He is up there with Sir George Martin or Alan Parsons. Of course, the Master. He is why this will sound fresh in another 50 years. Ty for your Zep reactions sir!
End of May 1986...last day of school cruising around about 1pm, being a scrub in buddy's 85 Mustang GT.. sunny day, windows down and slightly baked😎......and we listened to this song.... Ramble On..... entire future ahead.......I always remember that day through this song.
The explosion in the next new phase of music that i'm the most excited about is new Black Rock and Roll from artists who were born and raised on Hip Hop, but have explored and fallen in love with 60s/70s/80s rock. Opening their minds to real musicianship, production, composition from innovators like Steely Dan, Rush, Zep, Pink Floyd who did the same thing in their time to break away from the tame early Elvis 50s crooner era. Pass that torch! It's going to be a JAM!!!
If you started creating things and played around with all of these things you're being exposed to, especially right here in this context, you know it would be so fun and it would probably really explode the number of things you were wanting to try. At that point, you could legitimately say that Led Zeppelin was one of your influences. This is the way all of us do it. Musicians, composers, songwriters, arrangers, producers, just all of it. There's a wonderful sense of playfulness to the exploration of it, even if the execution of it later is dead serious or really hilarious or tragically sad or whatever. That's what I love so much about music and music production.❤
I haven't heard this one in awhile... normally picking their more upbeat songs...so this is a rare treat for me. Like "Going to California" with an ache in my heart.😢
"Ramble On" exists to teach fans to wait for the drum break. That pitter-patter is Bonzo on the bongos or what not. Led Zeppelin experimented with left and right panning on their early albums. So yeah, right side is acoustic guitar playing a rhythmic figure and left side is clean electric guitar plus some fuzzy slide on the chorus.
At 2:43 immediately got goosebumps because I always love that incredible moment when it kicks in and John Bonham starts punishing that kick drum, but then combined with your reaction, it just magnified it all the way up into goosebumps. 😮
Great reaction! Yeah that’s Robert Plant’s vocals going back and forth at the end. They just had multiple tracks of him singing and laid the track with him singing at the same time. Earlier in the track it was Jimmy Page playing acoustic and electric guitar at the same time, multitracked to hard pan left and right. Its very obvious with headphones but back when the album was released almost no one owned headphones at home, so the stereo effect wasn’t so “in your face” when listening with speakers. I was a kid when this came out and i listened to this album in my room on a stereo with a record album and turntable, likely getting stoned too.
It was used alot starting in the later 60's--The Beatles utilized it alot later on. But everyone jumped on board after that. Stereo possiblities in recording were blossoming back then. T
Indeed. I remember when headphones were super expensive and what a drag those pig tail chords that some of them came with were. The music was meant to be played through large speakers at loud volumes.
Yeah and hard panning became popular for a while after stereo came around, it sounds jarring on headphones nowadays because the separation seems more intense.
@@susiedawson3349 I knew the words to all the songs on Zep 2 by1972. I was 13. When I started reading the Tolkien stories at 15 or so, I got to figure out where those ramble on lyrics came from. Gollum is much creepier dude than originally anticipated.
It makes you wonder if in this song his "girl" is actually the ring itself! But more likely he just used the LOTR names for effect lol. I don' think he was retelling the story here explicitly
You should maybe give a listen to the live version from that reunion a few years back. Not only did it show they still had it, but it also showed the kids how it's done. ua-cam.com/video/EYeG3QrvkEE/v-deo.htmlsi=UjUNkFdfPrdlQr9z
You can say what you want, but John Paul Jones was the true mastermind behind Led Zeppelin. It’s always the quiet one. They are always thinking instead of speaking. He is a musical genius. Zep is talent pure and simple. Rockers back then didn’t realize that they were getting into the blues with Zep. I didn’t. I was a teenager, and thought it was just rock.
