Hip Hop Fan's First Reaction to You Shook Me by Led Zeppelin 

Their musicianship is off the charts. I’m jealous you are getting to experience this for the first time. They are the best ever.

Speaking of "criminal", it's the degree to which nobody talks about this song. To me, it's the most potent and quintessential thing they ever did. Wow.

Led Zeppelin are rock gods! You have a great ear for how they created such wonderful sounds.

Anyone else feel a bit disappointed that Dazed And Confused didn't start playing immediately after the final chord of You Shook Me?

Led Zeppelin... revealing John Bonzo Bonham to the Universe 🔥

Love when Plant's voice and Page's guitar sing a duo together.

Plant’s voice is another instrument. Another guitar.

The play between Plant’s voice and Page’s guitar is amazing and done perfectly in my favorite Dazed and Confused. I’ve been listening to Zepp my entire life and you make me look at something different each time.

Yours was a superior analysis. I get tired of reactors who just say "aw, cool" but nothing else. You are way beyond that! 🙂

I read once that if you did a poll to vote for the top rock musicians to make up a super group you’d get Vocals- Robert Plant Guitar- Jimi Page Drums- John Bonham Bass- JPJ YOU CAUGHT IT!!!!!! I’m not British but I know that a “bird” is a reference for a girl or woman. Most other reactors totally miss this. Obviously you being British caught it right away!!!! Yes Robert Plant has massive sex appeal. If you want to see him at his swaggiest check out their concert at MSG.

Syed….great analysis as usual. You are one of the most intelligent and respectful to the music reactors out there right now IMO. I want to flag something you said because it hit me right between the eyes you said that young people today really don’t care about instruments, or instrumental solos. What that says to me is that young people don’t appreciate the talent or skills of musicians any longer. That also rings true in the sense that people think today that music should be free. You get what you pay for. Record companies will no longer pay to develop the talents of new artists. They just pay tens of millions for older artists catalogues. This makes me incredibly sad. One of the first things that humans did, and it is a uniquely human thing, was to create instruments to make sound. It is part of our human DNA. Live music has been with us for thousands of years, and now, we have a generation who doesn’t care about about all the beautiful sounds that skilled and dedicated musicians can create. Music was a touchstone of my generation. If was an important part of the tapestry of our youth, woven all through the youth culture. To have it discarded and dismissed as not being of value just depresses the hell out of me.

Just wait until you get to “Since I’ve Been Loving You” live at MSG. Initially a blues based rock band, they’ve got their share of blues but they evolved from blues covers to various genres of international influences you will not be able to pinpoint.

You looked a bit shook yourself after this song. Well, get ready to be dazed and confused... in an awesome way.

It goes from John Paul Jones playing the organ to Robert Plant playing the harmonica to Jimmy Page playing guitar. After Robert Plants says "All Right' at the end of the harmonica part, the next sound is Jimmy Page coming in on guitar. I don't know how you can't tell the difference between the sounds.

It WAS a harmonica, and then it WAS a guitar. Plant and Page respectively.

It only gets better...

Zeppelin, blues on steroids! Greatest band ever in my opinion. Love your reactions.

Such a great track. Love Planty on harmonica and the growl in the voice and instruments gets you in the feels…perfection 👌

Huge difference between sampling and doing a cover. None of Zep's covers sound remotely like the originals, and Zeppelin plays all the instruments. Page makes them all his own, as Hendrix did with Dylan's All Along the Watchtower. In terms of the instruments here, the first solo is JPJ on the organ, the second is Plant on harmonica, and the third is Page on his Telecaster through a small Supro amp. Something to keep in mind here. At the time of this recording, Robert Plant and John Bonham were only nineteen freaking years old. Plant was already that good on harmonica, and that ballsy and developed as a singer, at only nineteen. Bonham was already the most influential monster in the history of rock drumming. Unreal.

I noticed you edited your opening. During the middle, they transitioned from organ, to harmonica, to guitar with a bit of drum thunder at the end. Each had a part to play and the ability to mesh their individual talents with each other regardless of instrument is the alchemy that Led Zeppelin was about. Their musicality, feel, rhythm, groove, timing, etc. were second to none.

That A note that Jimmy hits at the end of the call and response might be the heaviest note every played lol. I'm talking black hole density heavy!

Greetings from Canada. You're doing a fine job appreciating Zep... it's a joy to see you enjoy. This was the Blues Rock version of the Blues staple- Call and Response. My suggestion would be now try Funk Rock-Trampled Under Foot, Live Earls Court, 1975. A lotta fun, man. Peace, love and bellbottoms.

There is alot of Zeppelin out there, but one stands out in need of your interpretive gift. "In My Time Of Dying" Its a beast,,,

one of my favorite songs from their first album

It was a harmonica but they very subtly transitioned to guitar. Just amazing. I have to say that I think Robert Plant still manages to use his voice really really well considering his post 70 age. His recent performances with Allison Krauss demonstrate that. Certainly over time he lost some range but he found other ways to make up for it. He was the only Zepplin member to be very successful as a solo artist and he keeps creating really interesting music, using his voice skillfully. And he still sounds sexy, which is amazing.

