Led Zeppelin - Communication Breakdown Promo - 1969 

Led Zeppelin: the greatest band of all-time. Simple as that.

I guess you're not ready for this, but your kids are gonna love it.

My god..Plant's voice is tearing through those people like an air raid siren..

Plant and Bonham barely were out of their teens at this gig. JPJ was 23. Page was 25. Let that sink in. They walked out on that stage that day in front of a dead fish of an audience and produced two mind shattering versions of songs that were 10 years ahead of their time. People talk about how revolutionary Hendrix was and rightfully so. But nothing in rock history compares to early live Led Zep.

In 1969 Zeppelin were still playing small clubs and universities in the UK. I saw them in April 1969 in a hall behind a pub called The Roundhouse in Dagenham, Essex that held about 300 people. The stage was tiny and about two feet high! This was before the second album so their set was most of the first album plus Killing Floor, Train Kept a- Rollin' and Moby Dick. Imagine being a couple of feet away from Zeppelin, the noise was extraordinary. I remember Plant being tall and thin with wild corkscrew hair and Page's guitar hanging down to his knees, I'd never seen anyone playing guitar like that before. They were supported by the wonderful Blodwyn Pig. Six months later the second album came out and the rest is history. Those were great days.

Holy fuck..John Paul Jones was absolutely killing it on those bass runs! And the audience was like 😳😳😳

The energy of this performance is octane level. The subdued audience doesn't seem to be tuned into the pure magic they are experiencing.

Even in a sterile setting, the band plays like they're in Rio. They put their whole heart into it. Fantastic!!!!

This was 1969, and this is pretty much the first band that melted people's faces. Even by today's standards this is pretty heavy music. Once you add Bonham's brutal drum smashing and Plant's vocal to the refinement of Page and Jones, they all pushed each other over the edge and just melted faces. It's a beautiful thing.

This video never gets old. If it’s a shitty day for ya? Watch this performance.

I am not sure that any band could play like this today. The raw energy and precise skill that all of them had just seemed like one entity producing music.

The greatest band to have ever graced this planet.

The audience mood, completely unsure and bewildered. Little did they know the actual weight this heavy LED ZEPPELIN.

Man , over fifty years later , and one can still feel the energy. Intense.

I'm 13 years old but I love this group🤘🏻

Plant was 21 here and Page 25. I’m 34 and I’d consider these kids now hahaha. And they just come out there and melt your face off. Unbelievable. No act today at this age can come even close to this kind of live performance

the crowd had no idea they were watching the greatest Rock band in history,,,,,little did they know,

These guys were way ahead of their time! But they are timeless! The greatest hard rock band of all time without a doubt!

It's almost unbelievable how balls-out Rockin' that set is! The French, as a nation, were simply stunned that day.

In front of that crowd, I admire their perseverance. But I saw them in 1970 in a huge room -- Madison Square Garden. The place was jammed, the crowd was wired, and they were fantastic. So very different from this performance. By then, Jimmy had a wall of Marshall stacks. JPJ also played a Hammond organ for a few songs. Bonham had a few more kit, including double bass drums. Robert played the Garden's massive sound system like an instrument, using more silence to allow the room to echo back like a huge cavern. It was an exciting, mind-blowing experience and no one sat on their hands. We left that hall dazed and confused, and a bit wobbly on the pegs, but feeling like we all had shared something unique and very special. Being part of this huge crowd of freaks walking up 8th Avenue, ears buzzing, with all of us grinning like loonies, I wish that I were 16 again and could do it once more -- like a Groundhog Day moment!

Vintage Led Zeppelin, there’s nothing like it. Wish I could’ve seen these guys in concert!!

Boham is a beast on drums!

Greatest band of all time

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that Bonham is an absolute legend. Dazed and confused is the standout here but what most don’t realise is he is only just out of his teens here at around the age of 20. No surprise he still tops every best drummer poll in perpetuity and rightly so.

Music was so raw and pure back then ... The atmosphere in the late 60's and early 70's is beyond words .

Damn Robert’s voice in the early days was incredible

John Paul Jones has got to be the most underrated bassist. Dazed spotlights his steady hypersonic speed.

Zeppelin is unbelievable. BEST ROCK BAND OF ALL TIME. 🕊✌🏼🍃

The people in the audience couldn’t comprehend this in early 1969! These guys were MONSTERS! Ultra-talented monsters! And the notes Plant was hitting! Jeez!

