What about an album that was released in the last 10 years such as IGOR or The Money Store or Born To Die. A personal favorite that I would love to see covered on Vinyl Monday is Ummagumma by Pink Floyd because of how polarizing that album is. Have a Merry Christmas and a great 2023
As for an album to review, how about an obscure album from 1972 by Ramatam? About Led Zep, wouldn't "oh the humanities" have been a good name for Led Zep 2 ?
Fly By Night by Rush would be awesome! Not sure if you're really a fan of them though since there haven't been any Rush videos yet. I was going to put Vol 4 by Sabbath but I suspect that's already on your to-do list
It knocks me out that a 23 year old is reviewing this music and helping me re-live my younger days. You are very well informed, young lady, and I absolutely love what you’re doing. Keep it up!
Abbey has to carry on informing Music Fans of this Timeless Music. Maybe some people only know The Doors music from films of hearing a cover song. Unfortunately Lps aren't $4.00 anymore!
blues is the foundation of rock and roll and man I wish I would’ve used that argument back in high school because as a young black girl, I would get repeatedly made fun of for listening to “white music” when black people literally invented rock and roll / just about every genre! And those artists of the original music deserve respect and credit
It was Natives and Africans TOGETHER who Build the Blues. It was sooo awful to be Native back then that our Brothers chose to identify as Black to have a chance at survival. Listen to Early Blues and to Native Music/Sung Vocals, You will see and feel it. Ignorance is always a problem, but as i wrote Above about the LiED Zeppelin: Blues? Tricky Relationship? Human Garbage is a better word i would use. They are as Racist as the rest of those old Fellas. Townsend, Clapton and the Human Trash that is called Led Zepplin. For instance They artificially extended their "fight" in the Courts against Humans who lived and DIED in squalor. FUCK them and anybody who defends those Cunts. Stay Strong Mary ✊
That's right what you've said. I don't remember who said that, maybe Elmore James, when asked for his opinion on the new rock and roll, in the 50's: "I don't know what you're saying that is 'new'. That's just rhythm and blues, for what I know".
His dragon costume was pretty amazing. It's probably the quintessential Jimmy Page look. His Yardbird's psychedelic baroque look was pretty bad ass too though.
A nice summary of LZ's less than stellar history on giving credit where credit is due. I think most bands from that time tended to do the right thing by the original blues artists. I remember when I was a kid noticing that the same names - Robert Johnson, Willie Dixon, McKinley Morganfield, Chester Burnett - kept showing up as songwriters on some of my favorite rock albums. Who were these guys? Not easy to find out when a) you're a kid and b) it's in the pre-pre-internet age. Overall, the British blues boom of the mid-sixties provided much needed exposure to the "old blues guys". But then there were those bands who, for some reason, played fast and loose with what's right.
To make matters worse, the band (Page and Plant in particular) were confronted about all this at the time and simply tried to blow it off. As much as I love Led Zeppelin, I have to say they were real assholes about stealing credit. And Willie Dixon had to take them to court to get credit and royalties. To this day I am not aware that Page or Plant has ever forthrightly apologized. B
Abby I think you would be fantastic in a talk show/podcast format. Would be great to hear your input on all things music. Would be awesome to hear you interview musicians. You’ve got a deep knowledge of music, respect for the music and artists, and charisma!
Fabulous album from start to finish. For me, the two best tracks are "Baby I'm Going to Leave You" and "How Many More Times". Those two together are Led Zep in a nutshell in all their brilliance.
Such a deep review of the early years, you must do so much reading to drag this sort of detail out. It’s great watching your reviews on albums long long before you was born. Looking forward to 2023 🥳
Luv this vinyl monday i grew up with this music icant believe a young woman like you luvs classic rock and knows so much a learn a little something every episode and the fashion i just luv looking forward to 2023 cant wait to see what comes next
Pagey does an excellent Albert King imitation on I Can't Quit you Baby in his guitar solo - he goes directly from King to Page in that solo (the fast messy parts).
Just found your channel today and now going through zepp and Floyd playlists as they are some of my favorite bands 💞 i love to learn deeper knowledge about my favorite artists... you and your channel rock!! Thanks for existing, you're awesome 😎
Abby, besides your knowledge about music, you have an actor talent! I have discovered LZ as a student, in 1990s. The first Zeppelin's album I heard as a whole was LZ-II, then LZ-IV. So I was very curious what their debut was, and I wasn't disappointed at all. Well it was more or less what I expected. Blues-rock plus hard-rock plus psychedelia (Hendrix' way). "Good Times..." started and my 1st thought was "that's how the people in 1969 heard LZ for the 1st time, their 1st sounds from Zepp!". Listened, listened, listened - and I was more and more "in it", and sitting there in my 1990s clothes, mentally I was more and more in 1969, feeling as if I was growing long hair and wearing blue denim down and up, and oriental symbols made of plastic or brass on the strap around my neck... I was leaving my baby with accoustic ballad verses and giant rock choruses, and getting dazed and confused by not-so-obvious bluesy riffs and mysterious kettledrums, and guitar solos giving me a trip without LSD, and I was climbing black mountain led by guitar as big as my room, and on the top I was told that communication breakdown is always the same (already knew something about it, "thanks to" streetcars' malfunctions), but I didn't ask how many more times I want to listen to this (oh, that jazzy bass walking and brush-played drums coupled with hard-rocky fuzz guitar). I knew I won't stop, not of my own free will anyway. And by the way: initially I didn't get that Led Zeppelin meant "airship made of lead". For quite a long time I thought it was "airship being led by someone or something". :D Happy Christmas, Abby, and happy new year, in which - see you on Monday. Vinyl Monday of course!
I'm travelling back in time, back , back to 2022 and no not just scrolling TH-cam. This makes sense to me. Calling out shabby decision making in not crediting the original blues 'breakers' is so forcefully done. As the episode points out it was simple enough to do it. A more authentic blues, you get that with Peter Green, Cream maybe. Zeppelin's expansive sound did feel big, new. I mean that drumsound where did that come from. Really like JPJ's organ contributions which sounded as good as Stills. Plant is irritating here though. Communication Breakdown really feels a statement of intent. B-Roll Abby's audition was chaos but as a fan I'm glad she got hired.
What a tremendous record, easily one of the most influential in rock history. It was a perfect snapshot of the energy and power they could harness as a group, and also a revealing window into the exciting and somewhat experimental/improvisational sonic landscape Jimmy was going to explore with his new band. If there is a better example of the through line between the rural blues of the American South and what became known in the 70s as hard rock, I'm not sure what it would be.
This album came out the year I was born, which makes me 30 years older than you, which is blowing my mind..anyway, I enjoy your videos, gonna spin my recently acquired copy of this record now, happy holidays to you!
Your time is gonna come is my fav JPJ moment. Despite the lyrics being about a floozy getting her comeuppance, it sounds like LZ touching on gospel. the Segway into black mountainside may seem like a bit of a wart but I guess Jimmy felt that a super-imposition would be more interesting that a standard fade out. Love to see you wrap you head around The Who's Quadrophenia. (any WHO freaks out there?) Overall I think you vids convey a genuine respect and Love for the music. Your doing very well. 🕊Please Continue
Yes Quadraphenia! Not only is that my favorite Who album, its a great story too.. That story is probably applicable to all young returning veterens of foreign wars. Thank God I didn't get drafted! The draft ended in the USA when I was 15. I remember guys coming back, and trying to start life again at home, from where they had left off. Some homeless. That's what that story makes me think of. Similar to the story by: Rudyard Kipling called: ' The Man Who Would Be King'. I remember the returning Veitnam Vets. Partying on the beach with some. "Hey man. Can I try your surfboard?" It applies to all vets in modern socioty, since the industrial age at least. Peter Townsand is my favorite of all time rock artist. We are so lucky that he had such talented people to work with too. I wish that he would adapt his Rock Opera called; 'Light House', to modern times. With his life experience, he could direct, and produce it. 4sure. It would be more relevant now, than ever. I've been waiting 45 years for that Rock Opera.
quadrophenia has been on my radar for a while but man...i'm still flat-out after trying to wrap my head around tommy. and that was MONTHS AGO! maybe the who sell out will come first
@@donaldgibson4459 "Quadrophenia"! My favourite The Who album too (I have German 2CD "fat box" release from 1980s). This crazy rhythm section is what most of today's rock music lacks, plus the musical riches of this LP. Hard rock like "The Real Me", and power-ballads like "Cut My Hair", and half-country "I'm One", and Beatle-like waltz "Love, Reign on Me", and that eclectic, pre-oldfieldian instrumentals... As to lyrics, they're even more universal. They apply to anyone who went off-track and tries to get on-track again, which turns out to be not so easy. Frank Roddam's film is also worth watching, though the story in it is very different.
