Hey. I’m 66. This is my high school music. “The 60,s. The 70s. Hippies, free love. Woodstock. Do you think love was just invented???? Those of us in our 60s and 70s grew up with this music. We still listen to it. Welcome to our world. We are happy to share
Hip hop didn't even exist back then... Anyway, except for the sampling I don't think there's any direct relation between rapping and what Led Zeppelin did...
A lot of today's rappers are heavily influenced by rock. Especially 90s Alternative which I also love. 52 and I listened to this in high school so did the people I hung out with in 1986! The band already broke up and John Bonham died already. I was so sad. Saw song remains the same. Also saw Robert Plant's band and Jimmy Page's band his singer was nailing it like Plant without the same sexual vibe but the voice was great. Anyway Pink Floyd toured then was awesome. All the great bands. I saw them all late, lots of Ozzy concerts but Black Sabbath was Tony Ioami by then and was Ozzy fan at the height of his solo career. I remember thinking he is so old to be partying like that hard. I hope he makes it was genuinely worried. Lol that man's gonna out live me!
@@leonarae8496 Technically they both have the same roots so they kinda come from the same place and I bet old people said the same thing about this sort of music when it was out and you were listening to it then lol
Their big hits got radio play (hello, Stairway to Heaven-most requested radio song ever), but Led Zeppelin has a very eclectic catalogue many of which was good but was not played because it could not be so easily slotted. "In the Light" comes to mind.
It’s kinda like in the 80s when the radios played Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s “Relax” (suck to it, when ya wanna cum, huuuah!). I still can’t believe that song was played in high rotation while the word “shit” would have been routinely censored from any other song, lol.
There’s a ten year span in that video from 1969 to 1979. When you said he looked older and more serious? That was two years after Robert Plant lost his 5 year old son and was lost in grief for months and almost left the band John Bonham, his best friend , convinced him to teturn He was forever changed by that tragedy and never got over it. The concert that that clip was from was Knebworth in 1979....the first time they’d played live in England for about four years and one of the first after the band played live again after the tragedy. The next year, Robert lost his best mate John Bonham and Zepplin died
I never knew about his son. My heart goes out to him. I noticed a change, and then after John Bonham died, I knew that did him in, but I didn’t know about his son. I cannot imagine. You know, I saw a couple fairly recent recent interviews with him, and I thought to myself he seems like walking depression. Like he carried the weight of the world on his back. Now, I understand why. Thank you so much! ❤️
@@kathleenkarsten5739 yes...his little boy died from a stomach virus while Zeppelin was on tour in the US. He got a call backstage that his boy was sick....and then a short while later another call that he had passed. I cannot even imagine. Bonzo flew home with him. Robert wrote the song I Believe about Karac. You should watch the video of it. The best interview of him in the past 10 years is the one done by Dan Rather on AXSTV in his series zither Big Interview. Rather gets Robert to talk about this loss....something he rarely does. Plant has had times of joy in his life since then for sure, but more than “just a little rain” has fallen on his shoulders and the shadows have often been long. Selfishly, we can only be grateful that he has turned much of his personal tragedies into beautiful songs the past 40 years....and when it appears, his smile is still beautiful....
@WGeoffreySpaulding The story you shared brings tears to my eyes. You and @HeleneSpaulding are TEARING ME UP! I will indeed look up the Rather interview. I feel terrible that I wronging judged him as a crabby old man. I’m old! I should know better! I stand corrected, I apologize to Robert Plant, and I will think THREE times before judging someone again. Thank you for straitening me out, and please thank Helene too! 😉🥰❤️
@@kathleenkarsten5739 we’re one and the same. I’m Helene here on my iPhone but my iPad got screwed up and when I post from that I come up under my husband. I’ll get that fixed eventually People on sites that I frequent all the time just know that W Geoffrey is really me! 😁. If you are a deep fan of Robert, as I am, I can send you links to great interviews with him over the past few decades. If you are just a casual fan...as I was until about a year ago when I discovered all his solo work, then it’s probably TMI. He has a podcast too which is excellent called Digging Deep And oh, you said you were old. I just turned 74 so bet I beat you! 😁
@@kathleenkarsten5739 oh to help you in your search of Rathers interviews as there’s been so many seasons...I THINK his interview with Robert was in 2017....as it was after the release of his latest album Carry Fire
I am at the2:29 mark and he comments that his headphones are really good and he can hear some great movement of the music. And he has no idea what’s about to come ... and this is why we seniors watch these young dudes and dudettes get their first exposure to what we heard decades ago. He’s a pleasure to watch cause he’s pretty authentic about what he’s discovering.
The radio station censors focused more on profanity and drug references back then, and sexual slang terms usually went over their heads. Also, "back door man" is an old blues reference and it didn't have the same connotation as it does today.
But The Stones "Lets Spend the Night Together" was banned from many radio stations in 1967. It was the flip side of "Ruby Tuesday" and became just as popular.
