Wow, thank you so much! I’ll definitely get myself and Gab a seasonal latte when we’re next out! ☕️ ❤️ You know what they say: “Can’t Start a Fire without a Big Log.” Best to you and yours and have a great Christmas.
Thanks so much Whit! I am really surprised how many people are saying the same thing about this song "a forgotten favourite." Stoked to blow off the dust for everyone and thanks for the tip! Have a great Christmas. 🎉
Wow, thank you Joe! Annoyingly the TH-cam app doesn’t always show the generosity attached. I’ve just noticed this perusing through my own comments. Hope you had an amazing Christmas and new year! ❤
I really enjoyed this lesson. No surprise! I haven't watched a disappointing lesson, yet. One of my favorite songs by Robert Plant is, BIG LOG. I worked on THAT song shortly after it came out. To impress a girl, of course. She eventually ran off with a Bass player from another band. Not long after that, she ran off with someone else. BEST of luck to her. I probably dodged a bullet, there. 😂 Do you think you might work out some Rory Gallagher in the future? I'm enjoying the lessons and intend to join the Patreon next month. Have a GREAT week and Thank You again.
As a college student living in London in 1991 (semester abroad program) I was fortunate to see Plant live at the Town and Country Club for Manic Nirvana Tour. I was close to the stage, for a few Zeppelin Covers it was magical, closing my eyes, thinking this may be the closest I’d get to hearing Led Zeppelin live. In particular I remember Going to California, and Ship of Fools which might have been the final song in the set. Thanks for sharing this one Sped! Happy Holidays!
Two favourites of mine; thoroughly enjoyed working out a single guitar version of GTC. I’ve only seen him once at Manchester Apollo on the Carry Fire tour. He was incredible. 🥰 Have a great holiday time.
@@SpedSpedding I guess the name of the venue has changed a few times since 1991, but a magical night in Kentish Town. Thanks again for bringing back the memory
My first proper ticketed gig was to see Robert Plant on the Now and Zen tour, at Hanley Victoria Hall in Stoke! 1988 I'm thinking. Now and Zen was when Percy started to acknowledge his Zep back catalogue, having studiously avoided it for 8 years. Great album, great band. Always liked Doug Boyle's playing.
Oh wow, I know the place! That’s so cool. Interesting that you say it’s the first time he acknowledged and embraced his Zeppelin years as an independent artist. I feel like I’m very much in the same place musically. I left a band, maybe seven years ago now, and finally feel like I can use the skills I acquired from that style of music and incorporate it with what I want to do next. It’s just a part of me now.
Love the riff, thanks for the run down. I really like the intro / guitar of I Believe. And I watched the end !! Yes - Andor is great. Really enjoy the focus on character development.
Sped, Happy Holidays. Thank you for posting this, I had forgotten how much I loved this song when Now and Zen came out. I had this on cassette and listened to it non-stop. Reminds me a lot of Big Log, the other “Best Plant Riff” to come out of the Post-Zep 80’s. Hope you enjoy your time off. Cheers!
@@SpedSpedding Sure is, everytime I listen to this album it takes me back to travelling from Brisbane to Adelaide on the Indian Pacific train via the desert for 3 days straight when I was only 13 years old (1994). It was a long tiring trip but my tape walkman, this album and my small collection of Modern Drummer and Guitar Player magazines made the trip go so much smoother and quicker. I`ve just turned 41 and this album still takes me back to that place of simplicity before life got complicated. I learnt this song on guitar a while ago. Thanks for inspiring me to learn/refresh it again. Keep up the good work, love the channel🙂🤘
The mighty Mr.Blackwell ! Im a true fan and humbled fellow musician. Your work with Robert has been so influential to me and so many others. Honored to see you on here!
