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When your fire a machine gun, its short bursts to stop the barrel overheating.... Its important.... Then you have Bonzo on Achillies Last Stand who just throws that idea right out of the window, over 10 minutes non stop like an absolute machine gun!
@@stevebalun9554 so I was 18 when Led Zepplin came out. I'm not sure why you made that comment. musically speaking the Aristocrats are much better musicians to a man.
There would be no Tool without Led Zeppelin. Tool is very good. Led Zeppelin was otherworldly with a musical range and diversity that is basically unequaled.
Agree ! No matter what I listen to, I will keep coming back to Zep... they move me like no other...ever Timeless and otherworldly... I live in many lifetimes and universes in their music
Danny Carey, like so many other of the great modern drummers are all disciples of John Bonham. Including myself. Led Zeppelin sold 300 million albums.@poloreacts27
This is just incredible! Incredible! I love all of their music . Please react to their song, In the Evening! I play it while driving along the Washington State coast!
@rexsephe you're right, Zeppelin never made a country album 🤣 I kid, I kid. Still, there's a lot of overlap between the two. Ween is the spiritual successor of Zep. Both took well established genres and bent them to their will to make them uniquely their own. Both have lead singers with incredible range and lead guitarists who can improvise a song so it never sounds the same way twice. Both have an incredibly talented rhythm section that doesn't get enough credit. Both are completely different bands when you compare their live and studio sets. Hell, I took my buddy, who is himself a professional jazz/orchestral piano player, and had never heard of them before, to one of their shows. I asked him what he thought after, and he said he felt like he just watched 5 different bands at once. Ween is just one of the last vestiges of the axiom of "Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it." They're pushing their 60's, and can still lay down this kinda performance th-cam.com/video/gm4AFZJ_lwQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=bilLbrNe9cYU0SgS If you dive deep into their live catalog and B-sides, you'll get where I'm coming from. Ween and Zep are my #1 and #2 favorites of all time precisely because they are so unique.
❤me too. We were so lucky to be alive & old enough to appreciate that talent...& the hair, that blonde(/brown hair!) It just added to that superstardom!
Dude, don’t sweat it a bit.. no harm- no foul. Of course people will wanna correct you in the comments, but no big deal really. They just wanna make sure ya got those details straight is all, some of em need to learn to not take it too personal though. I always reminded my friends I wasn’t born knowing all this music, it took time to hear it, and even more time to figure out which stuff I liked best. Sometimes, I would have to wait to get around to certain bands later cause I realized I was so heavily into another kind of groove that I wasn’t ready to really change it up just yet. Some of my favorite bands ever are bands I didn’t like at first just cause I needed louder faster to match my spiked adrenaline levels. Over time, all those finer details fall into place the more familiar we are with a band and their music.
@@CANDOKNOWHOW Agreed, much of the fun of music (besides just listening) is learning new music and expanding your ability to really hear new music. Best I think to approach it without self imposed limitations and really be willing to explore.
You have to understand, Bonham's not just cosidered one of the greatest rock drummers, but one of the greatest drummers of all time. His natural swing, feel, in the cracks playing, chops, facility, etc, is on the very highest level, and revered by drummers of all backgrounds.
@@charliejonas4609 Jealous like Towsnend, understandably so. They are both legendary, but Zeppelin blew everybody's socks off and attracted a lot of the spotlight..
@@davidanon1568you can't just tell him about a song he should check out. Are you insane? Don't you know you have to be a paying subscriber. We are slum TH-cam™ 👈👈👈👈👈
Greatest band of all time. But, Neal Peart is the greatest drummer of all time. And he was doing it while Bonham was still playing, and he kept getting better.
Hmm...I wouldn't say that. It's an absolute masterpiece, but for a lot of fans, their favorites are the bluse-y early tracks like How Many More Times, Dazed and Confused, and Since I Been Loving You. That being said, noone cand deny that this song is f-ing incredible.The beauty of Led Zeppelin is in the diversity of their catalogue. I bet I'm not the only true fan who can't decide on a favorite song. So many are equally good, yet different.
Fun fact: Like on "Black Dog" and "Nobody's Fault But Mine," this song features John Paul Jones on an eight-string bass, meaning he's playing two strings for every one note, generating two notes. Which is why, the bottom end of this track, as well as the others I mentioned, is so huge. Jonesy HAS to use an eight-string bass on some of the tracks to provide more support and frequency spread when Jimmy solos. Fun fact on all the guitar work - Jimmy cut ALL the overdubs - and the guitar solo - in ONE NIGHT. What you're hearing as far as guitar work would easily take the average guitarist of the time, with the technology they had, several days of work in the studio. They were so pushed back for time on this album that Jimmy did all the overdubs and the solo in one night - and all the other solos and overdubs for the other tracks on one other night. Thats HOURS AND HOURS worth of work in about 20% of the time, when they only had analog and couldn't move this stuff around on computers like they can now. And every guitar overdub you hear that has a harmony? Jimmy overdubbed the harmony line, too. Between the rhythm bed tracks, all the overdubs, the solos and Jonesy's eight-string bass, this track probably contains more guitar work on it than any other Led Zeppelin track ever recorded. And most of it done in one night. Pagey called it his "guitar army" concept, and he's done it on several cuts - but this one had the highest count! Badassery abounds here! Thank you for sharing this!
Great comments on this iconic band. EACH member was an amazing musician individually. The first “super-group” really. When I listen to them, I sort of understand why they didn’t continue without Bonham. A huge piece of their magic. They can still play the music, but it’ll never be the same as their original and live recordings. They were so good back then, it pissed off many bands badly, especially English bands. I think it was Roger Daltry I read an interview from who said he hated Zepplin and that Jimmy stole his ideas. Daltry is iconic in his own right, but he could never have pulled off anything close to Zepplin.