IMO, perhaps you seemed to come into Rock reactions “swinging” with the sample tracks statement? It’s one thing to put together a cool thing with LEGO’S, it’s a whole other thing to invent them. 😉 Great reaction and song choice!

I was born in the 60s West Coast Bay Area and YOU, my friend, are TAPPING into that Vibe. Magical Time !

I love watching people discover the greatest Rock and Blues band ever!! I really love that you're working your way through their discography. I'm coming along for the ride!!!

spot on, you nailed it...you recognized not only the call and response but how the caller and responder often changed places...Brilliant react !

I would bet you that people will still be marvelling at Led Zeppelin's alchemical music in 2073! You don't miss a trick matey and your reactions really do justice to this great music 🐐💜🎶

Nothing like Led Zeppelin blues. Thank you ❣☮

Awesome Album 💿 Brilliant Song 🎧

I remember the first time I heard Led Zeppelin…magic!

Robert is great on the Harmonica, then Jimmy comes in with the guitar solo, after of course, JP jones rips the keys first. All 3 took turns soloing.

The great John Paul Jones on organ. Bye the way you have a nice solid voice for this kind of thing.

Great job!!! JPJs to the bass and organ what Jimmy Page is to the guitar- he was one of the top bass session players in the same time frame as Page and he's a badass!

A blues classic by the great Willie Dixon. The British bands worshipped the old blues masters- they brought them back to us in a way.

It was a harmonica which transitions into guitar👍👍👍

Loving your channel so much! Been binge watching all your videos. I think you would love Since I’ve Been Loving You by Led Zeppelin and would kill to see your analysis of it!

I bought this album in early 1970 and took it into my grammar school's 6th form common room - we played it for weeks on end along with all the other good shit that was around at that time (Cream, Hendrix, Santana, etc.) kids today don't know what they're missing.

I read somewhere that drummers normally follow bass players but in LZ Bonham was instructed by Page to follow him. Bonham may have been reluctant to do that at first as their manager Peter Grant told him to do what Page said or get out of the band (though he said it in ruder terms). This must have been early days. Page and Bonham seemed to get on well after that. Led Zeppelin liked to get creative in their music which is one reason why they weren't keen to make singles records.

You're reacting to Led Zep and zooming in and paying close attention to detail, then commenting on all these things... And not just, "Ooh! Ahh!". You have a lot of substance here! SUBBED! 😎👍

The instrumental part of this legendary band Led Zeppelin!!! Man, you can't help but listen and be completely blown away by the extrodenary talent of the Greatest Rock Band in the History of Rock and Roll. Then you have the haunting, powerful voice of the great Robert Plant, the Golden God ✨️ They worked so well together ❤️ They had the cream of the crop, the best of the best!!! Totally sexy and completely mesmerizing!!!

They can play anything they want, remarkable musicians...

You know how many babies were made cuz of this song? Lots.

Another really fun reaction to an incredible song. And yeah that was a harp with an echo and then it kind of got overlapped and transitioned into a guitar with an echo. And did you notice that just about all of the solo work mimicked not only each other, but also a bird both whistling and then sometimes singing? Amazing. But I've heard you say this in at least four different reactions now, just keep in mind there are a lot of us out there, and believe me I'm an adequate singer but I've been able to record with incredibly gifted singers both in the studio and live and from my viewpoint, his voice and singing ability just got better and better every year. Of course it all ended too soon but you have to consider that his voice may have been changing just slightly like he may have lost like a half of a step or maybe a whole step Max over several years from the top of his range and that's it. What was changing more importantly was what he was choosing to do. It just got better and better and better. Check out the character that it has that's a bit more mature and a lot richer and in my view much better, even though I did not think so and I was young, but now I've felt this way for years, that last album, in through the outdoor, I kind of downplayed it when I was really young, cuz I thought it was just not quite as hard rocking. But now that I've had a long time and a lot more experience, it is a total masterpiece. Every level it's a masterpiece. But he's singing is definitely a part of that for sure.

Achilles last stand live!

Just checked this out I enjoyed your reaction. Zeppelin is the most versatile band ever. I would love to hear and see your opinion of Morissette Amon the most versatile singer today from Philippines.

They were the best blues band ever.. the best of everything ..

One of my favorites from LZ

I just love the way you break down the songs ❤ from Led Zeppelin ❤

Harmonica is matching guitar perfectly

Love this reaction. One section was Plant on harmonica and the other is Page on guitar. Check out Since I’ve been loving you, live at Madison Square Garden

I am so glad you are discovering Led Zeppelin and it is very gratifying that you appreciate their music so much . I am hoping you will continue . Have you done Houses of the Holy ?

