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How Led Zeppelin created their biggest hit song, their only top 10, the provocative 70s smash Whole Lotta Love through rough waters including conservative radio programmers and later a lawsuit. Jimmy Page’s Riff has been called the best ever, Robert Plant’s evocative vocal and the incredible rhythm section of John Paul Jones and John Bonham, this song is a bonafide rock classic.... Coming up.. the story of a provocative Top 5 smash created by a daredevil supergroup that challenged the gatekeepers of commercial radio conservatism...and wound up being sued for violation of copyright laws. There’s a whole lotta yearnin’ ...and a whole lotta schoolin' NEXT on Professor of Rock.
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Rolling Stone writer Steve Pond called Led Zeppelin the “last band of the 60s, and the first band of the 70s. Zeppelin was truly the band that captivated a new generation of fans that were not members of the personality cult of the 60s. Critics did not like them, but an emerging culture of uninhibited young fans grabbed on to Zeppelin IMMEDIATELY… It was a new age of fans- captivated by provocative music & a path of life they could call their own.
The song that characterized the approaching individualism of the 70s was released in November of 1969….Led Zeppelin’s ”Whole Lotta Love” In the early 60s; while most of his peers were busy groaning about acne & finding the right turtleneck, the great Jimmy Page worked tirelessly to become one of England’s most sought-after session players by the time he was only 18.
He was known as “Lil’ Jim P” to avoid confusion with another highly used studio musician named Big Jim Sullivan. If an artists needed a guitarist, they either went to Lil Jim, back in those days.
As the decade rolled along, Page was featured on a variety of notable recordings by the likes of Marianne Faithful, Johnathan King, Brenda Lee, Van Morrison, the Kinks, and even The Who.
Jimmy provided rhythm guitar licks for The Who on their first single “I Can’t Explain.” In ’66, Page got the idea of assembling a super group with Keith Moon & John Entwistle from The Who- Jeff Beck & John Paul Jones. When the guys talked about how they thought the supergroup would be received, Keith Moon shot back that the group would “go over like a lead zeppelin,” In other words, it would be a disaster.
I should note, however, that some say the quip actually came from Entwistle. Regardless, the joking remark stuck with Page, and he would bring it to the forefront a few years later. Late in ’66, Page replaced bassist Paul Samwell Smith and joined his buddy Jeff Beck as one of The Yardbirds. Less than two years later, Beck, too, departed, and despite frantic efforts to keep the band together, The Yardbirds imploded. Page went back to his idea of forming a supergroup that shared the same musical vision, and the tenacity to bust the status quo.

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@ProfessorofRock 2 года назад

POLL: They created so MANY classic albums, what is your pick for the greatest Led Zeppelin album back to front?

@timothygutkin5711 2 года назад

@fumblebunny1993 2 года назад

Houses of the Holy

@nelrock3641 2 года назад

Houses Of The Holy was the first Zep album I ever bought and remains my favorite today.

@DDKaraokeOutlaw 2 года назад

@stephenbrown4211 2 года назад

Hands down Physical Graffiti. Every track is just a masterpiece.

@htoneninety-nine8726 2 года назад

Robert has the best Rock voice that has ever existed the sincere emotion in his voice is unmatched.

@catherinewilliams9680 Год назад

Hell, his voice still rocks.

@Frank-pb2rh 8 месяцев назад

Amen Br!!!the greatest!!and I heard Zeppelin when they first hit the radio ,his voice was almost haunting!!!but it drew you in and I wanted to hear more like an addiction!!love Zeppelin especially Robert's voice!!!

@denisefarmer366 2 года назад

I saw Zeppelin at a small Chicago club in late 1968 or early '69, as a senior in highschool. The impact this unknown band (at the time) had was enormous. At that little club in 1968 I became a life long fan. The 60s was a troubled and turbulent decade with the war and 3 high profile political assassinations, especially for teens, and finally we had a band with power, frankness, rebellion and talent to match the mood. Now a granny at age 71, I still crank up the volume on whole lotta love 💕.☮️

@ms-jl6dl 2 года назад

Mee too. I'm the youngunn at 60.😄🤘

@crungefactory 2 года назад

2-7-69 kinetic playground, Chicago! Wow. You were lucky!

@michaelduhan4987 Год назад

Yeah

@dinorockwell3196 Год назад

Kinetic Playground

@robertkirchner8857 Год назад

That is pretty cool. My friend was in London in 1969 and he remembers seeing Zeppelin advertised for a Concert that evening. You are very fortunate to have seen them before the rest of us were able to know them. Especially in a small venue. I was able to see them in Mannheim Germany in the summer of 1980, 3rd to their last show.

@gulfgypsy Год назад

In their prime, Led Zeppelin was a force of nature. No other band had the power to shake you to the core of your soul and hours after a concert, you could still feel their music pulsing through you .......

