The airship Hindenburg in the video was a Zeppelin and the largest ever built. It burst into flames as it landed in Lakehurst, New Jersey back in 1936. Led Zeppelin is kind of a joke, Keith Moon of The Who said they'd go down like a lead balloon, which Jimmy Page later used when he remembered the joke and named the band Led Zeppelin. Loved the reaction, keep going as Led Zep has a vast store of banging tunes from a variety of genres.
In addition, this incident is likely where the phrase “Oh the humanity” became widespread. The event was being recorded and the commentator was basically lost for words.
@@billwicketvogel1787 My bad! you are correct although in my defence I've seen 1939, 1936 and other dates listed. But your answer is the most common so I have to agree.
When The Levee Breaks is about the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. It was first recorded in 1929 by Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy and was then reworked by Led Zeppelin many years later. Zeppelin music has a number of influences and the blues was one of the biggest ones.
It also talks about the Great Migration, 10s of thousands of black people leaving the South in the late 1800s, early 1900s. Many of them traveled straight up the Mississippi River and ended up in Chicago, which is why the lyrics mention Chicago. It's how Chicago became a hub for blues music.
It's you're favorite, because this is the first studio version of a Led Zeppelin song that you've listened to. Everybody here would love to see you react to the studio versions of Stairway to Heaven and Since I've been loving you. Yes, we all know you've reacted to the live versions of these songs, but they pale in comparison to the masterpieces that were created in the studio versions, which are some of the greatest achievements in audio recording history. It would be sad if you go through life without ever hearing those two studio classics. It will be a whole new, eye opening experience for you. Peace
Much applause to this comment. When you react to music, react to music, DO NOT react to a video (especially a video of a live performance, but that applies to a music video also). The video is for watching you, not the music (video).
Agreed! The live version of a popular song is changed, upscaled, modified - sometimes better, sometimes not, but it loses some of the original color and nuance, the format that made the song amazing/famous/popular. That's fine if you already know the original, but you lose something essential if you don't.
When the Zeppelin caught fire, the live radio announcer continued to relay the events as the explosion engulfed the dirigible and took the lives of many of the crew, passengers and grounds men. This broadcast was recorded, along with film footage and became a historic documentation. The announcer's tearful, immediate response, including the phrase, "Oh the humanity" has been noted by generations ever since. It was, in a sense, the first reaction video. It is fitting it now links to our latter day...
Fun fact: The radio announcer who uttered the popular phrase, "Oh, the humanity!" was from a Chicago radio station called WLS. It's still a staple in the Chicago area. I used to live about 90 miles from Chicago and had a job as a delivery driver. I would listen to that station every day while making my deliveries. The morning shows were particularly entertaining.
Have you ever heard someone cry, "Oh, the humanity!"? That's directly related to the Hindeburg disaster. It was famously recorded by a newsreel unit that was there to cover the landing of the Hindenburg in the US. (The Hindenburg was a Nazi airship. Newreels were short films that were played before the main feature in moviehouses. In a time of radio, newsreels were the only way for people to see moving images of recent events.) So the cameras were rolling as it burst into flames, and the announcer was quite hysterical, crying over the deaths. "Oh, the humanity!" is the phrase he used that is remembered to this day.
Zeppelin also worked with Goodyear to create the iconic Goodyear blimps, before the breakout of WWII. Then they had a hand in building V2 rockets. A branch of the conglomerate has been Europe's leading dealer of Caterpillar construction machinery since '54. When you read their company history, they seem to gloss over certain parts of the past, perhaps understandably so.
A monster of a song. Robert Plant plays harmonica as well as he sings and Bonzo hammered the drums like no one ever. Every album blew us away as they were released.
1954 for me (the wooley Mammoths 🦣 raised heck with our tomato garden). But your point is well taken, and you are absolutely right! Even though you and my oldest son are about the same age..
That is Robert Plant on harmonica with lots of reverb, blending in with Jimmy's guitar. And this thunderous drum beat and how it was recorded are the stuff of legends.
I think this is about the levee break in 1927. I live across the street from the same levee! They've built it up since then but this is something always in the back of my mind!
The airship is called Zeppelins. The Hindenburg or zeppelin was the first major air disaster caught on film. That's when airstrip builders learned that you should never store hydrogen close to oxygen. Static electricity set it
That video is of a Zeppelin called the Hindenburg that crashed. It doesn't have a thing to do with the song, which is about a levee breaking and destroying a village after a flood on the Mississippi in 1927. The words were from a gal named Memphie Minnie. Musically - it was entirely Led Zeppelin. An epic masterpiece.
It’s her favorite Zeppelin song so far because it’s the studio version. So thankful she’s listening to a studio version finally. Zeppelin is great live, but you have to listen to the studio first. Not only, just first. You just have to!! You would have at least liked the previous Led Zeppelin songs just as much if you would have listen to the studio versions of them too. At least first.
The liquid is water. It was used as ballast to help stabilize the trim of the ship. You aren't completely wrong calling it an air submarine. They were also colloquially called air ships.
The "no one was going to warn me..." part about the Hindenburg made me laugh. 🤣 I immediately wanted to shout out, "You know the Titanic sinks, right?"
It's the Hindenburg Disaster. Hindenburg is the name of that particular airship - The Graf Zeppelin is the type of airship. I've no idea why this piece of film was paired with "When the Levee Breaks," there's no connection at all. It could have been shown as the background to any Led Zeppelin song. The connection, as others have explained, is with the name Zeppelin, that's all.
So, the song was written in 1929, about a disastrous flood of the Mississippi river a few years before. When Zeppelin created their version, they used a lot of blues-y riffs in their rock music.
@@jgold78 Not a studio. It was recorded at Headly Grange, an old mansion that was once used as a poor house....but yes, the drums were in the stairwell.
Each of Led Zeppelin's live performances was Improvised. Played in the moment, an actual part of they're recording contract. Creative Dominion, without this in my opinion the world would have lost the experience of Led Zeppelin 😈🤘. All the blues hits are my favorites, The Lemon song, In my Time of Dying, of course The Levee😈🤘 please keep up reactions, won't be disappointed
IT'S A ZEPPELIN, in the 1930's they were used as passenger airships along with military uses. They were a very popular way to travel to and from Europe until an airship called the Hindenburg caught fire as it was mooring in New York. A Zeppelin and a blimp like the 'Goodyear Blimp' are very similar.
You just watched a historical event happen. 1936 Lakehurst, NJ. There are recordings of the live radio broadcast. Zeppelin were filled with hydrogen gas, which made them a sort of ticking time bomb if something went wrong, which is the case here. "Oooh, the humanity!"
My experience was when my oldest brother woke me out of sleep. Dave said I have two tickets to Led Zeppelin. I was thirteen like 50 years ago. I can play all these tunes, by heart and note for note. Led Zeppelin is like the Rolling Stones. Rockers of endurance!
