Hip Hop Fan's First Reaction To How Many More Times by Led Zeppelin 

The playing on these early albums was raw, and the vocals incomparable. It was all energy and no pop-for-radio bullshit.

Enjoy your reactions very much. The last two-“ Behind blue eyes” and “ how many more times” are from my two favorite albums of all time. I’m 70 years old and experienced both albums when they were released. Little did I know that 50 years later I would be enjoying a young man hearing these songs for the first time. Life is strange.

So much of the genius of their music lies in Paige's production but the immeasurable talent of the four was slipped into it like a glove. The best.

"It was a different time, we're gonna let that slide" 🤣🤣

This live was fabulous! Nobody can touch Zeppelin!!

The best album debut EVER!!

I feel very lucky to have grown up listening to Zeppelin and a lot of the other bands from that time. There was plenty of great bands then, all of them ground breaking, but Zep was still my favorite. To be honest, after bands like this it's hard to get into anything new.

I can't even explain in words how exceptional this song is and always has been.

Killer riff with incredible tone! This song is a very powerful medley of Jimmy Page ideas and blues songs from the Yardbirds jams but produced better than any such track in the history of rock at that time and just blazing. Plant’s voice, man!

An amazing end to a ground breaking album. Try Dazed and Confused live from the Song Remains the Same soundtrack, it is one of their very best performances, 28 minutes of Rock magnificence. Enjoy! 🎶🎸🎤🎹🎶

This song is essentially my brain's default riff. It pops into my head any time I am killing time between tasks that don't need 100% of my focus. Being exposed to this track at precisely the point where you are paying attention for the first time to the recording and engineering of albums in general and trying to learn guitar in particular totally changes your perspective of what's possible.

Ramble On by Led Zeppelin is a MUST HEAR!!!

The title is a nod to Howlin' Wolf's song "How Many More Years" and came about from bits and pieces Jimmy had, per this quote: In an interview he gave to Guitar World magazine in 1993, Page stated that the song "was made up of little pieces I developed when I was with the Yardbirds, as were other numbers such as 'Dazed and Confused'. It was played live in the studio with cues and nods." He's not using the bow in the beginning, instead, it's fast strumming; however, he does use the bow in the middle section. The Rosie/Hunter sections were spontaneous additions the day of recording. "The Hunter" section comes from bluesman Albert King with Booker T & the MGs. Near the end, Robert sings "how many more times, barrelhouse all night long" a "barrelhouse" has been a term in other blues songs and was a bar or saloon that had lively jazz, dancing, and cheap booze so "to barrelhouse" would be to go to a juke joint for raucous jazz, dancing, and boozing. This was a fantastic album and I think you'd be hard pressed to find a better debut album by anyone.

We of the generation that produced this kind of amazing music, were also lucky enough to have FM radio. It started with only cuts from the best and also the newest bands, no commercials, and DJs that spoke in quiet voices only to introduce a song. They often played a half dozen in a row without interruption. We listened to it constantly and got to hear all the best of our generation..

I love the way Bonzo crashes the symbols in this song he was a beast! Another great reaction my friend. By the way LZ were the first band to nock the Beatles off the number 1 spot on the charts with this album.

Cool man now you absolutely have to see their live performance from Denmark. It's just ridiculous. In a good way!

Eight and a half minute song and you'd never know it. This song gives us a whole lotta love - rings, pearls and all. Also, there is a video of them performing this song in 1969 for Denmark television, just months into the formation of the band, and you can see what Page does in the early riffs (no violin bow, but that was my first thought as well)

This masterpiece is my favorite after Communication Breakdown. A brilliant song to wrap up one of the greatest debut albums of all time. It was also masterfully recorded and sounds incredible. Good Reaction!

Zeppelin sure did know how to close out an album. My favourite track from their early 1969 debut (actually recorded in September '68) has a big Howlin' Wolf influence with that awesome, repetitive riff creating an almost hypnotic groove. Loving your reactions to the artists that I love, Syed.

If you really want to know how brilliant Zeppelin was you need to hear them live. I highly recommend Since I Been Loving You live at MSG.

I enjoy how you point out the tight connection between Bonzo, my hero, and Jimmy.

LZ 1 is definitely one of the best albums of all time - I still remember hearing it when it first came out and went "whoaaaaa - -wtf is this??" Anyway, my first band (as guitarist) at the time, played this song (not to the extent LZ did, but hey, we had good taste!

Your reviews of this first album were brilliant, by far one of the best out there on RU-vid. For your pleasure and watch their Denmark live tv appearance. The beginnings

I was waiting for your review of this, and when Bonham does that "hip-hop" change up as you so eloquently put it, I couldn't contain my smile!

