Led Zeppelin, Good Times, Bad Times - A Classical Musician’s First Listen and Analysis
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This song made me feel like getting up and getting active. Or should I simply … dream about it? I enjoyed the dynamic between the drums and the voice.
Here’s the link to the original song:
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Great reaction and breakdown of this classic Amy. And thanks for putting it into its important historical perspective Vlad. This is the same album that has "Babe I’m Gonna Leave You" that you really enjoyed a lot Amy. This is a great debut album, along with several of their other albums. It has several other classics on it, including "Dazed and Confused" which is one of my favorites. If you ever decide to do another series to replace the Queen 50 series, for me Led Zeppelin is the logical choice, since they have so many great classics. You have barely scratched the surface. Loved all your commentary on this, along with your infectious enthusiasm for this.
Ditto, ditto and DITTO! All Lee’s points, I concur!
@@helenespaulding7562 Hey Helene. Great to see you here, it has been awhile. You were one of the originals here on Amy's journey here. And I know what a huge LZ fan you are. Aren't you glad to see that Amy has become an LZ fan herself? She has liked all the ones she has heard so far.
@@LeeKennison yes! I am SO happy that she has obviously become a fan of Zeppelin! And you are correct: The OBVIOUS choice for another deep dive would have to be Zeppelin.
I’ve been absent just because of music choices mainly, although I drop by for some Beatles. Now, if she and Vlad woujd just write off the remainder of The Wall and move on to DSOTM or WYWH, I would be here for it too. Or heck, Depeche Mode. I’m not picky on eras. Genesis would be another interesting deep dive choice.
But yeah….If their next pick for a band for a deep dive ISNT Zep, I’ll frankly be pretty disgusted. 🙄😏
VERY nice to see you again, Lee, and I hope you have a GRAND Christmas! 😁👋
@@helenespaulding7562 Helene and Lee... hail! and well met!!!
@@splitimage137. its been awhile....I vaguely remember your handle, but your name escapes me......sorry! 😳
You hit the nail on the head. Jimmy Page stated that the music of Led Zeppelin was designed to 'feature' each member of the band.
Something Rush definitely picked up on...
Imagine it's January 1969, you put this first Led Zeppelin album on your turntable and your hear this from an unknown band. Wow, what a deflagration! It was already heavy metal but dipped in acid rock. And John Bonham doing those insane triplets on his bass drum!
Amy has, to my knowledge, not yet recognized the brilliance of Bonzo. She will, soon, I suspect.
Heavy Metal before Heavy Metal was known.
I still remember listening to them for the first time but for me their second album was my first. I knew bands like Deep Purple, Huriah Heep and some Hendrix stuff and my uncle said "well boy, if you like their stuff you might like this too.." and then I got hit by a freight train called "whole lotta love". I loved it!
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Zeppelin II my fav Rock album.
Yes, I agree, nevertheless we can also imagine to be listening to a band playing at the Winterland, San Francisco or at the Oakland Coliseum Arena in March and October 1968..... we must have been listening to the nascent hard rock...same phenomenon (not heavy metal, 'cause the Zeps were not heavy metal). The band was CREAM.
I bought it for the cover when it came out.
I took it to a party that evening, after the host put it on, it was all anyone wanted to listen to the rest of the evening. 🎸
I have never heard Bonham and Jones playing described as dancing, but that is perfect. No matter how heavy the vibe is with this song, the bass and drums seem to lightly dance all over this piece. You hit the nail on the head.
Yes. This is the thing about Zeppelin. Each one of them was one of the best at what they do individually.. Together they made one of the best groups in rock n roll history..
Yeah, I responded to another video recently, reminding someone that all four band members are consistently in the top five (or better) all-time on their respective instruments (which includes Plants voice). No other band can make that claim.
The problem was/is that they ripped off many, many, many other compositions WITHOUT giving credit to those artists and songs. Queen never did that. The Who never did that. Pink Floyd never did that. Black Sabbath never did that. Rush never did that. Santana never did that. YES...never did that. Deep Purple never did that. Boston never did that. Kansas never did that. Jimi Hendrix never did that even gave credit each time he played a song from another artist, ie: " This a song written by Bob Dylan."
Zeppelin just stole and stole and stole more than 25 times and gave no credit and all the money.....until they were sued and lost decades and decades later in courts no less than 5 times. The only suit they won was for Stairway to Heaven's music...which to millions of us fans is still actually questionable. I feel they got lucky with a favorable judge and their expensive lawyers.
