I have to ask you; What was the "astronomical" high price you paid for that ticket back in '77? (Asking because I know there was a time when tickets to even MAJOR acts were what we'd consider today to be absurdly cheap.)
Bonzo got the drum sound by recording the drums on the landing of a set of stairs while the microphones were 20 feet below him. You can really hear it clearly the first two measures of the song. Classic drum intro.
Best B-side: Maggie May - Rod Stewart. Runnerups: Colour My World - Chicago; Silver Springs -Fleetwood Mac; Murder By Numbers - The Police; The Trees - Rush; Tattooed Love Boys - Pretenders; I Saw Her Standing There - The Beatles; Born on the Bayou - Creedence Clearwater Revival; You Can't Always Get What You Want - Rolling Stones.
In the 90’s, I was happy when “The Complete BBC Sessions” was first released because CHOM FM teased “Traveling Riverside Blues” a few times. “Hey Hey What Can I Do” remained elusive until a Vermont day trip had me stumble upon a “CD Backtrax” version of the “Immigrant Song” single with the “B” side track at a record store. I loved both these gems.
I agree with you about Hey, Hey, What Can I Do. It was a great song that deserved it's own release, but I can imagine the record company had it's fingers in the pie about deciding which was released as a single. The first time I heard Swan Song, it was played on KLOS radio when the DJ came on and said 'I'll probably get fired for this, but I think it's time to get the Led out!" which potentially started the phrase "getting the Led out" used by many radio stations from then on. He commenced to play 45 minutes of nothing but Zeppelin and Swan Song was one of the lesser known tracks. He didn't get fired and ended up hosting Zeppelin segments from that day forward, much to the joy of the stations listeners.
Back in 1988 in Las Vegas, they had a daily radio 30 minute show from 10pm - 10:30pm called Get The Led Out. It was on 96.3 KKLZ, where the LZ stands for Led Zeppelin.
I always thought “Hey, Hey What Can I Do” should’ve replaced “Hats Off (To Roy Harper)” to an otherwise perfect album. My favorite LZ album anyway. What’s really disappointing was when they put out “Coda” in 1982, it was a missed opportunity to add that song to the album. “Coda” would’ve been a better album if that song was on there.
Loved your take on the influence of Ten Years Gone to Grunge, great points! My top 5 under appreciated Zep tunes Since I've Been Loving You, Robert's best vocals IMO Boogie with Stu, just a rock boogie blast Your Time is gonna Come. I have felt these lyrics Moby Dick, great rhythm and bass in this one How Many More Times captures what live LZ was all about. Great episode professor!! Hope this one gets a ton of listens. Love you #1 good call
The snippet of "Traveling Riverside" that opens this video sounds like (to my ears), everything that the White Stripes wanted to be when they grew up 😉😉
This was a great episode today with Led Zeppelin and these are some of their songs that are rarely heard Summer Black Mountainside and Traveling River Blues glad that you were talking about them this was another great episode especially about Led Zeppelin thank you and Merry Christmas Professor.🎶🎶📻🎶🎶
Agree with your list Prof. We mortals will never again experience music like this. So glad I was there when the Gods of music walked with us - Led Zeppelin.
Proof that Zepp was indeed the greatest band ever. Just amazing the songs that "didn't make the cut". Thanks Professor. Everybody have an awesome weekend. ❤
One of my best friends introduced me to “Hey, Hey, What Can I Do?” at a time I had no idea that it existed, back in 1995. Three years later I introduced him to “Baby, Come On Home”, which he had never listened to.
Yeah I was already a big fan of Zeppelin the first time I heard Hey Hey on the radio. I thought, "Geez, that sounds just like Zeppelin". but couldn't be them as I owned all their albums. 😂
Hey Adam, fantastic video. I love your comments about your son's friend on Greta Van Fleet. Agree completely that GVF is a good band and wish we had more like them on today's music scene, but literally had to laugh out loud when you declared his criticism to be blasphemy. Right on, Professor. On a different note on Hey Hey What Can I Do, also agree how crazy it is that this was never released on an album or a single in the 70's. But its scarcity added to its appeal, just as you said. I did read recently that one supposed reason was that Jimmy Page had written the lyrics and was somewhat self-conscious of the quality. Any band should welcome such a dilemma. Thank you as always for your channel. You are helping keep rock music alive - something that is so needed.
I have that single with Hey , hey...AND I recall when it got all popular on the radio with the release of the box set. Great exploration of the history Thanks!
I love this channel so much. The Chris Welch book "Dazed and Confused" ( an essay on each LZ song) describes "Hey, What Can I Do?" as seemingly unfinished and Welch kinda disses it. I'm like, Dude! That song is sooooo good. What're you talking about?! I was so happy to get it on the Boxed Set so I could listen to it (pre-internet) whenever I wanted because the radio stations hardly ever played it. Re: 10 Years Gone -- that song can move me to tears. Merry Christmas, Everyone!
Thanks for giving due respect for the, at least imo, greatest band ever. Every one of these guys were required for the magic. PG, wow, when that came out I was 14. My girlfriends older brother had it and I wore it out. I knew right off the bat it was destined to be one of the Greatest albums ever recorded. Just about every song a 10. There is no such thing as better than Zeppelin, as good, I doubt but none better. Again ,thanks for showing the Love !
It's so difficult for me to believe that any of the 5 listed are underrated as they're some of my favorites. I would like to include Rain Song as it doesn't get anywhere near the love it should.
