It is emblematic of Jimmy's participation on the album. John Paul Jones and Plant work all day on a song, and Page rudely stumbles into the studio and does an unannounced solo. This was my first personal Zeppelin album. My family played Zeppelin all day long. I got mine for Christmas in the fourth grade when it came out.
@@bonzossticks9405 no Zeppelin song gets my girlfriend going like Dyer maker, she absolutely is freaked out about that song and the good thing is I get to reap the benefits if you know what I mean
This is one of their greatest songs ever! If you hadn’t read about their hardships, you would never know it. This whole album is pure Led Zeppelin, the real deal!
So grateful for your research b4 you react. Eliminates the stupid questions that other people could avoid in 30 secs. I'm 70 and saw LZ twice in early 70s and I learn things from you! Thank you ☺️
Zep was a master of the hypnotic groove and here is yet another strong example. This song is about pain/pitfalls life brings and how success/fame/fortune won't shield you from it. That rough, thundering bit that brought you up short was Jimmy pulling harshly on the guitar strings using the tremolo bar and amplifying the sound. The album cover is indeed interesting. As Charles Gervais said, it had 6 different covers, wrapped in paper then shrink wrapped. It was a masterful marketing gimmick, but also, Jimmy said at the time that while the music landscape was changing in favor of punk, disco, etc., acts like Led Zeppelin were seen as "dinosaurs" and laughed at by the new crop of bands, so this was a way for fans to "sneakily" buy the album in a non-descript brown paper bag. It was a "thumbing of the nose" towards their haters and I think such a move is as "subversive" and "punk" as punk claimed to be. There is a way to tell which album you have; there is a letter on the spine of the album (A-F) so if you're trying to collect all 6 covers, you can be sure you're not buying one you already have, provided you're buying them used so you can inspect it, because if new, they're still wrapped in paper and shrink wrapped so you'll be as unaware as when it was first issued in 1979 lol.
"In Through The Out Door" and "Physical Graffiti" are my favorite Led Zeppelin albums. I bought ITTOD upon it's release and it got daily play for a full year and I'm not kidding. It's a deeply personal album to me.....it is the musical embodiment of my high school years. Enjoy the journey...!!!
I went to the Knebworth gig Aug 11th 1979 (I was 15). The standout memory for the gig was the synth beginning of In The Evening and no one knowing what the fuck it was (the album hadn’t been released yet). Magical memory.
Finally "welcome " to the Zeppelin appreciation club. I,he been a member since about 12 years old . It NEVER gets old . Imo all their songs have magic in them.
After hearing LZ music in pre teen and mid teens this last offering came out, ITTOD! This song was all over the rock radio in my (any) town when I was a senior in high school and when I heard the whole album I was enchanted and I accepted it as any other..it was THEM! In less than a year Bonzo was gone and LZ was no more as a band. The Led Zeppelin finally crashed...very tragic to me.
In The Evening picked up on themes Jimmy established in his work from the Lucifer Rising film soundtrack. The intro sounds were the result of Jimmy using a Gizmotron, which was invented by members of the group 10cc. This album was recorded in Polar Studios in Sweden, which were the group ABBA's studio. The members of the band hadn't seen each other for about 10 months prior to gathering together for this album.
Gotta be my 2nd favorite song of theirs..... 40+ years later and that intro still gives me chills!!! What a hard-core masterful Rif.... you pause it in a second here, there's no pausing this... lol
The part that gives you goosebumps always makes me think that John Bonham's drum kit was set up at the top of a flight of stairs, someone pushed him, he and his entire kit rolled down the stairs, landed at the bottom, and he just kept on drumming. Almost like a cartoon. It's gloriously chaotic!
This song is my ALL TIME favorite from Zep. The instrumentals and Plante's voice belting through the sounds is just..👌🏽 not to mention the multiple transitions.. PERFECTION 😍♥️
Rolling Stone Magazine ranks In the Evening #40 on their list of Greatest LZ songs. (Fool In the Rain is #24, All My Love is #39). RSM says "Page augments his guitar with a Gizmotron, Jones plays ABBA-fied synth, Plant wails about loneliness and Bonham makes like a crocked wildebeest. It's a nice marriage of Jones' love of electronics and the band's innate rock power, as well as its last sweeping anthem". One of the most underrated aspects of ITTOD was, perhaps, the greatest album cover of all time. Man sitting in a bar in New Orleans burning a Dear John letter. Six different album covers existed, each one looking at the man from the perspective of a different person in the bar. (Mine is from the perspective of the old man with the tie). The photos were sepia coloured, except for one swipe of full colour. (Which gave a hint to the liner sleeve secret; it was black and white but turned colours when you wiped it with a wet brush. The whole album was wrapped in brown paper so you couldn't tell which cover you were buying. Although Led Zeppelin only received one Grammy nomination during the band's lifetime (Best New Artist 1969 which they lost to CSNY), In Through the Out Door received the nomination for Best Recording Package. (Those nominations go to the Art Directors, not the band). In a final example of the industry hating on Zeppelin, this album package lost to Supertramp's Breakfast in America.
My vinyl is the same persepective as in the video SG played. I got it at a pawnshop a few years ago. The outer brown bag sleeve is a bit beat up, but the inner record sleeve is flawless--never gotten wet.
