JOHN BONHAM IS AN ALIEN | Led Zeppelin - Dazed and Confused | Reaction 

When I was young I told my dad I wanted to be a drummer, he put on the Zeppelin 1 album and left me alone. I've been drumming for 30 years now. Bonzo is just different.

He’s playing that guitar with a violin bow! Genius!

Jimmy made those sounds with a violin bow. On his guitar. A wah pedal and his guitar. That’s it. Genius.

If you haven't listened to When The Levee Breaks you have no idea what Bonzo was capable of. He was the most astonishing drummer ever. His arms were so strong to play like that he probably could've bench pressed a freaking Mack truck without breaking a sweat.

The best way to experience Zeppelin is to watch their concert film "The Song Remains the Same". There is a 25 minute version of Dazed and Confused that will blow your mind. Also keep in mind that during the "70"s a Led Zeppelin concert was typically over 3 hours long and they sustained this intensity through the whole show. Absolutely amazing.

When the bowed guitar section ends and the entire band comes back in for that "rave up" it gets me every time. The live versions of that part are almost always mind blowing too.

When they assembled in August of ‘68, it was Devine Intervention - personified. Many of their contemporaries LOATHED them after they formed. Why, you may ask? Well…they invented the very thing all the other bands were looking for: the next new thing. Jeff Beck actually shed tears when Jim played a promotional version of You Shook Me for him. The one thing Jeff didn’t have on his version of the very same song was JOHN BONHAM…. hence Jeff’s tears.

If you ever have the time, the 28 minute live version of this from 1973 contains the greatest guitar solo ever recorded!

Led zeppelin is a feeling you get when you hear them! Thats what makes them rock gods!

You have no idea how similar your initial reaction(s) to Zeppelin are compared to us when we were kids in 6th/7th grade (some even younger) when we heard Zeppelin for either the 1st time or hearing any number of their legendary tunes for the 1st time. All I can say is you're on the right path, or the same path as us young Zeppelin freaks. PEACE.

RIP John Henry Bonham, He didn't just play the drums, He assaulted us with the drums, in the best possible way.

Hun I did mention the live...at Danmark Radio, 1969. They were so young. Robert only 20/21 and sounded like this!!! Once you do this live, you'll get a surprise as to how Jimmy makes those "eery" sounds with the guitar! Absolutely incredible and it's one of my favourites of all time! So glad you loved it

Just saying -- this Led Zeppelin first album came out a year before the first Black Sabbath album. So, Bill Ward took a page out of the John Bonham/Led Zeppelin book for Black Sabbath's first album. This song Dazed and Confused came out prior to Led Zeppelin's song Whole Lotta Love, as well. Love your reaction.

This is a drum master class… it sounds like bonzo has like 100 drums in his kit. “This is mayhem!” Incredible Rx ❤

Page with a violin bow on an electric guitar is how he gets that sound.

Thank you ; i am 65 yrs old and saw them live in Vancouver Canada 1975 then Pink Floyd 2 months later ; what a time and so refreshing to watch your reaction ❤

On their first album this amazing track follows You Shook Me. Led Zeppelin take you to a place you can only imagine in your wildest rock dreams. I love your appreciation of my most favourite music ever.

Headphones recommended! Jimmy using a cello bow on his guitar to make those eerie sounds.

"They naturally FUSED together..." and created a Nuclear EXPLOSION !💥

Damn, if you could move to headphone’s, your experience would be 10 fold.

There's so much greatness in this song but I think it is anchored by John Paul Jones' bass line. Those first couple of notes set the mood.

Zeppelin is great live or studio. It’s good to do both. Check out When the Levee Breaks or In My Time of Dying by them.

Listen to the drums and bass playing off each other during the slow part! Awesomeness

Great reaction, but you really ought to try headphones, your missing alot. Sounds way better. You have Jimmy Page in one ear and John Bonham in the other. Amazing!