Absolutely remarkable! The force is indeed with you my friend! That tone and improv in Em is magical Mr Sped😎. Makes me want to sit down and dissect your improv haha. Love the song nonetheless and glad that you threw in some Plant. Happy Holidays and may the force be with you! 🤘🏽
Thank you kindly! Yeah those two minutes came out of nowhere and I thought it was a good varied chunk of ideas. So cool that it resonated with you. 🔥❤️
I've recently gotten to know your channel. I wish I had a guitar teacher back in my day who would have taught me the way you teach. Thanks for the good stuff you teach people for free! That's what's cool ,.. your not charging for your work like the guitar teachers I used to pay. Back before I knew how to really play , I had to pay 25 an hour to learn Zeppelin songs( and this was back in the 80s ) I Know you don't take requests by comments , Im just taking a shot and reaching out to you the only way I know how. I can't find anyone that can play " Fool in the rain" by Zeppelin the proper way. I myself can't make it sound correct. I realize Page is mixing and doing other things that might create the sound of the chords, but " Fool in the Rain" is a song that you would think wouldn't be to difficult. Its cool because with the drums and rythem underneath, you can solo having a lot of fun with this song . I was curious only about the first opening chords to the song ( That is what seems to be the difficult part ) It just doesn't sound right. I have heard a few version and there is no alternate tuning as well. Anyway I apologize for the long message.I was hoping you could point me in the right direction.Have you done this Zeppelin song before on the channel? Could you show us how to play it right,or make it sound right? Thank you. Sincerely, Joey.
LOVE that tune Sped!!! Great album, I actually had that on cassette when it first came out. I was in the navy at the time and ship of fools was very relevant. This and big log have a special place with me. Thank you very much.
@@SpedSpedding I tried to get bits of it together in the past but this is the first time I've put effort into it. Honestly, I forgot about it. But to hear you play it and then offer to teach it was like an early Christmas gift. And of all things, my son heard it and is now listening to the whole album in his room. That puts a bow on it for this old man. It's a very good day.
1988 Ship of Fools - Doug Boyle, 1983 Big Log - Robbie Blunt, sound engagingly similar to my ear. Nice contribution Sped, thanks. Saving Grace and Alison Krauss reunion (2019-present).
@@SpedSpedding Big Log is such a great song. Unfortunately, I was driving my friends truck home listening to it at 4 in the morning and fell asleep. We were lucky I hit a curb before going into a dead tree in a ditch head on. We were fine, truck was trashed, and I can't ever listen to that song again!! Literally almost hit a "big log" were it not for that curb. That was in 1986 or so.
@@SpedSpedding One time a long time ago... I was driving to LA from Kentucky...for work. I had a 6 disc changer in my little sports car ..with one cartridge entirely devoted to Planty discs. I left Vegas one morning, but went north through Death Valley...with the player on auto. Then...I noticed: I was in a Robert Plant video! Also, forgot to say, your riffing here is fairly sublime. 10/10 would listen to an hour of it.
@@RHEOSTAT380 wow wow wow. That’s crazy. Glad you came out unscathed. Maybe you can save your love of the song by flipping the story. Planty’s angelic delivery acted as a warning for you and he made a deal with the rock gods to trash the truck and let you walk away. 🙏🏻✨
@@rob-v1y Haha, I too have been in that very same valley. The state of me. “Turn your AC off when climbing the hills.” 😅😅😅 GREAT. And thank you. You’re the first to mention. I will try to feature my style a little more often. 🎉
Beautiful song. Good lesson. I've always loved "Thru with the Two Step" with Robbie on guitar and Phil Collins on drums. Also great keys from Jezz Woodroffe and bass from Paul Martinez.
@Sped Spedding Yeah, I'm a bit of a Zepophile myself. Saw Zeppelin in '77 at the Madison Square Garden and saw Robert on tour later on at the same place with the Blunt, Collins,Woodroffe and Martinez lineup and saw the Firm with Jimmy and Paul with Tony Franklin and Chris Slade after that.
Large and in charge. Is this the best guitar channel on the planet? I think so. If Sped says so, then it is. Time for me to check out the patreon. Thanks for all the learnen and the jokes. You're awesome at both.
Sped, amazing breakdown of a lost classic!!! You mentioned that you wanted to know what my favorite Plant lick is and that would be courtesy of guitarist Robbie Blunt from the Pictures at 11 album (Like I've Never Been Gone). Love everything about your channel, your awesome 👌
Good call Scott... Yea, I don't think Robbie Blunt gets as much credit as he deserves for how much his playing was heard by the "general public" and guitar players specifically, cause we were all interested in why Plant's song sounded close to Zep, but just enough different for everyone... Robbie DEFINITELY had the cleanest tone, and therefore playing technique to be that "naked" in the mix, other than Knopfler during that time...almost the sonic definition of "notes of glass"...just saying...🎸👍😎
So, not this slinger, but another great one, who got slagged for not being Pagey, was Robbie Blunt! Saw Plant on the Principle of Moments tour, and it was just so cool. Plant opened with I'm In the Mood, and a fan tossed a rather longish scarf upon the stage toward Percy. And man what a toss!. It unfurled just so... and Robert stepped right into the throw and the scarf landed around his neck as though he'd placed the thing there as the finishing dapper accessory.