Thanks. I listen to that album, straight thru, a few times a year. I'm going on a long drive today. The end of the year. It's a good time to do it again. I read Peter Townsands biography, Then I listened to it on Audio. I can relate to him alot. I always have. I love the Ocean'. His music on that album and Tommy is largly influenced by ocean sounds. I have always heard that sound in fine rock music. Andrew Wythe is one of my favorite painters also. Sometimes I think that Peter Townsand might be the one true guinness of rock music. There was a very interesting interview with him in a magazine called The Trouser Press in 1980 also. He also helped the band The Pretenders alot. I'm glad that you like the Who alot. I enjoy this show you have alot also. Thx. : Don
Jimmy Page also used a borrowed Gibson Flying V guitar for the solo in You Shook Me. Also the acoustic Gibson J-200 was used on Babe was also used by Jeff Beck on Greensleeves. The guitar was owned by Producer Mickey Most.
It would be fun to hear your take on any of The Grateful Dead's 1970 and before albums. For me, part of the charm of your channel is listening to your take on the music I grew up on. Well. . .you did ask for suggestions. . . This will be a challenge.
Yup. For me the pinnacle of the Dead is their first albums of '67---'70. Their best era. After that I just can't with them. They weren't a cool psych rock band anymore. They were just a country band.
Hi Abbey, My son and I fight about this album constantly ! I've always loved it,and it was the first time I heard Led Zeppelin. My son is angered that they "Ripped Off" the great Blues artists.I love Jimmy's guitar playing on this and most of their albums. Have a nice vacation !
I think Jimmy Page's mother was an Artist. When Jimmy Page, and Eric Clapton were 15 she encouraged them to practice guitar in her living room. That was an interesting show you did. Just when I thought I knew it all. ( Not related to anything): There was a Fire Sign Theater comedy album. It open like a double album cover. On one side of the opened cover, was a picture of Groucho Marx. On the other side was a picture of John Lennon. At the bottom was written Marx and Lennon. That was some funny.
So I have a funny take on Zeppelin 1. I got into this album on cassette tape about 30+ years ago as a teenager along with my friends. Back then companies used to switch the song and side sequences on cassette tapes---I guess to fit the format---so for me I grew up with Side 1 track 1 being "Your Time Is Gonna Come". Side 2 started with "Good Times, Bad Times" which would mean "Dazed And Confused" (as it should still be) was the album's closer. Everyone I knew grew up with this sequence in the 80's/90's. And then years later CDs came along and when I got the Led Zep debut CD to my horror and disgust it opened up with "Good Times Bad Times".....ummm, whaaattt?!? No no no no no!!!! I was so angry and dismayed. (However with CD you could program song sequence orders, but still.) Even worse, when the vinyl resurgence came recently and I started collecting vinyl I again was perplexed why the track listing was all wrong on all Zeppelin 1s---again. It made no sense! The 3rd song, aka The first rocker on the album should be "Communication Breakdown"! So now in the age of google and research, I was dumbfounded to learn that's how the album actually is and was originally released! Mind blown. Suffice to say, to this day I never ever play Side 1 first. I always always play Side 2 first (as it should be imo) with "Your Time.." And if you play it this way, believe me, the album sounds and flows a heck of a lot better. Give it a try! #JusticeForTheCassetteSequence
hmmm i'll have to look into this alternate track listing. not sure how i'd feel about the record starting with "your time is gonna come" and side A closing with "how many more times." though it might be cool having the record open with that "dazed and confused" chord progression
@@MrKelleyzinho idk, if you play it like that, the slow buildup makes sense. Kinda like starting Sgt. Pepper with the slower version as opposed to the fast, reprise version. Once you've heard an album like that for years and years it's hard to go back. Heh heh
I'm particularly happy when there are Led Zeppelin for the vinyl monday , of course I love Led Zeppelin 1 I was blown away when I first heard it , also for the guitar tones I play guitar and Jimmy Page is my biggest inspiration , my favs are " Good times bad times", " Dazed and confused" ,and " how many more times" great talk as usual, Have a great Holidays
Since you happened to mention that the blues is foundational for rock n' roll, I completely agree -- one informs the other -- but it goes both ways. For example, I wouldn't know who RL Burnside, Junior Kimbrough or Asie Payton are without the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
Hey there Abigail. Thanks so much for the work. Love the "pinball" chime. Your Time is Going to Come is one of my favorite deep cuts of Zep. Plant's voice was crude...BUT only during first few years of zeppelin could he truly hit those high notes that is his trademark. Only nowadays he can't hit the high tenor notes but his lower baritone notes are richer and more beautiful...an interesting sacrifice. What are your thoughts?
it's a tradeoff that happens to most if not all singers with age. totally natural and totally welcome! joni mitchell and marianne faithfull's vocal evolutions come to mind. i happen to really like how plant's vocals have matured over the years
I can't wait till you get to Eat a Peach. Kidding. I'm doing a "play through" to Wheels of Fire to pass the time. A play-through is playing the entire album all of the sides and neither stop nor change the album (except for the Grunge) on whatever instrument - drum, bass, guitar usually. This album (Fire) is a masterclass. Passing the Time - I played this on the street once and somebody knew the song. What a world. Yes it was totally possible to tape a band on a tabletop recorder. One little machine, one little band, one little room. 2 mics. Sun studios, the discount version.
Greta Van Fleet sound EXACTLY like Led Zeppelin.....AND I FRIGGIN LOVE THEM FOR IT! There were plenty of Zeppelin clones in the 80's that ended up doing very well for themselves (Whitesnake, Kingdom Come, Great White) and never received the ridicule that these guys do. But just as you pointed out, they aren't a rip off, they are tipping their hat to them along with several other period artists that they've mentioned in their interviews. But you can't help see the similarity not just in sound, but in mannerism, clothing and stage presence. I'd love you to do a Vinyl Monday of a GVF album with a track by track comparison of its Led Zeppelin counterpart. Love the channel Abby and love what you do.
Although I totally agree Zeppelin should have credited the original songwriters, and were rightly sued for not giving credit. However this practice has been going on since the early days of recording. Elvis (or more accurately his management) did credit writers but didn't pay them the royalties, many had to sue years later to get their money. Robert Johnson's Love in Vain' is very similar to Leroy Carr's 'In the Evening', Leadbelly claimed many traditional songs as his own. There's a long history of the original bluesmen not getting credit for their work. It would be interesting to hear your commentary on some of the early blues players if you have them on vinyl. The complete Robert Johnson is a great album to start with. Keep up the good work, I'm slowly working my way through your videos, all very good and very informative.
Abby,you RULE!! It’d be great to hear you deep dive on some REAL traditional Blues. Muddy Waters,Howlin Wolf,Little Walter,Sonny Boy Williamson,Buddy Guy & Junior Wells,Albert,Freddie,B.B. & Earl King…might help turn some of your subscribers on to some real hip stuff. Hope you have a great Holiday Season & look forward to resuming your reviews next year
@@abigaildevoe there’s a great Wolf doc on TH-cam called The Howlin Wolf Story:The Secret History of Rock & Roll. His secret weapon was his guitarist Hubert Sumlin Jr,who not only invented a whole new(at the time)way of playing Blues guitar,but was also 1 of the coolest,kindest,most humble you could ever have hoped to meet.
The Yardbirds album "Cumular Limit" includes their version of, "Dazed And Confused". There's a video on YT of a very young Jimmy Page playing an acoustic guitar with a friend of his on a t.v. show. I forget the first song they do but the host steps in after that song and interviews them, then asks them what they're gonna play next and Jimmy says, "The Cotton Song". Apparently he didn't know the real name of the song was "Cottonfields". It WAS a hit by The Four Lads around that time. As for Jimmy playing with a violin bow, Eddie Phillips did it in his band, Creation, before Jimmy.
Abigail, your slightly irreverant and amusing presentation on LZ1 was so much fun .... and spot on. I was a College Radio jock at the time in '68. You have an old soul. Keep it up!
