Led Zeppelin - Good Times Bad Times | REACTION 

I was 14. Bought the album at “Lorraine’s Records”. Went into our basement and sat around a record player (!) with 5-6 friends. Put the needle on the vinyl. Our lives changed. For real.

It is sometimes said … Led Zeppelin has arguably the best rock lead vocalist OF ALL TIME … Arguably the best rock guitar player OF ALL TIME … Arguably the best drummer ever PERIOD … and finally , arguably the best rock bassist, yes … OF ALL TIME

From the opening chords music was for every changed for the next 30 years!!

I was 10 in 1969 (and in love with David Cassidy of the Partridge Family) but when I was 14 we moved to a new neighborhood and all the teenage guys were into Zeppelin. It was too heavy and aggressive for this teenage girl as I was listening to top 40. During this covid pandemic as I got into youtube (so much more time on my hands) I have come to love Led Zeppelin and fully appreciate their talent. Of course, I am a more "aggressive" person in my early 60's than I was as a teen. This old lady is wearing Zeppelin shirts around the house and playing their music and reading books about them. Wow-who knew? Between Zep and Queen I am a happy music listener.

Bonham's drumming is beastly on this. Wow!!!!

ANY LED ZEPPELIN IS AWESOME

Greatest band in history!! This was the first song on their debut album...imagine that! I heard this in 1970 when I was 10...my babysitter had it! I was and am in Chicago...I have loved them ever since!!

Saw them the first time in 71. I was 9 at the time. My babysitter took me to the concert with her boyfriend. I didn't know what rock and roll was and had no idea who they were. I was listening to Bobby Sherman and The Captain and Tennille at the time. I think tickets were around $6.00 or $7.00. To say I was blown away is an understatement. Could not take my eyes of Page playing the guitar. His hands were like magic.

1969 , age 18, and a gang of us were round Jim's house. He had just gone and bought Led Zeppelins first album, vinyl of course, and he put the record on the deck and started it spinning and lowered the stylus. Wow!! Good Times Bad Times came on, and we were all blown away. The rest is history.

I.was in a Datsun station wagon with a banana painted on the side, heading to Sabastion inlet, with 4 surfboards on the rack , and Led Zeppelin playing on the 8 track. I was 14.

I am not sure when I first heard Led Zeppelin but it must have been shortly after the album was released in Jan 1969. I was in college. Our band learned a lot of these songs. I was the lead singer of the band. I am 33 days older than Robert Plant. 🙂. Anyway I saw Led Zeppelin the first time in Nov 1969. This song was the first one of that performance. The song that was really electrifying in person was "Dazed and Confused"

One of my favorite starts to any rock song

Bonzo's opening drumming on this makes my hair stand on end. I often just listen to this over & over. I was born in the UK in 1969 and I am EMBARRASSED to say I only heard this track for the first time a few years ago. And I LOVE all kinds of rock music.

song 1 side 1 album 1, WELCOME TO LED ZEPPELIN!

Led Zeppelin's early music catalogue was their best in my opinion. It was raw and gritty, !969 to about 1972 was just pure gold. Most everything they did was very good, but I'm partial to that early Bluesy, Hard Rock in the early days when they were still in their early 20s. Thanks guys

1st time hearing Zeppelin.... probably about 7th grade, a friend said he found an awesome song, but we had to :smoke" first. so we blazed up and went to another friends house and listen to whole lotta love. was hooked on them ever since....

this was the 1st cut ever released by Zeppelin

I was jamming to the Monkees when my brother brought home Zeppelin. I still liked the Monkees because I could sing along, but when I wanted to be in a dark room with Black Light posters all around.. I turned to Zeppelin.

It WAS a single bass drum. Amazing drummer.

I was still reeling from the death of Jimi Hendrix when I found Led Zeppelin on the new FM radio station in Santa Barbara, CA. back in 1969. What a cure for my Hendrix blues!