@clivehorridge 2 года назад

Zeppelin was the first band that really grabbed me. At home in Birmingham UK in the late 60s my rather strict father wouldn’t allow “pop” music to be played, so with no money to speak of, I had an old valve radio and some cheap headphones (used to listen to pirate Radio Caroline broadcasting from a ship in the North Sea and Radio Luxembourg) then came Zeppelin I and II which I played relentlessly on an old stack mono Decca turntable. Led III became my favourite - Tangerine - That’s the way - Friends - somehow you could make the lyrics fit the turmoil of adolescence… well that’s how I remember those amazing times. Even better that John Bonham was a “local” (born and raised in nearby Reddich) and Robert Plant lived in Halesowen close to where I worked. I was a Brummie, and he was a Blackcountry lad, of course I never ever met him, but the local districts in the Midlands were close and tight-knit - I felt I knew him 🤣 and I loved Wales too, still do, I lived there for 15 years. That’s how it was … memories from a 68 year-old fan now living in Romania. ❤️🇷🇴👍🏻

@briangerrard420 2 года назад

This jam was my introduction to Led Zeppelin. I was with a friend at his friends house & he asked me if I heard of Zeppelin as he put the album on a turntable. My life changed at that moment. I never forgot that day & why I was there in the first place. 🤘😎🤘

@hoozat007 2 года назад

One memory that comes to mind regarding this song is from when I was about 17 in the late 70s. My dad bought the family's first real stereo system, you know with the various separate components and two big speakers. He set it up, we listened to a couple songs, and he asked what I thought of the sound quality. I was surprised by the question... he didn't generally ask my opinion about anything. My dad was very much from a different generation--there was a 40 year age difference between us. I told him it was pretty good but I didn't think it had enough bass. The next day he packed it all up and returned it to the store. I assume he must have asked the sales person for something with more bass sound and came home with a different system. He set it up again and asked if I thought this one was any better. The song I chose to test it... Whole Lotta Love. Killer bass on that track, especially in the outro. I don't know what he thought of the song, he never offered an opinion. He just seemed happy that I was satisfied with his purchase. I miss him.

@chrisgerardy2877 2 года назад

Awesome story! I can totally relate with my Dad.😀

@sinjonbradberry4475 2 года назад

Beautiful story. Thanks for sharing.

@boston_octopus 2 года назад

I feel your sadness at missing him. How wonderful that your dad leaned on your judgment! Bless him and you.

@solosyd 2 года назад

Your dad loved you enough to get the right gear for you.

@godisamulti-racialhermaphr7560 2 года назад

You had a cool Dad!

@codydahl8225 2 года назад

When I was 12 my uncle took my siblings and I on a road trip to a family reunion. He played Led Zeppelin on cd in the car. It blew my mind. I begged for a zeppelin album for Xmas that year. When I opened the wrapping paper and got the Les Zeppelin Early Days greatest hits album I ran to my room and played it immediately. I went to bed with headphones on every night for months listening to that album. It absolutely rocked my world. The opening riff of Whole lotta love still sends shivers down my back.

@narq5099 2 года назад

As much credit as Led Zeppelin has been given... it is still not enough. Acknowledged as they are for being rock gods... and they're still underrated. I just love Zep so damn much.

@padmakshkhandelwal1832 2 года назад

Me too, they are so loved and appreciated, but I completely agree they still feel underappreciated, there are so many aspects to them in which they are unmatched.

@RobertMJohnson 2 года назад

they need to be held to account for stealing so many riffs from other artists

@padmakshkhandelwal1832 2 года назад

@@RobertMJohnson oh right, Communication Breakdown, Dazed and Confused, Babe I am Gonna Leave You, Good Times Bad Times, Whole Lotta Love, Heartbreaker(2 GOAT riffs imo), Moby Dick, Ramble On, Thank You, Bring it on Home, Immigrant Song, Black Dog's 3 riffs, When the Levee Breaks, Going to California, Misty Mountain Hop, No Quarter, Over the Hills and Far Away, Song Remains the Same, The Ocean, The Rain Song, Dancing Days Custard Pie, The Rover's several riffs, Houses of the Holy, Trampled Under Foot, In the Light's 3 riffs, Ten Years Gone, In My Time of Dying's multiple riffs, some little songs named Stairway to Heaven, Kashmir, Achilles Last Stand (with just about a dozen riffs) are all stolen!! Right, thanks where you all this time, man. Oh right, they stole all of them from a less known band named Led Zeppelin and their lead guitarist Jimmy Page. Oh my God, what a bunch of cheaters they are.

@narq5099 2 года назад

@@RobertMJohnson “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn.” -T. S. Eliot Led Zeppelin, like the Beatles, were the "good poets" of music.

@SealofPerfection 2 года назад

@@RobertMJohnson Who cares? All the original artists got paid. That is how it was done. They should all be grateful that Zep did their material, otherwise it would have remained forgotten.

