Songwriter Reacts to Led Zeppelin - When The Levee Breaks (THIS IS MUSIC!)  

Wonderful reaction! That movie was "Stand By Me" ☺️

LED ZEPLLEN ARE GODS OF ROCK AND ROLL💃💃☘️

Zeppelin was one of those bands when I was a teen where we just lay on our beds in the dark and just “listened”.

Hello, "BONJOUR" from France !!! You know, I'm 68 years old so at the time when I bought an album by Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Genesis or other, it only existed on vinyl... So when I got to my room I put the disc on on the turntable, headphones on and I lay down on the bed to discover the album in total meditation. (What you say) It was the only way to listen to an album, or on the speakers with friends. Today many people “hear” music but they don’t listen to it. There is a difference between hearing noise and listening to music. It's reassuring to see decades later, young people like you still appreciate quality music. Merci !!!

This recording of "When the Levee Breaks" _sounds_ like a flood: ominous, heavy, and exigent. The blaring harmonica sounds like a warning siren.

I am thanking the Universe for having these four guys find each other .

one of the most beautiful rock voices. they did it all.

Met Robert Plant this summer. My inner 15 year old self was losing her mind. Mighty, Mighty Zeppelin. 💫❤❤

I am 63 love to see young people finding this 😊

Because this music was important to us, I'm 59, retired navy, it's so amazing to feel that it's important to you and other younger gentlemen and ladies. I envy you because you are embarking on a journey I wish I could live all over again. I'll happily settle with living vicariously through your reactions. Thank you, sir!

That harmonica was so fierce! Love it.

I'll be 71 in 2 months. Being old now is a fair trade for being young when this great music was made.

The River also flooded in 1993 when the levees broke and flooded thousands of miles. The levees broke in New Orleans during Katrina and also caused huge destruction. It's a huge thing for southern blacks who've lived along the River for centuries and have been there before.

Thank God I was privileged enough to see them live in 1978. I was just a teenager but I’m still a Led Head. Know every song and still own every original LP. The BEST ROCK BAND of all time!

Soul music was the foundation of the music everyone I knew listened to in the 60's . Born from the delta blues. We loved that music. I had a fantasy to ride a bus through the Blues country, Mississippi, stopping at little towns, breaking down on the side of the road. Sit in the grass with an umbrella under the burning sum while the bus was fixed. I heard an interview with B.B.King, he said he sang in the cotton fields to pass the time with the other pickers. Can you imagine being there in the dust and heat and listen to B.B. sing songs? The reality of life and art.

finally; a RU-vidr who researches the music before they listen to it! someone who wants to learn rather than just react. thank you!

I am one of those older people , the world has gone mad but we still have our music and we are still young in our heads . Loving your words . CHEERS

Zeppelin was at a different level, 4 unbelievably talented individuals coming together to produce timeless art.

Just happy you are listening to music that your parents and grandparents listened to. Keep exploring

I was just home from USAF Basic Training and heard LZ was releasing the 4th album. A friend and I drove through the night to Portland Oregon and stood in line at 4am waiting for the record store to open and get one of the first day releases. The record store was playing the album for the people in line before the doors opened, we were totally blown away. We got our records, drove home and wore out the albums

66 years young and really like your thoughts. I appreciate the fact that you spend a little time researching the song. Thank you!

I'm 52, but hubby is 67. He was born in 1955, and introduced me to ALL the rock of that era when we met in 1991. Here we are 31 years later and still listen to these tunes DAILY.

Led Zeppelin's music was alive like some dragon from the Dark Ages. This song and Kashmir, Trampled Under Foot, and so many more.

The reason it touches you is not only about the content, but the fact that the music then had melody, harmony and rhythm. Nowadays, there is only rhythm and spoken words, no tunes to stay your head. Nothing to touch your heart.

I think he was playing the harmonica through an amp to get that amazing sound. It's really his harmonica playing that makes that song soar. It's amazing how it creates exactly the imagery that the song is about. That's serious talent. My favorite thing about Led is the way they go all out to creat something huge on so many of their songs. No limits. It's ballsy.

