Dude was literally high on heroin playing like crap. Even the band got tired of Jimmy's heroin fueled, rambling, never ending guitar solos around 75-76.
For all those who see Jimmy Page as sometimes playing a bit too "sloppy" (namely live)…well, here is a slide guitar performance for the ages, utterly nailing hundreds of chords and notes with surgical and emotional precision. Indeed, this stuff is way, way off the charts. We're taking serious alien territory. And ultimately, for a number of reasons, what you see here is very likely THE greatest live performance by a rock band in rock-n-roll history. Watch it again. Think about it. Done.
Jimmy Page - absolutely peerless; the greatest guitar player in the world, "sloppy" and all. Each member of the band at the absolute highest standard. There was Led Zeppelin -- and then there was everyone else. 40 years on, the music holds up. Other worldly, ethereal, and enchanting still.
The difference too, is he’s not stuck play just like the studio version. I’d rather listen to Page, then the others. I’ve seen Clapton, worst concert I ever went to, I’ve seen Beck too & nothing to brag about. I’m saying I saw them in the mid 70’s, sadly I didn’t get the chance to see Led Zeppelin, my favorite band.
Jorge Limon I’ve had the pleasure of seeing three times, and Adam Jones is one of my favorites, but they’re no Led Zeppelin, although they are the best band out there today!
John Paul Jones was ALWAYS a very understated (and sometimes underrated) bassist. He is, was, and shall be simply amazing and sublime. All the members of LZ were gods in their own rights, and Jones never failed to hold up his end of the bargain.
I don’t care what any one says this is the best band ever. I was born in the 2000s era and still really enjoy this. They are perfectly synchronized and Jimmmy page is unbelievable
They will always be the greatest rock band ever. Listen to the bass as well - especially during the guitar solo - no one has heard bass like that in ANY genre since the '70s.
I will openly admit I'm a true Led Head for life!! There was(and we all know) A lot of great bands out there in the 60s and 70s.. The mighty Led, took my heart,years ago as a kid in the late 70s, ..there's hands down,no other group like Led..class all of there own!
Page was not Sloppy., he played loose, emotional, and freely knowing JPJ and Bonzo were there to catch him and bring him back into the pocket. I know of no other guitarist that had that freedom to do as he wanted every show. Almost every other guitarists tries to stick with the can solo. Jimmy walked over the edge and it is magnificent to listen too. Rock on into eternity!
I saw them live in 1977 in LA....and as a guitar player...I was blown away how Page would fall behind or off key and then bring it back...you hit the nail on the head....
This is a prayer, not just a song. I'm a non-religious person, but they were able to bring me to tears. Rest in peace Blind Willie Johnson who had written this song a long time ago.
I keep coming back to this. Jimmy is absolutely mesmerizing!! His guitar playing here just blows my mind. Everything about him is unmatched. His swagger, style, look, moves, talent. I’m just speechless. So mysterious, intriguing and sexy
he was at an extreme elite level of guitar playing greatness here . and like your saying the swagger n style to boot . ive never seen this vid so im wow'ed to the max , and like you once it got going ive been mesmerized and now listening for the 3rd time in a row . two hardest rocking bands imo have been zepplin and pantera , and not surprisingly my two fave guitarist are page and dime . might as well add that im a big band era fan and from that ive become a krupa fan , he and bonham my two top drummers . and two top frontmen plant and anselmo . point being i really like zepplin lol
@@romanstar7550 I love it!! I’ve never really been into Pantera but definitely a big Zeppelin fan and even bigger Jimmy Page fan!! Thanks for your comment!! Ps you should check out Trampled Under Foot LIVE. Can’t think what concert now but it’s gotta have a huge amount of views. Page is equally incredible in this one too
Those who criticize Jimmy Page are just pissed bc they’ll never reach his height of TALENT! He was self taught, played mostly by ear, played with raw emotion and was/is sexy as hell! In order for you to be justified in criticism, you must go out and foresee what will happen with radio, be a solid in-demand sessions player, learn production techniques and engineering in a studio, get off your ass and find 3 other master musicians, record your first album in 30 hours and be on tour with it within 2 months, play your ass off & gain popularity where supply will never meet demand-extra concert dates, bigger & bigger venues then sell half a billion records-all within ten to twelve years! GTFOH Rock on Led Zeppelin and Jimmy Forever!!🤘🏻
......................... this should have a hundred million views and a hundred million thumbs up! Led Zeppelin is The Greatest Rock Band Ever!!!!! \,,\
It's incredible what power. Who in our time can be compared with Led Zeppelin. I do not know how to express my emotions, this is something beyond. This is my music.
