The improvisational brilliance of Led Zep is one of the ways they elevate themselves from their peers. Many bands are praised for being able to replicate their studio sound, note for note. Led Zep never once attempted to do that....their greatness was living in the moment, feeding off each other, going down whatever path they chose at that moment, and making every live performance unique to that moment. You never knew what they were going to do from moment to moment, which made them fresh, exciting, innovative, and unpredictable.
COMPLETELY! I've a pirate CD, live in Vancouver 1975,with a version of DAZED OF CONFUSED, OF 47 MINUTES GUYS! JUST MADNESS! 3 MINUTES OF THE ORIGINAL SONG! 😂😂😂😂😂👍JUST, THE ORIGINAL RIFF! AND, 44 MINUTES, OF PURE IMPROVISATION ! 😂😂😂😂😂🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕THE SOUND IS SHIT, AS A LOT OF PITATE'S CD'S, OR VINYLS! BUT, WHAT A MADNESS! THE BEST BAND OF ALL TIME! THE LINK BETWEEN THEM IS NOT REAL! NOT COMING FROM EARTH! 😂👍🇫🇷🎶🖕PEACE FROM FRANCE BRO
Super visionary playing from Page here all the way back in '69 as you say. I think you can see important parts of Eddie van Halen's and Tom Morello's sounds and techniques in this performance actually. You are right on about a lot of the improv. How Many More Times, during this period, was their vehicle for jamming, playing blues medleys, and improving totally new music. So some changes are more or less known about ahead of time and the band communicates internally, usually Page signaling, the upcoming transition. This allows them to extend sections out if they want to in the moment. Lots of call and response improve between Page and Plant. This performance really encapsulates the saying of 'tight but loose' that the band has used to describe their on stage dynamic. They weren't always quite right on the same page at every moment but each performer is so solid and perceptive they easily adjust with great fluidity and pull off a hell of a show. I guess the next notable live performance with video is the show at Royal Albert Hall January 9th, 1970. This should work after you listen to the second album as they'll be playing some of those songs there.
Dude, I'm looking highly forward to Led Zeppelin II from you. I'm nearly 60 years old and a lifetime musician and songwriter and composer and recording studio guy and all that stuff. Playing bands all that but I really feel like you have really intelligent observations about this music you don't strike me like that heavily as a musician but you're somebody that listens to it with such acuity and thoughtfulness that it comes through. And you're right man, in that kind of live setting there's definitely some risk-taking going on but I do think you underestimate how tight they are in the areas that you thought were a little off the wheel. And for the example that final one before reverts to the recognizable part on the album to finish it out, you were like I don't think they know what they were doing there but oh my God it came together so well. Dude go back and listen. They knew what they were doing every damn step of the way every instrument in that band. Was anticipating or acting too and accommodating every other thing happening in that moment. They were so synchronized at that point in a loose sense that it was amazing. But at any rate point you know it's interesting that you said well you know Jimmy Page was so innovative. Well not only were they all individually incredibly innovative. You could write books about each one of them and their musical Innovation and the personalities and their stage percentage and all that right? But, they were mostly Innovative as a band. And to start that early they were definitely the punk music of their generation of that particular music scene threshold anyway they were definitely the punk of that. It can't be classified musically that way but there are a lot of elements that are close to it and more than that it was exactly their risk-taking overall and their ability to do this Fusion of not just rock and blues and all that but there was some serious Jazz influence in that. You know Jazz was the original Punk before rock and roll was the original Punk before this era before Iggy Pop before everything else that came after. So people were into that whole kind of let's see if they can keep the beat down the whole time and if you notice? They do. There's no point in there where the band as a whole, even with lots of space and emptiness being manipulated and people doing staggered rhythms and stuff there is never once where it's ever off the beat ever. Even in the silent. When people come back in it's right on the beat. Anyway I've gone on long enough but I'm really happy you're doing the stiff but since you seem to be understanding it so well, I would highly encourage you to listen to at least the last half of that again and just really listen in advance and think would it be like to be in that band as each player, as a singer, as a guitar player, as a bass player, as a drummer. And you will hear how totally on the same wavelength they are. Their camaraderie musically and in real life was just through the roof at that point.