Jimmy Page does most of the song assembling, and writing, allowing Robert to write the lyrics, and JPJ and Bonzo to work out their parts. Jimmy Page is the musical director and producer of all their work. He writes the music along with John Paul Jones, and John Bonham and Robert Plant were originally hired hands given a salary. Jimmy and John Paul Jones, were session musicians for years before being in bands. This is one of my favorite songs to play on guitar and bass.
Different "overdubs" would be panned on other tracks. Jimmy plays acoustic guitar on EVERY SONG first and plays electric guitar on another track. John Paul Jones would record a bass part, and then play keyboard on another track for the same song. It may take days of recording to get all the parts finalized on the song.
Some bands go way over this (later when multi-tracking got more common). In the 60s, there were 4 track and then 8 track recording devices, and then in the 70s it expanded to 16, 32, and on. Music was getting more technical with each of their albums. The innovation in effects, synthesizers, amplifiers and recording techniques were growing exponentially each year.
WITH ONE EXCEPTION: Van Halen's debut album Van Halen was one of those like the first Boston album, where it is such a classic as an entire album. Everything on it was so good and sounded so fresh at the time.
John Paul Jones killing it on the bass!
Robert….mystical magic music god❤❤❤❤
2:57 what’s that drummer holding right there!? Bonzo straight nails you with a tss, tss, tss. 🎉
Jimmy Page should be named as one of the greatest Producer’s in Rock.
Yes he should, he was absolutely brilliant creating the final sound for the albums.
The greatest producer's what, exactly?
@@Reno_Slim he produced & edited all their albums, & worked closely with the different engineers.
He is up there with Sir George Martin or Alan Parsons. Of course, the Master. He is why this will sound fresh in another 50 years. Ty for your Zep reactions sir!
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I know. That wasn't what I was asking.
One of my top 10 fave LZ songs!
End of May 1986...last day of school cruising around about 1pm, being a scrub in buddy's 85 Mustang GT.. sunny day, windows down and slightly baked😎......and we listened to this song.... Ramble On..... entire future ahead.......I always remember that day through this song.
That was me...but in my 67 SS Camaro!!
Going from one speaker to another in called panning. Zep did some of that, especially early on.
One of their best ! 😊
The explosion in the next new phase of music that i'm the most excited about is new Black Rock and Roll from artists who were born and raised on Hip Hop, but have explored and fallen in love with 60s/70s/80s rock. Opening their minds to real musicianship, production, composition from innovators like Steely Dan, Rush, Zep, Pink Floyd who did the same thing in their time to break away from the tame early Elvis 50s crooner era. Pass that torch! It's going to be a JAM!!!
If you started creating things and played around with all of these things you're being exposed to, especially right here in this context, you know it would be so fun and it would probably really explode the number of things you were wanting to try. At that point, you could legitimately say that Led Zeppelin was one of your influences. This is the way all of us do it. Musicians, composers, songwriters, arrangers, producers, just all of it. There's a wonderful sense of playfulness to the exploration of it, even if the execution of it later is dead serious or really hilarious or tragically sad or whatever.
That's what I love so much about music and music production.❤
I haven't heard this one in awhile... normally picking their more upbeat songs...so this is a rare treat for me. Like "Going to California" with an ache in my heart.😢
"Ramble On" exists to teach fans to wait for the drum break. That pitter-patter is Bonzo on the bongos or what not. Led Zeppelin experimented with left and right panning on their early albums. So yeah, right side is acoustic guitar playing a rhythmic figure and left side is clean electric guitar plus some fuzzy slide on the chorus.
Actually it is Bonham patting on Jimmy's guitar case with his hands!
At 2:43 immediately got goosebumps because I always love that incredible moment when it kicks in and John Bonham starts punishing that kick drum, but then combined with your reaction, it just magnified it all the way up into goosebumps. 😮
The drummer was tapping on a guitar case.