Haven’t listened to this album in ages!!.. defo getting some replays now (how many more have I forgotten like this?)…. Great lesson as always, 30 seconds into the video and I’m already reaching for my guitar.. inspiring 😊😊
I don't understand. 1. How did you know I'd like this? and 2. How did you know I was going to play it 71 times? Amazing! Very cool mesmerizing riff. Thanks.
Love the album, saw Percy on tour behind it way way back when. You asked for some songs, so I name Heaven Knows, Angel Dance, Your Mama Said You Cried In Your Sleep Last Night, and Little By Little. Keep up the good work Sped, and hopefully you survived the big snowfall, lol
Happy Christmas, Sped! It would be stellar if you would also walk us through the signal path you use to replicate the tone for the parts you demo. You do a great job of dialing in a close proximity to the original and I’m sure I would learn a lot from how you go about it. Thanks and Cheers!
Glad you think so. I don't ever spend hours trying to nail exact tones and settings. Usually a quick play for about 10 minutes and I'm set. I will probably put out a few videos on rig and tone once I settle into the new place.
You been watching the zeppelin in the 80s series on JCM’s channel. So good mate. Been digging into Robbie Blunts playing recently since but this is incredible btw. How did you create that tone? 👍
Oh yes now this is addictive Great choice Sped. You absolutely knew I’d like it 😁 And it’s definitely a bit fiddly 🤣🤣🤣 . Other solos 🤔🤔🤔 Big log and slow dancer. Enjoy your brew 💯
@@SpedSpedding Nope Sped, you are correct. I got all curious and did a look up. I thought it was on an earlier album. Looks like I'll be revisiting Robert's catalog during Xmas break. Which of course cannot be a bad thing at any time...I still listen to complete albums if not someone's whole body of work. Still love Robbie though! My best.
There are some great riffs spread out all over Percy's solo albums... This is a cracker , you lovely Mancunian! How's the band working out? Have a lovely Christmas x
What a fine pick, Sped. I had almost forgotten how gorgeous this song is. Too much big logging going on here, right now.... All those mellow songs such as In the Mood are just so divine. Thanks for inspiring us with such a delight.
This is a great song, but I'm more fond of the previous 3 albums. They are fantastic beginning to end. In fact it's Robbie Blunt's work with Robert Plant that converted be from a Strat skeptic into an stratophile.
Well for a start you appear to be an uber-spedmeister. . For me, it was 'Now & Zen', 'Manic Nirvana' and 'Fate of Nations' that were the quintessential Bob Plant solo albums; They were kind of where Zep would have gone, had not the tragic events of 1980 occured. Some of Doug's guitar sounds *more* Pagey, than Page... (...and to me, Page is GOD... Well one of them - In the realm of chordophonia, I believe in a polytheistic pantheon). Robbie Blunt was cool, but there was something about the chemistry between Doug Boyle and Phil Johnstone (RIP) that, along with Bob Plant's inimitable vocal prescence made those three albums stand-out above all others. However, it is the latter - Fate of Nations that is the perfect Plant album. With the smooth smokey guitar of the late Kevin MacMichael drifting us through the soundscape of that consummate album and remains one of my most favoured albums of all time. Top solo from FoN ? Greatest Gift and Great Spirit for sure. Here is the debut of 'Now and Zen' live at Madison Square Gdns in 1988 [Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary] th-cam.com/video/TTZIGnjG2KI/w-d-xo.html Time stamp: 6:40 - Ship of Fools
That’s wonderful. Like reading a passage out of my Zeppelin bible on the shelf there. I’m not overly familiar with that album in its entirety, I’ll put it on this week as I have a decent drive. Thanks for sharing and keep an eye out for more Planty. 😏✨
Agreed! I listened to Fate of Nations on holiday not long after its release and didn’t get it. Started listening again maybe twenty years later and Wow, love it, great guitar work on it, think it might have Doug Boyle on some tracks and other guitarists on others.
I ghostwrote Plant's Now & Zen +Manic Nirvana & parts of Fate of Nations to beg Plant to re-unite w/Page 1987. For Ship of Fools my model was the elegant song Big Log from his earlier 80's,so stuck in my head.I can't play guitar well,or read music notation,but I sing the guitar notes and real guitarists do it well.I ghostwrote for many artists.