Anyhow, yes, great musicians, yes, incredible chemistry and dynamics, yes, very electric and explosive, yes, powerful, especially live and due to all those attributes, incredibly interesting and exciting and fun to listen to. However, they lacked integrity, honesty ( especially and actually Page and Plant as all of Jones' solo compositions with Zeppelin, like GOOD TIMES BAD TIMES for example, were truly original songs and not stolen.) and they....Page and Plant were incredibly greedy by doing such stealing and not giving credit where it was due and therefore also financially ripping off many other artists, especially blues artists they stole from who were struggling in those years....while Page and Plant began making millions $$$$$$$. Not right. Not cool. In fact, criminal and blatantly immoral. As musicians and just as people and fellow artists to those they stole from, it was shameful what they did. Plant, finally, fairly recently ( about 15 years ago ) on an interview radio program in Canada after being pressed a little, finally came clean publicly after 45 years and said, " Yes, I admit it, I was a thief. " Too little too late IMO.
@@philosopher0076 Of course I know this and agree. What they did was wrong.... YET, it doesn't change the fact that they were and are still incredible musicians... I think they took that music to new heights.... Same as what Jimi did with some of Dylans music. Just took it to a place the original artists would never have gone... Again, not saying what they did was right at all but I still love their music.
@@philosopher0076 Yep your opinion but the majority of folks out there like me don't really care that much.Heard this argument a million times but still listen the same as I ever did.All of what they did sounds nothing like these so called originals anyway.Some influence there but hardly copying.A lyric here and a note there.Come on !!
“Realize sweet babe we ain’t never gonna part.” That’s a promise that Zeppelin has kept for me going on almost 40 years now.
50 plus for me
I am so glad you understand Bonham's drumming. Now imagine this: He started learning drumming at 15. He studied the greatest jazz drummers of all time to learn his triplets and 16th notes. A mere five years later he was in what would become, arguably I suppose, the greatest rock band of all time. I saw them perform in the fall of 1969 at The Forum in Inglewood, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. The audience was stunned and mesmerized as this band, each member a virtuoso of his instrument, blew the roof off the arena. From Robert Plant's voice, to John Paul Jones' master bass runs, Bonham's musicality on drums, and Jimmy Page's guitar solos (including his use of a violin bow on the guitar), this was THE band to forever reshape rock.
Your description of LED Zeppelin hit the nail straight on the head and drove it home. Awesome 😎
Amy: What is really cool is that you immediately honed in on the fact that all four of them were given time to shine and stand out on this song. And that's spot on! You can find interviews with Jimmy Page where he talks about what he wanted to do with this debut album....and part of it was that he wanted to show that each member was at the top of their "instrument" and that together, they created something larger than their individual talents. He wanted to knock people's socks off. And they did! You knew from the opening riff that this was something new.
Nailed it.
I first heard of this group and heard this first album in the fall of 1969, as I was changing duty stations while I was in the US Army. It immediately impressed me as a phenomenal piece of work by a top-notch rock group.
It’s a delight to watch Elizabeth become so excited and animated by this special music. I guess it was important to wait this long to introduce her to the good stuff.
Amy.
@@shegocrazyI think he does it on purpose, I've seen many comments from him like that in other videos
The song that birthed 70’s rock.
Think Whole Lotta Love did. This song is great but it still sounds quite 1960s to me. Whole Lotta Love doesn't.
Great reaction. This Zeppelin journey with you is fun. Keep going! All their songs are so different and so unique. These 4 guys....like The Beatles....were untouchable.
It thrills me still, it hasn't lost any magic to my ears. Thanks for the wonderful commentary. Lordy, the triplets and all the rest. Just domination on the kit. Dancing indeed.
I remember in the mid 00's when I was really into the white stripes, I heard an interview where jack said something like 'I don't trust anyone who doesn't like led zeppelin'. I immediately went to whatever file sharing software was popular back then and downloaded LZ I, II, III and IV. Good times, bad times was the first song I ever listened by them, as I listened to those four albums in order that afternoon. It was hypnotic!
