70s Legends Wrote This Song as a JOKE…TRANSFORMED Them Into The Gods of Rock! | Professor Of Rock
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The story of Led Zeppelin’s 70s rock masterpiece Immigrant Song Although Immigrant Song was written to be entirely tongue in cheek... its humor was almost completely lost on listeners. In fact, this fist in the air rocker was so power-packed that legions lined up to crown its Zeppelin the lords of Rock and Roll. And by then... it was too late to convince anyone that they were more or less joking. Is this smash hit rock’s greatest battle cry anthem? Written by rock’s ultimate guitar hero Jimmy Page and masterfully sung by Robert Plant with John Paul Jones and John Bonham taking it to the highest levels of music
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In the two years since Led Zeppelin lifted off in 1968, Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham had sailed a great distance across the sky. Two best-selling albums, hundreds of concerts on both sides of the Atlantic, and congregations of faithful fans had all fueled their flight through the stratosphere. And for better or for worse, this frenzied rocket ride to fame wasn’t slowing down.
The need to get bigger kept accelerating... and the members of Zeppelin were really feeling the fatigue. In the first few months of 1970 alone, Zeppelin had toured the UK, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, Germany, and Austria... and put in an exhausting fifth circuit across America. As spring arrived, band members were ready for a breather. And for Plant and Page, this took the form of an extended rustic retreat into the middle of nowhere.
Their destination? Bron-Yr-Aur, an 18th-century cottage in Snowdonia, Wales where Plant had vacationed as a child. Tranquil and primitive, they lived without running water, electricity, or a telephone. It was perfect silence from the world at large. They would be joined only by Robert’s family, Jimmy’s girlfriend, and a couple of roadies. There in the countryside Page and Plant wrote together, really for the first time. Songs seemed to emerge out of the ether as they roamed the hills, followed the streams, and sat by the fireplace, guitars in hand.
“[It was the] first time I really came to know Robert,” Page said, “actually living together at Bron-Yr-Aur, as opposed to occupying nearby hotel rooms. The songs took us into areas that changed the band. It established a standard of travelling for inspiration … which is the best thing a musician can do.” This creative getaway provided Page and Plant with new material for Zeppelin’s third record, as well as future albums.
When their time was done, Page and Plant left their pastoral sanctuary rejuvenated. And early in the summer of 1970, they rejoined Jones and Bonham to run through the songs for Zeppelin III. Gathering at Headley Grange in the Hampshire countryside and with the help of the Rolling Stones’ mobile studio, they got to work rehearsing. Later, they recorded at Olympic Studios in London and Island Records' Basing Street Studios in Notting Hill. - Розваги
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When you think of immigrants since that time to the present, they are anything but the hordes described in the song.
I liked it from the jump.
Can we get an ep or two dealing with some other TV theme hits?
John Sebastian’s Welcome Back and Joe Scarburys Greatest American Hero and the like.
@@jammcguire1276 2300””””””””””°
Nice story... but so many ADs it's almost impossible to follow the telling
If my kids wouldn't get up for school I would put this song on really loud and sing it. Later when they had grown up we were celebrating Christmas at my youngest son's condo with his fiancee. Youngest son wouldn't wake up and my oldest son started humming this song and the fiancee started laughing and said I heard about this. We cranked this song and all three of us sang it. Younger song woke up. 🙂 It was an awesome moment. And yes my kids love Led Zeppelin now. And I was that parent like your dad.
My dad woke me up with BACH 😊
🎉😂❤it
Lmao it also featured on my playlist to wake reluctant kids up
My go to ‘welcome to the new day’ music was Bouzouki music, in particular ‘Zorba the Greek’ played at ‘the neighbourhood is now Greek’ level…on repeat! The only way to stop it was to get out of bed and physically turn it off…..at which point I would confiscate all bedding 😊 I had an 11a.m. Cut off for sleeping off the night before, then it was time to join the real world, brunch was always part of that but you had to be there…or suffer Bouzouki at ear bleed level! There was always that one newcomer who would try to outlast…but none ever did! 😂
@@mamarijkeI would have switched it between Beatles, The Who, Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Debussey and a few more.
The first time I heard Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song” I was in Thailand in the U.S. Air Force in 1970 working on B-52’s in the Vietnam war. They played it on the Armed Forces Radio Network. The first time I heard it I was hooked, and I ordered the album through the Air Force Base Exchange system. 53 years later I still have the same album and pull it out occasionally and play it, even though I can hear the song anytime digitally.
Thanks for keeping those BUFFs flying.
That’s great! I was hooked in that year too. I saw them in Ohio after winning 2 tickets from a radio call in. 3 hours of pure joy. I got to the very front by getting 2 beers served in quart milk cartons and sharing sips to get by folks. Then as the 1st beer ran out, someone gave me a joint for sharing and that got me the rest of the way. Jimmy was wearing his black velvet embroidered dragon suit. Stunning! I’ll never forget that show. We were lucky that Ohio had so many great concerts and prices weren’t like now.
@@pattyandersen5516 I was born and raised in Cleveland so I'm familiar with all those great concerts that came to town.
I'll ask this question of you as a longshot. Would you possibly know my brother Herb (Onderlinde) who was in Thailand the at U-Tapao RTAB around then? Skinny white guy around 5 " 8", 160-180 lbs(?) & brownish-blond hair. He also was working on B-52's in the Avionics section. Since he entered the USAF in '68 & separated in '71 or '72, he didn't spend a lot of time in Thailand or his 2nd assignment at Barksdale AFB. I realize the USAF was pretty big then, & IAW the Google Inet, there were 8 bases in Thailand.
In those early days of the USAF, they could move a person around a lot, esp. as a single/married unaccompanied ; my first 2 assignments averaged 18 months each. It was cheap for the USAF because as an unaccompanied airman you had SH*T for a weight allowance. Hello Post Office!!
@@williamonderlinde5068 I was at U-Tapao from July 70-71 in the Avionics Maintenance Squadron (AMS). I was in the Comm / Nav Radio Shop fixing “D” model Buffs and KC-135 Tankers HF & UHF Radio and Interphone systems. The AMS squadron was pretty big with several different specialty shops that repaired different types of aircraft electronics systems, and we worked 24/7 in two different 12 hour shifts. The name doesn’t sound familiar, so he may have been in a different shop, or even on a different shift. We changed shifts every 2 months so we wouldn’t get stuck for a year on either days or nights. We also got one day off a week unless there was a big push going. Of course it was also more than 50 years ago so the memory may have faded a bit over time.
