I Feel this Led Zeppelin Journey led you to the same conclusion that I have. Led Zeppelin IS the Greatest Rock Band of All Time and it’s not really that close
Yes, I can't wait for the next comment section telling them they "gotta" hear this or that live version of In My Time of Dying, as they always do, never acknowledging the fact that they just heard the best dang version of the song - which is on this album!!!
I was 15 when this album hit us and it hit hard ! It's my favorite album of any band , any genre . oh man the 70s were so , so good (musically anyway )
It's funny you know a true Zeppelin fan when you speak Physical Graffiti and Presence. I was 15 in 83 but know my Zeppelin. I remember my brother in law saying Zeppelin was his favorite and he was still stuck on Zep 1, 2, and 4. He said who is that you are listening to when I showed up jamming to The Rover in the 80's. The radio would only play maybe one song out of all the albums after Zep4.
Same age for me too Dave! When they came to tour I was denied by my father & that seriously bummed me out. Good thing my friends father had a good Motorola sound system and when he was out of the house we'd blast it & air drum our asses off...ahhh they were the days growing up with such great music and the memories of it all to last a lifetime. Sometimes it doesn't seem that long ago; we were blessed to have been born in that era!
Agreed, the Rover's guitar work is totally underrated. This is how Jimmy had that knack for created memorable riffs with tons of melody built in. A lot of great guitarists can't fathom melody and I think this is what gives birth to technical virtuosity with no regard for the little thing called the music (melody).
Highly underappreciated song about tolerance and unity. The next track is one of Bonham's greatest, and otherworldly heaviness. The live version in Earl's Court 1975 is a must watch.
That's one of my favorite songs on that album, "The Rover!" A lot of great jams on that double album. 1975 it was released....Man we used to really enjoy their music then. I listen to them now some.... In 1977 I saw them live in Birmingham Al.... They didn't disappoint. John Bonham done his drum solo on the song, Moby Dick... The best rock concert I've ever attended. Legendary Band!💯💯🔥🔥✌️😎👍
Guys, please, when you get to "In My Time of Dying", please watch them performing it live on their double dvd set. Watching Page going crazy on the guitar with his slide playing will give you a true appreciation of this guy's skill. I promise you, you won't be disappointed; see Plant with his bravado and posturing; JPG and Bonham just grooving. It's incredible
No. You miscounted. "In my time of dying" is NEXT! LOL, kidding around, I know which you mean, but it IS funny that they have so many miraculously good tracks that fans can legit have many faves, or choose many different ones AS their fave. IMTOD is actually ONE of my True Favorites--dunno that I have ONE fave. In fact, I don't.
I was 14 that summer and some friends and I had started working on a tobacco farm that year. We were so exhausted at night, that we often just sat around someone's yard and listened to this album over and over. It was a great year! Looking forward to this.
Whats great about all of zeppelins music is any album or song can be your favorite on any given day..depends on how youre feelin...such a vast body of work...today since ive been lovin was my fav...who knows what itll be tomorrow.
This song and this side of this album is/are one of the best ever. I was 13 when this came out. I feel so lucky to have grown up with this music. So f*cking good.
Absolutely the best snare drum in the history of the instrument. On Stairway, the first time he goes to the ride cymbal, listen to all the different accents on the snare. Second to none. His hi-hat is the best too. Thanks guys, there is not a bad one on this album and they're all different. I was in a group of four people at a concert (just happened to be there), JPJ was one of the other three. He was discussing piano with a fan. He did an all bass album called Zooma. Steel slide bass!! ✌️
Couldn’t agree more. The Bonham “touch” on Stairway you described, has always jumped off the recording for me as well. It’s one of the best examples of his range as an artist, not a “drummer.”
This is a Jimmy Page song! With that opening nasty guitar power cords! Bonzo following Jimmy's guitar makes this a power house! And Jimmy's outro guitar solo is the best! This song is pretty much early metal!