Zeppelin is my absolute FAVORITE band! My love for them even surpassed my father's, who got me hooked so deeply when he gave me that original 4-disc Boxed Set as my Grad-gift from high school! It even topped the 5-disc/2-casette/AM.FM Stereo I got for Graduation, though that *DID* make it a lot easier - and MOAR AWESOME - to listen to! My favorite track is ACHILLES LAST STAND! I think it needs more love! I'm now 50, and my Dad passed away almost 2 years ago. But our joint love for Zeppelin will never fade! He would have loved listening to and watching your videos, Prof! God Bless, and Rock On!
Once again- the great Prof of Rock, Adam TAKING US TO SCHOOL! Man, Im the guy people come to when they want obscure rock trivia…and here you go- absolutely opening up entire lessons of unknown information…I had no idea that Swan Song led to two of those songs…Kashmir, yes, of course, but not the post Zep influences…Ten Years Gone is my favorite Zeppelin song ever, and your takes are spot on. Great work Adam. Merry Christmas!
I love that song they did with the mandolin. I can't remember the name of it. But it used to be one of my favorite songs. " oh now oh now oh now oh now oh, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back" .
I never spent much time on Zeppelin growing up. I had a very good friend who encouraged me to give them a chance a few years ago and I’m so grateful he did. As a huge fan of the grunge movement I can appreciate their influence and have definitely become a fan.
LZ were massive when i was really in to chart music. It' really only this century that i got into them. Of, course, my 19 year old son was ahead of my slow curve and has been an avid fan for at least 7 years now..along with the Who/ Beatles and Floyd. Well raised young man..and pianist : )
You are spot on with Ten Years Gone regarding being an underrated track. I am convinced it is one of the most important tracks because I feel it shows Jimmy’s progression into creating his ultimate masterpiece Kashmir. There are some interesting similarities between the two on tone intention however I disagree with you regarding the grunge connection. I would say Neil Young was by far the most influential on the grunge movement with his hey hey my my
@@ProfessorofRockI understand and not trying to question the Proffesor because you are the man!!! But Kirk did quote Neil in his suicide note…grunge even utilized Neil’s plaid shirt look…just sharing thoughts ! You are my hero for elevating the music that moved me Thanks so much for the channel!
Ten Years Gone has always been my favorite Zeppelin song since I first heard it in the early 80s. The Rover is another great song with a pretty cool story.
Led Zeppelin IS the greatest rock band of all time, the Wilt Chamberlain for rock music (as one guy put it, there two NBA record books, one for Wilt, and one for the rest of the league). Great list PoR. You know how I feel about "Ten Years Gone", about how it got me through some very dark health issues. Still chokes me up (including listening to this vid). If there is a such thing as an underrated Zep tune, this is it. Oh, and great background on these songs.
When I come across someone that doesn’t really know the music of the mighty Zeppelin or they are just a casual fan there are 2 songs I show them: 1. Achilles Last Stand 2. Ten Years Gone It always blows them away!!
Absolutely and it's one that I had definitely under appreciated for a long time as it kind of got lost in the middle of a double album already chock full of epic tunes.
I don't think there is a bad Led Zeppelin song. Many of their deep cuts would be featured tracks for other bands. Even their throw away songs are what many bands dream of writing.
Reflecting on how Jimmy never finished composing "Swan Song" Put Me In Mind of Pete Townsend and how the Who album *Who's Next* threw out of that unfinished project Pete Townsend tried to write about the downfall if rock music called Lifehouse. Regarding "Ten Years Gone", that is a song I know about personally between having explored the Zeppelin catalog record by record back in the spring of 2022 and hearing it covered on TH-cam uploads from Norman's Rare Guitars. As for "Hey Hey What Can I Do", I wouldn't put it past Jimmy and Robert to open up their mouths and said they resisted issuing this song 'just to prove they could'.
"Hey Hey What Can I Do" was on the 1990 box set. It sort of seemed familiar, so radio stations must have played the old B side over the years. I definitely heard it on the radio after the box set came out, and hear it on the local classic rock station from time to time.
I remember ordering Immigrant Song on 45 for Hey Hey and being told by the Wherehouse record store the single was discontinued. I eventually paid $15 of 80s money to buy a Japanese pressing of the single at Tower Records. Shortly after that, Atlantic re-released a standard 45 single, a CD single and a cassette single of it.
agree jimmy page 50th reisuue rolling stone booklet achilles and presence maybe their best record but critics especially r.s. he refused interviews after a while and fans didnt like at first but zep wanted to try a different approach and were pleased how it came out
@ I would love to have an instrumental version of Presence. The music is wonderful on all tracts. Except for Achilles and Tea, Plant is weak. The music is very interesting though, IMO.
I don’t as in my final month of high school in central Pennsylvania in 1979 when the Three Mile island accident happened. I lived about 15 miles away as the crow flies, and we all wondered what the fallout (pun intended) would be. Every day after school I went home and listened to Physical Graffiti, and especially side 3 with In the Light, Down by the Seaside, and Ten Years Gone. I also remember in 1979 not being to get a copy of Hey, Hey What Can I Do? When a Philly fm station had a Zep weekend I cued up my cassette recorder waiting for it to be played so I could record it. Got it on Friday night at 6 pm! Played the hell out if that recording. It’s certainly one of Zep’s great songs.
