Incredible!! And those last couple of minutes😳😳😳🔥🔥🔥🔥 Here’s the video link • Video I do not own the rights to this song. No copyright infringement intended
@@-jacinta- I lived through the 50s, 60s, 70s, etc., I love all different kinds of music, except opera and Led Zeppelin. Just have never been a fan of their particular kind of music. There's emotive singing and then there's screaching. Bon Jovi's singing on Living On A Prayer is better than Led Zeppelin any day. That tortured high pitched screaching just grates on the ear. Plus, what was described as some kind of inventive and creative guitar playing was only done by strumming of different chord changes, that's all...no magic fingers at all. I think Zep's fan base are making much more 'ado about nothing' than is necessary. Just my opinion.
I admit that you can eventually fall into a mindset of "Oh, no, not Stairway again". But watching someone hear it for the first time, and anticipating how they're going to react at certain moments, really brings back how great it is.
Oliver Vaa it's not ignorant. every generation has done it to every generations music that's come after theirs, since the beginning of time. it's called lack of understanding, not ignorance.
@@vinyl-maniac6400 I never listened to vinyl (really) it was always CDs. Idk what it is but yesterday's music sounds so much better as in listening to their music u know there is passion, soul, hard work, and or something interesting to say unlike today's music. My brother was like "oh and Slayer is more like that than Taylor Swift?" Yeah all they had was a Camero and eventually made the only album that could rival Master of Puppets & its the same album that is a "blueprint" if not a key ingredient of Death Metal a new genre at that time.
I'm here in NYC and every memorial day, 4th of July and Labor Day the Rock stations do top 100 songs and every time for years "stairway to heaven " is number 1..Im talking years and years
I’d say it’s the greatest rock song of all time. LedZepplin is my favorite band of all time so I’m probably biased. However I enjoy how many more times, and a couple of other Zep songs more than Stairway but I will concide it’s the best
one day a few years ago when my kids were pre and early teens i was upstairs relaxing in bed and I could hear them downstairs playing The Beatles and Led Zeppelin with no coaxing , and I thought to myself , " my work here is done "
I have my turntable set up in my bedroom and was playing some Miles Davis, when my youngest daughter joined me to listen to the "old music". Years later, she has her own turntable and is listening to all sorts of jazz!!! My work is also done!
that was me 2 weeks ago, and I'm a rock fan too, it's just that my music tastes change a lot, and recently I started enjoying the hell out of classic rock, and I finally decided to check it out, worse about it is I loved immigrant song and knew about Stairway to heaven, I just didn't particularly want to listen to it, but now, nah that's over, discovered so many new classics recently that I didn't know about just because I actually started to listen to those songs that I kept myself from hearing
When a song still moves you after almost 50 years, that says something. As many brilliant songs that Led Zeppelin put out, this was one of their very best.
You know ? When I was a teenager, the first times I listened to Stairway To Heaven it didn't leave any impression on me. It wasn't until I grew up and experimented first hand how hard life can be, to see my own disappointments, failures, sorrow and regrets that I actually got it. Really wish I could go back, but that's impossible, so I'll just try to listen very hard from now on...
Plant is telling us, as the listener, that you can do what thou will. He then tells us, there's time to turn back to GOD and you will be saved. Wrong, who knows the time of one's last breath, but GOD? So, he is , in fact, telling us...see you in hell. Page, couldn't wait to buy Allister Crowley's house...which was the remnants of a church, that caught fire, with the congregation still inside! He was a practicing satanist and some consider the most evil man who ever lived!
As a guitar player there are only a few solos that move me. This is one of them. I wonder if Jimmy Page just noodled it in the studio or sat down and composed it. The man has inspired many people with some of the greatest guitar playing of all time, IMO of course.
Jason V it was like 4 or 5 different song ideas that page had been tossing back and forth for years and he just combined them into his magnum opus. Heard that in a documentary years ago, sorry I can’t remember which, but it’s a famous sound bite so you can prob easily find it.
@@jaysjams1517 There was an Interview of him saying, he had 3 solos for this song in his head and he recorded all of them. He listened and then decided on the one in the final recording because it just felt right. All were as long and probably as epic and all were played on his 12string
Jamel, I'm 74 and was a young adult when this kind of music was made. I got to see concerts by Led Zep, Eric Clapton, Jethro Tull, and other classic rock groups, and it really can't be adequately described. I'm glad that recordings and concert videos are still available for subsequent generations to discover and enjoy.