This song literally saved my life. I was sitting listening to the radio about to commit suicide. Right before I was about to do it. the DJ played This song. The "Call to Arms" as it is known sent chills up my spin. Sitting there listening I realized there was more to life than the suffering I knew. I still cry any time I hear this song. I don't cry often, yet this song always moves me.
What a powerful story, thanks for sharing it!
I hope whatever was bothering you is a distant memory these days.
@@GettingOldBites420 it was over 30 years ago now. I have clinical depression, undiagnosed back then. I also lived in a severely abusive family. I have gotten help since then.
Glad that you are still here, friend.
I'm glad you're still with us! I completely empathize as I attempted suicide too, but obviously failed. Missed my own heart by 1/8 of an inch.
The "critics" never understood LZ. But the fans did. Greatest Rock Band in History!!!!
Proof critics are areses
the men don't know, but the little girls understand
They’re not even top 20 for me.
Greatest cover band.
@@Knorthcast in a lot of ways, you’re not wrong. Still, what they did with those songs birthed the heavy metal movement
Okay...funny story: I am an Historian specializing in Ancient Rome. I was working an archaeological dig in Italy with a bunch of College Youngling Undergrads and we would have music playing while we were working through the hot summer days.
One evening, after we got back from the dig site, several of us were talking and one girl looks over and says: "What's the name of that song that goes...aaaAAAAaaaaa-AH...aaaAAAAaaaaa-AH? Does anyone know?"
And I looked over and said..."It's called Immigrant Song."
She kinda sneers at me...because I'm much older than everyone else there (I'm a Graduate Student in my 50's...because why the fuck not, eh?) and I obviously have no idea what I'm talking about...and she says: "I'm not talking about the song from Hamilton, I mean the Rock Song."
At which point I bow up...as you do when you know what the hell you're talking about and someone tells you you're wrong...and responded with: "It's CALLED Immigrant Song...it's by Led Zeppelin...and it came out in the 70's when I was a kid and I have been listening to it ever since. Anything else?"
At which...she just kind of got quiet and the other kids looked at me like..."Wow..."
Yeah...I won that argument...*laughs*
Hahahaha! Schooled them!
Amazing how kids think all life began when they arrived 🤣
Now what the hell is the song from Hamilton? LOL.
Kid's today are totally different than when I was a kid. It's like no one puts them in check, their told how great they are from the minute their born. It's crazy
This is great!! I used to think we had a new set of LZ fans all over until I realized they were selling LZ t-shirts at Target lol
The first time I was at a Zeppelin concert they were promoting this album. And, they open the set with The Immigrant Song. And, by the way, the opening act (not announced prior to the concert) was YES. They were promoting The Yes Album; opened with Starship Trooper. I was a very pleased 16 year old. 😁
Ty
Dude I’m so damn jealous
Hot damn.
Love the Immigrant Song! Ahhheeeahh Aahh !! :-)
You are old now. Would have been cool to that though.
I just have to say that Zeppelin was way ahead of their time! There will never be another band like them!
What I love most about Immigrant Song is the long, fast ascending line during the refrain, doubled by Jonesy and Page, followed by the sudden stop--a breath for air--before that brutal riff starts pounding yet again. It's an example of the juxtaposition of opposites that defined Zeppelin: soft and loud, dark and bright, heavy and light.
Well put!
The funniest part about that riff is that it is just a plain old major scale iirc. Literally nothing fancy.
That is some insightful shi-
well said.
Yes, and How Many More Times does the same! Freakin love it!!!
When my kid was 7 or 8 she was in Young Champions cheer. It was a competitive cheer team. A new season came and the coach asked for song suggestions. All the other parents put together typical pop and country songs all the teams were using. I put together a cd of banging rock tracks including Immigrant Song. The girls listened to the CDs and loved Immigrant Song. The coach put together a great routine. The parents went all out with fur leg warmers and other great accessories The girls won state with the routine. Long story short Zeppelin helped my kid with a great athletic achievement.
That is SO COOL!!!
Love it, OMG 😄
Awesome Tale!
Wow, that totally rocks!
I would love to see a video of that I can only imagine how fabulous it was now I'll have to go through life not seeing it 😢🤣♥️🤟🏼
I saw Led Zep at the Kingdome in Seattle July 17, 1977. I was 14 years old and this was my very first rock concert. Three songs got the loudest cheers: Whole Lotta Love, Stairway To Heaven and Immigrant Song. For some reason the opening act didn't show up. Led Zep took the stage somewhere around 9pm and spent the next four hours lighting up the night. Best memory of my life.
I was wee bit to young that concert, my first was AC/DC "For those about to rock" at the SEA Center Coliseum.
@@escgoogle3865 I was there too! Rock gods!
I had hoped to see them but they cancelled the tour due to the death of Plant's young son in 1977.
Lucky You
I was there, too!!! Nosebleed section under the Jumbotron. So far from the stage I couldn't see the band, so I'd look up at the screen to get the visuals. So far from the stage that the sound literally took precious seconds to get to me. By the time it got there, the band was doing something else😂
So, I just lit a joint and closed my eyes and melted into the greatest band that has ever lived. What else could I do?
If you are a Minnesota Vikings fan and have been to the games at US Bank Stadium, you've heard this song blasted at beyond safe hearing levels. Still a great song!
SKOL
SKOL!
I am a Vikings fan, but I have never been to Minnesota. I know that it is a place that many believe the Norse came to. Rune stones are there and some are not dated to the Viking era. The reason I became a Vikings fan as a kid was of my love for swords and the whole era of the Dark Ages and Middle Ages. So I read King Arthur tales and Viking stories as a child. I was able to read amost anything by the age of 4. But I still can`t add or divide without a calculator! And of course as kids are I liked their uniforms too. J.R.R. Tolkien was introduced to me in I think 4th grade or 5th grade. My mom gave me "The Hobbit" for my birthday or Christmas then, and I have read as much as possible through the years. What a kickass driving beat Bonzo has going on in the song and the octave based riff Jimmy has in the song and topped by Plants war cry opening and the lyrics about a Viking attack! I love Zep III. It is so diverse , from this tune to "Since I`ve been loving you" to "Tangerine" to my favorite "Out on the Tiles". Incredible album!
Nobody outside of Burgerland cares about Padded Rugby. But that's cool.
As a teen in the 70’s, Led Zeppelin was pretty much the soundtrack of my life. I loved their music , and Robert Plant , with that gorgeous hair and crooked smile just ooozed sex appeal!
As my son was growing up, I played Led Zeppelin sooo much that he begged me to stop.