Robert Plant (the vocalist) has a podcast and talked about this track. He described it as: “a song you don’t want to be alone in a room with…” The intensity is relentless… to me it feels like an epic battle, JPJ’s galloping bass is like a charging cavalry, Bonzo’s snare drum is like a heavy machine gun, and his crash cymbals are the flashes of artillery explosions. And of course squadron of overdubbed guitar tracks, that Page even referred to as his “army of guitars” soars over the top like attack helicopters or fighter jets… The song is amazing, but it is also unsettling and exhausting in a way. It makes no effort to hold the listener’s hand. I love it.
This is amazing. Robert has never been my favourite part of LZ, not to say that he wasn't amazing because the band would obviously not have been the same without him, but I would love to hear more of what he has to say today. Going to go find that podcast! Thanks
Robert Plant sings at the tempo of badass, he never changes. I think that one of the reasons why they are so good is that they are so intensely aware of each other and the timing that they can individually go off and because they give each other that space it’s magic.
John Paul Jones was the secret weapon the Led Zeppelin had. The bass, organ, mandolin he was outstanding. I seen them at Madison Sq Garden and he played the mandolin on Going to California " . I was blown away by his skill and just the way he sat there and kept up with the other like nothing. No stress, never missed a beat
I am 62. I feel every bit as impacted by music as you do. I feel chills. I listen to 50 reactors. I especially enjoy the reactors that have never heard Led Zeppelin. It is like reliving the first time I heard them. Such special music. Such a special time the 60's/70's was. Love your reactions Polo. 🙂🙂
I'm 61 and I agree with you. Watching first time reactions is great fun. I have heard many of my own favorite songs 100;s of times by watching first listen reactions.
Studio Led Zep is always better than live. Jimmy Page knew how to arrange and overlay tone colors they couldn’t reproduce live. Sound systems for live use weren’t as good as today. Many 70s bands sucked live because the live sound just wasn’t good enough yet.
The power of this song is so strong it is almost the song is beating you up in the most beautiful way. Like a Viking god is giving you a motorcycle ride and you feel fearless
When I am riding my motorcycle thought the mountains and this songs comes on. It becomes a very Dangerous ride. The beat gets you going so fast as the music come thought the head phones in my helmet. But I love every minuet of it.
This is BETTER than any live version I've heard. There's all the raw live energy you could want, immaculate clean production and performances, the guitar and vocal overdubs, thundering drums, Robert's howls (yes, it's Robert singing), and Jimmy could never quite capture that monster riff in the solo live - I wait for it every time. Perfection. There's just no way to quite recapture this live. One of the greatest tracks ever recorded, period.
Bonzo's drumming is lights out on this track, but that's pretty much all of his tracks ! The tuning of his drums are immaculate. His speed, power, finesse, touch, feel and precision are otherworldly. Led Zeppelin's intruments fluidly switch between 4/4 timing to 5/4 timing and back and forth throughout. It's a 10:26 long barrage of a relentless instrument pummeling and vocal eargasms. John Paul Jones brought an eight stringed Hagstrom H8 bass to their rehearsal sessions and Jimmy Page first declared: "I'm not going to play to that !" Jones rehearsed with eight string Hagstrom anyways and Jimmy Page realized how great it sounded. So Jones recorded this song and Nobody's Fault, but Mine on his eight stringed Hagstrom. Jonesy switched to a four stringed Alembic Series II bass and an eight string Bruce Becvar made Triple Omega 8 from their 1977 tour onward all the way through to their final tour in 1980. Robert was injured in car accident on the Greek island of Rhodes and shattered his ankle and leg in multiple places on Aug 4th, 1975. He recorded all of his parts from a wheelchair. They had to cancel their summer American stadium tour of 1975. Then set out to record this album in late 1975 and released it on March 31st, 1976. Page's guitar work is absolutely amazing as per usual.
When the lyrics start with "It was an April morning when they told us we should go," you don't know where that is, but you are definitely on board for the next ten minutes.
Considering the fact that, at this point in time, Robert Plant was wheelchair bound from a car crash, Jimmy Page was deep into heroin use and John Bonham was struggling with alcoholism - this track is a minor miracle....correction...major miracle.
It's amazing when you think that this music came out of the 1970s, almost 50 years ago. They really trail-blazed and did their own thing, like they said in the lyrics to No Quarter, they chose the path where no one goes.
Always remember Bonham only used a single base. They didn’t have double pumpers back in then. He was the drummer that all new drummers were inspired by.
Led zeppelin best band they sold over 400 million records what does that tell you that they probably sold more but for tax reasons they kept on a hush the best in every department there is no one like them and there popularity keeps growing Led zeppelin you guys are the goats of rock and roll
I've always thought that iron maiden was strongly inspired by this song to develop their style, specially the way Jonhy Paul Jones plays the bass. When this song came out Steve Harris was 20 years old, I can clearly see him listening to this album and saying eureka.
Presence, the beginning of the end, was recorded in just 18 days and Page made all the arrangements in a single night. The group was going through delicate moments, tax exile, Robert's accident, which he recorded in a wheelchair, everything was difficult, but they were eager. Achilles Last Stand is possibly the last great classic. I LOVE
This song truly is a monumental achievement. They all were struggling with demons , and slowly losing. The fact that they could pull this off in a fragile state is a phenomenal achievement. 🔥
Glad you listened to the studio version. It's so much better than the live version in this case. Not even comparable in my opinion. Live, they played twice as fast as they should have. And the solo in the studio version is masterful!
EXACTLY how I felt about it.. just a damn shame anyone would recommend the Live version first. 🙄 A listener is just being cheated by doing that because they don’t really even know the song they’re hearing first. Sure, it’s a phenomenal performance, and yeah.. Bonzo totally goes off. But the sound is subpar, especially compared to the studio, not to mention the fact that they couldn’t reproduce the amazing guitar overdubs that make up the “call and response” guitar solo we all know and love from the studio version. The biggest frustration though, is the increased uptempo pacing that makes the whole thing feel rushed, like they had somewhere else to be and just wanted to hammer on through the set to get back on the bus.
