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Apparently this song was a cover and wasn’t an innuendo at all #ScribeScribe lol hey I told y’all I was new to Rock n roll , either way still loved the song and I look forward to learning and listening to more Led Zeppelin
Your listening to the GREATEST rock blues band ...Ever. Greatest drummer bass player guitarist lead singer. No one comes close. Play old live versions. 69 -73 best stuff
Heh. With Zeppelin, thinking there's an innuendo is always a fair take. "Squeeze my lemon till the juice runs down my leg" earns them that particular side-eye.
Thomas Taylor - He did that sometimes early in career, but usually played them standard. Neil Peart played them backwards. Bonham was also 6’2 240 pounds of mass smashing those drums so it really didn’t matter.
The most ass-kicking live band ever! Giving away my age, saw them in 1972 in San Diego. They played for an hour and a half took a 15 minute break, then played for another hour and a half. EPIC!!! There will never be anyone close.
Post war Britain produced amazing musicians and artists. When these folks were kids on their way to school there were still bombed out buildings in many cities. Young Brits couldn't get enough of anything American, spending time in record shops looking for blues recordings. Going to America was a big dream for youth back then. Bands like Led Zeppelin introduced many Americans to the music of their fellow countrymen.
Seen a few videos of younger people listening to classic rock songs, I just love the looks on their faces and how they groove to the tunes. Us old fuckers had top shelf music in our youth.
@@juliemanarin4127 I know I know but it's funny. But forreal she had me going, okay if anyone would be using this flood song also as an innuendo it'd be him lol
True words, as Jack Black said when he was MC for Zeppelin's introduction to the Kennedy Center , " they sang about making love, they sang about Vikings, they sang about making love to Vikings". As you said, "Zeppelin ", but damn they did it way better than good....
Hear that great drum beat? It was recorded at the bottom of a stairway in a mansion (Headley Grange), with the microphone suspended 2 floor above the drum set. The magnificent musicianship from the mind of the greatest drummer of all time, John Bonham, also known as Hammer of the Gods.
You can def hear the blues in many of Zep’s music. I’ve been crazy about them since I was about 6-7. My father may have been a hippie but I’ve been listening to blues and rock since the crib. Apparently a would freak out to Hendrix dancing in my playpen when I was 1
@@nursemarn I've got three natural kids, and all of them heard Zep in the crib. I'm very open minded about music, but there are classics that kids need to hear.
True words have never been spoken, the wrestler, Randy "Macho Man" Savage put it as well as I've ever heard or read, "those guys were just on another level". Yes, they damn sure were..... Like that movie Jack Nicholson was in, "As Good As It Gets"
This song is actually about a flood. They gave songwriting credits to Memphis Minnie for the original track, and the made it their own rather than an easy copy. The did some great blues covers, check out "I Can't Quit You Babe".
@ReetaR You really need to read what happened if you are to understand the reason that there is such a distance between white and black people in that area.
@ReetaR So only black people can state the fact that whites have done terrible things? I think that your aversion to my statement shows a need to repudiate or ignore the facts of American history. Feeling a little guilty?
Originally performed by Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie in 1929. The song is about the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. A huge portion of the delta area was devastated people were rendered homeless and jobless, this resulted in an exodus from the south to places like Chicago in search of work.
SC, if you are ready to Rock AND Roll (and you said it 3 times, so you can't deny it!) then you have to LISTEN and react to Led Zeppelin's "Rock And Roll" - at least before you climb out of this deep 'Zeppelin rabbit hole...
Wanna' stay heavy? "In My Time of Dying" "You Shook Me" "Heartbreaker" Wanna' get slow? "Gallows Pole" "Going to California" "Thank You" Wanna' get weird? "Hot Dog" "Hats Off to Roy Harper" "Boogie With Stu" Just stay in this rabbit hole. You've barely even descended a foot yet. Miles to go before you sleep. Loved how you jammed to Levee. It's one of my go to songs when I'm feeling the need to sweat. That beat is relentless. John "Bonzo" Bonham is justifiably considered one of the greatest drummers to ever have lived. Peace, Love and Rock and Roll
The original When the Levee Breaks was done in 1929 by Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie and it was referring to the 1927 flood of the MIssissippi River.
This is a remake of an old blues song written close to 100 years ago about a time when the levees along the Mississippi river broke and left people homeless. Led Zeppelin was HEAVILY influenced by American blues music.
How Many More Times, You Shook Me and Since I've Been Loving You should be on your Zeppelin reaction to do list!! So happy you are reacting to Zeppelin!! Welcome to the Rabbit Hole!
I guess Robert Plant can make a song about a flood sound sexy. Lol! That was cute. Hey, sometimes it seems like that's all he sings about. Good reaction. 🎸🎸🎸🎶🎶
People who are hearing Led Zeppelin for the first time are lucky. Back then the bass could not be heard except in concert. Our speakers and ear phones couldn't handle true bass. they would rattle and vibrate so badly. When the industry figured out good speakers and earphones, many musicians from back then went back into the studios to remaster their tapes and fix that true bass so you could hear it on your car stereo and other speakers. Jimmy Page spent a lot of time remastering all their songs so on the record you could hear true bass. On this particular song, they really wanted to hear the drums louder than they usually could do on a record. They were in a small studio that looked more like a Livingroom in someone's house. They couldn't get the sound right, the drums up, so they crammed John Bonham (the drummer) at the base of the staircase in that room with all his drums. They hung microphones directly over his drums and turned it as loud as they could to capture the exceptional drumming on this particular song. They had to use what they had back then. But now you guys. and us who heard it back then, get to hear the song as it was intended to be heard.