And so I did…. Until …
A short while ago he ran excitedly to me to play a video he’d come across . The video was of a rubber chicken dog toy which sounded exactly like the scream in the Immigrant Song when squeezed.
The video creator cleverly laid it over the instrumental track . My kiddo thought if was hilarious! ( it is )
So I took the opportunity to play the actual song to him again, and this time, he loved it.
We’ve been listening to Led Zeppelin together ever since. It makes me happy to see him appreciating the music I love so much.
He’s been wearing a Led Zeppelin T-shirt to school and introducing his friends to the bands music. It’s become very popular in his high school ( at least with the boys ).
A new generation of fans is born. Just goes to show that great music never gets old and that rubber chickens will always be funny 😁
Heh heh 😂
Love it
I remember the time when my then teenaged son and his pals were astonished to discover that I had even heard of Led Zeppelin! I had to point out that the band hit the charts when I was in my teens, along with numerous others such as Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Captain Beefheart etc. etc. This revelation (that I was once a teenager too, perhaps) was met with incredulous stares. I had to laugh...😂
Mine was female but the story remains the same...
How are people raising such stupid children
The drummer for Captain Beefheart/Zappa is now my chiropractor. No joke. Coolest, most laid back guy ever.
@@SteverRob Now, that's cool!
Christine….Aaaaah Ain’t THAT The Truth!! Couple days ago, my almost 40yr old son called me. “Mom! Mom!! Quick! I know YOU HAVE TO KNOW THIS!! I gotta name Led Zeppelin band members! Hurry! I got money on this!!!” 😂😂😂😂 Not…”Hi Mom! How are you?” 😂 Needless to say, “he won” a Hundred bucks! I’m STILL waiting for MY cut 😂
I had a spinal injury at 18 and it took me many years to recover. Learning to walk again, Kashmir was my determination and Immigrant Song was pushing through the pain. I got there. The power of music to reach emotions equals an unbelievable force.
Thank you! 🙌🏼🙌🏼 I feel that power and force✊🏼
@Pete Cockcroft That’s not funny considering how serious this music helped him overcome a spinal injury.
I understand dark humor, but that’s taking away his triumph of pushing through unimaginable pain.
@Pete Cockcroft That’s cool. All good 😉
Truthseeker, this is absolutely brilliant: "The power of music to reach emotions equals an unbelievable force" Yes and YES! And we had some mind altering music back in the day. Music IS a healer! and because of it you could say, "I got there". Beautiful. 😊💥🎶✌
Good For YOU!! That is an incredible achievement! You are strong and fierce! God Bless You!!
I've always loved III. "Tangerine", "That's the Way". Two fantastic songs that are not what most casual fans would recognize or expect from LZ.
Yeah. Led Zeppelin III is an excellent album overall. I played "Gallows Pole" so much it wasn't even funny.
@@DaDitka Yeah. Great song. Nice name too!!! Bears!!
@@simonbarsinister8854 Dat's rite, my friend!!!
Yeah those 2 songs are etched in my soul 😄
My favorite two songs on the LP, and they are perfect for what I'm about to say. I sold plasma for several weeks and stood in the rain for hours to buy two tickets to see them. It was 1977 at LSU campus in Baton Rouge. The show was, and still remains one of the biggest disappointments in my life. They absolutely slopped through every song missing all the nuances that made the vinyl so good, like they couln't care less. Nothing sounded good. Almost as bad as the Stones. So sad. Often I've wondered if they may have been freaked out by all the crazy coonasses.
I had the good fortune to attend that Bath Festival of Blues and Prog 1970.
I was under the stage sharing a joint with Grace Slick with Led Zep pounding away above our heads! An experience never to be forgotten!
Hearing the story about Dad singing and playing some air guitar really brought back the same type of memory. My dad is a music junkie. Back in high school, he had a job where he would change the 45s in the jukeboxes around the many, many, MANY bars/taverns in the city. (Milwaukee has more bars than McDonald's here!) He was able to keep the 45s that were taken out of rotation, so the collection when I was a child was huge. But, we were redoing a room in the house, tore down the walls, ripped down the ceiling... was massive amounts of fun with sledge hammers and crowbars!! Our classic rock station at the time would be on, and he was able to tell you the name of the band, the year it came out and the album it was from within the first 2 bar or two. Even today, text him some lyrics from a song in your head, and he can tell you everything about it. He can do this for 60s, 70s, and 80s music. The 90s? He switched to country. He still rocks out with the grandkids to the best music out there, and he can still kick our butts in music trivia! Long live our music junkie parents! Woooooo!
Great story.
Damn, you were raised right.😉👍
In Chicago it was the mobsters who controlled the jukeboxes in the dive bars. And most areas had a bar or two on every block. That was the 60s & 70s. Most those bars now extinct.
Same here and My father was a huge music junkie, and because of him I am too! The Professor's stories bring me to those memories of my father as well! HE would have LOVED this channel!
I love this story!
I briefly went out with a boy when I was 16 years old and he introduced me to Led Zeppelin. Made me cassettes of all their albums. I listened to those cassettes over and over for years! Led Zeppelin has enriched my life like no other music. Both my kids love them also, so many decades later
Born in '64, raised on the best music because of my older siblings....I have never known Zeppelin not to be one of the few, Original Kings...For me, there just wasn't a time that I didn't know them as legendary.
Amen - 1961 with older brothers, (two of which served in Nam), I cut my teeth on groups like Zep and Floyd
64 here too. We were so lucky to have experienced the music we did.
1970 here, my brothers were 11/12 years older so my toddler music was Zep and other great Rock bands.
Born in 1944. January 19, 1969, the legendary Grande Ballroom, Detroit, MI. , my younger brother, Jimmy, and two friends, Craig and Larry. Still a fan.
1953. First concert at 15 1/2. I can't believe my parents let me go. Anaheim Convention Center. Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna(Papa John Creech), It's A Beautiful Day and Rubicon. Grace Slick was phenomenal as was Hot Tuna. Next concert: Zeppelin and the rest is history. The only reason I got a job while in highschool was so I could buy concert tickets and fix up my cars.
My brother in law was head coach of a high school team called in Dowagiac, Michigan who were the Vikings. At the start of every game, they played “The Immigrant Song” and everyone young and old loved it!
My dad, who died in 2008 listened to Zepplin and Conway Twitty, along with Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Jimi Hendrix and at the end was listening to Quiet Riot. His taste was diverse and influenced mine. Makes people I know crazy because when I play my music, it's al over the place. I like Neil Diamond too by the way. Cracklin’ Rosie!
I’m 76. Your dad and I had similar taste in music!