Yes! ☝🏻 LZ were a studio band and to replicate that sound live would require more musicians on stage which LZ wasn’t interested in. The result is most of their live performances are a different version of the song because it can’t be replicated live. Too many reactors go for the live version first to have visuals but miss out on the true magic recorded in the studio by great bands like LZ! Thanks Polo for typically reacting to studio versions first. 👍🏻
Its the muted clicking of John Paul Jones bass strings as he’s using his pick to create that gallup sound. It syncs with the drums and gives you the feeling of riding a horse.
That tracks for me.. I can hear it, always have loved it. Though we always just called em muted notes, yet clicks works just as well and even kinda describes the sound of a muted note. Not a real common approach back then, but I think surely inspired the likes of “Barracuda” by Heart, as well as a lot of other notable rock and metal bands..
This is one of the reasons I took up the drums.. i used to walk to and from school listening to this, and to this day, Bonhams playing is nothing but sensational. His feel is unbelievable, the drive throughout the song, the dynamics... even his choices (the little rat---tat-tat into the second verse but WITHOUT a crash. Genius. So much tension).. By this point Bonham was unfortunately struggling with alcohol problems, and even then, he supposedly only took 3 takes to pull this off.. just unreal. His death was a loss to music, as we can only imagine where his playing might have gone to. RIP John Henry Bonham.
Trivia: the legendary Robert Plant sang this track while on wheelchair, for he was recovering from a car accident that he had before recording this underrated album.
❤️🔥 Bonzo sounds like bullets and butterflies. His and JPJ’s rhythm are “The mighty arms of Atlas hold(ing) the heavens from the earth.” Jimmy’s guitar overlays in the intro and outro are like opening and closing the book of Achilles’ Last Stand. Robert’s guttural cries are the spirit of Achilles himself. ❤️🔥 I’m sweating too just thinking of what to write! Just thanks so much. I knew you’d appreciate this.
First time I heard this was when a BBC radio DJ named Alan Freeman premiered the album on BBC Radio 1, before the album came out. We were all anticipating the new album from Zeppelin but had no idea what to expect. My friends and I huddled around a crappy mono radio and waited to hear it. Can you imagine what we thought? It came crackling out of that little radio in mono and we were still completely stunned. It seemed inconceivable that the band could not only surprise us again, but that it was almost inhumanly good. Three years later I was sitting in a field at Knebworth with my friends and they completely steamrolled us. If Achilles himself had played this outside the walls of Troy the Trojans would have surrendered immediately.
This album didn't sell as well as it should have. It's always been in my top five Zep albums. Not only does it rock harder than many of their albums, the tracks are so diverse and blend so well one into the other. Great use of genres and space in all of the songs. There's not a bad moment on the album. Go for it.
This has always been my second favorite LZ record behind Physical Graffiti, though this is my favorite LZ song. I think the departure from their standard blues covers and straightforward rock n’ roll sound was what alienated a lot of their early listeners. For me, it was LZ really stretching out into uncharted territory with those newer original compositions, unlike the cover laden early records, albeit certainly quite phenomenal from the very outset.
I love how Zep channeled the 50s rock/boogie woogie on the album. I fucking love Royal Orleans and Candy Store Rock. You can see the direction they were (in part... maybe?) going to take with later tracks like Ozone Baby and Darlene off Coda.
I feel exhausted by the end of this track. Bonzo just never let's up and Jimmy just keeps pouring on the guitar until you feel like you're drowning. Presence will alway be my favorite Zeppelin record. The band at their most raw and pure. No BS.
Until you hear their reunion concert to honor the founder of Atlantic Records in 2007 with Bonzo’s son, who Bonham taught to play drums, and really, it’s hard to see the difference. So, a reunion tour and another studio album was possible, and may have went over well, but Plant was close friends with Bonham since childhood, and that made a reunion almost most impossible.
There's an isolated drum track for Fool in the Rain on TH-cam. It's worth listening just to hear Bonham swinging dynamically on those big drums. One of the great classic rock shuffles. God Bless Bonzo.
I feel so blessed to grow up with the best musicians in the world. I was listening to all the best on the local radio station. I was born in 1960, and was the youngest, so I was lucky to experience so many Greats.
Robert Plant is/was the singer ,Jimmy was the lead guitar, John Paul Jones was bass guitar/key boards and of course John Bonham (pronounced BON-EM) WAS Drummer (one of the best ever imo)
Yeah, Zeppelin is the greatest musical act of the 20th century, period. And I listen to everything too. Jazz, rap, classical, r&b, soul, reggae, grunge, rock, soft rock, hard rock, country, you name it. But I keep coming back to Zepp, the same way I keep coming back to Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Bach, Mozart, Sinatra, Art Blakely, Stones, Marley, and others. But always, always, always, at the top of that list are my first 10-15 favourite Zepp songs. Achilles' Last Stand is an incredible song and yet, miraculously, it doesn't even make my top 15 from Zepp. That's how truly GREAT they are.
Elements of this track reminds me of "Barracuda" by HEART. Thanks for the reaction! Robert Plant's voice is a beautiful instrument. The blend is so mesmerizing, I don't even recognize it as vocals.
I enjoy your podcast very much. I am an old hippie at heart. Grew up on led zep. Still my favorite keep playing these old tunes . They are truly classics in their category. the 1970s produced in my opinion, some of the best and most creative music ever made . Thanks Polo.
Top 5 Zep song for me. It's just such an epic masterpiece, way ahead of its time, the incredible overdubbed guitar parts are like an orchestra unto themselves. The bass and drums are just doing jaw-dropping stuff left and right and just delivering so much interesting detail at any given moment. Plant's vocals are also in top form. This is truly peak of what was possible at this point in time. Glad you loved it!
@@AntAraujo Well, that's the kind of thing that is always fluctuating so I won't put numbers, but I know Achilles would always be in there. At this moment I'd have to say: - ALS - Dazed and Confused - Since I've Been Loving You - Ten Years Gone - Ramble On It's tough though, because on some days I'd desperately want Heartbreaker and When The Levee Breaks in there...