I remember when it was rare. There was a radio station in my hometown with a copy and they would play it only on Halloween at midnight. I was in 2nd grade when Three Mile Island occurred. I remember it on the news. It was a tragedy for sure. On the bright side, I have a friend from the former USSR with some pretty scary stories about Chernobyl.
I begged my mom and dad to let me go with my brother to the Led Zeppelin concert in their 1975 tour I was 14 and they wouldn’t let me because they thought I was too young! They instead took me to a Mac Davis concert with Captain and Tennille opening up instead! UGH!!!
oH yeah!!! You know this is one of my favorite episodes, I had guessed it would be about zep correctly-I like to do that and have never gotten one wrong in hundreds of episodes. ;) I have a 45 picture disc 'bootleg" of " Hey Hey, What can I do..I paid $25 for it in 1980, the summer i graduated from high school. because i knew it was only available on the b side of Immigrant song. EVen though it was later released, it should be worth some $$ these days. What a great episode, Adam!! TRaveling Riverside blues was my favorite of their previously unreleased stuff
I totally agree with you profess and I am so glad you played that to your sons friend and opened his eyes 👍 I also did that with different types of music with my two sons
Thank you, thank you, thank you, Prof! Ten Years Gone is my all time favourite Led Zep song. It is beautiful and meant so much to me at the time, and still does. It really moves my soul. Wishing you and your family, and the channel family a happy Christmas and a very happy, healthy and prosperous New Year!
I too remember when my dad brought home the Led Zeppelin Remasters box set. He immediately threw on Ten Years Gone. The ghosts have haunted me since. Those discs were in a constant rotation and half the neighborhood would come over just to listen to Zep. Ten Years Gone, for me, is joined by Since I’ve Been Loving You, Achilles Last Stand, That’s the Way, and What is and What Should Never Be as the most under appreciated Zep tunes. More importantly, they remind me of Dad. And how we could just jam out to good music and how excited he was to share music with others. He’s been gone a few years now, but I jam out with him now and again . . .
I’ve commented here before on how I discovered Led Zeppelin on July 4, 1979. Well, I immediately went out and bought Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin II and the fourth album.by years end, I had all 9 albums including the Soundtrack to TSRTS and In Through the Outdoor. An older cousin came over and saw my collection then later gifted me the single Immigrant Song which of course includes Hey, Hey. It’s near impossible to declare the best song(s) or Album from the Zep but one can easier declare their faves. So, mine are; Babe, I’m Gonna Leave You; Thank You; Since I’ve Been Loving You; Hey, Hey, What Can I Do and Ten Years Gone. It isn’t just the music or lyrics but rather because they each mean something to me. Babe’ is the first song I learned to play my last semester of high school 1982. When Plant wails “Baby, baby…” it just grabs me by the nuts and I feel his pain. Thank You’s keyboard and faint, distant guitar intro leaves me yearning and places me at baseball practice in HS when we took a school bus to a practice at a field 20 minutes away. I was newly in love with my HS Sweetheart and I was missing her. Since I’ve Been Loving You is an obvious gutwrencher that IMMEDIATELY floored me. One word: EPITOME!! Hey, Hey’ is a song I learned to play on guitar and my HS sweetheart request I sing to her on her sofa in her front porch (without my guitar). She absolutely LOVED it even though it projects her as a ‘street corner girl’. I mean, could it be more special? I know not!! (She also requested I sing her Freebird, go figure). Ten Years Gone, even though I’d had Physical Graffiti a couple-three years, I paid attention to Trample Underfoot which is followed by Kashmir. Then in 1982, Ten Year Gone floored me. My parents divorced in 1972 and it was 10 years since. The song for me is about my dad. These are my 5 favorite songs I call the all timers. However, there is ONE All Timer, and that is Babe, I’m Gonna Leave You. It’s the standard every poser hair band in the 80’s wanted to match but none could ever do. They all wanted to be that romantic lead with the flowing Plant hair. It’s ironic that you chose two of my five all timers. Cheers.
In the 80s, I specifically sought out the 45 single for Hey Hey. I loved that so song so much that it wasn't until after I got it, I realized Immigrant Song was on there. Lol. That's one 45 I really regret selling and I feel one of their top 5 songs at least.
I've been a Zeppelin fan for decades now. So much of their early stuff was a re-versioning of (or influenced by) blues artists that had come before them. A couple of my favorite songs these days are from "In Thru the Out Door". I'd love to see a break down of the making of "Fool In the Rain" or "Carouselambra" if you haven't done them already.
I got a copy of "In Through The Out Door" in the fall of 1984 when I was 13. A guy who had joined the priesthood gave three milkcrates of records to me because he was going to seminary in Crete. The next summer I was told by the music reporter from my local paper about the color changing inside sleeve. I went home, wetted a sponge and watched it change colors. I look now at how much an original, unwiped copy goes for and want to shriek! And yes, your two song choices from that album are excellent. Both really showcase how much the band was being influenced by Brazilian music. The changes throughout "Carouselambra" are masterful.