Let's not forget The Doors "Back Door Man" IS out there as the title!!! My Mom is sitting here with me right now (she's 71) and said it WAS on the radio to her recollection - at least in our midwest station market.
Some of their songs had "cleaned up" versions for here in the Bible belt for air play but the album wasn't censored. I remember te first time I heard Immigrant Song on the radio I had to get the album. Went home and played it and my dad came in right at the worst possible moment. I did replace the album and made sure I never played LZ if parents were gonna be home
I lived in Los Angeles in those days and it was rare to hear a Zep song on the radio. We were all turning our records and twisting fatties. So we listened to the whole album to hear these songs. You didn't just click over to the next song, you generally listened the whole album. Lots of people refer to this a "album rock."
You slipped in thru the back door also--in and out :) This was also a class thing in the old south. "Servants" and lower class whites didn't even approach the front doors of the upper class. But those folks had more fun--out of sight and out of mind of the higher ups--in the kitchens. Reference Robert Johnson's "Come On in My Kitchen".
This is the song that made The MOLD for future LED HEADS..It was their first to hit big radio play and it went ballistic because it was so out in your face with a certain rhythm psychedelia funk that just made the world take notice and they have been on Cloud 9 ever since ...
@@johnholmes912 They had a single or two from 69 to 79 from every studio album .. Fool In The Rain was the last one other than singles for the box sets they had much later on - and Good Time Bad Times was a their first one en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin_discography
This was a promo video using the studio version of the song, patched against live performance shots. Check out the true live version from 1973 to see a whole other level of rock performance!
Truly the greatest rock band. Definitely the best live show I ever saw..1975 in Houston at The Colleseum. They rock so hard that Plant and Page both changed clothes during different solos. This is one of my favorites!
"Is he really trying to make the sound...?" Yes. Absolutely. Sex runs through Zep's music like a thread in a tapestry. Sex was a big part of rock in the 70's - if something sounded sexual, you could bet it was meant that way. It was not, shall we say, a shy time. (When this song came out, we'd had the 60's and a lot of opening up about sex. But Whole Lotta Love was one of the first really explicit songs - there really isn't any other way to interpret it. From what I remember, it wasn't a huge issue except in places that were more buttoned-up and conservative generally, for instance in the South, where this kind of thing was greatly frowned upon.)
Excellent reaction man! It's nice to see how the music of bands as great as Led Zeppelin is still alive for the new generations. Good work my friend. 👍
Yes it had a lot of radio play on FM. You should watch the 73 msg live version of the song. Well everything from the 1973 Madison square garden song remains the same concert is some of their best live performances
they're just showing a mash up of different live performances. since you're climbing down the classic rock rabbit hole , checkout lynyrd skynyrd - simple man. guaranteed to end up playlist material. it's really powerful stuff.
The perfect rock song! No, back then the regulations were loser. Before the “offended generation” took over. This was song was played on AM and FM radio.
I don't think they cared enough about Zep's lyrics at that time tbh... Critics didn't even take them seriously at their beginnings and fans were probably too crazy about their sound to concentrate on what they were actually saying. In actuality there was more censure back then but that's because the artists did not censor themselves the same way they do today.
@@kaydantonio3719 I think what's meant by the "offended generation" is today's kids and twentysomethings. Although it seems a bit hypocritical to me - they are offended by some things and people, but not others doing/saying the same or worse (and usually their hypocrisy shows up depending on the subject's politics). Secretly, however, they are doing the same things young people have always done - they just deny or censor it in public to be politically correct. Many think of an offended generation as one with its members collectively being weak and overly sensitive, without any courage or firm grip on reality or human nature. A generation who thinks they are showing strength or new ideas, but come off as naive and entitled.
@@npkrn6764 Fair enough but I get disagreeable with the hyperbole. Nevertheless I was thinking more along the lines of Tipper Gore in 1985 and those advisory warning labels on albums. Tipper Gore’s a boomer however her thoughts on things certainly didn’t represent an entire generation of boomers.
Duuuuudde you gotta react to dazed and confused live at msg it’ll blow your mind. There’s a 10 and 28 minute version, either one will do the trick I promise it’ll be worth it
This is the song that made Led Zeppelin because it WAS played on the radio--ON AM, which is what everybody still listened to at the time. As someone else has already commented, it is kinda strange but censors caught profanity and drug references but sexual references went over their heads. This was also one of those songs that AM radio thought was too long so there was a short version and a long, album version. Same with The Doors' "Light My Fire" and "Riders on the Storm" and several other songs by other artists. Speaking of The Doors, recommend you listen to their song "Back Door Man"--that and "Roadhouse Blues" are essential bangers for sixties/seventies rock novices.
@@jerryolson3832 Maybe where you were, but in the heartland hinterlands the transition to FM wasn't really complete until about 1975 and top 40 still was mostly on AM. Trends on the coasts took about 5 to ten years to reach our area.