You, my dear, are an encyclopedia!! From a long, long, long time LedHead - Fantastic - with great information and points about "that" topic. Thank you for the reaction❣ 👍👍 Little Games
During lockdown i reeally got into music because it was something i could do while working from home. I decided i wanted to get into some classic rock and zeppelin ended up being my intro into my deepdive of this genre (was already familiar with rock but was a casual listener). I ordered my first pair of studio headphones and downloaded zeppelins entire discography (thanks piratebay). I took some time at the end of the day to sit down dim the lights and do nothing but listen to some music. The fist zeppelin album was nothing short of amazing. The first thing that struck me was robert plant. Holy fuck this sounds like the embodiment of what rock music singers should sound like. Totally unique from anything id ever heard. I finished the album and was really impressed. I ended up continuing to listen to zeppelin 1 until i was ready for zeppelin 2. It was the highlight of my day whenever i would sit down and listen to them. Eventually got onto zep 2 and so forth and finished it all with coda. It took probably six months to finish because i really wanted to take my time with it. As much as robert impressed me initially, i quickly discovered how insane the rest of the band was. All of them a sum of equal parts. Its a band i'll never get tired of. The things i would do to go back in time and see them live in their prime. Incredible. also jimmy page is the fucking man
zeppelin was one of my introductory bands too! started with LZIII, soon realized that was not the place to start at all, then went back to LZI. spent many many hours with this record. it's very rare that all 4 members of a group possess equal talent to each other, zeppelin was one of them
Zep 1 and I have a great history, too long to put here. Love this video as always. I’m glad I discovered your channel this year. Btw. Crosby stills and Nash had a great debut album me thinks. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
On my first day of High School in the mid 70's I sat at a desk that had song lyrics written on it. Good Times Bad Times song lyrics were written, in full, on the desk I chose to sit at. I felt welcomed. Bongo Fury for Vinyl Monday would be spectacular.
Great job, Abby! I'm with you on the Glyn Johns universe being way better than Marvel. You did a great job talking about the blues influence of English bands. You have yet to talk about the greatest album of all time so I hope that comes up soon. I'll throw some tumblin' dice into my lovin' cup and be happy to wait all down the line until you shine a light. Hello from Salem , MA.
How did Zep hide their thievery? Despite some excellent blues performances throughout the sixties there were not a lot of upscale folk with legal connections whistling Willie Dixon songs. I started playing Willie Dixon songs in 1969 when a friend loaned me an archtop-f-hole-Harmony guitar (Chicago). Zep 1 was what happens when someone pays to have your musical dreams manifest and you really really really like blues. I saw Albert King twice, late sixties, dude can wrench infinity out of one note. So yes, I remembered hearing those 1969 discoveries in 1968 when my brother brought the Zep's debut home. Freddie King's performance of Have You Ever Loved a Woman (in YT) is transcendent. The live version. Also Stevie Ray Vaughn with Albert King is excellent, just jamming in the studio. I'm playing and singing better than ever at 70 and when I don't know what to play I hear that little voice in my head - "blues, dude".
Robert's vocals on Babe I'm Gonna Leave you are PERFECTION. And they're even better on the Denmark Radio version from around then. I will die on this hill.
Hey Abby, thank you for your work and OMG love love love your style and hair, totally fab! You have a lovely old soul vibe and positive demeanor! Love from a Brit girl, happy holidays, Bella x
I was 18 when LZ1 was released and I immediately became a big fan of the group. I saw them live 5 times, the first being the most memorable, May 30, 1969 at the Fillmore East. The show was sold out but I had a friend, she was similar in many ways to the Penny Lane character from Almost Famous, who seemed to know everyone and she got me in for free! I took some good acid before the show, in fact I took acid so often when listening to Zeppelin's debut that for years afterward every time I heard the album it would trigger a pleasant flashback. There was another controversy about the album, Jeff Beck's Truth album had been released a few months prior to LZ1 and lovers of the blues felt that Beck's album was truer to its source influences. They also preferred Rod Stewart's vocals over Plant's and Beck's gimmick free style of playing. I couldn't disagree but I was so taken by the music on Zep's album that I didn't care, I had Led Zeppelin fever! A few months later on October 25, 1969 I saw them play the Boston Garden to promote LZ2 and it was the first time that I saw John Bonham play a long drum solo where at the half way point, he dispensed with his sticks and continued to play with only his hands! Maybe other drummers played with their hands but Bonzo used his kit like an 8 piece conga drum set that was so wild, I couldn't imagine he wasn't destroying his hands! I saw Led Zeppelin at the Schaffer Music Festival July 21, 1969 and twice at Madison Garden in 1973. I nearly got crushed by the crowd at one of the MSG concerts. I was in front of the first row of seats near the stage when the crowd was pushed back by security, as I went down my brother was standing on one of the front row seats and he lifted me up before I was pushed to the ground and trampled. The second MSG concert, I'm a bit embarrassed about. I went with several friends and we were in the nose bleed section, there were some emergency use wheel chairs near where we were sitting and we took one, a friend sat in it, we told an usher that he couldn't see the band and we were escorted to the front of the stage (cringe). All in all, nothing will ever match the experience of seeing Led Zeppelin live at the Fillmore East at the tender age of 18 years old. It was their 2nd tour of the U.S., they were headlining this time (imagine the indignity of playing 2nd bill to Iron Butterfly on their first tour, yuck!). Now they were returning to the U.S. as kings and everything about that show, the performance, the audience and yes, the acid was over the top amazing!
Abigail, you look SO familiar, I think I know you. In fact, I think I 'dated' you at one time..... back in the '70s !! LOL !! You pull off that retro look so well, I can almost smell the incense, petrulli, scented candles - all thats needed now is a blacklight and some posters !! The waterfall one was my favorite. *Not a word of this comment is meant as a 'jab', nor am I, as we used to say, 'goofin' on ya'. I so much enjoy your videos, the retro feels great and I mean this all as a compliment, keep up the great work (please) !!
haha thank you so much! this room does in fact smell like incense. i love my avedon beatles posters, you see them a lot better in the 60 second versions of these episodes
For the point of the bands meeting each other and Ozzy being considered. Robert Plant comes from Kidderminster, which is a town in North Worcestershire pretty close to Birmingham. Ozzy comes from Marston Green which is just the other side of Birmingham. In between them? Most of the members of Judas Priest. Also - in the middle and up a bit in Wolverhampton - barely 12 miles away Slade (who had 6 UK number one singles and 2 UK number one albums). Where they shared the spotlight with Jeff Lynne (Founder and driving force of ELO) All these bands were within 30 minutes drive of each other. (on a good traffic day).. That ended when Duran Duran came out of Birmingham University in 1978 and ruined everything. (JK - DD are OK :) )
@@leipherd8118 Yeah. He did. Wiki is wrong. Good spot. Still close enough for the point. All Brummies or Black Country bands. I haven't been to Aston in years even though it's only 25 minutes drive away. Also. I forgot Glenn Hughes. Perhaps the best voice of the lot. He came from Cannock.
@@PaulRoneClarke Glenn Hughes is definitely underrated. Seventh Star might not be spiritually a Sabbath album, but I absolutely love it, along with the real Iommi solo stuff they did years later.
Electric Warrior. Now there's a story that everyone would love to hear. Really was maybe the biggest band from England at that time. Marc Bolan! He had it all. He went out in a car accident, Like James Dean. That's a show every kid thar grew up outside of Dorksville would want to hear. I liked his lyrics. They were full of hooks, and kindof nonsensical. Fun! The Modern Lovers, from Boston.
Yes but isn't "Electric Warrior" notorious for the most embarrassing rhyming couplet in the history of recorded music?? Viz. "What's it like to be a loon / I liken it to a balloon" 🤐
@@shelleylyme6402 sorry I'm not that analytical of his lyrics. I guess that's above my head; (what your saying here; that is.) Marc Bolan was just a good looking kid, whos 1st career was as a teenager MOD fashion model. He then formed T Rex. They performed, mostly, all acoustic music in London's Sub Way underground. They had a good following, that started there. They performed a song there called " Mustang Ford" , at that time. The lyrics of that acoustic song conveyed a feeling. The lyrics were nonsensical, as all T Rex songs are. They became the most popular band in England; durring the Glitter Rock days David Bowie, and Roxy music were tied for 2nd place in as the best Glitter Rock bands in England, at that time. Wings, and Paul McCartney were 4th in England, at that period in time . To me TRex is simply fun music, that I listened to alot, when I was a teenager. Usually when I was at the beach surfing. It was my sound track. If someone finds it important to be critical of that. Well that's thier problem. In a way I feel sorry for them that they can't just enjoy T Rex. His lyrics are nonsense. The words are just meant to sound good. Like:. "Mambu sun, oh I got to be the one with you". Analyze those! People are so freekn serious about the wrong stuff. Man. Like Andy Warhol said:. "Who Cares." Like I said: "Fek art, let's dance" Instead of people trying to convince you to think a certain way. Them doing it at your own expence. Maybe people should go more with the feeling that art has. Isn't that the point? Content, and form? Fact, dream, reality. I'm not a super smart guy. I only know what I know. I am a professional artist. That is Art brings home my bacon. Art brings home the roast. Rock music is just a background soundtrack to my life. When I die someday people can say what ever they want. I'm sure it won't matter to me then either.
Led Zeppelin were the biggest and most popular band in England. They just didn't release singles and didn't perform on tv, but all their albums in the 1970s went to number one and their concerts were high in demand. They did it worldwide as well, unlike T Rex.