@@chiswaah I think it was the best time in my life,age 29.I had the determination to write songs,tv,movies concepts for my fave artists and got it to them.Most important I imitated them on tape to raise their eyebrows"stealing"& giving back,as gift & tribute,all free.
Tie Dye On The Highway would be my #1 ,... this 2nd. Love it. ...think this planet is the "ship of fools" tho... 0.04% CO2 is NOT a problem,.. you numptys out there! ...theres millions of 'em!
Hey sped any chance we could get a whole The Rover lesson? Its my absolute favorite LZ song and there arent many lessons out there and you already have the solo lesson on your channel. Could you ever fit the rest of the song on your plate? Thanks for the effort and time youve put into this channel.
I felt the need to offer you a pint (or a coffee) as a way to say thank you for all the cool tunes. Really love this one Brother.
Wow, thank you so much! I’ll definitely get myself and Gab a seasonal latte when we’re next out! ☕️ ❤️ You know what they say: “Can’t Start a Fire without a Big Log.”
Best to you and yours and have a great Christmas.
@@SpedSpedding Ha!!! Outstanding!!! My honor sir! Merry Christmas to you and yours!
@Jeffry Thiele Hey man, inflation and stuff 🎸Plus, drinking alone sucks. Seriously tho, I've paid way more to learn way less.
@Jeffry Thiele Oi, it’s Christmas! 😂
@@SpedSpeddingwhich Segways to my favorite Plant tune of Big Log.
Wow, forgotten how much I love this song. Thanks for sharing Sped. Looping like a crazed man.
Thanks so much Whit! I am really surprised how many people are saying the same thing about this song "a forgotten favourite." Stoked to blow off the dust for everyone and thanks for the tip! Have a great Christmas. 🎉
No doubt. It's always been one of those magical riffs.
One of my favorite songs of all time. Thank you.
Thanks! Merry Christmas 🎄
Wow, thank you Joe! Annoyingly the TH-cam app doesn’t always show the generosity attached. I’ve just noticed this perusing through my own comments. Hope you had an amazing Christmas and new year! ❤
I don't know anybody else who would attempt this song!!!!!!!!!! A+++++++++ teaching skills, Sped!!
Haha, thanks Mark! People seem to like this one. 🛳️
@@SpedSpedding What's not to like!!!! LOL!!!
Man that was hypnotic! Great break down lesson as always! Thanks Sped
It really is isn’t it! Thanks for watching. ✨
I really enjoyed this lesson. No surprise! I haven't watched a disappointing lesson, yet.
One of my favorite songs by Robert Plant is, BIG LOG.
I worked on THAT song shortly after it came out.
To impress a girl, of course. She eventually ran off with a Bass player from another band. Not long after that, she ran off with someone else. BEST of luck to her. I probably dodged a bullet, there. 😂
Do you think you might work out some Rory Gallagher in the future?
I'm enjoying the lessons and intend to join the Patreon next month. Have a GREAT week and Thank You again.
Quite honestly one of your best improvs IMHO. Very cool Sped!!
Thank you Bert! I feel very at home and inspired playing over the top of this track.
As a college student living in London in 1991 (semester abroad program) I was fortunate to see Plant live at the Town and Country Club for Manic Nirvana Tour. I was close to the stage, for a few Zeppelin Covers it was magical, closing my eyes, thinking this may be the closest I’d get to hearing Led Zeppelin live. In particular I remember Going to California, and Ship of Fools which might have been the final song in the set. Thanks for sharing this one Sped! Happy Holidays!
Two favourites of mine; thoroughly enjoyed working out a single guitar version of GTC.
I’ve only seen him once at Manchester Apollo on the Carry Fire tour. He was incredible. 🥰
Have a great holiday time.
@@SpedSpedding I guess the name of the venue has changed a few times since 1991, but a magical night in Kentish Town. Thanks again for bringing back the memory
man, I had almost forgotten how beautiful this song is. this LP marked my adolescence (yes, we are getting older). thanks, Sped
A lot of people are saying the same! So glad I’m dusting it off for a few of you. 🛳️✨
Love it Sped!! Great breakdown. 😎
Also love Big Log and In the Mood.
Glad you enjoyed! And yeah, me too. It’s the season n all! 🪵🙌🏻
Love the studio lighting
This is far and away my favorite Plant tune/album.
