Led Zeppelin - Achilles Last Stand (Live in Los Angeles 1977) 

in a worldwide poll Queen were voted the best band in history !

@@brithaddenhadden8383 In your dreams no way freddie is better than The mighty LED ZEP.

King Crimson

@@anonymouzzz4307 I also love Crimson, amazing band, but Zep had something else. To be honest, ranking bands is silly in general - especially when discussing absolute titans like King Crimson and Led Zeppelin. The two are both direct founders of rock music - there's not much higher you can go.

+Jason T. Like Mozat..Zep will live forever!

+Jason T. Amen!!!!!!!!

1,000 years from now, people will read mythology that these guys were the Gods on Mt Olympus of their time

+Jason T. Couldn't have said it better meself, my dear friend, And So It Is ,Now & forever, Indeed. Namaste. p )

+Austin Angler Fo real

Absolutely!

Roberto Gaspar, 👍. and Alice in C.

you can see new rock bands -watch X factor - ha ha ha

LED ZEPPELIN WERE THE FUCKING BEST BAND THAT EVER GRACED A STAGE!!! LISTEN TO THEIR MUSIC IT WAS LIGHT YEARS AHEAD OF ANYYHING ELSE BACK THEN AND STILL FAR SUPERIOR TO MODERN BANDS. NO BAND WILL EVER EPITOMIZE ROCK N ROLL LIKE LED ZEPPELIN!!! TRUE ROCK GODS.

OFTEN IMITATED BUT NEVER DUPLICATED!!!

Yup, they literally called him "Bonzo The Beast". And sometimes referred to him as "speedy" during recording sessions.

This theme does not exist without Bonzo, but the great composers only P&P

Bonzo Lead the way lead the WAY led the WAY!

I was so lucky for many years, I played on the East Coast with a drummer, Nick, of Mirage who played like that! He was naturally motivated to literally live drums. He’d have a 12 pack, and count off the songs at crazy fast tempos! Like this, but he was so fucked up, he was able. The rest of us got used to it. I WISH I had video of our shows. Thomas Adams 11:11®

All the while provoking earthquakes

I agree man! The best band to have walked the face of the earth!! I'm 27 but they are still my favourite band and I am gutted I will never see them. I don't know what it is but they are just special!! My friend who is 63 now was a full blown hippy and traveled Europe and the uk just chasing the festivals and he said they were just mind blowing. And he still rocks out now. Love it man! Will just have to do our best to educate people about the awesomeness of led zeppelin!!

Bazza G I got a feeling your gonna be listening 50 years from now...just like me lol. Your right; they are special. I got to see many of the greats and nobody came close to Zeppelin. I was supposed to go see a Duran Duran concert; but I had just seen Zep a few days earlier and I honestly forgot about Duran Duran although I had the tickets.. It really moves me hearing comments like yours. Peace

Bazza G way to go bud!! Your friend was right.

+Robert Worth I got see Page and Plant tour in the 90's, and watched Celebration Day from Wembley..Not 100% original Zep, but as close as you could get and still great.. Also, I think John would have been proud of Jason's career..

+blica 1 Yeah I missed that one damn it lol. Dunno why; but I did. Your right John would have been very proud of Jason.

Just what I thought

completely correct

My God you’re right__

To those people that never got to see Zep live I feel sorry for you because these 4 guys were so powerful and on groove. I saw both of their concerts in 79 at Knebworth. My God they were magnificent. 3.5 hours of heart pumping rock and all for £7.50 a ticket. There are some good rock bands around but these guys were from a different planet. I urge all rock fans to watch anything live by Zep and tell me that you are not amazed like I am. 🤘🏼🎸

I'll take Rush.

I agree.

That s fucking right, even over The Beatles

meigsman59 rush would be good but those vocals.....ahhhh

Feldschlacht VI Jefferson Airplane

***** He was so incredible playing doubles and triplets on the kick drum, with ONE PEDAL! Unfortunately, when he got drunk, he was also the world's biggest asshole! Still, he is a legend and an inspiration on my own drumming, since I hit the drums as hard as I can, and I'm terribly sorry that he died. I wish he were still with us. But, sober!