When I listened to Zeppelin back in the 70s and 80s, I would listen to the whole album. It was never about getting a hit song. It was about making a great album where all the songs were good, and they flowed effortlessly from one song to the next. Radio stations were too busy playing the BGs
While watching, it’s like I knew what you were going to say before you even said it, Professor!!! Ten Years Gone is my absolute favorite Zep song…definitely heard the pre-Grunge in it along with Hey Hey being my second. LOVE The Firm and Midnight Moonlight! Was listening to some Zep outtakes I found on YT years ago and thought that was where that song came from! 😎🤘🏻
The way the story is told throughout the song is just amazing writing as well. You can relate to bringing a let’s say a known chic to your house or part with your friends. Never near a church tho. 😂😂. Great work as usual Professor
Hey, Hey, What Can I Do quickly jumped into my top 5 Zep songs and is one of my all time favorite summer driving songs. The best acoustic track from their catalogue imo.
I'm happy to hear about a documentary for them! We were so spoiled with great music in their heyday 😊 Plant and Page have remained so good long after those days as well ❤️ Maybe music can reach that high again. It doesn't seem like it's there now but I could be wrong.
I feel, having lived in the rock era from the 50's through the 90's, that each generation owes the previous generations a debit of gratitude and the 50's owe a huge debit to the Blues, because with out the blues rock would not sound the same.
I still feel that there's one led Zeppelin album out there that can still be made out of old material that Jimmy Page has vaulted away. Another amazing video professor. I hope you were able to get my email. I hope next year I can have you on my show. Have a great holiday week
i was what i think of the perfect age for them - quite the passionate young person. there isn't a song by them i don't know - we used to listen to the entire albums back then - not just cuts
Poll: What is your pick for the GREATEST "DEEP TRACK or ALBUM CUT" of all time....Any ARTIST or BAND?
Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
Pet Sounds
Headknocker--Foreigner
"Whale And Wasp" Alice in Chains
Jungleland - Bruce Springsteen
Saw Zep 1977. Security confiscated our camera. Got to go backstage briefly. They were cool. Saw the entire show, 5th row!
Now that's amazing.
I have to ask you; What was the "astronomical" high price you paid for that ticket back in '77?
(Asking because I know there was a time when tickets to even MAJOR acts were what we'd consider today to be absurdly cheap.)
@KENBECKERART I camped overnight in a cold misty parking lot and scored the limit. About $10.00
Have a great weekend! 🎄
I wish we could get that price now! 🤘🏻🎄 Thank you for sharing that story with us! 🤘🏻☃️🎄
The sound they got on When the Levy Breaks is perfect for that song. Guitar, drums, and bass, all sound fantastic.
Cool
Bonzo got the drum sound by recording the drums on the landing of a set of stairs while the microphones were 20 feet below him. You can really hear it clearly the first two measures of the song. Classic drum intro.
I don't like playing spelling police but come on dude this one of Zeppelin's all time classics! It's "Levee". 😉
Levee. Yes.
@dustybrand you are close, but the 2 mics were above Bonham not below.
Led Zeppelin is the greatest rock and roll band of all time
One of the greatest but not the greatest IMHO. I was shocked when I saw how many of their "hits" were covers by other artists. I mean a lot!
Hey Hey What Can I Do is one of my top 2 or 3 Zepp songs of all time.
It's just so great!
Same. I had no idea it was obscure.
Mine as well 👍
Merry Christmas Professor! Thanks for a whole year of gifts on your channel!
Thanks for watching!
Best B-side: Maggie May - Rod Stewart.
Runnerups: Colour My World - Chicago; Silver Springs -Fleetwood Mac; Murder By Numbers - The Police; The Trees - Rush; Tattooed Love Boys - Pretenders; I Saw Her Standing There - The Beatles; Born on the Bayou - Creedence Clearwater Revival; You Can't Always Get What You Want - Rolling Stones.
Thanks!
Unchained Melody - The Righteous Brothers
In the 90’s, I was happy when “The Complete BBC Sessions” was first released because CHOM FM teased “Traveling Riverside Blues” a few times. “Hey Hey What Can I Do” remained elusive until a Vermont day trip had me stumble upon a “CD Backtrax” version of the “Immigrant Song” single with the “B” side track at a record store. I loved both these gems.
THanks!
I agree with you about Hey, Hey, What Can I Do. It was a great song that deserved it's own release, but I can imagine the record company had it's fingers in the pie about deciding which was released as a single. The first time I heard Swan Song, it was played on KLOS radio when the DJ came on and said 'I'll probably get fired for this, but I think it's time to get the Led out!" which potentially started the phrase "getting the Led out" used by many radio stations from then on. He commenced to play 45 minutes of nothing but Zeppelin and Swan Song was one of the lesser known tracks. He didn't get fired and ended up hosting Zeppelin segments from that day forward, much to the joy of the stations listeners.
Thanks for sharing!
Back in 1988 in Las Vegas, they had a daily radio 30 minute show from 10pm - 10:30pm called Get The Led Out. It was on 96.3 KKLZ, where the LZ stands for Led Zeppelin.
I always thought “Hey, Hey What Can I Do” should’ve replaced “Hats Off (To Roy Harper)” to an otherwise perfect album. My favorite LZ album anyway. What’s really disappointing was when they put out “Coda” in 1982, it was a missed opportunity to add that song to the album. “Coda” would’ve been a better album if that song was on there.
yes!! I've always despised that tune, and there are only 4 zep tunes i won't listen to..that one being the #1
I have to agree. Classic.
@@TheZeplinfan I tend to agree.
I agree about Harper especially since Custard Pie on Physical graffiti seems like a "plugged" and completed version.