One of the few early live shows recorded with video and preserved for posterity! The Danish teenagers didn’t know how lucky they were to see Led Zep up close like this! A great document of their explosiveness and power live! The other great document is the ROH Show filmed professionally for an official release. They were young, having fun and in their prime! Incredible! I have it in CD and it’s powerful! I highly recommend you see it!!
Saw the band in 1970 Hampton VA, 1971 Hampton VA, 1973 Dallas TX and 1977 Landover MD. Best live rock band ever, I saw most of the great bands and in my opinion it's not close.
Their albums are journeys but so are their live performances. Each was phenomenally nimble and adept at changing tack. Not only were they skilled with their instruments, but you could also see the enjoyment they got out of the music and performing. They took great pride in being a "working band", meaning to be out touring instead of a studio band who never or hardly ever went on the road. They did a lot of innovative things in the studio to achieve various textures within the songs and worked just as hard to adapt songs to be able to be played live, knowing that they'd be using their improvisational skills to stretch each song to its breaking point, and thereby discovering new sounds and textures.
You're missing out on the best live Zeppelin material. Time for the entire 26 minutes of Dazed and Confused from Madison Square Garden. You may have to pause it a few times to get it to post. The best part is the final third of it.
One of my fav performances of all time If you wanna learn more about the amazing guitar that was played for Led Zeppelin 1 and this performance check out this video > ua-cam.com/video/0LLkk56UJ8U/v-deo.html
Honour bound to chime in and agree. Before I found Zeppelin I found The Doors, they carried me to the next precipice. Always Jim Morrison in my heart and soul, never forgotten.
Time for some material from the Madison Square Garden performance. Try Whole Lotta Love from the Madison Square Garden concert. It's the best live Zeppelin out there.
come on man, how many more times, you going to treat me the way you wanna do', i've felt that way so many damn times in my life and this song came out 50+ years ago. this was a great song, including the interweaving of the different elements.
I have a friend or rather had a friend way back in the 70s told me how much Paige know about the guitar all the different chords and techniques unfortunately I’m not a guitarist but I understood the basis of what he’s talking about so Jimmy page was basically a musicians musician
Jimmy and Jeff Beck were good friends, and Beck always loved searching for new guitar sounds being influenced by Les Paul. Jimmy picked up a lot of that curiosity from Jeff Beck.
Jimmy with the bow combined with the wah pedal is such a cool effect. He only got better with this combo. The audience was instructed to chill as this was being recorded. As I understand.
Great reaction, very enjoyable. With the thought you voiced that they were playing to their audience, did you notice that Plant changed some of the wording? For example, he changed "Cause I've got you in the sights of my gun" to "Cause I've got you in the sites of my love". Also, did you pick up on "Little Robert Anthony wants to come and play"? Robert Anthony is Plant. Always makes me smile when I hear him sing that line. And I enjoyed it when Jones broke out in a smile when Plant started to improvise again toward the end. They clearly had fun performing.
Great analysis, I appreciate your patience in reviewing with thoughtfulness, really gives me something new to think about through a fresh perspective, I know the songs so well I forget how extraordinary they are
They never recorded anything on their albums that they couldn't reproduce live on stage and Page only used one effects pedal on albums or live in shows which was a Wah Wah pedal you hear it on No Quarter its used in the start & choruses.
Please dive into some of the Yardbirds - the later stuff with Jimmy Page. This is really where you can hear the beginnings of the heavy metal which flourished with Zeppelin. "Think About It" is a great track that foreshadows riffs in LZ's Dazed and Confused.
SO TRUE, BRO, AS ALWAYS ! JPJ WAS THE GLUE! The other members, were, always, improvising, especially, JIMMY and, BONZO! But, Robert too! And, JOHN, was the guy, who connected them together, like you said! A, real, underestimated genius! But, it's the same for all the great bands! Some of the members are shinning, others, are shadows! But, if one of the members, is not there anymore, it's not the same anymore!