Favorite line: cryin won't help you prayin won't do ya no good "

I love that you listen to the entire track before reacting. That bothers me when other people constantly stop the music. Btw, I'm 70, I 'm one of the folks you're talking about, thanks for the reaction! I just subscribed!

A young Robert Plant on that harmonica. The haunting vocal is accentuated by the harmonica with the dark and finality of the lyrics punching you straight in the face by the drum work on this record. On my top 3 best LZ songs, man did they ever hit a homerun with this one. NO BAND HAS A RIGHT TO BE THIS TALENTED! TY for reacting.

GOAT of musical eras! ✌❤🔥

You can't go wrong with Led Zeppelin, they are still Classic Super Stars to this day, every song they have is Gold!

This guy knows how to do a reaction. Close your eyes, listen, feel it and don’t stop! 💯

That's my all time favorite Led Zeppelin Song.

Every song of theirs is priceless. LZ is the Legends of all Legends!!! Keep up the LZ rabbit hole, you will be so happy that you have....

Led zeppelin was fearless, they explored every music from all corners of the world. Robert Plant was heavily influenced by all the masters of the Mississippi delta as well as Elvis. Their music is timeless. Even now I love how Robert is exploring bluegrass with Allison Krauss, his voice and his artistry is boundless. If you really listen to all the Brit musician from the 70's like the stones, Clapton, zep, Traffic, Fleetwood Mac, yardbirds..etc. they took the time to LISTEN! And understand the essence of the blues. Where their American counterparts could not grasp it or appreciate what was in their own backyard.

YES to listening to LZ with headphones and eyes closed - it is a real *experience*! This particular song is a great example of how the music underlines the story being told: The way Robert Plant's playing the harmonica and the way he's singing, you hear the heaviness, fear and agony people are going through b/c of the flood. Fun fact: The drum track was heavily sampled by a whole range of Hip Hop stars like Ice-T, Beastie Boys, Eminem, etc. So cool!

When Plant sings " going down, going down now" , it sounds like he's drowning...getting sucked down by a whirlpool of unimaginable chaos...This is the power of good music.

Another song I could never tire of hearing, it never gets old, this has to be one of the coolest drum beats in history

When I hear how thoughtful and deep you are, it gives me hope for your generation. If I had a time machine I would love to show you around the 70s

I was your age when this album came out. Life was much different back then. We were at war we had the draft a lot of our brothers weren't coming home alive. The future was very uncertain. Music like this was our escape from reality.

The GOAT song by the GOAT band!!!!!!

I'm in my 60's, brown skin and a born and bred New Zealander. This particular Led Zep track is probably my all-time favorite of theirs. Fantastic!

Grew up listening to Zepplin

Deffinetly has that Mississippi Delta vibe to it with some Zepplin magic thrown in. One fo my faves.

"they were tappin in".. yessir. you hit right on it!

The movie with the group of friends going on a hike was "Stand by Me". In 2019 the Mississippi flooded enough that they compared it to 1927. There's an aerial photo of the baseball stadium in Davenport IA popping up through the flood waters.

My favorite Zeppelin song

This song is a journey. Jeez its so good.

No band could put their stamp on an old traditional like Led Zeppelin. This song, Nobody's Fault But Mine, In My Time of Dying, Babe I'm Going to Leave You, Gallows Pole.....one of the best bands ever.

Rock and roll has blues roots and Led Zeppelin were all inspired by various blues artists. This song is fantastic - John Bonham has that “bounce” to his drumming and Robert Plant’s voice is like no other.

This is absolutely my favorite Zepplin song. Love it and your reaction!

Led Zeppelin, much like the Rolling Stones, had enormous influence from American Blues. Good words. We are all students.

this is the history of music Led Zeppelin created great music. the guys were musician's before rock stars

They drew heavily on the blues. Some critics even said they ripped off the blues masters. In my opinion I thank them for their interpretation of some of the great blues songs and for keeping the style going. LZ all-time favorite.

I've been a Led Zep fan for over 30 years. This song still astonishes me and brings the same reaction today as the first time I heard it. It brings me great joy to see people find it and see their love for it unfold in the same way it did for me.