Hats off is one of my favorites
I think "The Battle of Evermore" is very underrated. It's such a majestic song.
Amen!
Heart does a great cover of this one.
Loved your take on the influence of Ten Years Gone to Grunge, great points!
My top 5 under appreciated Zep tunes
Since I've Been Loving You, Robert's best vocals IMO
Boogie with Stu, just a rock boogie blast
Your Time is gonna Come. I have felt these lyrics
Moby Dick, great rhythm and bass in this one
How Many More Times captures what live LZ was all about.
Great episode professor!! Hope this one gets a ton of listens. Love you #1 good call
Led Zepplin is amazing with their variety of sound and music that sounds as fresh today as it did 50 years ago.
Thanks!
Led Zeppelin Presence album is AMAZING
Yes!
Tangerine off LZ3 is a gem also.
Cool!
You beat me to it!
That Box Set is one of mr favorite Xmas gifts ever!
Awesome!
Mine too!
The snippet of "Traveling Riverside" that opens this video sounds like (to my ears), everything that the White Stripes wanted to be when they grew up 😉😉
So true!
This was a great episode today with Led Zeppelin and these are some
of their songs that are rarely heard Summer Black Mountainside and
Traveling River Blues glad that you were talking about them this was
another great episode especially about Led Zeppelin thank you and
Merry Christmas Professor.🎶🎶📻🎶🎶
Thanks Roger! Merry Christmas!
Agree with your list Prof. We mortals will never again experience music like this. So glad I was there when the Gods of music walked with us - Led Zeppelin.
Amen!
Proof that Zepp was indeed the greatest band ever. Just amazing the songs that "didn't make the cut".
Thanks Professor.
Everybody have an awesome weekend. ❤
you too Roger.
Thanks Roger!
You too as well Roger
You too, Roger and a merry Christmas to all!
Ten Years Gone is my favorite Zeppelin song. It is the definition of epic.
One of my best friends introduced me to “Hey, Hey, What Can I Do?” at a time I had no idea that it existed, back in 1995. Three years later I introduced him to “Baby, Come On Home”, which he had never listened to.
Cool!
Yeah I was already a big fan of Zeppelin the first time I heard Hey Hey on the radio. I thought, "Geez, that sounds just like Zeppelin". but couldn't be them as I owned all their albums. 😂
To quote Perry Farrell: "Led Zeppelin rocked!"
Yes indeed!
What they did to rock music can’t be overstated. Wow.
For sure!
Great that you threw in a sample of "Down By The Seaside" 13:40..One of my favorite deep cuts of all time!!
So good!
Hey Adam, fantastic video. I love your comments about your son's friend on Greta Van Fleet. Agree completely that GVF is a good band and wish we had more like them on today's music scene, but literally had to laugh out loud when you declared his criticism to be blasphemy. Right on, Professor.
On a different note on Hey Hey What Can I Do, also agree how crazy it is that this was never released on an album or a single in the 70's. But its scarcity added to its appeal, just as you said. I did read recently that one supposed reason was that Jimmy Page had written the lyrics and was somewhat self-conscious of the quality. Any band should welcome such a dilemma.
Thank you as always for your channel. You are helping keep rock music alive - something that is so needed.
Midnight Moonlight. One of my top favorite songs of all time.
Yes!
The Firm was such a powerhouse. "Satisfaction Guaranteed" rules.
I have that single with Hey , hey...AND I recall when it got all popular on the radio with the release of the box set. Great exploration of the history Thanks!
"Which of the other songs should I cover on here?" well there is only one correct answer.... "all of them" Nice video Prof.
Thanks!
Led Zeppelin really got me into playing guitar and I loved playing anything from Physical Graffiti. Great tunes, great times. Cheers
As a rabid fan in my youth,discovering the Japanese import 45 of hey hey … melted my brain!
YEs!
As soon as I saw the title I thought swan song!! Bonham was monstrous again!!
yes!
I love this channel so much.
The Chris Welch book "Dazed and Confused" ( an essay on each LZ song) describes "Hey, What Can I Do?" as seemingly unfinished and Welch kinda disses it. I'm like, Dude! That song is sooooo good. What're you talking about?! I was so happy to get it on the Boxed Set so I could listen to it (pre-internet) whenever I wanted because the radio stations hardly ever played it.
Re: 10 Years Gone -- that song can move me to tears.
Merry Christmas, Everyone!
Thanks for giving due respect for the, at least imo, greatest band ever. Every one of these guys were required for the magic. PG, wow, when that came out I was 14. My girlfriends older brother had it and I wore it out. I knew right off the bat it was destined to be one of the Greatest albums ever recorded. Just about every song a 10. There is no such thing as better than Zeppelin, as good, I doubt but none better. Again ,thanks for showing the Love !
Love, LOVE the grunge connection ❤
Thanks Craig!
The vocal melody on ‘If it keeps on raining’ is clearly repurposed in ‘Black Country Woman’ on Physical Graffiti
I totally hear it now that you mention it. Thanks for the observation! It's not everyday that a Zeppelin nerd like myself gets a new take.
It's so difficult for me to believe that any of the 5 listed are underrated as they're some of my favorites. I would like to include Rain Song as it doesn't get anywhere near the love it should.
I agree!
Jimmy's tuning and chord voicings are brilliant, I love Rain Song.