Strangely, Led Zeppelin was the first artist I ever got into and that was in late 2004 or early 2005. After that, I discovered a bunch of other artists from the ‘60s and ‘70s. When I found that there weren’t hardly any more bands that sounded much like Led Zeppelin from the ‘80s onwards and it almost seemed like there were zilch that were similar. Being that I spent much of my free time listening to music or playing video games, I didn’t socialize much and given that that kind of music wasn’t exactly popular at that time with kids, I decided to go to a PC gaming forum and ask other guys I played with what they listened to. One of them shared a music video for a White Stripes song and a Black Keys song and fell in love with them both immediately. And at that point, I was so happy to see that that kind of music was still alive and could still be made.
Led Zeppelin I got into when I saw a kid in my grade (6th), in 2004, and eventually (months later) decided to search for them on Google. Led Zeppelin, surprisingly, had a website at that time in which you could sample some songs and that’s where I first heard them. And I would return to that website so many times afterwards until I got LZ I on CD.
Once i played this album i was hooked for life. It really wasn't fair to any other band at the time.
The clip of Robert Plant is from an interview taking about a young Japanese girl's drum cover of this when she was 8 years old. Check it out, her name is Yoyoka
She is awesome!! Love her and her family!
yep, I can't hear this song without thinking about acute 8 year old Yoyoka just killing this on her kit. And her foot pedal work on the kick drums, my gawd...
Thank you. Strange they didn’t give any context.
One of my favorites from this album is You Shook Me. They were only together about 2 months when they recorded this album, in October (1968). They did 6 concerts in September in Scandinavia, as The New Yardbirds. Jimmy Page was the last remaining band member of The Yardbirds, & wanted to honor the concert contract. He had about 2 weeks to find bandmates. Their first rehearsal was on August 19,1968, the day before Robert Plant’s 20th birthday, John Bonham had turned 20 on May 31st. They started touring in the USA, on December 26,1968. This album was released on January 12,1969. Everything happened so quick for them, signing their record contract on like November 20,1968 with Atlantic Records. Just an amazing story, & each shine in their songs, instruments always breath. They were considered all equal partners in the band, though Page founded produced mixed & worked closely with the engineers. Always an exceptional band.
What a song! What an album! What a band!
thanks
Great analysis of Good Times, Bad Times, Amy! What you talked about here is the key to understanding Led Zeppelin, and why they are so loved especially by other musicians. Jimmy Page found the best musicians he could so that each instrumental part is balanced and intriguing to listen to. The choice of Robert Plant not only as a vocalist but also using his voice as a part of the instrumentation was intentional. This was like finding the best most intuitive classical musicians you could in your area, and then working together to compose new classical works. I'm with Lee Kennison in thinking that Led Zeppelin was the top of rock at that time and they led the way on where rock music was to go from that time forward. I agree that it would be great if you did a Zeppelin series like you did the Queen 50. You would be amazed at where they took their music.
Led Zeppelin is incredibly complex and interesting, every piece of music let you discover another marvel every day
I appreciate an uninterrupted run through first. I don't mind the starts and stops when discussing various parts, but having a clean run through gives everyone a good feel of what is about to be dissected. Thanks.
I agree. Sometimes the people start and stop it constantly while I’m trying to listen to it to. Highly annoying. Guess I’m being selfish. But a good analysis is cool after the fact.
For my money, this is THE BEST rock song period. No addition or subtraction would improve this song. Perfection.
I absolutely love this commentary. I grew up in a house with a mother who was a classical pianist. I rebelled and loved rock and roll, but one of my first albums was Emerson, Lake and Palmer's first self-titled recording. My mum loved it and still does at 88. Led Zeppelin II was one of my earliest Zeppelin albums shortly followed by this first album of theirs. I love all their music, and it never grows old. I love your enthusiasm and wish we had had a music teacher like you when I was a kid. Thank you.
I love it! You keep saying "It's cool".
It only took 10-15 seconds and I was hooked - for life. Thank´s for great analyzes of this one and Tangerine,
never have i ever found react channel that does depth analysis like this, keep up the good work!
I would sincerely love to see you react to and analyze "No Quarter", and "Battle of Evermore"
I'd like to see her reaction to the live Page & Plant: No Quarter Unledded album
Dear Amy, it is delightful to see you so lively and truly engaged, not only on this reaction video, but recently! It is wonderful to see and hear your enthusiasm! have a strict classical music upbringing from music school, theory and practice, but after playing drums and later guitar after those days (I am 58 years old now, still playing in a Rock band with two albums under my belt), I truly appreciate your "decompositions" of popular music - keep on doing this please, the world needs people like you and Elisabeth Z.! Love from Norway, from a expat Finn. 💙💙💙
I had not heard this song in some years. I literally started tearing up at the first bar.