Looking forward to the next album.

Led Zep I is my go to album. From the jump they carved out their own unique place in music. Fearless. Putting the heavy on traditional American blues. Pain and power. Melody and chaos. A Lead Zeppelin. I can’t think of a better rock debut to the world.

Physical Graffiti is a masterpiece when you get there. Great stuff, Syed!

This album is untouchable🙀🎼🎸

This was the first Zeppelin song I ever heard. A friend just picked up the album on 8 track. We were hanging out at a lake, summertime, girls, beer and 420. I had never heard anything like it before. The heavens parted and my music tastes were never the same again.

Great reaction,the bit about school girl is Roberts daughter,as time goes by when sung live the age goes up accordingly,keep up the great work mate,U.K. Billy

Always love your insightful commentary. You easily connected Bonzo and Page’s connection early on. I’m still shocked that Plant didn’t blow out his vocal cords early on. Still sings great today. Hope you get the channel up and running soon. Peace.

I can't tell you how earth-shattering this album was when it was released. Jimmy was aware that FM radio was developing in the US at the time with its whole album type of format -another genius plan on his part. My favorite LZ album. Since Good Times Bad Times is your pick for best on the album - they never really did the whole song live in concert until their 2007 reunion concert at the O2 Arena - fabulous - 1st song in the album - 1st song in this filmed concert. If you're interested here's a link ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-E-Xna3ny6KY.htmlsi=qRHwtLoTgIfOs29- John Bonham's son, Jason is on drums. 🔥🔥 It's really wonderful to see an intelligent, in-depth analysis of the band and its music. Looking forward to LZII. Thanks. ☮

If a song was more than 3 minutes long in the 60s, usually the sponsors of the station would INSIST on commerciallization every 3-4 minutes. If a record was longer, (lied about length or not) it would get cut or interrupted by commercials. The ads ran the station, not the music.

Led Zeppelin II is actually my favorite. You’re in for a treat my friend!✌🏻

As a teen in the late 60's early 70's when FM radio arrived my hometown FM station(KORD) began playing complete sides of a band's album late at night on friday and saturday nights. Great times and great music.

Great anylasis. The only thing I take exception too is that from 1968 to about 1973, Rock was defined by bands being allowed to produce long play songs, and jams. Iron butterfly, Rare Earth, the Doors, the Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd, The Who , Frank Zappa and really all bands were producing long playing songs, and extended jams. It is my humble opinion why that time frame created the classic rock that will never die.

You can hear Jimmy Page practicing the violin bow on an earlier version of this song when he was with the Yardbirds.

Dude.. They're my favorite.... now you're my fav

Awesome job, yet again. It might have been mentioned here but there's a live version of this, during the year the album came out that is otherworldly. Really. Even watching the crowd, you can see they are sort of astounded. These guys seem like they are from outer space, and they digested blues, psychedelia, and mystery. Even if you just check it out in your own time: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wEPog_WdPE4.html

Fuzzed up and cranked to eleven! Dig the shuffle beat on the outro to the break. Little Robert Anthony wants to play! The Doors also dropped a gutsy debut album back in the sixties. Check it out when you can.

Great review, mate. Can't wait for the second album... It's gonna knock your socks off...

Such a sound-scape journey. Love it!

FM rock stations were coming into there own during this time in America and they were playing longer songs, even entire albums.

Plant was 21, Page 25 when the band this album.....hard to get your head around that! Damn!

Enjoying your channel Syed !

Great reaction,Zepp my favourite band since I was 11/12 years old,67 now,just one point,the little school girl bit refers to Plants daughter,as time goes by when sung live the age reference went up as the years past,keep up the great work mate,U.K. Billy.

The heavy rockin power of Led Zep 2 will knock your socks off. I think it's their most rockin, kick ass album, with heavy bass, amazing guital, powerful vocals and Bonzos power and groove They were playing those songs in '69. Blew people away! Cheers mate

Love it, even if you dont react to it please watch the live Danmark Radio performance it is an unreal exhibition of their talents when they had only been together for around 6 months.

One of my favorites! Great breakdown. Enjoy your your videos! If you want to hear some amazing drumming from around the same time, check out New Orleans funk bands the Meters. Start with the sing Cissy Strut. It may have one of the funkiest bass lines of all time. They also influenced led zeppelin. They may have had the best rythym section of all time, and you'll hear it when you check out their tracks. Highly highly highly sampled in the hip hop world. Almost as much as James Brown. If you want proggy stuff check out the jazz fusion band The Mahavishnu Orchestra. They are mind blowing. Amazing drums, violin, keyboards and one of the best guitarists of all time.