I walked down the Road where Jimmy Page used to live today, just up the road from me. Funny fact one of my distant ex boyfriends mum, used to date Jimmy in the 60s. If things had worked out differently, for both myself and her, I could've been Jimmys daughter in law!! 🤣

I believe that Jimi Page used a violin bow on this song and some others. He also uses an oscillator at some point as well. On Moby Dick John Bonham uses his bare hands on drums and Jimi and Robert do this call and response thing with Jimi’s guitar and Roberts voice. They were very innovative. All or most of the above can be seen on The Song Remains The Same as mentioned earlier. You will love it!

There is a live version but studio versions of most songs are best at times in order to get the true feel of it and then check out the live versions later, but some songs are born on the stage also. ..The film '''The Song Remains The Same Madison Square Garden 1973 ''' is full of many good ones ..Definably a go to for live Zep and Dazed&Confused is on that one

Bonzo beat the drums like they said something bad about his mother. ❤🎉

No one could unleash the full power of rock and roll quite the way Led Zeppelin did and i knew it way back in the day when i was a kid back in the late 1970s. You would go to a party and a Zeppelin song would come on and it would get real quiet everyone stopped talking and listened. You just knew they were special.

The Lemon Song

Bonzo not only PLAYED like a monster, he used the biggest sticks they made. They called them "trees."

Best part is at 9:05 where you said "John Bonham is a God" and I'm thinking in 30 more seconds get ready for the knock-out blow. The best way to describe that performance is, relentless.

You are inspiration , I'm so glad you embrace artistry of classics. I saw them 6 times in the 70's and it was a nice ride. So happy you as a you man appreciate it with an open mind

"So that's getting added to the playlist." I LOVE IT

He took, "Beating to My Own Drum" to a Cosmic Epic Level. There are no words. Gramps62

I love your reactions. You dig into why you like what you're hearing. Next Led Zep song needs to be No Quarter. You won't be disappointed.

You're right, it is not arguable.... so much fun to see you get into this. Zepplin did "Concept Albums" a thing back in the day, a concept, all tracks telling a story. It has depth. Dazed and Confuzed gives expression to the mood of the day, very cathartic. Jimmy Page playing that guitar and Jon of course, you listen to it stoned enough, it stays stuck in your head and you can recall it. This is why a lot of people in my age range were not impressed with some more modern music. We were spoiled. Then add the multiple instramental bands we had at the time like Emerson, Lake and Palmer or the Moody Blues. When they got so deep into their instruments, they channeled divine energy. YES and Jethro Tul more great music to check out. They were like open jam sessions.

The word plane kinda noise in the middle is Jimmy page playing electric guitar with. Cello bow, yes really!!!. His live bow solos are the stuff of legend, the best live version of this is an epic 29 minute version from msg 73, it recently got taken off RU-vid though

Man, I grew up with this music having first heard this album when it was released and I was 8 years old and I've been a Led Head ever since. That's one of the few benefits of having older siblings! I took it for granted. Watching young folk like you react to it gives me a new, fresh sense of appreciation for the beauty and majesty of this fantastic music. In regards to song credits and attribution... Once upon a time songs were readily shared and passed around. Think of the bards of earlier times or singing cowboys around a fire. Another would learn a song and take it and perform it. It wasn't until technology and real money was involved that anybody gave much of a damn about credit. Early rock... Elvis, Led Zep, many others, were on the cusp of this change in attitude about credit. I've not heard the original of this song, but I have heard some of the original blues songs Zeppelin reworked. The songs were significantly modified. So much so that other than the most basic portion there are few similarities. This too is in part due to technology. Howlin Wolf didn't have a bassist or a drummer or an electric guitar or keyboard, nor the recording equipment available to Page et al.

This is the perfect reaction to this song. RIP John Bonham. John is my DAWG dog!

Just subscribed, great reaction to Zeppelin, highly recommend When the Levee Breaks, Bonham's drumming in that song was used alot in sampling.