What a great album I'm 61 Lucky enough to live through the glory days of rock and roll

WHEN THE LEVEE BREAKS is an old acoustic blues classic. LED ZEPPELIN rearanged it, and it became a classic, love the harmonica vs.guitar duel. It wasn't a hit, but the B-side of the "IV" is the real treat

I appreciate your understanding of Jimmy’s goal, electric blues!

“When you do what you love, man! That’s what makes you free!” Very wise words from a 29 yr old! 🥰

LZ is a legendary band, their songs are like symphonies, they made you feel totally immerse in the lyrics and music. I’m glad we have artist like LZ because in these days music is not the same.

Being in my 60's I'm classic and young men like yourself brings back memories of hearing these classics for the first time.

This is one of those few songs to me, the construct and how it's put together along with the talent is a phenomenon

You were born too late! I'm 67 and I was blessed to have seen this band live in my teens & 20's.

Robert Plant the singer of LZ is very interested in history so you will find lots of historical references in their songs both British and also American. the whole band were inspired by Delta and chicago blues ( as were most of the good British bands from the sixies onwards) Plant plays a mean mouth organ on this and other tracks. If you want to hear some more blues inspired tracks try since i been loving you preferably live at Madison Square Garden 1973 or You shook me babe royal albert hall 1970. do try some live performances they are brilliant. If you want to look at a very good up to date version of When the levee breaks try the version by Playing for change featuring John Paul Jones ( base player from LZ ) this is a collaboration by world musicians and is epic. The other two members of LZ who you need to know are John Bonham on drums and the incomparible Jimmy Page on guitar , who also is the producer. so much good music coming your way. As one of those older people you mentioned i must say it is very enjoyable watching you youngsters discovering this music. I think the film you were talking about is stand by me.

You're only 29 but you have a real appreciation of what makes music cool. And the guys in Led Zeppelin were younger than you when they wrote this, so age isn't a barrier

The first time I heard ‘Hey, hey what can I do’- I think I was 16? 1984 - that moment I became a life long Zep fan. A song about bein in love with a street corner girl - I feel that song in my soul. I’ll put that record on and go somewhere no one can find me, even 38 years later. Thanks for the video ❤

Some music is timeless. Explore it all.

This drum track has been sampled more than any drum riff ever. Check out, “ Since I’ve been loving you” and “ in my time of dying”

Thanks for respecting the art

The song is about the great flood of 1927. It affected about 26,000 sq miles of the Mississippi Delta. Hundreds were killed, and thousands more had to evacuate. It was first recorded by Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie in 1929.

I'm not a musician, but my son is, he's a handful of years older than you, and he's been playing (and learning) for 20+ years. When he first really "heard" Led Zeppelin, his curiosity went into overdrive... "how did they get that sound?" I was in my 40s and I took the sonic profile for granted, but because he was/is a musician, he introduced me to the intricacies and difficulties of creating that distinctive, customized-to-the-song aural environment. I'm 61, and I'm still finding new ways to appreciate LZ and many other artists of that era. I'm really sorry that I can't say the same thing for a lot of the stuff that's being released today. I like your approach to reaction videos. It's respectful of the artists and thoughtful. Honestly, I'm just sorry that more people of your age range are only now finding out about the "golden age" of rock (and soul, and blues). There are years of really amazing recordings out there to explore!

Interesting fact. In order to get the sound John Bonham wanted for his drums they recorded this song in Aleister Crowley's house in the front atrium with microphones hung from the rafters❤

Everything they did was PERFECTION! Robert on that harmonica!

AND, this was the close out song on Led Zeppelin 4. What a great song to close on and leave us screaming for more.

You could have only been born too early for Led Zeppelin.....never too late.

Great to see youngsters like yourself appreciating the music of our youth.

I'm 61 and Led Zeppelin is my favorite rock band. The way they mix blues with rock and roll is badass.

Just goes to show you that music can be simple but powerful. Not over produced, compressed or synthetic sounds.

