They wrote this song in a 15 minute break because Bonham was getting graduated trying to play The best On Four Sticks. He started with An old 50'd intro and Page joined in with JPJ as a jam. Robert sand some lyrics from old rock n roll songs he knew. 15 minutes later.... In the can!
Guitarist and band leader, Jimmy Page was in another band, The Yardbirds. The Yardbirds also launched the careers of Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck (RIP). Anyway, The Yardbirds broke up in the middle of an American tour in 1969 and left Page holding the bag. He was talking to The Who's drummer Keith Moon about hiring some session players, and finishing the tour as The New Yardbirds. Keith replied, "That'll go over like a lead zeppelin (balloon)!" The rest is history.
It was a joke by the drummer of The Who Keith Moon.. you will go over like Lrad Balloon. They thought Americans would pronounce it wrong like Leed instead of Lead like the metal..so they dropped the a.
The origin of the name "Led Zeppelin" came from a conversation involving Keith Moon and John Entwistle of The Who. They joked that a supergroup with them, Page, and Jeff Beck would "go down like a lead balloon," meaning it would fail spectacularly. The phrase "lead balloon" is a common idiom for something that fails miserably. Jimmy Page found the phrase amusing and liked the imagery. He decided to alter it slightly: He dropped the "a" in "lead" to avoid confusion over pronunciation (he didn't want people saying leed). "Balloon" was replaced with "Zeppelin", which conveyed something grand, powerful, and heavy but also light and able to soar. Thus, Led Zeppelin was born, perfectly capturing the band's combination of heaviness and flight.
The "Led" were practically in every house back in the day (1970's) there wasn't a party that someone didn't play these albums, very loud all night long. Rolled many a joint on the front of the Led LP covers getting super stoned, drinking and dancing. Stairway to Heaven usually signaled the end of the party with everyone trying to sing the lyrics no matter how stoned we were. Rocking good times.
When i played high school basketball in the 70s, before i left the house I blasted this song in my room for an hour before I left for the game.. Great song, great memories.
The British rock guys were perhaps some of the biggest 'scholars' of American roots music: blues, R&B, Rockabilly, and incorporating it likewise on their artistic exports back over here and around the globe. Got a little Jerry Lee Louis, et.al. here!
From Led Zep's fourth album. A total change up from "III", which had a whole acoustic side. Many great songs on the ZoSo, fourth album, though it is unnamed, but we have to call it something. Just do them all.
The critics criticize the previous album for being too hippie. So they wrote this as a response to the critics showing them that they could still rock and roll
Cool! Cadillac used it for a commercial a few years ago. We used to fake our way through the song in the garage band I was in back when I was thirteen circa 1980. Also check out the Velvet Underground "Rock & Roll" or the cover by The Runaways from the seventies or the cover by Jane's Addiction from the eighties.
Led Zeppelin is the number 2 band in sales, selling over 300 million, The Beatles are the only ones with more sales. Bonham got frustrated trying to play Four Sticks, using 2 sticks in each hand. He took a break & started pounding this out, & the others jumped in. They were still recording so it was captured it at the time, Bonham was then able to go back & got Four Sticks done. We got 2 songs instead of one. The Immigrant Song opened earlier concerts, & Rock & Roll opened later concerts, both would get the fans going. Thank you, it’s been awhile since you did LZ, glad to see you back.
The jacket of this LP also named and defined the “bundle of sticks” on the old man’s back. If you know you know. P.S. I’m proud to say I own this album.
One of the best examples of a LZ number credited as a Plant/Page original, yet is undeniably a blatant copy of Killing Floor by Howlin' Wolf, save for a few words that were changed and a heavier arrangement. The balls it takes to put ones' names on a masterpiece created by a legend.
This is an homage to the early days of Rock and Roll. The drum intro was straight out of Little Richard's Keep 'a Knockin, and the guitar riff is a basic Chuck Berry like pattern.
I believe Led Zeppelin IV (Untitled) has sold in excess of 33 million copies since release in 1971. over 30 times Platinum, Or equal to over Three Diamond Awards, (Ten Million Units each) and then some!
So my favorite detail about this song; there's no amp. Jimmy Page plugged his guitar directly into the mixer for that super dry, fuzzy tone. Distortion in rock came from broken speakers, and I think he was trying to imitate that.