"The Rover" began life as an acoustic song while Page and Plant were resting at Bron-Yr-Aur prior to "Led Zeppelin III". It evolved into a rock edge when most of the track was recorded during the "Houses of the Holy" sessions. Jimmy massaged and added overdubs for inclusion on "Physical Graffiti"
That sound you were hearing that you said you liked and one of you said, it's the guitar, well yes, but more importantly, it is a really wonderful and balanced combination of power chords on the guitar, and the bass line in unison.
You guys are killin it with the Zep reactions ""We're not goin' crazy with it yet, just yet..." - I know *everybody* was thinkin' the same thing when you said that haha. The next song will knock you on your asses!
This album literally and figuratively took peoples breath away. It is only recently that I have learnt how much of a say John Bonham had in what actually ended up on the finished album. If he wasn`t happy with something he made it clear to the other members and his ideas to improve it were almost always the best way.
Glad you guys dug the deep groove this lays into the brain! The song after this one will likely lay down some good sonic memory as well! It starts out molten, slow, bloozy AF. Then it becomes an express train loaded with Bonzo-grade Thunder, hurtling towards its surprisingly hushaby ending (be sure u wait to hear "the cough," LOL) with increasing urgency, hauling some of the bone-crunchingest rock ever offered human ears. Next stop: "In My Time of Dying." O My Jesus! All Aboard!
When I was a teenager in the early 80’s I grew up with Led Zeppelin but never listened to them. At the time the kids listening to them were the “burnouts” and Metal kids . I was too caught up in U2 and the Cure etc back then. So I knew of them but never really listened to them like I do now.
@@lcjr8758 Gotcha. So you probably knew their 'hits', the overplayed classic rock radio songs (like Stairway, Whole Lotta Love, etc), but not tracks like "The Rover". Just guessing.
Another great track!!... I am really excited to see you react to Nobody's Fault But Mine.... get ready to be totally blown away!! ... just when you think it can't get any better....
Something is gonna happen?? LOL. In My Time of Dying is going to happen... Where did the time go?? We got here so fast... Great journey with you guys... the next one is gonna knock your socks off...
Take a deep breath; the next track is gonna wear you out !!! It's just so damn good !!! Having a blast watching you guys discover pure gold ! Can't wait for the next reaction !!
"I know to trip is just to fall..." I love this song dearly... I used to cover this in one of my high school bands. John Paul Jones, again, really drives this song.
I took me years to find this track. Never played on the radio. I had family members who were led Fans, and I would try my best to repeat...they had no idea.
This album highlights all 4 of them. It's a collection of old and new material. Some of the tracks were from earlier albums that just didn't make the cut. There's soaring vocals from Robert, screaming guitar from Jimmy, thunderous drumming from Bonzo and John Paul is laying it all out on bass, keyboards and the mellotron throughout.
THE ROVER!! The best song on the album....if you don't think so, listen to it again and again. It's a sleeper. I love The Rover & Tangerine. Thanks again gentlemen!! 🔥
As I’ve said before, this is my favorite Zeppelin album. I must admit that you guys have helped me appreciate it the genius of JPJ even more than I did before, it seems like you sometimes don’t give enough credit to Jimmy Page. I’ve considered him the greatest guitarist ever, and I know he was the driving creative force behind the band. Still, keep up the GREAT work. Appreciate you guys!
Believe it or not, this song started as an acoustic blues number way back during the sessions for the 3rd album. It would later get worked on during the Houses of the Holy sessions and finally find it's way here. Jimmy has a nice and neat solo while Jonesy's single note bass line beneath the moving guitar riffs give a hint of the direction of a lot of future 80s hits which were played from a rhythm standpoint. Robert's lyrics give a bit of wistfulness of a simpler time where "if we could just join hands" and wonders how "all this squander of earthly plunder will leave us anything to show" and asks "Is the new world rising from the shambles of the old". Only snippets of this was played live; often they'd start this before switching up to play Sick Again (still to come).