@xcskibum403 2 года назад

I remember cruising around in my 63 Pontiac Tempest listening to this on 8 track, instead of left and right speakers I had a big one in front and back and when the music jumped from speaker to speaker it felt like it was going through my body. Although I grew up with this music and it was a constant backdrop in my life I never took time to actually learn anything about the bands. Now some 50 to 60 years later thanks to you and programs like this I’m finding it very interesting and it’s bringing back some great memories. I must say though having no children to date myself it freaks my out a little when you talk about your father and I realize we’re probably the same age.

@deanfotti4866 2 года назад

I have great memories of this song and the early Led Zeppelin albums. I was too young to appreciate the music when my Dad had these originals, but he would play them on the cabinet-style record player we had in our house. He was a drummer in his younger days and played in high school bands with the likes of future legends Randy Bachman and Freddy Turner - all from the same school that one one Neil Young attended. I was only 4 or 5 at the time but I clearly remember hanging of the side of the cabinet to watch the record on the turntable - transfixed by the Atlantic label going round and round with this strange music swirling around from speaker to speaker. I also clearly remember being fascinated by the album cover from both Zep II and III. If you remember the LZ III album cover had a rotating disc that moved small photos around cutouts in the design on the cover - magic for a curious young kid - and to this day I remain a fan of military bomber jackets that adorned the cover of LZ II (and very likely a subliminal influence on my becoming a pilot in later life!). My appreciation of the actual music didn’t come until a few years later when I was a teen and a good friend sat me down to listen to LZ IV. I was hooked and it reminded my of those earlier albums that I recovered from my Dad’s collection. Whole Lotta Love remains one of my all time favourites along with the Immigrant Song and Kashmir. I would have loved to see them live!

@Krullmatic 2 года назад

This is the first song I heard from Zep back in 82, when I was 12, on my sister's cassette. I was absolutely blown away! That's what started my love affair with them, and Rock in general. They're why I started playing guitar. My sister always had the best music! My brother, not do much lol.

@carmstrong6507 2 года назад

The first song I ever heard from Led Zeppelin is Over The Hills And Far Away back in March 1994.

@ProfessorofRock 2 года назад

What'd your brother listen to?

@ProfessorofRock 2 года назад

Great song!

@Krullmatic 2 года назад

@@ProfessorofRock My brother would to all the top 40 usually. No offense to these bands, but Air Supply, Loverboy, Cliff Richards. Like I said, my sister had the best albums. Zep, Bad Company, Journey etc. She used to listen to this one band called Shooting Star. They were really good! If you haven't heard them, look them up sometime. My first album that I bought when I was 11 back in 81 was the record Paradise Theater from Styx. My dad gave me the money to buy for cleaning out his Semi. He was a truck driver. I loved the song Too Much Time On My Hands. I would always buy a whole record or cassette when I liked a song. I never did fool with singles. Love you and your show man! God Bless you and your family, and stay safe!🙏❤🙏❤🙏

@poetsdreamsatc 2 года назад

@@carmstrong6507 Over the Hills and Far Away is one of my absolute favorites of Zeppelins. Fantastic song!

@salvadorcamacho9151 2 года назад

I was 4 years old and the song came on on am radio , the station was “Khj”. My whole family tripped out. Mind you I am a first generation mexican born and raised in California. My mom and dad thought the song was interesting. My older brothers and sisters loved it. To bad the song was cut to be vin played on the radio. Funny thing. It was on the way to church.

@kbf9644 2 года назад

I love that moment when Jack White and the Edge stopped being rock stars and became kids again while listening and watching Jimmy play. You can see Jack just put his guitar down and smile glowingly as he just watches and the glee in Edge’s face as he watches Jimmy’s fingers actually play it. Beautiful. 🥹🌻

@captozone 2 года назад

It was a Saturday morning before we usually got up. The stereo is full blast playing "Whole lotta love". My dad was standing in the living room with a huge smile on his face as the family is entering. I'm smiling thinking "This is freaking insane!" Mom is yelling at dad "John turn that crap down!" dad didn't move just shook his head no and mouthed "this is rock and roll get used to it!" I'll never forget that morning as it changed my life in the music world. Unfortunately mom never opened her mind enough to ever like that crap, as she put it. I sure did as an eight year old boy, thanks dad for those many memories, I wish we were sharing more. Led Zeppelin was one of many rock bands he shared with me, I'm still a rocker til I pass!

@georgeedward1226 2 года назад

One of the bands I wish I had seen live. Closest was Jimmy Page at MSG in a benefit concert with Clapton and Beck. And back in the 80s my friends and I would go to midnight showings of the Song Remains the Same concert film at the old 8th Street Playhouse in the Village, sitting close to the screen imagining we were at the show.