Some here have already given the background on the name Led Zeppelin for the band so that's covered. The songs origins have been taken care of as well, so maybe a bit of trivia. Although the Hindenburg disaster has nothing to do with the song, a picture of the disaster is the album cover for the 1st LZ album in 1968. There's a story that says when Zeppelin played the Netherlands early on they had to use a different name (the Nobs) as Lady von Zeppelin was outraged by the use of the Hindenburg exploding as their album cover.
Zeppelins were German blimps. Led Zeppelin got their name from the old figure of speech "it'll go over like a lead balloon." A Led Zeppelin. The Hindenburg was a Zeppelin, and the gas that it used to keep it aloft was hydrogen, the 1st element, and disturbingly flammable. An ember will make it explode. Helium, the second element, is also lighter than air, but inert. So, a valuable lesson was learned that day about which lighter-than- air gas to use for flying blimps. And decades later, this great band got a great name.
Zeppelins have a rigid frame or skeleton and were sometimes referred to as rigid airships. A blimp is shaped a little the same but has no rigid skeleton, it’s just a specially shaped balloon.
The Hindenburg was a Zeppelin (the inventor Baron Von Zeppelin created these very famous rigid airships) this Zeppelin was named in honor of the famous WWI German General and Hero Paul Von Hindenburg. It was a NAZI rigid airship that flew across the Atlantic between Berlin and New York (landing in New Jersey) in the late 1930s before WWII. It was still enough of a novelty that a newsreel crew was sent to photograph and record the landing when it suddenly burst into flames. The newsreel reporter famously cried "Oh the humanity". Another reporter who wasn't there assumed it would be a normal non-event called in to his newspaper that it was a perfectly normal landing. Needless to say that reporter was fired for missing the biggest story of the decade. When the Levee Breaks has nothing to do with the Hindenburg tragedy, it's about the flooding of the Mississippi River in 1927. However, the Hindenburg tragedy does have to do with why Led Zeppelin got there name.
My father was 4 years old when the Hindenburg flew over our hometown in Massachusetts before it burned. He said he remembered it flying over because it was slow and loud. He said it was pretty cool to see.
Yes. The Hindenburg was a large air ship known as a dirigible. In fact it was the largest ever built. It was the pride and joy of Nazi Germany. Historical significance was its catastrophic destruction when it burst into flames in the USA. It was also significant in that it was one of the first caught on film LIVE catastrophes. For that time period it was as significant and impactful as the footage of the 9/11 attack on Trade Center. It was shown in movie theaters and talked about on the radio with intensity. Dirigibles were also referred to as Zeppelin after the German inventor Ferdinand von Zeppelin who began his work on air ships in the late 19th Century. By the 1960s, the terminology or slang for something that is a colossal failure was that it would end up like the Hindenburg or take off like a "LEAD ZEPPELIN". The remainder of how the band was named is covered by other comments above. Great Post. Im subscribed! Love it.
Wow first Rush now Led Zeppellin in one day, the two greatest bands and two best Drummers of all time imo. Keep digging into both bands these are the group's that other acts all aspire to be. 😊
Interesting fact about the recording...When they recorded this track they went up to Headly Grange, which was a large poorhouse in Hampshire England, that was rented and converted into a recording studio for them. They often went to eccentric locations to write and record. When they got there, John Bonham (their drummer) was intrigued by the acoustics of the grand entry staircase. So he set up his drum kit and some mics in the stairwell, and recorded the drum tracks. A lot if the drum sounds you are hearing are not actual strokes being played, but rather echoes. The metronome time signature that the song is played in is decided by this reverberation. Just an example of how out of the box they were as a bans, but especially Bonham was as a drummer. Best ever.
Britt, as others have mentioned, listen to more of Zeppelin's studio releases. Jimmy Page was brilliant in the studio, a real craftsman. Also, they were somewhat inconsistent live--they lived fast and Jimmy also occasionally suffered from stagefright. But if you want their best live stuff, the Royal Albert Hall show from 1970 is awesome. Great reaction. Be well.
Best Rock Band as it took Pink Floyd a few years to really hit their stride, Zeppelin was great right from the start. For more Zeppelin blues rock of the highest caliber, try Since I've Been Loving You. The studio mix is pristine and legendary, then the live video from the Song Remains the Same is beyond amazing, seeing the effect they have on fans and even security is cool and gives you an idea of the grip they had on us back in the day, you would do anything to see them but they always were instant, multiple sell outs wherever they went. Try that song out, if you have, do You Shook Me or Tea For One. Enjoy! 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎶
Oh the humanity! 😅Yes this is something that you should have learned about in history class. That was a Hindenburg, the world’s biggest airship/blimp/zeppelin. It was designed by the Zeppelin airship company (see the connection?) and was the pride of Germany and the Nazis. Unfortunately for them they could not use helium to inflate it, since the USA had most of the world’s helium reserves, so they used highly flammable hydrogen instead. A local Chicago newsman from WLS was doing one of the first ever live broadcasts of the event just outside of NYC when the Zeppelin suddenly burst into flames and while he narrated the calamity live and exclaimed “Oh the humanity” and the rest is history.
You need to check out some Robert Plant together with Alison Krauss. They've collab'd for years and their voices together are like BUTTAH. They're on tour even still, this year.
It's a dirigible, also known as a blimp. They still fly when I think over important football games over here in United States. The Goodyear blimp I think or maybe it's been dead for a long time. But anyway yeah this was a historical day. But they used a weird relief of it as the front album cover of their very first album when they just exploded on the world in the late 1960s. And from a distance, it looks really really phallic. There's even more context in this direction. So after that disaster, everything that everybody thought was going to be the wonderful solution to Aviation, it was fuel-efficient everything about it was great it could float along at low altitudes it could negotiate fairly well even though it was a bit clumsy, because that's all they really needed in those early days. And then it got so popular they used it for public transport and it first people were nervous and then it became accepted. And then this happened. Think about it. So sometime after that, by the time I was a kid in the late sixties and early 1970s, it was always afraid as you could say, oh yeah and you would roll your eyes about either an idea that you had or an idea that somebody else had that just totally tank and turned out to just be ridiculously bad. And you would say, oh yeah, that went over like a lead balloon.
You are a beautiful young woman.. I hope you continue to enjoy music like this... I know as an older woman, how liberating it is to have a wide variety of interests... Well done!
Haha yeah look up,the Hindenburg tragedy. Also zeppelin is a name for a balloon. Led is short for lead so their a name is lead balloon. There is a saying they say when something is falling or crashing “going down like a lead balloon” my favorite two songs are “Kashmir” and “fool in the rain” hope you react to one of those soon! Great reaction!
Zeppelins were rigid-framed, lighter-than-air ships made by Germany. They had a light-weight metal frame, a fabric covering, and contained large bags filled with hydrogen. They were propelled with engines mounted along the outside turning propellers. They came into wide use during WWI to bomb England and were re-designed for trans-Atlantic passenger service after the war. The Hindenburg was one such Zeppelin. Other countries, including the US, also had them, but they were not called Zeppelins since they weren't from Germany's Zeppelin factory; they were just generically called Dirigibles. The hydrogen gas was highly flammable and later versions used helium but helium weighs more than hydrogen so such a Dirigible can't carry as much weight. You have seen their cousins in continued use today, Blimps, such as the Goodyear blimp that is filled with helium and lacks the rigid structure. The tops of the Empire State and Chrysler buidings in NYC were built as docking towers for Zeppelins/Dirigibles.