They were so huge that they were play no matter the serial inuindos. I first heard them through my sisters albums, even 8 Tracks in my big brothers 1970 Malibu when he took me to daycare while he went to trade school. I was very young but remember, if anything, it was music 🎶!!!
Led Zeppelin didn't release singles in the UK so this would hardly ever be played on Radio 1 which was a chart oriented station. An instrumental version by CCS was used as the theme tune for Top Of The Pops for many years.
There wasn't a problem playing this song on the radio although the "theremin freakout" middle section was often shortened for radio playtime (Jimmy played a theremin which is an instrument that looks like an antennae; it's played by moving your hand near and away from it, creating an oscillating effect that you could control the tone and pitch. It was often used in sci-fi movies to create eerie or "space" effects). The Zeppelin song that did have a bit of difficulty with radio censorship was Hey Hey What Can I Do because the lyrics talk of him looking for his "street corner girl" and "I got a woman, wanna ball all day". In case you didn't know, to "ball" was a euphemism for having sex.
The term "ball" and "balling" were referring to dancing in the forties and fifties, morphed into a reference to sex in the late sixties/early seventies. In the Blues, rocking and rolling was a term for sex, and in the 50s, unaware (sheltered) white DJs mistook those terms for dancing. I'm 72, white, and didn't hear the term "ball", used as a sex reference, until about 1970, ( maybe I was also sheltered 😂), but the references come from the African American Blues (and Jazz?) traditions, from earlier.
Bonham's drums are so infectious, totally get the urge to want to "air drum" along. Notice how he is in the pocket of Page's guitar riff on this song? It's what gives it that sexy groove. This song in '69 set the blueprint for the hard rock that was to dominate 70's music.
In this song I like how each member has a solo part, even the singer’s voice. Plant and Bonham really show out. Great music every time. React to “The Lemon Song”
If you want to see older Led Zep check out Kashmir live from the 2007 Celebration Day concert with Bonzo’s son on drums. It’s my favorite version of the song. Zep showed the world they could still out rock the young ones.
Hey...thanks for mentioning this version, Jeffrey...I'd never heard it before. So great to see Jason Bonham on the drums with Zepp...clearly he inherited his father's talent! ;)
In 1969 this was not only all over the airwaves but even played at the local movie theater during intermission on Friday night when the place was filled with junior high and high school kids and we were dancing in our seats and loving it. Amazing that so many years later it has stood the test of time.
Led Head here. I saw them live back in 1970 when I was 16 in Winnipeg, Canada 🇨🇦 Another band to check out is RUSH You will see the other greatest drummer that was on the planet and the rest of band are pretty damn good themselves. I would check out their song Tom Sawyer at Le Studio 1980. Cheers ✌
They played the fire out of them, and many other heavily suggestive music.. Shoot Cars was another LOVIN' loaded group. There were so many. LOVE SOLD back then.
This is the tune that kicks off the Brown Bomber (Led Zeppelin 2), which is one of my favorite albums of all time! You’ll hear a lot of bluesy rockers reference a “backdoor man”. The Doors even wrote a bad ass tune called Backdoor Man. Loving going on this LZ journey with you, my man. Bringing a lot of great memories of when I started really digging into them a while ago! Still so many more great tunes to go, keep em coming!
I'm 57 , I'm in the UK, and I grew up with this music... First discovered Zeppelin in about 75, on the radio. They used to play a sanitised version, with the "sex-fx" cut out. But then, we were greatly blessed to have a legendary radio DJ, John Peel... He played whatever he damn well felt like... Unedited versions, as well as stuff we'd never heard before. If you want some quality live versions with better quality sound, check out the collab that Plant and Page did in the 90s, "No Quarter. Plant and Page Unledded." All live on video, some great variations, like adding an Egyptian orchestra to "Kashmir"... "The Rain Song"... Masterclass. "Since I've been loving you," Very worth your time. Loving these reactions. You got a sharp ear from a whole different musical place than me. And as a musician, that's a great thing. Thanks.
Another great song. ❤️ Zeppelin u always played this for my kids (not this song) when they were young so they would know what really rock music is and to enjoy the legends.
So funny you say that, because this is the song that I picked to play for the kid of a friend who was moaning that all we like is "old people's music". ;) He was kinda speechless. LOL
Led Zeppelin was never played on the radio. It was never played on top 40 ever. Wasn't it till 1975 that the local FM station started playing it on Friday night and very very long medleys. Led Zeppelin made more money than any other band in history just by doing concerts. They sold so many albums yet never got played on the radio.
How can you not dig this song...?? It pumps... just remember old bands never really had film clips... this is someone's mash up. It was played on the radio....
To clear up a common misconception. Zeppelin music was played a lot when it became "Classic Rock "that's when there music was played. However during the time their music came out, the stations were playing pop music. Not only was their music not Pop they were getting awful reviews from music critics. They became huge by word of mouth. I would know. I was one of those people that actually attended a Led-Zeppelin concert
Back then we didn't pay much attention to the lyrics, it was the sound that many grooved to and the talented musicians and singers. Yes the music of our time was out of this world.
