I graduated in '76, but in those days wasn't into rock music that much. So weird, now I'm in my middle 60's and have developed a real admiration for Led Zeppelin, especially my favorite, the full-length version of "Kashmir". The 70's were great years!
@@AntonyFleck Julie's a champion for Zeppelin like no other. Her short bursts of enthusiastic appreciation for their magnificence always brighten the reaction comments pages!
I was a teenager early 70s, obviously grew up with Zep as part of the soundtrack of my youth, but was never a huge fan! I was more into West Coast psyedelia, then punk and new wave bands! It's only in the last ten years or so that I've realised and appreciated the musical Genius of 'Zeppelin '! What a long strange Trip life is!!... And it's still going!!!...
The song's lyrics, particularly in the first line and the third verse, were influenced by The Lord of the Rings, mentioning "the darkest depths of Mordor", Gollum, and "The Evil One" (Sauron). Its first line, "Leaves are falling all around", is an adaptation of Tolkien's "Ah! They went through a phase where they wrote music based on a lot of fiction writing. It's amazing once you pay attention, that some of the best they produced was them nerding out over fantasy stories.
The Battle Of Evermore is another Tolkien influenced Led Zep song. And though the lyrics have little to do with it, the title of Misty Mountain Hop was clearly borrowed from Tolkien's Misty Mountains. And the final verse does include the line, "So I'm packing my bags for the Misty Mountains."
Have you heard Achilles Last Stand? That rivals Stairway and Kashmir and shows that even later in their career they could be a powerhouse and release diamond quality music.
I'm not sure how to tell you this, Millie, but when I saw LZ back in '77 I swear I met a girl who looked just like you, claimed she was from the future and had been trying to go back in time to the 1970's and finally made it! The first thing she did was go to the concert and it was amazing!! Or maybe I was just high, I'm not sure.
One of the best songs period. Bonham’s shuffle and Page’s continual acoustic guitar rambles on. It’s a moving, movable melody. Plant is superb with his timing, phrasing and voice. And JPJ’s bass is this meandering stroll. Love when Page adds his rambling electric at the “days of old” lyric. Ingenious!
This is one of my more favorite Led Zep songs. The contrast between being low and smooth then going into the chorus with power is just fantastic. And of course, always dig a good bass-line. For something different with Robert Plant, check him out with the Honey Drippers doing "I Love You".
John Paul Jones (bass/ keyboards) of Led Zeppelin was the quiet guy in the back, but he was a schooled musician and top-tier composer/ arranger/ producer... he was the band's secret weapon and a multi-instrumentalist as well... 🤘🤘 All the bass players of the British 'Unholy Trinity' (Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and Deep Purple) were majestic musicians - both Sabbath's Geezer Butler and Purple's Roger Glover contributed to their respective bands' lyrics and song arrangements (Roger Glover was also a key producer) ... and lest we forget, bassist Glenn Hughes of Deep Purple (from 1974 to 1976) was also a gifted vocalist, and he has recently recorded albums w/ a rock project (on bass & vocals) called Black Country Communion... Hughes was on lead vocals on the Black Sabbath album 'Seventh Star' (1986) and on guitarist Tony Iommi's solo albums ('1996 DEP Sessions' ... and 'Fused')
If you haven't heard their entire discography, then you're missing out on some great music, except for maybe a song or two, their entire catalog is fantastic, it's unbelievable really how a band can create one hit after another. I'd advise you to start with their first album and listen to every track that you don't know, you'll be in awe at how great they really were. Hell you may as well listen to what you do know 😀
One of the best Zeppelin reactions I've seen in quite a while! And I see a lot, lol! So cool to see you digging the bass right away, with a whisper, then a shout! Yes, girl, there are MANY equally great Zep tunes still awaiting you! Off the top of my head: "The Ocean," (Funky!) "Heartbreaker" (ROCKING!) "Battle of Evermore" (Gorgeous acoustic bliss!) "In the Light" (Trippy brilliance!) "You Shook Me (Psychedelic Blues!) ""What is and what should never be" (Jazzy vibe!) You are cool like Plant, and lucky like you, to have these waiting!
One of their songs with a Lord the Rings reference! A few of them do. Misty Montain Hop" is one, too."Battle of Evermore"also. Led Zeppelin 4 is always called Runes by real fans.Each band member has an"elven" rune. Robert Plant's is a feather in the wind ("All of my Love" lyric ). Tolkien's books were huge among Classic Rock musicians. There was a band called"Gandolf ". Many album covers had LOR theme artwork. The lead singer of T-Rex did a whole concert dressed a hobbit and sitting on a giant mushroom!
The 70's weren't all amazing. My senior school picture had me in a bright blue plaid polyester suit with a bright orange polyester bow tie. I just needed the clown nose to make the outfit complete. I even had what I would now call clown shoes, red and blue 4" platform cap toe shoes. It was a fashion crime.