Yes, Bonham played triplets on a single bass drum. I was 12 when I first heard Zeppelin . My brother turned me on to Whole Lotta Love and that was it for me, I was hooked

1st time I heard Led Zeppelin: 1972, my buddy's house on a small AM/FM, one little speaker radio. The song was "The Immigrant Song". I was hooked!

It was about midnight in 1969, riding around my Iowa hometown with friends, listening to clear channel KAAY 1090 AM out of Little Rock Arkansas, the Clyde Clifford show, "Beaker Street." Whole lot of Love burst forth and music was never the same.

I was a little Kid when this came out Having 3 older brothers I heard this very early in my Life Loved the Mighty Zep all my life .

outstanding - a Zeppelin classic

Loved them from the beginning and finally saw them 5/30/77. I had great seats by Jimmy Page. I couldn’t stop watching him. He was fantastic.

I was ten years old, and they rocked my world. They have been my favorite rock band ever since. They are the GOATS.

This was the first hit song released, I was a senior in high school. I was smittened

I was 13yrs old in 1969, going to a boarding school,my friend bought this album,we would blast it every morning, great album, thanks 😎

I was thirteen and I had the cassette and a little tape recorder I would play this on the recorder this was in 77 or 78 ..I constantly played it and wore out the cassette..down the road got the album ..My favorite Band

I saw them in Cleveland in July 1969, the same night Armstrong stepped on the Moon! They played the whole first Album and most of the yet unreleased second! NO ONE HAD HEARD ANYTHING LIKE THIS BEFORE! 🤣... We had aisle seats in the fifth row and I could have hit Robert Plant with my popcorn bag, we were that close to the stage. The James Gang was the warm up band! A night to remember!

You should know that "Whole lotta Love" was the introduction song of Led Zeppelin for MOST of the Kids back in the day. Primarily because it was a crossover song. That is it crossovered from FM to the more popular AM Radio in the time period.

I was 7-8 and my brother and his buddies were introducing me to our new pool table in our garage and starting cranking this song for the whole neighborhood to hear. It lives in the depths of my memory like nothing ever since. We were thriving on a good time after the most tragic time of our lives, losing our father. Zep and shooting pool years later, I was unbeatable, as well as the neighbors were huge Zep fans right from the start...

As I get older I seem to appreciate Led Zepplin more and more. Growing up on Billy Joel Glass Houses to Raft and Twisted Sister. In my later teens and my early twenties Stairway to Heaven and Black Dog, hell all of Zepplin 4 was jammed along with Rainbow, Whitesnake etc. Now in my early 50s I own their entire catalogue. ⛽⛽

this whole song still sounds fresh 53 years later

I still remember the first time I set the stylus down on the record (the day it came out) and that opening riff happened. I like to rub it in to all the young whippersnappers that 'we' got to hear these sounds for the first time in world...even on the little speakers of a portable stereo record player you new the world had changed.

ROCK N ROLL say no more! I was 3 and I remember it vividly.

I was 16 in '69 and was listening to the Who, The Doors, Beatles. It took me a week or so to warm up to Zeppelin. Saw them twice in early '70s and consider them the best rock band ever. 😄

So, it was a chilly evening in Virginia in early 1969. I was a young lad, 18 years of age, about to turn 19 in April. The art teacher at a particular 'girls college' invited our quintet (3 guys, 2 girls) of friends over to drink wine, etc., etc. Mr. Instructor said 'I have a song that I'd like you guys to hear, and then let me know what y'all think.' It was "Good Times, Bad Times" cranked up to 11. We were all blown away because it was like nothing we had ever heard. We found out later that month that it was LZ. One of the greatest times of my stupid life...

I was fingerings through the albums in the record store, when the humor of the bands name, coupled with the burning Hindenburg cover just grabbed my imagination. So, I had to listen in . . . and buy it!