Damn, man, I'm 70 and ... ME TOO!
I'm 75..and still hear it on the radio you guys live under a rock !!!@@Sternodox
@letsgomets002 I don't own a TV or radio, apart from the one in my car, which has never been on. I have a hard drive that holds thousands of songs plugged into my car's system. It's like having the greatest radio station in the world, that only plays stuff I like, and there's no commercials. Happy holidays!
You cracked the Zeppelin code: They are all, essentially, equally talented, none truly more vital and important than the other. The resulting Sum of Musical Dynamism is thus even greater than the considerable Parts. Their chemistry is off the charts. So too their tastefulness, knowing when to do what, and how much. Superb reaction and analysis! "The Lemon Song" is another one where they are all equally "showcased," except, well, the bassist, John Paul Jones, is likely First among Equals in it, lol.
Musical Gestalt !
I love seeing Amy get excited over music that has become cannon in Rock & Roll. I was a latecomer to LZ and felt the same excitement as she did when I first heard the opening instrumental section. Great reaction & analysis. Your observations & analysis are always so though provoking & profound. TY!!
It has been a fun trip to watch your platform grow. Whoever talked you into doing this was wise. You have taken music reactions to another level.
This shook the rock and roll planet when it appeared. I loved your reaction to this game changer. I think you're right about the lyrics being secondary. The SOUND is the thing. But, make no mistake--Nobody had ever heard someone like Robert Plant.
The Beatles had imitators. Black Sabbath had imitators. But who has actually pulled off trying to imitate Led Zeppelin? There are tribute bands and bands inspired by Zep. But no one seemed to match the sound and style in new works like they could for other successful bands! 🤗
The bass on this is just amazing. JPJ the 21+ instrument magician.
Yes, the bass is the lead instrument on this as far as I’m concerned.
JPJ rocks
This might not seem so today, but the heaviness was revolutionary at the time. That and the edginess and what seemed to on the edge of chaos. So different.
Keep up the great work on the led zeppelin song reactions and this rabbit hole you will not be disappointed
I'm so glad you've compared Bonzo's drumming to dancing! That’s always how I've heard it, not only on this song. In general his drumming has this dynamic quality that makes you think of people dancing together, reacting to each other by movement and with rhythm. It's very distinct and interesting. So glad you're doing a Led Zeppelin weekend. Looking forward to the next song.
I was never interested in drums, and late with discovering Led Zeppelin and already spoiled with Stewart Copeland, Mitch Mitchell, Brian Downey, Ginger Baker and Buddy Miles and took lively drums kind of for granted. And then I heard this, also my introduction to a Led Zeppelin album, and suddenly desperately wanted to be a drummer, and hitting them as fast and as hard as I could, like a 7 year old kid that had asked a drum set for his birth day.
I didn't see it like dancing, but as an overwhelming wild energy and I wanted more of it, especially the quick base drums. It sounded like Animal from the Muppet show would have been if he could, I didn't picture dancing, I pictured a wild man making himself heard as much as he could.
I’ve been looking forward to watching this reaction today. I was out and about this morning and this song happened to play on the radio😂 The song is fresh, let’s go!!
Brilliant analysis and description of how this band is an ensemble not a collection of individuals. There’s more going on during the 3 minutes of this track than most other bands achieve in a full album. Amy is right on the money when she says that once you’ve heard the intro, you’ll never forget it. I heard it in Spring 1969 and I’ve been a Zep head ever since.
Led Zeppelin I is still one of my most favourite albums. There are so many great songs off it you can explore. I would highly recommend Daze and Confuse. Thank you for taking time to explore all these great songs and bands!!!!
Every nuance of this song is burned into my brain from listening to Led Zeppelin hundreds of times on my 8 track car stereo in the 70's ....
These guys were super talented musicians, both in skill and their ability to infuse deep emotion into their recordings. The best of the best in rock. A lot of classic rock from the late 60s through the 70s was actually a revival of Romanticism, and Zeppelin is the best example of it. They leave Queen and The Beatles in the dust, IMO.
I was 10 yrs old , Brother just got back from Vietnam, He got into a Fight with my Dad, he went into his Basement Bedroom and cranked this up
Enjoyed your reaction and thoughts for a song I've enjoyed thousands of times over the past 50 yrs. Good Times indeed.