The Mighty Zep. Nuff said.

You should check this out live. There is incredibly good footage from '69 on YT. One show in black and white(excellent), another in color from Denmark(?) I think. They sound very jazz-like on this live.

A couple of musical 'trivia' items: the section starting around 4:00 employs a rhythm called a Bolero (also made famous by Emerson Lake & Palmer, Deep Purple and a few others), and the "they call me the hunter" section is actually a direct ripoff of an existing song - I had heard the Blue Cheer version, butI found out years later that they covered it from someone else, too.

Wait til you see Bonzo pounding the fn hell out the drums live!!😎

But you're forgetting about the onset of FM radio, which Jimmy Page anticipated. I was a huge FM radio listener in the 70's and 80's and long album cuts from Zeppelin, Queen, Yes, etc. were definitely played in their entirety on FM radio. They often also previewed whole albums. I first heard the entire double "Physical Graffiti" album by Led Zeppelin on FM radio.

You recently put up a poll asking your followers which is the greatest rock and roll band ever, and I was impressed that you listed the same 5 bands that I've long believed are above all others: the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, the Who and Pink Floyd. Whenever I've asked someone who they think is the best band ever, if they name one of these 5 bands, I know that they know great music when they hear it. If someone answers by naming a band other than one of these 5, I'm disappointed, and actually horrified by their answer sometimes. Anytime you review music from any of these 5 giants of a band, all of them British, all of them iconic, I'll be interested in your reaction. Keep rockin'!

Great reaction mate,Zepp my favourite band since I was 11/12,am now 67,just one point,the reference to the little school girl is Roberts daughter,as time goes by when sung live the age goes up year by year,keep up the great work mate,U.K. Billy.

Nice commentary and some good wit. Good on ya.

This was a great song for the end of the album.

Best song on the first album hands down ❤

Young man, you have exquisite taste in music, you will go far in life.

Great album and great reaction but look forward to your take on future albums - they just get better and better. My fav is Physical Graffiti but that’s a a good few albums away 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Led zeppelin are but rock gods .I have a love for many genres but always come back to led zepp and Bob.

Looking forward to your reaction to Led Zeppelin II. My favorite album. There are no misses.

Led Zeppelin is my favorite band and this is my favorite track!! I just subscribed as I love your reactions to and analysis of the mighty Zeppelin!! I will be checking out all of your other band reactions and looking forward more Zeppelin... check out my other two favorites "Bring It On Home" and "The Lemon Song"!!!

Wow I really enjoy your reactions. You have reverence for the music. I also enjoy your breakdown takes - for instance I never over 40 years thought about when the song comes back around at the end that it was him going in a cycle and it was happening again

Yeah, I love songs! When they are done right and are not repetitive but rather have a crescendo of wildly mixing things.

I'm glad to hear you rate this. Its one of my very faves.

The history on this song is a “legendary “ ladies man nicknamed The Hunter because he had so much sex and 10 children with 1 on the way, not Plant’s own experience. Although he was married with kids as was Bonham throughout their careers. Hope you continue to do Led Zeppelin, also doing their live videos bc many people such as myself are very visual.

Another "Top of the mountain" song!

OMG, big goosebumps.

Just for some context, and maybe you don't know, but this came out when FM radio in North America was in its infancy. AM radio stations played the 2 and three minute singles trying to be commercial hits, and songs like this found their place on the FM band, where they were happy to play artists experimenting with the form no matter what the length. FM radio had a huge impact on opening up the boundaries, and without it, it's not hyperbole to suggest bands like Led Zeppelin and others of the era would never have achieved the success they did.

Una Obra de Arte !!!

page = goat

leaves you wanting more--aka, the next album

So good.

My favorite track on the album!