@phillipharrison2836 2 года назад

Whole Lotta Love was on the jukebox in the local, small town, milk bar. When lads my age 15 to 20 had heard this it was played more and more. The volume was just right for a jukebox and the playlist often had repeats of the song. No sooner had it finished it would be selected again, and again. The guy running the place was in his mid 50s I guess and got to the point where he could stand it no longer and would just go over and pull the cord out of the socket, scowling back to behind the counter. Looking back it was a good laugh to get him riled up again the next day. Needless to say when the record distributor came next time it was taken off the machine. Something rarely done on the most played song.

@MrAdomus 2 года назад

I discovered Zep at age 10. My dad had a best of double album on CD and I was drawn to the cover. I'd never heard of them before but I heard Whole Lotta Love for the first time on that album and that was the moment I KNEW rock music was ME! I never looked back

@chriscallaghan7728 2 года назад

I was 15 when I heard WLL played on the local radio station in rural Australia. I could not believe what I was hearing and was blown away by the experience. It is a unique song and the fact that Plant grabbed a lot of the lyrics and vocal style from Willie Dixon and the Faces has helped make WLL the immortal piece that it is. A true one of a kind.

@lyndoncmp5751 2 года назад

Just annoying that the Faces got away with stealing. I guess only the successful get collared.

@ToneCanyon 2 года назад

It cracks me up that I watch you to validate all of my knowledge and love of classic rock! Keep it up! The kiddos need to know it!

@kurtsandstrom5716 2 года назад

In 1970, I was 5 years old. I remember listening to Tito Puente and the Benny Goodman Orchestra because they were the only vinyl albums we owned. I was already a music junkie. We had a local radio station, 99.3 WIBZ. When I learned to tune the channel, I never went back to AM. Zeppelin 2 helped form my childhood identity. A whole lot of love was all I ever wanted.

@48ona2006 2 года назад

1977 i was 15 & i took my first trip on a train , to ny city (first) , climbed the steps to the top of the empire state building (first), then to the garden to see led zeppelin in concert!

@denisefarmer366 2 года назад

I was 18 in 1969 and saw Zeppelin live at a small club in Chicago. Whole lotta love shattered AM radio morals just like you said. The very first time I heard it, well, I was captured hook, line and sinker. They impacted the progression of our music in 1969 as much as the Beatles did in 1963-64, without the hysteria.

@darkbeach72 Год назад

I grew up in the 80s, long after this song peaked, but I remember hearing it on a late night metal show on our local rock station. I kept the tape rolling as they segued into this song from another metal tune that I liked. It blew me away and I couldn't stop listening to it and rewinding it again. I understand how your dad was transfixed by it.

@heavymetalcreationz711 2 года назад

It’s not my channel, but one of my favorite ZEP songs is No Quarter. It’s so unique in its intro and approach. I’d love to get your take and the history behind it.

@PerfectlySpicy 2 года назад

I LOVE No Quarter!

@rigovalenz 2 года назад

After I watched the song remains the same in the theater back in the day, I knew my favorite Led Zepp song was No quarter...

@heavymetalcreationz711 2 года назад

It’s so far removed from everything on the album, and it’s so far outside of the music of the day. It was similar to what TOOL was doing in the 90’s. In fact TOOL covered it.

@Geezer-yf8hv 2 года назад

I especially love the long version on TSRTS. I saw it in the move first before buying Houses of the Holy! Damn! They never made a bad album; Song Remains the Same, the Rain Song, No Quarter, Over the Hills…,The Ocean, Dancing Days….GOD! How can they have SO MANY GREAT SONGS ON ONE ALBUM?? And this was EVERY album!!! Presence and In Through the Out Door have criticized, but I love those albums too!

@mattmckeon1688 2 года назад

@@rigovalenz that version is magnificent, from the keyboard interlude through Jimmy's inspired solo. That and Rain Song are the highlights of that MSG show for me. Only SIBLY comes close.

@dianelake7802 2 года назад

My brother and I were listening to top 40 since I was in first grade and thankfully our mother indulged us and let us buy Beatle records. By the time I was in 7th grade I was listening to the radio and Led Zep came on. It was so different and I was surprised that it was being played on top 40. I did not understand the concept of the song at the time. I was surprised by the powerful, loud, furious sound that came roaring out of the radio and it being allowed to play. Until then there was nothing like it. Fast forward to my high school years and I owned every Zeppelin album up to that time in 74. And I played them over and over on my stereo with my headphones on. I loved Led Zeppelin and they were my favorite band. Nothing has changed since then. As a grandmother I will sometimes hear Zeppelin on XM and I turn it up and rock out while driving (or crank it out on RU-vid) and my granddaughters think I'm crazy. Especially the 12 year old who unfortunately has crap for music on the radio. Autotune because the 'talent' is so bad. Inane songs and constant bubble gummy songs. I feel bad for her. At her age I was introduced to Jimmy Paige, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and Bonzo and I've loved them ever since.

@3luism 2 года назад

I had the same problem as his dad, more than 55 years ago I remember exactly where I was when I herd the song and Led Zeppelin for the first time, blown away by the sound of that guitar.