Bluesy sensuality

the harmonica sort of slides into the guitar solo- Jimmy the Wizard- you would enjoy a show they did on Denmark TV

Plant plays the harmomica, apparently. I googled it and that's what came up. I thought maybe they'd brought Paul Butterfield of the Butterfield Blues Band. You must listen to them. They did an incredible 11 minute jam entitled "East-West" in 1966, from the album of the same name. Legendary, and seminal.

Cheers gent Great reaction Keep it coming TY

Yup! they sound just as good live!

I have to wonder why Plant abandoned the harmonica in later albums?

They sound just as good live.

You actually know what you're talking about unlike other reaction videos I have watched.

Great track. Love your reviews. Was watching to see your reaction to the organ and you did not disappoint.

First solo, organ Second solo Harmonica Third- guitar

Im really enjoying your reactions!! It is so great to see someone who delves in to the song, musicianship and lyrics...I've heard this song a gazillion times and it just dawned on me that the little birds are probably his lady friends...(wink, wink) even after all these years, I am stil learning about music! I know peeps are probably throwing all sorts of suggestions at you, but if you have not done Tobacco Road , Live -by Jonathan and Edward Winters...it is a MUST SEE. similar vibe, oozes talent!!

There was a harmonica solo, but then a double tracked Page solo on a Tele with tons of echo and a wah pedal cocked in treble position to make that really sharp tone. Page uses the wah pedal a lot - not just to make a “wah wah” sound - but also to affect the tone

Tightest band ever and by a long shot.

That sound was Jimmy's Gibson with a slide strapped on it ,.the tuning & sound Jimmy could produce from his gats is serious art in itself he was best hands down .

I never really liked Led Zep when I was young but now I,m older and a bit wiser i realised they are the greatest band that ever graced this earth

They are the GOAT!

It’s harmonica and guitar going at it amongst other sounds man. Plant is the harmonica king.

Led Zeppelin, best band ever! Page was a genius.

Many interviews from the band say that John Paul Jones and John Bonham play off each other more than the others. You will also see Page and plant play off each other. You will see this clearly when you watch live performances. Do yourself a huge favor and watch the entire 1973 MSG concert then later watch the entire O2 Arena concert from 2017. Also, keep in mind that in 20q7 concert, they had not played together for about 30 years.

By far my favorite LZ song

That was not a harmonica during the guitar solo. That was Jimmy Page belting out one of the greatest guitar solos ever recorded in the studio. Also I wanted to recommend the entire 26 minutes of Dazed and Confused from the Madison Square Garden concert. Must be viewed in it's entirety to catch the explosive guitar soloing towards the end. Prepare to be mind blown ! Hope you review it.

U could also see them do it live at the brat club 1969 trust me

Blues!

"Awesome"

As you’re now doing all Zep’s tracks in order, what happens when you get to ones you’ve already done (before you started them chronologically)? Are you going to do them again (for example No Quarter) or miss them out?

There’s synchronicity between Page & Plant you’re overlooking, that’s how blues should be sung, with depth & palpable emotion! That’s why they’re called the blues, but today maybe micro aggressions 😂 that’s my story & I’m sticking to it!

Look for White Boy Blues. Page, Clapton and Beck all blues guitar. Amazing

It is criminal!

You definitely need to react to "Bring it on Home"

Plus Page and Plant playing together with each other.

Led Zeppelin the greatest rock band ever. After all the music of the sixties we listened to. When Zeppelin released that first album music was never the same. Anybody that can play a guitar with a violin bow. Jimmy page is the goat

The blues were made for Zeppelin, and Zeppelin for the blues.

Organ solo (Paul-Jones)➡️harmonica solo (Plant)➡️guitar solo (Page)

Who else gives you three virtuoso solo instrumentals in one song - Hammond organ, harmonica and guitar

Robert Plant plays the Harmonica

I'd like to suggest a song by The Stones called Stray Cat Blues. Its the Stones at their grittiest. Also Monkey Man is pretty cool.

Oh we birds certainly noticed Plant to be sure. Plant is the one on the harmonica.

Those JPJ keys! They were also fearless. Robert Plant especially, they were just kids in their young 20s, right?

Birds is British slang for babes.

Just like the organ solo went to harmonica the harmonica solo wet to a guitar solo. Trust your ears you heard it right.

Oh yeah..I agree that you do have a great voice. What is your accent? I know it’s English, but is it London?

You should check out My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. It is a studio album by Brian Eno and David Byrne, released in February 1981. One of the first examples of sampling.

Plant played the harmonica on this track

It's quite funny your comment about metal music and preconceptions was my experience with rap till I started watching reaction videos admittedly it was Eminem but can't argue with his lyrical brilliance and melodic brilliance.

Sampling and reinterpretation are not the same. You know that.

Really psychedelic and heavy take on the blues - a little bit Hendrix like. Compare this version to Jeff Beck’s version on Truth. Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart are awesome, but they play it straight. Zep’s version is drenched in echo and the heavy drums and Plant’s voice create the uniquely Zep vibe. Also, check out the live version on April 27 at Fillmore West on RU-vid. The only word to describe it is “filthy”. Thanks!