The story I heard about them is when they were starting, their style was so different that they were told they would fall like a lead balloon. They took it at turned it into Led Zeppelin.
Keith Moon told Jimmy Page the type of music Page wanted to do would go over like a lead ballon. When it came time to name the band Page remembered the joke and Led Zeppelin was born.
Keith Moon's comment was in response to the band being booked as "the New Yardbirds." After the Yardbirds imploded, Page assembled a new lineup, intent on continuing down the heavy psychedelic direction the band was moving in before the breakup. Since the Yardbirds were a well established group, with a substantial following, he wanted to capitalize on their name recognition. Except, he wasn't even one of the founding members. Besides, this new lineup was clearly a much different band. It was after Page told Moon they were going with "the New Yardbirds" that he said "the New Yardbirds? That's gonna go over like a Lead Zeppelin." In other versions he said "Lead Balloon." But Page thought Zeppelin sounded cooler.
You know the Goodyear blimps that sometimes do aerial coverage of sporting events? Those early versions, called zeppelins, is what the Hindenberg was. It's landing in the U.S. turned into a tragedy as it caught fire and crashed. The passenger & cargo compartments are suspended below the balloon structure.
Zeppelins are rigid airships, not blimps. A blimp is simply a streamlined balloon with a power/control car attached, whereas a rigid airship has an internal frame containing separate gasbags.
The Hindenberg used Hydrogen gas instead of Helium which makes the Hydrogen filled one extremely explosive. Zeppelins used the hydrogen because it gave twice as much lift. Other airships used Helium which was not explosive.
DO more Studio versions of their songs.... "In My Time of Dying" "All of My Love", "No Quarter", "Fool in the Rain", "The Lemon Song", "The Ocean", "Thank You".......
Like I said about led Zeppelin there first choice of names was going to be called Supergroup Keith Moon drummer for the WHO said that name is going down like a "Led Zeppelin" referring to the Hindenburg crash. The first air disaster caught on film.
You should watch the live film of the Hindenburg and the reporter describing the crash. That's the famous quote from the reporter. 👉Awe The Humanity👈 This is a fan made video had nothing to do with Zeppelin other than the Hindenburg was a Zeppelin. The song is about a real flood that my poor grandma had escape from in I think the 1920s as a little girl in Mississippi. What no body ever notices the singer Robert plant is using old blues singers niches. Little at the end sing he sings Oooh ooh Oooh. That's comes the scarey bluesman 👉Howlin Wolf 👈 theres also some 👉Robert Johnson👈 The godfather of blues that is said to have sold his soul to the devil at the cross roads in the delta of Mississippi not far from where I grew up. I never went to the cross at night. 😮
"The "Rain Song" is one of their best. It is their only ballad. George Harrison of the Beatles said Zeppelin couldn't write one, so Jimmy Page wrote one.
@@MarioCrosby Bugger! I just came back to edit my answer to add 'That's the Way' but I see I'm too late 🤣 Yeah as we both seem to know, but Thomas doesn't, Zeppelin did loads of ballads 😊
This is my favourite Led Zep song also. I've been listening to them for decades and love most of their stuff, but this is the one if I had to choose, with Kashmir and All of My Love close behind. The ship crashing and burning is the Hindenburg, a Zepplin which is the German name for an airship. Airships in those days were filled with hydrogen which is flammable. The Hindenburg crashed in 1937 in New Jersey with 35 fatalities. Led Zeppelin got it's name from Keith Moon of The Who, who when told Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin's founder was keen on creating a new supergroup with Moon, Jeff Beck, and Moon’s bandmate in The Who John Entwistle. Moon remarked that the project would go down “like a lead balloon”. From that Page then renamed the New Yardbirds "Led Zeppelin. The photograph of the Hindenburg crashing was used for the album cover of their debut album.
Zep is a hard band to react to, I think. They have a huge catalog and are considered by many (including myself) a top 5 all time rock n roll band. They have Godfather status. I would start with the first album and work your way back.
It conained Hydrogen to make it lighter then air... Hydrogen is very flammable. Only takes a spark to make it ignite. Spark, think of static electricity like you hand in winter when you've been walking on a carpet, and accidentally touch a piece of metal, you get a little shock. Hydrogen combined with that spark gives what you see here. One big boom!!! Now you know. Yes, you should have been taught this in history class. :) Have the day you deserve!
Not sure where that video came from; I’m guessing some guy created it for his own entertainment. I can see how it’s confusing for a song reaction, since the events in the video have nothing to do with this particular song. As other comments explain, this is a cover of a song by Memphis Minnie about the Great Mississippi flood of 1927, which, as a point of reference, was actually worse than Katrina. Beyond that, this is an incredible song that I feel you should listen to again (do another reaction, if you like) without the distraction of that video.
It’s my understanding that the US had all the Helium, which is safe to use, but Germany used Hydrogen which is very flammable. This was just before WWII. Yes, you should have learned this in history class. We did.
"Who am I hurtin'?" - Well as a dyed-in-the-wool aviation geek, I'd have to say, "My feelings, m'dear, my feelings..." 😉 The "sky-submarine" is an 'airship' or 'blimp': a type of steerable, powered, balloon that uses lighter-than-air gas for buoyancy rather than hot air. Until the late 1930s they were considered a viable alternative to fixed-wing aircraft and were used for military and commercial purposes. Some of the first and best airships were built by the German Count von Zeppelin who's company was named after him. "Zeppelin" thus became a generic alternative word for 'airship'. Zeppelins bombed Britain during the First World War. The Hindenburg was the last and largest Zeppelin ever built. She was built in 1936 and made 63 flights in the next year-and-a-half, including 10 to the USA. In May 1937 the Hindenburg was approaching her mooring mast at Lakehurst, New Jersey, when she burst into flames and crashed as you saw in the video, killing 35 of the 97 people on board. Her arrival was being broadcast live on local radio and when she went down, the presenter's fraught commentary became iconic. The cause of the fire was never determined, but the highly flammable hydrogen gas that she used for buoyancy, together with flammable dope (varnish) used in her fabric envelope, made her demise so swift and unstoppable. This accident, together with the bad-weather crash of the similar British airship R-101, destroyed the public's confidence in airships and they faded from the aviation scene, although you still see them today in specialist roles (the Goodyear blimps are the best known example). Modern airships use non-flammable, but less efficient, helium instead of hydrogen. When Jimmy Page and Robert Plant were forming their new band, Keith Moon (drummer of The Who) joked that they'd go down "like a lead balloon". Page remembered the joke and named the band 'Led Zeppelin'. Their first album had a black and white image of the burning Hindenburg on the cover. 'When The Levee Breaks' is a song about a disaster by a band named after an airship that had a disaster, hence the video.