@Tanadduunn7267 2 года назад

I'm just 21 but I kinda have the same experience as a lot of people. In 2018, I just got into my car about to pair my phone to the car. The radio was on (my dad drove the car earlier and listen to an oldies radio station) Whole lotta love was just started. I was hooked I just sat there doing nothing just listened to the radio. I have always been a fan of 70s music but not quite into rock music. That evening I drove 1 hour to the record store that I usually went to with my dad. I end up buying 1-3 Led Zepplin albums because there are the only album that has their name in front. I listening to the 2nd album and my dad said he have the 4th album. So I realize there are more. Now I am the proud owner of all Led Zepplin vinyl record albums and a young fan who wish to go to Led Zepplin concert (seems like that would definitely be impossible). To quote Steven Hyde from "That 70s show" "play more Zepplin".

@jonbradley4789 2 года назад

I am beginning to understand how thoughtful your channel is.

@nageeb96 Год назад

what a wonderful history of rock to know..makes music even more better by far. Great work Adam

@meredithinserra4670 2 года назад

I didn't just DRAW my favorite bands on my trapper keeper. I EMBROIDERED them on my jeans and friends requested I embroider their jeans too. That takes a lot more commitment and time to do. When my jeans wore out I cut out my embroidery work and created a little denim handbag complete with a shoulder strap. I also learned how to play guitar when I was 12 and did my first paying gigs at age 13. So, I learned to play the songs on guitar too. By age 16 I could play Stairway to Heaven, start to finish, and sing all the words too.

@badbob6689 2 месяца назад

I had a friend who had just bought a quadraphonic system. Split the sound into 4 tracks instead of just 2 like stereo, He set the speakers into the 4 corners of the room and that was the first time I heard "Whole lota love" . Wow.

@frekitheravenous516 2 года назад

I was in high school from 87-91, the metal years, and even still Zeppelin was arguably still as popular in my day as they were in the 70's. You could listen to whatever band you liked or whatever type of metal that suited you, but if you didn't own Black Sabbath Paranoid and Led Zeppelin 2 & 4 there was something wrong with you.

@dustinbyerley7226 2 года назад

It really surprised me when you said “three cords in the truth my friend.” I remember hearing that when I started making music when I was 16 and it’s always been my motto for everything I do. Love your work! Thank you.

@missioninprocess8888 2 года назад

My opinion: Like dominoes, Page ushered in the tipping point for the (then new) landscape for American radio stations creating "all album Rock stations" (not Rock & Roll). This in turn helped pave the way for the separation of "Rock" from "Pop" music and that in turn helped to create a new sub-genre of "Hard Rock"

@BenjWarrant Год назад

As a 12 year old, at boarding school in England, we were allowed to go home from school one weekend a term. At that age we weren't allowed hi-fis at school. My friend Mike loaned me four LPs - _The Yes album, Deep Purple in rock, Tarkus..._ and _Led Zeppelin II._ All of them blew me away - I would never go back to listening to chart music in the same way again.

@Blues.Fusion Год назад

No one was ever late for work because of raindrops keep falling on my head.

@1796Patriot 2 года назад

I'm amazed to find out that Led Zeppelin never had a #1 hit!! That's just wrong on several levels! Love everything that you're doing professor!!

@resurrectionwaiting9294 2 года назад

The Top 40 was always a misrepresentation of the real music scene.

@johnathandavis3693 2 года назад

@@resurrectionwaiting9294 Look at it now - a dried-up desert...

@lyndoncmp5751 2 года назад

They weren't a singles band. They didnt want to release singles. In the UK where they had full control, they didn't. They instead had number one albums all over the world, including 8 in the UK and 7 in the USA.

@1796Patriot 2 года назад

@@lyndoncmp5751 ahhh....that makes more sense to me now! Thanks for the information!

@1796Patriot 2 года назад

@@resurrectionwaiting9294 good point!!

@lesinboston9208 2 года назад

I remember listening listening to "whole lot of love" purchased with my paper route money. In the basement room I had set up a blacklight and skiing posters. Using headphones, I loved the left and right speakers pulling me back and forth. It was awesome.

@rexmonarch2 2 года назад

Went to a Led Zeppelin Concert in 1969 in Pasadena CA tripping on LSD -- they were literally mindblowing. I hadn't even really heard any of their music. I went to the concert because they had a trippy sounding name. I liked them so much I went to their concert the next weekend in Anaheim tripping on LSD again. Jethro Tull was the opener -- they were mind blowing, too.

@unknownknowingly233 Год назад

My father was a great fan of Led Zeppelin. I am Big fan. My son is great fan too. That's the only musical love we share down the generations.

@suecrazylady2000 2 года назад

led zep has always been number one since I first heard them... AS IT SHOULD BE!

@joenewman6494 2 года назад

I saw Zep in 1974 in Greensboro, North Carolina I was 16, killer concert.