The better version of how many more times! But, I like 2 other versions! Live at the Royal Albert Hall, when the crowd starts to clap in their hands! And, the BBC SESSIONS, when, Robert, Says: my little schooooooollll girl! 😂😂😂😂HO SHIT! AN ERECTION GUYS! 👍
He did watch the video of the performance and what we watched was his reaction to it. The video got blocked so he had to post his reaction without being able to post the video of the performance.
I love your insightful reviews but I strongly disagree with you that it was ever even close to going off the rails. As a musician that has played in bands forever, it's the wonderful feeling of taking risks but knowing that you're good enough that it's not even possible for it to go off the rails. Or on the quantumly rare occasion that it does, it just makes for a really fun audience experience because maybe it was something you just tried for the first time the night before but that wouldn't ever happen most of the time. Now they knew totally man. What you are uncomfortable with is improv. But there are so many Clues going back into when they come together. And I think a lot of this goes to you you are only hearing it for the first time. And I'm only hearing this particular recording with its particular improv the first time but what I'm getting at, is that if you get used to hearing people do slightly different versions of things all the time, which they were definitely a part of that crowd. And the history of that goes way back, they were actually really good at it even in that early stage. I tell you that every one of them on that stage knew exactly what they were doing. They didn't know what was coming next but they knew how to start giving signals to each other to come out of it and hit the next Landmark that was predetermined. And if they messed up cuz it was new and jumped over a landmark? No problem. They would just pick it up at the next one.
You can hear a lot of mistakes, even, we are, only, shit musicians, compared to those monsters! But, it's, so fucking good! THEY ARE IMPROVISING SO MUCH, IT'S IMPOSSIBLE, NOT TO MAKE ANY MISTAKES! AT, THE END, YOU CAN HEAR, THE WORTH, WHEN BONZO COMES IN, AND JIMMY, COMES TOO LATE! 😂👍BUT, AT THE OPPOSITE, LISTEN, AT THE END TOO, WHEN BONZO MAKE THE DRUM ROLLING, AND, JIMMY COMES IN, EXACTLY, AT THE PERFECT MOMENT! HOW, ARE THEY DOING THAT? IT'S THE PERFECTION! SERIOUSLY! MY NUMBER 1 IS JIMI HENDRIX, FOREVER, MAYBE, BECAUSE, I'M A GUITARIST, BUT, AS A BAND, LED ZEP, NUMBER 1,PINK FLOYD NUMBER 2! IS SOMEONE, CAN ARGUE ABOUT THAT? PEACE FROM FRANCE GUYS! 😂🎶😘🇫🇷
It took him 3 months to get through LZ's first album. In between, he listened to a ton of other bands. Check out his list of reaction videos on his home page.
The improvisational brilliance of Led Zep is one of the ways they elevate themselves from their peers. Many bands are praised for being able to replicate their studio sound, note for note. Led Zep never once attempted to do that....their greatness was living in the moment, feeding off each other, going down whatever path they chose at that moment, and making every live performance unique to that moment. You never knew what they were going to do from moment to moment, which made them fresh, exciting, innovative, and unpredictable.
The band at this show seems to be flirting with each others talents musicacally and with the crowd as well. Super cool.
COMPLETELY! I've a pirate CD, live in Vancouver 1975,with a version of DAZED OF CONFUSED, OF 47 MINUTES GUYS! JUST MADNESS! 3 MINUTES OF THE ORIGINAL SONG! 😂😂😂😂😂👍JUST, THE ORIGINAL RIFF! AND, 44 MINUTES, OF PURE IMPROVISATION ! 😂😂😂😂😂🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕THE SOUND IS SHIT, AS A LOT OF PITATE'S CD'S, OR VINYLS! BUT, WHAT A MADNESS! THE BEST BAND OF ALL TIME! THE LINK BETWEEN THEM IS NOT REAL! NOT COMING FROM EARTH! 😂👍🇫🇷🎶🖕PEACE FROM FRANCE BRO
Super visionary playing from Page here all the way back in '69 as you say. I think you can see important parts of Eddie van Halen's and Tom Morello's sounds and techniques in this performance actually.