The precise sonic/soulful vocals of Robert Plant and some of the tightest arranging and producing Jimmy Page had ever done were on this album. Plants Harmonica, Jimmy's playing, and of course, the drumming and base are spectacular on the song of the Black American migration from the flooded South in the late 1920s to take the blues and gospel music to Chicago and other cities of the north. Led Zeppelin was sampling blues and blues riffs, just like rappers sample music from Steely Dan and old Rock Band today. Music is a circle of life.
You might like the song but you will never get the colossal impact unless you just listen to it, without stopping to analyze or comment on the video, or anything else. Close you eyes, listen, then say what you will. This needs to be felt and absorbed, not yattered about.
Time to do Led Zeppelin "Kashmir" live at Celebration Day Concert. They got together for that Concert after not performing for 28 years when their drummer died. The one time concert and last performance brought a lottery system for tickets in which 20 million people tried to get tickets. The drummer for the Concert was the original drummers son who kills it. His father would have been proud.
The Rolling Stones are my favorite because they seem to have a song for every mood and there music is the most widely varying Rock, Blues, Country and Soul. They evolved in time,
Air submarine? Um, Zeppelin? The video is confusing because it has everything to do with zeppelins and nothing at all to do with the song. The song is a straight up lament about a broken levee.
When The Levee Breaks is about the Great Missisippi Flood of ‘27. It is a reworking of a Memphis Minnie/Kansas Joe McCoy song. The footage/video is clips of the Hindenburg disaster of ‘37. The band took a still photo as their debut album sleve/artwork. These airships were known as ‘zeppelins’ after German Count Ferdinand Von Zeppelin.
OMFG listen to the song. “This song is so good. Let me stop it every five seconds for a minute and a half.” I can’t believe someone actually ruined When The Levee Breaks. 👍
She FINALLY does a studio version of a song only to be totally distracted by a video that has NOTHING to do with the song! It's very disappointing. I like her personality but her choices to do live versions first, puts me off. Peace
As you've seen in the comments, the balloon-like object is a zeppelin. They are generally larger than blimps, and differ by their internal frame structure. The Hindenburg zeppelin was ignited by a lightning strike upon mooring, which prompted stopping the use of highly flammable hydrogen in favor of safer helium for inflating the lighter- than-air ships.
Before i start this is a 1929 Cover From."When the Levee Breaks" is a country blues song written and first recorded by Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy in 1929. The lyrics reflect experiences during the upheaval caused by the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. "When the Levee Breaks" was re-worked by English rock group Led Zeppelin as the last song on their untitled fourth album. Singer Robert Plant used many of the original lyrics and the songwriting is credited to Memphis Minnie and the individual members of Led Zeppelin. Many other artists have performed and recorded versions of the song.
There are many ways to address is spectacular song. Each to his/her own. The initial drum riff, done in an aristocratic entry hall (never recognized as such, before or since, is a piece of history. It has never been replicated - and never will - because....
You haven't even touched the surface of all the amazing songs this band created. So many fav's to choose from. Sleeping over my friends house we would listen to Zeppelin as we waited for Head Banger's Ball tv show every Saturday night.
You must watch the documentary of the Hindenburg. The Hindenburg is a zeppelin balloon created by the Germans back in the 30s. Everyone else has explained where Led Zeppelin got the band name Led Zeppelin but if you look at their album covers, you will see that they have a Zeppelin balloon on them. I absolutely love when Robert Plant plays the harmonica. Even with the harmonica, he sounds sexy. You should check out Robert Plant now he still tours and has been performing with Alison Krauss doing bluegrass music. And no matter what kind of music Robert does he knocks it out of the ballpark. Led Zeppelin is truly the rock gods of my youth.😎
This song is about a true event that took place I think back East somewhere in the 1920s or 30s. A levy broke during a rainstorm and ended up flooding a whole town and probably more.
Honestly I learned about from a T.V show called The Walton's when I was a kid. So I went to the library and got a book about. Years later I saw the documentary. The Waltons used the real footage. I cried
The airship Hindenburg in the video was a Zeppelin and the largest ever built. It burst into flames as it landed in Lakehurst, New Jersey back in 1936. Led Zeppelin is kind of a joke, Keith Moon of The Who said they'd go down like a lead balloon, which Jimmy Page later used when he remembered the joke and named the band Led Zeppelin. Loved the reaction, keep going as Led Zep has a vast store of banging tunes from a variety of genres.
In addition, this incident is likely where the phrase “Oh the humanity” became widespread. The event was being recorded and the commentator was basically lost for words.
I believe it was John Entwhistle who uttered that phrase.
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@@paulmahon1613 it was uttered during the broadcast of the incident.
@@billwicketvogel1787 My bad! you are correct although in my defence I've seen 1939, 1936 and other dates listed. But your answer is the most common so I have to agree.
When The Levee Breaks is about the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. It was first recorded in 1929 by Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy and was then reworked by Led Zeppelin many years later. Zeppelin music has a number of influences and the blues was one of the biggest ones.
It also talks about the Great Migration, 10s of thousands of black people leaving the South in the late 1800s, early 1900s. Many of them traveled straight up the Mississippi River and ended up in Chicago, which is why the lyrics mention Chicago. It's how Chicago became a hub for blues music.
And how the blacks got shafted in the aftermath of the flooding!
And like all great blues songs, it also has a filthy subtext too.
FACTS!!
The Hindenburg has nothing to do with the levy oh, that's just a music video although both are true and a revelant
Robert Plant on the harmonica is wicked good!
It's you're favorite, because this is the first studio version of a Led Zeppelin song that you've listened to. Everybody here would love to see you react to the studio versions of Stairway to Heaven and Since I've been loving you. Yes, we all know you've reacted to the live versions of these songs, but they pale in comparison to the masterpieces that were created in the studio versions, which are some of the greatest achievements in audio recording history. It would be sad if you go through life without ever hearing those two studio classics. It will be a whole new, eye opening experience for you.
Peace
Much applause to this comment. When you react to music, react to music, DO NOT react to a video (especially a video of a live performance, but that applies to a music video also). The video is for watching you, not the music (video).
Totally agree. How can anything compare to the perfection of those 2 studio recordings
Couldn’t agree more! They sold 300 million albums for a reason, the studio versions are masterpieces!
Agreed! The live version of a popular song is changed, upscaled, modified - sometimes better, sometimes not, but it loses some of the original color and nuance, the format that made the song amazing/famous/popular. That's fine if you already know the original, but you lose something essential if you don't.
Amen!!!
When the Zeppelin caught fire, the live radio announcer continued to relay the events as the explosion engulfed the dirigible and took the lives of many of the crew, passengers and grounds men. This broadcast was recorded, along with film footage and became a historic documentation. The announcer's tearful, immediate response, including the phrase, "Oh the humanity" has been noted by generations ever since. It was, in a sense, the first reaction video. It is fitting it now links to our latter day...