70’s were a cool time. I remember 8 track tapes , cool fun girls to hang out with , no social media . Families in neighborhoods knew each other and had more in common. We actually had to interact face to face.
This is one of their greats...but you must soon try; "What is and What Should Never Be." Maybe, if not yet heard; "Thank You." And if you want more songs with Lord of the Rings references, try; Misty Mountain Hop and Battle of Evermore.
Not only have I always loved this song so much, your reaction put a smile on my face for sure. As a musician of many decades and I've watched a ton of your reactions, I really think you would enjoy reacting to the studio cut of Southbound Suarez. And if you feel ambitious, the very next track that it goes right into at the end of it, is an even bigger hit, Fool in the Rain. But they work so well in sequence. It's some of the last material recorded for what turned out to be their final album when John Bonham died not long after.
I'm just part way in, but I was thinking about your comments and I was a little kid in the early seventies. And it's hard for me not to be biased but given everything that's come since then? I still feel there's a certain kind of golden feel to it. I mean at the time there was still so much racial Strife in the Vietnam War and the world was changing so rapidly and people were freaked out and we had the fuel prices and sometimes in my neighborhood people were stealing gas out of each other's station wagons and so forth. But despite all that, everything just seemed warmer and more full and lush, even including the music, plus when things needed to rock hard they really rocked hard without any sense of sterility to it. I think you would fit right in in the 70s. I really do.
This song displayed the versatility of EVERY member of the band very early in their career (as did just about every song on LZ II). JPJs bass and Bonzo's opening 'drums' (a 5-gallon bucket?) stand out in this track for sure.
It was the best decade ever,so much brilliant music and so many bands, all touring,hard to see all of them,but I tried. Maybe it’s just nostalgia but people seemed happier, clothes more colourful, these days kids look pretty miserable,
I love watching your reactions, and how you appreciate musicians coming together with chemistry and passion playing actual instruments... This is the way it should be! You should check out in My Time of dying LED Zeppelin
Your reactions have grown so much. Your transformation from a couple of years ago,(when i discovered this channel) until now is so very good. Thank You
Ramble On is one of my favorites by them. Love the reaction. I also love the bass on this track, so active. Some other good LZ tunes: "Bring it on Home" and "Since I've Been Loving You" - second on is great live from "The Song Remains the Same".
I got to see these guys in St Louis Missouri in 1977. It really was such a free time to be alive. No cell phones In people’s faces, just great music in our ears.
Listen to Fool in the Rain and Thank You. I first saw them perform April of 1970 then in 1971 & 1972. My wife and I have been married for slightly over 50years but we started dating in January of 1970 while in our second year of high school. You’ve have fantastic music taste. 👍😎
This song was released in October 1969 on Led Zepplin 2. That was about the same time I first saw Led Zep at the Rose Palace in Pasadena, California. I would see the bad two more times in the early 1970s when I was a student at Arizona State University in Tempe.
Ramble On was from 1969. A few interesting bass lines: "In The Meantime..." Spacebog "Liner", "Less Cities, More Moving People" The Fixx "Punch And Judy", "Knuckle Down", "Across This Antheap", "Scarecrow People", "Ella Guru" XTC "With One Look (The Wildest Dream)" Rupert Hine "The Warmth Of Your Breath" Fishbone "Our House", "It Must Be Love" Madness "Whispering / Cherchez la Femme / Se Si Bon" Dr. Buzzard''s Original Savannah Band (The bass is kinda buried but, listen to what he's doing.) "All You Zombies" The Hooters "Nice & Sleazy", "In the Shadows" The Stranglers
I lived the 70's, Led Zep, Pink Floyd, Elton John at his early best, great days. Then in the late 70s, disco came along and we thought rock was falling apart. But then I heard Van Halen's first album, and I knew all was still right with the world!!
There are so many great zeppelin songs where to begin? Ten years gone, What is and should never be, from the same album, the Rain Song, In the Light, Kashmir, When the Levee breaks etc. It's hard to find a bad one.
There is a significant amount of the genius of Led Zeppelin in the brilliant production of Jimmy Page, he was just so brilliant at finding the perfect mix to give every instrument it's due place in the listening experience.
I'm a face in the crowd but was there in the 60's and caught early Zep 1969 in concert in a 4000 seat auditorium on their 2nd American tour. Yes, bassist John Paul Jones is a massive force when he gets his Motown on.
These are the days of real actual stereo sound. You get so much separation that you will not find in much today's music that loses all of the dynamics of the music. They edit the life out of music now. It's sad. However we still have our old recordings. Loved your reaction Millie!
Coincidentally, I'm reading Tolkien and that Gollum is quite the pain in the ass. How Zeppelin managed to plug into that theme still amazes me, although Tolkien was very popular in the early seventies. But this was early Zeppelin and Robert's vocals at that time (pre surgery) were superb. Everything about them was mind-blowing.