You are right on about a lot of the improv. How Many More Times, during this period, was their vehicle for jamming, playing blues medleys, and improving totally new music. So some changes are more or less known about ahead of time and the band communicates internally, usually Page signaling, the upcoming transition. This allows them to extend sections out if they want to in the moment. Lots of call and response improve between Page and Plant. This performance really encapsulates the saying of 'tight but loose' that the band has used to describe their on stage dynamic. They weren't always quite right on the same page at every moment but each performer is so solid and perceptive they easily adjust with great fluidity and pull off a hell of a show.
I guess the next notable live performance with video is the show at Royal Albert Hall January 9th, 1970. This should work after you listen to the second album as they'll be playing some of those songs there.
Amazing how good they were so early in their career.
Dude, I'm looking highly forward to Led Zeppelin II from you. I'm nearly 60 years old and a lifetime musician and songwriter and composer and recording studio guy and all that stuff. Playing bands all that but I really feel like you have really intelligent observations about this music you don't strike me like that heavily as a musician but you're somebody that listens to it with such acuity and thoughtfulness that it comes through. And you're right man, in that kind of live setting there's definitely some risk-taking going on but I do think you underestimate how tight they are in the areas that you thought were a little off the wheel. And for the example that final one before reverts to the recognizable part on the album to finish it out, you were like I don't think they know what they were doing there but oh my God it came together so well. Dude go back and listen. They knew what they were doing every damn step of the way every instrument in that band. Was anticipating or acting too and accommodating every other thing happening in that moment. They were so synchronized at that point in a loose sense that it was amazing. But at any rate point you know it's interesting that you said well you know Jimmy Page was so innovative. Well not only were they all individually incredibly innovative. You could write books about each one of them and their musical Innovation and the personalities and their stage percentage and all that right? But, they were mostly Innovative as a band. And to start that early they were definitely the punk music of their generation of that particular music scene threshold anyway they were definitely the punk of that. It can't be classified musically that way but there are a lot of elements that are close to it and more than that it was exactly their risk-taking overall and their ability to do this Fusion of not just rock and blues and all that but there was some serious Jazz influence in that. You know Jazz was the original Punk before rock and roll was the original Punk before this era before Iggy Pop before everything else that came after. So people were into that whole kind of let's see if they can keep the beat down the whole time and if you notice? They do. There's no point in there where the band as a whole, even with lots of space and emptiness being manipulated and people doing staggered rhythms and stuff there is never once where it's ever off the beat ever. Even in the silent. When people come back in it's right on the beat. Anyway I've gone on long enough but I'm really happy you're doing the stiff but since you seem to be understanding it so well, I would highly encourage you to listen to at least the last half of that again and just really listen in advance and think would it be like to be in that band as each player, as a singer, as a guitar player, as a bass player, as a drummer. And you will hear how totally on the same wavelength they are. Their camaraderie musically and in real life was just through the roof at that point.
Led Zep 2 is so heavy and rockin.
Amazing Zep album!
One of the few early live shows recorded with video and preserved for posterity! The Danish teenagers didn’t know how lucky they were to see Led Zep up close like this! A great document of their explosiveness and power live!
The other great document is the ROH Show filmed professionally for an official release. They were young, having fun and in their prime! Incredible! I have it in CD and it’s powerful! I highly recommend you see it!!
Check out the live version of Whole Lotta Love from MSG 1973! Amazing improvisational performance.
That's what I suggested.
I was lucky enough to see them in Melbourne, Australia. February 1972.
Saw the band in 1970 Hampton VA, 1971 Hampton VA, 1973 Dallas TX and 1977 Landover MD. Best live rock band ever, I saw most of the great bands and in my opinion it's not close.
Their albums are journeys but so are their live performances. Each was phenomenally nimble and adept at changing tack. Not only were they skilled with their instruments, but you could also see the enjoyment they got out of the music and performing. They took great pride in being a "working band", meaning to be out touring instead of a studio band who never or hardly ever went on the road. They did a lot of innovative things in the studio to achieve various textures within the songs and worked just as hard to adapt songs to be able to be played live, knowing that they'd be using their improvisational skills to stretch each song to its breaking point, and thereby discovering new sounds and textures.