Fun fact: The radio announcer who uttered the popular phrase, "Oh, the humanity!" was from a Chicago radio station called WLS. It's still a staple in the Chicago area. I used to live about 90 miles from Chicago and had a job as a delivery driver. I would listen to that station every day while making my deliveries. The morning shows were particularly entertaining.
Have you ever heard someone cry, "Oh, the humanity!"? That's directly related to the Hindeburg disaster. It was famously recorded by a newsreel unit that was there to cover the landing of the Hindenburg in the US. (The Hindenburg was a Nazi airship. Newreels were short films that were played before the main feature in moviehouses. In a time of radio, newsreels were the only way for people to see moving images of recent events.) So the cameras were rolling as it burst into flames, and the announcer was quite hysterical, crying over the deaths. "Oh, the humanity!" is the phrase he used that is remembered to this day.
The airships are called zeppelins. They were cargo and passenger vessels of the sky filled with either hydrogen or helium.
Zeppelin also worked with Goodyear to create the iconic Goodyear blimps, before the breakout of WWII. Then they had a hand in building V2 rockets. A branch of the conglomerate has been Europe's leading dealer of Caterpillar construction machinery since '54. When you read their company history, they seem to gloss over certain parts of the past, perhaps understandably so.
The German Zeppelins were filled with the highly flammable Hydrogen because the US wouldn't share the classified way to produce inflammable Helium.
A monster of a song. Robert Plant plays harmonica as well as he sings and Bonzo hammered the drums like no one ever. Every album blew us away as they were released.
Girl.. I was born in 78 and I don't care if you were born in 98 or 88, we can all agree that music transends generations
Fact..... people are going to be listening to this a thousand years from now. If we make it that long. LOL!!
I was born in 67, and I agree 100%
Hi kid...
1954 for me (the wooley Mammoths 🦣 raised heck with our tomato garden). But your point is well taken, and you are absolutely right! Even though you and my oldest son are about the same age..
1958 here and witness to live events... Rock on young ones to the greatest music of all times.
That is Robert Plant on harmonica with lots of reverb, blending in with Jimmy's guitar. And this thunderous drum beat and how it was recorded are the stuff of legends.
I think this is about the levee break in 1927. I live across the street from the same levee! They've built it up since then but this is something always in the back of my mind!
Shout out to Memphis Minnie, the legendary singer and guitarist. UK bands heard AMERICAN blues music that mainstream US audiences never heard.
They don't teach about the crash of the Hindenburg in schools any more? "Oh the Humanity!"
LMAO!! Oh my get outta the way....
The airship is called Zeppelins. The Hindenburg or zeppelin was the first major air disaster caught on film. That's when airstrip builders learned that you should never store hydrogen close to oxygen. Static electricity set it
That video is of a Zeppelin called the Hindenburg that crashed. It doesn't have a thing to do with the song, which is about a levee breaking and destroying a village after a flood on the Mississippi in 1927. The words were from a gal named Memphie Minnie. Musically - it was entirely Led Zeppelin. An epic masterpiece.
Robert Plant is just killing it on harmonica in this one.
This is perhaps the most famous drum progression in history. Every drummer who is asked about famous drums progressions mentions this song.
It’s her favorite Zeppelin song so far because it’s the studio version. So thankful she’s listening to a studio version finally. Zeppelin is great live, but you have to listen to the studio first. Not only, just first. You just have to!! You would have at least liked the previous Led Zeppelin songs just as much if you would have listen to the studio versions of them too. At least first.
Then there's the John Paul Jones climate change version really not to be missed
The liquid is water. It was used as ballast to help stabilize the trim of the ship. You aren't completely wrong calling it an air submarine. They were also colloquially called air ships.
Thank you for your reaction, Britt! Speaking of "Thank You" that is the name of the next Led Zeppelin song you should check out!
Yes, "Thank You" is a great song.
Live 1969
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The "no one was going to warn me..." part about the Hindenburg made me laugh. 🤣
I immediately wanted to shout out, "You know the Titanic sinks, right?"
You forgot the spoiler alerts... 🤣
The Hindenburg disaster was an airship or zeppelin that crashed and burned on May 6, 1937.
There was a live radio broadcast as the disaster took place, very famous..."oh the humanity!" Guy narrated it, weeping bitterly. Much sampled
Led Zeppelin is the GOAT
It's the Hindenburg Disaster. Hindenburg is the name of that particular airship - The Graf Zeppelin is the type of airship. I've no idea why this piece of film was paired with "When the Levee Breaks," there's no connection at all. It could have been shown as the background to any Led Zeppelin song. The connection, as others have explained, is with the name Zeppelin, that's all.
Cant go wrong with Zeppelin
So, the song was written in 1929, about a disastrous flood of the Mississippi river a few years before. When Zeppelin created their version, they used a lot of blues-y riffs in their rock music.
Yes, the lyrics were written by Memphis Minnie about the 1927 Mississippi River flood.
One of my favs by them, as a drummer the sound John gets here is amazing. Look up how they recorded this song. It's phenomenal.
Legend has it they moved the drum kit into the stairwell at the studio to get the echo.
@@jgold78 Not a studio. It was recorded at Headly Grange, an old mansion that was once used as a poor house....but yes, the drums were in the stairwell.
@@jgold78 they recorded it in a big old mansion, they didnt get the echo naturally though. they ran it through a vintage echoplex unit
Each of Led Zeppelin's live performances was Improvised. Played in the moment, an actual part of they're recording contract. Creative Dominion, without this in my opinion the world would have lost the experience of Led Zeppelin 😈🤘. All the blues hits are my favorites, The Lemon song, In my Time of Dying, of course The Levee😈🤘 please keep up reactions, won't be disappointed
When the group first got together, someone said they were going to go down like a lead zeppelin (a Hindenberg reference); hence Led Zeppelin.
IT'S A ZEPPELIN, in the 1930's they were used as passenger airships along with military uses. They were a very popular way to travel to and from Europe until an airship called the Hindenburg caught fire as it was mooring in New York. A Zeppelin and a blimp like the 'Goodyear Blimp' are very similar.
I lol'ed twice ❤😂 air submarine- who am I hurting 😂 waterslides
You just watched a historical event happen. 1936 Lakehurst, NJ. There are recordings of the live radio broadcast. Zeppelin were filled with hydrogen gas, which made them a sort of ticking time bomb if something went wrong, which is the case here. "Oooh, the humanity!"
My experience was when my oldest brother woke me out of sleep. Dave said I have two tickets to Led Zeppelin. I was thirteen like 50 years ago. I can play all these tunes, by heart and note for note. Led Zeppelin is like the Rolling Stones. Rockers of endurance!
Some here have already given the background on the name Led Zeppelin for the band so that's covered. The songs origins have been taken care of as well, so maybe a bit of trivia. Although the Hindenburg disaster has nothing to do with the song, a picture of the disaster is the album cover for the 1st LZ album in 1968. There's a story that says when Zeppelin played the Netherlands early on they had to use a different name (the Nobs) as Lady von Zeppelin was outraged by the use of the Hindenburg exploding as their album cover.