Good god.. they were so damn good 👍🏻. I live near Plant and see him about occasionally. He is polite and unassuming. To see him now in his seventies it is incredible to think of this amazing journey he has been on

This band has potential!

Glad I grew up in the 60's & 70's no one can ever experience such an awesome time.

Robert Plant was only 21 years old here, truly impressive

Nobody laid it down as HEAVY as Zeppelin...........EVER!

Dazed and Confused gave me chills.

Loving the Bonzo vibe on this one....already a master, they were so lucky to have him. Small kit, big sound, loads of confidence and a ton of flair with those right hand twirls! One in a billion.

The band's chemistry comes about so effortlessly.

i love how the audience could not see what they were seeing. history in the making.

Just listened to this again. Can’t be any better than this. The moves, Plant, page, so genious, Bonham , Jones the whole scene absolute genious!M❤️💚🖤🤍🧡💛💜💞

Wow! WOW! What talent! Amazing performance. The audience is surreal.

This is HISTORY, people !!!!!!!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵

They were soooo good at this point. Plant had an unbelievable voice.

"... We got together for the first time and we'd never played together. Someone asked if we knew any songs that we could all play. We knew. Someone said train kept a rolling all night long. They had all played that before. We started playing... And the sound was unbelievable!"- John Paul Jones on led Zeppelin's first session

to see them around this time would have been absolutely incredible.

I think the fact that four dudes with such energy and godly musical talents standing in front of a bunch of unpleasured people just makes it that much cooler of a video

What I wouldn't give to have been at one of these early shows. What raw power. Individually they are beasts. As a group, I can't even put it into words. WOW!!!

Raw, powerful & untouchable in rock music history

You put any band up against these guys at the height of their powers and the Mighty Zeppelin prevails. Four perfect band members for each other. Absolutely perfect.

Epic talent, there was nothing before and there will never be anything after led Zeppelin.

Four Gods of Rock 🐉🎸🥁🎹🎤 ! What a perfection!

I was so blessed to see them 3 times. All four of them are off the chart talented. Plant's vocal command is like no other, he plays his instrument beyond a master level. They are/were the best

John Bonham was an animal that could never be contained. This man was just a monster on the drums🥁❤️👍💯

They were great from the moment they got together. And it wasn't easy performing in front of zombies.

This is so amazing and ahead of its time. Audience had absolutely no idea what to make of them yet. Little did they know....

The isolated camera shots of the people in the crowd was hilarious. Some of them looked like they're old enough to be my grandparents. Awesome!

Audience don't seem to appreciate that they are witnessing the birth of one of the greatest rock bands to ever draw breath.

Jimmy was an animal back then. Using all modern sounds, technology, and expressive expedience's of that time to drill new ideas into the music of that time. Jimmy was a major player of then, and now, into todays musical influence. His best performances were much better than anyone else's. And oh yeah, Plant, Jones, and Bonham were stunning performers as well.

Pure raw energy...Led Zeppelin!!!

The fashions, music, and the looks. I am so jealous of Mom's generation!!!!!😎❤

Brilliant to see JPJ playing amazingly well up close. It's rare to see film of him. He's often forgotten by the cameramen. Greatest band ever!

Early Zeppelin..... much love for these guys!

I saw them in 1971 at Dorton Arena in Raleigh NC..I got up near the stage with my camera and told the security guys I was with The News And Observer and they the me through..I stood right behind John Paul Jones and took pictures..He was playing "Your time is gonna Come" on the B3 and playing bass pedals..I was 15 and very humbled and impressed..JPJ very amazing musician..

Just WOW 😲 That raw sound and attack is incredible.

What a video!! You guys hear John Paul Jones on this! Freaking awesome. You can hear his technique and Bass Kung Fu soooo very well. I don't know how you can watch this and not see how their the best band to ever produce something called Rock Music. Improvisation, artistry, super tight, everything you needs in this.

John Paul Jones is sooo underrated. His stability supported the entire band and certainly allowed for Page and Plant to go off script while allowing Bonham freedom to get into his earth shattering fills and propel the band like none other during these early days of what would become Heavy Metal.