Classic Yabbus! I don't know that yardbirds 68 thing but maybe has the Take A While Think About It song where the solo totally precurses the one from Dazed And Confused. I thought maybe the freeze frame wasn't a video pause but it turned out to be. Request live motionlessness for a freeze frame at least once, that shit was funny than a mofo with the stilted cheesy smile. Happy holiday break
i appreciate the request for more freeze frame jokes - will keep this in mind. yardbirds '68 has an early dazed and confused with the original lyrics on it. doesn't quite have the same magic as the zeppelin version but it's still a cool listen!
Bought LZ 1 mostly because of the cover, at a drugstore, and it was weirdly transformative because my feel for blues prior to that was from the Stones' "High Tides and Green Grass".
Led Zeppelin I was recorded and mixed in 30 hours. The recording of the drums for this album forever changed how drums were recorded. Compare this album recorded in 68 to any other record from that time.
yes they had to reconfigure the mics to get that open-space sound on the drums. if they hadn't done that it would've been a huge disservice to bonzo's playing
Jeff Beck had already recorded 'You Shook Me' back in May 1968 and released it on "Truth" in July. Page knew what Beck was up to, he and Jones had play with Beck on 'Beck's Bolero' along with Keith Moon and Nicky Hopkins. Beck had Rod Stewart as his singer in the Jeff Beck Group, not too shabby.
Page took every riff he knows from Beck. Especially on the first album. He was a good guitarist but he picked up the riffs he displayed in Zep when playing with Beck in the Yardbirds.
Michael Neal Other way around. Beck took a lot of ideas off Page and used them when he formed his own band. It was Page who mostly wrote Becks Bolero. Its obvious that it was Page with all the ideas and creativity because all the Zeppelin albums are full of them, whereas the Beck albums are not. Jeff Beck was an incredibly gifted guitar player, but he never wrote anything worth much of a damn. Jimmy Page on the other hand wrote stacks of masterpieces.
Terry Reed told Jimmy to go check out Robert plant singing with The Band Of Joy playing at a teacher's college. Robert wouldn't come unless bonzo would join. Bonzo had a paying gig and was reluctant but was persuaded by Percy.
When ever you have an album with a Gold Album sticker on it then you know you have a later pressing of the album. The Gold Album sticker thing was an Atlantic Records deal.
That point on "Dazed and Confused" where Jimmy Page's violin-bowed solo goes into a full dive hits like a panic attack you try to avoid but can't. Whew. That final ascending scream on "How Many More Times" is another goosebumps moment. Great episode, and yeah, brilliant as they were, LZ was deeply flawed in failing to giving credit where it clearly was due.
But on this album they gave Dixon full song writing credit for 2 songs, right from the first pressings. They didnt give Holmes credit but they definitely did to Dixon. Odd. Mind you, Plant didn't receive credit either. He was under contract with another label. Got no credit for any of his lyrics. Zeppelin didn't claim they wrote 3 songs on this album.
The Psycedelic Sounds Of The 13th Floor Elevators, or Who's Next. Both have the interesting stories. Maybe a special about Surf Rock, Dick Dale, The Ventures, ect. Ray Manzarek played in a surf rock band in college. I don't know if that style of music interests people anymore. I think that sound was partly inspired by the fast guitar sound of Richy Valence. ( La Bamba). I love the song "Pipe Line". I had a friend that played guitar that opened his shows with that tune. Maybe Hendrix was right: "You will never hear surf music again". Great show! I always look fwd2it. Thx. Oh yeah: The Monkeys. I bet your already working on that one.
Most surf rock afficionados- and their modern day descendants - give the nod to Hank Marvin for tradition. I grew up in Southern California during the mid - late 70’s and the announcement of a Deltones gig in the beach cities would draw mobs even then - when he couldn’t get arrested in much of the country. The Mermen are the undisputed keepers of that flame today.
I enjoy your videos, subscribe and I 'thumb's up' them. Some details: Page and Beck crossed paths in the U.S. before the release of LZ1. When Page said they recorded "You Shook Me", Beck went off the cliff. He was going to record it, and he knew that his version wouldn't compare. He got angry and wouldn't speak to Page for a year. Their relationship began when they were very young, years before the Yardbirds. They knew each other from learning guitar in the neighborhood as kids. Re: "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You": Page and Plant bonded early due to their shared interests. Turned out they were both fans of Joan Baez. In concert, Plant would sometimes call Joan's name during "Going to California". Joan Baez's recording of "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" was credited on her album to 'American traditional'. That is where Page got the credit from. Did Bredon charge Joan Baez? No. Side note: the singer is telling his lover that his addiction is calling him away again, that is why he is leaving. Ahmet Ertegun once said that Robert Plant knew every lyric to every song that ever existed. You touch on that while you describe some of the sources of the lyrics. Plant could incorporate lyrics from some early song into a LZ recording or performance (Page did the same thing on lead guitar. In performance of "How Many More Times", "Whole Lotta Love" breaks in.) It is almost as if Plant had all these phrases in memory, and he could come up with the lyrics from wherever when the rhythm matched. It contributed to the improv style. "Boogie with Stu" is an example. The upside was always the success of improv, the downside was the potential infringement liability. Zero liability when you don't sell records, much more liability when you are selling a whole lotta albums. I am lucky enough to have listened to LZ1 when it first came out. I remember the effect it had on everybody, especially the opening. More later.
Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck worked closely. Page played on Beck's Bolero, which was recorded in 1967. It was actually Page's idea for Beck to adapt Ravel's Bolero.
One album that came out before this one, and doesn't get credit for being a forerunner to metal is the first Jeff Beck Group album (1968) "Truth". See the Wikipedia page for "Beck's Bolero" for the story about the Led Zeppelin name origin, also how Page, who played rhythm, disputed Beck's songwriting credit.
Well done! Enjoyed this. I agree 💯 that Blues Code of Conduct was not honored with Zeppelin. Keith Richards pays major homage and respect to his influences , Muddy Waters etc…on his recent Documentary
Zeppelin credited the original artists at least half a dozen times. Dixon received full credit for two songs on the first album right from the beginning. Just because they didn't always credit doesnt mean they never credited. Anyway, black American musicians stole from Page first, without credit. Jimmy Page's riff in the Yardbirds 1966 song Happenings Ten Years Time ago was clearly stolen by Lowell Fulson for his later song Tramp. Jimmy didn't care.
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what album do YOU want to see on vinyl monday in 2023? comment and i might do it!
What about an album that was released in the last 10 years such as IGOR or The Money Store or Born To Die. A personal favorite that I would love to see covered on Vinyl Monday is Ummagumma by Pink Floyd because of how polarizing that album is. Have a Merry Christmas and a great 2023
Alice Cooper Killer. Does your copy of Killer have the calendar that came with that album?
As for an album to review, how about an obscure album from 1972 by Ramatam? About Led Zep, wouldn't "oh the humanities" have been a good name for Led Zep 2 ?
Rumors- Fleetwood Mac ♥️
Fly By Night by Rush would be awesome! Not sure if you're really a fan of them though since there haven't been any Rush videos yet. I was going to put Vol 4 by Sabbath but I suspect that's already on your to-do list
It knocks me out that a 23 year old is reviewing this music and helping me re-live my younger days. You are very well informed, young lady, and I absolutely love what you’re doing. Keep it up!
thank you so much! really glad you've been enjoying the videos
Seriously,I don't need a 23 year old or a 73 year old to help me " relive my younger days" because I still listen to this era daily,just saying.
@@joebloggs8636 Shut up boomer
Great music is timeless
Abbey has to carry on informing Music Fans of this Timeless Music. Maybe some people only know The Doors music from films of hearing a cover song. Unfortunately Lps aren't $4.00 anymore!
Communication Breakdown was very radical for its time. Im 65 and remember when it first came out
blues is the foundation of rock and roll and man I wish I would’ve used that argument back in high school because as a young black girl, I would get repeatedly made fun of for listening to “white music” when black people literally invented rock and roll / just about every genre! And those artists of the original music deserve respect and credit
It was Natives and Africans TOGETHER who Build the Blues.
It was sooo awful to be Native back then that our Brothers chose to identify as Black
to have a chance at survival.
Listen to Early Blues and to Native Music/Sung Vocals, You will see and feel it.
Ignorance is always a problem, but as i wrote Above about the
LiED Zeppelin:
Blues? Tricky Relationship? Human Garbage is a better word i would use.
They are as Racist as the rest of those old Fellas.
Townsend, Clapton and the Human Trash that is called Led Zepplin.
For instance They artificially extended their "fight" in the Courts against Humans who lived and DIED in squalor.
FUCK them and anybody who defends those Cunts.
Stay Strong Mary ✊
That's right what you've said. I don't remember who said that, maybe Elmore James, when asked for his opinion on the new rock and roll, in the 50's: "I don't know what you're saying that is 'new'. That's just rhythm and blues, for what I know".