My first proper ticketed gig was to see Robert Plant on the Now and Zen tour, at Hanley Victoria Hall in Stoke! 1988 I'm thinking. Now and Zen was when Percy started to acknowledge his Zep back catalogue, having studiously avoided it for 8 years. Great album, great band. Always liked Doug Boyle's playing.
Oh wow, I know the place! That’s so cool.
Interesting that you say it’s the first time he acknowledged and embraced his Zeppelin years as an independent artist. I feel like I’m very much in the same place musically. I left a band, maybe seven years ago now, and finally feel like I can use the skills I acquired from that style of music and incorporate it with what I want to do next. It’s just a part of me now.
Love the riff, thanks for the run down. I really like the intro / guitar of I Believe. And I watched the end !! Yes - Andor is great. Really enjoy the focus on character development.
Yes Scott! It had huge character depth and great pacing throughout. It could have been a season finale in equal thirds; can't wait to see what's next.
Closer view of fingers is appreciated. Thanks !
Pleasure. Multi angle. Hollywood is sweating.
Sped, Happy Holidays. Thank you for posting this, I had forgotten how much I loved this song when Now and Zen came out. I had this on cassette and listened to it non-stop. Reminds me a lot of Big Log, the other “Best Plant Riff” to come out of the Post-Zep 80’s. Hope you enjoy your time off. Cheers!
Happy holidays! Glad you liked this video, many people said the same about Ship of Fools so I'm stoked to dust it off for the Planty fans out there!
This is also one of my favorite albums of all time. Love your work mate 🤘
Thanks a lot! Yeah it's quality from the front cover to the last track, epic.
@@SpedSpedding Sure is, everytime I listen to this album it takes me back to travelling from Brisbane to Adelaide on the Indian Pacific train via the desert for 3 days straight when I was only 13 years old (1994). It was a long tiring trip but my tape walkman, this album and my small collection of Modern Drummer and Guitar Player magazines made the trip go so much smoother and quicker. I`ve just turned 41 and this album still takes me back to that place of simplicity before life got complicated. I learnt this song on guitar a while ago. Thanks for inspiring me to learn/refresh it again. Keep up the good work, love the channel🙂🤘
Yep,Doug Boyle's wonderful riff. Me on drums by the way!
The mighty Mr.Blackwell ! Im a true fan and humbled fellow musician. Your work with Robert has been so influential to me and so many others. Honored to see you on here!
Brilliant lesson ❤
Loved the song
Lovely memories of growing up listening to Robert Plant with your auntie del 🎸
Thank you! What albums did you listen to? I listened to Fate of Nations on the way home today. ✨
Damn Sped that was a great tutorial and the jam was amazing. The Strat was sounding fantastic.
Thank you Jim! It's turned up tonally hasn't it... haha! Glad you liked the video, Merry Christmas!
Absolutely remarkable! The force is indeed with you my friend! That tone and improv in Em is magical Mr Sped😎. Makes me want to sit down and dissect your improv haha. Love the song nonetheless and glad that you threw in some Plant. Happy Holidays and may the force be with you! 🤘🏽
Thank you kindly! Yeah those two minutes came out of nowhere and I thought it was a good varied chunk of ideas. So cool that it resonated with you. 🔥❤️
Favorite song I learned and many parts from yourself.... Big Log soo much fun to play and practice. Keep up the great videos brother ✌🖖
Awesome Sped !!
I've recently gotten to know your channel.
I wish I had a guitar teacher back in my day who would have taught me the way you teach. Thanks for the good stuff you teach people for free! That's what's cool ,.. your not charging for your work like the guitar teachers I used to pay.
Back before I knew how to really play , I had to pay 25 an hour to learn Zeppelin songs( and this was back in the 80s )
I Know you don't take requests by comments , Im just taking a shot and reaching out to you the only way I know how.
I can't find anyone that can play " Fool in the rain" by Zeppelin the proper way. I myself can't make it sound correct. I realize Page is mixing and doing other things that might create the sound of the chords, but " Fool in the Rain" is a song that you would think wouldn't be to difficult.
Its cool because with the drums and rythem underneath, you can solo having a lot of fun with this song .
I was curious only about the first opening chords to the song ( That is what seems to be the difficult part ) It just doesn't sound right. I have heard a few version and there is no alternate tuning as well.
Anyway I apologize for the long message.I was hoping you could point me in the right direction.Have you done this Zeppelin song before on the channel? Could you show us how to play it right,or make it sound right?