You seem to know about Zeppelin is it true that Jimmy was using so much heroin at the time they made this album that JPJ took over production and thats why there is more keyboards on this one. I was a teen in the late 70s and not much of a fan of this album
@@garya7893 I was actually born in 68 and was just getting into LZ in 79 so I don't have first hand knowledge of Jimmy's addictions while recording this album, just what I've read over time. I do remember he was in pretty bad shape in 1980-83. But yeah, Jones definitely took over in this one.
@@charlesgervais4673 yes. The back of the sleeve shows the reverse angle, so you can tell whose persepective the shot is from. I assume that's true for all 6 album covers?
"Oooo, it's SINNNFUL!!" I am flashing on a fond High School memory in Virginia. A gathering outside in some parking lot. Thirty or so of us just hangin' out. I was a Junior. My friend Jenny's older sister, Mary, a Senior, and Total Smoke, was dancing--as only she could--to this tune, as it blasted from someone's boombox. At the point of Robert singing the above quote, she pointed straight at me and mouthed those words, as only she could. My soul melted. Zeppelin!
the sound at the start of the solo is Jimmy strumming slowly each notes of a chord (I guess an E major chord) while pressing down strongly on the tremolo bar of his Stratocaster and releasing the pressure on it while still strumming the chord, it sounds like a rocket blasting into space. So cool !
12:41 "What the heck?" Funny I read in an interview with Jimmy and he literally said he was going for your exact 'what the heck?' reaction when he created that intro to his solo.
This is one of my favorite Zeppelin tracks! I just found your channel and seeing your reaction and analysis of this song impressed me. I’m 62 and Zep has been one of my favorite bands since their first album. When John died I never thought I’d hear these songs live again and then came “The UnLedded Tour”. I caught them at The Palace in Michigan and Page and Plant were incredible!
I stepped back from Zeppelin after LZ 4 as I didn't think I would like the prog/alt turn they took. I am rejoining the Zep Appreciation Club in my latter years. A true delight.
At the time there was a review for this song which said something like: _"The song starts out with John Paul Jones playing some meandering notes on some kind of synthesizer, and you start to fear that Led Zeppelin has lost its way. But then the band joins in -and when it hits, it hits with all the subtlety of an elephant hitting a greenhouse."_ That image still comes to my mind every time I listen to this.
Recorded at Polar Studios which were owned by ABBA. The pop group wanted an internationally-known rock band to use their studios. Pretty sure Zeppelin met the criteria. They asked Page in '78 if he would be interested in recording there..
In addition to the six different album covers you couldn't see because of the brown paper sleeve (I bought two... they were the same), the inside record sleeve was a black and white drawing that turned to color if you got it wet (watercolor, basically). The swipe on the cover was a clue. "Fool In The Rain" and "All My Love" were radio faves. "In The Evening" and "I'm Gonna Crawl" were/are my personal faves.
When I first heard this back in the day when this album was just released, and listening to the beginning of that solo, I always thought they dropped something in the studio during the recording, or they had a caged Tasmanian devil trying to bust its way out of his trap.
You mention the cover it was released in a plain brown paper bag there were six different covers the same picture taken from six different angles and the inside cover was impregnated with paint so if you took a brush with water on and brushed the paper it would paint different colours
Robert Plant had had surgery on his throat by this stage and his voice had changed somewhat. It had lost a little of the "attack" that he was known for but he still sounds incredible on this album.
ITTOD is runner up to my fave album which is Physical Graffiti. Fool in the Rain is so much fun and really throws attention at Bonzo. There’s several hidden gems I think you will really like this album. The song All My Love written by Robert and dedicated to his son Karac ( pronounced like carrot but a hard c at the end) & for Bonham it’s pronounced Bahn-em) Here’s to hoping you enjoy this album as much as I do☮️
This is in my top 5 Led Zeppelin songs...and honestly, my favorite overall album, every single song is amazing (except Hot Dog..lol). Have listened to it all the way through many, many times.
Thanks, SalvoG. I love this whole vinyl album in its entirety. In the late 80's, my brother-in-law very graciously gave me all of his Led Zeppelin albums, as I was moving into my own place for the first time. I was familiar with some of their stuff, but this album- in through the out door caught my attention right away. It was a major pivot in a different direction for the band. Jimmy Paige was a heroin addict, and John Bonham was a fall down drunk. So Robert Plant and John Paul Jones were attempting to move the band into a new, modern, updated rock sound.
I love it. Together with The Rain Song my beloved one❤️I love the whole album. Carouselambra is a very interesting composition. You have a feeling as you're listening to three different songs. I really love their style on this album. It's mostly Plant and Jonesey responsible for that while Page was addicted to drugs and Bonham constantly drunk but finally they did a great great job!!! Hope you'll enjoy it❤️
One of those riffs that never gets old or boring… I’ve been looking forward to you reacting to this album, I find myself listening to it a TON as I get older, for some reason. The live version from knebworth 79’ is amazing… the way Page and Bonzo push each other high and higher at the songs climax is incredible! There are also some amazing versions from The Page/Plant 1995 tour. One of my top ten zeppelin songs.