One of the best grooves of all time!
A Perfect Circle does a fantastic rendition of this song, it's live at Red Rocks too! When the Levee breaks at Red Rocks is what you're looking for.
Zeppelins were German blimps. Led Zeppelin got their name from the old figure of speech "it'll go over like a lead balloon." A Led Zeppelin. The Hindenburg was a Zeppelin, and the gas that it used to keep it aloft was hydrogen, the 1st element, and disturbingly flammable. An ember will make it explode. Helium, the second element, is also lighter than air, but inert. So, a valuable lesson was learned that day about which lighter-than- air gas to use for flying blimps. And decades later, this great band got a great name.
Zeppelins have a rigid frame or skeleton and were sometimes referred to as rigid airships. A blimp is shaped a little the same but has no rigid skeleton, it’s just a specially shaped balloon.
The Hindenburg was a Zeppelin (the inventor Baron Von Zeppelin created these very famous rigid airships) this Zeppelin was named in honor of the famous WWI German General and Hero Paul Von Hindenburg. It was a NAZI rigid airship that flew across the Atlantic between Berlin and New York (landing in New Jersey) in the late 1930s before WWII. It was still enough of a novelty that a newsreel crew was sent to photograph and record the landing when it suddenly burst into flames. The newsreel reporter famously cried "Oh the humanity". Another reporter who wasn't there assumed it would be a normal non-event called in to his newspaper that it was a perfectly normal landing. Needless to say that reporter was fired for missing the biggest story of the decade. When the Levee Breaks has nothing to do with the Hindenburg tragedy, it's about the flooding of the Mississippi River in 1927. However, the Hindenburg tragedy does have to do with why Led Zeppelin got there name.
Your so right on with the sensual lyrics of Robert Plant. He is amazing especially live
My father was 4 years old when the Hindenburg flew over our hometown in Massachusetts before it burned. He said he remembered it flying over because it was slow and loud. He said it was pretty cool to see.
Yes. The Hindenburg was a large air ship known as a dirigible. In fact it was the largest ever built. It was the pride and joy of Nazi Germany.
Historical significance was its catastrophic destruction when it burst into flames in the USA. It was also significant in that it was one of the first caught on film LIVE catastrophes. For that time period it was as significant and impactful as the footage of the 9/11 attack on Trade Center. It was shown in movie theaters and talked about on the radio with intensity.
Dirigibles were also referred to as Zeppelin after the German inventor Ferdinand von Zeppelin who began his work on air ships in the late 19th Century.
By the 1960s, the terminology or slang for something that is a colossal failure was that it would end up like the Hindenburg or take off like a "LEAD ZEPPELIN".
The remainder of how the band was named is covered by other comments above. Great Post. Im subscribed! Love it.
Wow first Rush now Led Zeppellin in one day, the two greatest bands and two best Drummers of all time imo. Keep digging into both bands these are the group's that other acts all aspire to be. 😊
Amen.
Really? several drummers far better!!! And still breathing!
@@timothytouhey8682 John bonham is number 1 ever… after that there are several options, but there is no question about number 1.
Interesting fact about the recording...When they recorded this track they went up to Headly Grange, which was a large poorhouse in Hampshire England, that was rented and converted into a recording studio for them. They often went to eccentric locations to write and record. When they got there, John Bonham (their drummer) was intrigued by the acoustics of the grand entry staircase. So he set up his drum kit and some mics in the stairwell, and recorded the drum tracks. A lot if the drum sounds you are hearing are not actual strokes being played, but rather echoes. The metronome time signature that the song is played in is decided by this reverberation. Just an example of how out of the box they were as a bans, but especially Bonham was as a drummer. Best ever.
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Britt, as others have mentioned, listen to more of Zeppelin's studio releases. Jimmy Page was brilliant in the studio, a real craftsman. Also, they were somewhat inconsistent live--they lived fast and Jimmy also occasionally suffered from stagefright. But if you want their best live stuff, the Royal Albert Hall show from 1970 is awesome. Great reaction. Be well.
Robert Plant is a rock god. He moves like one cause he is one.
Best Rock Band as it took Pink Floyd a few years to really hit their stride, Zeppelin was great right from the start. For more Zeppelin blues rock of the highest caliber, try Since I've Been Loving You. The studio mix is pristine and legendary, then the live video from the Song Remains the Same is beyond amazing, seeing the effect they have on fans and even security is cool and gives you an idea of the grip they had on us back in the day, you would do anything to see them but they always were instant, multiple sell outs wherever they went. Try that song out, if you have, do You Shook Me or Tea For One. Enjoy! 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎶
Hi. Research this song. This is actually an old song with roots from long ago. You might be very surprised. 😮
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There WILL be?? WHEN?? ;)
Oh the humanity! 😅Yes this is something that you should have learned about in history class. That was a Hindenburg, the world’s biggest airship/blimp/zeppelin. It was designed by the Zeppelin airship company (see the connection?) and was the pride of Germany and the Nazis. Unfortunately for them they could not use helium to inflate it, since the USA had most of the world’s helium reserves, so they used highly flammable hydrogen instead. A local Chicago newsman from WLS was doing one of the first ever live broadcasts of the event just outside of NYC when the Zeppelin suddenly burst into flames and while he narrated the calamity live and exclaimed “Oh the humanity” and the rest is history.
Memphis Minnie, 1932 singin about a real event Zepplinized.
You need to check out some Robert Plant together with Alison Krauss. They've collab'd for years and their voices together are like BUTTAH. They're on tour even still, this year.
It's a dirigible, also known as a blimp. They still fly when I think over important football games over here in United States. The Goodyear blimp I think or maybe it's been dead for a long time. But anyway yeah this was a historical day. But they used a weird relief of it as the front album cover of their very first album when they just exploded on the world in the late 1960s. And from a distance, it looks really really phallic.
There's even more context in this direction. So after that disaster, everything that everybody thought was going to be the wonderful solution to Aviation, it was fuel-efficient everything about it was great it could float along at low altitudes it could negotiate fairly well even though it was a bit clumsy, because that's all they really needed in those early days. And then it got so popular they used it for public transport and it first people were nervous and then it became accepted. And then this happened. Think about it.
So sometime after that, by the time I was a kid in the late sixties and early 1970s, it was always afraid as you could say, oh yeah and you would roll your eyes about either an idea that you had or an idea that somebody else had that just totally tank and turned out to just be ridiculously bad. And you would say, oh yeah, that went over like a lead balloon.
I always said, if I could walk into a room in slow motion to any song. This would be it!
Good choice.
Great to hear the studio version !! They might be great to see live but their studio version of songs are soo much better to listen to !!
It's a Zeppelin get it led Zeppelin
You are a beautiful young woman.. I hope you continue to enjoy music like this... I know as an older woman, how liberating it is to have a wide variety of interests... Well done!