Thank you.
Sincerely, Joey.
LOVE that tune Sped!!! Great album, I actually had that on cassette when it first came out. I was in the navy at the time and ship of fools was very relevant. This and big log have a special place with me. Thank you very much.
My pleasure! Thanks for sharing your story too. 34 years ago, how time flies. Do you know how to play this one already then?
@@SpedSpedding I tried to get bits of it together in the past but this is the first time I've put effort into it. Honestly, I forgot about it. But to hear you play it and then offer to teach it was like an early Christmas gift. And of all things, my son heard it and is now listening to the whole album in his room. That puts a bow on it for this old man. It's a very good day.
@@cantstartafire Ahhh wow. These are the best stories of the internet. Creation from one room to another and nostalgic smiles on music loves faces. ❤
1988 Ship of Fools - Doug Boyle, 1983 Big Log - Robbie Blunt, sound engagingly similar to my ear. Nice contribution Sped, thanks. Saving Grace and Alison Krauss reunion (2019-present).
Glad you enjoyed it
I love this song...and all of Planty's work really.
Really love "Heaven Knows" and of course "Big Log".
Great over-the-road music.
Good job Mr. Sped.
Thank you! He’s one of a kind isn’t he. Very curious and spiritual. I’ll probably Chuck a Big Log on the fire and have a look for next time. 😏🪵
@@SpedSpedding Big Log is such a great song. Unfortunately, I was driving my friends truck home listening to it at 4 in the morning and fell asleep. We were lucky I hit a curb before going into a dead tree in a ditch head on. We were fine, truck was trashed, and I can't ever listen to that song again!! Literally almost hit a "big log" were it not for that curb. That was in 1986 or so.
@@SpedSpedding One time a long time ago...
I was driving to LA from Kentucky...for work.
I had a 6 disc changer in my little sports car ..with one cartridge entirely devoted to Planty discs.
I left Vegas one morning, but went north through Death Valley...with the player on auto.
Then...I noticed: I was in a Robert Plant video!
Also, forgot to say, your riffing here is fairly sublime. 10/10 would listen to an hour of it.
@@RHEOSTAT380 wow wow wow. That’s crazy. Glad you came out unscathed. Maybe you can save your love of the song by flipping the story. Planty’s angelic delivery acted as a warning for you and he made a deal with the rock gods to trash the truck and let you walk away. 🙏🏻✨
@@rob-v1y Haha, I too have been in that very same valley. The state of me. “Turn your AC off when climbing the hills.” 😅😅😅 GREAT.
And thank you. You’re the first to mention. I will try to feature my style a little more often. 🎉
Cool lesson. Big log is my favorite
Good choice! Glad you enjoyed it. 🙌🏻
Beautiful song. Good lesson. I've always loved "Thru with the Two Step" with Robbie on guitar and Phil Collins on drums. Also great keys from Jezz Woodroffe and bass from Paul Martinez.
Thanks Michael and your picks are great. As you’ve probably seen I’ve just covered Big Log with Robbie playing. Sublime. ✨
@Sped Spedding Yeah, I'm a bit of a Zepophile myself. Saw Zeppelin in '77 at the Madison Square Garden and saw Robert on tour later on at the same place with the Blunt, Collins,Woodroffe and Martinez lineup and saw the Firm with Jimmy and Paul with Tony Franklin and Chris Slade after that.
Wow love that tone, definitely on my to do list, awesome lesson Sped. 👍
Thanks so much. Sneak it in over Christmas? You’ve got another one now too. Just uploaded. 🙏🏻
@@SpedSpedding Favourite Planty ? Big log. Merry Christmas ⛄
Yeah thank you this is great beautiful riff …. Can’t wait to get home tonight and learn Thanks Sped👍👍
It really is. Hypnotic, you just want to play it over and over. Have fun. ✨
Large and in charge. Is this the best guitar channel on the planet? I think so. If Sped says so, then it is. Time for me to check out the patreon. Thanks for all the learnen and the jokes. You're awesome at both.
Haha you're welcome Mike. And that's quite the statement, thank you.
That is my favorite Plant tune also. Thanks for the lesson. Tasty!!
You’re welcome Charlie. You getting this one down?
Howdy from Nashville! Great lesson bruh.
Excelent lesson!!!! And the impro was amazing!!!!