I like your description of Jimmy's solo as "nice and neat." It IS clean, and sweetly melodic, with even a, to my ears, plaintive sort of sound at the end, matching nicely what you cite as the "bit of wistfulness" in Robert's lyrics. I've never "researched" them, but have assumed Plant is talking about environmental destruction, and then the "new world rising" is maybe some sort of Aquarian/pre-New Age-ish hippie worldview? And/or maybe war: "And our time is flyin', see the candle burnin' low." We recall the anxiety of impending mushroom clouds then, even as we re-experience such fears now with Ukraine. I also harken back to Ramble On's "in the darkest depths of Mordor" location of his love--here, she's "on the dark side of the globe." Evocative. I also appreciate along with you that JPJ did "what was needed," as it were, and didn't show off like he COULD have. All four have this restraint gene. One of my (many!) fave Zeppelin songs. Surprised it didn't become a "hit." But makes it all the cooler to see that many more people, like La and Che here, discover it.
@@joescott8877 Thank you for the message. As far as Robert's lyrics, I'm sure there were many factors that helped shape them. I know that by this point Robert wasn't enjoying how the music scene was changing, the crowd sizes, some of the fan interactions and hangers on that were showing up, and the music business in general, not to mention whatever may have been going on in his personal life. As he mentions in an interview at the time, he missed the style that was around in the "old days" of 1968.
@@henriettaskolnick4445 You're welcome, and this topic reminds me of the book "What You Want is in the Limo" (Title is a line from Bowie's "Fame"). The subtitle is a mile long, but the book examines Zep's, Alice Cooper's, and The Who's 1973 tours, and in the process shows how "Rock" was becoming commoditized and corporate, with fancy light shows and "approved" merch, the sort of things which I think track with Robert's discomfort that you mentioned. I remember it being a pretty good read: "juicy" but not overly gossipy, analytical but not pretentiously so. So anyhow, there's that!
Page and Plant were the ultimate showmen with incredible presence, and talent X 2. Bonzo and mostly Jones were a little more overlooked, though being two of the most amazing musicians that will ever grace your ears. To me, what Jones is doing in this song is phenomenal, you almost don’t notice it unless you are looking for it, but that thumping that he is weaving in throughout the song and throwing in those galloping little runs that fit perfectly. Just an amazing band.
That one section of the song with the guitar in the bass in unison really is amazing in the sense it was many years ahead of its time so to speak. Think about the sounds of bands like The Offspring and when that suddenly sounded really new and powerful and just amazing. This predicted it many years before.
I mentioned in a previous reaction that Physical Graffiti seemed to showcase both JPJ's keyboard and bass work as well as Bonzo's grooves were stellar in every track. If you want a drum track you can't forget, wait til In My Time of Dying....
I Feel this Led Zeppelin Journey led you to the same conclusion that I have.
Led Zeppelin IS the Greatest Rock Band of All Time and it’s not really that close
Funny, was just thinking the same thing after listening to Nobody's Fault But Mine...
Led Zeppelin is in a class of their own
Another great example of their albums starting off with a great 1-2 punch! The next song, In My Time Of Dying, is a knockout blow!
It sure is. My fave by LZ.
Yes, I can't wait for the next comment section telling them they "gotta" hear this or that live version of In My Time of Dying, as they always do, never acknowledging the fact that they just heard the best dang version of the song - which is on this album!!!
Wait til they get a load of Bonzo on that one!
The next song is actually Custard Pie not In My Time of Dying..
Givin love to JPL.Awesome guys.🤟✌️
Greatest rock band who ever lived. Devastated by John’s death.
Aye sadly missed for all his family
my fav album by my fav band
Ty guys for sticking with the Zeppelin marathon. 👍😎👍
My favorite zep tune
Mine too. It recently passed Ten Years Gone. It gets better every year I get older
If there is such a thing as an underrated Zeppelin track, this is one of them.