Yes think any of the music of today will stand the test like these classics? I think not! Such great memories of this era. Glad I grew up then for sure
@@Phantom_madman GOOD music is forever. How does one define good music? It is music that continues to be played for generations after it is first composed and presented.
@Larry Bones thats such a blanket statement there is music today that is fantastic especially todays rap like kendrick lamar and tyler the creator and childish gambino
I always wanted a magic pill to make me forget my favorite song, just so i could listen to it for the first time again. Watching this channel is kind of like that pill.
Holly, YES!!!! I have wished SO many times that my memory of some songs were erased temporarily so I could hear them for the first time again. This is definitely the closest thing, I love it!
Of all the people doing these "reaction to" recordings I like Jamal the best. Some of them are very forced and trying too hard, ending up looking false. Jamal seems more natural.
Comment Freely Music is for the body. You can feel the music move throughout your body and express it in the most natural way possible. Also, there are studies that suggest that dancing is like a visual mating call, as are a peacocks feathers or many birds' singing.
“And if you listen very hard, the tune will come to you at last, when all are one and one is all” one of the deepest quotes from any song I’ve ever heard.
That ought to be the Mission Statement of this channel. That's essentially what happens here. He listens very intently (hard), and then, at last, the tune comes to him, as he realizes he's already heard it at work.
I listened to all this music as a kid, I'm 54. The sad thing was at that time growing up on the south side of Chicago you couldn't admit to listening and liking this music. Music was so segregated back then. There was rock music stations for white kids and R&B stations for blacks, and we weren't suppose to cross over. I remember hiding in my room with my transistor radio listening to these songs. It wasn't until high school that i realized whit kids did the exact same thing to hear our music.
I made sure when i had my kids i always played the songs i loved for them to hear and insisted they shared their favorite music with me even if I didn't understand it all the time
@Scott ?????? yes I've heard that version a really like it. The thing to remember is Chicago is very segregated even now. Its just the way of things there. I went to catholic schools my entire youth. I went to an all boys high school and I had a white girl friend that went to an all girls high school. We went to a Jacksons concert and I bought her a poster. She called me a week later in tears because her father not only tore down the Michael Jackson poster but all her posters and took all her records and tapes while she was at school. Then told her we were bad influences and couldn't see us/me anymore. That only lasted about a month but it just shows you what some not all went through during that time.
It's like watching myself(old white guy) hearing these songs for the first time when I was a teen and they were on 45 rpm records & 4 track cartridges... I'm old enough to know about the insert thingy needed to play a 45 rpm record......
Mm, we probably did not know it at that time...Led Zeppelin III got quite a slamming which gave the idea of not using any titles on the album cover for IV / Zoso / Runes Album. To me though III is their best effort truly showcasing both the acoustic and electric sides.."Tangerine" is a nice combination as has lot of elements for "Stairway".
My grandpa died in 2016 ( my dads dad ). They gave us a CD of the memories my dad had with him. We watched it and the song that played with it was Stairway to Heaven. I don’t think I’ve been that sad seeing my dad cry that night. This song touches my soul.
70's and 80's rock music was the greatest period for music. There will never be music as good as or as close as. As Freddy Mercury once quoted: "We are in a golden age of music. There will be a time when technology becomes so advanced that we'll rely on it to make music rather than talent. Music will lose its soul."
I love his reactions, especially to songs like this that I have always loved but probably taken for granted because I’ve heard it so many times, but It’s a whole new experience listening to music I grew up to with someone who has never heard it.👍
Stairway ... Still a masterpiece . And now u know. I remember the first time hearing this I closed my eyes like u to take it all in. You know what, I still do 40 years later. I first heard this as a teen. And as we wind on down the road the piper is calling us to join him.
Thank you for making this world more tolerable by promoting love joy and peace in a world that is so lost. I watched all of your videos that you upload and I find myself walking away feeling better. Thank you.
Ditto! Hit 'delete' and then appreciate it all over again. Like I'd love to watch Back to the Future for the first time, or Raiders of the Lost Ark. Ah...memories...
