis heard it, and asked who it was, then Elvis went to see them live, and met them and found out they were fans of his, especially the lead singer Robert Plant, and Elvis invited them to one of his concerts. Although their music was different, they had a mutual respect for what each other did musically. For Elvis it was the change ups in their songs, and the fact that they were doing their own thing, and didn't sound or try to sound like anyone else, and he could relate to that, and respected that.
What a story!! Thanks for that
Source?
@@cattbutt7758there’s interviews about it, the met with Elvis a few times. Plant or Page tells about visiting Elvis in his hotel suite. All of their interviews are great, you can learn so much. Some are funny too, especially with Plant & his sense of humor.
Damn bra , just found you fellas are rocking out to Zeppelin, i gotta join ya ...
I gotta twist one up , hang on 😂
I saw them live in 1970 and they played this as a new song coming out on their next album. Best live performing group I ever saw, by far.
"Whoooo" best Stairway reaction out there. The joy is real. You only get to hear Stairway for the 1st time once. And THAT was exactly my reaction.
Led Zeppelin had a cultivated image as the best of the heavier rock bands of the late 60s-early 70s. It helped that a lot of what they played sounded really good. Stairway to Heaven was typically in the #1 spot for things like a top 500 Greatest Songs of All Time Weekend on radio stations. I remember so well the song being played by bands at school dances that when I hear it now I’m taken back there. It was just about 50 years ago.
A testament to what inherent talent, quality assorted drugs, fate and assistance from unseen powers can produce...
Cheers
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When there were polls for top rock song, this always was the #1 song.
Yay everyone was up with their lighters… mesmerizing!! Total FIRE!! All four guys were goats in their own right. The song can mean different things to different people spiritually… I like the line.. you can always the change the road you are on… that is like hope…. So it is a spiritual song for me! It also totally rocks… as it did 50 plus years ago when I first heard it!❤
The producer (engineer) was the guitarist, Jimmy Page. Audiences didn't hold lighters up in those times. Robert Plant who wrote the lyrics said people could interpret them as they wished. The band wasn't particularly religious. I think it's about finding out there's more to life than material wealth and there are some things you just can't buy.
That makes sense. Thanks for watching!!
We held up matches , not everybody had lighters , I’m not sure if those big lighters were even around. Your real smokers had the silver lighters.
@@dickcnormis1444 Refillable butane lighters called "Zippo" lighters.
@@THXx1138 Yes , that’s right . I couldn’t remember the name. Thanks
The famous Bonham triplets.
Best song of all time…period.
John passed away only 32 years old. Devastating to this day.
When I first heard this as a kid, my favorite part of the whole song was when it just finally breaks out really really hard and Robert Plant is screaming and Jimmy Page is going nuts and bottom is doing those crazy pills and John Paul Jones is just driving it's super hard on the base guitar and man that was my favorite thing. But now that I'm a much older and more mature musician, of course I still love that, but I'm actually fascinated more now with how they create that long elevating build. That is so damn impressive. And I love how all these lyrics Just Hook in later. We come back to that lady several times and the stairway. But we come back to lots of things. It's like he sets them up but then when he's screaming there in that part, one of the lines is, there comes a lady we all know., or something like that, and suddenly your mind connects it to the whole lady building The Stairway to Heaven out of glittering gold and that we originally talked about. And then of course he references her at the very very end and that acapella vocal bit.
The song basically concerns materialism that cannot get you to heaven. There is a tribute to Led Zeppelin at the Keenedy Center which is a must see, complete with strings, horns, choirs, and Heart (Ann and Nancy Wilson) providing the lead vocal. It is the best tribute I have ever seen in my 65 years of life. Enjoyed your reaction, TY.
You REALLY should listen once to Heart-Stairway to Heaven. Kennedy Center Honors. An Event honoring the band. The band members were in the audience watching. One of the original band member's sons is on Drums. Obama and hs wife were there. Lead singer from Heart did lead vocals. Robert Plant, the lead singer was crying. The song done amazingly well.
I would recommend “In My Time of Dying” both the recording and the live performance at Earl’s Court in 1975. Amazing song.
I secondthirdANDFOURTH that suggestion! Ten minutes of slow burn blues then controlled chaos and thunderous fury and gospel pleadings! Magnificent, one of the best things Humanity's ever done.
We saw page and Plant at The Rosemont Horizon in Chicago It was incredible look up the video for Chicago and you will go completely insane about how they do and the people that they have in the concert with them it's the Cairo Egyptian something something It's in it's incredible I hope you see it
You reactions are great. Far better than the other “reactors”. Wish you all the best
The 4 symbols album has so many great songs , Black Dog & When the levee breaks are 2 very different songs but are both epic in their own way.
The greatest rock song ever.
Just for an interesting contrast check out Heart doing this in front of Led Zep at the Kennedy Center Honors. It’s an iconic performance that had Zep mightily impressed.
They sure were!!! Ann Wilson did a great job!!!
Y’all just heard the if not most iconic riff and possibly best and most important rock song maybe ever ! I’m not starting nothing , just saying it’s hard to make an argument as to why it wouldn’t be. Been popping those goosebumps up over here for 50+yrs ! Great reactions and keep digging in to the oldies because they haven’t been surpassed and probably never will. ✌🏼❤️