Yet another great reaction. Thanks for the great thoughts, emotion, and energy, dear Amy. Hearing your commentary and deep, emotionally threaded thoughts is a pleasure!
It was like nothing else. It was so much fun turning all my pals on to this sound. It amazed everyone, lots of dropped jaws.
Such a great and insightful analysis. Thank you Amy for your continued expertise.
Great way to begin the greatest debut rock album ever recorded.
Right from the jump these guys were locked in tight. Jonesy and Bonzo are just pure perfection.
I was initially captivated by Plant and Page when i first got into Zeppelin but now i find myself concentrating on the bass and drums.
Just think Amy, debut album and was recorded in no time. Cant remember but one on this album very technical was done in one TAKE. These kids at the time were gods of rock after the release, and they didn't stop there. They are GOATS and im blessed to have heard them my whole life.
John Paul Jones the Bass player is multi instrumentalist. He played the bass , harpsichord, mandolin,piano and others he was a session musician back in the 1960s and a church music director and coordinator in his teens. So was Jimmy Page the guitar player . He was a session musician back then as well and both were on many songs that would surprise most people . They had some serious musical teachings/experiences under their belt . 23:50 25:18
As usual, you’ve managed to take a piece of music I’ve listened to for 50+ years, break it down and make me hear things I never heard before and explain why it was done the way it was and make me feel like I’m hearing a song again for the first time. I didn’t think you would care for this song when I first read the post but I’m happy to say I was wrong and was tickled to watch you take off after it with a smile on your face. Keep up the fine work and I can’t wait for your next Zeppelin reaction!
Thanks!
Each instrument including the vocals perfectly complimented the other.
One of your best reactions ever!
Bonham's drums dancing. I love that way of describing it.
Thanks for sharing Led Zeppelin ❤
Good choice!
That song is one hell of a coming-out party. It wasn't my introduction to Zep, but I can imagine this being dropped on the music landscape of the time and blowing people away.
Zeppelin are masters of the call and answer, vocal and guitar or vice versa
I love it, felt like she maybe this just wasn't her cup of tea first time through, then she just hits the nail on the head with her analysis of the arrangement/dynamics; Amy's got such a cool perspective...
Thank you again for letting it Roll. Great job. Loved it.
Amy, after listening to this, you are no more Virgin to Rock! I think you are definitely starting to understand what is Rock all about!😁
Hey Amy, your inciteful analysis of the music of my youth never ceases to amaze me!!! As a teenager we just reveled in the music and indeed played it! (I was a drummer). Thank You so much for exposing, hopefully some of the youth to the greatest music!!! Not withstanding classical and jazz of course!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was introduced to LZ1 by a friend, after I was listening to to LZII and that solidified my love of Led Zeppelin to this day !
Just finding your awesome channel. You are definately rocking it.
If you wanna have a Led Zeppelin reaction where you really pay attention to lyrics and especially Robert Plants voice you should Check Out the live Version of *since ive been loving you*
Jimmy Page once said that he didn't want anyone in the group be the focal point. I think he did that well throughout most of their music.
I love the black and white behind the scenes. Nice
This was a good band. Fantastic drummer, fantastic singer, fantastic base player and a first class guitarist. They did have just the right mix.
I don’t care what the Neighbor say. I’m going to jam to Zepplin each and every day.
As someone said, “ Led Zeppelin is the last band of the 60s and the first band of the 70s.”
When I listened to Zep anytime in the last 58 years so do my neighbors. lol
This song, Hey Hey and Communication Breakdown are my favorites !
I really benefited from your reaction and knowledge. Not an easy song to play. Thank you for explaining to me precisely what is going on. I can play a couple of Led Zeppelin songs and this one is not one of them. Lol I started with stairway to heaven, obviously and then one of my favorites, “the ocean”, I can still play that one note for note though. Even with the arthritis.❤ also, I was stoked that you were excited about this.
Zeppelin were the greatest band in history!!
I don't think there is an album that I have listened to more times than the first Led Zeppelin album. It had a huge impact on me the first time I heard it. There are many memorable tracks here:
Good times bad times
Babe, I'm gonna leave you
Dazed and confused
Your time is gonna come
How many more times
Those bass drum triplets on a single bass drum sounds like gun fire.