Wrt the six different covers for this album: I was good friends with the owner of a local record store, and before this album was released he told me that the record company absolutely guaranteed that every record store would receive all six album covers. I thought about that, and told him it must be that they'd package the covers in groups of six. I showed up when he received his initial order, and said I'd buy first six albums that he pulled out of the box. And sure enough, each one of them had different cover art. So I get home with six copies of an album which I hadn't even heard a single song off of. As I'm cueing up the toner arm to play, I'm thinking how this may have been a really stupid mistake. Within the first three minutes of _"In the Evening",_ and I was pumping my fist and going "Yes! Yes! Yes!".
There are either seven or nine different covers released for this album, each a slightly different view/angle of the same basic scene. They came in plain brown paper coverings, so you didn't know which one you were getting when you bought it. Also, the first run had an inner sleeve with a watercolor picture; subsequent releases had just a black and white sleeve, but with the same picture.
It is an iconic moment in that song - a ball grabber no doubt. I knew you were going right back to that as soon as the song finished! lol we tend to enjoy the same details in Led Zeppelin songs. SG you need to watch The song remains the same documentary. I saw it in theaters about 40 times as a teen,
The original pressing of the album came with different inner covers that you could colour with water as they where inpregnated with water reacting paint.
I had grown up hearing about Led Zeppelin and had heard a few songs, but I wasn't a fan. Then I heard "All My Love" and I liked the song, so I bought my first Led Zeppelin album "In Through the Out Door. With this I was introduced to the world of Zeppelin. I immediately loved the album and it led me to the other Zeppelin albums I had overlooked and I have been enamored with their music since. "In Through the Out Door" was the perfect album for me to find out about Zeppelin. It was also the last album with John Bonham on drums and was their final album for decades. "Carouselambra" is a feast for the ears as well.
Yeah I like the plunge and tremolo at the start of the guitar solo you got a notice all the overdub on the guitars starting with Physical Graffiti multiple and multiple. Sometimes people don't notice good guitar because it sounds so good.
This album came out in 1979 when I was in the 9th grade. Guy at the roller skating rink would play tracks off this album and it would be the highlight of the evening for us. A group of 10 girls, stoned to the bone, listening to Zep trippin' on the disco lights! Great memories! LOL!!
You'll hear routinely "underrated" and it's true...only because a lot of latter work by Zeppelin didn't sound like the earlier stuff, so it wasn't until later on when fans had a greater appreciation for the progressive synthesis work by JPJ. It's definitely a different style, but still great
Good morning all. SG I promise you this album will not disappoint. Be prepared to groove in your seat tomorrow with South bound Saurez. Believe it is pronounced Swah Ray. God Bless everyone.
As much as I like "ln the Evening" I love "Carouselumbra"., My friends kinda panned this album saying it wasn't a Zeppelin record. But I love it. Even the inside sleeve which you could add color to it y using a paint brush dipped in plain water, which is a brilliant idea. ✨
One of my favorite Zeppelin albums. I remember when it came out, buying it and the first time jamming it, I was blown away. Seriously check out some of Robert Plants other albums. Jimmy Page did an album with David Coverdale from White Snake called Coverdale Page that is killer I bet you would like. Shake my tree is a good song off the album.
OK - QUICK POLL for the OLDER FOLKS, How many of you, LIKE ME, when this album came out, would only walk, IN through the OUT door as often as possible.
This album originally had several different covers. One from the perspective of everyone in the bar. It came in a brown paper cover so you wouldnt know which one you were getting.
Just to mention..2 of LZ most played songs on the radio are on this album..Fool in the Rain and All my Love..not to mention some of Jimmy’s best solos are in Fool and I’m Gonna Crawl…
This live at knebworth is one of my fav live performances its just so so good. This along with nobody's fault but mine at knebworth are my favorites. Do check them both out live you get to see jpj on the keyboards killing it
try fool in the rain from this album. in the evening is the first led zeppelin sonhmg i had never heard before and thrn just plunged right in. i was in college. and i had heard a great deal of other zeppelin but in passing and as long as i can remember sort of thing which is sneakier than facing a song with ears wide open ready to hear it.. anyway i bought this on cassette. thats track one. turned it on. the intro....the guitar. the watery noises. the wail. then boom that drum and we off to the races. my life was literally never the same. i remember tge first time i heard this...as if it was yesterday.
You mentioned enjoying the album artwork - it's interesting to note that originally the album was released wrapped in plain brown packaging with slightly different covers - the buyer didn't know which one they were getting - you should read up on that.
This album came out as I was starting 8th grade in August of 1979. I'd never seen LZ but our babysitter had back in '77 at the Oakland Coliseum. Those two "Day on the Greens", July 23rd and 24th, 1977 were the last shows Led Zeppelin played in the US. In June and July of 1980 they played fourteen shows in Europe. Prior to that LZ played only four shows in 1979. No shows at all in '78. I was starting 9th grade in the Fall of 1980. We felt our time had come. At some point they'll go on tour, right? and come to Los Angeles and the Bay Area, right? Eighty days after Led Zeppelin's final show of the mini Europe tour, (Berlin, 7-7-80), we lose Bonham on September 25th. It was devastating. No Led Zeppelin any more. Oh yeah ... then we lose John Lennon 74 days after John Bonham. We also lost Bon Scott in February of 1980.
One of my favorite LZ albums. I guess it would've been interesting to see you have the actual vinyl in your hands, and the Physical Graffiti album too. People have mentioned the unique packaging and I remember buying these albums, oh, and LZ 3 too...and examining everything as I listened to the tracks.