@jerryattwooll4864 2 года назад

My all time favourite band. My favourite album is Physical Graffiti, back to front it goes through all the aspects of Led Zep's music, acoustic, experimental, world and of course blistering heavy rock (not metal). An absolute masterpiece amongst their other masterpiece albums.

@donadavis1178 Год назад

I was not a fan of led zeppelin until an old boyfriend took me to see robert plant in concert. I gained a new appreciation for their music.. Basically I got schooled in the best way ever. I remember every concert and who opened for them except for this one I was totally blown away

@robertalford2257 2 года назад

Check out 'How many more times' on some off the early LZ bootlegs. In the 'Oh Rosie, my girl,...' segments you can hear page edging in the WLL riff.

@beachcomber4141 2 года назад

GREAT video!!! It's amazing, just when you think you know everything about Led Zeppelin and this song, to learn more is fantastic! I never knew about the Small Faces and how much Robert Plant obviously lifted from Steve Marriott the vocal presentation!! It blows my mind one of the greatest bands ever to have ever existed never had a number one hit in the U.S.! Also a classic story about your father. I can see why you became so passionate about music. Thanks for bringing me back to the first song on the first tape I ever had for my new Walkman! There will never be another band like Led Zeppelin.

@southjerseyjim5049 2 года назад

My brother purchased Led Zeppelin II upon it’s release in November of 1969. He would begin his Saturday mornings playing his favorite albums. The ONE band, and especially this ONE song, burned itself into memory as Zeppelin sounded like NOTHING else. WLL was majestic and menacing. And as terrifying as it was to a five year old, the riff was infectious, pleasurable and profound.

@alamoguy3421 2 года назад

I heard Zepp 2 in Jr high (I am 65 now). Nothing was ever heard like Whole Lotta Love (or the entire album). Holy cow! What a GREAT time for rock-n-roll music. My Paul Revere and the Raiders album went in the trash can. I just didn't know what I didn't know... till then.

@bifaith100 2 года назад

that jam made me and ann blush...while mom an dad shifted in the front seats of the 65 skylark

@johnnyjohnson1326 Год назад

The back stories on the greatest era of music (60s though the 80s) is so interesting. Thank you Professor for sharing these stories with us and for all your hard work!

@jamesbarry6248 2 года назад

i was in high school when their first and what i consider their best album ,came out. i was dlown away l had never heard anything like it before . it was amazing! love the second and third album as well.

@stephenraftery6407 2 года назад

Whole Lotta Live in the Song Remains the Same is the most Mystical Journey a person will ever enjoy with a Song! Simply its a trip all its own!

@dens6987 2 года назад

One of the best "Headphone Tracks" ever

@theyrekrnations8990 2 года назад

Dont know how you got all of the details but I'm glad you got them Mr Professor 👍

@bethmiller9774 Год назад

Aww, you gave us that one...😊 This song was DANGEROUS!

@maxspeed57 2 года назад

It was a beautiful morning in May in 1978 and my last few days in the Army in Germany. I skipped formation which was taking pace right outside the back of my room and put on Led Zeppelin II on m Pioneer SX1250 150/W per channel feeding into Bose 901's. When the orgasm section started I flung open the windows and turned it up to 11. I knew someone would be coming for me so I turned it down right after. Due to a unique design of the building it appeared the music came out of the last room on the left. But the last room on on the left had windows facing the side not the back of the building. So they went to the last room on the left and were banging on the door right next to my room. There wasn't anybody in that room when they opened it and they never figured out what happened. And then I got the hell out of Germany.

@dalekidd420 2 года назад

When this came out, I was just a kid, living in a mining town deep in northern Ontario. If there was anywhere even more sheltered than Blackfoot, Idaho, this was it. It was probably at least a couple of years later that I first heard Led Zep. Suffice to say, I just didn't get it. In fact, with the possible exception of Stairway to Heaven, it took MANY years for me to come to appreciate Zeppelin... that really didn't happen until the mid 80's when I was in my early 20's.

@lyndoncmp5751 2 года назад

Just a question. Did Willie Dixon ever say thank you or even acknowledge Zep for covering his songs, thus crediting him for almost 1/4 (i.e 2 full songs) of their first album? Dixon was getting royalties right from 1969 off Zeppelin. From what I can research, Dixon never did. I suspect Zeppelin thus thought he wouldn't mind if they took a few lyrics for Whole Lotta Love on the second album, seeing as he had already been making money off them?

@ericbrower6769 2 года назад

Why would Willie Dixon send them a thank you note? Giving proper writer's credit to a song you're covering is, and should be, proper legal procedure. "Borrowing" those lyrics brought about those deserved lawsuits.

@tektoniks_architects 2 года назад

You are correct. How many tens of thousands of artists do you think ripped off Led Zeppelin?