The whole show is like Marty McFly going haywire at the end of Johnny B Goode at the prom, right down to the audience reaction

tough crowd! great performance

The greatest band in music history!goosebumps!

More of their shows should had been filmed.

Led Zeppelin ... the juggernaut of Valhalla, simply BRILLIANT 👏 👌 😀 the best band EVER.

Wow. Wow because that was so good, and wow because here I am, eleven years after this video was uploaded of a performance 51 years ago, commenting on how energetic, driving, creative and swinging that was. To think that I lived at the same time as these four people!!

One of the things that extra impressive about Zeppelin in late 60s is that Bonham and Plant were like 19-20 years old. That is really young and gets lost on people. Bonham in particular, at such a young age, is what every drummer in the world wanted to sound like.

Damn, Jimmys‘ Les Paul still had a lot of red in the sunburst at this point!

I love how Jonesy almost never takes his eyes off of Bonham. 🤘

OUTSTANDING!!! THANK YOU!!!

This was epic footage of Zeppelin!! One of the best live performances I seen by them!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘

1969 been together about a year. Robert Plant being the definition of Rock God, Bonham being the definition of Rock drummer, Jimmy being the definition of Rock guitar wizard, and JPJ the definition of brilliantly gifted silent bass player in the background. Damn, these guys were good😍😍😍😍

Class, style, extreme talent, and no tattoos.

True masterpiece of epic talent, raw and no filters, synthesizers, digital. I saw them in Philadelphia. Wonderful and truly sad that hungry, raw music talent seems less available.

Plant’s voice is incredible.

The big heavy rolling combos in Dazed an CONFUSED Bonzo's sound is uniquely his own!!

!!!MARAVILLOSOS E INOLVIDABLES ZEPPELIN!!...!!LA MEJOR VOZ, LA MEJOR GUITARRA, LOS MEJORES MÚSICOS!!...!!Y LOS MÁS BELLOS!!..GRACIAS POR ESTE VIDEO.

The best R&R group of all time!!

Jimmy è un talento puro, incredibile veramente 👋👋👋 anche usare l arco di violino e non rovinare le corde della chitarra! Questo modo di suonare è assolutamente geniale, nessuno sarà mai come lui.

The audience has never seen, felt, touched, tasted, or heard anything remotely close to what actually is before them. They are dumbfounded in amazement. And to think how much more was to come . At this time the Mighty Led Zeppelin had it together. When they were still striving to be the greatest

Man plant’s vocals in those first few years. Incredible. He lost a lot of that ability after about 1973-1974 or so but was still great. Just that youthful, strong voice he had in the early days was unmatched.

"Communication Breakdown" is the perfect double entendre' to describe this French audience's reaction! Those people were shook And shocked. It had to be damn loud in that room and I'm surprised people weren't covering their ears! They almost look like cardboard cutouts instead of people. This was for a TV show in Paris called "Tous en scène".

SUPER FANTASTIC , FANTASTIC SUPER the BEST ! ! ! Музыкальный ШЕДЕВР - вписаный в ИСТОРИЮ и в ВЕЧНОСТЬ . . .

Bonzo's punk rock drum beats! Absolutely stunning ahead of it's time for drummer's of all genre of rock.

4:54 only jimmy page can calmly waltz to center stage while playing such an iconic riff

Seeing them live in 69 was eye opening.. JP's licks were OVERWHELMING..

The greatest rock band ever to grace this, or any other planet. Glad I got to see them several times in the States between '70 and '77.

Wow the outfits!!! I have been looking and looking for this clip and all I had to do was type in Led Zeppelin live 1969.. yeesh.

LZ = No.1 rock band of all time.

I just LOVE how everyone's sitting there,acting like their BORED out of their freaking MINDS,failing to realize they are all WITNESSING one of the LEGENDARY ROCK-BANDS of ALL TIME PERFORM!?!?! I'd grab my time-machine and go BACK to that time and day,and be HEADBANGING right along with Robert in the front row there while everyone AROUND me would be staring at me like "WTH is HIS problem? " LOL.

Amazing drums, unbelievable on that set. Amazing group!

Why doesn't this have more views?

Jonesy & Bonzo held Led Zeppelin tight. THE Best rhythm section.Period.

This was incredible!! Just wish I'd been old enough to have been there! 🎸🎸🎸

That was so fun to watch. I loved the interaction between the vocal and guitar.