There is no such thing as bad music, just music not performed well.
Your dad had the right idea about being open to all types of music and to be ready for the new sounds.
Sounds neat to hear all that growing up. Conway Twitty's kids lived near me. I didn't know then but had a boyfriend who used to play in the irrigation ditches with them.
I am the same way - love almost all music ❤. My playlist will include The Carpenters, Lil Nas x, and Waylon Jennings etc.. I LOVE Elvis Presley’s gospel music even though I am not even remotely religious 😆
Sweet Caroline!
I love this song!!
In 2007, when LZ played the tribute concert for Ahmet Ertegun at the 02, tickets were rarer than hens teeth. A rock station in Toronto had a pair to give away, all you had to do was call in and do your best intro scream from the Immigrant Song. The best that I heard was a guy who called in (the contest ran between 7:30 & 8am) and let out a loud and gutteral AH-AH-AAAAAHH as he opened the door to his kids' bedroom. In the background was heard the terrified screams of his kids! He got them up for school pretty easily that morning!! I was laughing so hard I almost veered off the road! 🤣
Well, I'm a huge zeppelin fan. I love all their songs and my life goal is to have all their songs in vinyl records. Zeppelin took me out of depression when nobody did. They helped me when no one did. That's why I love them. Their songs are life lessons and you learn a LOT with them. The meaning behind each of their songs is life-changing. There they are laid secret behind each song. Only a real zeppelin fan understands the meaning.
As a lifelong Zeppelin fan and solo Robert Plant fan, there aren't many I don't love, but the Immigrant Song is definitely one of my favorites, but it ends too soon, this is one song I wish was at least 5 min. I now take my grandson with me to most of the concerts, but I wish he could have heard the entire band back in the day, it's something I would LOVE to see and hear again also. But as long as Robert keeps singing and touring, I'll keep going
Whenever I hear immigrants song, I'm always taken back to the memory of my niece who at the tender age of 2 years old was a hardcore Led Zeppelin fan, And whenever we would put on immigrants song, she would throw her arms out to the sides and twirl dancing to the music. :)
Very cool 😎
Immigrant Song…not immigrants song.
So, the first time I remember hearing this song, and it's a vivid memory I will never forget, is when I was in high school and the song comes on the radio. My mom, who is a Catholic church volunteer that teaches catichism (Catholic school teaching), started to wail in unison with Robert Plant's opening of the song, and of course my jaw hit the floor. This song is purely a visceral experience for everyone, from all walks of life. It's not a very deep song, lyric-wise, but it's the not the words that grab everyone. It's the primal emotion it brings out in all of us that makes it just a great song.
I was just a child, maybe 6 or 7, on the Gong Show these guys dressed as aliens and did air band to immigrant song. Not only was it my first time hearing Led Zeppelin, it's the first time I can remember being completely blown away by a song, the first time I realized that I have my own personal taste in music instead of simply liking what my parents listened to. Yep, a pivotal childhood memory.
Professor you do deep dives on songs and artists like no other. Your knowledge and insightful commentary is priceless!
The professor is by far one of the best interviewers and story tellers. He deserves his own show on VH1🤘🏼👊🏼
Or MTV!
He is too good for what vh1 has become…. Maybe the vh1 of 25 years ago.
As being a former employee of VH1 those days are gone!
@@constipatedinsincity4424 OMG…that’s so cool!
Vh1 doesn’t deserve the professor, or his stories
I am 69, and still love this song, if there is a song to put life back into a party this is surely it
68 here, and yes.
Hehe 69
@@chteyjdrushifdhfd8128 never too old for that,,hehe
@@beejaynz4285 hehe
69 as well and my ringtone is Ramble On.
I never saw this song as being interpreted as Zeppelin themselves as being real-life conquerors. I just saw it as a story song, as Robert and the band being characters in a musical tale.
When the Led Zepplin 3 album came out in 1970, I bought it, took it home and put it on my stereo and was blown away by track one, side one, Immigrant Song. I still listen to it now. It was the same time I joined the Air Force right out of High School and did 20 years.
I also listened to King Crimson, Alice Cooper, and others. Still do.
I was in high school in '87 and enjoyed Zeppelin alot. While thinking I was alone in the stairwell, I badly belted out a Plant scream from 'Immigrant Song' and was rewarded by a fellow student coming up the stairs and perfectly finishing my poor rendition. I was embarrassed but we high-fived regardless...cuz it's Zeppelin!
I actually sing the Valkyries Sword wail in The introduction in Immigrant song
My mom was married multiple times. We typically had a lot of pop music playing in the house, although we were a music-loving family so any genre was welcome. I will NEVER forget when one of my Step dads introduced me to Zeplin. This was the first song I heard. The first time I heard Plant's battle cry is ingrained in my memory. Needless to say, he was my favorite of all my stepfathers.
what a gift.!
🤘🏻🙏🏻
✌🏻🇦🇺😊
Robert Plant was your stepfather? 😝
Hope it all sorted out! Like the story
Your mother sounds like quite the slapper.
@@mitchweiner Too many drugs, eh, horser?
I was getting ready to turn 15 when this album came out & turned me into a Zeppelin fan for life, you're a lucky man having a dad that likes Zeppelin, really enjoyed the video!
I was turned on to Zeppelin in the mid 80's when I was a teenager and have hooked ever since. Best rock (Classic rock/Blues) band ever! I have all their music and still jam out to them today. Timeless!
During the 70's, my mother and I often took car rides and listened to music on the car cassette player. My father was an alcoholic so these trips were an escape from reality. My mother was born in 1924 but liked rock music. We played a lot of Led Zeppelin... In the mid-90s when I played LZ in the car with my then eight-year-old daughter, she says: "My friends' parents do not listen to music like this, are they dull in the brain?" 😁
Yes, honey, they are dull in the brain and probably dull to be around.
I have my mom to thank for my love of Zep, too, and most of my taste in music - we introduce music to one another to this day! I'll never forget sitting on the floor in front of a record player with Over the Hills and Far Away playing.
Remember, your mom chose to give that alcoholic children. I wonder, are you a single mother yourself now?
@@gutsman85_86 Love that!
Led Zepplin is simply the most powerful rock band ever. Several of their songs I describe as an impenetrable wall of sound. The Immigrant Song is one. In the Evening may be the best example.
No stairway.. denied
Love this song. I was a Karaoke host for 17 years. It took me over 10 years to finally get the screams in the beginning of the song. It is a tough song to sing because of the that.