There's a concert movie called the song remains the same, but they also have a song with that name.

My friend- you need earbuds or headphones to really appreciate the sound! Great reaction !

This is perhaps my favourite song of the mighty Led Zep. This track slays: there is no other word for it

You are one person that I wished you could have seen them, by the way you talk about them. I've seen them 5 times and every one of them was special.

Great reaction -- this song by Led Zeppelin came out a full year prior to the first Black Sabbath album, which featured "War Pigs." Just sharing info. Clearly Black Sabbath was heavily influenced by Led Zeppelin. 😮

I have an echo on my end. Just letting you know my friend. Can’t go wrong with the GOATS!

Ahhh, you started discovering great music 1 month ago. Well, get ready! There is so much to discover! Here for it!

Bonham and Ward are lived within a few miles of each other growing up. The talent that was in and around Birmingham England at that time was absolutely unbelievable

Bonham was so damn young when they recorded that first album, too. Sheer talent....

Middle section in “Whole Lotta Love” does take you on a journey on the drums man.

Led Zep best band ever. I'd suggest listening with headphones; their music is a bonafide sonic experience!

In order to fully appreciate this track, you must witness it in a stage performance. Page's use of a Cello bow on his electric lead guitar is noteworthy.

Zeppelin is my favorite band to listen to when doing art work, they take my creative mind to a place no other music can. They are right next to Queen as my vote for G.O.A.T.

This is indeed based on yet another classic old Blues song.

Talk about feeling the music!

FACTS: Robert Plant was only 20 years old when he recorded this! John Bonham worked as a bricklayer, so had strong arms and hands. Jimmy Page was a sought-out session musician as well as lead guitarist of The Yardbirds in the mid-60s (that band also had Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton as lead guitarists, but not all at the same time). Some of he mysterious guitar sounds on this track were produced by Page playing his Fender Telecaster with a cello bow!

I watch a lot of reaction videos from different folks. You have great insight and instincts about these songs. ✌️🎶

Happy to be the 1k on the likes 🙂

Bonham is a god. This recording IS mayhem- awesome comment. The freaking TEXTURE of the production is impeccable. Year of my grad from high schol, lol. U know now where my mind was formed lolol..

Its like four musicians sharing the same mind.

It's something else to see how the music hits you, you just let it! LOVE IT. Wasn't this channel 4 dude's or so sitting on couches doing reactions? So you're the only one left? I was subbed to you guys with my old channel. Happy to sub again with my new channel. LOVE your reactions. Reminds me of myself and how I react to GOOD music. It's a magical experience when it comes in the right way. AND seeing it in someone else is super entertaining as well. 🌄Have a blessed day!

If you want to experience this the way I did when this was brand new then you need to paint the walls black, dig up some wild posters, and turn on the blk light, oh and get high. That was just the beginning for me. Music just kept coming for a couple decades. Still listening at 67. Glad you youngsters are enjoying!

Goosebumps

The Zep was four superstar musicians. They were one of the original Supergroups.

Jimmy Page was one of the guitarists in the band “The Yardbirds”. When the band broke up he wanted to continue using the name “The Yardbirds” with new members but was told no so he started a whole new band which became Led Zeppelin.

Zeppelin didn't release singles so no "charting" of songs, thus, you won't have sales revenue of A SONG.

Jimmy Page was in YARDBIRDS Among others, Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck🎸🎸🎸

Great great reaction and yes I hear the War Pigs similarity yup! Off to another one of your reactions just don’t know which one next :)

Don’t wanna make you jelly or anything (but I’m fkg elderly now so that’s the trade-off)😘 I saw them live in ‘73 at Tampa stadium with about 60,000 fans they played everything they’d put out til that point - of course they jammed the fk out of everything😆 We LOVED it but honestly at 18 I think I was too young to fully appreciate what insane MUSICIANS they were. -Btw have you seen/heard Plant LATELY?! I randomly caught a live performance video about 5 years ago and it STILL blew my mind. Unbelievable lifelong killer talent.