Zeppelin is my absolute FAVORITE band! My love for them even surpassed my father's, who got me hooked so deeply when he gave me that original 4-disc Boxed Set as my Grad-gift from high school! It even topped the 5-disc/2-casette/AM.FM Stereo I got for Graduation, though that *DID* make it a lot easier - and MOAR AWESOME - to listen to!
My favorite track is ACHILLES LAST STAND! I think it needs more love!
I'm now 50, and my Dad passed away almost 2 years ago. But our joint love for Zeppelin will never fade! He would have loved listening to and watching your videos, Prof! God Bless, and Rock On!
Very cool!
Once again- the great Prof of Rock, Adam TAKING US TO SCHOOL! Man, Im the guy people come to when they want obscure rock trivia…and here you go- absolutely opening up entire lessons of unknown information…I had no idea that Swan Song led to two of those songs…Kashmir, yes, of course, but not the post Zep influences…Ten Years Gone is my favorite Zeppelin song ever, and your takes are spot on. Great work Adam. Merry Christmas!
I love that song they did with the mandolin. I can't remember the name of it. But it used to be one of my favorite songs.
" oh now oh now oh now oh now oh, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back" .
Going to California?
"Battle Of Evermore". It was their duet with Marianne Faithful.
Battle of Evermore on LZ IV
I never spent much time on Zeppelin growing up. I had a very good friend who encouraged me to give them a chance a few years ago and I’m so grateful he did. As a huge fan of the grunge movement I can appreciate their influence and have definitely become a fan.
LZ were massive when i was really in to chart music. It' really only this century that i got into them. Of, course, my 19 year old son was ahead of my slow curve and has been an avid fan for at least 7 years now..along with the Who/ Beatles and Floyd. Well raised young man..and pianist : )
YOu're doing it right!
You are spot on with Ten Years Gone regarding being an underrated track. I am convinced it is one of the most important tracks because I feel it shows Jimmy’s progression into creating his ultimate masterpiece Kashmir. There are some interesting similarities between the two on tone intention however I disagree with you regarding the grunge connection. I would say Neil Young was by far the most influential on the grunge movement with his hey hey my my
The proof is in the song. Every one of those bands cites LZ. Only one cites Young.
@@ProfessorofRockI understand and not trying to question the Proffesor because you are the man!!!
But Kirk did quote Neil in his suicide note…grunge even utilized Neil’s plaid shirt look…just sharing thoughts !
You are my hero for elevating the music that moved me
Thanks so much for the channel!
Can't wait for the Becoming Led Zeppelin doc, coming to theaters in February!
I'm so stoked.
Ten Years Gone has always been my favorite Zeppelin song since I first heard it in the early 80s. The Rover is another great song with a pretty cool story.
Led Zeppelin IS the greatest rock band of all time, the Wilt Chamberlain for rock music (as one guy put it, there two NBA record books, one for Wilt, and one for the rest of the league). Great list PoR. You know how I feel about "Ten Years Gone", about how it got me through some very dark health issues. Still chokes me up (including listening to this vid). If there is a such thing as an underrated Zep tune, this is it. Oh, and great background on these songs.
Thanks Greg! This one's for you! I personally dedicate it to you!
@@ProfessorofRockthanks PoR. Oh, I still have a 45 of "Hey, Hey What Can I Do". Always loved the song when it can on the radio.
When I come across someone that doesn’t really know the music of the mighty Zeppelin or they are just a casual fan there are 2 songs I show them:
1. Achilles Last Stand
2. Ten Years Gone
It always blows them away!!
Amen!
Ten years gone is one of their best songs in every way!
definitely!! always in my top 5 zep tunes!
Amen!
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Absolutely and it's one that I had definitely under appreciated for a long time as it kind of got lost in the middle of a double album already chock full of epic tunes.
I feel one of Zeppelin's very underrated songs is, "That's The Way" off Zeppelin 3.
❤❤❤ LED Zeppelin memories with my oldest brother.
Great episode! All of those songs are on my playlist. I remember finding these in the past and being more impressed with Zeppelin than ever before
Cool!
I don't think there is a bad Led Zeppelin song. Many of their deep cuts would be featured tracks for other bands. Even their throw away songs are what many bands dream of writing.
LZ best rock band ever. They are untouchable
Amen!
for sure!!
Can never go wrong with Led Zeppelin. The greatest rock band of all time!
Amen!
The greatest cover band maybe.. Zeppelin couldn't touch Roth era Van Halen no one could..
@BlueberryStinkFinger62 really? 😂
My favorite top 5
1 Thank you
2 10 years gone
3 In the evening
4 Hey hey what can I do
5 Ramble on
Reflecting on how Jimmy never finished composing "Swan Song" Put Me In Mind of Pete Townsend and how the Who album *Who's Next* threw out of that unfinished project Pete Townsend tried to write about the downfall if rock music called Lifehouse. Regarding "Ten Years Gone", that is a song I know about personally between having explored the Zeppelin catalog record by record back in the spring of 2022 and hearing it covered on TH-cam uploads from Norman's Rare Guitars. As for "Hey Hey What Can I Do", I wouldn't put it past Jimmy and Robert to open up their mouths and said they resisted issuing this song 'just to prove they could'.
Thanks Eric! Awesome!
Thanks for the connection between zeppelin and grunge
You got it.
"Hey Hey What Can I Do" was on the 1990 box set. It sort of seemed familiar, so radio stations must have played the old B side over the years. I definitely heard it on the radio after the box set came out, and hear it on the local classic rock station from time to time.