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He was the best.....so powerful

Yo BroMan he seems the drum right in the edge live, keeps you on your feet. ESP 77 be became more erratic but in a good way. He was really inspired by billy conham and wanted to get his snare work down and fills more spontaneous

Not gonna lie though he had some sloppy moments during the video

He was the glue that held everything together for sure!!

Machine gun like...... Hail, hail, John Henry Bonham !

Agree. But it wouldn’t have been the same without Bonham's eminent rhythm and hard work.

No

@Mike The Bike backwards?

It’s Jimmy’s personal fav

Pink Floyd were the greatest band inside the 1970s. Zeppelin were great collage artist's but pink Floyd reached a state of Nirvana that zeppelin could never. But zeppelin were good. They 'pieced together' great songs. 👍🏻💯

@@ProfessorKenneth "good" your seem to have your own bias to be honest

It was written in the US, Great Britain & Germany - all of it was recorded in Munich, West Germany in a basement studio in 18 days !

I think perhaps much of it by JPJ, no?

modcraft13 Presence was a Page album. Genius

modcraft13 It was a Page & Plant album - parts of songs were written in Great Britain & in the US. Of course, Bonham & Jones had their part in it - as they always did. It was for sure a guitar driven album. For the first time in the Zeppelin catalogue no real acoustic songs were featured on the album. Although there is an acoustic track buried on the song "Candy Store Rock." Presence was the first Led Zep album to sell slowly & the first one to hit the "bargain bin" in record stores. You can clearly hear the intensity & tension in the songs for sure, except for Tea For One. Robert Plant recorded all his parts while in a wheelchair.

JohnBindon I did not realize Plant was still in a wheel chair. That make the album even more amazing. Thanks

Page was the most sought after Sessions Guitarist in the UK- being sloppy was his Swagger 😎

Yeah, absolutely. When he's on, nobody is close. He's a guitar genius. He's constantly coming up with awesome musical ideas

Jimmy composes every time he plays...

@@James-nw1oj Well said! Rick and roll is supposed to be dirty. It's raw emotion. Those shredder guys are lame

yes, he was!

DUDE! Yes! I have always imagined this very thing

It definitely has some urgency to it.

Jones also had a SPECIAL talent....

i was at MSG as a 13 year old kid. this is my favorite song

this is Page and Bonzo at their best

Well as a drummer what's crazy is Bonham not at his best in this performance by JPJ is so locked into the timing Bonham is able to dig out of a few drifty moments and reconnect with the pocket nicely. They in the top 5 best Rhythm sections of all time. Just phenomenal.

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***** U R 2 Friend.

Grew up with Led Zep. This album is awasome

Linda Daugherty Me too, my friend and saw them right after High school.

Terrence Hewitt I agree Terrence - it's a very guitar driven & intense album - you can hear the tension in most of the songs ! Robert Plant recorded all his vocal from a wheelchair.

JohnBindon Thanks, I had herd that before, but unconfirmed.

And if you've ever held one of those Les Pauls, you know they're awkward beasts to sling around... heavy and not the most ergonomic ever*. Jimmy makes it look light as a feather. *as you can see from my profile pic, I'm a Strat player so I'm a little biased ::)

@@southern842 I'm interested

@@southern842 id say Pink Floyd would be the only one.

@@villainousappetite8841 Tool for me

There are “better” bands. Better being a subjective term. Personally, I think Metallica is better. I also think Rage Against the Machine (when they play) are better. That said, Led surely set a standard that few have been able to reach, and or maintain.

@@WWROABM Metallica and RATM? Sure music is subjective and all that bull but are you serious?

+Rob Allen Well your a brave guy doing acid and seeing themlive. I was pretty good with acid myself, but would never chance doing it and seeing Zep live...which I did 4 times but not on the acid lol TOooooooo much

@ Robert Worth I saw Zep live at Chicago Stadium, Jan. 1975 and I was doing MDA at the concert. It really was a trip especially when someone tore the door off it's hinges and a mass of humanity poured inside the Stadium like a stampede of buffalo lol Great times! :-)

Vanmyster94 lol...your a brave guy doing that and seeing Zep. Not me... maybe smoke a j but that's it.

Anyway Achilles...was written in '77

U were 12

***** i'm 40 and i'm way too young to have seen them! 5 year old when Bonzo passed. Did see Page&Plant at Reading though. Very lucky.