Haha yeah look up,the Hindenburg tragedy. Also zeppelin is a name for a balloon. Led is short for lead so their a name is lead balloon. There is a saying they say when something is falling or crashing “going down like a lead balloon” my favorite two songs are “Kashmir” and “fool in the rain” hope you react to one of those soon! Great reaction!
Spoiler alert. The blimp explodes.
Zeppelins were rigid-framed, lighter-than-air ships made by Germany. They had a light-weight metal frame, a fabric covering, and contained large bags filled with hydrogen. They were propelled with engines mounted along the outside turning propellers. They came into wide use during WWI to bomb England and were re-designed for trans-Atlantic passenger service after the war. The Hindenburg was one such Zeppelin. Other countries, including the US, also had them, but they were not called Zeppelins since they weren't from Germany's Zeppelin factory; they were just generically called Dirigibles. The hydrogen gas was highly flammable and later versions used helium but helium weighs more than hydrogen so such a Dirigible can't carry as much weight. You have seen their cousins in continued use today, Blimps, such as the Goodyear blimp that is filled with helium and lacks the rigid structure. The tops of the Empire State and Chrysler buidings in NYC were built as docking towers for Zeppelins/Dirigibles.
The greatest band ever… but also probably one of the best songs ever…. In history.
Yes. It’s something called history. Don’t worry it’s all just in the past. Like everything that ever happened.
The story I heard about them is when they were starting, their style was so different that they were told they would fall like a lead balloon. They took it at turned it into Led Zeppelin.
There’s a saying “it’s going to go down like a lead Zeppelin”.
I heard that too!
Keith Moon told Jimmy Page the type of music Page wanted to do would go over like a lead ballon. When it came time to name the band Page remembered the joke and Led Zeppelin was born.
Keith Moon's comment was in response to the band being booked as "the New Yardbirds." After the Yardbirds imploded, Page assembled a new lineup, intent on continuing down the heavy psychedelic direction the band was moving in before the breakup. Since the Yardbirds were a well established group, with a substantial following, he wanted to capitalize on their name recognition. Except, he wasn't even one of the founding members. Besides, this new lineup was clearly a much different band. It was after Page told Moon they were going with "the New Yardbirds" that he said "the New Yardbirds? That's gonna go over like a Lead Zeppelin." In other versions he said "Lead Balloon." But Page thought Zeppelin sounded cooler.
You know the Goodyear blimps that sometimes do aerial coverage of sporting events? Those early versions, called zeppelins, is what the Hindenberg was. It's landing in the U.S. turned into a tragedy as it caught fire and crashed. The passenger & cargo compartments are suspended below the balloon structure.
Zeppelins are rigid airships, not blimps. A blimp is simply a streamlined balloon with a power/control car attached, whereas a rigid airship has an internal frame containing separate gasbags.
And zepplins are WAY bigger
You have to listen to their song since I've been loving you live at msg 1973 bring it on home Robert opens the song with the harmonica
The Hindenberg used Hydrogen gas instead of Helium which makes the Hydrogen filled one extremely explosive. Zeppelins used the hydrogen because it gave twice as much lift. Other airships used Helium which was not explosive.
DO more Studio versions of their songs.... "In My Time of Dying" "All of My Love", "No Quarter", "Fool in the Rain", "The Lemon Song", "The Ocean", "Thank You".......
Yes, but WITHOUT any distracting videos to free-associate to...
Like I said about led Zeppelin there first choice of names was going to be called Supergroup Keith Moon drummer for the WHO said that name is going down like a "Led Zeppelin" referring to the Hindenburg crash. The first air disaster caught on film.
You should watch the live film of the Hindenburg and the reporter describing the crash. That's the famous quote from the reporter.
👉Awe The Humanity👈 This is a fan made video had nothing to do with Zeppelin other than the Hindenburg was a Zeppelin. The song is about a real flood that my poor grandma had escape from in I think the 1920s as a little girl in Mississippi. What no body ever notices the singer Robert plant is using old blues singers niches. Little at the end sing he sings Oooh ooh Oooh. That's comes the scarey bluesman
👉Howlin Wolf 👈 theres also some
👉Robert Johnson👈
The godfather of blues that is said to have sold his soul to the devil at the cross roads in the delta of Mississippi not far from where I grew up. I never went to the cross at night. 😮
"The "Rain Song" is one of their best. It is their only ballad. George Harrison of the Beatles said Zeppelin couldn't write one, so Jimmy Page wrote one.
Only ballad? Come on now: That's The Way, Thank You, All My Love etc...
So 'The Rain Song' is their only ballad...what about 'Tangerine' from Led Zeppelin III?
@@MarioCrosby Bugger! I just came back to edit my answer to add 'That's the Way' but I see I'm too late 🤣 Yeah as we both seem to know, but Thomas doesn't, Zeppelin did loads of ballads 😊
@@eddhardy1054 That's OK, I missed Tangerine, so we're even. 😆
@@MarioCrosby I guess between us we covered most of the ballads...although you did most of the heavy lifting 😉😊
Always awesome finding and listening to your favorite Zeppelin song.
The documentary took away from the song. Sit down and listen to the song without the distraction. You missed a lot.
This is my favourite Led Zep song also. I've been listening to them for decades and love most of their stuff, but this is the one if I had to choose, with Kashmir and All of My Love close behind.
The ship crashing and burning is the Hindenburg, a Zepplin which is the German name for an airship.
Airships in those days were filled with hydrogen which is flammable. The Hindenburg crashed in 1937 in New Jersey with 35 fatalities.
Led Zeppelin got it's name from Keith Moon of The Who, who when told Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin's founder was keen on creating a new supergroup with Moon, Jeff Beck, and Moon’s bandmate in The Who John Entwistle. Moon remarked that the project would go down “like a lead balloon”.
From that Page then renamed the New Yardbirds "Led Zeppelin.
The photograph of the Hindenburg crashing was used for the album cover of their debut album.
Zep is a hard band to react to, I think. They have a huge catalog and are considered by many (including myself) a top 5 all time rock n roll band. They have Godfather status. I would start with the first album and work your way back.
It conained Hydrogen to make it lighter then air... Hydrogen is very flammable. Only takes a spark to make it ignite. Spark, think of static electricity like you hand in winter when you've been walking on a carpet, and accidentally touch a piece of metal, you get a little shock. Hydrogen combined with that spark gives what you see here. One big boom!!! Now you know. Yes, you should have been taught this in history class. :) Have the day you deserve!
Not sure where that video came from; I’m guessing some guy created it for his own entertainment. I can see how it’s confusing for a song reaction, since the events in the video have nothing to do with this particular song. As other comments explain, this is a cover of a song by Memphis Minnie about the Great Mississippi flood of 1927, which, as a point of reference, was actually worse than Katrina. Beyond that, this is an incredible song that I feel you should listen to again (do another reaction, if you like) without the distraction of that video.
It’s my understanding that the US had all the Helium, which is safe to use, but Germany used Hydrogen which is very flammable. This was just before WWII. Yes, you should have learned this in history class. We did.
