Led Zeppelin Documentary - The Untold Story of The New Yardbirds 

This documentary is better than any i've seen. Been a Zep superfan for 50 years and never realized how much i didn't know. Very impressed sir!! much love from Massachusetts ❤️🇺🇸

This is the most in-depth Led Zeppelin documentary ever. Thank you!

The documentary started in such a dramatic tone lol It's like I'm about to watch an action-packed thriller

What a beautifully researched and presented documentary. Not only do you deliver a deeper than deep dive but you also succeed in invoking the times and in doing so take the viewer with you on an intimate and satisfying journey. Many congratulations

@JCM, another incredible video! Thank you so much!

Another great episode. Thank so much,JCM! ✌️

This dude is the King of The Zeppelin Documentaries, et. al

Stunning documentary JCM, absolutely stunning, thank you..👏👏👏

I’ve been watching all of your stellar Zeps vids. This Presence one might be my favorite. You have the ability to put the viewer right back in the day. Keep up the great work!

AMAZING - just when I thought I had seen it all, this documentary blew everything else out of the water - THANK YOU!!!

Wonderful video. I love to see that I have a new video from you. Made my Saturday night.

Nice job---great of you to include all the session dates----good research.

Wow! What a great video. I‘m very impressed of your idea to go far back in time and put all pieces together. What I really love about LZ is that this band only existed for a limited time of 12 years, and there still something hidden and new in their story to come up with.

only minutes into this, and yet I have to pause and salute you my friend. Brilliant historian and a godsend for us who feel the Zeppelin legacy misses a proper outside look in deep, very deep, one that perhaps only Beatles fans are lucky to get

Great work JCM. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

Fantastic stuff!! Thank you very much for doing this great documentary!!❤

I've been a zeppelin fan since I was 12 getting the first two re ordered for my birthday,I'm now 60 and still adore them ,your films are so well done I just wanted to commend you o your detail and reashearch thank you and I am sure with this quality of work you are bou d to succeed

Excellent job. Very informative and enjoyable. Thought I knew everything about Zep but found something new in this. Thank you.

Heck yeah, Jose! Can’t wait!

Fantastic as always, JCM!! 👍👍

Excellent "Danger Money" reference! UK were such a great band

Very well done. And a great concept. Showing the proximity of the various venues in Soho was also clever - it was a small world in those days, with Soho being the London epicentre. Indeed, the Yardbirds first album was recorded at the Marquee on the first night of opening its new location at 90 Wardour Street. The triple header bill started with them, then Long John Baldry, and Sonny Boy Williamson. Just a few minor things to add: - In the photo of Mike Leander, that is Marianne Faithfull next to him. - In the band pictured in from on the Flamingo, that is Zoot Money's Big Roll Band, which included Andy Summers (later of the Police) and Colin Allen (later w/John Mayall, Stone the Crows, and Focus). It was a gig at the Flamingo where Zoot Money's band and the Yardbirds shared the bill that Eric Clapton first saw a Les Paul in person. Summers had purchased it for £80 at a music shop a few minutes' walk away and suggested Clapton get the other one the shop had. He did and used it during his time with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. After it was stolen during Cream rehearsals, Summers, who decided he wanted a single coil pick-up sound (i.e., Fender) sold his Les Paul to Clapton for triple what he had paid for it. It too would get stolen, which led to Clapton using his famed painted Gibson SG, 'The Fool'. - For Jet Harris & Tony Meehan there is a photo of the Shadows, their former band. - Worth noting that John McLaughlin was on the New Vaudeville Band's 'Winchester Cathedral' as a session player. Apparently that session prompted him to give up studio work and pursue a more fulfilling career. - 'How Many More Times' is, as you note, based on Page's riff from 'Smokestack Lightning' (a tune that appeared also on 'Five Live Yardbirds'), but the vocal roots of the tune come from Howlin' Wolf's 'How Many More Years'. Robert Plant wasn't shy on 'borrowing' the lyrics of others (and assuming credit), the most notorious examples being 'The Lemon Song' (orig. Howlin' Wolf's 'Killing Floor') and 'Whole Lotta Love' (from Willie Dixon's 'You Need Love' made popular by Muddy Waters, though Plant's rip was from the Small Faces' 'You Need Lovin'', for which they had assumed credit, though that would have been manager Don Arden doing that as a means to increase royalties...which he was seemingly keeping for himself). - 'You'd Better Run' as sung by Robert Plant was originally a tune by New York band the Rascals, and 'For What It's Worth' was by Buffalo Springfield, which included Neil Young and Stephen Stills. - Clem Cattini's name is prononunce 'Ca-teen-ee'. He is of Italian decent. - Chris Dreja's name is pronounced 'Drey-ya'. - The Donovan album title is pronounced 'Ba-ra-ba-ja-gle'... Barabajagle. You pretty much nailed it. And the title tune and 'Trudi' feature Donovan with the Jeff Beck Group. Once again, great job. The Yardbirds were a pivotal band, particularly during the Jeff Beck era and the singles 'Heart Full of Soul', 'Evil Hearted You', 'Shapes of Things', 'Over Under Sideways Down' and 'Happenings 10 Years Time Ago'. Though they broke with the stricter blues convention of their Clapton days, the band was still a blues band at heart. But they also pioneered psych, garage band, raga rock (Paul McCartney's guitar solo on the Beatles' 'Taxman' is him making raga-like riffing like his friend Jeff Beck) etc. But when Beck was fired and then the band's contract sold to Mickie Most and Peter Grant, things went downhill due to Most's disregard for the band's brand and legacy. Also worth noting that the departure of Paul Samwell-Smith, which enabled Page to join, saw the band lose its musical director/producer as well as a great bassist. In essence, that was the start of the downfall of the band. 'Happenings 10 Years Time Ago' suggested great things post-Samwell-Smith, but its B-side, 'Psycho Daisies', despite being a cool track with Beck singing, did not. Instead of Most, it likely would have been best if the band produced themselves with Page in the director's role. Page produced the excellent 'Beck's Bolero' (surely the first 'heavy' rock riff recording) and apparently played a major role in 'Happenings....' Worth noting that with Led Zeppelin he insisted Most NOT be the producer. Instead he brought in the great Glyn Johns to engineer and co-produce the band's debut album...which sounded fantastic. Unfortunately, according to Johns (listen to his 2-part interview on RU-vid), Page then refused to give him the co-producer credit, so he (Johns) vowed to never work with them again, though his brother, Andy, did. Too bad, because while the band fared well without Glyn, it is very possible his participation on the second album could have avoided the likes of 'The Lemon Song', one of those cringeworthy numbers that reinforce Plant's disdain and keep him away from the idea of a Zep reunion. Once again, great video. Thank you.