The only band who had enough cred to play for Zeppelin when they were honored at The Kennedy Center Honors was Heart. You should check them out too. You’ll be amazed. The 70’s and early 80’s were a golden age. Thanks for the video. Enjoyed it!
Zeppelin II is one of the most raunchy dirtiest rock albums ever created it starts with this song and then has Heartbreaker, the lemon song, bring it on home also on it. A true masterpiece
This song is stupid good, nothing anybody else did comes close!! Pure hard rock gold by the master's of hard rock/metal, they were the innovators and pioneers of their generation.
1969 was a really wild time and some of the biggest concerts were played with bands like this. of course they were played on radio. everybody was jammin'
Hey dude, I like watching your reaction. I listened to this when I was a kid decades ago. I just liked Plant’s voice and the music. Later in life I looked at the lyrics. Oh my goodness! This song is XXX rated. I don’t think most listeners, like myself understood what was actually being sung.
This 63 year old woman loves Led Zeppelin. My favorite group.
53. Me too
Dude, now when you look at a 70 year old on the street think about them rocking to this music 50+ years ago.
Amen! My hubby will be 70 this year and I'm right behind him. WE have LZs first 6 albums (cds)! We're still rockin'
That's me!
And that Grandma you see in the grocery store goes home, smokes a number, puts Zeppelin on high and starts cleaning her house! 😎
Plant is well over 70 now, and STILL MAKING MUSIC at a very high level
"them rocking to this music 50+ years ago."
Which just goes to show what a bit of a con the idea of 'Time and Age' is !
"Back door man" is also reference to a lover who would leave by the back door when the husband came home.
Hey. I’m 66. This is my high school music. “The 60,s. The 70s. Hippies, free love. Woodstock. Do you think love was just invented???? Those of us in our 60s and 70s grew up with this music. We still listen to it. Welcome to our world. We are happy to share
They are not like rappers. Rappers are like them.
Hip hop didn't even exist back then... Anyway, except for the sampling I don't think there's any direct relation between rapping and what Led Zeppelin did...
@@urivan9613 Rap crap is not like Led Zeppelin.
Thank you!
A lot of today's rappers are heavily influenced by rock. Especially 90s Alternative which I also love. 52 and I listened to this in high school so did the people I hung out with in 1986! The band already broke up and John Bonham died already. I was so sad. Saw song remains the same. Also saw Robert Plant's band and Jimmy Page's band his singer was nailing it like Plant without the same sexual vibe but the voice was great. Anyway Pink Floyd toured then was awesome. All the great bands. I saw them all late, lots of Ozzy concerts but Black Sabbath was Tony Ioami by then and was Ozzy fan at the height of his solo career. I remember thinking he is so old to be partying like that hard. I hope he makes it was genuinely worried. Lol that man's gonna out live me!
@@leonarae8496 Technically they both have the same roots so they kinda come from the same place and I bet old people said the same thing about this sort of music when it was out and you were listening to it then lol
Most of their music didn't get radio play. They became the biggest rock group because of their legendary live shows and word of mouth.
well, except Stairway to Heaven was literally the most played song, EVER!
Played on stations here quite often
They got played plenty where I live (NYC).
Got played plenty in DC
Their big hits got radio play (hello, Stairway to Heaven-most requested radio song ever), but Led Zeppelin has a very eclectic catalogue many of which was good but was not played because it could not be so easily slotted. "In the Light" comes to mind.
I don't recall any problem getting this on the rock stations. Hell, those empty suits probably had no idea what the song was about.
"I wonder how love can have inches? What an odd expression. Anyway, time to smoke a cigarette."
It's a good question and that's a good answer.
I was there but it's kinda fuzzy.
I do remember Little Richard, lol..
They were played mostly on FM along with Iron Butterfly, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple. They were considered Acid Rock bands.
Or maybe they knew it, threw it out there and said let’s give it a shot. Kinda hard to miss!!!
It’s kinda like in the 80s when the radios played Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s “Relax” (suck to it, when ya wanna cum, huuuah!). I still can’t believe that song was played in high rotation while the word “shit” would have been routinely censored from any other song, lol.