No one compares to Led Zeppelin. They have been an influenceon all rock groups that came after. I listened to some Tool. They rock but definitely have that 90's vibe. I didn't hear of them until I started to listen to you Polo. No one can compare to Led Zeppelin. I know Tool is your band, and thats kewl, but the talent, originally, guts to create something new will always be my pick
Somebody mentioned the song Barracuda by Heart in the live chat and they are spot on with the similarity in parts of the drum beat. Never noticed it before! Not my favorite Zeppelin song because there are too many to choose from but enjoyed the reaction. More Zeppelin please! And thank you Polo!
By the way - I was at that '79 gig but didn't enjoy it. Me and my chums were at the back of a crowd of some 100,000 fans, we would've loved that close-up experience
He mentions at the start of the video that he had reacted to a live version of this song, so odds are very high it was the Knebworth version from the official Led Zeppelin DVD in 2003. Incredible song!
@@dannywachowski5880I’m sure that was an incredible experience! I was born a few months after Bonham passed, so the closest I got to Led Zeppelin was going to see Page and Plant in 1998. I was 17 and went with 4 of my buddies. $50 dollars was a lot for a high school student in 1998, but my best friend played guitar and was a huge Zeppelin fanatic (even had a Les Paul) he was like “no, we HAVE to go, this is a chance of a lifetime”. Luckily, I listened to him and as I get older I realize how lucky I was. A few years ago I found the entire concert here on TH-cam, Portland, OR 1998. It’s not the same as Knebworth 79, but at least we can both watch one of our greatest memories. 🍻 cheers
He did that one first.. use the search engine when looking through Polo’s video reactions or just scroll through and you’ll find it from a couple of months back.
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When your fire a machine gun, its short bursts to stop the barrel overheating.... Its important....
Then you have Bonzo on Achillies Last Stand who just throws that idea right out of the window, over 10 minutes non stop like an absolute machine gun!
Thx 4 d heads up !
😂 all good, brother, not all of us have been jamming Zep for 45 + years, just a very lucky few
FYI Robert Plant is the vocalist. Jimmy page is the guitarist, John Paul Jones is the bassist/keyboardist/organist, John Bonham (bonnum) on percussion
@@stevebalun9554 so I was 18 when Led Zepplin came out. I'm not sure why you made that comment. musically speaking the Aristocrats are much better musicians to a man.
There would be no Tool without Led Zeppelin. Tool is very good. Led Zeppelin was otherworldly with a musical range and diversity that is basically unequaled.
TOOL does an amazing cover of No Quarter
Tool is great but Zeppelin sits upon the throne of the greatest rock band ever
Agree ! No matter what I listen to, I will keep coming back to Zep... they move me like no other...ever
Timeless and otherworldly... I live in many lifetimes and universes in their music
And Zepp has more soul and feelings of all dimensions ,they take you on a journey
Led Zeppelin is their own genre.
You know what... I agree. I've read this same comment many times about Tool
Agreed. They continually evolved from their first album to their last.
There's never been another band like them before or since Imo
I think that's because they loved to experiment with sound.
Danny Carey, like so many other of the great modern drummers are all disciples of John Bonham. Including myself. Led Zeppelin sold 300 million albums.@poloreacts27
@poloreacts27 highly influenced by Zep. 😉
JPJ's incredible bass playing further enhances Bonham's otherworldly drumming.
I'm 54yo now, but played in my youth (drums), & fully understand the bottom groove of the rythem section! LedZep is ridic!!!!🤙
This is just incredible! Incredible! I love all of their music . Please react to their song, In the Evening! I play it while driving along the Washington State coast!
The galloping effect of JPJ's bass does indeed enhance the drumming.
John Paul Jones’ bass in this song is absolutely incredible and matches the energy and groove of John Bonham’s drums
Never has there ever been, nor will there ever be another Led Zeppelin🎶🎸🎶🎵
Ween is definitely in the same stratosphere
@@snwbrdbum14 Yeah, sure 😂
Have they sold +300 million albums?
Ween is definitely not in the same stratosphere.
@rexsephe you're right, Zeppelin never made a country album 🤣
I kid, I kid. Still, there's a lot of overlap between the two. Ween is the spiritual successor of Zep. Both took well established genres and bent them to their will to make them uniquely their own. Both have lead singers with incredible range and lead guitarists who can improvise a song so it never sounds the same way twice. Both have an incredibly talented rhythm section that doesn't get enough credit. Both are completely different bands when you compare their live and studio sets. Hell, I took my buddy, who is himself a professional jazz/orchestral piano player, and had never heard of them before, to one of their shows. I asked him what he thought after, and he said he felt like he just watched 5 different bands at once.
Ween is just one of the last vestiges of the axiom of "Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it." They're pushing their 60's, and can still lay down this kinda performance th-cam.com/video/gm4AFZJ_lwQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=bilLbrNe9cYU0SgS
If you dive deep into their live catalog and B-sides, you'll get where I'm coming from. Ween and Zep are my #1 and #2 favorites of all time precisely because they are so unique.
@@snwbrdbum14 I respect your opinion. But, I must respectfully disagree with you on this particular issue.
I'm almost 67, and I still get goosebumps. Freaking amazing.
Same here @ 65.
❤me too. We were so lucky to be alive & old enough to appreciate that talent...& the hair, that blonde(/brown hair!) It just added to that superstardom!
63 and I'm with you
Still learning the names my bad you guys. I make mistakes every day.
Don't worry about it. We know who you're talking about. Some fans get cranky. Ignore them. You're good.
Yeah no sweat, it's a learning process, we get that. Rock on. I catch every episode.
So do we all brother ✌️😁
Dude, don’t sweat it a bit.. no harm- no foul. Of course people will wanna correct you in the comments, but no big deal really. They just wanna make sure ya got those details straight is all, some of em need to learn to not take it too personal though.
I always reminded my friends I wasn’t born knowing all this music, it took time to hear it, and even more time to figure out which stuff I liked best.
Sometimes, I would have to wait to get around to certain bands later cause I realized I was so heavily into another kind of groove that I wasn’t ready to really change it up just yet. Some of my favorite bands ever are bands I didn’t like at first just cause I needed louder faster to match my spiked adrenaline levels.
Over time, all those finer details fall into place the more familiar we are with a band and their music.