I was 14 when this came out and blew me away. Thanks to my neighbor for playing it on his wall of sound kick ass built in stereo that we cranked when his parents were out

I first heard Zeppelin Thanksgiving of '71 when my older cousin and a friend of his, who was injured in Vietnam, played it. He was a mess, and seemed to enjoy pulling up his shirt and showing us kids. He looked like a monster had chewed on him and spat him out. Very memorable.

I was born in 1961. My first album was Led Zeppelin I when I was 8 yrs old. We lived in Hawaii and my brother had a friend across the street with 4 brothers and they were a band in their garage and were always avant garde with new rock music. We used to sit around at their house and listen to new music. I loved the album so much I asked brother's friend to buy a copy for me. That was my first album and first love into Led Zeppelin, my all time favorite band.

I was 14 when I bought this album. I was blown away! I've been a fan ever since.

I didn't know this is what the song was called. But Oh yeah from the intro knew right away! Never really listened from beginning to end. So different in earphones!!!! So many shows and in commercials. Drums are so good!!! May not be the smoothest song, but they just have a certain something. You can't not love them. Very short song! It is great when you have pure reactions! But you have such a great variety that we get pure reactions as well!

!969, 17 years old, laying on the floor with a speaker on each side of my head, listening to WNEW N.Y. They played Whole Lot of Love. When it ended I jumped up and walked around my room saying, "OMG, Holly sh??" over and over for 5 or 10 minutes.

The summer of 1976 is when I discovered Led Zeppelin. I was 13 years old. Good times!

I was in the back of a 68 Camaro being driven to a little league baseball game. The driver put Led Zep IV in the 8 track. Black Dog was the first Zep tune I ever heard and at serious volume. Been hooked ever since.

" It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickins

My brother was an aspiring 14 year old drummer when this album came out. His biggest influences were bonham and Ian paice from deep purple. He used to put me in front of his base drum when sleeping and play this. I was 3! Enough said. Two times I cried when hearing about a musician dying was Bonham and Randy Rhodes. Check out Ten Years Gone.

What you lose by hearing this for 1st time in 2022 is you don't have a feel for how revolutionary it was in 1969! Same is true for 1st Black Sabbath album.

“It was the best of times. It was the worst of times” - Tale of Two Cities. Preach bro.

I heard this entire album in my college dorm when it was first released. My initial impression - mind blowing. I immediately thought, music is now going in a different direction. The next song on the album - "Babe I'm Going to Leave You" is my favorite Zep song.

I was 10 in 1972 and my sister was 18 and played this at her house she was sharing with 3 other college students. She had Led Zeppelin playing and I just had to dance and was instantly in love with that voice! It's funny too they had a poster of Frank Zappa on the toilet door on the inside which was really freaky to me...no one likes to be watched going to the bathroom...oh wait there's all sorts of weirdos out there now lol. I have pristine vinyls of Led Zeppelin 4 and Physical Graffiti and all the rest on CD and listen to them all the time when I'm not watching reactions.

You've got to listen to one of the best QUEEN songs nobody knows about..its called ITS LATE

Heard the second album before I heard the first one. That would have been in 1969 and the song was "The Lemon Song". I also saw them twice in concert. An unbelievable live band.

1975. “Led Zeppelin IV”. I was 14 and a little late to the game, but I jumped in head first. Thanks to my older brother for turning me on to Zeppelin. And I apologize for “borrowing “ your Led Zeppelin t- shirt.

I was 12 yrs old, after mowing a neighbors yard for $10, went to the back door to ask for some water. Their 14 yr old daughter came to the door, let me into the kitchen. She was playing this album on the console stereo. It was like nothing I'd ever heard. Almost alien like in its innovation. I became a fan for life.

I was late to the party. Heard about it and got my first of several copies of LZ 1 in Juneish 69. I cannot describe what it was like to listen to this for the first time in 69. There was very little like this b4. I would give most anything to relive that WTF?!? moment again. BTW by that Christmas Abbey Road came out. Timing perspective there.

Dazed and confused live!!!!