Russell Rawlins All of the BOYS were just INCREDIBLE here. I haven't heard any mention of PLANT? Let me be the one who does, He is FLAWLESS, & so totally SEXY! I know that you men don't care about that, but I can tell you that he is a GOD, to the women who saw him back then. l was only 14 yrs old, & a Virgin,, at my 1st L.Z. Concert. Watching it now 40 yrs later W/ my kids in College, I am just 'Floored' by his Sexualized stage persona.
Led Zeppelin is of a very, very select group of bands in which each member is an all-time great at what he does. This performance is a perfect example, there’s 4 legendary individual performances happening at the same time, coming together to create magic
Musically maybe only the Beatles might beat them by a hair, but live their is no one but then again apples and oranges cannot compare they are both my favorite bands. But to be fair the Beatles couldn’t play live too many women fainting and screaming.
what I wouldn't give to have been in your shoes! While you were at the concert, I was busy toddling around my house as a two year old, born a generation too late...
@@christinecampbell680 haha Christine, guess you missed out on the greatest band ever! But it’s still good to listen to them now asI will continue to do! Physical Graffiti still my fav! And In through the out door… keep enjoying the Zep!, 🥰
@@christinecampbell680 I was hmmm... I recall a mickey of rum and a lid of pot (1/2 ounce) at the afternoon party before the concert. Two mickeys of rum in plastic bags so they'd pass the pat-downs and an ounce of pot for the concert. Hah, a kilo was $300 back then. Don't even ask about the Pink Floyd concert that same year lol
These four guys aren't just rock gods of the century but of all time! They are truly immortalized in our music world of rock and roll or folk hard rock blues rock heavy rock heavy metal classic rock and classical rock!
And how would you classify Kashmir? Or In the Light? Or Trampled Underfoot? Or The Crunge? Or Carouselambra? Or No Quarter? They were more than a "rock" band. They were all incredible musical artists in their own right, and could play anything.
No doubt about that. They were all very musically gifted in a variety of ways and many different styles of music. They weren't heavy metal or blues rock or classic rock or folk. They just made great 👍 music all around its really hard to pigeon hole what kind of music they were exactly. But then again I guess you could just clarify them as musical God's! As they say hammer of the God's and that they were. God's of music!
The band by which all others are judged. Pages #1 stated goal, play music no one else could play. Whenever someone requests a Led Zep song, any other band just goes, "oh crap"
nasty & sleazy are great words to describe it. i hate hearing guitar distortion that has been "mixed" or "EQ'd" to death - it sounds too pretty or sculpted almost - overdriven, distorted guitars are supposed to be ratty, filthy, raw.
lol my take is who gives a fuck what it looks like as long as it sounds good and jams!! it's his own style how can you say it's sloppy if music is all subjective.
Oh my effing godz!!!!!!!!!!! Nothing has ever come close to what Zepplin did in the world of music!!!! ❤ I saw them perform LIVE in 1969-ish, at the beginning of their reign as masters of the music genre of that time. MIND BLOWN!!! Those days were magical..
I’ve been listening to R-N-R my whole life ,I’m 62 and I’ve never heard anything that compares to this song. It’s just on another level that can’t be touched.
Remember when we all played air drums and guitar to Zeppelin , head phones full blast, my dad pounding on the wall" Bobby, turn that fucken doper music down" ha ha ha ha Up believable times !!!!!