Admiral David Farragut said the damn the torpedoes line during the US Civil War during the battle of Mobile Bay in 1864. John Paul Jones is an American Revolutionary war naval hero who famously said, "I Have not yet begun to fight."
Absolutely no snakes in New Zealand. And NZ is in the Southern Hemisphere, while Sweden is in the Northern, so you guys could absolutely visit each other and avoid winter if that's your thing. However NZ winters aren't very cold.
If you knew Led Zeppelin in any way how could you not know that it was them? It is pure uptempo rock and Zeppelin sounding from start to finish. I love you guys but you also should know the Zeppelin catalogue to some degree by now. Rock N Roll might be the FIFTH best song on Led Zeppelin IV behind Stairway To Heaven, Black Dog, Misty Mountain Hop and When The Levee Breaks.
Plenty of people already did my comment about where the name Led Zeppelin comes from so I will just make my other comment. Def Leppard (note the same misspelling as in Led Zeppelin) wasn't a hair metal band. Def Leppard came over from Britain around the time of Iron Maiden in the early 80s as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. Hair metal doesn't come around until the late 80s. But Def Leppard played an instrumental role in paving the way for hair metal. Def Leppard was the first metal band to have a following that was as much female and male. (If you see the movie This is Spinal Tap you will see that one of the jokes in it is about why the band attracts such a male audience). The idea that metal could double its audience by being as popular with women was a great draw for record labels. And so it was one of the reasons that labels pushed bands into the hair metal model. On a different note, you have apparently heard Black Dog, and have now heard Rock and Roll, and presumably have heard Stairway to Heaven. That means you are at most one song away from having heard all of side one of Led Zeppelin IV. The last song, The Battle of Evermore is well worth listening to. (You may have heard parts of side two as well which consists of Misty Mountain Hop, Four Sticks, Going to California, and When the Levee Breaks. It is unlikely you have heard Four Sticks, but the others are classics as well).
Rock and Roll giving tribute to R&R Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp, tributing stomp music ( and Robert's dog, Stryder a blue eyed merle) Boogie with Stu- doing the Boogie Woogie with Rolling Stones 6th man Ian 'stu' Stewart.😂😂
UB-40. Def Leppard. 83. Oops. 🤷🏽 Morrissey. That drum intro is borrowed from Little Richard's 'Keep-A Knockin' '. This whole album - cut after cut - blew our effing minds when we listened to it right outta the shrink wrap when it came out. This was roots, babies. For them, for us. They had a decade and a half on us, grew up with it, learned it, built on it and gave something new to the world. All killer, no filler. 🖖🏼😊🎶❤️🍁❤️🎄🥃✨️🕊
Since you're already familiar with the studio version you need to check out the live version from the song remains the same. Watch them getting down in their prime
The guy on the right has a better ear for rock when he thought it was the early Sun Records - good guess. The other guy mentions Van Halen, Def Leppard? Yikes - not even close to anything those bands have ever done. Still, love the reviews between the two and keep up the good work.
Still waiting on that Wheel reaction to Hyperion, you could do that next, I did request it in spiral Out Sunday in October, really want to see y'all's reaction to it.
they changed the spelling so that some idiot wouldn't say LEED Zeppelin....Sure, it should be spelled lead......but to guarantee the correct interpretation, they changed it to LED.
You're thinking SUN Records because this song IS a tribute to the rollicking Piano Sounds of 50s R&R. Before technology improved the quality of Guitar AMPLIFIERS, Piano Riffs/ Solos were the DOMINANT Instrument featured in R&R Songs. THINK LITTLE RICHARD...The ORIGINAL ARCHITECT of ROCK & ROLL! "It's been a LONG TIME since I ROCK & ROLLED...referring to the 1950s. Robert used to wear a great ELVIS T-Shirt.
They wrote this song in a 15 minute break because Bonham was getting graduated trying to play The best On Four Sticks. He started with An old 50'd intro and Page joined in with JPJ as a jam. Robert sand some lyrics from old rock n roll songs he knew. 15 minutes later.... In the can!
Guitarist and band leader, Jimmy Page was in another band, The Yardbirds. The Yardbirds also launched the careers of Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck (RIP).