@@CANDOKNOWHOW Agreed, much of the fun of music (besides just listening) is learning new music and expanding your ability to really hear new music. Best I think to approach it without self imposed limitations and really be willing to explore.
You have to understand, Bonham's not just cosidered one of the greatest rock drummers, but one of the greatest drummers of all time. His natural swing, feel, in the cracks playing, chops, facility, etc, is on the very highest level, and revered by drummers of all backgrounds.
and he pioneered great foot work for the time. all the great foot players go back to Bonham as influential… and he didn’t even do double bass. crazy
Revered by drummers of all backgrounds, except for Ginger Baker.😋
There's a video on the web where he's doing a long drum solo for the song Moby Dick, it's insane ! I don't know how he does it.
@@charliejonas4609 Jealous like Towsnend, understandably so. They are both legendary, but Zeppelin blew everybody's socks off and attracted a lot of the spotlight..
@@davidanon1568you can't just tell him about a song he should check out. Are you insane? Don't you know you have to be a paying subscriber. We are slum TH-cam™ 👈👈👈👈👈
Best drummer ever!! RIP John Bonham!! Best band ever!!❤️❤️❤️❤️
Greatest band of all time.
But,
Neal Peart is the greatest drummer of all time.
And he was doing it while Bonham was still playing, and he kept getting better.
This song is every true Zeppelin fan's favorite song. It's other worldly.
Hmm...I wouldn't say that. It's an absolute masterpiece, but for a lot of fans, their favorites are the bluse-y early tracks like How Many More Times, Dazed and Confused, and Since I Been Loving You. That being said, noone cand deny that this song is f-ing incredible.The beauty of Led Zeppelin is in the diversity of their catalogue. I bet I'm not the only true fan who can't decide on a favorite song. So many are equally good, yet different.
Greatest drummer and guitarest in the same band. Wow
Fun fact: Like on "Black Dog" and "Nobody's Fault But Mine," this song features John Paul Jones on an eight-string bass, meaning he's playing two strings for every one note, generating two notes. Which is why, the bottom end of this track, as well as the others I mentioned, is so huge. Jonesy HAS to use an eight-string bass on some of the tracks to provide more support and frequency spread when Jimmy solos.
Fun fact on all the guitar work - Jimmy cut ALL the overdubs - and the guitar solo - in ONE NIGHT. What you're hearing as far as guitar work would easily take the average guitarist of the time, with the technology they had, several days of work in the studio. They were so pushed back for time on this album that Jimmy did all the overdubs and the solo in one night - and all the other solos and overdubs for the other tracks on one other night.
Thats HOURS AND HOURS worth of work in about 20% of the time, when they only had analog and couldn't move this stuff around on computers like they can now.
And every guitar overdub you hear that has a harmony? Jimmy overdubbed the harmony line, too. Between the rhythm bed tracks, all the overdubs, the solos and Jonesy's eight-string bass, this track probably contains more guitar work on it than any other Led Zeppelin track ever recorded. And most of it done in one night. Pagey called it his "guitar army" concept, and he's done it on several cuts - but this one had the highest count!
Badassery abounds here!
Thank you for sharing this!
Great comments on this iconic band. EACH member was an amazing musician individually. The first “super-group” really. When I listen to them, I sort of understand why they didn’t continue without Bonham. A huge piece of their magic. They can still play the music, but it’ll never be the same as their original and live recordings.
They were so good back then, it pissed off many bands badly, especially English bands. I think it was Roger Daltry I read an interview from who said he hated Zepplin and that Jimmy stole his ideas. Daltry is iconic in his own right, but he could never have pulled off anything close to Zepplin.
Freaking stampede of locomotives with demons at the throttles...holy cow..still!
It's kind of a cliche but the entire catalog of Led Zeppelin is amazing
Yea it's a cliche because it's 100% true!
It really is the truth
Along with Tool they are the only band with an amazing catalogue of songs. Most bands have like 10% amazing songs.
@@jensclarberg6419tools overrated AF not even comparable
Robert Plant (the vocalist) has a podcast and talked about this track. He described it as:
“a song you don’t want to be alone in a room with…”
The intensity is relentless… to me it feels like an epic battle, JPJ’s galloping bass is like a charging cavalry, Bonzo’s snare drum is like a heavy machine gun, and his crash cymbals are the flashes of artillery explosions. And of course squadron of overdubbed guitar tracks, that Page even referred to as his “army of guitars” soars over the top like attack helicopters or fighter jets…
The song is amazing, but it is also unsettling and exhausting in a way. It makes no effort to hold the listener’s hand. I love it.
”It makes no effort to hold the listener’s hand. I love it.” Yes 👏
And that, sir, is a perfect description of this song. Thank you!
A phenomenal description of this magnificent song!!!
Thanks for the heads up on the podcast by Robert Plant. I just subscribed to it!
This is amazing. Robert has never been my favourite part of LZ, not to say that he wasn't amazing because the band would obviously not have been the same without him, but I would love to hear more of what he has to say today. Going to go find that podcast! Thanks
Robert Plant sings at the tempo of badass, he never changes. I think that one of the reasons why they are so good is that they are so intensely aware of each other and the timing that they can individually go off and because they give each other that space it’s magic.
This is what happens when you put four musical geniuses together. It will never happen again.
Plant said in an interview not long ago, "There were three great musicians in the band. I was a singer along for the wild times"
John Paul Jones was the secret weapon the Led Zeppelin had. The bass, organ, mandolin he was outstanding. I seen them at Madison Sq Garden and he played the mandolin on Going to California " . I was blown away by his skill and just the way he sat there and kept up with the other like nothing. No stress, never missed a beat
Look up Going to Caligornia that they played at Earls Court and you will really enjoy it...
@@andrewmarker6511 Thanks!!!!!!