I was 15 when this album hit us and it hit hard ! It's my favorite album of any band , any genre . oh man the 70s were so , so good (musically anyway )
Ditto! Although I've been stuck on Presence for a while
It's funny you know a true Zeppelin fan when you speak Physical Graffiti and Presence. I was 15 in 83 but know my Zeppelin. I remember my brother in law saying Zeppelin was his favorite and he was still stuck on Zep 1, 2, and 4. He said who is that you are listening to when I showed up jamming to The Rover in the 80's. The radio would only play maybe one song out of all the albums after Zep4.
I was 16 & right with you David. I remember ditching school to get it the minute my record store opened. Those were the days
I agree this there best album. Every song is a banger not one bad in my opinion..
Same age for me too Dave! When they came to tour I was denied by my father & that seriously bummed me out. Good thing my friends father had a good Motorola sound system and when he was out of the house we'd blast it & air drum our asses off...ahhh they were the days growing up with such great music and the memories of it all to last a lifetime. Sometimes it doesn't seem that long ago; we were blessed to have been born in that era!
Getting the Led out!
One of the more underrated guitar solos Jimmy created. It's almost perfect.
Agreed, the Rover's guitar work is totally underrated. This is how Jimmy had that knack for created memorable riffs with tons of melody built in. A lot of great guitarists can't fathom melody and I think this is what gives birth to technical virtuosity with no regard for the little thing called the music (melody).
Agreed. Should have been a staple of their gigs , one of his best solos.
I always found this to be ine of Bonham's masterpieces...
The simple fact LZ chose to never replace John Bonham proves you just can't replace the greatest Rock drummer ever. You just don't.
The Mighty Zep. RockStars Forever.
Great riff, inspired EHV sound. VH use to cover it before they made it
Love how this chugs along 👍🇬🇧
The next song is a jam can't wait till u hear this
"Somethings gonna happen" - correct, fellas - some real heavy hitters on the way!
Without question my favorite zeppelin song
My favorite song on this album...with the next one a close second.
Highly underappreciated song about tolerance and unity. The next track is one of Bonham's greatest, and otherworldly heaviness. The live version in Earl's Court 1975 is a must watch.
The greatest rock album along with the GREATEST BAND
Yes.
Yes.
Every Zep album is great, but to me, Physical Graffiti is their best. I can’t wait for you to listen to “In My Time of Dying”
Another great song from the GOAT!
You want to hear a Bonzo workout? Just wait for the next track!
Jimmy Page was a great producer, and the secret weapon to Led Zeppelin’s sound.
Omg this is so much fun thank you 👊
One of Jimmy's most iconic riffs..
Physical Graffiti is a Masterpiece Album from Led Zeppelin!!!! Great Reactions!!!!
That's one of my favorite songs on that album, "The Rover!" A lot of great jams on that double album. 1975 it was released....Man we used to really enjoy their music then. I listen to them now some.... In 1977 I saw them live in Birmingham Al.... They didn't disappoint. John Bonham done his drum solo on the song, Moby Dick... The best rock concert I've ever attended. Legendary Band!💯💯🔥🔥✌️😎👍
Amazing cratsmonship
Gonna sue soon YT...keep doing what you do as it will be read out loud in court eventually😊
Just collecting proof of harassment and video every time as I go😊. Jury will like it
Guys, please, when you get to "In My Time of Dying", please watch them performing it live on their double dvd set. Watching Page going crazy on the guitar with his slide playing will give you a true appreciation of this guy's skill. I promise you, you won't be disappointed; see Plant with his bravado and posturing; JPG and Bonham just grooving. It's incredible
Saw them in concert when this album came out
My favourite Zep disc ... excited for your journey
Rock and Roll (period).
I predict the next song is going to be one of your favorites.
In My Time of Dying...don't want nobody to moan.
Bozo really shows off his footwork 😅 absolutely mind blowing
Oh, "something's gonna happen", alright. Four tracks from now they will hear the greatest song in the history of Rock 'n Roll.