That bit where you got goose bumps? if you put a ton of TNT under Jimmy Page just as he's about to go into a lead break and light it.....that's the noise it makes!
hii ! a maori fan who comments from good ol' aus here.. i originate from new zealand and would love to suggest some maori artists/bands who.. just continue to blow my mind and i would like to think they would blow yours too.. after watching all (that are posted so far) your hamilton reactions, tho the music is different, its the vocals and the message/vibe of the songs that get me.. its completely up to you but.. six60 x drax project and their live performance of 'catching feelings', six60 and their live performance of 'dont forget your family' (which is also performed in maori), l.a.b and their song 'controller' and coterie and their 'cool it down' are all songs that id recommend first and foremost.. it just.. it reminds of home in the best way
I was able to see LZ on their first American tour in the late 1960s, and can't say I'm a 'Classic Rock Guitar God' type, but perhaps 10 years ago after listening to In The Evening for the first time in the 21st Century, I realized I preferred Jimmy Page's 'mistakes' to Eric Clapton's technical perfection. WHAT A RIFF MASTER, that Mr. Page.👍👌
I think a lot of Zep fans, who were fans while the band was active, felt a distance from this album because of the profound sadness that surrounded it. This album marked the death of Plant's son, Bonham's untimely death, the statement that "Led Zeppelin as it was can no longer go on", and the discord within the band during the recording of this album. This album, and the performances that followed, notably Knebworth, illustrate that the joy had gone out of Plant's performances. Led Zep just wasn't the same.
I've always considered this and Fool in the Rain to be the best songs on the album. I would ignore critic's take on the band or album. Time has proven them all wrong for the most part.
The music writers snobs hated Zeppelin from day one and hated anything with a synth. 40, 50 years later their catalog stands the test of time, including this supposedly "bad" album that has 3 of 7 songs still played on the radio today.
Again, this one of my favorite Zeppelin songs. And this album ranks in the top half of my favorite Zeppelin albums. The only albums I like better are Physical Graffiti and Led Zeppelin IV. I think this album gets an unfair wrap but it's nice to see that years later people are starting to appreciate it. I guess better late than never?!
This is my least favorite Zeppelin album and YET it still has some outstanding songs and extraordinary moments. One highlight is Bonham’s creative polyrhythmic drum beat on “Fool in the Rain.” Also, I find “All of My Love” (Robert Plant’s ode to his deceased young son) tremendously moving, especially the keyboard solo in the middle that is one of my favorite passages in all of music. That solo still gives me goosebumps and brings me to the verge of tears. Such is the power of music-and of Led Zeppelin. Enjoy!
The kickoff to the solo is just The. Best. Thing. Ever. Like a rocket launching.
It's a little louder and forward in this remaster than the original, which is great.
They used to call the the Motorcycle effect.
It is emblematic of Jimmy's participation on the album. John Paul Jones and Plant work all day on a song, and Page rudely stumbles into the studio and does an unannounced solo. This was my first personal Zeppelin album. My family played Zeppelin all day long. I got mine for Christmas in the fourth grade when it came out.
jimmy page is a hypnotic therapist, you go to another life and come back in loops
Fool in the Rain is incredible. Drums and guitar solo are insane.
Fool in the Rain and D'yer Mak'er are Zeppelin's only bad songs. Only thing is they're not just bad, they're absolutely awful.
@@bonzossticks9405 no Zeppelin song gets my girlfriend going like Dyer maker, she absolutely is freaked out about that song and the good thing is I get to reap the benefits if you know what I mean
their only bad song is Hats Off to Roy Harper
matter of opinion I think@@bonzossticks9405
@bonzossticks9405 sorry but WHO cares 😐
This is one of their greatest songs ever! If you hadn’t read about their hardships, you would never know it. This whole album is pure Led Zeppelin, the real deal!
That lead guitar work is nuts. It sounds like the instrument is being tossed down the stairs but then manages to catch itself. Brilliant.
So grateful for your research b4 you react. Eliminates the stupid questions that other people could avoid in 30 secs. I'm 70 and saw LZ twice in early 70s and I learn things from you! Thank you ☺️
i've heard this a thousand times and still get goosebumps at that point. this is in my top 5 favorites.
Zep was a master of the hypnotic groove and here is yet another strong example. This song is about pain/pitfalls life brings and how success/fame/fortune won't shield you from it. That rough, thundering bit that brought you up short was Jimmy pulling harshly on the guitar strings using the tremolo bar and amplifying the sound. The album cover is indeed interesting. As Charles Gervais said, it had 6 different covers, wrapped in paper then shrink wrapped. It was a masterful marketing gimmick, but also, Jimmy said at the time that while the music landscape was changing in favor of punk, disco, etc., acts like Led Zeppelin were seen as "dinosaurs" and laughed at by the new crop of bands, so this was a way for fans to "sneakily" buy the album in a non-descript brown paper bag. It was a "thumbing of the nose" towards their haters and I think such a move is as "subversive" and "punk" as punk claimed to be. There is a way to tell which album you have; there is a letter on the spine of the album (A-F) so if you're trying to collect all 6 covers, you can be sure you're not buying one you already have, provided you're buying them used so you can inspect it, because if new, they're still wrapped in paper and shrink wrapped so you'll be as unaware as when it was first issued in 1979 lol.