The reason Immigrant Song resonated so well in the UK is the fact many people on the British Isles have Scandinavian heritage. The Vikings didn't just conquer, they also intermingled with the Anglo-Saxon, and Celtic communities as traders. Especially in the Dane Law regions. Plant is huge history fan of these cultures which make the genetic composition of the UK. Northern Europe share a close genetic haplogroup who had a tendency to fight among itself for arable farming land; the Germanic people with the exception of the Celts.
1976, 8 yrs. Old, I was doing homework, absent-mindedly turned on My radio, for background noise, My Uncle had it on the rock station, the next song was "Immigrant song", I froze and turned it up, I was transfixed and mesmerized by it, the first rock anthem I simply had to own, He took Me the next day and bought Me Zepplin 3. I wore it out. To the utter dismay of My Mother. Who was a soft rock lover, as was I, but this song swept My imagination and the sonic thunder and sheer force I could not ignore.
I remember when that album came out and I got it as a 13 year old kid and proceeded to wear it out. "Immigrant Song" was almost my second favorite of the album, but "Since I've Been Loving You" was the master stroke.
I remember listening to it for the first time as a kid during shrek the third and it was the best song ever, I always remembered it but never knew what it was until i grew up. Im only 18 but zeppelin has had a great impact on me as me and my friends all love them, we sing immigrant song occasionally during our band practices and its funny seeing all of us try and hit plants angelic yet fierce battle cry
I first heard this song at the age of 11….It blew my mind. That was over 45 years ago and I’ll never forget it. Truly a beast of a song!
Boom!
I subscribe to a number of channels with a wide range of subject matter - but what links them all is the feeling that you're chatting with a close friend about a particular subject. Watching videos from Professor of Rock is like talking with a good friend who just happens to be an encyclopedia of the greatest artists and the greatest songs of all time. Much appreciated!!
amen
My best memory is when my son, being of Nordic descent, started using it as his "walk up song" in collegiate baseball.
I'm 68 years of experienced and to this day I get goose bumps when The Immigrant song comes on local radio .
I always want to ‘just find out who, cuz I have other things to do’ but then your storytelling and detailed info make me watch the whole video. You are a procrastinator’s BEST friend! 😊❤
I've been listening to this song for 50 years and I had no clue to its meaning, and I was a professional musician, which makes my guilt even worse. Thanks for an incredible documentary, Pro.
This is one of my favorite videos from this channel. My step-father passed away 2 weeks ago. He and I did NOT get along, but I inherited about 40 of his old records. I used to get into so much trouble when I would open up his surprisingly good music collection. Anyway, this record was one of my favorites. Despite our many issues that kept us apart, I always appreciated his taste in music which told me that we must have has something in common. He’s to you John. I hope you’re rocking out in Valhalla 🤘🤙✊
Song came out the year I was born. Took my son to see Ragnork and he fell in love with the song. So great that we can share this together. This song is powerful! and fun!
Led Zeppelin III was one of my favorite albums from the band. And I was a HARDCORE fan for many years. I love all their experimentation of musical styles. And most of that went over most people's heads.
I was a 14 yr old Icelandic super Led Zeppelin fan at the Reykjavik 1970 gig, and the txt in Immigrant song went straight to my heart. Names like Valhalla ( in icelandic Valhöll) Thor, (Þór) Thors hammer (Mjölnir) e.cet are fairly common in Icelandic, specially Þór, witch is an common second male name. Thank you LZ.
Immigrant song is killer. One of my all time favorites is the b-side though. “Hey hey what can I do” is a masterpiece in my opinion
That song is Friends. Love the ending of it . 👍🏼
Robert sings the shit out of "hey hey what can I do"
I got a woman and she can't be true
"Hey, Hey,..." is one of my favorites! Definitely underrated. Listen to Bonzo playing on that, especially the bass (kick) drum. Great rhythm!
There really never was anything like Immigrant song done before that
Gallows Pole is severely underrated. It's as powerful as any piece they've ever played. It sounds like Bonzo is firing two Thompson Sub-Machine guns. 😳
Totally agree with you! Gallows Pole is one of my favourite Led Zepplin songs.
Totally agree as well - it was the first song on III that really struck a chord.
Ripoff from Leadbelly. 👎
@@tjslaboratoryofrockrootsof1116 Dates back much, much further than that. Also may have finish roots. But yes its an existing folk song.
@@tjslaboratoryofrockrootsof1116You probably need to educate yourself on how the blues tradition works, but LZs version doesn't even sound like Leadbellys version. It's a vastly different, and far better arrangement, like almost everything LZ did 👍
The banshee scream and rifts. It’s what drew me to Led Zeppelin in 70s as a kid listening with my late father
All the cool parents had their kids listening to Zepplin in the 70’s and our kids followed the same path in the 90’s and beyond! Love this episode!!
Not many parents encouraged it until fans grew up to be parents.
@@Ketoswammy that's what they're talking about, fans who had kids in the 1970s
Zeppelin hit you with everything! Immigrant song to the Rain Song and they did both better than any other band!
There is no argument!
I was born in 1969 in Canada (Thunder Bay). My neighbour was a a beautiful blonde haired girl named Heather. She was about 7 years older than me. It was because of her that I heard "The Immigrant Song" for the first time. It was about 7-8 years after the song was released (1977-78?). It was a warm , sunny summer day and I was out in the backyard playing . All of a sudden I heard the iconic wail from Robert Plant. I remember it was like hearing a siren wailing from the portable record player she had beside her open bedroom window on the second floor of her house. I climbed the maple tree that straddled our two yards to hear it better. I climbed to the point that she saw me and with a smile I'll remember to this day , she cranked up that song and made an instant fan out of me.
Thank you very much for rekindling that memory! I am now a proud subscriber of your channel. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!
I was a small child, in my teen cousins' bedroom, with the black lights and strobe lights going, they played this song. I loved it! I was about 2 1/2 years old, and my mind was blown! 🤣🤣🤣💜💜💜
My daughter came home at 13 and said someone told her she was singing "I Shot the Sherriff" wrong.
I asked her what version she was singing, and had to tell her Clapton covered it.
I told her to find that guy, and tell him that the version she wad singing was by the guy who WROTE THE SONG.
My kids have a wide Variety of music appreciation.
I’m not going to pretend to be a music genius or anything, but I guess I do like to think that I know a fair bit about about music history. However, not that it’s like a song for the ages or anything, but I’m actually ashamed to admit that I just learned probably 6 months ago that 10,000 Maniacs didn’t actually originally sing Because the Night. Patti Smith Group sang it first.
@@Whoopdido777 .....as long as Springsteen didnt make a recording of it....