No. You miscounted. "In my time of dying" is NEXT! LOL, kidding around, I know which you mean, but it IS funny that they have so many miraculously good tracks that fans can legit have many faves, or choose many different ones AS their fave. IMTOD is actually ONE of my True Favorites--dunno that I have ONE fave. In fact, I don't.
Awesome channel
This is their best song in my book
Not their most accomplished, but probably my favorite.
i LOVE this track! absolute gem, bomhan was a monster
I was 14 that summer and some friends and I had started working on a tobacco farm that year. We were so exhausted at night, that we often just sat around someone's yard and listened to this album over and over. It was a great year! Looking forward to this.
This is hard rock !!
FM street music ..,
Whats great about all of zeppelins music is any album or song can be your favorite on any given day..depends on how youre feelin...such a vast body of work...today since ive been lovin was my fav...who knows what itll be tomorrow.
Drums? Wait until the next song. For me, one of my favorite songs by them. Prepare yourselves....
This song and this side of this album is/are one of the best ever. I was 13 when this came out. I feel so lucky to have grown up with this music. So f*cking good.
This is an amazing album. I’ve specifically been waiting for the next track. Y’all gonna love the drums on that track. It’s an epic recording.
❤❤❤Robert ❤❤❤
This album hits hard! What a groove...takin me back
Always love the Led.
Keep getting the Led out!
Absolutely the best snare drum in the history of the instrument. On Stairway, the first time he goes to the ride cymbal, listen to all the different accents on the snare. Second to none. His hi-hat is the best too. Thanks guys, there is not a bad one on this album and they're all different. I was in a group of four people at a concert (just happened to be there), JPJ was one of the other three. He was discussing piano with a fan. He did an all bass album called Zooma. Steel slide bass!! ✌️
Couldn’t agree more. The Bonham “touch” on Stairway you described, has always jumped off the recording for me as well. It’s one of the best examples of his range as an artist, not a “drummer.”
Dig it!
My favorite Led Zeppelin song!
This is a Jimmy Page song! With that opening nasty guitar power cords! Bonzo following Jimmy's guitar makes this a power house! And Jimmy's outro guitar solo is the best! This song is pretty much early metal!
In through the outdoor is john paul jones's album. I think jimmy page was going through his heroin addiction and JPJ had to step up in the studio
I bought this as soon as it came out in 1975 when I was in 9th grade. It is still my favorite LZ album.
"The Rover" began life as an acoustic song while Page and Plant were resting at Bron-Yr-Aur prior to "Led Zeppelin III". It evolved into a rock edge when most of the track was recorded during the "Houses of the Holy" sessions. Jimmy massaged and added overdubs for inclusion on "Physical Graffiti"
So glad they changed it. Thanks for the commentary.
Not going crazy wait for next track boys holy shit it’s incredible 👍😂
A masterpiece from front to back. My favorite!!
Greatness! I love the Rover, just one of many incredible songs on this album… on of the greatest albums ever IMO.
Thanks for another great start to a Sunday. Great reaction fellas. Much appreciated 🙏
Really enjoying your reactions to 'Led Zeppelin', three cheers to you two thanks
That sound you were hearing that you said you liked and one of you said, it's the guitar, well yes, but more importantly, it is a really wonderful and balanced combination of power chords on the guitar, and the bass line in unison.
You guys are killin it with the Zep reactions
""We're not goin' crazy with it yet, just yet..." - I know *everybody* was thinkin' the same thing when you said that haha. The next song will knock you on your asses!
This album literally and figuratively took peoples breath away. It is only recently that I have learnt how much of
a say John Bonham had in what actually ended up on the finished album. If he wasn`t happy with something
he made it clear to the other members and his ideas to improve it were almost always the best way.
Bonham was the greatest drummer ever!
@@juliemanarin4127 He was that.
For ME, the best double rock album ever. 3 of my 5 favorite Zep. songs on this epic.