What an intriguing tapestry. VERY WELL DONE. THANK YOU.

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ Yeah baby!!!!! Awesome history lesson and an amazing episode!!!!!! It was liking watching a documentary on how the earth was formed or the universe was made. This was the first time I ever heard audio of the famous Train kept A rollin session 😮. This was absolutely awesome!!!! Jose I can’t fathom the amount of work you put into these episodes and I am so appreciative that you do. I absolutely love them. After watching this episode I am inspired to dust off my catalog and go through every album, once again!! Thank you Jose!!!!🎉

Great! I love your shows. Excellent work!

Have to say as usual, your attention to detail is sublime. Absolutely amazing work, I always learn something new! Didn’t quite understand why you spent so much time on the history of the actual Zepplin but the video as a whole is a masterpiece

amazing....again. Thank you, JCM.

Great new topic!! I'm looking forward to it!

Another great intro 👏 Also, another incredible episode.

So so good Thank you

This is the deepest zeppelin dive I’ve heard/ thank you so much

Thank you for this!

Looking forward to it, Jose!

JCM, your productions are simply unconscious, and I love the way you have no particular chronological order to your releases, I might be in 1986, I might be in 1964. I have my work cut out for me if I ever start doing my Rush stuff. One contribution to you and the fine folks out there - Eva Cassidy " Autumn Leaves "

The history is fantastic! great episode JC, (as usual!) :)

Yo Zep Heads I can't get enough of this stuff and the memories growing up with Zep music. Keep up the great videos Jose . Always love on my end

Jose, great video, your ability to mine, produce and present Zep material is a cut above the rest.

I learned more about my favorite band for over 40 years in an hour......than I did the past 40 years.....thanks bro.

Greatest thing about these documentaries is that he manages to STILL find things i've never heard before!!

Very excellent well researched documentary! Thank you so much😊 Subscribed!!!

Besides Zeppelin history, your video is packed with well thought comments on the music business.

I came for Led Zep, I stayed for the awesome history of prewar airships! JMC, you are THE MAN! Your detailed & informative videos are incredibly interesting. You are my favorite Zeppelin biographer EVER!

Fantastic video!

well done! i have never seen a lot of this footage. Very thorough and interesting.