E.C. No black man is safe from his musical pilferage.
@@westbayk2156 Ha ha. I actually didn’t know he wrote it, along with Patti Smith, or ever sang it. With a few exceptions I’ve never really been fan of Bruce actually. I watched the UA-cam clip (Live in Houston 1978) and hated it. The intro was way too long and turning it into a frantic rock song with so much guitar playing just didn’t do it for me. Both Patti Smith and 10,000 Maniacs were much more subdued. But that’s just my opinion.
A gift your kids will enjoy their entire life. Salute to you!
This content is gold. Seeing how your relationship with your dad influenced your love of music warms the heart. Thank you!
I love this show! Makes me proud to have shared this music with my kids... when old folks are the coolest.
I really enjoyed their zeppelin 3 album, but I will say that I really do love how artists can make just the instruments tell a story. Complete with emotions and depth of character.
One of the cool things about the original vinyl of Zeppelin 3 was the cover. It had little cutouts on the outside cover and you could spin around an inner cover that changed the pictures.
@@SherwoodyBEST PACKAGING EVER. Sadly, I only have a CD player but the packaging was the same, but smaller. I played with it for days.
The beginning of the song is cool 😎- especially Robert Plant’s blaring “AAAAHHHH -AH!” with the drums and electric guitar 🎸
It's AMAZING!!!
It always puts a huge smile on my face and pumps me full of energy the minute I hear it!
Immigrant Song is my all time favorite Led Zeppelin song. Such a driving beat.
Lifted from Lucifer's Friend - Ride (in) the Sky when Led Zeppelin toured Germany at the same time as Lucifer's Friend, in March 1970 before they went to Iceland in June.
I'd heard tell that the wail Plant let loose was an homage to Bali Hai in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific.
I have to say my favorite part of your videos are the personal memories you have of all these songs, especially where your dad is involved. It brings to my mind all the awesome music my dad shared with me growing up and always makes me laugh, cry, or both. The memory of your dad playing air guitar and lip syncing to Immigrant Song in your garage especially struck a chord with me, as I have very similar memories. Rock on, Brother!
When I turned 12 in 1982, a friend bought me Led Zeppelin III on vinyl, and it was my first exposure to Led Zeppelin. The first thing I saw was that the cover had little that you could change the picture by turning a wheel inside the front cover. Pretty cool. Then I played it. I had never heard anything like it. Within a couple years I had all the studio albums on cassette and posters on my walls.
We OWE our parents, who shared their music with their ungrateful children... those seeds planted a love that often blossomed later, without a proper thank you from us to them.
It was only after my dad passed away that I thought to thank my mother for the gift they gave my brother and I.
I told my mom how sorry I was not to be able to thank dad too.
My mom reminded me of those days when I was my dad's caregiver, when I'd turn off the TV and play themed tours of 50s to 80s music for them.
We'd talk about the songs and I'd find the next song based on where the discussion took us.
Mom told me that my dad really loved those special music only days, and he commented to her on how surprised he was that I chose HIS favourite songs each time.
My dad had suffered slight brain damage from oxygen starvation which left him feeling isolated as it was hard for him to communicate with anyone.
He had his own TV in his room and watched nature shows alone.
In his last year and a half I drew him out with my monthly music days.
If I had known, I would have done that on a weekly basis.
Music therapy... I didn't realize that's what I was doing.
After talking to mom about that, I began to give us weekly music days as I became my ailing mothers caregiver.
How rewarding those days were!
They are both gone now, but the memory of those special days listening to each other over great music remains my best memory of them.
Zeppelin was, is and always will be #1!Just wish I was old enough to see them in concert.No 1 will ever come close to them.Thank you boys for the music of a life time!
Trivia: Jack Black pleaded the surviving members of Led Zeppelin to badly use "Immigrant Song" in "School of Rock". Having a history of refused licenses for their songs, Jack recorded a plea to the members of the band in front of a live audience of 1,000 extras, in which they finally agreed to license it in the movie. This was included on the bonus features of the "School of Rock" DVD.
I love its use in School of Rock!
…and it ends up fitting into Thor:Ragnarok perfectly 🤘🖖✌️🥁🎸🥁🎤🎹🥇🍻
Thankyou Led Zep
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross were lucky enough to get to use the song as well, for a cover on the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo soundtrack.
Tell me you didn’t watch the whole video without telling me you didn’t watch the whole video.
I'm glad you explained that song to me. I'm 73, and even though I saw them in concert , I never quite understood it til now. Our generation is the coolest.
Those are my people. They came over from Norway and Sweden last century. I thank my immigrant grandparents for having the courage and fortitude to come to a new land where they knew no one and didn't speak the language. So that's our song.
The Immigrant Song is the first Led Zeppelin song I remember from my childhood. I was born in 1966 just south of Detroit, Michigan...you know, the home of Motown. Back in those days, AM radios were standard in most vehicles. As FM gained popularity, you could purchase a car with a FM radio, for an upcharge. I remember The Immigrant Song playing on CKLW (AM-Windsor, Ontario)...sitting with my brothers and sister waiting for dad to come walking out of the steel plant after he finished his shift. That young, I didn't know the words...but I never forgot that sound. It's still one of my favorite Zep songs!
Thanks for the history lesson. I always figured AM and FM came together at the same time. I never knew AM was once upon a time more popular. Always thought that was for like long distances and stuff. Actually i never knew what good AM radio was to be honest.
The other popular am station was Keener 13. Detroit born & raised, Cheers! 🍻
I was in "HIGH" school then. We would lay on the floor, the room filled with a sweet smoky haze, laying between the speakers and blasting it. Zep was everything. 💚
Quadrophonic!
Karen Johnstone, Amen to that😄
To see them at their apex, 1973 MSG in NY, Plants vocals, Pages guitar, they were as tight as any show I'd seen, put on headphones and the opening # is chilling.
Discharged in 2004 from the Army, out of Kentucky. I was Born in ohio, spent all my time up north, and I had a woman I was going to marry down south.
When I left the base for a 12 hour drive south.. this Song Came on.. I was leaving the land of ice an snow and going to new lands.
I been down south every since, married 16 years.. and it was just so fitting to me to have Led Zeppelin's Immigrant Song Blaring on my drive down.
It's amazing how many great songs they have given the world. I'm glad to have grown up during the hay day of rock.
When I was a kid in ‘74 my half brother came over from England to live with his dad (and us by default) and I remember listening to his music and I was hooked on Zeppelin. They ended up conquering America and have certainly become the greatest Rock-n-Roll band ever!
