Vocal Coach reacts to Heart - Stairway to Heaven (Live at Kennedy Center Honors) 

Dat tone tho.

I mean was he supposed to not play it? Lol

Talk about nerve-wracking. The man himself is looking at you

Simply put he had " balls of steel ".

He still had the confidence to improving, this guys balls is the size of my car!

I am SO jealous.

Wow!! Thank you so much for telling us that information! I absolutely loved your performance!!

One that is amazing. 2 I'm glad u were appreciated 3. By ur name I'm going to assume and be happy to see a fellow fan of the book Dune.

thank you so much for sharing all of that info! Such a amazing performance! So happy for you that you get to have and enjoy all those experiences! How fulfilling that must be!

Just being in the audience would have been a life highlight....to be involved as a choir member.......awesome! The arrangement helped to make this performance the classic it's become. Thanks for this insight

I was 16 when dreamboat Annie came out!!!! They have always fckng rocked!!!!

Heart and Led Zeppelin overlap on the timeline, the amazing thing about Nancy Wilson is that she's been able to do this for decades.

She is the best rock vocalist of all time! Next is Linda Ronstadt and Pat Benetar.

@@IMAGE_NT_HEADERS , An awesome machine! As well as Ann Wilson, Linda Ronstate! Want to dispute this???

@@IMAGE_NT_HEADERS Got that!

At that point it becomes truly epic

If only Obamna wasn't there

@@everychannel1025 exactly!

Legends honoring "GOD'S"!!!!!!!

Stairway to Heaven 50 years and still going strong

Oddly, it's Jimmy Paige who looks more like he enjoys the performance. Plant looks tense and apprehensive. Maybe he keeps thinking 'For fuck's sake, Ann, Don't bugger this up tonight. Half the bleedin' world is watching!". As I understand, Heart and Zeppelin were friends.

@@KennethSorling I think there's a moment you can literally see him falling back in love with the song.

The first time I saw that curtain go up and the singers with the bowlers, I teared up.

@@KennethSorling When I saw his reactions the first time I checked out this video I imagined him going back in time remembering both the good times and the really bad times (the passing of his son and Bonzo), how the zeppelin years took place in another lifetime, how fast time passed since then, how young he was back then while his time is growing short... Or perhaps he's just moved by the performance.

Plant never liked Stairway... he was moved by this performance because it brought up to him memories from his old pal Bonzo. Don't forget that both Bonham and Plant started to play together in bands at the age of 16/17, they were just kids

Dude that part at the end, of him looking up. Gets me every time 😭

Not to mention everyone wearing the bowlers. That was John's favorite hat to wear.

That is the most obvious fact regarding this video Congratulations

Jason is a chip off the old block,and toured with Zep.

Well, also he's used to seeing the song butchered. Every newbie band thinks they can cover it, and it's literally become a cliche that they ALL suck. Here, possibly for the first time, he's seeing it done right. I think the only other performer I've seen do a good cover job with it is, of all people, Dolly Parton and her band. Who do a pretty different version (which actually works).

I'm guessing many don't know him, which is sad actually. He deserves more recognition..... At least some of us though recognize him.

I mean....he was having a BLASTY-BLAST!!!!

@@madonbarma2531 Eh, he was doing what Yo-Yo Ma does. Which is that weird thing most string instrumentalists do. They go into this sort of trance-like state while playing to feel the rhythm of the music.

@@madonbarma2531 Also, I would hope most if not all in that room there that night knew who he was. He would've gladly joined them on-stage if they had a cello available to him.

RIGHT!? 😂😂😂

Close to tears??? You're doing better than me then. I eventually lose it at some point every time I watch.

I agree. It is magic when someone can do a perfect remake of a perfect song.

Agreed and me too

@@jeffk1482 EVERY single time!!!! Countless. It's so moving.

@@jenniezeiner4389 Everything about it. From the performance to the audience reaction (eve Zep).

Robert Plant is Jason Bonham's Godfather, in fact.

I'm with you - I have to watch it alone - major tear alert!!

It is the best song ever, #2 is so far back it thinks it's #1

@@rmweidner7596 Very cool fact that I had never heard before. Thanks.