One of the greatest debuts ever of a music group
His dragon costume was pretty amazing. It's probably the quintessential Jimmy Page look. His Yardbird's psychedelic baroque look was pretty bad ass too though.
A nice summary of LZ's less than stellar history on giving credit where credit is due. I think most bands from that time tended to do the right thing by the original blues artists. I remember when I was a kid noticing that the same names - Robert Johnson, Willie Dixon, McKinley Morganfield, Chester Burnett - kept showing up as songwriters on some of my favorite rock albums. Who were these guys? Not easy to find out when a) you're a kid and b) it's in the pre-pre-internet age. Overall, the British blues boom of the mid-sixties provided much needed exposure to the "old blues guys". But then there were those bands who, for some reason, played fast and loose with what's right.
To make matters worse, the band (Page and Plant in particular) were confronted about all this at the time and simply tried to blow it off. As much as I love Led Zeppelin, I have to say they were real assholes about stealing credit. And Willie Dixon had to take them to court to get credit and royalties. To this day I am not aware that Page or Plant has ever forthrightly apologized.
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The only Led Zeppelin album I own a copy of, and that's no accident.
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I got the song remains the same album
Abby I think you would be fantastic in a talk show/podcast format. Would be great to hear your input on all things music. Would be awesome to hear you interview musicians. You’ve got a deep knowledge of music, respect for the music and artists, and charisma!
thank you so much! to do sit-down interviews with some of these guys is the dream
Fabulous album from start to finish. For me, the two best tracks are "Baby I'm Going to Leave You" and "How Many More Times". Those two together are Led Zep in a nutshell in all their brilliance.
Yay, there she is☺️! Will be sad what out ya next Monday! Definitely got to let us know if you get any vinyl for Christmas!
will do!
Looking forward to your deep dive into the Yardbirds! 🎉
Such a deep review of the early years, you must do so much reading to drag this sort of detail out. It’s great watching your reviews on albums long long before you was born. Looking forward to 2023 🥳
Chicago Transit Authority needs to be done for vinyl Monday.
It's rainy and an ugly day here in Austin. You are a much needed ray of sunshine. Great video
thank you so much!
'Dazed and Confused' and 'Communication Breakdown' are my favourite tracks off "Led Zeppelin" (1).
Luv this vinyl monday i grew up with this music icant believe a young woman like you luvs classic rock and knows so much a learn a little something every episode and the fashion i just luv looking forward to 2023 cant wait to see what comes next
hey thank you so much! glad you enjoy the videos
Only just discovered your channel, love it, nearly 70 and it’s great to hear your comments on many of the bands I grew up with.
Pagey does an excellent Albert King imitation on I Can't Quit you Baby in his guitar solo - he goes directly from King to Page in that solo (the fast messy parts).
Just found your channel today and now going through zepp and Floyd playlists as they are some of my favorite bands 💞 i love to learn deeper knowledge about my favorite artists... you and your channel rock!! Thanks for existing, you're awesome 😎
It’s been fun, Abby! Thank you for bringing musical joy and excitement to my mundane Mondays, see ya next year!
So,because no vinyl Monday this Monday,I will watch every video in order throughout this week
I fucking love Babe im gonna leave you. Vocals and everything is just perfect.
Zeppelin I is a banger for sure. I love how you covered this album.
one of the greatest rock album ever !!!! a fantastic album classic !!!!!!
Another great video! Just another manic Monday! Did you hit the threshold level today with the F-bombs?
WAIT OMG I DID
Abby, besides your knowledge about music, you have an actor talent!
I have discovered LZ as a student, in 1990s. The first Zeppelin's album I heard as a whole was LZ-II, then LZ-IV. So I was very curious what their debut was, and I wasn't disappointed at all. Well it was more or less what I expected. Blues-rock plus hard-rock plus psychedelia (Hendrix' way). "Good Times..." started and my 1st thought was "that's how the people in 1969 heard LZ for the 1st time, their 1st sounds from Zepp!". Listened, listened, listened - and I was more and more "in it", and sitting there in my 1990s clothes, mentally I was more and more in 1969, feeling as if I was growing long hair and wearing blue denim down and up, and oriental symbols made of plastic or brass on the strap around my neck... I was leaving my baby with accoustic ballad verses and giant rock choruses, and getting dazed and confused by not-so-obvious bluesy riffs and mysterious kettledrums, and guitar solos giving me a trip without LSD, and I was climbing black mountain led by guitar as big as my room, and on the top I was told that communication breakdown is always the same (already knew something about it, "thanks to" streetcars' malfunctions), but I didn't ask how many more times I want to listen to this (oh, that jazzy bass walking and brush-played drums coupled with hard-rocky fuzz guitar). I knew I won't stop, not of my own free will anyway.
And by the way: initially I didn't get that Led Zeppelin meant "airship made of lead". For quite a long time I thought it was "airship being led by someone or something". :D
Happy Christmas, Abby, and happy new year, in which - see you on Monday. Vinyl Monday of course!
I'm travelling back in time, back , back to 2022 and no not just scrolling TH-cam. This makes sense to me.
Calling out shabby decision making in not crediting the original blues 'breakers' is so forcefully done. As the episode points out it was simple enough to do it.
A more authentic blues, you get that with Peter Green, Cream maybe. Zeppelin's expansive sound did feel big, new. I mean that drumsound where did that come from. Really like JPJ's organ contributions which sounded as good as Stills. Plant is irritating here though. Communication Breakdown really feels a statement of intent.
B-Roll Abby's audition was chaos but as a fan I'm glad she got hired.
14:40 this is the best part of the video
What a tremendous record, easily one of the most influential in rock history. It was a perfect snapshot of the energy and power they could harness as a group, and also a revealing window into the exciting and somewhat experimental/improvisational sonic landscape Jimmy was going to explore with his new band. If there is a better example of the through line between the rural blues of the American South and what became known in the 70s as hard rock, I'm not sure what it would be.
This album came out the year I was born, which makes me 30 years older than you, which is blowing my mind..anyway, I enjoy your videos, gonna spin my recently acquired copy of this record now, happy holidays to you!
Your time is gonna come is my fav JPJ moment. Despite the lyrics being about a floozy getting her comeuppance, it sounds like LZ touching on gospel. the Segway into black mountainside may seem like a bit of a wart but I guess Jimmy felt that a super-imposition would be more interesting that a standard fade out. Love to see you wrap you head around The Who's Quadrophenia. (any WHO freaks out there?) Overall I think you vids convey a genuine respect and Love for the music. Your doing very well. 🕊Please Continue
Yes Quadraphenia! Not only is that my favorite Who album, its a great story too.. That story is probably applicable to all young returning veterens of foreign wars. Thank God I didn't get drafted! The draft ended in the USA when I was 15. I remember guys coming back, and trying to start life again at home, from where they had left off. Some homeless. That's what that story makes me think of. Similar to the story by: Rudyard Kipling called: ' The Man Who Would Be King'. I remember the returning Veitnam Vets. Partying on the beach with some. "Hey man. Can I try your surfboard?" It applies to all vets in modern socioty, since the industrial age at least. Peter Townsand is my favorite of all time rock artist. We are so lucky that he had such talented people to work with too. I wish that he would adapt his Rock Opera called; 'Light House', to modern times. With his life experience, he could direct, and produce it. 4sure. It would be more relevant now, than ever. I've been waiting 45 years for that Rock Opera.
quadrophenia has been on my radar for a while but man...i'm still flat-out after trying to wrap my head around tommy. and that was MONTHS AGO! maybe the who sell out will come first
@@donaldgibson4459 "Quadrophenia"! My favourite The Who album too (I have German 2CD "fat box" release from 1980s). This crazy rhythm section is what most of today's rock music lacks, plus the musical riches of this LP. Hard rock like "The Real Me", and power-ballads like "Cut My Hair", and half-country "I'm One", and Beatle-like waltz "Love, Reign on Me", and that eclectic, pre-oldfieldian instrumentals...
As to lyrics, they're even more universal. They apply to anyone who went off-track and tries to get on-track again, which turns out to be not so easy. Frank Roddam's film is also worth watching, though the story in it is very different.
Thanks. I listen to that album, straight thru, a few times a year. I'm going on a long drive today. The end of the year. It's a good time to do it again. I read Peter Townsands biography, Then I listened to it on Audio. I can relate to him alot. I always have. I love the Ocean'. His music on that album and Tommy is largly influenced by ocean sounds. I have always heard that sound in fine rock music. Andrew Wythe is one of my favorite painters also. Sometimes I think that Peter Townsand might be the one true guinness of rock music. There was a very interesting interview with him in a magazine called The Trouser Press in 1980 also. He also helped the band The Pretenders alot. I'm glad that you like the Who alot. I enjoy this show you have alot also. Thx. : Don
Jimmy Page also used a borrowed Gibson Flying V guitar for the solo in You Shook Me. Also the acoustic Gibson J-200 was used on Babe was also used by Jeff Beck on Greensleeves. The guitar was owned by Producer Mickey Most.