Absolute Rock N Roll Legends. No Fucking Doubt ! Best Band Ever that everyone emulated. Years ahead of their time and nobody has ever captured or reproduced anything like them. Second to none.
and the drummer................driving it all like a steamtrain..what a rock n roll band like no other ever. totally takes me back to the 1970s and beyond. just so damn good
Jimmy's on fire here!! He was my first rock & roll teen crush (I still have the posters 😅). Saw them in concert in the 70's and as Page & Plant in late 90's. No other band can compare, they were magic. Led Zeppelin be forever loved and listened to by many future generations.
One of the top three best rock singers of all time, a top 3 guitarist, and a top 3 drummer. JPJ was also an outstanding bass player. Arguably the greatest rock and roll band of all time for raw power and talent.
maybe not so much here but he also foots his high hats at a blistering pace at times freeing a hand to work other magic. Such a basic kit- such thunderous magic he makes with it !
Yes John Bonham used single bass throughout his playing days. I learned on single pedal still have the first pedal I bought with my first kit, 1972 Tama Camco single bassdrum pedal. I also have and play a double pedal, the Demonator Pearl makes. But I agree, one should learn to play single pedal bass drum, 3-5 yrs or more before venturing into double bass playing. Just an opinion. One more thing everyone thinks or believes because one has a 4 or 5 piece kit without many cymbals that the drummer isn't as skilled or can't be very good or play certain music. All total bullshit!! A drummer doesn't need a fucking 15 piece double bass drum kit with 15 cymbals to be skilled, or to play metal or whatever. Even musicians make these assumptions and they're complete B.S. I've been playing 30+ yrs on drums alone and I can tell u, I can take a 4 piece single bass drum kit with hi hats, crash, and ride and playing some Rush songs and sound just fine, not all, but some. Don't need a ginormous kit to play, just experience and confidence.
Yeah this is one of the best slide pieces I've ever seen I'm glad they put this on a DVD the sound quality is amazing everybody from the sound crew to their personal tek people for their equipment was on point for the shows at Earl's Court just as good as the Madison square garden shows oh cannot forget the videographers outstanding footage 🤯💯😎👉🥃
This was one of the best of the Earls Court 1975 set. Stairway from the 1973 MSG show is just legendary. Just amazing to think PG and Presence were still to come.
This is LED ZEPPELIN at their very best! They perform so forceful, so excellent, so intimate and so thougtful, all at the same time, it´s almost painful.... It´s not hard to comprehend their massive influences and monumental legacy to the world! As ever, BRILLIANT LED ZEPPELIN.....
& I WAS 19 & BLOODY MISSED THAT CONCERT IT WAS ONLY 72 miles Away FROM me LONDONS EARLS COURT !!!😣😣😣😣😣😣😣😵😧SO SAD 😂Jimmy Pete SAID If THIS Band BREAKS UP It WOULD BE A SIN !!!!👍TRUE !!!!! NO COMPETITION SINCE !!!!😮✌✌✌✊👏DONE & DUSTED GOD BLESS LED ZEP a OLD ROCKER g
@@geoffreycarson2311 Jes treuly Uniqeu wone off the Best bands Ever God bless tham oll, Led Zeppelin trely Euniqe I whase Just a lile girl Born to late I Will always kheep tham in my Heart. God bless Led Zeppelin. I Will never love this time age Çentury God bless the 70 I Will be Happy when I gho to the Starway of Heaven Thank you Led Zeppelin treuly Euniqeu
Led Zeppelin is so incredibly powerful and soulful! What a great rendition of the Blind Willie Johnson classic. Page and Plant are so in tune with each other, and Bonham and Jones take the song to another level. The interplay between the band members during Page’s solo is sooo cool! The Beatles are amazing songwriters, same with the Stones and The Who of course, but for sheer virtuosity and verve no one can come close to Zeppelin. They take the blues to the stratosphere!
their chemistry took them over the top into immortality. they were all such great and soulful musicians, that when they met and they just clicked right from the start -- it was absolute magic.