For over 50 yrs.Ive been getting the Led out all I can say is THEY MESMERIZE ME,with every song the deeper you go into the rabbit hole the more enchanted you get😮

Song came on as if it was straight from a graveyard nightmare. No escape.

Try the lemon song if you haven't heard it - it'll stay with you - remember their first album, recorded in '68, took a mere 30 hours . . !

So glad I found your channel. Yes…The Greatest Rock Band Ever! I can’t wait to binge all your videos.

Power and mysterious song .

Now imagine that -- cranked up to 10, sound saturating the entire room, and everyone is stoned or drunk or in some way in some altered state. And while you are extolling Bonzo's drumming, this is really Page's song.

Best drummer ever. It is what it is. I can't deny it

Made my week! 😀

Theres a book called, "Hammer of the Gods". If memory serves it was written by their tour manager, who was also Bonzos best friend.Great book! Edit: "Stairway to Heaven" is the book. HotG is a book about zepplin but a shitty one.

LZ never made a bad song. If you would ask for my favourite one, I'' ll tell you there are a lot. But I wanna tell you, how it was in the 70 th for us young folk. We had no Tv shows or concerts ( I think they were only 1 or 2 times in germany). So we bought the LPs and listened hours and hours. LZ wasn't often played on the radio, bc. their songs were too long. Can you imagine what it means now for us oldies to watch them on yt, their concerts, interviews, all what was recorded during those days. I'm so thankful for that. And I like how you enjoy it too.!!

Either one live will blow your mind they really had a lot of room to stretch it to go on jimmy is using a 🎻 bow and all my God

Dude, you get Zeppelin, thank you

They made the first album after meeting together as group three weeks earlier. Three weeks and the recorded this epic,epic, epic composition. Good lawrd.

The stretch right before he says "this is mayhem" is what no other rock band, or band ever, is what zep could do, did do, and all the others didn't. And it wasnt/isnt just out of control noise.

Bernard Purdie was a big influence. I was shocked when I dug in the crates.

That's why you need to check out the live version from Madison Square Garden 1973

I hope you realize that break in the middle he's playing the guitar with a violin bow!

No bio pics for Zeppelin, but check out "How the West Was Won" concert footage. Not quite as polished and contrived as "The Song Remains The Same, but real rock and roll improv through the years.

Whole lotta love

10 minutes and 19 seconds and they just concluded that whole long crazy Journey they gone and then they just blasted for so long and I don't know if you noticed but John Bonham was actually speeding it up. But anyway you stopped and made the connection to War Pigs by Black Sabbath and the funny thing is I've never really thought about that before. But at least right at that moment? I totally get it man I totally get it, it's a similar vibe right at that point. That's so cool you made that connection.

That is exactly what Jimmy Page said in a interview with Charlie Ross. There was one drummer. That would possibly replace him his name was carmine appiece. But like Jimmy Page said. No drama can mix it up with different concerts like john bonham could

I’ve been listening to this shit forever and I never connected it to War Pigs…..ABSOLUTELY mate!!!!

Headphones required!!!! The "panning" from L-R is really mesmerizing experience.

Jimmy's actually playing his guitar with a violin bow that's

If you want to hear a virtuoso performance by the Mighty Bonham...FOUR STICKS. The song is entirely driven by the drums. My father (a drummer) loves that song. He is not a rock fan. He loves that song. OH! And Robert Plant was 19/20 when he recorded the first Zep album. Just a baby...with an old soul voice.

Even though the first album was recorded in 1968 there’s a lot of find details in the music they can only be Appreciated by quality headphones

The blues roots and the use of dynamics in the arrangement are definitely common ground between this and "War Pigs". Both of these came out close to the same time...

Good call on the War Pigs comparison. Both songs have amazing drum fills.

There's the power of music

Nice analysis man