Well first off in terms of the album review, I tend to put Good Times bad times and Communications breakdown as a tie for first place. They seem like sibling songs to me and both of them have that high intensity of energy that just makes you want to go nuts. And for second place I definitely put Babe I'm going to leave you. That is astounding. Simply astounding. Shows you the range from acoustic and just his voice and all the flamingo flourishes of Jimmy Page and it still has a lot of rock in it. Oh my god. Beyond that I like all of them so much. And I would agree that probably Led Zeppelin IV or as it is also called, the Rune album, because it has a picture of runes on it, is probably their most significant album but they were a very significant band throughout their tenure. Just as a teaser I want to go find a link to one of my many favorite songs on their last album, In through the Out Door, before Bonzo died. Just to give you an idea of where this is ultimately headed. I actually think that might be their best album. I definitely didn't think so when I was young, but now that I've been a musician and a composer and an arranger and played in bands for decades, I don't know man, that album is mind-blowingly good. It is phenomenal. I was just resistant to it at the time. It seemed too pop for me I guess. But now I see it as genius level stuff. But before I do that, regarding this particular song in your action, yeah that is definitely the violin or Viola bow, and while it sounds like crying for sure, no way it struck me just now, especially looking at that thumbnail in the upper left of your reaction, it's like for this it plunges underwater. That overhead looming burning Hindenburg zeppelin disaster descending above us suddenly we are underwater, beneath the surface of the ocean, and we are hearing the cries of whales, somewhat distant but not that far away and growing closer and closer. It distinctly has that feeling to me. As far as the term schoolgirl, not only was this prevalent in blues for decades, just for reference, Ten Years After, another white British band well known for adapting or drawing on older blues and turning it into current rock and a bit of psychedelia at the time, one of my favorite bands for sure, one of their biggest hits around 1972 was called, Good Morning Little Schoolgirl. Their biggest hit came about an album or two later and about a year or two before they broke up in around 1974, I'd Love to Change the World. But at any rate it just gives you an idea. So check out Bonham and really everybody in just the arrangement and songwriting of a Led Zeppelin that is several years Advanced after that but really not that many albums later and then it abruptly all came to an end. Fool in the Rain. And I'd even incorporates steel drums at some point in the middle! m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-I57nIP0vc44.html

The guitar on Babe I'm going to leave you is not Latin American style, more Spanish style, though maybe there are some similarities since Latin America was mostly colonised by Spain.

Yeaaaaahhhhhhhh! killer! 🎵

All of these lyrics are borrowed from old blues songs (The Hunter) John Lee Hooker. Little schoolgirl....(,Muddy Waters). In fact the song itself is a take on (How Many More Years) Howlin Wolf.

I hope you do a full reaction video for Rainbow-Stargazer, we listened to a part of the song in the last music stream you did. I personally think it's Ronnie James Dio's best performance.

Live Danmark Radio 1969 version, you’ll see!

Paul McCartney even had that Bonham beat copied for the Wings song Let Em In. 👍

There were radio stations in the U.S.that would play longer form songs like this. The format was technically called Album Oriented Rock. It started on the east and west coasts spreading thru the 70s to the rest of country. Sadly corporations like Clear Channel among others gutted it

How Many More Years.... Howling Wolf.

We’re going to let the one slide 🤣🤣

listen to the live danish tv version

Regarding your wry comment, "It was another time," to Plant's (borrowed) lyric , "I got a little schoolgirl..." well, it isn't necessarily quite as cringe as you might think, considering that Plant was literally only nineteen years old when this song was recorded. If the "schoolgirl" was a senior in high school, hey, it's not that much of an age difference, you know? She might even be eighteen! (Lol) Now, the song Sick Again, which chronicles Page's dalliance with fourteen-years-old (at the time they first hooked up) Lori Maddux, well, okay. Not good.

Amazing album, but arguably their 5th best. You have much more to enjoy. I'll enjoy watching you take the journey.

Impossible to rank Zeppelin's greatest songs or albums. It's like, Stairway is the greatest rock song of all time, but it's not even the best song on LZ4 (that would be Levee). And while LZ4 is the greatest rock album of all time, it's not even Zeppelin's best (that would be Physical Graffiti). Like many others have said in the past; my favourite Zeppelin song or album is the one I just listened to. (Except, of course, PG is the greatest album and Kashmir is their greatest song 😁).

Can I suggest a song? ^^ Jimi Hendrix - Killing Floor (live video, the black-white one) ^^ ok cewl thanks bye hehe nice videos btw

All their albums are great. physical graffiti is my personal favorite. But it’s like choosing between giant nearly perfect diamonds with just the right amount of imperfections to make them unique

This album sounded like nothing else that came before. They crashed on the planet from an alien world on their Led Zeppelin.

GUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNN!!!!!!!

I always thought the schoolgirl reference must be regarding when they met, as it would be impossible for a schoolgirl to have had ten children and still be schoolgirl age.

John Paul Jones was the producer and arramger for most Zep songs. I've heard a version of this song, pre-John Paul Jones, and it wasn't half as good. They're all, individually, great musicians, but the unsung hero is Jones.

❤

Led Zeppelin 4 th album is not called #4, we call it that because it is the 4th, they were critized by the press at the time and said , you know what, we aren't even going to name our next album and it will sell, they released it untitled, to mess with the press and critics at that time.

Well it's an old blues song I think he was only 19 at the time of singing this

I've watched your reactions, hard to Believe you've never heard this music.... none the less ,proceed .