Unbelievably great Album.
Glad you guys dug the deep groove this lays into the brain! The song after this one will likely lay down some good sonic memory as well! It starts out molten, slow, bloozy AF. Then it becomes an express train loaded with Bonzo-grade Thunder, hurtling towards its surprisingly hushaby ending (be sure u wait to hear "the cough," LOL) with increasing urgency, hauling some of the bone-crunchingest rock ever offered human ears. Next stop: "In My Time of Dying." O My Jesus! All Aboard!
Appreciate you guys and your take on Led Zeppelin. Just rediscovered them myself. Thank you!
Very curious. How does one 'rediscover' Led Zep? It's not like they are some obscure indie rock band.
When I was a teenager in the early 80’s I grew up with Led Zeppelin but never listened to them. At the time the kids listening to them were the “burnouts” and Metal kids . I was too caught up in U2 and the Cure etc back then. So I knew of them but never really listened to them like I do now.
@@lcjr8758 Gotcha. So you probably knew their 'hits', the overplayed classic rock radio songs (like Stairway, Whole Lotta Love, etc), but not tracks like "The Rover". Just guessing.
Exactly & that’s all I knew. Heard “Baby I’m Gonna Leave You” for the first time this year. I’m 54 lol
First time I got high was when this album came out, in middle school. We spent a few weeks listening to these four sides over and over.
Another great track!!... I am really excited to see you react to Nobody's Fault But Mine.... get ready to be totally blown away!! ... just when you think it can't get any better....
I agree they'll dig that a lot, but: Heck, they still gotta LOT of great tracks to wade thru before THAT classic banger comes up in their "Zepathon"!
Thanks!
Something is gonna happen?? LOL. In My Time of Dying is going to happen... Where did the time go?? We got here so fast... Great journey with you guys... the next one is gonna knock your socks off...
Take a deep breath; the next track is gonna wear you out !!! It's just so damn good !!! Having a blast watching you guys discover pure gold ! Can't wait for the next reaction !!
I am just waiting for y’all to hit Kashmir. I hope you’ll love it as much as I do.
This song has swagger, and it’s a song about peace and love. But it does it all while rockin out with your stuff out
Best outro in the LZ arsenal. Still gives me chills.
I think it's their "hippiest" lp. I was in 9th-10th grade and ....man o man
I really love the high quality rock and roll you guys bring to the table! All of it - not just Zep.
Finalllyyyyyyy… track twooooo…. Let’s gooooo
That’s what I love so much about Zeppelin.. every member had their turn to shine.. just amazing on every level…
"I know to trip is just to fall..." I love this song dearly... I used to cover this in one of my high school bands. John Paul Jones, again, really drives this song.
Best album ever and the next song is the one I've been waiting for you guys to hear!!! Prepare to have your lives changed!🤣🤣🤣😉
I've stood in front of the building on the Album cover
Boogie with Stu 🎸 🎹
This album is a monster! Enjoy, fellers.
The play between Plant's voice and Page's guitar during those changes grabs ya.
I took me years to find this track. Never played on the radio. I had family members who were led Fans, and I would try my best to repeat...they had no idea.
This album highlights all 4 of them. It's a collection of old and new material. Some of the tracks were from earlier albums that just didn't make the cut.
There's soaring vocals from Robert, screaming guitar from Jimmy, thunderous drumming from Bonzo and John Paul is laying it all out on bass, keyboards and the mellotron throughout.
"I always knew what it was for" 🤪
THE ROVER!! The best song on the album....if you don't think so, listen to it again and again. It's a sleeper. I love The Rover & Tangerine. Thanks again gentlemen!! 🔥
Love this song. The guitar phrases are just delicious. And that solo, Jesus.
As I’ve said before, this is my favorite Zeppelin album. I must admit that you guys have helped me appreciate it the genius of JPJ even more than I did before, it seems like you sometimes don’t give enough credit to Jimmy Page. I’ve considered him the greatest guitarist ever, and I know he was the driving creative force behind the band. Still, keep up the GREAT work. Appreciate you guys!