How's your half brother doing?
@@tomahoks thanks for asking but he took the Stairway to Heaven last November. 😢
I play this song to hype myself up. This song pumps up my blood and makes me think i can take on the world.
My dad was a huge Led Zeppelin fan. I used to listen to his albums on my record player and I grew a love for them as well. My dad went to several of their concerts. He would tell us how bands used to play 3 - 4 night shows in the same venue, so he would go to all 3 or 4 shows each time they came around. Anyhow, when I was a teenager Robert Plant toured with Allanah Myles and I took my dad to the concert. This was in 1990 at the Sacramento Cal Expo. They had a pretty cool stage setup, part of which had movie screens on each side of the stage that were comprised of smaller rotating triangles. When the triangles stopped rotating, they would play images on the screens that they made. When Immigrant Song was played, they showed images of Vikings coming ashore, jumping out of their boats and kissing the sand of the beaches, etc. I was one of the best concert experiences I've ever had, and it was great to share it with my dad.
To see Zeppelin in concert in their early years was to experience a force of nature that no other band could match.
Saw them several times in concert and living in southern California that meant if you wanted, you could see them two or three times in the course of a week or so. It was for all its craziness, an incredible time to be young and alive.
You are so right...a true force of nature, bar none.
I saw them seven times at the Fabulous Forum and the Long Beach Arena between 1971 and 1977. I was lucky enough to be one of the 9,000 people chosen to buy 2 tickets each for the reunion concert in London in 2007, and it was awesome.
Dear Nia The Gulf Gypsy, eight times for me, the following story i actually compiled for another reaction site for Immigrant's Song but i think it deserves to be shared here even if it segues into the experience of a Zep concert experience...please excuse my lack of digital protocol that comments should be short, the moderator will either let this remain or take it down, it doesn't really matter to me, just as long as ONE single younger person has the attention span to get thru the whole thing...so here it is: it all started back in 1968 when i introduced my highschool to led Zep 1...oh yes i did and thus began my life long obsession with Zep. i saw these guys a total of 8, yeah that's right, EIGHT times and even got to meet Plant and well sorta meet and help JPJ in a bar when he was so effed up he could hardly walk, lol...this particular song is in my top five and you cannot even imagine what it was like to hear it live in concert, Hammer of the GODS daX! i used to lift weights to this song, drive with this song, use it before, ahem, jacking myself up before skirmishes, standing on my head stoned on peyote in the new Mexican wasteland, well, i think you get the idea.haha. i could literally spend an entire evening over scotch with you all, 'ramblin' on about these lads my friend, but for now, i'll be back for more exciting action packed adventures later, but for now i'll conclude with a little story of what happened in Seattle 1971...
...okay i was right in front of Bob, they were on a 4 foot high stage back in the day before maniacs abounded, right smack dab in font, i could've reached out and grabbed his feet in supplication, lol...well they all sat down on stools and tried to play few acoustical numbers from a yet unreleased Zep 3, and as they started to play that Seattle crowd wanted nothing to do with it, they wanted ROCK & ROLL and NOW: firecrackers, frisbees, bottles were chucked so they, without one spoken word got up and laid the mandolin etc down, and without one spoken word, just eye contact and nods to one another picked up the appropriate gear and Plant looked down and gave me a little wink and then they LAUNCHED, launched into, yep, Communication BREAKDOWN,...now what happened next is an explosion of roars from the crowd and i was crushed up against the stage right under Plant and i was for a brief moment witnessing actual startled fearful eye exchanges amongst the members of the band until Jimmy in a micro-second gave the others a look that said let's just go for it an my God did they ever go for it. i been to see all the Big boys back in the day but to this moment, i have NEVER experienced such an explosive give and take from a band with the audience, it was truly an INSANE performance...💖2 u Nia, peace out.
@@haroldwilson950 👍👍 I enjoyed your Zep story .... 😂😀😊☺️
@@yeti1002 dear Yeti 100, glad you enjoyed it. i've actually got enuff material to write a Hunter S. Thompson-esque book of these zep whoppers, lol. i was just hoping some younger kids, (hey, maybe that mite be u) have the digital attention span to grasp the mystical zep surreality from some one who was actually THERE> lol. so, yup. even tho' i'm in my 70's i'm a purdy hardcore zep head even to this day, it borders on the absurd.🤣but y'know what is even MORE absurd? if u can riddle me this yeti-man, we just mite have solved the quantum riddle of the musical multiverse...how does a zapped out total zep-hed like me, segue into the music and lyrics from another young artist at the furthest edge of the musical spectrum so far removed from zep it's insane to even try to explain? i'm talking about Grace Vanderwaal...i mean WTF? over the last 10 years since retirement, i've been combing thru youtube looking for musical prodigies, as i refuse to not acknowledge that musical quintessence in any genre , no matter how rare these days, has simply evaporated..and then about 6 years ago i found Grace V. go figure! i have utterly no rational explanation as to how this kid does the same thingie that zep back in the day to zap my still healthy music loving ticker...hey, peace out and i hope my rather lengthy screed didn't bore u 2 tears and remember always, "love will eventually conquer all" 💖sincerely ys, "harking" harold wilson.😁
LZ we’re rock masters. They created timeless music that is still being unpacked to appreciation. Heart did a solid cover too. Nice work Adam! I love that you nod to you dad every episode.
I never knew Heart covered this until today!
Just one of her AMAZING LZ covers. What a talent!
"rock masters" HAHAHAHAHAHA
If they were "rock masters" then they wouldn't have stolen so much music and tried calling it their own.
@@adamwal4591
You can't create the greatest "Rock Pallaces" on Earth if someone hadn't come before you & made some bricks.
LED ZEPPELIN found some beautifully crafted "Bricks", foundations perhaps... and deftly stacked those bricks into a towering "EMPIRE" of awe inspiring Rock Pallaces like no other Rock ARTISTS before or since. All credit by all means to those who created mere bricks.
We carefully examine the magnificent finished works of Led Zeppelin and we stand in awe & enjoy every single note. Whilst fools gaze at a pile of bricks & moan. Enjoy your bricks.
I always thought he was saying "If peace and trust cant win the day, its not about your losings" .
Well done, Adam!!*. One of my favorites so far...LZ is heavily represented in the music I listen to EVERY DAY!! Immigrant Song (a live version) is absolutely stunning every time! Kudos for always bringing such infective enthusiasm to every subject in you present.
"Immigrant Song" is an example of Page's ability to paint a scene using sound. You can hear the rhythm of the Viking's boat coxswain keeping time for the Viking oarsmen of the low boat, you can see them rowing across the North Atlantic.