Simply Excellent work. Bravo!!!!

Great job with context. E.g. the Beck Group is essential to understanding this moment. 1967-8 is so wild culturally, everything was in flux. anything could happen. Culture in 1969 feels a decade away from 1967, movies, music, tech, politics, all completely changed. Excellent job capturing it.

FANTASTIC, man! I guess your most interesting documentary...

Awesome! So much information… I think I will have to come back several times to take it all in 🤩

Lots of info, good job JCM👍

That was pretty good! I learned a lot from this. Thank you Jose!

Great video, mate. Well done 👍.

Great documentary! Great narration! Great editing! Like the rare visual footage ! Zeppelin ROX

Man, I'm only 7min into this, and I just had to stop and comment about how good your writing is. I can't believe how you're weaving this story. It's an angle that people would probably never ever think about. I'm sure I'm gonna enjoy the rest, thanks man! Hope you're swell!

Dude that was the deepest dive with totally new info.

Thank you for a great documentary with a deep historical background. Greetings from Rainer

Thanks again!

Really enjoyed, many thanks.

This is the most insane and foreshadowed telling of the background that I never knew, I have joyfully researched Zep for 40+ years and nothing comes close to this. Talk about a series of light bulb moments. Thank you ,Thank you.

Thank you so much these videos are awesome and informative for a LZ enthusiast 👍

I'm glad you took my tip, to tweak your name. I'll give you more tips soon.

Forget that dead in the water Becoming Led Zeppelin documentary ...they should have just hired you. Great as always!

That was BRILLIANT. What a wonderful tale for this old ass Zep Head. Thank You 😊.

I said it before that I found your channel and binge watched all your "making of" videos just last month and this one was the most original as far as the history of all the major players and a lot of things I didn't know! Your story telling, editing and attention to detail...... Thanks my fellow ZEPPELIN fan and musician 🥁🥁🎼✌️

Great that you documented this correctly! Especially playing the examples of the arrangements that the Yardbirds put together which Jimmy wisely took with him.

it's great that you mentioned Alan Hawkshaw's name bringing up your memories, and that mention has brought my memories of his groovy composition "Blarney's Stoned", a sample of which was used for many years for the theme music for "Dave Allen at Large", that comedian's brilliant show in the 70's

This was wonderful, full of all kinds of interesting history. Thank you JCM for making it to share with all of us.

I used to go park on dirt roads or in the woods and roll one and drink beer listening to Led Zeppelin. In 1979/80 I slept every night with headphones on listening to In Through The Out Door over and over on 8-track tape. It was the most magical music I had ever heard and I was drawn to the drums on that album. By 1982 I had drums with the exact matching set of Paste cymbals and snare drum Bonham used. Lost that amazing kit after our band played at a bar Friday/Saturday and decided to play Wednesday too and left our equipment. It burned that night. My favorite part of the album are the slow breakdowns in Caroselambra and the sounds of Jimmy Page`s guitar and I`m Gonna Crawl. Achiles Last Stand freaks me out too. I loved Robert Plant`s Big Log when that came out too. Mind blower! Burned into my soul.

Wow- you are very thorough- I'm only 1/3 the way thru and am impressed. Since Ron Woods book came out in 1987 I've been amazed how many people were asked to join or were considered to join ( obviously Woody), Ian Hunter, Paul Francis drums and - well that would be spoiling it ...

What a surprise! Thanks a lot!

PHENOMENAL!!!!❤️🔥THANK YOU!!!!!!

Outstanding documentary.

Another perfect one :)

THIS is awesome. I am a huge history buff....much less a Led Zeppelin buff. This video is delivering it all to me. Keep making these videos!!!

I haven't even started and being it's you I already know it's going to be epic.

It's absolutely AMAZING how many famous songs of the 60's Page played guitar on along with John Paul also playing on a multitude of other sessions. Talk about an INCREDIBLE education in music and music production! It's no wonder Zeppelin was so good....they had two "session-hardened" musicians...talk about having a double "edge". Most folks never knew this. JCM - thank you for providing the sessions list of Page....I had never seen those lists before. I have a "Screaming Lord Sutch" greatest hits...it's pretty entertaining. Prior to the Plant compilation "66 to Timbuktu" (or something like that), getting those early 45's of Plant are VERY difficult. Fortunately, years ago there was a boot where someone compiled just about all of them. A lot are on "Timbuktu"...but not ALL of them. I also CANNOT recommend enough to get a boot with the "Band of Joy" material. Plant wails and it's great material! But lastly - a MUST TO OWN is the release called "Yardbird's Live '68"....it really shows just how powerful the Yardbirds could have been and it shows the path the Page was heading towards......it was out of those "ashes" of the Yardbirds though that rose the great Phoenix of the band we all know and love.