"Who am I hurtin'?" - Well as a dyed-in-the-wool aviation geek, I'd have to say, "My feelings, m'dear, my feelings..." 😉
The "sky-submarine" is an 'airship' or 'blimp': a type of steerable, powered, balloon that uses lighter-than-air gas for buoyancy rather than hot air. Until the late 1930s they were considered a viable alternative to fixed-wing aircraft and were used for military and commercial purposes. Some of the first and best airships were built by the German Count von Zeppelin who's company was named after him. "Zeppelin" thus became a generic alternative word for 'airship'. Zeppelins bombed Britain during the First World War. The Hindenburg was the last and largest Zeppelin ever built. She was built in 1936 and made 63 flights in the next year-and-a-half, including 10 to the USA.
In May 1937 the Hindenburg was approaching her mooring mast at Lakehurst, New Jersey, when she burst into flames and crashed as you saw in the video, killing 35 of the 97 people on board. Her arrival was being broadcast live on local radio and when she went down, the presenter's fraught commentary became iconic. The cause of the fire was never determined, but the highly flammable hydrogen gas that she used for buoyancy, together with flammable dope (varnish) used in her fabric envelope, made her demise so swift and unstoppable. This accident, together with the bad-weather crash of the similar British airship R-101, destroyed the public's confidence in airships and they faded from the aviation scene, although you still see them today in specialist roles (the Goodyear blimps are the best known example). Modern airships use non-flammable, but less efficient, helium instead of hydrogen.
When Jimmy Page and Robert Plant were forming their new band, Keith Moon (drummer of The Who) joked that they'd go down "like a lead balloon". Page remembered the joke and named the band 'Led Zeppelin'. Their first album had a black and white image of the burning Hindenburg on the cover. 'When The Levee Breaks' is a song about a disaster by a band named after an airship that had a disaster, hence the video.
The precise sonic/soulful vocals of Robert Plant and some of the tightest arranging and producing Jimmy Page had ever done were on this album. Plants Harmonica, Jimmy's playing, and of course, the drumming and base are spectacular on the song of the Black American migration from the flooded South in the late 1920s to take the blues and gospel music to Chicago and other cities of the north. Led Zeppelin was sampling blues and blues riffs, just like rappers sample music from Steely Dan and old Rock Band today. Music is a circle of life.
You might like the song but you will never get the colossal impact unless you just listen to it, without stopping to analyze or comment on the video, or anything else. Close you eyes, listen, then say what you will. This needs to be felt and absorbed, not yattered about.
Absolutely agree. I am afraid she is performing for us rather than reacting.
@@bradsense7431 I just unsubscribed from her, the interruptions are unwatchable and unlistenable. The worst on the entire UA-cam channel.
Time to do Led Zeppelin "Kashmir" live at Celebration Day Concert. They got together for that Concert after not performing for 28 years when their drummer died. The one time concert and last performance brought a lottery system for tickets in which 20 million people tried to get tickets. The drummer for the Concert was the original drummers son who kills it. His father would have been proud.
TALK ALL YOU WANT, BUT STOP PAUSING IT!!!1
WE WATCH TO THE LISTEN TO THE MUSIC, NOT ALL YOUR LONG COMMENTS, COMMENT AFTER THE SONG!
The Rolling Stones are my favorite because they seem to have a song for every mood and there music is the most widely varying Rock, Blues, Country and Soul. They evolved in time,
Air submarine? Um, Zeppelin?
The video is confusing because it has everything to do with zeppelins and nothing at all to do with the song. The song is a straight up lament about a broken levee.
When The Levee Breaks is about the Great Missisippi Flood of ‘27. It is a reworking of a Memphis Minnie/Kansas Joe McCoy song.
The footage/video is clips of the Hindenburg disaster of ‘37. The band took a still photo as their debut album sleve/artwork. These airships were known as ‘zeppelins’ after German Count Ferdinand Von Zeppelin.
OMFG listen to the song. “This song is so good. Let me stop it every five seconds for a minute and a half.” I can’t believe someone actually ruined When The Levee Breaks. 👍
She FINALLY does a studio version of a song only to be totally distracted by a video that has NOTHING to do with the song!
It's very disappointing. I like her personality but her choices to do live versions first, puts me off.
Peace
Thats how reaction videos work, they have to avoid copywrite, you avoid this by talking through it and stopping every so often...
Blame the labels...
@@phoboskittym8500 I know how it works. Every so often isn’t every five seconds. Heh.
As you've seen in the comments, the balloon-like object is a zeppelin. They are generally larger than blimps, and differ by their internal frame structure. The Hindenburg zeppelin was ignited by a lightning strike upon mooring, which prompted stopping the use of highly flammable hydrogen in favor of safer helium for inflating the lighter- than-air ships.
The video has nothing to do with this song. The lyrics of this song are from a blues song from the 1920s, it's about a literal flood.
Before i start this is a 1929 Cover From."When the Levee Breaks" is a country blues song written and first recorded by Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy in 1929. The lyrics reflect experiences during the upheaval caused by the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927.
"When the Levee Breaks" was re-worked by English rock group Led Zeppelin as the last song on their untitled fourth album. Singer Robert Plant used many of the original lyrics and the songwriting is credited to Memphis Minnie and the individual members of Led Zeppelin. Many other artists have performed and recorded versions of the song.
The Hindenburg is kinda common knowledge. Like the Titanic.I'm surprised ! I guess with millennials and gen z I probably shouldn't be. : ))
There are many ways to address is spectacular song. Each to his/her own.
The initial drum riff, done in an aristocratic entry hall (never recognized as such, before or since, is a piece of history. It has never been replicated - and never will - because....
LMAO at your reaction girl, Love it😀
You haven't even touched the surface of all the amazing songs this band created. So many fav's to choose from. Sleeping over my friends house we would listen to Zeppelin as we waited for Head Banger's Ball tv show every Saturday night.
You must watch the documentary of the Hindenburg. The Hindenburg is a zeppelin balloon created by the Germans back in the 30s. Everyone else has explained where Led Zeppelin got the band name Led Zeppelin but if you look at their album covers, you will see that they have a Zeppelin balloon on them. I absolutely love when Robert Plant plays the harmonica. Even with the harmonica, he sounds sexy. You should check out Robert Plant now he still tours and has been performing with Alison Krauss doing bluegrass music. And no matter what kind of music Robert does he knocks it out of the ballpark. Led Zeppelin is truly the rock gods of my youth.😎
Holy effing pausing… let the song breath.,, stop pausing every 30 seconds.
This song is about a true event that took place I think back East somewhere in the 1920s or 30s. A levy broke during a rainstorm and ended up flooding a whole town and probably more.
Yo, just listen to the music. The video has absolutely nothing to do with the song. You interrupt the flow waaay too much.
going to chiago is about rural sothern blacks moving north to where the factory work was
OMG you’re exhausting….
Honestly I learned about from a T.V show called The Walton's when I was a kid. So I went to the library and got a book about. Years later I saw the documentary. The Waltons used the real footage. I cried