You're missing out on the best live Zeppelin material. Time for the entire 26 minutes of Dazed and Confused from Madison Square Garden. You may have to pause it a few times to get it to post. The best part is the final third of it.
One of my fav performances of all time
If you wanna learn more about the amazing guitar that was played for Led Zeppelin 1 and this performance check out this video > ua-cam.com/video/0LLkk56UJ8U/v-deo.html
1970 Royal Albert Hall dude!
The only other Rock band 🎸 that I like that could improvise live like this was the Doors! Both legendary bands!
Honour bound to chime in and agree. Before I found Zeppelin I found The Doors, they carried me to the next precipice. Always Jim Morrison in my heart and soul, never forgotten.
Can't wait for Whole Lotta Love next!
OH YEAH, can't wait for 'Whole Lotta Love'!!!!
Yeah. The Madison Square Garden performance.
It’s a shame you didn’t react to the version from RAH 1970, it’s much better than this version, and this version is great.
How Many More Times is by an inch or two my favorite track from this show. Yes I have seen this before. Thank you! Great reaction as always.
Time for some material from the Madison Square Garden performance. Try Whole Lotta Love from the Madison Square Garden concert. It's the best live Zeppelin out there.
Robert was 20 when this was made. Bummer they blocked the video; I've seen it many times on other reactors channels and it worked fine.
come on man, how many more times, you going to treat me the way you wanna do', i've felt that way so many damn times in my life and this song came out 50+ years ago. this was a great song, including the interweaving of the different elements.
I have a friend or rather had a friend way back in the 70s told me how much Paige know about the guitar all the different chords and techniques unfortunately I’m not a guitarist but I understood the basis of what he’s talking about so Jimmy page was basically a musicians musician
Omg!! I’ve never heard them just jam together!! Blown away how tight they were at 6 months!!
Hold on to your seat, this one is a banger par excellence! Takes you on a soaring trip. At 15:08 minds are blown.
Jimmy and Jeff Beck were good friends, and Beck always loved searching for new guitar sounds being influenced by Les Paul. Jimmy picked up a lot of that curiosity from Jeff Beck.
PAGE = GOAT
Jimmy with the bow combined with the wah pedal is such a cool effect. He only got better with this combo. The audience was instructed to chill as this was being recorded. As I understand.
Great reaction, very enjoyable. With the thought you voiced that they were playing to their audience, did you notice that Plant changed some of the wording? For example, he changed "Cause I've got you in the sights of my gun" to "Cause I've got you in the sites of my love". Also, did you pick up on "Little Robert Anthony wants to come and play"? Robert Anthony is Plant. Always makes me smile when I hear him sing that line. And I enjoyed it when Jones broke out in a smile when Plant started to improvise again toward the end. They clearly had fun performing.
Great analysis, I appreciate your patience in reviewing with thoughtfulness, really gives me something new to think about through a fresh perspective, I know the songs so well I forget how extraordinary they are
Just listening to a band jamming in the room mistakes are made magic happens
WHAT PLANT IS SINGING AT THE END IS FROM A (UK) BAND CALLED (FREE) THE SONG IS CALLED (THE HUNTER)
He has always been the innovator. Listen back to his time with the Yardbirds!
You can hear the blueprint here but they got so much better
14:55 Bonzo with the save. Someone got lost. 🤣
They never recorded anything on their albums that they couldn't reproduce live on stage and Page only used one effects pedal on albums or live in shows which was a Wah Wah pedal you hear it on No Quarter its used in the start & choruses.
Zeps improv sometimes didnt totally work but when it did ..... one of the many reasons they are considered the best
@15:08....yes, that's the reaction I have every time I see this performance.
Gold, on every level.
Welcome aboard brother.
Yeah dude, 53 frickin years ago, I wasn't born for another 11 years
Please dive into some of the Yardbirds - the later stuff with Jimmy Page. This is really where you can hear the beginnings of the heavy metal which flourished with Zeppelin. "Think About It" is a great track that foreshadows riffs in LZ's Dazed and Confused.