I always see you on Zeppelin stuff. I'm the same age so hopefully this year we might get to see page play live.

Guitar Tech I hope so too

***** I was 17 when John B. died and I was only 14 in 1977. I probably didn't even know who Led Zeppelin was in 77 and only started to enjoy them in my 20's. Sometimes I despise Robert Plant but there can be no denying that Led Zeppelin was a phenomenal band. These guys deserve to be called Legends. They were truly the Kings of Rock or at least Hard Rock. And Plant can barely even sing now. He's lost all of his gifts and his looks. Time is a thief. Look at what Plant and Page look like today and you really have to go back and give those guys their due because now they're just old men.

I know. I'm twelve.

You´re not telling me? Really!:)

+nimim. Marko Mikkilä Led Zeppelin were the original rockstars.

+nimim. Marko Mikkilä That's Jimmy Page!

Really:) I´m kidding in the first place:)

nimim. Marko Mikkilä He was already in the Yardbirds and a session ace by the time he formed the mighty Zep! Haha :)

I got to see them live only once. Best concert I ever saw. The energy and power radiating off those guys was incredible. They were and always will be the best band ever.

Being in the room, with them live, well that's the 4th Dimension of the experience.

Steve M. O

Hendricks woulda been proud of Page here.

@@DeanLaprete Hendrix sucks

@@liams706 He doesn't suck... But he surely isn't better than Jimmy Page.

Get along how do u define greatness! They both were great period!! For u to say Hendrix sucks makes u sound like a complete and UTTER Moron!!! Can I get a witness

the solo

Cocaine

The studio is a controlled environment. Any band live steps up the tempo. Nerves, drugs, etc. Zeppelin is no exception.

And page - as normal 😅 - is little bit out of tunning.

It's because speed rock was becoming increasingly popular and Mr. Page knew he had to keep up. Well, he did more than keep up. He led the way. lol

Wish I was there... i guess i was about 4 years behind in the scheme of things...bought tickets to Chicago 1980, then if it weren't for bad luck , would have no luck at all

same thing happened to me, my tickets would have been for the Maryland Landover show. We were all in school when the news came out, we were stunned, in disbelief, and totally sad. It was our moment, you remember what you were doing exactly when I heard that awful news:(

This song is phenomenal but that album also has some real shit on it like Tea for One

I love Moonie

Did it take half as long with 2 drummers playing it?:):):):) The Song Remains The Same LP is one of the best live albums of all time, but Moby Dick is such as waste of half a side of it when they could have included Since I've Been Loving You instead (for example)...

@@chrisdowell4268 they did include since i've been loving you

@@demolitionlover3443 not on the original 1976 they didn't.

From 1:05 to the end, my friend! *Fuego*

Damm True , John Henry Bonham was maybe 50 % of the Sound of this GENIUS Band ! Long Live Led Zeppelin

the importance between bonham and Jones is incredible, they are base of the Band

His son Jason does a fine job of playing his father's lines.

Bonzo's son Jason has played with them a few times. Especially the Celebration Day reunion concert in 07. Bonzo would be proud.

luv basses that's why Robert plant wouldn't reform the band, no bonzo no BAND

POPEYEUGUY 68 the studio version has three guitar tracks layered over it

POPEYEUGUY 68 It's not difficult actually, still this song has some of the best riffs ever.

Page is a one man guitar army

It's not difficult, but it's certainly not easy either.

But yeah, it is difficult in the sense of trying to condense 3 separate guitar tracks from the studio version into just 1 live.