There plenty of examples of Page doing this. You can hear the horses come galloping in The Battle of Evermore, and in Gallows Pole. In Stairway, you hear the song rise, befitting a stairway to Heaven. Then, Page makes a magnificent sonic statement upon reaching the doors of Heaven, which leads to the ecstatic solo, befitting being in Heaven. You can hear the mourning in songs like In My Time of Dying, and other songs about sadness. Close your eyes and see the rain making rivulets down a window as you listen to The Rain Song. Page was a master of painting the essence of he song, matching the lyrics and genre.
Can you name another song in which the sound, lyrics and rhythm match are in sync with each other? There is a classic I left out. And there is a well-known rock song that is, in my opinion, the antithesis of this. Can you name it?
Professor, love your channel.
you said coxswain huh huh haha haah huhhuh
You nailed it! Whenever I hear the song I always think of a pirate ship with immigrants on it or something. It makes sense given the song’s title.
Kashmir, and even moreso....Achilles Last Stand.
@@robertcowan7610 You win! Kashmir is the answer. Close your eyes and picture a caravan crossing the desert. Kashmir is the soundtrack to your imagination. The guitar has the plod of the camels making their way across the sand.
Couldn't have said it better
I fell in love with Led Zeppelin the first moment I heard Immigrant Song (age 12 or 13). Then I listened to everything they did, and loved them more and more. They are my hands-down favorite rock-legend band. But pick a greatest intro? I can't do that!
I fell in love with them the moment I heard “Stairway”. “Immigrant Song” was the second song I heard from them.
As strange as it seems, Fast Times at Ridgemont High got me into Zeppelin with Kashmir.
"Relax. My dad's a TV repairman, and he's got a gnarly set of tools!"
I was in highschool (1989, I was a Freshman) when I watched that VHS tape repeatedly, though!
When the levee breaks, hands down
I was born in 68 , however I'm an old soul. I had bought all 9 albums by the time I was 13 . Then I heard get yer ya yas out ! And started following the stones bootleg albums from early 70s. The new yardbirds live at the marquee , was a great Zep. Bootleg . I really enjoy Robert plants solo stuff, especially the last 6or8 albums. They really changed music , especially the amount of money bands made playing live , until Zep. bands took about 20 percent . After Peter Grant bands started taking 80. Zep. Was responsible for that big pay out for touring.
I am 51 years old and grew up on Zeppelin. My pick for the most iconic use of this song goes to the Thor movie when he's fighting on the bridge. I jumped out of my damn seat and said f*ck yeah. Then realized I was in a movie theater and sat down quickly. Oops, sorry kids. Lol
Best band ever. I was lucky enough to see them in Tampa '73 at 16 and my first rock concert ever. I will never forget.
I don't know when or where I first heard Immigrant Song, but I do remember my son randomly trying to sing whatever lyrics he could understand one day and telling me at 6 years old that he loves Rock and Roll!
Edit: he is only 8 now.
Zeppelins finest. It starts the album off with the heaviest thing they’ve done and after 2 & 1/2 minutes it quickly goes acoustic. Letting everyone know they can rock hard, and have an acoustic side as well.
It’s what I love about Zep. They’re so talented.
Interesting that they say it started as a joke. I think this is where Led Zeppelin discovered that they could be much more than an accomplished Blues homage band, that they were good enough to break all the boundaries and be themselves. The 3rd album is largely a back to traditional blues album. The next three albums exploded with creativity and new energy.
Funny thing about the second track and third track off of Zeppelin 3 is that i consider both to be my personal favorites off that album (Friends and Celebration Day). Both go hand in hand, plus the soft accoustic stringy sound of Friends compliments the heavier electric guitar rock sound of Celebration Day. Just perfect in my take.
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 For sure..!!
@@Nobodyreallyatall Totally..!
love this whole approach to music! Thank you for bringing a whole new generation to the great music...and YES...as a child of the 60s and 70s we listened to the great ones including Zepplin...and our kid's friends thought we were ermmmmmmm "unusually fabulous"!
I had a cool mom, Led Zeppelin 3 was an album my mother bought me a Christmas gift. I was totally Blown Away by the selection of albums that she bought me and I still have it today
Rumour has it if you play any of the Professor's videos backwards, you hear "Like, comment and subscribe" followed by "Three chords and the truth my friend." True story. 😆
I do love the stories behind the 'accidental' songs that hit big. Whether it's for a joke, a throwaway or whatever, it just shows how easily things can go one way or another.
You know it. Ha ha... Love it.
Ha ha! You may be right!
Hmm I only got an advert for Zenni Eyewear
My band I was in with my friends in high school covered Immigrant Song a couple times. We had no hope of hitting the high note on the wail so I suggested we go the Kurt Cobain route and just scream as loud as we could, but not only the singer, all four of us at once just screaming. It was a lot of fun to perform it that way 😆😁
When you said you took the Kurt Cobain route I thought you were going to say you got fucked up on drugs and killed yourself. 🤔
It’s Led Zeppelin…..God’s of rock. They could do it all with that incredible foursome. What an amazing time in rock music they were in.
My favorite part of the video was the memory of your dad you shared! That was great! Thanks for an awesome look at the Mighty Zep and a mighty song.
“A lot of people argued what Zeppelin was supposed to sound like” how about whatever the hell they wanted? Lol, we can’t question mastery. Awesome video Professor.
The use of "Immigrant Song" in Thor: Ragnarok is one of the greatest fits between song and scene ever in a movie. It seems a little out of place with the rest of III, but Zep was always eclectic. A friend of mine once described them as a heavy folk group, because their lyrics were filled with stories. The Allman Brothers Band has been my favorite for many years, but I've always told my kids that Led Zeppelin was the greatest rock 'n' roll band ever! \m/
I agree, except I think every part of that album does fit since at all has the same spooky folksy blues vibe. It’s one of the most cohesive LZ albums for me. It’s really the set up for the next few albums which to many are regarded as bigger accomplishments.
I saw that scene many years ago and loved every minute of it! The
Saw Allman Brothers and Led Zeppelin live more than any other bands. Hard for me to pick between the two
"Immigrant Song" in "School Of Rock" was pretty cool too!
I was thinking the same thing. Awesome use of the song in Ragnarok.
I remember getting led zeppelin 111 and went to my girlfriends house to listen to it on her record player. She wanted to fool around but I spent the whole day playing it over and over. I remember getting goosebumps the whole time. I sill listen to the entire album to this day, and sill have the same feelings it's just simply magical.