It would be fun to hear your take on any of The Grateful Dead's 1970 and before albums. For me, part of the charm of your channel is listening to your take on the music I grew up on. Well. . .you did ask for suggestions. . . This will be a challenge.
Yup. For me the pinnacle of the Dead is their first albums of '67---'70. Their best era. After that I just can't with them. They weren't a cool psych rock band anymore. They were just a country band.
This one is very much appreciated. Well done!
Abbey, you are the ultimate Rock Music Nerd ! !
Your videos are my late night Monday viewing here in the UK, looking forward to seeing what you have to offer up in 2023.
Hi Abbey, My son and I fight about this album constantly ! I've always loved it,and it was the first time I heard Led Zeppelin. My son is angered that they "Ripped Off" the great Blues artists.I love Jimmy's guitar playing on this and most of their albums. Have a nice vacation !
it's a point of contention for sure. i love how much there is to talk - and argue - about with this record 50+ years later
Hello, I can’t wait to watch this video when I get home, Led Zeppelin is one of my favorites!!
Haha...best first album...ITKOTKC is on my list of top albums also. I could tell what it was before you mentioned Robert Fripp!
The Live KIng Crimson record " USA" is great !.
I think Jimmy Page's mother was an Artist. When Jimmy Page, and Eric Clapton were 15 she encouraged them to practice guitar in her living room. That was an interesting show you did. Just when I thought I knew it all. ( Not related to anything): There was a Fire Sign Theater comedy album. It open like a double album cover. On one side of the opened cover, was a picture of Groucho Marx. On the other side was a picture of John Lennon. At the bottom was written Marx and Lennon. That was some funny.
I remember that cover,hilarious !
So I have a funny take on Zeppelin 1. I got into this album on cassette tape about 30+ years ago as a teenager along with my friends. Back then companies used to switch the song and side sequences on cassette tapes---I guess to fit the format---so for me I grew up with Side 1 track 1 being "Your Time Is Gonna Come". Side 2 started with "Good Times, Bad Times" which would mean "Dazed And Confused" (as it should still be) was the album's closer. Everyone I knew grew up with this sequence in the 80's/90's. And then years later CDs came along and when I got the Led Zep debut CD to my horror and disgust it opened up with "Good Times Bad Times".....ummm, whaaattt?!? No no no no no!!!! I was so angry and dismayed. (However with CD you could program song sequence orders, but still.) Even worse, when the vinyl resurgence came recently and I started collecting vinyl I again was perplexed why the track listing was all wrong on all Zeppelin 1s---again. It made no sense! The 3rd song, aka The first rocker on the album should be "Communication Breakdown"! So now in the age of google and research, I was dumbfounded to learn that's how the album actually is and was originally released! Mind blown. Suffice to say, to this day I never ever play Side 1 first. I always always play Side 2 first (as it should be imo) with "Your Time.." And if you play it this way, believe me, the album sounds and flows a heck of a lot better. Give it a try! #JusticeForTheCassetteSequence
hmmm i'll have to look into this alternate track listing. not sure how i'd feel about the record starting with "your time is gonna come" and side A closing with "how many more times." though it might be cool having the record open with that "dazed and confused" chord progression
It makes no sense to begin with Your Time.. but ending with Dazed and Confused does.
@@MrKelleyzinho idk, if you play it like that, the slow buildup makes sense. Kinda like starting Sgt. Pepper with the slower version as opposed to the fast, reprise version. Once you've heard an album like that for years and years it's hard to go back. Heh heh
Thank you for all you do! Happy Holidays and in terms of Jimmy painting, I think you may be onto something.
I very much enjoyed this thorough dive into Zep I. Well done Abby. Enjoy your well deserved break!
Have a great christmas!! Awesome video as always!
Awesome review! Have a wonderful holidays, Abi!! ❤️❤️
I'm particularly happy when there are Led Zeppelin for the vinyl monday , of course I love Led Zeppelin 1 I was blown away when I first heard it , also for the guitar tones I play guitar and Jimmy Page is my biggest inspiration , my favs are " Good times bad times", " Dazed and confused" ,and " how many more times"
great talk as usual, Have a great Holidays
Since you happened to mention that the blues is foundational for rock n' roll, I completely agree -- one informs the other -- but it goes both ways. For example, I wouldn't know who RL Burnside, Junior Kimbrough or Asie Payton are without the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
thanks.. love all the video's.. i really love this LP.. Have a great holiday.
Hey there Abigail. Thanks so much for the work. Love the "pinball" chime. Your Time is Going to Come is one of my favorite deep cuts of Zep. Plant's voice was crude...BUT only during first few years of zeppelin could he truly hit those high notes that is his trademark. Only nowadays he can't hit the high tenor notes but his lower baritone notes are richer and more beautiful...an interesting sacrifice. What are your thoughts?
it's a tradeoff that happens to most if not all singers with age. totally natural and totally welcome! joni mitchell and marianne faithfull's vocal evolutions come to mind. i happen to really like how plant's vocals have matured over the years
Your videos are great and you have great taste in music. Not many like you at your age or maybe I just don't get out that much. Keep em up!!!
Do a Aerosmith Rocks, Get your wings, Toys or Mirrors album Monday. One of those. I would look forward to something like that from you.
thank you! i'm not much an aerosmith fan (or rather not much a steven tyler fan) but i'd be willing to cover toys in the attic
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
I can't wait till you get to Eat a Peach. Kidding. I'm doing a "play through" to Wheels of Fire to pass the time. A play-through is playing the entire album all of the sides and neither stop nor change the album (except for the Grunge) on whatever instrument - drum, bass, guitar usually. This album (Fire) is a masterclass. Passing the Time - I played this on the street once and somebody knew the song. What a world. Yes it was totally possible to tape a band on a tabletop recorder. One little machine, one little band, one little room. 2 mics. Sun studios, the discount version.
Greta Van Fleet sound EXACTLY like Led Zeppelin.....AND I FRIGGIN LOVE THEM FOR IT! There were plenty of Zeppelin clones in the 80's that ended up doing very well for themselves (Whitesnake, Kingdom Come, Great White) and never received the ridicule that these guys do. But just as you pointed out, they aren't a rip off, they are tipping their hat to them along with several other period artists that they've mentioned in their interviews. But you can't help see the similarity not just in sound, but in mannerism, clothing and stage presence. I'd love you to do a Vinyl Monday of a GVF album with a track by track comparison of its Led Zeppelin counterpart. Love the channel Abby and love what you do.
Although I totally agree Zeppelin should have credited the original songwriters, and were rightly sued for not giving credit. However this practice has been going on since the early days of recording. Elvis (or more accurately his management) did credit writers but didn't pay them the royalties, many had to sue years later to get their money. Robert Johnson's Love in Vain' is very similar to Leroy Carr's 'In the Evening', Leadbelly claimed many traditional songs as his own. There's a long history of the original bluesmen not getting credit for their work. It would be interesting to hear your commentary on some of the early blues players if you have them on vinyl. The complete Robert Johnson is a great album to start with. Keep up the good work, I'm slowly working my way through your videos, all very good and very informative.
I've been collecting Cream jokes for 55 years with no one to tell them to. Please do Wheels of Fire.
Abby,you RULE!! It’d be great to hear you deep dive on some REAL traditional Blues. Muddy Waters,Howlin Wolf,Little Walter,Sonny Boy Williamson,Buddy Guy & Junior Wells,Albert,Freddie,B.B. & Earl King…might help turn some of your subscribers on to some real hip stuff. Hope you have a great Holiday Season & look forward to resuming your reviews next year
i would LOVE to do a howlin wolf or robert johnson episode...i saw delta blues at a record store, didn't pick it up, and regret it to this day
@@abigaildevoe there’s a great Wolf doc on TH-cam called The Howlin Wolf Story:The Secret History of Rock & Roll. His secret weapon was his guitarist Hubert Sumlin Jr,who not only invented a whole new(at the time)way of playing Blues guitar,but was also 1 of the coolest,kindest,most humble you could ever have hoped to meet.
The Yardbirds album "Cumular Limit" includes their version of, "Dazed And Confused".
There's a video on YT of a very young Jimmy Page playing an acoustic guitar with a friend of his on a t.v. show. I forget the first song they do but the host steps in after that song and interviews them, then asks them what they're gonna play next and Jimmy says, "The Cotton Song". Apparently he didn't know the real name of the song was "Cottonfields". It WAS a hit by The Four Lads around that time.
As for Jimmy playing with a violin bow, Eddie Phillips did it in his band, Creation, before Jimmy.
Happy holidays!! As usual, great review
Greatest covers band of all time
Abigail, your slightly irreverant and amusing presentation on LZ1 was so much fun .... and spot on. I was a College Radio jock at the time in '68. You have an old soul. Keep it up!