Lyrics on Ramble On heavily inspired by Tolkien
❤❤❤Robert ❤❤❤
Great reaction! Yeah that’s Robert Plant’s vocals going back and forth at the end. They just had multiple tracks of him singing and laid the track with him singing at the same time. Earlier in the track it was Jimmy Page playing acoustic and electric guitar at the same time, multitracked to hard pan left and right. Its very obvious with headphones but back when the album was released almost no one owned headphones at home, so the stereo effect wasn’t so “in your face” when listening with speakers. I was a kid when this came out and i listened to this album in my room on a stereo with a record album and turntable, likely getting stoned too.
It was used alot starting in the later 60's--The Beatles utilized it alot later on. But everyone jumped on board after that. Stereo possiblities in recording were blossoming back then. T
Indeed. I remember when headphones were super expensive and what a drag those pig tail chords that some of them came with were. The music was meant to be played through large speakers at loud volumes.
Yeah and hard panning became popular for a while after stereo came around, it sounds jarring on headphones nowadays because the separation seems more intense.
That pattering sound is Bonzo tapping on Jimmy's guitar case with his hands!!
‘Twas in the darkest depths of Mordor, I met a girl so fair. But Gollum and the evil one crept up and slipped away with her.
They were into the lord of the rings books.
@@susiedawson3349 I knew the words to all the songs on Zep 2 by1972. I was 13. When I started reading the Tolkien stories at 15 or so, I got to figure out where those ramble on lyrics came from.
Gollum is much creepier dude than originally anticipated.
It makes you wonder if in this song his "girl" is actually the ring itself! But more likely he just used the LOTR names for effect lol. I don' think he was retelling the story here explicitly
You should maybe give a listen to the live version from that reunion a few years back. Not only did it show they still had it, but it also showed the kids how it's done.
ua-cam.com/video/EYeG3QrvkEE/v-deo.htmlsi=UjUNkFdfPrdlQr9z
A few Lord of the Rings references...... "In the darkest depths of Mordor......."
Mmm **LUVLuvLuv** **Magical**
Love it Rambo On.
Jimmy's production created 3-dimensional sound....you are immersed in sound.
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Yeah, LZ
this bad jam
You can say what you want, but John Paul Jones was the true mastermind behind Led Zeppelin. It’s always the quiet one. They are always thinking instead of speaking. He is a musical genius. Zep is talent pure and simple. Rockers back then didn’t realize that they were getting into the blues with Zep. I didn’t. I was a teenager, and thought it was just rock.
John Paul Jones was a master of the bass. He could play just about any riff.
Rumor is the pattering was John Bonham hitting Jimmy Page's guitar case with his drumsticks.
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👍👍👍👍👍
Jimmy Page does most of the song assembling, and writing, allowing Robert to write the lyrics, and JPJ and Bonzo to work out their parts. Jimmy Page is the musical director and producer of all their work. He writes the music along with John Paul Jones, and John Bonham and Robert Plant were originally hired hands given a salary. Jimmy and John Paul Jones, were session musicians for years before being in bands. This is one of my favorite songs to play on guitar and bass.
Different "overdubs" would be panned on other tracks. Jimmy plays acoustic guitar on EVERY SONG first and plays electric guitar on another track. John Paul Jones would record a bass part, and then play keyboard on another track for the same song. It may take days of recording to get all the parts finalized on the song.
Some bands go way over this (later when multi-tracking got more common). In the 60s, there were 4 track and then 8 track recording devices, and then in the 70s it expanded to 16, 32, and on. Music was getting more technical with each of their albums. The innovation in effects, synthesizers, amplifiers and recording techniques were growing exponentially each year.
I think living loving made not sure
If you don't have anything new by now, you never will. Unless you steal it. Remember they created most of their songs in their early twenties.
WITH ONE EXCEPTION: Van Halen's debut album Van Halen was one of those like the first Boston album, where it is such a classic as an entire album. Everything on it was so good and sounded so fresh at the time.
You are hearing Jimmy Page's genuis on your left and right sides
The "annoying" beat is Bonzo playing on a guitar case.
2nd greatest band behind, RUSH- but Led made better songs.
Lord of the Rings.