Can't go wrong with any Led Zep track! I remember so clearly walking into my house as an 8 year old kid when this album first came out and my brother was blasting this song, it stopped me in my tracks! I had never heard anything like it. Zeppelin was a total game changer and have stood the test of time. Greatest rock band ever IMO.

Almost got run over in a parking lot by my brothers best friend 's '67 Chevy 409. He slid up sideways to us just as Communication Breakdown came on. A month later at the Aragon Ballroom in the Chi,(Zep,10 Years ,B.B.King--$3.00) that was the song they opened up their set with,sometime around 11 p.m. at around 1:30 they took an hour break then played to a half full house until 4:00. Tell me we didn't have the most fun of any generation.

I heard them on my cousin Randy's record, he had Led Zeppelin III and left the record at our house. The year was 77. The AM radio my parents listened to didnt play Led Zeppelin. That was my first intro to this awesome band

To answer your question, when did I first hear Led Zeppelin. It was 10 years old (1970) and one of my older brothers (9 years older) had a couple of their albums and played them a lot. I loved them even at that early age. I was so excited when I saw them live at age 16. I saw them April 13, 1977 in St. Paul, MN. I still have my entire ticket. I talked the ticket taker to give it to me, although he ripped it in half. They sold out 2 concerts, in one day 100 thousand tickets. One was in Minneapolis, I was at the St. Paul Civic Center concert.

I was 18 when a friend turned me on to this album. He had just purchased it and said you've got to hear it. I laid down on the floor between two speakers. Mind blowing to say the least. Been a fan ever since. 69 was a good time.

I'm 57.the first time I heard Zeppelin I was a little kid. Maybe 10 years old. My older cousin was blasting whole lot of love. It blew my mind.

My brother and I always listened to rock and the radio. I was in 6th grade and Immigrant song and whole lotta love were played on top 40 where we lived. I liked their songs though I had no clue what they meant. It was some years later in the mid 70s when I was in high school and all you heard everywhere was Stairway to Heaven. By that time I was a Zep Head. Bought all their albums and listened to them constantly even though I had a bunch of albums. Nothing soothed the savage beast like Zeppelin. Nothing compared to them. And I think my early love of the band led to my being a blues fan in my adulthood as their influence on my taste remained. nothing, absolutely nothing compared to Zeppelin.

1975 as a 13 year old, put on headphones to hear whole lotta love. Immediately forgot abba.

This was the boys knocking on the door, a mini showcase for each band member. Musically, a great setup and contrast to the next track on the album.

We had just got a new Pioneer Hi Fi (radio and record player all built in a nice wood cabinet) this album had just been released, awesome.

So, there was Keith Moon, Ginger Baker, Mitch Mitchell then Bonzo came along and added another layer to the cake. I was 18 in 69' and bought this album off the rack, in a small shop in NY. Still think it's one of LZ's best. Still have it in my vinyl collection. PS, keep the volume down on the headphones or you'll have nasty tinnitus and severe hearing loss when you're my age! Two hearing aids now! It sucks!!!!

Thank you!

The song that started it all! Nobody else can pack so much greatness into less than 3 minutes. A band filled with GOATS

"You Shook Me" would have been a better representation of how this band rocked the shite with their first album. The first time I heard Led Zeppelin I was at the house of a friend who was teaching me acoustic guitar. I was 17-years-old. This band had a different sound from the other great bands of the time. You should have heard this with a really good stereo set and good speakers. You kids today have no idea how a set of good speakers could elevate a song. The separation, the crisp sound of each instrument. You just don't get that today.

Hey Guys! Been super busy, catching up on some music reviews now. Led Zeppelin is my first favorite band, and the best rock n roll band ever!! Saw them live in 1976. Sooo good live! Happy to see you are listen to more of them. As always, love your reviews!!

Zeppelin album`s 1 thru 4 were the Best .

I can’t wait to till you hear When The Levee Breaks!!! Most sampled beat EVER..