Yes!
it got regular play here in Columbus Ohio all the time!
I remember ordering Immigrant Song on 45 for Hey Hey and being told by the Wherehouse record store the single was discontinued. I eventually paid $15 of 80s money to buy a Japanese pressing of the single at Tower Records. Shortly after that, Atlantic re-released a standard 45 single, a CD single and a cassette single of it.
@@TheZeplinfan QFM96?
Personally I think achilles is a total monster of a track
Highly underrated. Such a driving beat. "Achillies Last Stand."
Their best song!!!
agree jimmy page 50th reisuue rolling stone booklet achilles and presence maybe their best record but critics especially r.s. he refused interviews after a while and fans didnt like at first but zep wanted to try a different approach and were pleased how it came out
@ I would love to have an instrumental version of Presence. The music is wonderful on all tracts. Except for Achilles and Tea, Plant is weak. The music is very interesting though, IMO.
One of my favorite sonds on Zep I is "Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You." I would love to hear more about this classic.
Hey, Hey is my favorite Zeppelin song. Glad it is getting a spotlight here.
So great!
I don’t as in my final month of high school in central Pennsylvania in 1979 when the Three Mile island accident happened. I lived about 15 miles away as the crow flies, and we all wondered what the fallout (pun intended) would be. Every day after school I went home and listened to Physical Graffiti, and especially side 3 with In the Light, Down by the Seaside, and Ten Years Gone. I also remember in 1979 not being to get a copy of Hey, Hey What Can I Do? When a Philly fm station had a Zep weekend I cued up my cassette recorder waiting for it to be played so I could record it. Got it on Friday night at 6 pm! Played the hell out if that recording. It’s certainly one of Zep’s great songs.
I remember when it was rare. There was a radio station in my hometown with a copy and they would play it only on Halloween at midnight.
I was in 2nd grade when Three Mile Island occurred. I remember it on the news. It was a tragedy for sure. On the bright side, I have a friend from the former USSR with some pretty scary stories about Chernobyl.
I begged my mom and dad to let me go with my brother to the Led Zeppelin concert in their 1975 tour
I was 14 and they wouldn’t let me because they thought I was too young!
They instead took me to a Mac Davis concert with Captain and Tennille opening up instead!
UGH!!!
Ouch
Oh no! Thanks for sharing!
lol Love will keep us together was the first 45 I ever bought!! 7th grade!! what was I thinking?!!!!
Imagine trying to convince parents to let you go see The Who 5 days after Cincinnati. Talk about a tough sell.
@@russellburgess684 that would be a hard sell!!!
On every rock radio station's top 100 songs countdown #1 is always Stairway to Freebird.
Yes.
oH yeah!!! You know this is one of my favorite episodes, I had guessed it would be about zep correctly-I like to do that and have never gotten one wrong in hundreds of episodes. ;) I have a 45 picture disc 'bootleg" of " Hey Hey, What can I do..I paid $25 for it in 1980, the summer i graduated from high school. because i knew it was only available on the b side of Immigrant song. EVen though it was later released, it should be worth some $$ these days. What a great episode, Adam!! TRaveling Riverside blues was my favorite of their previously unreleased stuff
I totally agree with you profess and I am so glad you played that to your sons friend and opened his eyes 👍 I also did that with different types of music with my two sons
THanks!
Thanks for the heads up on the documentary.
Great show today.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, Prof! Ten Years Gone is my all time favourite Led Zep song. It is beautiful and meant so much to me at the time, and still does. It really moves my soul.
Wishing you and your family, and the channel family a happy Christmas and a very happy, healthy and prosperous New Year!
Thanks you! a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you as well!
I too remember when my dad brought home the Led Zeppelin Remasters box set. He immediately threw on Ten Years Gone. The ghosts have haunted me since.
Those discs were in a constant rotation and half the neighborhood would come over just to listen to Zep.
Ten Years Gone, for me, is joined by Since I’ve Been Loving You, Achilles Last Stand, That’s the Way, and What is and What Should Never Be as the most under appreciated Zep tunes.
More importantly, they remind me of Dad. And how we could just jam out to good music and how excited he was to share music with others. He’s been gone a few years now, but I jam out with him now and again . . .
Awesome memories to be able to relive through the music
Getting the Led out!
Indeed!
I can't rave too much about Ten Years Gone...one of my all time favorites!
Hey Hey is great. Hootie and the Blowfish did a great cover of it.
Yes, I remember that!