Glad you liked it! Thanks for the kind words on my playing at the end. 🤩✨
!!! Beautiful !!! Amazing to use as a backing track. Invokes many ideas.
Yeah absolutely. It’s a beautiful piece.
Awesome as always and thank you! Slow Dancer was and is probably my favorite Plant solo song. Very Kashmirish if that’s a word.
Thanks Eric! Kashmirish is now officially a word. Because you said so. 💪🏻😏
Sped, amazing breakdown of a lost classic!!! You mentioned that you wanted to know what my favorite Plant lick is and that would be courtesy of guitarist Robbie Blunt from the Pictures at 11 album (Like I've Never Been Gone). Love everything about your channel, your awesome 👌
Thank you so much Scott! Love your picks. Will probably cover some more Plants; everyone seemed to like this one!
Good call Scott...
Yea, I don't think Robbie Blunt gets as much credit as he deserves for how much his playing was heard by the "general public" and guitar players specifically, cause we were all interested in why Plant's song sounded close to Zep, but just enough different for everyone...
Robbie DEFINITELY had the cleanest tone, and therefore playing technique to be that "naked" in the mix, other than Knopfler during that time...almost the sonic definition of "notes of glass"...just saying...🎸👍😎
So glad you did Robert Plant beyond LZ. Love your humor, made me laugh. Rock-on!
Haha that’s great! I like to have a laugh. It’s the only thing keeping me warm at the moment. 🤣🔥
So, not this slinger, but another great one, who got slagged for not being Pagey, was Robbie Blunt! Saw Plant on the Principle of Moments tour, and it was just so cool. Plant opened with I'm In the Mood, and a fan tossed a rather longish scarf upon the stage toward Percy. And man what a toss!. It unfurled just so... and Robert stepped right into the throw and the scarf landed around his neck as though he'd placed the thing there as the finishing dapper accessory.
Great lesson! Love your style! Big Log would be a great lesson with that fireplace back drop! Happy Holidays from Kansas!
Haha yeah good spot. Might need to nip out to the shed and find a bigger one. 🤣🪵
This song is a masterpiece, and you did a fantastic job. Anyone who dislikes Ship of Fools, I have just one question. Who hurt you?
Oh cool, I forgot about this one. I did a deep dive into Big Log a couple of years ago so this will be a nice addition. Thank you!
My pleasure! I’ll probably be taking the deep dive myself. It’s the season for big logs.
Haven’t listened to this album in ages!!.. defo getting some replays now (how many more have I forgotten like this?)…. Great lesson as always, 30 seconds into the video and I’m already reaching for my guitar.. inspiring 😊😊
That’s what I like to hear Mike! Which guitar? 👀
@@SpedSpedding Telecaster tonight.. 🙂
@@mikeburtonphillipson5900 The chiming coils have spoken.
Great tune, just learned this bit recently after forgetting about this song for a long time. Getting into this and Big Log etc. Also dig the Hat :)
Thanks David! I’ll probably take a look at 💪🏻🪵 as a few have mentioned.
I don't understand. 1. How did you know I'd like this? and 2. How did you know I was going to play it 71 times? Amazing! Very cool mesmerizing riff. Thanks.
I’ve always known 🦜 . You’ll get used to it, everybody does.
Excellent song! I'm obsessed with Pictures at Eleven. Drives Wifey insane
As in they love it or hate it? 🫣
@@SpedSpedding She loves Robert Plant but she hates listening to the same music every night
i really enjoy all your content!! greetings from argentina 🤟
Awesome! Thank you and hello all the way to Argentina! 🇦🇷
Love the album, saw Percy on tour behind it way way back when. You asked for some songs, so I name Heaven Knows, Angel Dance, Your Mama Said You Cried In Your Sleep Last Night, and Little By Little. Keep up the good work Sped, and hopefully you survived the big snowfall, lol
That’s a fine selection. I will try my best to, and yeah we need roof work doing so snowfall is not my friend. 🤣
Man, Robert Plant had awesome music; and you only named a small list of his fantastic catalogue. 🤘🏼
Beautiful sound you have
Thank you Denis!
I'm 65 and started playing when I was nine. I'm very impressed. And I thought I was good. Lol.
I bet you’re brilliant Ron!
Happy Christmas, Sped! It would be stellar if you would also walk us through the signal path you use to replicate the tone for the parts you demo. You do a great job of dialing in a close proximity to the original and I’m sure I would learn a lot from how you go about it. Thanks and Cheers!