If the water level gets too high, the pressure will break through the Levee and the city will flood! Something that happened in southern Louisiana many times. You mentioned it is a sexual innuendo -You are correct!
I love watching younger generations LISTENING to our music from the day. WE WERE VERY LUCKY. We just didn't know it. WERE JUST HAVING THE TIME OF OUR LIVES GOING TO CONCERT AFTER CONCERT. I MISS THOSE DAY'S. And pay attention to the lyrics. SERIOUSLY profits. Sound FAMILIAR. The levy's broke because of the hurricane in new Orleans. CREEPY. This song describes what happened. Freaks me out sometimes. Crazy
Wasn't there, but when Katrina was thrashing Norleans, I couldn't get this song out of my head. As bad as the news had been reporting that the winds and rain were, somehow I knew it was going to get a whole lot worse. And it did.
It's not a sexual innuendo. It's based on songs about the 1927 Mississippi River flood disaster that sent close to a quarter million people (mostly African-Americans) north to Chicago and what passed for safety.
If you could actually hear the harmonic (too buried in the mix here), it would blow you away. It's some of the best playing ever. Always felt Plant should have used it on more songs. Epic.
This is the greatest Zeppelin track bar none. You need to play it loud enough to make your ears bleed. It's about the levees on the Mississippi River breaking in the flood of 1927, which is why he's going to Chicago.
Don’t apologize for interpreting in your own way. Ever. That’s not how music works. Those people who “corrected” you are in error. Music is for you to interpret personally. That’s why it’s critical. It brings us together as individuals. Be yourself and apologize to no one.
Its an old delta blues track that they re-worked. The drum sound comes from setting the kit up at the base of the 3 story stairwelll....purely by chance - got that perfect reverb sound as a rsulut.
Having said that their compressed os fuck, extra reverb added and a you can the here the chorus processor heavy on on the cymbals. Still magical though very engineered and knew exactly what they were doing
Robert Plant and John Bonham both were talented with the Harmonica I don't know about the studio but, they both play Live. They grew up together so I imagine some hours were wild away playing the Harp.
Now that your on the Zeppelin train...you have to discover the badass women of Rock! Sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson and their band Heart. Check out their tribute to Led Zeppelin- Stairway to Heaven...will blow you away. Also, check out their hits (live is best): Crazy on You; Magic Man; Alone; Straight on for You. Thank you.
From Wikipedia: When blues musical duo Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie wrote "When the Levee Breaks", the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was still fresh in people's memories.[2] The flooding affected 26,000 square miles of the Mississippi Delta - hundreds were killed and hundreds of thousands of residents were forced to evacuate.[3] The event is the subject of several blues songs, the most popular being "Backwater Blues" by Bessie Smith (1927) and "Mississippi Heavy Water Blues" by Barbecue Bob (1928).[4] Ethel Douglas, Minnie's sister-in-law, recalled that Minnie was living with her family near Walls, Mississippi, when the levee broke in 1927.[2] The song's lyrics recount the personal toll on a man who lost his home and family. Despite the tragedy, biographers also see in it a statement of rebirth. The original recorded version has nothing in common with the Zeppelin version except the lyrics, but it was a good song. Zeppelin made it GREAT!
It’s a Delta blues song from the south about the people feeling helpless and seeing everything they work so hard just be gone in an instant. True true true mean oh Leavee taught me to weep and moan!!!
You rock Lady! Great reaction to a great song by the mighty zep! Pink Floyd suggestion song called Time will blow you away seriously! Keep on Rocking! Thanks. 🎸😎
A traditional Delta Blues song about a historic flood of the Mississippi River when the levies holding back the water broke... Not EVERY Zepp song is sexual in origin, though a lot of them are!
your so lucky to get to discover all this great music, I have been listening to it since it was new and still love it. Wish I could relive the first time I heard it.
these men were children of the Blues that came before them, the fruit of their genius just fell a bit farther from the tree than many.. and wasn't all blues immersed in sexual innuendo? and sadness, and joy,... and Life. :-)
The mighty Led Zep is a.wonderful blues based rock band. If you check it out they redid a lot of songs that came from the Mississippi Delta a very long time ago. If you want to check out where it all came from look up Leadbelly, Son House and the greatest Robert Johnson. That would be a good start.
New subscriber here @ScribeCash . I have related this song to my own relationship with my ex wife (14 years)... "If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' a break". But the song is actually based upon a real historic event... The Great Mississippi Flood from the 1920's... if my memory serves me correctly. I watched most of your Zeppelin videos last night, then before I got into your Pink Floyd reactions tonight, I went back to the beginning of your videos on this channel and watched #4 of your own videos... and I got to say that I was very impressed. You go girl!! Great material! I love 💕 your work! I will share it with my 4 daughters (ages 26, 29 and 32twins). I am a 59 y/o drummer and have played in front of 2000 people, but mostly around 500. I also mix live bands on my own top of the line JBL/QSC system. Could you react to "In My Time of Dying" by Zeppelin? Thank you! 🤘😎 💕