Anyway, The Yardbirds broke up in the middle of an American tour in 1969 and left Page holding the bag. He was talking to The Who's drummer Keith Moon about hiring some session players, and finishing the tour as The New Yardbirds. Keith replied, "That'll go over like a lead zeppelin (balloon)!"
The rest is history.
The stuff LZ did as The New Yardbirds is very tasty. Not the same punch as later stuff, but still bluesy and groovy AF.
@@throwabrick Yeah! They did finish a few dates in Europe as The New Yardbirds before the name change and recording their debut.
May have been the first Zeppelin song I remember hearing as a kid in the early 70's
Def first one I ever heard - the live version on SRTS
Bonham is a killer! So high energy
It was a joke by the drummer of The Who Keith Moon.. you will go over like Lrad Balloon. They thought Americans would pronounce it wrong like Leed instead of Lead like the metal..so they dropped the a.
Thank you, I didn't want to type all that out tonight. 😊😊😊 your the best.
@@stevefilley9765 😅"you're"
Another one of my favorites..they're all my favorites amazing category of music
Becoming Led Zeppelin... a new documentary on the band hits IMAX on February 7th. Zep are the best 🤘🏼
This song was a tribute to the original rockers, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, etc...
Led Zeppelin started in 1969 and lasted till John Bonham passed in 1980.....Huge throughout the 70's!
The origin of the name "Led Zeppelin" came from a conversation involving Keith Moon and John Entwistle of The Who. They joked that a supergroup with them, Page, and Jeff Beck would "go down like a lead balloon," meaning it would fail spectacularly. The phrase "lead balloon" is a common idiom for something that fails miserably.
Jimmy Page found the phrase amusing and liked the imagery. He decided to alter it slightly:
He dropped the "a" in "lead" to avoid confusion over pronunciation (he didn't want people saying leed).
"Balloon" was replaced with "Zeppelin", which conveyed something grand, powerful, and heavy but also light and able to soar.
Thus, Led Zeppelin was born, perfectly capturing the band's combination of heaviness and flight.
Back in the 70s, a friend said he didn't get Led Zeppelin, I told him to think of getting laid
Great choice. This track rarely gets reactions. It’s an absolute banger,very prominent in pop-culture. Movies / commercials etc. looking forward to it
1 Of the most rockin rock songs that ever rocked
The "Led" were practically in every house back in the day (1970's) there wasn't a party that someone didn't play these albums, very loud all night long. Rolled many a joint on the front of the Led LP covers getting super stoned, drinking and dancing. Stairway to Heaven usually signaled the end of the party with everyone trying to sing the lyrics no matter how stoned we were. Rocking good times.
MORE ZEPPELIN!!! This live at msg in 1973 is amazing!
If a person has never heard rock and roll before or had no idea what rock sounded like-this is what you play.
Always a fun time in Live With The Tribe! Much love, y'all!
When i played high school basketball in the 70s, before i left the house I blasted this song in my room for an hour before I left for the game.. Great song, great memories.
Mythbusters made a giant lead balloon fly.
Led not lead.
@adriantrusca1245 ...yes, lead, it was lead foil...and it worked... Season 6 ep. 2
Bonzo is killing it on this one 😊 Tangerine or Hot dog are two of my favorites from them. Great reaction and Peace out 🙏 ☮️ ✌️
The British rock guys were perhaps some of the biggest 'scholars' of American roots music: blues, R&B, Rockabilly, and incorporating it likewise on their artistic exports back over here and around the globe. Got a little Jerry Lee Louis, et.al. here!
Definitely Rock N Rolll
From Led Zep's fourth album. A total change up from "III", which had a whole acoustic side. Many great songs on the ZoSo, fourth album, though it is unnamed, but we have to call it something. Just do them all.
The critics criticize the previous album for being too hippie. So they wrote this as a response to the critics showing them that they could still rock and roll
A Little Richard sound but an original Zeppelin song! Made in the spur of the moment.
The only thing missing is the hiss and pop the needle makes when it touches the vinal before the song starts. I'm old
Me too
Talking over Bonhams intro is Criminal
Cool! Cadillac used it for a commercial a few years ago. We used to fake our way through the song in the garage band I was in back when I was thirteen circa 1980. Also check out the Velvet Underground "Rock & Roll" or the cover by The Runaways from the seventies or the cover by Jane's Addiction from the eighties.