I remember the first time I heard it. I was at my friends house and don't remember the details but this guy and girl were going to go smoke a joint and asked me if I wanted to come they were going to go out to the car and smoke I said sure. Anyways they put this on and its first time I actually remember hearing it and really you know felt it. That was 99 I think, I was 14
You know Jamel, all of these reaction videos from all of these people don’t seem genuine at all, except for you. You truly get it. I subjected my daughter to my music when she was growing up, and at the time, she hated it. Now, she’s proud to know and appreciates the music that I grew up on. It brings me such joy to be able to see you discover and appreciate what all of us have known all of these years how great this music and these artists were and still are. Thank you.
Led Zeppelin started planning "Stairway" in early 1970 when they decided to create a new, epic song to replace "Dazed And Confused" as the centerpiece of their concerts. Jimmy Page would work on the song in an 8-track studio he had installed in his boathouse, trying out different sections on guitar. By April, he was telling journalists that their new song might be 15-minutes long, and described it as something that would "build towards a climax" with John Bonham's drums not coming in for some time. In October 1970, after about 18 months of near constant touring, the song took shape. Page and Plant explained that they started working on it at a 250-year-old Welsh cottage called Bron-yr-Aur, where they wrote the songs for Led Zeppelin III. Page sometimes told a story of the pair sitting by a fire at the cabin as they composed it, a tale that gives the song a mystical origin story, as there could have been spirits at play within those walls. Page told a different story under oath: When he was called to the stand in 2016 as part of a plagiarism trial over this song, he said that he wrote the music on his own and first played it for his bandmates at Headley Grange in Liphook Road, Headley, Hampshire, where they recorded it using a mobile studio owned by The Rolling Stones. Plant corroborated the story in his testimony. Headley Grange may not be as enchanting as Bron-yr-Aur, but the place had some character: It was a huge, old, dusty mansion with no electricity but great acoustics. Bands would go there to get some privacy and focus on songwriting, as the biggest distractions were the sheep and other wildlife.
What makes this song so memorable and such a classic is that it is built as a continuous crescendo. From first note to last it increases in intensity. That tweaks something in our emotions
Nailed it. Every now and then an artist hits a decent song but back it the day the artists were prolific. STH is a beautiful journey. Watch/React to the Kennedy Center Honors with Anne & Nancy Wilson of Heart singing this song TO Led Zeppelin. A once in a lifetime moment. Side note: The drummer performing is the drummer of Led Zeppelin son. Really AMAZING!!
It’s not even that all the new music is “bad”, it’s that the old stuff is just so incredibly good that it doesn’t compare. It sounds cliche, but people literally don’t make music like this anymore.
100% He’s really appreciating the older music fully. So love that While I grew up a fan of this music I learned we still do have a lot of good artists around & expanded my own horizons a lot. You can still find good lyricists, though I think the Biz does so much homogenizing & using formulas for success there are fewer. But they’re out there & there success should teach the industry something. Those voice equalizers though, no tolerance for. If you haven’t got the voice, play an instrument, dance, produce. Everyone can spot the fake.
just never forget that black people created literally every genre. rock. country. rockabilly. blues. soul. funk, disco, r and b. rap. funk, raeggae, etc...
Remembering the sign in the music store in "Wayne's World!". Laughed hard out loud in the movie theater, and audience all turned to look at me! Guess they didn't notice the bit...hysterical!
In the early 80's, this was always the last song at the after-game high school dances. The length of the song gave you extra up-close time with that one girl... but the up-tempo ending was a problem for us 6'5"ers that were reluctant to "fastdance". Such huge problems we had back then :/
My school tried to get Stairway to Heaven to be our prom song, but administration was not giving in, so we got a different (but also awesome) song instead. They did, however, let the following year have it. It was almost 18 years ago and it still doesn't make sense to me.
This song changed alot of peoples lives when it first came out, imagine millions of young rock & roll kids hearing this for the first time Back in 1971, I am PROUD to say I was one of them, my generation was Dope AF!
First live performance was in my home city, Belfast, Ireland, when few bands would come here because we'd a fek'n war going on. I'll never forget that they did that for us.