Agree. John Paul Jones is that not-so-obvious element; but God, he makes so much the difference for a listener ! 👌👍
💖💖💖watched them live Knebworth 1979. Most incredible experience of my life!!💖💖💖
I am 62. I feel every bit as impacted by music as you do. I feel chills. I listen to 50 reactors. I especially enjoy the reactors that have never heard Led Zeppelin. It is like reliving the first time I heard them. Such special music. Such a special time the 60's/70's was. Love your reactions Polo. 🙂🙂
have you ever seen Brain squeeze Reactions.. He is funny and did a lot of Zeppelin.
@Michael_P67 Yes one of my favorites!
I'm 61 and I agree with you. Watching first time reactions is great fun. I have heard many of my own favorite songs 100;s of times by watching first listen reactions.
Studio Led Zep is always better than live. Jimmy Page knew how to arrange and overlay tone colors they couldn’t reproduce live. Sound systems for live use weren’t as good as today. Many 70s bands sucked live because the live sound just wasn’t good enough yet.
Tea for one is an excellent song from the Presence album.
My favorite Zep Blues tune ✌🏻
AGREED. Masterful and Magical
It's fun to watch your appreciation for Led Zeppelin grow the more of their music you expose yourself too.
I like how you have learned their names! Led Zeppelin is your favorite band, even if you dont know it yet.
The greatest band of all
RELENTLESS! 🤪👍🇬🇧
The power of this song is so strong it is almost the song is beating you up in the most beautiful way. Like a Viking god is giving you a motorcycle ride and you feel fearless
14:14 I used share a tiny bedroom with my older sister who was a massive Led Zeppelin fan. We would always sing the ahh ahh ahh part, every time
When I am riding my motorcycle thought the mountains and this songs comes on. It becomes a very Dangerous ride. The beat gets you going so fast as the music come thought the head phones in my helmet. But I love every minuet of it.
My sister sister and I used to sing the “ahh ahh ahh” part part every time. One of my favorite songs of all time
This is BETTER than any live version I've heard. There's all the raw live energy you could want, immaculate clean production and performances, the guitar and vocal overdubs, thundering drums, Robert's howls (yes, it's Robert singing), and Jimmy could never quite capture that monster riff in the solo live - I wait for it every time. Perfection. There's just no way to quite recapture this live. One of the greatest tracks ever recorded, period.
Jimmy called it a guitar army on his overdubs on this song.
@@tank624 Sounds about right!
There’s twelve tracks of guitar on the studio version,it’s really amazing they could pull it off live at all!
Bonzo's drumming is lights out on this track, but that's pretty much all of his tracks ! The tuning of his drums are immaculate. His speed, power, finesse, touch, feel and precision are otherworldly.
Led Zeppelin's intruments fluidly switch between 4/4 timing to 5/4 timing and back and forth throughout.
It's a 10:26 long barrage of a relentless instrument pummeling and vocal eargasms.
John Paul Jones brought an eight stringed Hagstrom H8 bass to their rehearsal sessions and Jimmy Page first declared: "I'm not going to play to that !"
Jones rehearsed with eight string Hagstrom anyways and Jimmy Page realized how great it sounded. So Jones recorded this song and Nobody's Fault, but Mine on his eight stringed Hagstrom.
Jonesy switched to a four stringed Alembic Series II bass and an eight string Bruce Becvar made Triple Omega 8 from their 1977 tour onward all the way through to their final tour in 1980.
Robert was injured in car accident on the Greek island of Rhodes and shattered his ankle and leg in multiple places on Aug 4th, 1975. He recorded all of his parts from a wheelchair.
They had to cancel their summer American stadium tour of 1975. Then set out to record this album in late 1975 and released it on March 31st, 1976.
Page's guitar work is absolutely amazing as per usual.
Zeppelin is my favorite band. I would call this a deep cut. So nice to see you react to an unsung banger like this
John is sheer power unleashed
When the lyrics start with "It was an April morning when they told us we should go," you don't know where that is, but you are definitely on board for the next ten minutes.
Another "this is his track" for Bonham is the studio version of In My Time of Dying. When he gets going, I swear he is playing LEAD DRUMS!
My favorite zep song and by far their most rocking jam
Greatest drumming ever
As a drummer myself, I'm so glad you said this is John's track, because it is, when someone else see's it for what it is, I love that!
Led Zeppelin is the best of all!!
Considering the fact that, at this point in time, Robert Plant was wheelchair bound from a car crash, Jimmy Page was deep into heroin use and John Bonham was struggling with alcoholism - this track is a minor miracle....correction...major miracle.
It's amazing when you think that this music came out of the 1970s, almost 50 years ago. They really trail-blazed and did their own thing, like they said in the lyrics to No Quarter, they chose the path where no one goes.
Always remember Bonham only used a single base. They didn’t have double pumpers back in then. He was the drummer that all new drummers were inspired by.
Didn't Jason say once that he needs to use double bass peddles to do some of his dads stuff?
@kennycab3374 he probably did! I don't know but I think most would!
Supposedly he had 2 bass kick drums and Jimmy and Robert took one away saying he didn't need it! They were right!
Double Bass drums
Existed in the early
Fifties with Big Band players like
Louie Bellson and
Gene Krupa…
Led zeppelin best band they sold over 400 million records what does that tell you that they probably sold more but for tax reasons they kept on a hush the best in every department there is no one like them and there popularity keeps growing Led zeppelin you guys are the goats of rock and roll
I've always thought that iron maiden was strongly inspired by this song to develop their style, specially the way Jonhy Paul Jones plays the bass. When this song came out Steve Harris was 20 years old, I can clearly see him listening to this album and saying eureka.
Absolutely one of my favorite Led Zeppelin songs - and not a common one either. Which always kind of blows my mind, it’s so good.
The bass establishes the gallup the drums reinforce the gallup. Incredible song
Presence, the beginning of the end, was recorded in just 18 days and Page made all the arrangements in a single night. The group was going through delicate moments, tax exile, Robert's accident, which he recorded in a wheelchair, everything was difficult, but they were eager. Achilles Last Stand is possibly the last great classic. I LOVE
He pulled it off live alright it's even better live 1979 EPIC
We we were kids me sister and I used to sing the “ah ah ah” part together
This song is why Zeppelin is unparalleled….