There’s a ten year span in that video from 1969 to 1979. When you said he looked older and more serious? That was two years after Robert Plant lost his 5 year old son and was lost in grief for months and almost left the band John Bonham, his best friend , convinced him to teturn He was forever changed by that tragedy and never got over it. The concert that that clip was from was Knebworth in 1979....the first time they’d played live in England for about four years and one of the first after the band played live again after the tragedy. The next year, Robert lost his best mate John Bonham and Zepplin died
I never knew about his son. My heart goes out to him. I noticed a change, and then after John Bonham died, I knew that did him in, but I didn’t know about his son. I cannot imagine. You know, I saw a couple fairly recent recent interviews with him, and I thought to myself he seems like walking depression. Like he carried the weight of the world on his back. Now, I understand why. Thank you so much! ❤️
@@kathleenkarsten5739 yes...his little boy died from a stomach virus while Zeppelin was on tour in the US. He got a call backstage that his boy was sick....and then a short while later another call that he had passed. I cannot even imagine. Bonzo flew home with him. Robert wrote the song I Believe about Karac. You should watch the video of it. The best interview of him in the past 10 years is the one done by Dan Rather on AXSTV in his series zither Big Interview. Rather gets Robert to talk about this loss....something he rarely does. Plant has had times of joy in his life since then for sure, but more than “just a little rain” has fallen on his shoulders and the shadows have often been long. Selfishly, we can only be grateful that he has turned much of his personal tragedies into beautiful songs the past 40 years....and when it appears, his smile is still beautiful....
@WGeoffreySpaulding The story you shared brings tears to my eyes. You and @HeleneSpaulding are TEARING ME UP! I will indeed look up the Rather interview. I feel terrible that I wronging judged him as a crabby old man. I’m old! I should know better! I stand corrected, I apologize to Robert Plant, and I will think THREE times before judging someone again. Thank you for straitening me out, and please thank Helene too! 😉🥰❤️
@@kathleenkarsten5739 we’re one and the same. I’m Helene here on my iPhone but my iPad got screwed up and when I post from that I come up under my husband. I’ll get that fixed eventually People on sites that I frequent all the time just know that W Geoffrey is really me! 😁. If you are a deep fan of Robert, as I am, I can send you links to great interviews with him over the past few decades. If you are just a casual fan...as I was until about a year ago when I discovered all his solo work, then it’s probably TMI. He has a podcast too which is excellent called Digging Deep And oh, you said you were old. I just turned 74 so bet I beat you! 😁
@@kathleenkarsten5739 oh to help you in your search of Rathers interviews as there’s been so many seasons...I THINK his interview with Robert was in 2017....as it was after the release of his latest album Carry Fire
I am at the2:29 mark and he comments that his headphones are really good and he can hear some great movement of the music. And he has no idea what’s about to come ... and this is why we seniors watch these young dudes and dudettes get their first exposure to what we heard decades ago. He’s a pleasure to watch cause he’s pretty authentic about what he’s discovering.
I saw Led Zeppelin live in 1973. I was 20 feet from the stage. An experience that I will definitely never forget!!!
The radio station censors focused more on profanity and drug references back then, and sexual slang terms usually went over their heads. Also, "back door man" is an old blues reference and it didn't have the same connotation as it does today.
But The Stones "Lets Spend the Night Together" was banned from many radio stations in 1967. It was the flip side of "Ruby Tuesday" and became just as popular.
@@andreaschmall5560 Yes, but that's the title of the song, so it's much more noticeable, and I did say usually in my comment.
Let's not forget The Doors "Back Door Man" IS out there as the title!!! My Mom is sitting here with me right now (she's 71) and said it WAS on the radio to her recollection - at least in our midwest station market.
Some of their songs had "cleaned up" versions for here in the Bible belt for air play but the album wasn't censored. I remember te first time I heard Immigrant Song on the radio I had to get the album. Went home and played it and my dad came in right at the worst possible moment. I did replace the album and made sure I never played LZ if parents were gonna be home
All of my ĺove ( Robert Plants son passed away )
I lived in Los Angeles in those days and it was rare to hear a Zep song on the radio. We were all turning our records and twisting fatties. So we listened to the whole album to hear these songs. You didn't just click over to the next song, you generally listened the whole album. Lots of people refer to this a "album rock."
This wasn't on the radio back then. We went out and bought vinyl albums and played them on our turntables.
“Heartbreaker”
“How many more times” live ‘69 Denmark
In blues, a back door man is basically her side piece. When the front door opens you slip out the back. :)
You slipped in thru the back door also--in and out :)
This was also a class thing in the old south. "Servants" and lower class whites didn't even approach the front doors of the upper class. But those folks had more fun--out of sight and out of mind of the higher ups--in the kitchens. Reference Robert Johnson's "Come On in My Kitchen".
Aerosmith's RagDoll also mentions this going through the back door schtick.
Yes a total different meaning back in the day than now. Funny to me that everyone takes the meaning to be ..... well you know. LOL
@@6ffrey958 ...cause you know sometimes words have two meanings. Hehe
I love the double meanings 😏🤣🤭
Bonham and Page go OFF on “In My Time of Dying”
OH man, IMToD is a must! I hope he does that one soon.
@@Awall79 Me too! That one is killer!
There will NEVER be another Led Zeppelin.
This is the song that made The MOLD for future LED HEADS..It was their first to hit big radio play and it went ballistic because it was so out in your face with a certain rhythm psychedelia funk that just made the world take notice and they have been on Cloud 9 ever since ...
there were no zepp singles
@@johnholmes912 They had a single or two from 69 to 79 from every studio album .. Fool In The Rain was the last one other than singles for the box sets they had much later on - and Good Time Bad Times was a their first one en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin_discography
THAT'S THE HEAVIEST HARD ROCK BAND IN THE WORLD!