Man you have to watch the cover this really talented band did of Stairway. Just type in "led zeppelin kennedy center honors 2012" and watch the one with 28 million views. It's beautiful watching the band react to the cover. It was profound. Edit: nevermind the next video up is you reacting to it! haha you're the man. This music is apart of all of us in such a profound, deep, meaningful way. I'm glad you're on board now too my friend.
I remember when I was a child back in the 80's in Japan, I used to listen to this. This song represented America to me. Although, I didn't understand much English then and also the lyric itself escaped me because I was a child, I still understood its melody. Very seldom in humankind's history when music isn't a music anymore. It becomes a journey.
@@snowwpea It sounds English lol... American bands tried to sound like them but never quite could. Its not glam rock like Bon Jovi, it's real rock and roll.
This is considered by many as the greatest rock song ever. While there are other Zeppelin songs I love more, this one song has so much mass appeal is why it has this ranking. The beauty, musicianship, lyric writing, hard rock at the end....it’s magic. I’ve seen all of your Zeppelin videos thus far. I’ve been deployed to Kuwait and seeing your reaction to the band I live the most ha helped me get through this. So please do more
Our music of the 70's and 80's took you on a journey. Led Zepplin, Rush, Yes, Rolling Stones, The Who and so many others that the music brought you JOY to hear. My daughter who is now in her 30's said it recently - I listen to your music now because it makes me feel good and lifts me up.
Most beautiful song I've ever heard. When I was a Vegas pit boss I had a difficult situation and for some reason I began to pound out the base line of this song in answer to the angry shouts of the players. We all started to groove and started singing Stairway to Heaven. Got me a promotion thanks to Led Zepplin.
Cyberium Very true. I met someone last week who had never heard of Piano Man and Rocket Man by Billy Joel + Elton John. I was shocked and disappointed lol.
Sure, but on the other hand, I’m going to guess there’s a lot of grown people that have never heard Eric B. & Rakim’s Paid In Full which changed the sound of hiphop and redefined what an MC was. It’s preference, environment, exposure... My Dad listened to Floyd and Zep. My Mom and my Step listened mainly to Jazz due to them being in a quartet. I heard “rap music” for the first time in the late 70s early 80s and I was done. Nothing else mattered. Breaking, strutting, and trying to write rhymes became my life.
Jamal my brother, I hope your channel blows up with millions of subs. You deserve it. I chill and watch your reactions during my lunch hour at work, and so many people crowd around me watching you and discovering new music. I love seeing you discover music that I've loved my entire life. You get it my brother. #respect
Two of my favorite things about watching your reaction videos - the way you respond to David Gimour’s guitar playing in Pink Floyd and John Bonham’s drumming in Led Zeppelin, both arguably the best at what they did. Just by intuition alone you picked that up. That speaks volumes about you, brother!
And to think that Led Zeppelin practically got booed off the stage the first time that Stairway was played. The crowd changed their minds after the change when the tempo picks up.
Brother I've been rocking to Led Zepplin for 40 years and I'm as black ad black can get! Along with Rush, Vanhalen and all the greats and I'm probably one of only a few black drummers that can match Jon Bonham ( RIP ) Neal Peart ( RIP ) and Alex Vanhalen stick for stick on the kit.
Stairway is considered the absolute BEST "Rock and Roll" song of all time. It was recorded in 1971 (48 years ago as of this post) and it is still JAM as heck!!!
You sir are a breath of fresh air! Uplifting. I really smile watching you absorb the music and seeing and hearing your reactions. Keep up the great work and thank you. Peace and respect from North East England. Mark.