Brilliant video, thanks so much for doing these! Even my dog likes watching them ✌️😂

Still mind boggling to me the work and the research put forth in your videos. PEACE LOVE LED ZEPPELIN

Superb description of the birth of a super group Jose. The music scene in the UK was pretty small in the sixties. Managed by very few, everybody new everyone. Before guitarists tried to hide their playing styles they would openly share their methods. Even teaching each other. Jimmy learned DADGAG from Davy Graham, through Bert Jansch. The London folk scene heavily influenced Jimmy, John Renbourne, Ralph McTell, Paul Simon,Al Stewart, John Martyn and Roy Harper all stealing from each other. Best documentary on Zeppelin beginnings bar none Jose. Well done!

Man i have seen everyone of your vids i hope jimmy robert and jpj are watching too. Fantastic job bro on a subject we all have as the sound track to our lives.

Good job!!

The dates 1863-1968 seems a typo, but no, your research and script backed it up, even if the original Zeppelins were not musicians. Excellent, as always. You've set the bar.

Great Stuff Mate.p

Excellent !

Excellent documentary man I'm not even 10 minutes into this is like really good! I like your handle name (JCM -one of the best amplifiers ever made, if not the best).

Loved it! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼🎊🎉

You are a historian…how you obtain all these pics and info is amazing… you deserve a “Bobby and the Helmets “ T-shirt ( I didn’t make that up- I have seen an old picture from the New Yardbirds tour with Robert wearing that T shirt)

At last, the all encompassing story of Led Zeppelin and the 105 years preceding their formation.

Well, until we get the rebooted Becoming Led Zeppelin, this is the best we've got...and it's PRETTY DAMN GOOD! Keep up the good work.

Great job as always, thank you

Excellent video of the birth of the mighty LED ZEPPELIN !

One word. EPIC!

Jose, your stories are brilliant! Thank you!

Jose, I apologize in advance for my lengthy response but I can’t help it my friend. This film was a great way to preside over multiple cups of morning coffee. You’ve filled in SO MANY gaps in my existing knowledge on the infancy of LZ. Your research was very thorough and welcoming. To me, it was the Beck’s Bolero session that really planted the seeds (which would bear only forbidden fruit) in Jimmy’s mind. This is where he knew he needed to form an untouchable supergroup that would cast a tall shadow. A little insight on Big Jim Sullivan: all that one would need to do, is wiki his discog to be utterly amazed. I HIGHLY recommend to you and all reading this to search out the James Last version of the John Miles 1976 composition simply named “Music.” Big Jim is here and toured with this act for a number of years and is certainly worthy of your attention. You’ll wish the volume on your device could go louder when watching, especially the lead trumpet outro. Good God Almighty it’s the most beautiful thing you’re likely to ever hear, trust me. Benny Benndorff bass, Derek Watkins lead trumpet and Terry Jenkins drums are sure to please as well. About the sports theme music w Michael Jordan. Beautiful song. It reminds of the bumper theme songs from the This Week In Baseball tv program in the 70’s and 80’s. Mike Vickers from Manfred Mann wrote the opener, Jet Set and John Scott (noted British composer) wrote the ending called Gathering Crowds. As a ten year old, the sawing away of the violins blended w the French horn arrangements sent chills down my back. It did something to me. Check these two out - and the James Last version of Music and Star Wars theme. Big Jim is in both of these. Thank you once again Jose. You outdid yourself here with this film.

Much enjoyment was had by all -- of me. Thank you! Hope that you will do one on Alexis Korner's '60s period. Just looking at his Bootleg Him! album liner notes, it is so evident that he was connect to so many other artists and groups. As YOU well know. And I am well aware that it would be a monumental task for you! 🙀 😻

A thorough and incredibly fact laden episode. Another masterpiece, JCM!

Hey Jose... I think you have a time machine hidden among the (hundreds? thousands?) albums. You're Doc Brown in disguise… 😁 I'm looking forward to this trip back to the past 😊

Bravo JMC.

I really enjoyed this documentary your history lesson about airships aka zeppelins was great really good way to start a zeppelin documentary good job😂

Fantastic job, J, keep 'em coming! I personally look forward to your deep dive into the Presence era.

1863-1968? damn they are old!!! 😂 just picking with ya, great vid as always