You, my dear, are an encyclopedia!! From a long, long, long time LedHead - Fantastic - with great information and points about "that" topic. Thank you for the reaction❣ 👍👍 Little Games
Zep I Changed our lives dramatically.
During lockdown i reeally got into music because it was something i could do while working from home. I decided i wanted to get into some classic rock and zeppelin ended up being my intro into my deepdive of this genre (was already familiar with rock but was a casual listener). I ordered my first pair of studio headphones and downloaded zeppelins entire discography (thanks piratebay). I took some time at the end of the day to sit down dim the lights and do nothing but listen to some music.
The fist zeppelin album was nothing short of amazing. The first thing that struck me was robert plant. Holy fuck this sounds like the embodiment of what rock music singers should sound like. Totally unique from anything id ever heard. I finished the album and was really impressed. I ended up continuing to listen to zeppelin 1 until i was ready for zeppelin 2. It was the highlight of my day whenever i would sit down and listen to them. Eventually got onto zep 2 and so forth and finished it all with coda. It took probably six months to finish because i really wanted to take my time with it.
As much as robert impressed me initially, i quickly discovered how insane the rest of the band was. All of them a sum of equal parts. Its a band i'll never get tired of. The things i would do to go back in time and see them live in their prime. Incredible.
also jimmy page is the fucking man
Excellent post. Well put.
zeppelin was one of my introductory bands too! started with LZIII, soon realized that was not the place to start at all, then went back to LZI. spent many many hours with this record. it's very rare that all 4 members of a group possess equal talent to each other, zeppelin was one of them
Brilliant summation.
Zep 1 and I have a great history, too long to put here. Love this video as always. I’m glad I discovered your channel this year. Btw. Crosby stills and Nash had a great debut album me thinks. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
On my first day of High School in the mid 70's I sat at a desk that had song lyrics written on it. Good Times Bad Times song lyrics were written, in full, on the desk I chose to sit at.
I felt welcomed. Bongo Fury for Vinyl Monday would be spectacular.
Wow ! That's a great story,love it !
Great job, Abby! I'm with you on the Glyn Johns universe being way better than Marvel. You did a great job talking about the blues influence of English bands. You have yet to talk about the greatest album of all time so I hope that comes up soon. I'll throw some tumblin' dice into my lovin' cup and be happy to wait all down the line until you shine a light. Hello from Salem , MA.
You are a joy. Have a great Holidays!
thanks so much, happy holidays to you too!
The song that turned me on to Zep was “How Many More Times” which i recorded on cassette from the radio back in the 80s as a teen.
Excellent episode as always!
How did Zep hide their thievery? Despite some excellent blues performances throughout the sixties there were not a lot of upscale folk with legal connections whistling Willie Dixon songs. I started playing Willie Dixon songs in 1969 when a friend loaned me an archtop-f-hole-Harmony guitar (Chicago). Zep 1 was what happens when someone pays to have your musical dreams manifest and you really really really like blues. I saw Albert King twice, late sixties, dude can wrench infinity out of one note. So yes, I remembered hearing those 1969 discoveries in 1968 when my brother brought the Zep's debut home. Freddie King's performance of Have You Ever Loved a Woman (in YT) is transcendent. The live version. Also Stevie Ray Vaughn with Albert King is excellent, just jamming in the studio. I'm playing and singing better than ever at 70 and when I don't know what to play I hear that little voice in my head - "blues, dude".
I can't wait for your Little Games episode! I love that record.
Abigail. I am shocked how much you know about music! Merry Christmas from 🇨🇦!
merry christmas from the US!
Robert's vocals on Babe I'm Gonna Leave you are PERFECTION. And they're even better on the Denmark Radio version from around then. I will die on this hill.
I can remember maybe summer of 72-73 my sister putting Zep2 on the little record player. Quite the eye opener for an 8-9 yr old kid.
Hey Abby, thank you for your work and OMG love love love your style and hair, totally fab! You have a lovely old soul vibe and positive demeanor! Love from a Brit girl, happy holidays, Bella x
thank you so much! happy holidays to you too
I was 18 when LZ1 was released and I immediately became a big fan of the group. I saw them live 5 times, the first being the most memorable, May 30, 1969 at the Fillmore East. The show was sold out but I had a friend, she was similar in many ways to the Penny Lane character from Almost Famous, who seemed to know everyone and she got me in for free! I took some good acid before the show, in fact I took acid so often when listening to Zeppelin's debut that for years afterward every time I heard the album it would trigger a pleasant flashback.
There was another controversy about the album, Jeff Beck's Truth album had been released a few months prior to LZ1 and lovers of the blues felt that Beck's album was truer to its source influences. They also preferred Rod Stewart's vocals over Plant's and Beck's gimmick free style of playing. I couldn't disagree but I was so taken by the music on Zep's album that I didn't care, I had Led Zeppelin fever!
A few months later on October 25, 1969 I saw them play the Boston Garden to promote LZ2 and it was the first time that I saw John Bonham play a long drum solo where at the half way point, he dispensed with his sticks and continued to play with only his hands! Maybe other drummers played with their hands but Bonzo used his kit like an 8 piece conga drum set that was so wild, I couldn't imagine he wasn't destroying his hands!
I saw Led Zeppelin at the Schaffer Music Festival July 21, 1969 and twice at Madison Garden in 1973. I nearly got crushed by the crowd at one of the MSG concerts. I was in front of the first row of seats near the stage when the crowd was pushed back by security, as I went down my brother was standing on one of the front row seats and he lifted me up before I was pushed to the ground and trampled. The second MSG concert, I'm a bit embarrassed about. I went with several friends and we were in the nose bleed section, there were some emergency use wheel chairs near where we were sitting and we took one, a friend sat in it, we told an usher that he couldn't see the band and we were escorted to the front of the stage (cringe).
All in all, nothing will ever match the experience of seeing Led Zeppelin live at the Fillmore East at the tender age of 18 years old. It was their 2nd tour of the U.S., they were headlining this time (imagine the indignity of playing 2nd bill to Iron Butterfly on their first tour, yuck!). Now they were returning to the U.S. as kings and everything about that show, the performance, the audience and yes, the acid was over the top amazing!
All of my Zep snark aside I am still learning from Jimmy Page's guitar work, 55 years later.
Abigail, you look SO familiar, I think I know you. In fact, I think I 'dated' you at one time..... back in the '70s !! LOL !! You pull off that retro look so well, I can almost smell the incense, petrulli, scented candles - all thats needed now is a blacklight and some posters !! The waterfall one was my favorite.
*Not a word of this comment is meant as a 'jab', nor am I, as we used to say, 'goofin' on ya'. I so much enjoy your videos, the retro feels great and I mean this all as a compliment, keep up the great work (please) !!
ps GORGEOUS !!
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OK, now I feel like I'm bein' creepy, sorry.
haha thank you so much! this room does in fact smell like incense. i love my avedon beatles posters, you see them a lot better in the 60 second versions of these episodes
seeing your videos in my feed makes me smile :)
hey thank you so much, i'm so glad!
For the point of the bands meeting each other and Ozzy being considered. Robert Plant comes from Kidderminster, which is a town in North Worcestershire pretty close to Birmingham. Ozzy comes from Marston Green which is just the other side of Birmingham. In between them? Most of the members of Judas Priest. Also - in the middle and up a bit in Wolverhampton - barely 12 miles away Slade (who had 6 UK number one singles and 2 UK number one albums). Where they shared the spotlight with Jeff Lynne (Founder and driving force of ELO) All these bands were within 30 minutes drive of each other. (on a good traffic day).. That ended when Duran Duran came out of Birmingham University in 1978 and ruined everything. (JK - DD are OK :) )
Ozzy came from Lodge Road, which is Aston. Love it if he did come from Marston Green as he would have been a 5 minutes walk from where I grew up on!
@@leipherd8118 Yeah. He did. Wiki is wrong. Good spot. Still close enough for the point. All Brummies or Black Country bands. I haven't been to Aston in years even though it's only 25 minutes drive away. Also. I forgot Glenn Hughes. Perhaps the best voice of the lot. He came from Cannock.
@@PaulRoneClarke Glenn Hughes is definitely underrated. Seventh Star might not be spiritually a Sabbath album, but I absolutely love it, along with the real Iommi solo stuff they did years later.
Electric Warrior. Now there's a story that everyone would love to hear. Really was maybe the biggest band from England at that time. Marc Bolan! He had it all. He went out in a car accident, Like James Dean. That's a show every kid thar grew up outside of Dorksville would want to hear. I liked his lyrics. They were full of hooks, and kindof nonsensical. Fun! The Modern Lovers, from Boston.
Yes but isn't "Electric Warrior" notorious for the most embarrassing rhyming couplet in the history of recorded music?? Viz.