I’ve commented here before on how I discovered Led Zeppelin on July 4, 1979. Well, I immediately went out and bought Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin II and the fourth album.by years end, I had all 9 albums including the Soundtrack to TSRTS and In Through the Outdoor. An older cousin came over and saw my collection then later gifted me the single Immigrant Song which of course includes Hey, Hey. It’s near impossible to declare the best song(s) or Album from the Zep but one can easier declare their faves. So, mine are; Babe, I’m Gonna Leave You; Thank You; Since I’ve Been Loving You; Hey, Hey, What Can I Do and Ten Years Gone. It isn’t just the music or lyrics but rather because they each mean something to me. Babe’ is the first song I learned to play my last semester of high school 1982. When Plant wails “Baby, baby…” it just grabs me by the nuts and I feel his pain. Thank You’s keyboard and faint, distant guitar intro leaves me yearning and places me at baseball practice in HS when we took a school bus to a practice at a field 20 minutes away. I was newly in love with my HS Sweetheart and I was missing her. Since I’ve Been Loving You is an obvious gutwrencher that IMMEDIATELY floored me. One word: EPITOME!! Hey, Hey’ is a song I learned to play on guitar and my HS sweetheart request I sing to her on her sofa in her front porch (without my guitar). She absolutely LOVED it even though it projects her as a ‘street corner girl’. I mean, could it be more special? I know not!! (She also requested I sing her Freebird, go figure). Ten Years Gone, even though I’d had Physical Graffiti a couple-three years, I paid attention to Trample Underfoot which is followed by Kashmir. Then in 1982, Ten Year Gone floored me. My parents divorced in 1972 and it was 10 years since. The song for me is about my dad. These are my 5 favorite songs I call the all timers. However, there is ONE All Timer, and that is Babe, I’m Gonna Leave You. It’s the standard every poser hair band in the 80’s wanted to match but none could ever do. They all wanted to be that romantic lead with the flowing Plant hair. It’s ironic that you chose two of my five all timers. Cheers.
In the 80s, I specifically sought out the 45 single for Hey Hey. I loved that so song so much that it wasn't until after I got it, I realized Immigrant Song was on there. Lol. That's one 45 I really regret selling and I feel one of their top 5 songs at least.
I've been a Zeppelin fan for decades now. So much of their early stuff was a re-versioning of (or influenced by) blues artists that had come before them. A couple of my favorite songs these days are from "In Thru the Out Door". I'd love to see a break down of the making of "Fool In the Rain" or "Carouselambra" if you haven't done them already.
THankS. Love your screen name!
I got a copy of "In Through The Out Door" in the fall of 1984 when I was 13. A guy who had joined the priesthood gave three milkcrates of records to me because he was going to seminary in Crete. The next summer I was told by the music reporter from my local paper about the color changing inside sleeve. I went home, wetted a sponge and watched it change colors. I look now at how much an original, unwiped copy goes for and want to shriek!
And yes, your two song choices from that album are excellent. Both really showcase how much the band was being influenced by Brazilian music. The changes throughout "Carouselambra" are masterful.
HEY, HEY, WHAT CAN I DO blew me away when I heard it on the box set.
Awesome!
When I listened to Zeppelin back in the 70s and 80s, I would listen to the whole album. It was never about getting a hit song. It was about making a great album where all the songs were good, and they flowed effortlessly from one song to the next. Radio stations were too busy playing the BGs
Very cool!
While watching, it’s like I knew what you were going to say before you even said it, Professor!!! Ten Years Gone is my absolute favorite Zep song…definitely heard the pre-Grunge in it along with Hey Hey being my second. LOVE The Firm and Midnight Moonlight! Was listening to some Zep outtakes I found on YT years ago and thought that was where that song came from! 😎🤘🏻
The way the story is told throughout the song is just amazing writing as well. You can relate to bringing a let’s say a known chic to your house or part with your friends. Never near a church tho. 😂😂. Great work as usual Professor
Thanks!
How can you have a legit greatest rock band of all time contest and not have Lynyrd Skynyrd on the list. They would reach the top. Unreal!
My favorite Zepp song is which ever one is playing
Every time one of these unreleased tracks found their way onto my or my friend's stereo we would celebrate so hard
So cool!
My own 5 would deffo include 10 years gone as well as Thank You,That's The Way,Tangerine and Babe i'm Gonna Leave You,Faberge Egg grade songs.
B side. Funny only thee Gen X gets that . And who can’t forget those 8- tracks too .
All Great Led Zeppelin songs
Thanks!
Ten Years Gone is my favorite song from my favorite band... well done
You are dead right on about Ten Years Gone being an under appreciated masterpiece. 👍
Hey, Hey, What Can I Do quickly jumped into my top 5 Zep songs and is one of my all time favorite summer driving songs. The best acoustic track from their catalogue imo.
FOr sure!
I'm happy to hear about a documentary for them! We were so spoiled with great music in their heyday 😊 Plant and Page have remained so good long after those days as well ❤️ Maybe music can reach that high again. It doesn't seem like it's there now but I could be wrong.
I know what you mean!
Love the shirt Prof! Roll .38!!!!🤘
Thanks!
I feel, having lived in the rock era from the 50's through the 90's, that each generation owes the previous generations a debit of gratitude and the 50's owe a huge debit to the Blues, because with out the blues rock would not sound the same.
Amen!
Professor, you could do a show about the top 5 artists that have the words "together and forever" in their lyrics and I'd be locked in!
You could almost do a drinking game out of them.
'hey hey' is my favorite LZ song to play on guitar!
My favorite song in this list is the Lemon Song.
Yes!
Got a whole lot of love! 😃
I still feel that there's one led Zeppelin album out there that can still be made out of old material that Jimmy Page has vaulted away. Another amazing video professor. I hope you were able to get my email.
I hope next year I can have you on my show. Have a great holiday week
Same to you! Thanks for watching!
Ten Years Gone is by far their greatest songwriting achievement.
"Hey, Hey What Can I Do" is among my favorite Led Zepplin songs and it is not even on any of their original studio albums.
No kidding!
“Fire” could have been massive for Zeppelin
i was what i think of the perfect age for them - quite the passionate young person. there isn't a song by them i don't know - we used to listen to the entire albums back then - not just cuts