The best reviews. Thank you
the voice was just another instrument in the band and everybody was on an equal footing. you just hit the led zeppelin nail right on the head!!
It is great to see your utter delight in a piece of rock music. You are really living it and appreciating it now and that makes your reactions even more special. Each and every one of the members of the band were incredibly talented but shout out to John Paul Jones who was often overlooked because the others were such big personalities. He played a mean bass guitar and I'm pretty sure he had a huge hand in arranging some of their pieces. Great reaction Amy.
Absolute best opening track on a debut album EVER.
The Kansas song Dust in the Wind started as a guitar picking exercise. It's also a song you should hear.
Use your thumb to fret the F# on the low E string on the chorus for the inverted D major chord.
Fantastic 1st reaction. Those drums (!!!) , the 1st thing the world heard from Led Zep as a band is this song. There could be no better introduction to a band and their music.
I've herd this song a million times and you intro gave me goose bumps
A manifesto by Led Zeppelin...incredible way to open and incredible first album that's like a journey, especially side A.
Your review was absolutely on point. So very astute. I found your reaction to be adorable.
At 6.40 in, this lady just encapsulated the music of Led Zeppelin and why so many of us love it!
Robert Plant and John Bonham are 20 years old here. 20.
Yep and that age should not be forgotten ! The creativity of the band was amazing ... Just as a comparison the average age of a crew member on an Avro Lancaster bomber during World War II was 22 years old. These days people that age don't even know how to cook a meal .... What the hell happened ?
The best are good more or less from the beginning....Mikel Shrieve played the drum with Santana at Woodstock at the age of 20....
@@madbiker1000we are greatful that we dont have to go to die and to kill in war. I bet Rober Plant would have said the same.
wow, you picked a couple of real bangers with Tangerine and this one. great.
Together 3 weeks as a band....and put the first album out.
They had been together for allmost a year as The New Yardsbirds.
@@lars-oleeifler4448 The four first played together on August 16, 1968. The New Yardbirds tour started on September 7. They entered the studio to record the album for the first time on September 25. It was done by mid-October. Though it wasn’t released until January 13, 1969. So ~6 weeks to start recording, 8 weeks to finish, and 5 months from getting together to actual release.
The Yardbirds final tour date was July 7. The New Yardbirds did not exist for nearly a year while the Yardbirds were still touring.
Loved the review. Brought tears to my eyes lol. Sure you you can review no quarter and rain song
Delightful, by way of the very uniqueness of your approach, and that you so enjoyed it. Your “Dee dee dee…” description at the outset, of that particular bit, because it was new to you, was sounding closer to the recurring riff in Jethro Tull’s “To Cry You a Song,” which may very well be derived from the Bach of which you speak.
Bringing Saint-Saens’ Carnival of the Animals into the mix was a highlight.
Haha - a title I had follow through on - but what these nostalgic looks fail to embrace and convey is how these tunes hit through in their day. So much is relevant for the time for these songs were released, what had come before and for what the new direction they were heading. The embrace today, while I cherish, is too often without appreciation and understanding for the times they were delivered.
so can analysing songs with today ears or indeed the ears of a today classical musician truly shine a light of the impact of those songs for when they were released? I am subscribed and will continue with these questions 😃
Interesting thought. Classic music must have a timeless aspect (that transcends its origins) but our appreciation can then be enhanced by understanding the cultural context in which the music was produced. ☺
The intro to this must have been absolutely mind blowing when it came out. I still think it might be the best example of a new band showing up and just kicking down the door on track one of their first album
How many kids listened to the first minute and half and thought, "I want to be a drummer!"
How many kids listened to the first minute and half and thought, "I could never be a drummer."
Jimmy Page said that Led Zeppelin were four master musicians and when they played together it took on a fifth element. That is essentially what made them possibly the greatest band of all time.
They were far more symbiotic than, say, The Beatles.
Love your in-depth reactions that song there and their first album they were only 19 and 20 years old Led Zeppelin 1 and 2
This is the Zeppelin I love. Although there were some later classics, nothing they did after the first album ever quite equalled its 'first fine careless rapture'.
Nah, Zeppelin got much better. IV and Physical Graffiti are their high water marks. Ten Years Gone on PG is a universe away from anything on the first album.
Jimmy Page produced Zeppelin albums and was right at the board with the engineer while mixing.
It almost seems to me that Amy is actually starting to become a rock and roll fan.