I've seen a lot of people do reaction videos to this song, and I swear 95% ask "what's the deal with the hat?" It was definitely one of Bonzo's things. When John Bonham died, Heart recorded a live version of "Rock & Roll" and dedicated it to his memory, so Heart has always held Zeppelin close to their...well, hearts. The greatest moment to me in the concert film "The Song Remains the Same" is during Bonham's "fantasy segment." Everybody does weird stuff, and then you have Bonzo, whose "fantasy segment" was about hanging out with his family and driving fast cars. During one of the clips of his family is a four year-old Jason Bonham jamming on a miniature orange Plexiglass Ludwig kit, just like his dad. I think he did something tricky, spun one of his sticks, and blew a bubble, all without missing a beat. He has NEVER gotten a gig because he's John Bonham's son. The man is a hell of a drummer, and I'm glad they got him to play on this awesome tribute. (I tear-up when I see Robert Plant tear-up, because I know how much he dislikes this song; or when the second choir comes in. Ye gods.)

Big Mama represented like no other ! Strings , brass, horns , choirs and a full rock band backing couldn't counter one of the best rock voices ever ! Ann Wilson is the Truth and always has been ! Heart (Ann & Nancy ) the Rock and Roll sisters should have been in the HOF sooner Than 2013 (also inducted Rush , Albert King , Public Enemy , Donna Summer and Randy Newman )

@@williamjclinton1 Ann Wilson has the greatest female voice to front a hard rock band. I love Collen Spiteri (sp?) of the group Texas, whose version of "Suspicious Minds" kills, but while she has raw power closer to Ann's than most singers, she can't touch the range, control, and pure clarion magic of Ann Wilson. And Nancy can sing too. She sang on "These Dreams" back in 86, I think, and she was just getting over bronchitis or something, so every time she reached for the highest note "se-COND of the night," her voice cracked. She was frustrated and wanted to redo it another day. The producers and engineer and her sister were all saying, "NOOOOO!!! That sounds great!!!! You couldn't duplicate that if you tried! LEAVE IT!!!" I think it hit #1.

@@Studio44B Damn I didn’t know that. The truth is this shouldn’t be shocking to anyone who’s been around or followed Heart for a while because they grew up listening to and learning Zeppelin covers and could do them, when they first started out, very well, but Heart was also a band that wrote their own original songs too. So they did both very well. Edit: Greta Van Fleet needs to just follow what Heart did and use it their own way. They’re all talented as hell anyway.

I finally saw them in 2019, and I noticed that she used the mic like a guitarist uses slurs.

I would to

Check out Beth Harts mic control. It’s excellent also.

One time i played "Marry Had a Little Lamb" in front of my grandma

he soundy very close to the best permances John Bonham has done in 1972 and 1977 in Led Zeppelin. Very jazzy, lots of off-beats and swinging feel to it. Its not just rhythm, it's a instrument of his own and Jason made it also a bit his song here.

Playing his dad’s kit and wearing his dad’s hat.

Seeing Jason made me cry

He told the band he couldn't make the event to be in the audience because he had another engagement, when secretly he knew he would be on stage instead. For Robert Plant, seeing the son of his best friend, whom he watched growing up, now on stage emulating his dad on your song, it certainly brought Robert to tears 😍

I especially love that Jason Bonham was behind the kit wearing his Dad’s bowler brim cap and looked up to his Dad when Ann sang the “to heaven” part at the very end.

They are called bowler hats in England.

get a life dude correcting someone on the style of hat in a post omg!b@@TheJamesRedwood

I remember that story.

Perhaps they never heard Beth Hart's cover one of their songs. She was on this same stage with Jeff Beck moments before Heart appeared. Here's Beth Hart singing Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" live at Paradiso in Amsterdam in 2004: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jM6_wOCdD5I.html - An acoustic version (2012): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lUaut2m4YaI.html - Beth Hart & Jeff Beck at Kennedy Center Honors, 2012: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-l7xv_RiT8GY.html ....and yep, and there's Zeppelin giving Beth a standing O...

To this point, Great White is the only other band that I have heard do REALLY good Zep covers.

I'm curious what their reaction to Train covering the entire Zeppelin II album. Personally, I enjoyed it.