I grew up listening to Led Zeppelin and have always loved them. They were all Masters At what they did and we are so lucky that they ended up together for as long as they did before Bonzo died. Also, we lived very close to the Mississippi River when I was a little kid and we would go there a lot. Definitely every Sunday afternoon after church my dad would drive us in the station wagon over there and it wasn't far away, and one place we could go would be to look down where there are all these locks. And as a kid I was just fascinated with not only how big and wide and massive this River was, but the barges would go in you know and then a close and then they would allow the water to drain down and you could drop this heavy barge down like 20 ft and then the gate at the end would open it would be now on a lower stage of the river. And then it took a long time to fill it back up to let the next barge enter. All of it was just fascinating. It was peaceful but just surreal almost the scope of it. So when I hear this song with that Relentless Relentless deliberate John Bonham drumline, and then you've got John Paul Jones being fairly busy on the base at Parts but it works perfectly and then Jimmy Page is guitar just says the wildest distorted slide texture it sounds like an animal and it's chaotic. And then Robert Plant just kills it on the harp. Just kills it what a great great texture. And his voice of course and delivery fit perfectly as always. But it gives me this feeling of a very large river that is just relentless, it doesn't stop it just keeps coming it just keeps coming and it's something to behold and it's frightening if you're in its way.

Zep were VERY bluesy and soulful too, yhey also had CRUSHING power and technical ability on top of that. That's before you get to their finesse and huge versatility aswell. Jest band ever!!

Led Zeppelin an English band that always had a love for American blues. This is one of their tributes.

I'm glad young people are still listening to Zep

The opening drums on this track are legendary! Watch the Jimmy Page clip from "it might get loud" where he talks about the new drum kit the tech set up in the hall entry stairwell and that sound changed how drummers looked at recording forever. The harmonica and sounds Page puts down really give you a sense of the Delta being flooded. Amazing stuff from the GOATS.

My soul hears your soul... thank you!

It's nice that young people are interested in this fantastic music. It was only for a short time from 1968 to 1977 that such complex works of rock music were created. There were bands as talented as Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, Uriah Heep... all with completely different styles. Led Zeppelin has combined such different styles of music in their music. Blues, hard rock, ballads, folk and no piece of them resembled another.

This is the album my big sister used to introduce me to Led Zep back in the 60's...Been a fan ever since.

This music is pretty well drilled into my subconscious, I listened to a lot of this 1968 to 1972, Led Zeppelin was the most listen to band in my Neiborhood. Songs like immigration song would create so much visual imagery it was like reading a book it would take you to another place.

Bought this album in 1972 for the classic, Stairway To Heaven, which is an all time great song, but this track quickly became my favorite on the album.

Thank you for taking your time to experience this song. Stand by Me I believe is the movie you are referring to. Great movie! I found Led Zeppelin in 1979. I was 13 and had no money for albums. I would wait to hear it play on my AM/FM radio. With only the DJ talking about the band and/or song I had only my imagination to understand the music. Hope you too will let yourself continue to experience this music. Thank you again.

I like that you ran through some history before beginning. Nice touch!

What a good heart you have. Music is the bridge that connects all the world's peoples .. I was at Led Zeppelin's "Day on the Green" at Oakland California in 1977. Time just slips Us by

Hey there, Ned from Spain here. I just wanted to mention this song is based on a killer country blues by a woman, Memphis Minnie, from the 1930s and about a real event. She had many hits and nobody messed around with her bad ass. Also I'm a drummer, now 50 plus years of non stop playing and this is the drum rhythm that changed my playing forever. It taught me space, economy, groove, power and syncopation. A hypnotic track indeed. Thank you.

An amazing song that is a complete 180⁰ change follows this one, "Going to California" a true hidden gem in the dozens of the amazing Led Zepplin portfolio...

Haha! I'm 77 and just joined a gym for the first time because they've open 24/7 and have a pool. The music they play is so foreign to me it scrambles my soul ! Guess I'll need to bring Zeppelin

Stand By Me was my childhood. Many adventures down the tracks. Wild stuff.

That exhale at the end of the song is the perfect response. There simply are no words to do this justice.

My favorite Zeppelin song. That groove chugs like a train.

the greatest quartet that ever came together

Getting the Led out. 🤘🏼 “ crying won’t help-prayin won’t do no good”. This is awesome.

Oh brother man! Speechless. The future is good with people like yourself on the earth. Oakland Ca

Stand By Me lol…classic. One of my fav if not fav Zeppelin song. Thanks!