The trippy sound separation you hear across your headphones was first heard by most of us on the speakers in a car. Racy? Try The Lemon Song.
Ohh yes!!! 😛
On an 8 track
Hahaha. I remember my stepmother telling me to turn that one off when she heard the lyrics.
This was a promo video using the studio version of the song, patched against live performance shots. Check out the true live version from 1973 to see a whole other level of rock performance!
You are fascinating to listen to. Im 73 and saw them live. I celebrate your adventurous nature to expand your horizons. Rock on
FM radio back in the 70's they played it just like you heard it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And brother the girls loved it!
Ooooo youre in for another treat!❤
This is a must to listen to in the car. Led Zepplin will bring me back again and again.
We were so LUCKY to grow up during this period of time! So much GREAT music!!!
Watch the tribute that our Country gave them at the Kennedy center ! The whole show was awesome
Truly the greatest rock band. Definitely the best live show I ever saw..1975 in Houston at The Colleseum. They rock so hard that Plant and Page both changed clothes during different solos. This is one of my favorites!
This song and many songs from Led Zeppelin stayed on the radio clear into late 80s and even early 90s
I think you might really like the in your face beat from “When the Levee Breaks” and another favorite of mine from Led Zep is “The Ocean”.
"Is he really trying to make the sound...?" Yes. Absolutely. Sex runs through Zep's music like a thread in a tapestry. Sex was a big part of rock in the 70's - if something sounded sexual, you could bet it was meant that way. It was not, shall we say, a shy time. (When this song came out, we'd had the 60's and a lot of opening up about sex. But Whole Lotta Love was one of the first really explicit songs - there really isn't any other way to interpret it. From what I remember, it wasn't a huge issue except in places that were more buttoned-up and conservative generally, for instance in the South, where this kind of thing was greatly frowned upon.)
Whole heartedly welcome to the fan club bother!!
Excellent reaction man! It's nice to see how the music of bands as great as Led Zeppelin is still alive for the new generations.
Good work my friend. 👍
Yes it had a lot of radio play on FM. You should watch the 73 msg live version of the song. Well everything from the 1973 Madison square garden song remains the same concert is some of their best live performances
“Kashmir" live in 2007, O2 Arena. Massive reunion concert they are all about 60 years old and havent missed a beat
One of my Favorite songs and I'm 78 but still rocking to Zeppelin.
The drummer passed yet today his son followed in his fathers footsteps...
Your reactions are awesome and so real...
This riff made them zillionaires...Goats!
You can't go wrong with Whole Lotta Love.
@RDiss Or Mc, How Many More Times - Live from Denmark '69
It's 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
they're just showing a mash up of different live performances. since you're climbing down the classic rock rabbit hole , checkout lynyrd skynyrd - simple man. guaranteed to end up playlist material. it's really powerful stuff.
The perfect rock song! No, back then the regulations were loser. Before the “offended generation” took over. This was song was played on AM and FM radio.
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I don't think they cared enough about Zep's lyrics at that time tbh... Critics didn't even take them seriously at their beginnings and fans were probably too crazy about their sound to concentrate on what they were actually saying.
In actuality there was more censure back then but that's because the artists did not censor themselves the same way they do today.
Sorry, I don’t know who the “offended generation” is. Whoever was “offended,” it didn’t encompass an entire generation.
@@kaydantonio3719 I think what's meant by the "offended generation" is today's kids and twentysomethings. Although it seems a bit hypocritical to me - they are offended by some things and people, but not others doing/saying the same or worse (and usually their hypocrisy shows up depending on the subject's politics). Secretly, however, they are doing the same things young people have always done - they just deny or censor it in public to be politically correct. Many think of an offended generation as one with its members collectively being weak and overly sensitive, without any courage or firm grip on reality or human nature. A generation who thinks they are showing strength or new ideas, but come off as naive and entitled.
@@npkrn6764 Fair enough but I get disagreeable with the hyperbole. Nevertheless I was thinking more along the lines of Tipper Gore in 1985 and those advisory warning labels on albums. Tipper Gore’s a boomer however her thoughts on things certainly didn’t represent an entire generation of boomers.
This live at Madison Square Garden is killer!!
Duuuuudde you gotta react to dazed and confused live at msg it’ll blow your mind. There’s a 10 and 28 minute version, either one will do the trick I promise it’ll be worth it
He tried, but it was copyright cock-blocked.
@@killersopinion1829 ah damn that sucks
Ahh a zeppelin fix 💯🤘😎
This is the song that made Led Zeppelin because it WAS played on the radio--ON AM, which is what everybody still listened to at the time. As someone else has already commented, it is kinda strange but censors caught profanity and drug references but sexual references went over their heads. This was also one of those songs that AM radio thought was too long so there was a short version and a long, album version. Same with The Doors' "Light My Fire" and "Riders on the Storm" and several other songs by other artists. Speaking of The Doors, recommend you listen to their song "Back Door Man"--that and "Roadhouse Blues" are essential bangers for sixties/seventies rock novices.