​@@bobjose5855 I agree. It sent shivers down my spine. The fact that Ann at 60 could still do that distortion clean is just amazing. Also, I love the little looks the sisters throw each others way. Ann's often said Nancy was her biggest fan from when they were young and even into adulthood.

Heart has toured with Jason Bonham and performed many Zeppelin songs.

True. But I'll up you one. Write a song about your idol when you are a kid. Perform that song in front of your idol years later. Move her to tears. (Also, these sisters have ridiculous harmonies) (Also also, that dude next to Emmylou is the King of Sweden) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Hi5A9OCAyIk.html

And getting a standing OV from Led Zeppelin……

They really fckng killed it, the whole band!!!!! Epic live performance

No one more than the guitarist...

Me to CAN U IMAGINE IF Led Zeppelin had a choir be hind them in 1971 wen this came out woooooow ,

I saw them too, it was a fabulous concert.

SHIIIT The 80s TRY The 70s Heart when they kicked ass in rock

@@theodoreritola9758 I began listening to Heart in the 80s and then found out about their music from the 70s and loved it! It's just that I didn't hear them until a young teen. They're a superb duo.

The 80s were love ballads , In The 70s Heart ROCKED like a m fk

@@Adara007 O ok That makes sense lol .. Crazy 0n you and Magic man Is the REAL Heart.

She absolutely is! Saw Heart Summer of 2019. Knew they still 'had it's but...was NOT prepared for just how crazy good they still are. My mouth kept dropping open just about every time Anne would sing or when the harmony vocals kicked in. 😮😆✌

She's fckng amazing, I'm 61 been a fan since 76!!!!

For me, she's the best female rock vocalist ever....and it isn't even close.

The other reveal besides Jason playing was the choir that had been hidden behind curtains.

Well said!!!

I thought you stopped taking requests.

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Yes! I imagine they are thinking something like: " Oh my God! look what we did!!!"

I always found it funny that Ann being arguably the greatest female rock vocalist ever didn't sing lead on their only #1 hit These Dreams.

Imagine led zepp turning up ,finding an out running order of music ,sighs ,oh yeah another one ,we must be polite ,then this happens Jimmy page thinks,at last someone gets it .saw Robert plant with band of joy on sky arts really very good indeed

​@@petergunn3614Alone was also a Number 1 Hit. That said i enjoy Nancy also as a Vocalist. The funny Thing is These Dreams was also recorded when Nancy was ill. And this Performance Ann had a Cold. Sometimes Magic comes from when you least expect it.

I think you’re thinking of pat benatar . Ann found her voice singing in clubs every night in Canada and had a voice coach in Seattle

@@brittanybrown5058 No, she has said that she sings from a young age and that her mother would sing with her and her sisters in game they had called "opera and pancakes" where they would sing opera and eat pancakes lol Yes, she got into a heavier sound when she was in her teens and started to play clubs in Seattle but she had been singing for a while bc of the influence of her parents (his father was also a singer, he was in a choir when he was in the Marine)!

@@brittanybrown5058 no she said it herself in an interview. Opera and pancakes was a game she'd play with her sister and mom.

So good!

Commented the same words under the original video :D

Had the same thought couple years ago. Hey isn't that Jim Parsons?

I was also thinking Pee Wee Herman

His name is Micheal Baratan a.k.a. Shane Fontayne. He's a session guitarist.

LOL

It is even one of John's drumkits and his hat - which headgear the choir at the end emulate in tribute to him. Jason was invited to sit with them in the audience to represent his father but had told them he had a previous engagement so couldn't be with them in the audience - technically true, as his engagement was onstage, and a surprise to the band. Robert Plant is his godfather. When he glances upwards at the final "to heaven" it gets me every time.

Thank you so much!!

She’s so hard to read 🤔😉

yeah she's so 'on the fence' sometimes :)

@@jamieflowers1493 That was part of it but don't discount what the did in that performance.

The Wilsons have always been big fans of Led Zep. I think Ann once said that while all the other girls wanted to be with Led Zep, she wanted to BE Led Zep. xD

Same here - I'm pushing 70, loved this tune when it first came out, and am simply blown away by this performance every time - and I've watched it probably 50 times!

It's so good!