Great comment ! 👍😎
hypnotic groove. Yes. thats exactly what they do. thank you! hearing you say that is like...relief.
PLUS, the album cover was a water paint - you could swipe a wet brush on it and the brown would turn into color!
@@gistechrep3816 yes, they had that too. I'm working on getting all 6, I've got three so far.
I never knew this!
as impossible as it is, to have a favourite Zep song, i always bounce between Kashmir and this.
Don't forget you have to do this one...Nobody's Fault But Mine from 1979 at Knebworth...and For Your Life in 2007...the only time they ever played it!
"In Through The Out Door" and "Physical Graffiti" are my favorite Led Zeppelin albums. I bought ITTOD upon it's release and it got daily play for a full year and I'm not kidding. It's a deeply personal album to me.....it is the musical embodiment of my high school years. Enjoy the journey...!!!
Once again, O Etrigan, you are ON THE MONEY!!!
I too, bought In/Out Door on the very 1st day of it's release in Canada!
Summer of '79 if I'm not mistaken.
Same here man.
I went to the Knebworth gig Aug 11th 1979 (I was 15). The standout memory for the gig was the synth beginning of In The Evening and no one knowing what the fuck it was (the album hadn’t been released yet). Magical memory.
Love that “springy, bouncy” sound that Page puts in his guitar too. It sounds like a trampoline coil extending or something.
Finally "welcome " to the Zeppelin appreciation club. I,he been a member since about 12 years old . It NEVER gets old . Imo all their songs have magic in them.
In Through the Out Door is my favourite Led Zeppelin album.
That is contrary to most fans, but I find that this album is the best written.
Love the transitions in this song like when the guitar solo comes crashing in, it sounds so cool!
This is a fabulous album! I think you will like Caroselambra! Yeah this album had a lot of composing by JPJ!! He is spectacular!
Caroselambra is awesome!
Caroselambra is such an amazing sonic journey!
After hearing LZ music in pre teen and mid teens this last offering came out, ITTOD! This song was all over the rock radio in my (any) town when I was a senior in high school and when I heard the whole album I was enchanted and I accepted it as any other..it was THEM!
In less than a year Bonzo was gone and LZ was no more as a band. The Led Zeppelin finally crashed...very tragic to me.
In The Evening picked up on themes Jimmy established in his work from the Lucifer Rising film soundtrack. The intro sounds were the result of Jimmy using a Gizmotron, which was invented by members of the group 10cc.
This album was recorded in Polar Studios in Sweden, which were the group ABBA's studio. The members of the band hadn't seen each other for about 10 months prior to gathering together for this album.
I love Lucifer Rising.
Excellent background E !
Thank you Helene!
It's a pretty intense sound track....Death Wish 2 as well.
@@tektoniks_architects yes, I enjoy those explorations as well.
Gotta be my 2nd favorite song of theirs..... 40+ years later and that intro still gives me chills!!! What a hard-core masterful Rif.... you pause it in a second here, there's no pausing this... lol
This is one of my top three Zeppelin tunes.
You're Zeppelin journey is almost over. Then what it's all downhill from there, nobody compares.
One of my favorite solos from Jimmy. Such interesting work.
The part that gives you goosebumps always makes me think that John Bonham's drum kit was set up at the top of a flight of stairs, someone pushed him, he and his entire kit rolled down the stairs, landed at the bottom, and he just kept on drumming. Almost like a cartoon. It's gloriously chaotic!
This song is my ALL TIME favorite from Zep. The instrumentals and Plante's voice belting through the sounds is just..👌🏽 not to mention the multiple transitions.. PERFECTION 😍♥️
Rolling Stone Magazine ranks In the Evening #40 on their list of Greatest LZ songs. (Fool In the Rain is #24, All My Love is #39). RSM says "Page augments his guitar with a Gizmotron, Jones plays ABBA-fied synth, Plant wails about loneliness and Bonham makes like a crocked wildebeest. It's a nice marriage of Jones' love of electronics and the band's innate rock power, as well as its last sweeping anthem".
One of the most underrated aspects of ITTOD was, perhaps, the greatest album cover of all time. Man sitting in a bar in New Orleans burning a Dear John letter. Six different album covers existed, each one looking at the man from the perspective of a different person in the bar. (Mine is from the perspective of the old man with the tie). The photos were sepia coloured, except for one swipe of full colour. (Which gave a hint to the liner sleeve secret; it was black and white but turned colours when you wiped it with a wet brush. The whole album was wrapped in brown paper so you couldn't tell which cover you were buying.
Although Led Zeppelin only received one Grammy nomination during the band's lifetime (Best New Artist 1969 which they lost to CSNY), In Through the Out Door received the nomination for Best Recording Package. (Those nominations go to the Art Directors, not the band). In a final example of the industry hating on Zeppelin, this album package lost to Supertramp's Breakfast in America.
My vinyl is the same persepective as in the video SG played. I got it at a pawnshop a few years ago. The outer brown bag sleeve is a bit beat up, but the inner record sleeve is flawless--never gotten wet.