I was in 8th grade , 1st day of school 1969. I walked into my civics class, and the teacher sat me in the back next to this punky kid with a beatle haircut. He was drumming on his desk, and i was taking drum lessons, so we hit it off, and i joined in. The teacher said can the two drummers in the back knock it off. He said he was in a band, i said wow, thats cool whats your name, he said Led Zeppelin, he said yeah, we got our first song on the radio, check it out when you go home, they just started playing it alot, youll probably hear it , its called "Whole Lotta Love" i had never heard of them, and being 13, no clue how the whole music and radio thing worked. He said his mom took him to band practice couple times a week. I went home and turned the radio on and sure enough it came on. I wasnt sure i like it too much cause it sounded so raw and hard, but was convinced this kid was really cool. Next day in class, i said wow, i heard your song , you guys are really good, and asked if i could come to their band practice. He started cracking up, and couldnt believe i went for it. We started laughing so hard, and after that became best friends. Within a week i was hooked on Led Zep, and bought the first two albums. A year later they came to Salt Lake City, we went and it was one of the best nights of my life.

You've really just got to appreciate those kick ass drumming and bass drum kicks throughout this entire song. Like it's 2 people drumming.

Bonham is just killing the drum here!

I can't pinpoint the exact moment I heard Zeppelin, it was kinda in the cosmic mix of music that was on the radio at the time... really became aware of them around age 19-20... So much good music out then, we just took it all for granted.

You are so right about not being able to accurately assess what it sounded like back when this was first released. I was a teenager at the time and nobody had heard anything like this. Jimmy Page was such a great producer as well as a terrific guitarist and songwriter.

Nice review boys! always down with the LZ 💪 keep em coming!🎸

I was 19 or 20, in my sophomore year of college (1969-1970). I went to a friend's dorm room to smoke some weed, and he said that he'd gotten this killer new album that was going to blow my mind. After a few minutes prep time, during which we shared a nice doobie, he put on the first LZ album I'd ever heard. Mind you, I was used to Hendrix, the Stones (my favorite Stones song is "Honky Tonk Women", which also has a fair share of cow-bell in it), Deep Purple, the in-your face brass of much Soul music, and a lot of other groups whose sound at times could be, shall we say, "aggressive". But nothing prepared me not just for the sound of LZ, but the lyrics - and most of all the quality of Robert Plant's singing. So, there I was on a beautiful day, sun streaming in the windows through a light haze of marijuana smoke, and "Good Times, Bad Times" began. Astonishing guitar, unbelievable never-hear-before drumming, and the anguish and danger and threat embodied in Robert Plant's wailing, all exploding in my mostly innocent mind. I was literally stunned. When side A was over, my friend flipped the LP over and played the rest. When I left his room a few hours later, I was a changed person. PS LZ is it's own genre. It has roots and influences, but it's not a Rock band, it's not a Metal band, it's not a Blues band - it's Led Zeppelin. Right from the very get-go, track one, album one, without let-up, without easing up at all, until the day John Bonham died. LZ set a standard nobody else can ever hope to come close to. But since the band's music is in its own category for all eternity, other groups can hope to reach equal heights, just on their own terms. In part, that's why I don't much care for Metal. They all sound like poor examples of wannabe LZ, and that's just not possible.

I first really heard LZ was back around 1980. I’ve heard them before but really didn’t pay attention to them but I was familiar with their music just no deep dive. I mean, I was born in 70 and my parents had great taste in music and my uncles had excellent taste in music, one was a serious audiophile and got me into it as well.

I was in a diner near Syracuse University in 1969 when someone put Whole Lotta Love on the jukebox. The diner was never the same (me too). The next summer I saw them in Oakland, California. I was a lucky boy.

oh man.. this is fn classic Led Zeppelin in a way that didn't borrow too much from the old blues tunes.. FN LOVE THIS SONG!