Great song!!
I didn't get into them until I was in my 20s, but when I did, boy was I hooked.
Led Zeppelin is the number 2 band in sales, selling over 300 million, The Beatles are the only ones with more sales. Bonham got frustrated trying to play Four Sticks, using 2 sticks in each hand. He took a break & started pounding this out, & the others jumped in. They were still recording so it was captured it at the time, Bonham was then able to go back & got Four Sticks done. We got 2 songs instead of one. The Immigrant Song opened earlier concerts, & Rock & Roll opened later concerts, both would get the fans going. Thank you, it’s been awhile since you did LZ, glad to see you back.
um...NOT a Van Gogh painting. It's a photo of a photo on a wall.
The jacket of this LP also named and defined the “bundle of sticks” on the old man’s back.
If you know you know.
P.S. I’m proud to say I own this album.
I bought every album!
Zepplin set the trend for every other genre of music….. revolutionary as much as the Beatles were their soft rock
Really? Even manele?
The Lemon Song!
One of the best examples of a LZ number credited as a Plant/Page original, yet is undeniably a blatant copy of Killing Floor by Howlin' Wolf, save for a few words that were changed and a heavier arrangement. The balls it takes to put ones' names on a masterpiece created by a legend.
This is an homage to the early days of Rock and Roll. The drum intro was straight out of Little Richard's Keep 'a Knockin, and the guitar riff is a basic Chuck Berry like pattern.
With the piano if I thought it was an old school artist..it would be Jerry Lee Lewis
I believe Led Zeppelin IV (Untitled) has sold in excess of 33 million copies since release in 1971. over 30 times Platinum, Or equal to over Three Diamond Awards, (Ten Million Units each) and then some!
Keith Moon said about starting a new Yard Birds - That would go down as a Lead Zeppelin
Lead balloon
So my favorite detail about this song; there's no amp. Jimmy Page plugged his guitar directly into the mixer for that super dry, fuzzy tone. Distortion in rock came from broken speakers, and I think he was trying to imitate that.
There is no cover of this song. Nobody would dare. 🤘
Sing it brother. 😁
Best concert opener ever
John Paul jones is the only member with a stage name, he's named after famous naval captain that said damn the torpedos
Yes his name was originally John Baldwin
Admiral David Farragut said the damn the torpedoes line during the US Civil War during the battle of Mobile Bay in 1864.
John Paul Jones is an American Revolutionary war naval hero who famously said, "I Have not yet begun to fight."
@ericelander9936 my bad got the quotes mixed up
No. It was a heartfelt tribute to Rock And Roll.
Check out the "lead zeppelin" episode of Mythbusters 😁
A lot of fans were disappointed with Led Zeppelin III because it wasn't as heavy as I and II. So this was the bands statement.
Over The Hills And Far Away
Nobody's Fault But Mine
The Ocean
Now you ready for The Lemon Song....
It sounds like Little Richard to me.
I'm jealous both my mom and uncle saw them open for the Who
Absolutely no snakes in New Zealand. And NZ is in the Southern Hemisphere, while Sweden is in the Northern, so you guys could absolutely visit each other and avoid winter if that's your thing. However NZ winters aren't very cold.
If you knew Led Zeppelin in any way how could you not know that it was them? It is pure uptempo rock and Zeppelin sounding from start to finish. I love you guys but you also should know the Zeppelin catalogue to some degree by now. Rock N Roll might be the FIFTH best song on Led Zeppelin IV behind Stairway To Heaven, Black Dog, Misty Mountain Hop and When The Levee Breaks.
Plenty of people already did my comment about where the name Led Zeppelin comes from so I will just make my other comment. Def Leppard (note the same misspelling as in Led Zeppelin) wasn't a hair metal band. Def Leppard came over from Britain around the time of Iron Maiden in the early 80s as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. Hair metal doesn't come around until the late 80s. But Def Leppard played an instrumental role in paving the way for hair metal. Def Leppard was the first metal band to have a following that was as much female and male. (If you see the movie This is Spinal Tap you will see that one of the jokes in it is about why the band attracts such a male audience). The idea that metal could double its audience by being as popular with women was a great draw for record labels. And so it was one of the reasons that labels pushed bands into the hair metal model.