You seem to know about Zeppelin is it true that Jimmy was using so much heroin at the time they made this album that JPJ took over production and thats why there is more keyboards on this one. I was a teen in the late 70s and not much of a fan of this album
@@johnpetrie1918 Nice! So yours is the perspective of the blonde at the bar looking toward the piano player.
@@garya7893 I was actually born in 68 and was just getting into LZ in 79 so I don't have first hand knowledge of Jimmy's addictions while recording this album, just what I've read over time. I do remember he was in pretty bad shape in 1980-83. But yeah, Jones definitely took over in this one.
@@charlesgervais4673 yes. The back of the sleeve shows the reverse angle, so you can tell whose persepective the shot is from. I assume that's true for all 6 album covers?
Masterpiece!!! That guitar...Jimi!!!!!
"Oooo, it's SINNNFUL!!" I am flashing on a fond High School memory in Virginia. A gathering outside in some parking lot. Thirty or so of us just hangin' out. I was a Junior. My friend Jenny's older sister, Mary, a Senior, and Total Smoke, was dancing--as only she could--to this tune, as it blasted from someone's boombox. At the point of Robert singing the above quote, she pointed straight at me and mouthed those words, as only she could. My soul melted. Zeppelin!
This has become my favorite album over the years. Great songs on here! ✌
the sound at the start of the solo is Jimmy strumming slowly each notes of a chord (I guess an E major chord) while pressing down strongly on the tremolo bar of his Stratocaster and releasing the pressure on it while still strumming the chord, it sounds like a rocket blasting into space. So cool !
They are masters of tempo change . unpredictable..chills in the slow part
I had goosebumps at the same point when I first listened to this when it was released in 1979.
12:41 "What the heck?" Funny I read in an interview with Jimmy and he literally said he was going for your exact 'what the heck?' reaction when he created that intro to his solo.
This is one of my favorite Zeppelin tracks! I just found your channel and seeing your reaction and analysis of this song impressed me. I’m 62 and Zep has been one of my favorite bands since their first album. When John died I never thought I’d hear these songs live again and then came “The UnLedded Tour”. I caught them at The Palace in Michigan and Page and Plant were incredible!
I stepped back from Zeppelin after LZ 4 as I didn't think I would like the prog/alt turn they took. I am rejoining the Zep Appreciation Club in my latter years. A true delight.
At the time there was a review for this song which said something like: _"The song starts out with John Paul Jones playing some meandering notes on some kind of synthesizer, and you start to fear that Led Zeppelin has lost its way. But then the band joins in -and when it hits, it hits with all the subtlety of an elephant hitting a greenhouse."_ That image still comes to my mind every time I listen to this.
Recorded at Polar Studios which were owned by ABBA. The pop group wanted an internationally-known rock band to use their studios. Pretty sure Zeppelin met the criteria. They asked Page in '78 if he would be interested in recording there..
This is possibly my favorite Zeppelin track out of the entire 2nd half of their discography. This entire album is criminally underrated.
In addition to the six different album covers you couldn't see because of the brown paper sleeve (I bought two... they were the same), the inside record sleeve was a black and white drawing that turned to color if you got it wet (watercolor, basically). The swipe on the cover was a clue. "Fool In The Rain" and "All My Love" were radio faves. "In The Evening" and "I'm Gonna Crawl" were/are my personal faves.
I was TODAY old when I learned this bit of info, and i bought the LP when it debuted…. I wish I had known before I got rid of my vinyl…
In through the out door and Presence don't get enough love.
When you loved In The Light so much, I figured you would like In the Evening….to me, a similar vibe
When I first heard this back in the day when this album was just released, and listening to the beginning of that solo, I always thought they dropped something in the studio during the recording, or they had a caged Tasmanian devil trying to bust its way out of his trap.
There are six different album covers for In Through The Out Door. Great review!
You mention the cover it was released in a plain brown paper bag there were six different covers the same picture taken from six different angles and the inside cover was impregnated with paint so if you took a brush with water on and brushed the paper it would paint different colours
Robert Plant had had surgery on his throat by this stage and his voice had changed somewhat. It had lost a little of the "attack" that he was known for but he still sounds incredible on this album.
ITTOD is runner up to my fave album which is Physical Graffiti. Fool in the Rain is so much fun and really throws attention at Bonzo. There’s several hidden gems I think you will really like this album. The song All My Love written by Robert and dedicated to his son Karac ( pronounced like carrot but a hard c at the end) & for Bonham it’s pronounced Bahn-em) Here’s to hoping you enjoy this album as much as I do☮️
So the second a is pronounced like an o?
This is in my top 5 Led Zeppelin songs...and honestly, my favorite overall album, every single song is amazing (except Hot Dog..lol). Have listened to it all the way through many, many times.
Thanks, SalvoG. I love this whole vinyl album in its entirety. In the late 80's, my brother-in-law very graciously gave me all of his Led Zeppelin albums, as I was moving into my own place for the first time. I was familiar with some of their stuff, but this album- in through the out door caught my attention right away. It was a major pivot in a different direction for the band. Jimmy Paige was a heroin addict, and John Bonham was a fall down drunk. So Robert Plant and John Paul Jones were attempting to move the band into a new, modern, updated rock sound.