It's quite amazing to me that such a small island off the Atlantic coast of Europe could produce so much incredible , inventive life changing music, Zeppelin, Beatles, Stones , The Who, Deep Purple, Kinks, Yardbirds, Moody Blues, Yes, Genesis, Black Sabbath, Jeff Beck, Elton John, Radiohead, Pink Floyd, The Clash, The list is endless , there must be something in the rainwater , Bless you Brittania
I’m Digging The Fact That,There Are Still People Who Can Open Their Heart,Mind & Soul To Other Genres Of Music,Me As A White Guy Who Grew Up On The Westside Of Chicago In The 60’s & 70’s,However,I Embraced All Forms Of Music,Classic Rock,Hard Rock,Punk Rock,Pop,Rhythm & Blues,Motown Sound,Zydeco Blues,Delta Blues,Contemporary Jazz,Acid Jazz,Classic Country,Hell Even Reggae😎Watching This Video And His Reactions To A Great Song,Zeppelin Is My Favorite Rock Band(Saw Them In 1977)It Warms My Heart To Truly See Someone,Regardless Of Ethnicity,Gender,Age,Socioeconomic Status !!! When You First Listen To A Great Song That You Truly Feel In Your Heart,Mind & Soul🤔There Are Very Few Things In This World That Can Do That,The Birth Of Your Child,The Loss Of A Loved One,Falling In Or Out Of Love With Someone,The Unconditional Love & Companionship Of A Beloved Pet🤔Lose Yourselves In Some Great Music Of Any Genre,It Won’t Fix All The Problems In The World,However,Truly Great Music,You Can Truly Feel Deep Inside Your Mind,Heart,Body & Soul Will Heal A Part Of You !!! These Words Of Wisdom May Be The Rants Of An Old Man,But,It Won’t Cost You Anything To At Least Try,You Won’t Regret It🥃😎👍🏻
That's the difference between new music nowadays and music that transcends time, Stairway to Heaven evokes passion and emotion where music like Happy are just fads
Watched them live at Knebworth 1979, all I remember was the lazer show late at night as I was quite young at the time but very memorible open air concert.
Best 11 minutes I’ve spent onYou Tube for a long time. Watching your reaction was priceless, and from your words at the end it’s evident you “get it”. You are now an honorary 60+ year old. Welcome to our world and our experiences
Don't care how many times I hear it, still gives me chills. That was one of those perfect moments with the perfect grouping of people to make the perfect kind of sound to touch people for years to come.
30 years since i first heard this song and i still love it. It's is almost a religious experience to see someone hear it for the first time. Thanks dude.
A masterpiece...this song tells a beautiful story..it keeps unfolding and opening up..the greatest song known to man. The greatest guitar solo ive ever heard in my life, and I've heard many. Love all ur videos Sir..God Bless
Seriously man...sitting here with tears in my eyes after that "heeyyyy' when they come back in with singing from the solo. I LOVE watching someone experience this for the first time. I'll never forget my first experience with Zep when I was about eight years old and my dad let me get into his record collection. The Houses of the Holy album transported me into an entirely new being that day. And I haven't stopped on that journey since. Welcome brother!
@@seand.g423 I've listened to Gordon Lightfoot all my life, not sure if dad and mom had albums. There's no better crowd pleaser than a greatest hits album from him. I'm talking about tooling around at home, get together w/ friends, not a party party.
It's amazing to watch younger people fall in love with the same music we grew up on. Our generation did a lot of stuff wrong but music is not one of them.
Wow I got robbed, I saw Led Zeppelin in 1977 and my ticket was $9. The funny thing was, as we drove into the concert people were selling tickets for face value. In the same year a friend and I drove to Greensboro from Fort Bragg to see the Moody Blues on the night of the show. We got 2 floor seats. Ah, the good ole days!!!
"I see why ya'll are upset with the music today" Yea, that pretty much sums it up. Glad there are still people in the world who appreciate greatness. Good video 👍
My number 1 song of all time....period. I still get emotions and chills after listening to this 1000 times.Every part of this song is legendary and heavenly...I am 67 and I am not ashamed I cried when I heard this the first time.Who makes music like this anymore?
Jamal - Great music, cool reactions, and I love how you seem genuinely into the music. That’s what music back then did to the soul. But even more than all that, I absolutely LOVE that you’ve created a channel that is positive, people aren’t tearing each other apart with nasty comments, and you’re helping people re-live the best times of their lives. Hats off to you as so few are able to do that these days. Nice job!!
It’s like these guys were able to put music and words to a beautiful vision and paint that vision with the appropriate words and sounds that can accurately be conveyed to all that hear/see it. It’s almost supernatural. It is supernatural. This is more than music man.
This band means so much to me. Growing up I was a skinny kid in a time where bullying was considered normal behavior for kids in school. It was this and a handful of other bands and books that got me through it all. After a day of being picked on I would come home, put on an album and my headphones and disappear in a book. It made life liveable back then and am still so grateful for music and stories.