"What's it like to be a loon / I liken it to a balloon" 🤐
@@shelleylyme6402 sorry I'm not that analytical of his lyrics. I guess that's above my head; (what your saying here; that is.) Marc Bolan was just a good looking kid, whos 1st career was as a teenager MOD fashion model. He then formed T Rex. They performed, mostly, all acoustic music in London's Sub Way underground. They had a good following, that started there. They performed a song there called " Mustang Ford" , at that time. The lyrics of that acoustic song conveyed a feeling. The lyrics were nonsensical, as all T Rex songs are. They became the most popular band in England; durring the Glitter Rock days
David Bowie, and Roxy music were tied for 2nd place in as the best Glitter Rock bands in England, at that time. Wings, and Paul McCartney were 4th in England, at that period in time . To me TRex is simply fun music, that I listened to alot, when I was a teenager. Usually when I was at the beach surfing. It was my sound track. If someone finds it important to be critical of that. Well that's thier problem. In a way I feel sorry for them that they can't just enjoy T Rex. His lyrics are nonsense. The words are just meant to sound good. Like:. "Mambu sun, oh I got to be the one with you". Analyze those! People are so freekn serious about the wrong stuff. Man. Like Andy Warhol said:. "Who Cares." Like I said: "Fek art, let's dance" Instead of people trying to convince you to think a certain way. Them doing it at your own expence. Maybe people should go more with the feeling that art has. Isn't that the point? Content, and form? Fact, dream, reality. I'm not a super smart guy. I only know what I know. I am a professional artist. That is Art brings home my bacon. Art brings home the roast. Rock music is just a background soundtrack to my life. When I die someday people can say what ever they want. I'm sure it won't matter to me then either.
Led Zeppelin were the biggest and most popular band in England. They just didn't release singles and didn't perform on tv, but all their albums in the 1970s went to number one and their concerts were high in demand. They did it worldwide as well, unlike T Rex.
Yes..T Rex/Marc Bolan ! I love Jonathon Richman..so eclectic,funny,and unusual !
Classic Yabbus! I don't know that yardbirds 68 thing but maybe has the Take A While Think About It song where the solo totally precurses the one from Dazed And Confused. I thought maybe the freeze frame wasn't a video pause but it turned out to be. Request live motionlessness for a freeze frame at least once, that shit was funny than a mofo with the stilted cheesy smile. Happy holiday break
i appreciate the request for more freeze frame jokes - will keep this in mind. yardbirds '68 has an early dazed and confused with the original lyrics on it. doesn't quite have the same magic as the zeppelin version but it's still a cool listen!
Bought LZ 1 mostly because of the cover, at a drugstore, and it was weirdly transformative because my feel for blues prior to that was from the Stones' "High Tides and Green Grass".
Led Zeppelin I was recorded and mixed in 30 hours. The recording of the drums for this album forever changed how drums were recorded. Compare this album recorded in 68 to any other record from that time.
yes they had to reconfigure the mics to get that open-space sound on the drums. if they hadn't done that it would've been a huge disservice to bonzo's playing
The drums on Led Zep. 2 sound a- bleeding-mazing on the new Vinyl remaster reissue.
Great job Abbi this was a great blues hard rock album it wasn't a new one when I first listened to it but it also wasn't that old
Jeff Beck had already recorded 'You Shook Me' back in May 1968 and released it on "Truth" in July. Page knew what Beck was up to, he and Jones had play with Beck on 'Beck's Bolero' along with Keith Moon and Nicky Hopkins. Beck had Rod Stewart as his singer in the Jeff Beck Group, not too shabby.
I believe that John Paul Jones also played on Jeff Beck’s version of You Shook Me
Page took every riff he knows from Beck. Especially on the first album. He was a good guitarist but he picked up the riffs he displayed in Zep when playing with Beck in the Yardbirds.
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Other way around. Beck took a lot of ideas off Page and used them when he formed his own band. It was Page who mostly wrote Becks Bolero.
Its obvious that it was Page with all the ideas and creativity because all the Zeppelin albums are full of them, whereas the Beck albums are not.
Jeff Beck was an incredibly gifted guitar player, but he never wrote anything worth much of a damn. Jimmy Page on the other hand wrote stacks of masterpieces.
Terry Reed told Jimmy to go check out Robert plant singing with The Band Of Joy playing at a teacher's college.
Robert wouldn't come unless bonzo would join.
Bonzo had a paying gig and was reluctant but was persuaded by Percy.
When ever you have an album with a Gold Album sticker on it then you know you have a later pressing of the album. The Gold Album sticker thing was an Atlantic Records deal.
That point on "Dazed and Confused" where Jimmy Page's violin-bowed solo goes into a full dive hits like a panic attack you try to avoid but can't. Whew. That final ascending scream on "How Many More Times" is another goosebumps moment.
Great episode, and yeah, brilliant as they were, LZ was deeply flawed in failing to giving credit where it clearly was due.
my jaw DROPPED the first time i heard that how many more times moment over my stereo system
But on this album they gave Dixon full song writing credit for 2 songs, right from the first pressings. They didnt give Holmes credit but they definitely did to Dixon. Odd.
Mind you, Plant didn't receive credit either. He was under contract with another label. Got no credit for any of his lyrics.
Zeppelin didn't claim they wrote 3 songs on this album.
The Psycedelic Sounds Of The 13th Floor Elevators, or Who's Next. Both have the interesting stories. Maybe a special about Surf Rock, Dick Dale, The Ventures, ect. Ray Manzarek played in a surf rock band in college. I don't know if that style of music interests people anymore. I think that sound was partly inspired by the fast guitar sound of Richy Valence. ( La Bamba). I love the song "Pipe Line". I had a friend that played guitar that opened his shows with that tune. Maybe Hendrix was right: "You will never hear surf music again". Great show! I always look fwd2it. Thx. Oh yeah: The Monkeys. I bet your already working on that one.
Most surf rock afficionados- and their modern day descendants - give the nod to Hank Marvin for tradition.
I grew up in Southern California during the mid - late 70’s and the announcement of a Deltones gig in the beach cities would draw mobs even then - when he couldn’t get arrested in much of the country.
The Mermen are the undisputed keepers of that flame today.
if you play black metal without the distorition - its surf
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Some details:
Page and Beck crossed paths in the U.S. before the release of LZ1. When Page said they recorded "You Shook Me", Beck went off the cliff. He was going to record it, and he knew that his version wouldn't compare. He got angry and wouldn't speak to Page for a year. Their relationship began when they were very young, years before the Yardbirds. They knew each other from learning guitar in the neighborhood as kids.
Re: "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You": Page and Plant bonded early due to their shared interests. Turned out they were both fans of Joan Baez. In concert, Plant would sometimes call Joan's name during "Going to California". Joan Baez's recording of "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" was credited on her album to 'American traditional'. That is where Page got the credit from. Did Bredon charge Joan Baez? No.
Side note: the singer is telling his lover that his addiction is calling him away again, that is why he is leaving.
Ahmet Ertegun once said that Robert Plant knew every lyric to every song that ever existed. You touch on that while you describe some of the sources of the lyrics. Plant could incorporate lyrics from some early song into a LZ recording or performance (Page did the same thing on lead guitar. In performance of "How Many More Times", "Whole Lotta Love" breaks in.) It is almost as if Plant had all these phrases in memory, and he could come up with the lyrics from wherever when the rhythm matched. It contributed to the improv style. "Boogie with Stu" is an example. The upside was always the success of improv, the downside was the potential infringement liability. Zero liability when you don't sell records, much more liability when you are selling a whole lotta albums.
I am lucky enough to have listened to LZ1 when it first came out. I remember the effect it had on everybody, especially the opening.
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Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck worked closely. Page played on Beck's Bolero, which was recorded in 1967. It was actually Page's idea for Beck to adapt Ravel's Bolero.
One album that came out before this one, and doesn't get credit for being a forerunner to metal is the first Jeff Beck Group album (1968) "Truth". See the Wikipedia page for "Beck's Bolero" for the story about the Led Zeppelin name origin, also how Page, who played rhythm, disputed Beck's songwriting credit.
Hi Abby I have a lot of records too
Well done! Enjoyed this. I agree 💯 that Blues Code of Conduct was not honored with Zeppelin. Keith Richards pays major homage and respect to his influences , Muddy Waters etc…on his recent Documentary
Zeppelin credited the original artists at least half a dozen times. Dixon received full credit for two songs on the first album right from the beginning.
Just because they didn't always credit doesnt mean they never credited.
Anyway, black American musicians stole from Page first, without credit. Jimmy Page's riff in the Yardbirds 1966 song Happenings Ten Years Time ago was clearly stolen by Lowell Fulson for his later song Tramp.
Jimmy didn't care.
The rawest Zeppelin record