One of my favorite Led Zeppelin songs is on this same album. Id love to see you react to "Nobody's Fault but Mine."
He did it
The best song ever written. It’s the perfect song.
This song truly is a monumental achievement. They all were struggling with demons , and slowly losing. The fact that they could pull this off in a fragile state is a phenomenal achievement. 🔥
One of their best songs!!Good evening my brother!!John is the best..RIP
Glad you listened to the studio version. It's so much better than the live version in this case. Not even comparable in my opinion. Live, they played twice as fast as they should have. And the solo in the studio version is masterful!
But to see Bonzo in 79 is fire. Epic 🥁
Twice as fast as they should have and Jimmy was 5x as smacked out as he should have been 😂
EXACTLY how I felt about it.. just a damn shame anyone would recommend the Live version first. 🙄
A listener is just being cheated by doing that because they don’t really even know the song they’re hearing first.
Sure, it’s a phenomenal performance, and yeah.. Bonzo totally goes off. But the sound is subpar, especially compared to the studio, not to mention the fact that they couldn’t reproduce the amazing guitar overdubs that make up the “call and response” guitar solo we all know and love from the studio version.
The biggest frustration though, is the increased uptempo pacing that makes the whole thing feel rushed, like they had somewhere else to be and just wanted to hammer on through the set to get back on the bus.
Yes! ☝🏻
LZ were a studio band and to replicate that sound live would require more musicians on stage which LZ wasn’t interested in. The result is most of their live performances are a different version of the song because it can’t be replicated live.
Too many reactors go for the live version first to have visuals but miss out on the true magic recorded in the studio by great bands like LZ! Thanks Polo for typically reacting to studio versions first. 👍🏻
True. But Bonham and JPJ were not the reason this song was sloppy on the 1977 Tour.
JPJ with the muted clicks, adds to the drums beautifully. he’s so underrated.
He is a pure genius!
Muted clicks? I’ll have to keep an ear open for that
Its the muted clicking of John Paul Jones bass strings as he’s using his pick to create that gallup sound. It syncs with the drums and gives you the feeling of riding a horse.
That tracks for me.. I can hear it, always have loved it. Though we always just called em muted notes, yet clicks works just as well and even kinda describes the sound of a muted note.
Not a real common approach back then, but I think surely inspired the likes of “Barracuda” by Heart, as well as a lot of other notable rock and metal bands..
Wait until Polo trips on Them Crooked Vultures.
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THAT roll !
This is one of the reasons I took up the drums.. i used to walk to and from school listening to this, and to this day, Bonhams playing is nothing but sensational. His feel is unbelievable, the drive throughout the song, the dynamics... even his choices (the little rat---tat-tat into the second verse but WITHOUT a crash. Genius. So much tension).. By this point Bonham was unfortunately struggling with alcohol problems, and even then, he supposedly only took 3 takes to pull this off.. just unreal. His death was a loss to music, as we can only imagine where his playing might have gone to. RIP John Henry Bonham.
The Lemon Song is a must! More Zeppelin blues please!
Oh Lord yes
Early 1968 to 1975 Zeppelin WAS IT for Rock!!!!
Trivia: the legendary Robert Plant sang this track while on wheelchair, for he was recovering from a car accident that he had before recording this underrated album.
heart pretty much lifted the entire rythm section from this and made baracuda, and its an awesome track
Been listening to Zeppelin for over 40 years. Makes the hairs on my neck stand up.
The funniest comment I've ever heard on the drumming in this song is "John Bonham beats those drums like they owe him money!" 😂
❤️🔥 Bonzo sounds like bullets and butterflies. His and JPJ’s rhythm are “The mighty arms of Atlas hold(ing) the heavens from the earth.” Jimmy’s guitar overlays in the intro and outro are like opening and closing the book of Achilles’ Last Stand. Robert’s guttural cries are the spirit of Achilles himself. ❤️🔥 I’m sweating too just thinking of what to write! Just thanks so much. I knew you’d appreciate this.
F’k yes, I feel music just like that.
They hace their own sound, no doubt. I'm all about the first 4 albums. This song is great!!
This has always been my favorite Led Zeppelin song. It just takes me somewhere else
The greatest guitar and drummer in the same band imagine that
First time I heard this was when a BBC radio DJ named Alan Freeman premiered the album on BBC Radio 1, before the album came out. We were all anticipating the new album from Zeppelin but had no idea what to expect. My friends and I huddled around a crappy mono radio and waited to hear it. Can you imagine what we thought? It came crackling out of that little radio in mono and we were still completely stunned. It seemed inconceivable that the band could not only surprise us again, but that it was almost inhumanly good. Three years later I was sitting in a field at Knebworth with my friends and they completely steamrolled us. If Achilles himself had played this outside the walls of Troy the Trojans would have surrendered immediately.
Love that song! Hey I listened to that back in the day on vinyl with a couple EV 15TRX-B. Yep, I am 70 years old brother. Saw Zep in 1977.
This album didn't sell as well as it should have. It's always been in my top five Zep albums. Not only does it rock harder than many of their albums, the tracks are so diverse and blend so well one into the other. Great use of genres and space in all of the songs. There's not a bad moment on the album. Go for it.
Disagree but the highs are certainly very high.
I LOVE this album...I love them ALL!
This is my first favorite album
This has always been my second favorite LZ record behind Physical Graffiti, though this is my favorite LZ song.
I think the departure from their standard blues covers and straightforward rock n’ roll sound was what alienated a lot of their early listeners.
For me, it was LZ really stretching out into uncharted territory with those newer original compositions, unlike the cover laden early records, albeit certainly quite phenomenal from the very outset.
I love how Zep channeled the 50s rock/boogie woogie on the album. I fucking love Royal Orleans and Candy Store Rock. You can see the direction they were (in part... maybe?) going to take with later tracks like Ozone Baby and Darlene off Coda.
Can't beat zeppelin so many great songs 9 albums.. and a great live album...4 hall of famers in one band
This level of maturity at a young age comes through personal life experience. When you’ve lived the life, it can be readily communicated through art.