SO TRUE, BRO, AS ALWAYS ! JPJ WAS THE GLUE! The other members, were, always, improvising, especially, JIMMY and, BONZO! But, Robert too! And, JOHN, was the guy, who connected them together, like you said! A, real, underestimated genius! But, it's the same for all the great bands! Some of the members are shinning, others, are shadows! But, if one of the members, is not there anymore, it's not the same anymore!
a bit of a free song at the end
They call me The Hunter, that's my Name. Could be Albert King, could be Artemis, who knows.
Freaking outstanding!
Zep blowin up How Many More Years ..... Howling Wolf.
If you want to listen to the studio versions live. Look up get the led out they are the number 1 Led Zeppelin tribute band in the world
The better version of how many more times! But, I like 2 other versions! Live at the Royal Albert Hall, when the crowd starts to clap in their hands! And, the BBC SESSIONS, when, Robert, Says: my little schooooooollll girl! 😂😂😂😂HO SHIT! AN ERECTION GUYS! 👍
Yes, that is a different song - here's another version (of many) ua-cam.com/video/sqKtzGKx5bU/v-deo.html
19 years old plant was I think
How come your not watching the video...it's great...
He did watch the video of the performance and what we watched was his reaction to it. The video got blocked so he had to post his reaction without being able to post the video of the performance.
I think we all did the same at 15:08.
Put a spell on you...lol!
OMG. I like your reactions, but I expect to see this in movement...
I love your insightful reviews but I strongly disagree with you that it was ever even close to going off the rails. As a musician that has played in bands forever, it's the wonderful feeling of taking risks but knowing that you're good enough that it's not even possible for it to go off the rails. Or on the quantumly rare occasion that it does, it just makes for a really fun audience experience because maybe it was something you just tried for the first time the night before but that wouldn't ever happen most of the time. Now they knew totally man. What you are uncomfortable with is improv. But there are so many Clues going back into when they come together. And I think a lot of this goes to you you are only hearing it for the first time. And I'm only hearing this particular recording with its particular improv the first time but what I'm getting at, is that if you get used to hearing people do slightly different versions of things all the time, which they were definitely a part of that crowd. And the history of that goes way back, they were actually really good at it even in that early stage. I tell you that every one of them on that stage knew exactly what they were doing. They didn't know what was coming next but they knew how to start giving signals to each other to come out of it and hit the next Landmark that was predetermined. And if they messed up cuz it was new and jumped over a landmark? No problem. They would just pick it up at the next one.
Apart from far too many interruptions at totally the wrong time, you do seem to get what they were all about. (Sorry, ARE still all about!)
I don't agree that this is imrov; i do agree tha they were still getting to feel each other out.
You can hear a lot of mistakes, even, we are, only, shit musicians, compared to those monsters! But, it's, so fucking good! THEY ARE IMPROVISING SO MUCH, IT'S IMPOSSIBLE, NOT TO MAKE ANY MISTAKES! AT, THE END, YOU CAN HEAR, THE WORTH, WHEN BONZO COMES IN, AND JIMMY, COMES TOO LATE! 😂👍BUT, AT THE OPPOSITE, LISTEN, AT THE END TOO, WHEN BONZO MAKE THE DRUM ROLLING, AND, JIMMY COMES IN, EXACTLY, AT THE PERFECT MOMENT! HOW, ARE THEY DOING THAT? IT'S THE PERFECTION! SERIOUSLY! MY NUMBER 1 IS JIMI HENDRIX, FOREVER, MAYBE, BECAUSE, I'M A GUITARIST, BUT, AS A BAND, LED ZEP, NUMBER 1,PINK FLOYD NUMBER 2! IS SOMEONE, CAN ARGUE ABOUT THAT? PEACE FROM FRANCE GUYS! 😂🎶😘🇫🇷
Perhaps you should give a listen to bands other than LZ.
It took him 3 months to get through LZ's first album. In between, he listened to a ton of other bands. Check out his list of reaction videos on his home page.
Yes. Like Rush !