@tomstegall1346 Год назад

1970 is when I first heard wll will never forget it at 9 years old it was awesome and scary especially during thunderstorms wicked awesome

@rossstrauss943 2 года назад

I can see that scene in a movie in fold. Or as a series of scenes for an old commercial Thank you so much And thank your dad for living in the time !!:)

@Triton_Secure 2 года назад

17:23... just two notes told me everything I wanted to know about ZZ Top.

@cynthiagonzalez658 2 года назад

Dam. Bonzo was an absolute beast on those drums!!

@OldiesButGoodiesPro 2 года назад

Thanks for the belly laugh. Distortion from a 100 watt Marshall Plexi with EL34 “values.” Almost as good as the newscaster talking about poloponies. As a lifelong professional musician, I love your behind the scenes stories of the great old songs. Props to you for the great content. But, being the “Professor of Rock”, you desperately need to know they’re referring to tubes. The Brits call them valves… not values. 😜

@mattrogers1946 2 года назад

I know, right?

@2340Vegas 2 года назад

My first memories of music were Hound Dog and Bird Dog but Led Zeppelin's music hit me as hard as anyone.

@dougreimer2912 2 года назад

At 14 I was over at a friend's house and his older sister put this new album on. A band called Led Zeppelin. After hearing Whole Lotta Love I was hooked and went out and bought the album. I was a Beatles lover but Zep reinvented rock for me at the time.

@kevinmckay977 2 года назад

I saw them 11 times!!!

@noonetime8478 2 года назад

2000 came, it marked the end of rock n roll. The bands that came out from 2000 to this day can no longer create songs in the same level as zep, stones, queen, sabbath, purple... etc and vocalists sounds like pop singers, not all but most of them. 90s was really the last decade of rock n roll. When songs still have guitar solos that counts and singers that sounds like rock singers and also different from one another.

@mikeflynn1629 2 года назад

I was in 6th grade in 1970 got Led Zeppelin 2 for my birthday November 69 my mother was never the same after I brought that home. Sometimes she would bolt out of the kitchen and scream that man's voice goes right through me! Turn it down!

@gummiesrule88 2 года назад

They actually played a blues medley in their WLL versions on tour for more than just their last two tours. A medley of one form or another was part of WLL in their 1972-73 tour, and a medley of one kind of another attached to one song or another was pretty much a part of every live gig from very early times...

@frankturrentine6512 Год назад

I was six or seven years old when this album came out. One of my biggest regrets that I"ve carried throughout my life is never seeing them live. I was in 8th or 9th grade when they toured supporting Presence. I should have made the effort. I was left to lie on the floor with t he speakers of that lousy little Sanyo stereo with the turntable and 8-track built in on either side of my head and my mother periodically coming in and saying, "Frank, that's very interesting music, but COULD YOU TURN IT DOWN, PLEASE!"

@philipsavickas4860 2 года назад

masters of musical midsection LED ZEPPELIN!

@dorkarama3135 2 года назад

There's no doubt they borrowed heavily from other artists. It's strange then that they sound so original. You can probably say the same thing when it comes to Tarantino with movies.

@ProfessorofRock 2 года назад

Good comparison.

@blueskies7052 2 года назад

Check out 'You Need Love' by the Small Faces to see how much they borrowed

@markanderson6787 2 года назад

It's not borrowing it's called theft. Pull up one of the videos where they show that the song were all taken from us bluesmen.

@dorkarama3135 2 года назад

@@markanderson6787 They still sounded different, fresh and...just a lot better. End of!

@SealofPerfection 2 года назад

@@markanderson6787 Nobody knew those songs. They only took a few words, and now everyone has heard of the originals, thanks to Zep. And the original artists were eventually credited and paid, so all is good. They are credited, paid and their work is still alive instead of faded into obscurity.

@petervanveen8376 4 месяца назад

The moment I heard this song, I was a fan, age 15...... (Netherlands)

@janmoline 2 года назад

Led Zeppelin was the only way I had to express the grief, hurt, and anger that built up inside me from age 7 to 14. I'd suffered severe physical abuse in school (still have whiplash fracture scars on the bones in my neck), followed by the death of my baby sister 2 days before my 8th birthday, followed by several years of bullying in school (my Mum's grief and depression meant we sometimes didn't have lunch or our uniforms weren't ironed, horrible pleated things, all of it made us targets at school). I tried killing myself in 1969 at 10! There was something in Led Zeppelin that both comforted me and allowed me to vent the rage. I played the cassette version on of #4 incessantly. Recorded other tracks from the radio. My poor Dad, born in 1917, he hated "that noise" as he referred to it. Yet, he never took it from me and asked only that I not blast it when he was home. Mum never commented but she sure heard more of it. Truly Led Zeppelin went along way in getting me through teen years that were miserable. My kids grew up listening to a crazy eclectic mix of Elvis, Led Zeppelin, blues, jazz, country, rock-a-billy, and more. Their choices today include new and old and I'm glad they love it all, as long as it's done well!