You need more Led Zeppelin! Eventually, you have to do my favorite version of "Kashmir" from the 2007 Celebration Day concert at London's O2 Arena. GOAT rock song by the GOAT rock band. Then you will eventually get to the cover song of "Stairway to Heaven" by Heart at the Kennedy Center Honors: Led Zeppelin. As a special treat to Ryan, I think he will love the studio version of "Since I've Been Loving You" off the Led Zeppelin III album. Please more LZ!!! I'll be waiting and watching...

I was 14 in 1969,,listened to alot of Led Zep,,every party we heard them , band is a classic

Speaking of Led Zeppelin, I really, really hope you guys decide to feature "Achilles Last Stand", the lead-off track from their Presence album, all glorious 10:31 minutes of it. Jimmy Page orchestrates at least 6 different guitar tracks on this epic, hard rock masterpiece. John Paul Jones pretty much invents the galloping bass line heard here that Iron Maiden practically built an entire career on, and John Bonham's explosive drumming needs to heard to be believed. It's been said that singer Robert Plant re-injured his broken ankle when he leapt from his wheelchair with excitement at the possibilities envisioned while recording this track. This is possibly my favorite song of all-time.

I suspect most nonmusicians will mostly be paying attention to Page and Plant but the interplay between bass and drums is well worth some concentrated listening. This first song on the first album is an absolute masterpiece.

You guys should do Ten years Gone …such a great song

Gentlemen...you have to check them out live! No they never end the same!

Nobody knew "A Tale of Two Cities"? Heh, I guess they don't make you read that in school anymore...The absolute first time I remember hearing them would have been around 1970 when I was around 8. I heard "Immigrant Song" on the radio late at night. I was by myself, up past my bedtime. It was kinda scary, but I was mesmerized...I had older brothers, so their music was always around, but I didn't really start getting into them until "Physical Graffiti", then I did a deep dive into the older albums in my early 20's, just about the time they broke up...

Yes, more cow bells! Try some "Creedence Clearwater"... I don't think you guys ever reacted to them - Born On The Bayou! Thanks for reacting to LedZep ❤❤

I was 17 in ‘69. Two albums changed my entire musical outlook. Jimi Hendrix “Are You Experienced” (I heard it first in ‘68) and this one which I’d argue has stood the test of time far better. It still gets played on the regular. Nice reaction!

at that time the record companies and literally the entire music industry hated LZ with a passion. Why you ask? 'cause they did everything their way and refused to give an inch. the Beatles were the #1 band at the time and everybody in the industry wanted 2 - 3 minute radio friendly feel good songs and zep said F You, we don't do that. you should read some of the early reviews from rags like The Rolling Stone Magazine etc... brutal! The fans fell hard and just after their second album was released in '69 zeppelin dethroned the beatles as the #1 band in the world and held that title all throughout the 70's until bonham died and they disbanded. if you really want to see early zep they did a live on air mini concert for a danish tv station to promote their first album and introduce the band to the public. they performed on a tiny stage in front of a small studio audience of youngsters who sat on the floor right next to the stage. Plant (singer) and Bonham (drummer) were like 19 years old and Page (guitarist) and Jones (bass) were like 23 or 24. they played four songs "Communication Breakdown:, "Dazed and Confused", "Babe I'm gonna Leave You" and "How Many More Times" the "mini" concert went down in history as a pivotal moment in rock and roll

John Bonham came from jazz and introduced riff based drumming to pop/blues/ rock and changed how people viewed drumming(Much like Jimi Hendrix did). Drumming, up until then (in main stream music ), was a backing instrument and he brought it to the front. As I understand it.

I was in junior high school and in 9th grade when this came out. The reason those songs were kept short was because if they wanted any airplay, they had to keep them around 3 minutes. At the time, it was all on AM radio. And you'd have country stations and rock stations, but on the rock stations you'd also have soul, Motown, etc. A few years later they all started moving to FM. Before that, all you'd hear on FM was Classical or Muzak.

This album was recorded in 1968, just a couple of months after they get together...they are unique