I'd like to expand on your excellent Doors suggestions by adding Five to One, Peace Frog, and their covers of Gloria (Dirty) and Who Do You Love? 😊
This was all FM stuff by 1969. We didn’t even listen to AM by then
@@jerryolson3832 Maybe where you were, but in the heartland hinterlands the transition to FM wasn't really complete until about 1975 and top 40 still was mostly on AM. Trends on the coasts took about 5 to ten years to reach our area.
Watch the Kennedy Center Honors tribute to Led Zeppelin. Excellent! You can watch their reactions! Really great
They were so huge that they were play no matter the serial inuindos. I first heard them through my sisters albums, even 8 Tracks in my big brothers 1970 Malibu when he took me to daycare while he went to trade school. I was very young but remember, if anything, it was music 🎶!!!
Led Zeppelin didn't release singles in the UK so this would hardly ever be played on Radio 1 which was a chart oriented station. An instrumental version by CCS was used as the theme tune for Top Of The Pops for many years.
WHOLE LOTTA LOVE IS A RIOT PIECE OF HARD ROCK!
Aaaahhhh!!! My fave!!
RESPECT TO THE GODS!!!!!❤️🤗
"What Is And What Should Never Be"
There wasn't a problem playing this song on the radio although the "theremin freakout" middle section was often shortened for radio playtime (Jimmy played a theremin which is an instrument that looks like an antennae; it's played by moving your hand near and away from it, creating an oscillating effect that you could control the tone and pitch. It was often used in sci-fi movies to create eerie or "space" effects). The Zeppelin song that did have a bit of difficulty with radio censorship was Hey Hey What Can I Do because the lyrics talk of him looking for his "street corner girl" and "I got a woman, wanna ball all day". In case you didn't know, to "ball" was a euphemism for having sex.
The term "ball" and "balling" were referring to dancing in the forties and fifties, morphed into a reference to sex in the late sixties/early seventies. In the Blues, rocking and rolling was a term for sex, and in the 50s, unaware (sheltered) white DJs mistook those terms for dancing. I'm 72, white, and didn't hear the term "ball", used as a sex reference, until about 1970, ( maybe I was also sheltered 😂), but the references come from the African American Blues (and Jazz?) traditions, from earlier.
That's called The Hammer of the Gods!!
REACT TO "In my time of dying" Thank You!!!
Yes! We had the BEST MUSIC and a lot of fun!
I'm in love with Robert Plant
Can’t imagine hearing this for the first time and playing the hell out of it……
GODDAMNIT THAT IS A BADASS SONG!!!
The 70's were about freedom, this was the norm music wise. Led zeppelin was hot then..and at 65 I'm still loving it.
Bonham's drums are so infectious, totally get the urge to want to "air drum" along. Notice how he is in the pocket of Page's guitar riff on this song? It's what gives it that sexy groove.
This song in '69 set the blueprint for the hard rock that was to dominate 70's music.
In this song I like how each member has a solo part, even the singer’s voice. Plant and Bonham really show out. Great music every time.
React to “The Lemon Song”
60's and 70's were free love era!
OMG! Yessssss it was greatest of times!
If you want to see older Led Zep check out Kashmir live from the 2007 Celebration Day concert with Bonzo’s son on drums. It’s my favorite version of the song. Zep showed the world they could still out rock the young ones.
Hey...thanks for mentioning this version, Jeffrey...I'd never heard it before. So great to see Jason Bonham on the drums with Zepp...clearly he inherited his father's talent! ;)
In 1969 this was not only all over the airwaves but even played at the local movie theater during intermission on Friday night when the place was filled with junior high and high school kids and we were dancing in our seats and loving it. Amazing that so many years later it has stood the test of time.
Check out the live MSG version. Crazy.
Yep.... Cool ass adlibbing in that one, lyrically and instrumentally. The Theremin shit is awesome!
When I read this I thought you meant Micheal Schenker Group.
Then I searched it, yep excellent.
❤I knew you would like this one. It's definitely a earphone/headphones version. Dope, as you put it! #💯#🎶#🎤#🎸 Thank you. 👍
I grew up in Detroit Michigan in the '80s and it was always on the radio station in Detroit 💯🧠❣️🎶
I fell in love when I was a little girl 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯❣️
The WRIF, WLLZ, and WCSX... Growing up on rock in Detroit! ✌🏽
I love anticipating the song switching up and your reaction. 😁
Led Head here. I saw them live back in 1970 when I was 16 in Winnipeg, Canada 🇨🇦 Another band to check out is RUSH You will see the other greatest drummer that was on the planet and the rest of band are pretty damn good themselves. I would check out their song Tom Sawyer at Le Studio 1980. Cheers ✌
They played the fire out of them, and many other heavily suggestive music.. Shoot Cars was another LOVIN' loaded group. There were so many. LOVE SOLD back then.