He is the greatest guitarist everr!
@@juliemanarin4127 The best
Believe it or not, this song started as an acoustic blues number way back during the sessions for the 3rd album. It would later get worked on during the Houses of the Holy sessions and finally find it's way here. Jimmy has a nice and neat solo while Jonesy's single note bass line beneath the moving guitar riffs give a hint of the direction of a lot of future 80s hits which were played from a rhythm standpoint. Robert's lyrics give a bit of wistfulness of a simpler time where "if we could just join hands" and wonders how "all this squander of earthly plunder will leave us anything to show" and asks "Is the new world rising from the shambles of the old". Only snippets of this was played live; often they'd start this before switching up to play Sick Again (still to come).
I like your description of Jimmy's solo as "nice and neat." It IS clean, and sweetly melodic, with even a, to my ears, plaintive sort of sound at the end, matching nicely what you cite as the "bit of wistfulness" in Robert's lyrics. I've never "researched" them, but have assumed Plant is talking about environmental destruction, and then the "new world rising" is maybe some sort of Aquarian/pre-New Age-ish hippie worldview? And/or maybe war: "And our time is flyin', see the candle burnin' low." We recall the anxiety of impending mushroom clouds then, even as we re-experience such fears now with Ukraine. I also harken back to Ramble On's "in the darkest depths of Mordor" location of his love--here, she's "on the dark side of the globe." Evocative. I also appreciate along with you that JPJ did "what was needed," as it were, and didn't show off like he COULD have. All four have this restraint gene. One of my (many!) fave Zeppelin songs. Surprised it didn't become a "hit." But makes it all the cooler to see that many more people, like La and Che here, discover it.
Jonesy . Do you know him personally
@@joescott8877 Thank you for the message. As far as Robert's lyrics, I'm sure there were many factors that helped shape them. I know that by this point Robert wasn't enjoying how the music scene was changing, the crowd sizes, some of the fan interactions and hangers on that were showing up, and the music business in general, not to mention whatever may have been going on in his personal life. As he mentions in an interview at the time, he missed the style that was around in the "old days" of 1968.
@@henriettaskolnick4445 You're welcome, and this topic reminds me of the book "What You Want is in the Limo" (Title is a line from Bowie's "Fame"). The subtitle is a mile long, but the book examines Zep's, Alice Cooper's, and The Who's 1973 tours, and in the process shows how "Rock" was becoming commoditized and corporate, with fancy light shows and "approved" merch, the sort of things which I think track with Robert's discomfort that you mentioned. I remember it being a pretty good read: "juicy" but not overly gossipy, analytical but not pretentiously so. So anyhow, there's that!
Page and Plant were the ultimate showmen with incredible presence, and talent X 2. Bonzo and mostly Jones were a little more overlooked, though being two of the most amazing musicians that will ever grace your ears. To me, what Jones is doing in this song is phenomenal, you almost don’t notice it unless you are looking for it, but that thumping that he is weaving in throughout the song and throwing in those galloping little runs that fit perfectly. Just an amazing band.
That one section of the song with the guitar in the bass in unison really is amazing in the sense it was many years ahead of its time so to speak. Think about the sounds of bands like The Offspring and when that suddenly sounded really new and powerful and just amazing. This predicted it many years before.
Boom 💥 How can you get better then this 🤔🎵🎶
Next track, that's how, heh.
Love The Rover.. the essence of Zep
I mentioned in a previous reaction that Physical Graffiti seemed to showcase both JPJ's keyboard and bass work as well as Bonzo's grooves were stellar in every track. If you want a drum track you can't forget, wait til In My Time of Dying....
If you want outside the box, wait for In the Light and Trampled Underfoot.....
My favorite on this album. Great reaction!!!
The storm is brewin’….get ready, fellas! 🤘😎🤘