On a different note, you have apparently heard Black Dog, and have now heard Rock and Roll, and presumably have heard Stairway to Heaven. That means you are at most one song away from having heard all of side one of Led Zeppelin IV. The last song, The Battle of Evermore is well worth listening to. (You may have heard parts of side two as well which consists of Misty Mountain Hop, Four Sticks, Going to California, and When the Levee Breaks. It is unlikely you have heard Four Sticks, but the others are classics as well).
You guys enjoy the classics, you should check out some Cold Chisel tracks - Australia’s favourite rock band.
It’s also mean hard rock with a light touch
Iron Maiden
Guns and roses
Iron Butterfly
Etc etc
The Stroll and The Book of Love were songs from the late 50’s.
Yo, Spacehog "in the Meantime"
And/or Ben Folds Five "Army"
Both better as studio versions. Yall are great dudes. Love the show!
Been listening to this song for 50 years. Just learned about half the lyrics today. lol
💛💛💛
Rock and Roll giving tribute to R&R
Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp, tributing stomp music ( and Robert's dog, Stryder a blue eyed merle)
Boogie with Stu- doing the Boogie Woogie with Rolling Stones 6th man Ian 'stu' Stewart.😂😂
Mythbusters successfully made a lead balloon that worked.
It's still their biggest seller. It's on the same album. If Elon builds a balloon like his death cars....no thank you
🤘❤🤘
UB-40. Def Leppard. 83. Oops. 🤷🏽 Morrissey.
That drum intro is borrowed from Little Richard's 'Keep-A Knockin' '.
This whole album - cut after cut - blew our effing minds when we listened to it right outta the shrink wrap when it came out. This was roots, babies. For them, for us. They had a decade and a half on us, grew up with it, learned it, built on it and gave something new to the world. All killer, no filler.
🖖🏼😊🎶❤️🍁❤️🎄🥃✨️🕊
Since you're already familiar with the studio version you need to check out the live version from the song remains the same. Watch them getting down in their prime
Sammy Hagar and Eddie Van Halen do a kick ass version of Rock & Roll from a Farm Aid Concert! You should check it out!
Zeppelin didn’t make a bad song pick any
Check ✔️ out Dazed and confused
I would move to Sweden, so I could hang out with Avatar 😊😊😊
The guy on the right has a better ear for rock when he thought it was the early Sun Records - good guess. The other guy mentions Van Halen, Def Leppard? Yikes - not even close to anything those bands have ever done. Still, love the reviews between the two and keep up the good work.
There was album all covers of led zep by different artists. Stp did dancing days. I think foo fighters did rock n roll
Still waiting on that Wheel reaction to Hyperion, you could do that next, I did request it in spiral Out Sunday in October, really want to see y'all's reaction to it.
Great song but too short.
🔥🔥🔥
Keith moon came up with name as him and John entwhistle hung around zep
Smokey rock n roll started in 50s not 60s
Listen to HEART VERSIÓN... ITS AMAZING
Yall have barely scratched the surface
The way you pronounced Elvis Costello leads me to believe you haven't heard of him. Rectify that.
Little Richard sound right guys
Let's get it. We need some more tool and Old Metallica please also 😂
Day 1 of asking them to react to flying whales live hellfest 2019
Canada checks all the boxes that Smokey mentioned AND we have way better music than New Zealand.
they changed the spelling so that some idiot wouldn't say LEED Zeppelin....Sure, it should be spelled lead......but to guarantee the correct interpretation, they changed it to LED.
7:12 I'm going to guess that you figured out that you knew this song in about for drum beats
Wrong led zep are hard rock
You're thinking SUN Records because this song IS a tribute to the rollicking Piano Sounds of 50s R&R. Before technology improved the quality of Guitar AMPLIFIERS, Piano Riffs/ Solos were the DOMINANT Instrument featured in R&R Songs. THINK LITTLE RICHARD...The ORIGINAL ARCHITECT of ROCK & ROLL!
"It's been a LONG TIME since I ROCK & ROLLED...referring to the 1950s. Robert used to wear a great ELVIS T-Shirt.