This was always my go-to at the bar when I was younger. Very underrated Zeppelin song
Led Zeppelin is an experience.
“Traveling Riverside Blues” , “Nobody’s Fault but Mine” = please listen big guy! I grew up with these guys ✊✊✊🇺🇸
I feel exhausted by the end of this track. Bonzo just never let's up and Jimmy just keeps pouring on the guitar until you feel like you're drowning. Presence will alway be my favorite Zeppelin record. The band at their most raw and pure. No BS.
No one should ever wonder why they could not continue without Bonzo. There is no Zeppelin without him.
Until you hear their reunion concert to honor the founder of Atlantic Records in 2007 with Bonzo’s son, who Bonham taught to play drums, and really, it’s hard to see the difference. So, a reunion tour and another studio album was possible, and may have went over well, but Plant was close friends with Bonham since childhood, and that made a reunion almost most impossible.
@ love Jason. Seen him many times including a few months ago with Hagar and with all due respect he is not his father.
That Gallup on the drums by Bonzo, everyone picked up on that in Metal. Beast mode. The GOATS.
There's an isolated drum track for Fool in the Rain on TH-cam. It's worth listening just to hear Bonham swinging dynamically on those big drums. One of the great classic rock shuffles. God Bless Bonzo.
I feel so blessed to grow up with the best musicians in the world. I was listening to all the best on the local radio station. I was born in 1960, and was the youngest, so I was lucky to experience so many Greats.
Robert Plant is/was the singer ,Jimmy was the lead guitar, John Paul Jones was bass guitar/key boards and of course John Bonham (pronounced BON-EM) WAS Drummer (one of the best ever imo)
The greatest song by the greatest band of all time.
Even on LED Zeppelin scale this is big time banger…whole album loopdie loop alllll day w/no problemo!
Zeppelin is incredible! Masters of their craft! Listened to them all the time when I was a kid.
When I was a little kid I shared a tiny bedroom with my older sister who was a Zeppelin fanatic. We always sang the “ah ah ah” part together
Brings back to high school, 68 mustang and this on 8 track. Best times of my life. Best road trip song. Thanks
Hands down my favorite Led Zeppelin song.
When it comes to Led Zeppelin All Led Zeppelin songs are my favourite
Yeah, Zeppelin is the greatest musical act of the 20th century, period. And I listen to everything too. Jazz, rap, classical, r&b, soul, reggae, grunge, rock, soft rock, hard rock, country, you name it. But I keep coming back to Zepp, the same way I keep coming back to Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Bach, Mozart, Sinatra, Art Blakely, Stones, Marley, and others. But always, always, always, at the top of that list are my first 10-15 favourite Zepp songs. Achilles' Last Stand is an incredible song and yet, miraculously, it doesn't even make my top 15 from Zepp. That's how truly GREAT they are.
Back in the day my friends and I called the presence album “ brain eat’in music “
Elements of this track reminds me of "Barracuda" by HEART. Thanks for the reaction! Robert Plant's voice is a beautiful instrument. The blend is so mesmerizing, I don't even recognize it as vocals.
One of the best songs to let you mind race and go!
they are the goats!!!!!
theres 8 guitar tracks on this, jimmy did them all in 1 night!! and then did live with 1 guitar!!!!
Being 57 Led Zeppelin are my GOATS and I loved me plenty of Tool when it came out and often still.
I enjoy your podcast very much. I am an old hippie at heart. Grew up on led zep. Still my favorite keep playing these old tunes . They are truly classics in their category. the 1970s produced in my opinion, some of the best and most creative music ever made . Thanks Polo.
Top 5 Zep song for me. It's just such an epic masterpiece, way ahead of its time, the incredible overdubbed guitar parts are like an orchestra unto themselves. The bass and drums are just doing jaw-dropping stuff left and right and just delivering so much interesting detail at any given moment. Plant's vocals are also in top form.
This is truly peak of what was possible at this point in time. Glad you loved it!
What’s your top 5
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Well, that's the kind of thing that is always fluctuating so I won't put numbers, but I know Achilles would always be in there.
At this moment I'd have to say:
- ALS
- Dazed and Confused
- Since I've Been Loving You
- Ten Years Gone
- Ramble On
It's tough though, because on some days I'd desperately want Heartbreaker and When The Levee Breaks in there...
No one compares to Led Zeppelin. They have been an influenceon all rock groups that came after. I listened to some Tool. They rock but definitely have that 90's vibe. I didn't hear of them until I started to listen to you Polo. No one can compare to Led Zeppelin. I know Tool is your band, and thats kewl, but the talent, originally, guts to create something new will always be my pick
Somebody mentioned the song Barracuda by Heart in the live chat and they are spot on with the similarity in parts of the drum beat. Never noticed it before! Not my favorite Zeppelin song because there are too many to choose from but enjoyed the reaction. More Zeppelin please! And thank you Polo!
You've got to see their live version of this from Knebworth in 1979, it will blow your music loving socks off!
By the way - I was at that '79 gig but didn't enjoy it. Me and my chums were at the back of a crowd of some 100,000 fans, we would've loved that close-up experience
He mentions at the start of the video that he had reacted to a live version of this song, so odds are very high it was the Knebworth version from the official Led Zeppelin DVD in 2003. Incredible song!
@@dannywachowski5880I’m sure that was an incredible experience! I was born a few months after Bonham passed, so the closest I got to Led Zeppelin was going to see Page and Plant in 1998. I was 17 and went with 4 of my buddies. $50 dollars was a lot for a high school student in 1998, but my best friend played guitar and was a huge Zeppelin fanatic (even had a Les Paul) he was like “no, we HAVE to go, this is a chance of a lifetime”. Luckily, I listened to him and as I get older I realize how lucky I was. A few years ago I found the entire concert here on TH-cam, Portland, OR 1998. It’s not the same as Knebworth 79, but at least we can both watch one of our greatest memories. 🍻 cheers
He did that one first.. use the search engine when looking through Polo’s video reactions or just scroll through and you’ll find it from a couple of months back.
Cleveland 1977 was incredible.
that solo is a time machine back to high school, fukin rippin