@clarkmarkey1498 2 года назад

Zep was on the shop stereo while I was beating panels on my 59 Austin Healey, today. Yeah, along with Muddy Waters "Electric Mud" and some Z Z Top.

@feeshtacos Год назад

Back then as far as music goes it was a change for good ...

@philkight2630 2 года назад

I graduated high school from a small northern Idaho school, 25 miles from the Canadian border

@mikemerrill5223 2 года назад

I've Seen Zeppelin 3 times!!

@theodorenichlos3526 2 года назад

I was 10 years old when it was released. Still one of my favorite songs ever. My favorite is still the Immigrant Song.

@ProtectrLifenLiberty 2 года назад

1970 my older cousin says you got to hear this and Zep was part of my life ever since I was 13 on my 14th bday got an 8track player from my parents and Zep2 from my cousin.

@vandannadale2689 2 года назад

Great story about your dad! Similar with me, The Who, and my first job at the drug store. So cool that the love for great music your dad imbued you with is now being spread by you in such a passionate way. THANK you (& dad.)✌🏼

@richardchambers3533 4 месяца назад

I had the 45 single back in the day.✌️

@Vaportrail70 2 года назад

Everybody's got a problem with coda. I think bonzo's Montrose has got to be one of the best feelings I've ever had in my life. When it's cranked you can feel the power.

@milesofentertainment 2 года назад

Asking us to pick our favorite Zep album is like asking us to pick our favorite child...and that's just the first four albums. Let's just say more than one album of each's grooves worn out followed by hundreds of hours of cassettes, cd's...you might get the correct idea we love Zep and as our logo might suggest Jimmy Page. We know a lot more about both thanks to this video. Thank you, MOE

@jaman878 5 месяцев назад

There are so many. But I have a soft spot for Physical Graffiti. I had heard them before, but this one made me a life long fan. Favorite song? Changes overtime but Good Times / Bad times & Traveling Riverside Blues are hard to beat.

@imannonymous7707 2 года назад

Led zeppelin was the band all others aspired to be in the 70s , as the beatles were to bands in the 60s. Any party i ever went to , even thru the 80s , led zeppelin was sure to be heard. And im still not sure when that changed

@barcham 2 года назад

Actually, the quote was that the group would go over 'like a lead balloon', which Page changed to 'zeppelin'.

@salinagrrrl69 2 года назад

Casey would be proud. He was in a couple or few "When Radio Was" 📻 radio plays 1994/95.

@marrrtin 2 года назад

For most of the 70s, the riff from Whole Lotta Love was the theme tune for Top of the Pops, at the time the UK's most watched music show.

@guylotz9072 2 года назад

It's very hard to say which of their Albums is my favorite ... Whole lot of love was one of my fav songs as well as Black Dog, The immigrant song ,Ocean, Kashmir and battle of evermore. but i Guess Physical Graffiti and Houses of the Holy and Zep 2 are my 3 fav albums.

@Patriotic327 Год назад

This my quote “Jimmy Page and Led Zeppelin made the greatest albums ever.”

@JustAnAnonymousViewer 2 года назад

You've made a few minor errors in this video. The Who: Shel Talmy (session Producer) was asked directly in a Q&A about Page's involvement with I Can't Explain. He asserted that Page played only on the B-side of the single, Bald Headed Woman. The Small Faces: Page and Plant did not see the Small Faces together. Plant was a huge Small Faces fan, to the extent that Steve Marriot mentioned in an interview that Plant would often lurk backstage at gigs. And this was a number of years before Plant and Page had met. So taking the Small Faces "template" for Whole Lotta Love was probably soley a Plant idea. The New Yardbirds: Led Zeppelin performed under this name not as "a placeholder to hide their identity". It was to fulfil contractual obligations agreed to under the Yardbirds name. Chris Dreja of The Yardbirds took legal action to stop them using the name.

@kutark 2 года назад

Led Zeppelin is the greatest rock band. There is no "some believe". There is people who are wrong, and people who recognize objective reality.

@grok023 2 года назад

I remember hearing Whole Lotta Love on the radio back then but for me it was The Immigrant Song on LZ3 that turned me into a huge LZ fan.

@nedgrant918 2 года назад

Page was on many of Donovan’s recordings: solo on “Sunshine Superman”, ie…

@gladeloy3341 2 года назад

went to see iron butterfly. had never even heard any Zep. I was amazed and mind blown ! I'm sure thats the moment that the term, "eargasm" was coined. twas late 68 or early 69. I was 12. Swing Auditorium San Bernadino. the 2nd of a long career of concert going.

@TweedSuit 2 года назад

I saw Len Zefflin open for Vanilla Fudge in 1968. They were good.

@richardmcginnis5344 2 года назад

now i gotta download raindrops keep falling on my head, it was the first of 2 songs i learned by heart the second or first which ever was rikki tikki tavi by donovan