This is the soundtrack of my life
I love it. Together with The Rain Song my beloved one❤️I love the whole album. Carouselambra is a very interesting composition. You have a feeling as you're listening to three different songs. I really love their style on this album. It's mostly Plant and Jonesey responsible for that while Page was addicted to drugs and Bonham constantly drunk but finally they did a great great job!!! Hope you'll enjoy it❤️
One of those riffs that never gets old or boring… I’ve been looking forward to you reacting to this album, I find myself listening to it a TON as I get older, for some reason. The live version from knebworth 79’ is amazing… the way Page and Bonzo push each other high and higher at the songs climax is incredible! There are also some amazing versions from The Page/Plant 1995 tour. One of my top ten zeppelin songs.
Wrt the six different covers for this album: I was good friends with the owner of a local record store, and before this album was released he told me that the record company absolutely guaranteed that every record store would receive all six album covers. I thought about that, and told him it must be that they'd package the covers in groups of six. I showed up when he received his initial order, and said I'd buy first six albums that he pulled out of the box. And sure enough, each one of them had different cover art.
So I get home with six copies of an album which I hadn't even heard a single song off of. As I'm cueing up the toner arm to play, I'm thinking how this may have been a really stupid mistake. Within the first three minutes of _"In the Evening",_ and I was pumping my fist and going "Yes! Yes! Yes!".
There are either seven or nine different covers released for this album, each a slightly different view/angle of the same basic scene. They came in plain brown paper coverings, so you didn't know which one you were getting when you bought it. Also, the first run had an inner sleeve with a watercolor picture; subsequent releases had just a black and white sleeve, but with the same picture.
It is an iconic moment in that song - a ball grabber no doubt. I knew you were going right back to that as soon as the song finished! lol we tend to enjoy the same details in Led Zeppelin songs. SG you need to watch The song remains the same documentary. I saw it in theaters about 40 times as a teen,
There are 2 breaks where it sounds like lightning striking- great great reaction again!!
The original pressing of the album came with different inner covers that you could colour with water as they where inpregnated with water reacting paint.
I had grown up hearing about Led Zeppelin and had heard a few songs, but I wasn't a fan. Then I heard "All My Love" and I liked the song, so I bought my first Led Zeppelin album "In Through the Out Door. With this I was introduced to the world of Zeppelin. I immediately loved the album and it led me to the other Zeppelin albums I had overlooked and I have been enamored with their music since. "In Through the Out Door" was the perfect album for me to find out about Zeppelin. It was also the last album with John Bonham on drums and was their final album for decades. "Carouselambra" is a feast for the ears as well.
This album originally came in a brown paper bag cover
You can also catch this live also 1979 Kenworth england
You all masters!!!
This is another great Zeppelin album.
Another one of the many I had in my collection.
This has always been one of my favorite Zep tunes. Great groove.
Yeah I like the plunge and tremolo at the start of the guitar solo you got a notice all the overdub on the guitars starting with Physical Graffiti multiple and multiple. Sometimes people don't notice good guitar because it sounds so good.
This album came out in 1979 when I was in the 9th grade. Guy at the roller skating rink would play tracks off this album and it would be the highlight of the evening for us. A group of 10 girls, stoned to the bone, listening to Zep trippin' on the disco lights! Great memories! LOL!!
You'll hear routinely "underrated" and it's true...only because a lot of latter work by Zeppelin didn't sound like the earlier stuff, so it wasn't until later on when fans had a greater appreciation for the progressive synthesis work by JPJ. It's definitely a different style, but still great
Good morning all. SG I promise you this album will not disappoint. Be prepared to groove in your seat tomorrow with South bound Saurez. Believe it is pronounced Swah Ray. God Bless everyone.
As much as I like "ln the Evening" I love "Carouselumbra"., My friends kinda panned this album saying it wasn't a Zeppelin record. But I love it. Even the inside sleeve which you could add color to it y using a paint brush dipped in plain water, which is a brilliant idea. ✨
So many more great songs coming up, they never seemed to have a low point. Very Consistent level of musicianship
One of my favorite Zeppelin albums. I remember when it came out, buying it and the first time jamming it, I was blown away. Seriously check out some of Robert Plants other albums. Jimmy Page did an album with David Coverdale from White Snake called Coverdale Page that is killer I bet you would like. Shake my tree is a good song off the album.
OK - QUICK POLL for the OLDER FOLKS, How many of you, LIKE ME, when this album came out, would only walk, IN through the OUT door as often as possible.
I really like this album. It came out when I was 19 and I listened to it almost every day for quite a while
This album originally had several different covers. One from the perspective of everyone in the bar. It came in a brown paper cover so you wouldnt know which one you were getting.
Just to mention..2 of LZ most played songs on the radio are on this album..Fool in the Rain and All my Love..not to mention some of Jimmy’s best solos are in Fool and I’m Gonna Crawl…
@pluvio his phrasing too is so good. Very hard to wrap a solo around that type of beat.
This live at knebworth is one of my fav live performances its just so so good.
This along with nobody's fault but mine at knebworth are my favorites. Do check them both out live you get to see jpj on the keyboards killing it
Yes and yes!!
I second that!!!
Great song.