LED ZEPPELIN were the founders of a new music genre called "Hard Rock". Nothing else was heard before like this on a little blue planet in our solar system called "EARTH"!!!
I often sing this in the shower - and hum the bass line. Let's face it, the former John Baldwin played bass, keyboard, mandolin, triple-neck stringers and even sang back-up on some occasions. Despite the bombast of the rest of the band - which was considerable - he was the glue that stuck it together. And, if you didn't know it, there was a point when this retiring former session man once threatened to quit....
Fine reaction, thanks for doing another Led Zeppelin's song. And I got some good news for you: yes, there are some Led Zeppelin's songs you don't know! Well, at least I don't remember seeing you reacting to them, and I'd love to see it: "All of my love"; "The song remains the same". Have you ever reacted to "Rock'n roll"? I can't think of a better band to write and play a song like this!
Millie.....I enjoy your enthusiasm do much. This IS a great song--and one of their best in my opinion too. It has a great great blend of different though interlocking segments and riffs.
Zeppelin 4, is their most popular work. Zeppelin 2 is close, last song on Zep 1 is my fave zep song. Physical Graffitti has a few pearls on it. Page is considered one of the 3 best electric guitarists, Robert Plant comes from the blues world. John Bonham may be the best drummer of all time. The bassist is the musical genius who produced their sound on albums. He played many different instruments and was just stupendous. Singly, as artist they were awesome, but the synergy of their playing together was not of mortals. Try the bass riff from "How Many More Times" the black and white version from 1969
I'm now in my 50s. One truth I think I've "discovered" in all my years of listening to music is this: The way to tell if the music you're listening to is next-level is that not only is it generally universally acclaimed by voices you respect, but your favorite song from that artist changes constantly among songs from different albums. And I don't think I'm off base if I write that the music of Led Zeppelin, The Who, Fleetwood Mac, The Eagles, Pixies, etc., qualifies. I hate to include acclaim as a parameter, but everyone who has a niche is capable of wavering on their favorite song, even if the music they've chosen to listen to is crap. I won't pass judgement on Bon Jovi. Like who you like, unapologetically, and if people can't take that, F 'em. But I can just about guarantee that probably 85% of Bon Jovi fans' favorite song comes from "Slippery When Wet." :) Take care.
The 70s was an amazing time to grow up. The music.....seconds to none. A family only needed one person to work and that could supply a car, a home and food on the table.
A catalog of music covering nearly every genre of music with God gifted skills, talent and creativity the world will probably never see again as modern technology and AI continues to steal those attributes from the hand of mankind. Ludwig van Beethoven considered by scholars to be perhaps the greatest musical geniuses of all time. His innovative compositions combined vocals and instruments, widening the scope of sonata, symphony, concerto and quartet. He is the crucial transitional figure connecting the Classical and Romantic ages of Western music. I really believe that a common bond of fundamental musical imagery binds the work of both LZ and LVB to be the illustrators of music drawn from its rawest form to epic scores of musical masterpieces via the ability to see that in which others cannot until heard. And, I also believe that neither Lez Zeppelin (as a group), nor LVB knew what drew them to create those masterpieces. This or that, is really the question that needs an answer.
Have you noticed the connection with “The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings” however tenuous it seams to meander like a background story through most of the early Led Zeppelin music? I found it was a real magical stream weaving its way through their albums, it was fabulous!!!
Hi Millie, You could get real good deals on houses in the late 60's early 70's..... my sister bought a 2000 sq. foot house with a couple of acres for aprox. 20K ..... the same house today 400K +/- ( more than likely + + + ) For me i was working on a big deal... i picked up a Schwinn "Grey Ghost" Stingray bike ! ( that model "Grey Ghost" turned out to be one of the rarest Stingray bikes ) If i only new what greatest was just 10yrs down the road girls, muscle cars & the best era for Rock-n-Roll ( when they say... "The good ole dayz"... those were it ( Far-out-man ✌️😉 )
Yes, that bass, man! One of my favorite songs to play on the bass. Fun! Yours one one of my favorite reactions to one of my favorite songs. Do The Lemon Song!!!
"Mine's a tale that can't be told My freedom I hold dear How years ago in days of old When magic filled the air 'T was in the darkest depths of Mordor I met a girl so fair But Gollum, and the evil one Crept up and slipped away with her."
I was there, got this LP the day it was released in the UK. It was a step change from LZ1, far heavier and hit just as Lord of the Rings was 'the thing' so it was right on cue. Still sounds so fresh 50 eyars on!
Robert Plant is a huge fan of J.R.R. Tolkien. You will find a number of Lord of the Rings references in several Zeppelin songs. "Gollum & The Evil One" in this song, Misty Mountain Hop, The Battle of Evermor are worth listening to