Thanks well I wasnt a teen in the 70s but I love all the music of the 60s and the 70s I was born in 1970 so real didnt get too experience the whole beautiful music movement which was the 70 s or the earlier 60s which I know must have been fantastic aswell. My time was the 80s the early punk new wave and techno or computer beat music which then rolled into all the hair bands of the 80s. So it was alot of messed musics put together like pizza which was crazy back then. But when I first heard Led Zep I was in high school 18 at the time and this was when supposely metallica or alcohollica which ever name they prefered to call themselves at the tine this was when they were suppose to be the next big thing and just didnt quite get it done. But zep always grabbed me in each album and just blew me so far away. I never heard or even thought that a band like that could even exist or be real. They changed my ear in music forever. They were and in my opinion til this day still are the best. Thanks too them I learned more about and a greater appreciation for the music of the past like the 60s,70s and even further back. When music was real and alive and above all magical. Led inbodies all that beauty power and magic like no other band. Your right music today needs sone serious help.!!! I mean alot of help!!!! Theres very few bands if any now to have any promise aswell as all the other music genre in this time period. Todays music needs alot of work to be done! The music of the past speaks volumes over anything that ive heard now and led zep is the very top of the line cream of the crop you could go. I dont see anyone or band back then or now wrestling there crown away they are too me pure beautiful magic. Nothing even comes close. Just so powerful and beautiful at the same time. Like I said just pure Magic!!!!!! (:

angel ramon diaz I empathically connected to everything you said (and felt). Sorry you did not live Through those infamous times, point is...you got to appreciate the music of Led Zeppelin. I happen to believe they are the greatist groups(individually & collectively) of the 21st century(Jimmy Hendrix, in my opinion is in that category too). Sheer Magical Genius! I am open to all kinds of music, keep hoping to capture what I felt/feel towards Led Zep...I doubt magic/genius like that comes around too often. I know in 100 yrs.people will still be playing their music, teaching it in schools, etc. Powerful beyond measure & words....

Deborah Wagner- Tudor Not to burst your Zep bubble Deborah but Zep LEARNED plenty from those who preceded them. Matter of fact, if you listen to the first three albums, Zep took plenty from other musical bands, ideas, etc....They were not "holy" original. Start listening to bands like Yes and Genesis from that 70's period, more in the prog rock vein, and you will find even more imaginative and transcendent rock music than you thought possible.

Byron Gordon I agree with you there they learned from a lot of groups and influences previously rather blues or folk or old rock bands ranging from Robert Johnson, muddy waters, Jonnie Mitchell , Hendrix's , the doors etc. The list is huge. But through those influences they did developed there own style and way too play. Also they became these great sponges of musical knowledge. They could absorb from any band or musical artist or medium. Like genesis as you mentioned pink floyd Crosby still and Nash Stevie wonder fleet wood Mac etc. This list is long too of what musical they were able too absorb and capture!!!! But that's another reason why I think of them as the best and yet so magical!!!

angel ramon diaz Yeah Ive always been impressed that they played so many styles,most bands only have one sound.

Giambattista Vico ...agreed!

John Henry Bohnam

Not ONLY was JohnPaul totally in sync with Bonzo, BUT weaving in and out of Page's brilliance!

Hail hail .J.P.J sum of all parts : > ZEP!

Backbone to this song

All the fun to have...

It makes me feel like I'm riding a horse with an army going to conquer a town.

I feel like I am a child again in the 70s watching 'The Flashing Blade' on TV.

They will get you eventually, when the song is finish and the horse drop dead.

John Bonham is the definition of immortal.

+D C Awesome

+D C Saw them in Seattle in 77. in 75 in Vancouver and in 1970 Montreal. I know what you mean.

***** . . . I really like hearing from you all who have seen them playing live while they were still the original 4. I did get to see Page and Plant at Knoxville, TN in the 90's, which was a treat. I'm definitely glad we can watch these earlier video's. Every album (and every single song) they produced was unquestionably a classic, their music is uplifting in a way that puts your mood in a positive spin.

+D C Saw them in April, 1977. two nights at Riverfront Coliseum. The best concert I've ever seen. Completely eclipses the Who show I saw in 1979, where I came close to losing my life. (I never want to go thru horror like that again)!

i was up in the mezzanine at madison square garden at the saturday night performance in 73. maggie bell opened.. footage was used in their movie "the song remains the same". great show.

Hes the reason why the song has such a fucking good powerful bassline man

This song is heavy! They were so, so, so good! There will never be another.......

And that is an 8-string bass - JPJ was and is an amazing musician. Zeppelin would have never been Zeppelin without him. He was just as indispensable as Bonzo.

Wow, I'd never heard that before, but I did hear that Jimmy Page showed the song's scale to JPJ.

where'd you hear that? sure, Page wrote the song but I doubt he would presume to tell JPJ what to play.