Like you said the hinges come off the door at the point. It’s the point where they let jimmy go and put his stamp in their new journey
try fool in the rain from this album.
in the evening is the first led zeppelin sonhmg i had never heard before and thrn just plunged right in. i was in college. and i had heard a great deal of other zeppelin but in passing and as long as i can remember sort of thing which is sneakier than facing a song with ears wide open ready to hear it.. anyway i bought this on cassette. thats track one. turned it on. the intro....the guitar. the watery noises. the wail. then boom that drum and we off to the races. my life was literally never the same. i remember tge first time i heard this...as if it was yesterday.
You mentioned enjoying the album artwork - it's interesting to note that originally the album was released wrapped in plain brown packaging with slightly different covers - the buyer didn't know which one they were getting - you should read up on that.
This album came out as I was starting 8th grade in August of 1979. I'd never seen LZ but our babysitter had back in '77 at the Oakland Coliseum. Those two "Day on the Greens", July 23rd and 24th, 1977 were the last shows Led Zeppelin played in the US. In June and July of 1980 they played fourteen shows in Europe. Prior to that LZ played only four shows in 1979. No shows at all in '78. I was starting 9th grade in the Fall of 1980. We felt our time had come. At some point they'll go on tour, right? and come to Los Angeles and the Bay Area, right? Eighty days after Led Zeppelin's final show of the mini Europe tour, (Berlin, 7-7-80), we lose Bonham on September 25th. It was devastating. No Led Zeppelin any more. Oh yeah ... then we lose John Lennon 74 days after John Bonham. We also lost Bon Scott in February of 1980.
Interesting to see your impression of Plant's solo stuff. Voice matured for sure.
Wait until you hear Fool In The Rain!
Roll on South Bound Suarez 🥰🥰🥰😘😘😘Bring it on , turn it up …
Btw, Bonham is pronounced Bah-nuhm.
One of my favorite LZ albums. I guess it would've been interesting to see you have the actual vinyl in your hands, and the Physical Graffiti album too.
People have mentioned the unique packaging and I remember buying these albums, oh, and LZ 3 too...and examining everything as I listened to the tracks.
There’s another version on the deluxe In through the Out Door. Plants vocals are much clearer and the song is more powerful.
It's pretty easy to pick out a few favorites from most bands, not so much with Zeppelin.
Love at Knebworth is awesome
That bit where you got goose bumps? if you put a ton of TNT under Jimmy Page just as he's about to go into a lead break and light it.....that's the noise it makes!
hii ! a maori fan who comments from good ol' aus here.. i originate from new zealand and would love to suggest some maori artists/bands who.. just continue to blow my mind and i would like to think they would blow yours too.. after watching all (that are posted so far) your hamilton reactions, tho the music is different, its the vocals and the message/vibe of the songs that get me.. its completely up to you but.. six60 x drax project and their live performance of 'catching feelings', six60 and their live performance of 'dont forget your family' (which is also performed in maori), l.a.b and their song 'controller' and coterie and their 'cool it down' are all songs that id recommend first and foremost.. it just.. it reminds of home in the best way
I was able to see LZ on their first American tour in the late 1960s, and can't say I'm a 'Classic Rock Guitar God' type, but perhaps 10 years ago after listening to In The Evening for the first time in the 21st Century, I realized I preferred Jimmy Page's 'mistakes' to Eric Clapton's technical perfection. WHAT A RIFF MASTER, that Mr. Page.👍👌
I think this is a fantastic album and it leads you to wonder what would have come if JB hadn't died.
I think a lot of Zep fans, who were fans while the band was active, felt a distance from this album because of the profound sadness that surrounded it. This album marked the death of Plant's son, Bonham's untimely death, the statement that "Led Zeppelin as it was can no longer go on", and the discord within the band during the recording of this album. This album, and the performances that followed, notably Knebworth, illustrate that the joy had gone out of Plant's performances. Led Zep just wasn't the same.
The live Knebworth 79 version is even better. And I was there as a very stoned 16 year old.
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Carouselambra is the best song on this album!!
Listen to the " live at knebworth " version of this and other ITTOD songs.
I've always considered this and Fool in the Rain to be the best songs on the album. I would ignore critic's take on the band or album. Time has proven them all wrong for the most part.
When you get a chance play the Live version of Dazed and Confused from The Song Remains The Same live album ... you'll freak out
The music writers snobs hated Zeppelin from day one and hated anything with a synth. 40, 50 years later their catalog stands the test of time, including this supposedly "bad" album that has 3 of 7 songs still played on the radio today.
Again, this one of my favorite Zeppelin songs. And this album ranks in the top half of my favorite Zeppelin albums. The only albums I like better are Physical Graffiti and Led Zeppelin IV. I think this album gets an unfair wrap but it's nice to see that years later people are starting to appreciate it. I guess better late than never?!
This is my least favorite Zeppelin album and YET it still has some outstanding songs and extraordinary moments. One highlight is Bonham’s creative polyrhythmic drum beat on “Fool in the Rain.” Also, I find “All of My Love” (Robert Plant’s ode to his deceased young son) tremendously moving, especially the keyboard solo in the middle that is one of my favorite passages in all of music. That solo still gives me goosebumps and brings me to the verge of tears. Such is the power of music-and of Led Zeppelin. Enjoy!
Nice comment but just want to let you know All my Love is not the final track, the final track is I'm Gonna Crawl
@@youtoo2233 Thanks. Corrected!
Some people get really snobby about this album..just because they evolved a bit..but it's still very Led Zeppelin.