This was my introduction to Led Zeppelin.
This was all over the radio, and everyone owned the album. It wasn't the '50's.
It’s just so stinkin hot!!! His voice can melt you
This is the tune that kicks off the Brown Bomber (Led Zeppelin 2), which is one of my favorite albums of all time! You’ll hear a lot of bluesy rockers reference a “backdoor man”. The Doors even wrote a bad ass tune called Backdoor Man. Loving going on this LZ journey with you, my man. Bringing a lot of great memories of when I started really digging into them a while ago! Still so many more great tunes to go, keep em coming!
Both of these songs are old blues songs reworked
Yeah, my bad, The Doors didn’t write it, but they recorded a version of it.
@@psmith524 it’s a kick ass version at that
I believe that Willie Dixon wrote it, for Howlin' Wolf.
I'm 57 , I'm in the UK, and I grew up with this music... First discovered Zeppelin in about 75, on the radio. They used to play a sanitised version, with the "sex-fx" cut out.
But then, we were greatly blessed to have a legendary radio DJ, John Peel... He played whatever he damn well felt like... Unedited versions, as well as stuff we'd never heard before.
If you want some quality live versions with better quality sound, check out the collab that Plant and Page did in the 90s, "No Quarter. Plant and Page Unledded."
All live on video, some great variations, like adding an Egyptian orchestra to "Kashmir"... "The Rain Song"... Masterclass. "Since I've been loving you,"
Very worth your time.
Loving these reactions. You got a sharp ear from a whole different musical place than me. And as a musician, that's a great thing. Thanks.
Another great song. ❤️ Zeppelin u always played this for my kids (not this song) when they were young so they would know what really rock music is and to enjoy the legends.
So funny you say that, because this is the song that I picked to play for the kid of a friend who was moaning that all we like is "old people's music". ;) He was kinda speechless. LOL
Led Zeppelin was never played on the radio. It was never played on top 40 ever. Wasn't it till 1975 that the local FM station started playing it on Friday night and very very long medleys. Led Zeppelin made more money than any other band in history just by doing concerts. They sold so many albums yet never got played on the radio.
How can you not dig this song...?? It pumps... just remember old bands never really had film clips... this is someone's mash up. It was played on the radio....
Awesome thank you! Can't make everybody happy all the time!
To clear up a common misconception. Zeppelin music was played a lot when it became "Classic Rock "that's when there music was played. However during the time their music came out, the stations were playing pop music. Not only was their music not Pop they were getting awful reviews from music critics. They became huge by word of mouth. I would know. I was one of those people that actually attended a Led-Zeppelin concert
Nice. Yeah I like that song ... Again these dudes bring me back
Dude! It was no big deal back in the day! We heard that on the radio just as you just heard it. No censorship. It was glorious!
Battle of Evermore & Achilles Last Stand are some excellent choices!
Back then we didn't pay much attention to the lyrics, it was the sound that many grooved to and the talented musicians and singers. Yes the music of our time was out of this world.
I listened to Led Zeppelin when no one knows who they were. Greatest band to ever exist.
Want a whole lot of love... yeahhhh!!! Love the show!
The only band who had enough cred to play for Zeppelin when they were honored at The Kennedy Center Honors was Heart. You should check them out too. You’ll be amazed. The 70’s and early 80’s were a golden age. Thanks for the video. Enjoyed it!
It wasn’t sexually an issue. 60’s was war and love
And the next great sound we were exposed to!
'All is fair in sex and war'
now do the live version from msg in 73! they have ALOT of fun improvising using this is a base
What I like listening to you is that you definitely hear the change of what they're doing in their music and you talk about it you react 💯🧠❣️🎶
Zeppelin II is one of the most raunchy dirtiest rock albums ever created it starts with this song and then has Heartbreaker, the lemon song, bring it on home also on it. A true masterpiece
This song is stupid good, nothing anybody else did comes close!! Pure hard rock gold by the master's of hard rock/metal, they were the innovators and pioneers of their generation.
I'm a new sub! I've watched some of your content....Love love your vids!! gotta say, you def know bout music! 🥰🎼🎵🎶🎧 thanks!
1969 was a really wild time and some of the biggest concerts were played with bands like this. of course they were played on radio. everybody was jammin'
Dude they even manage to work Lord of The Rings references in to their music. Plant was sexy as hell.
Hey dude, I like watching your reaction. I listened to this when I was a kid decades ago. I just liked Plant’s voice and the music. Later in life I looked at the lyrics. Oh my goodness! This song is XXX rated. I don’t think most listeners, like myself understood what was actually being sung.
DUDE for years I have said this song opens are sick bars....thank you for acknowledgment
My man you NEED to listen to When The Levee Breaks, it's an absolute masterpiece