Glad you think so. I don't ever spend hours trying to nail exact tones and settings. Usually a quick play for about 10 minutes and I'm set. I will probably put out a few videos on rig and tone once I settle into the new place.
Great song !!!
Yup, it really is. Glad you like it.
I like Tall Cool One best by Plant but this would be a close 2nd
Great channel
Big Log, please! Thank you in advance. Brilliant lesson ❤
Great suggestion! 🪵😂
You been watching the zeppelin in the 80s series on JCM’s channel. So good mate. Been digging into Robbie Blunts playing recently since but this is incredible btw. How did you create that tone? 👍
Such a good lesson. Frankly gutted about the prop brew though
It's a prop brew because I'd drank it over the course of the lesson! If you get your Minority Report on you can see the empty bag in the bottom.
Gotta say, love hanging out here.
Pull up a chair, make yourself at home!
You gotta have that baseline to make it work. The guitarist is the surfer and the guitar the surfboard. The bass line is the waves.
Ha, I've never heard anyone put it that way before and I love it.
Ship of Fools and Big Log, can do an eternal loop of those 2 and enjoy every second
Speaking my language.
My favs are
In the Mood
Slow Dancer
Also how about some Pagey solo stuff like
Emerald Eyes
Writes of Winter
Great videos, keep going!
That’s quite the lineup Jim! ✨
Lovely. I'll have to relisten to that Album. A haunting kinda riff. On a second note, did you get a new fire place? Haha
I’ve moved house. 💪🏻🤣
Sped Spedding - Nice. I hate me some Strat - but you played this very well indeed.
You love strats.
Hey Sped...long time no see.....what happened...!!??....nearly 100k Subs....hey....super.....cheers mate.....well done.
Thank you! Yeah it’s been an awesome year for the channel. ✨🙌🏻
Oh yes now this is addictive
Great choice Sped. You absolutely knew I’d like it 😁
And it’s definitely a bit fiddly 🤣🤣🤣 .
Other solos 🤔🤔🤔 Big log and slow dancer. Enjoy your brew 💯
I reckon Big Log is probably on the cards as well! 🪵
You are a really cool man
Robbie Blunt was sooo tasteful on this tune!
I actually have a feeling it was Doug Boyle? Could be wrong though. 🤷🏻♂️
@@SpedSpedding Nope Sped, you are correct. I got all curious and did a look up. I thought it was on an earlier album. Looks like I'll be revisiting Robert's catalog during Xmas break. Which of course cannot be a bad thing at any time...I still listen to complete albums if not someone's whole body of work. Still love Robbie though! My best.
This is Doug Boyle.
Is there anything you do that is not f'ing cool? I love what you do my friend.
Haha thanks Larry. That statement always be in your hands. 🔥 I’ll do my best.
There are some great riffs spread out all over Percy's solo albums... This is a cracker , you lovely Mancunian! How's the band working out? Have a lovely Christmas x
Thank you, and you! 🎄
Band is working out just great; new year is gonna be exciting. 🤩
That Strat is Beautiful, ive got the player plus version. Do you have the bridge floated or decked?
Thank you!! I love it.
What a fine pick, Sped. I had almost forgotten how gorgeous this song is. Too much big logging going on here, right now.... All those mellow songs such as In the Mood are just so divine. Thanks for inspiring us with such a delight.
You’re very welcome Gert! I agree; this song is majestic, hypnotic and haunting. I’m glad you enjoyed this little lesson. 🙏🏻
Lovely jobly. 🙌 i think Liar’s Dance from Manic Nirvana is an amazing song. Would love to learn that one 😉
Awesome Dave, thank you!
A Plant guitar riff?!!! Colour me interested!
Any other description would be a mouthful! 🤣
This is a great song, but I'm more fond of the previous 3 albums. They are fantastic beginning to end. In fact it's Robbie Blunt's work with Robert Plant that converted be from a Strat skeptic into an stratophile.
If you like Blunt you should check my Big Log vid. I think Ship of Fools was Doug Boyle. Still just as majestic. ✨
Well for a start you appear to be an uber-spedmeister.
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For me, it was 'Now & Zen', 'Manic Nirvana' and 'Fate of Nations' that were the quintessential Bob Plant solo albums; They were kind of where Zep would have gone, had not the tragic events of 1980 occured. Some of Doug's guitar sounds *more* Pagey, than Page... (...and to me, Page is GOD... Well one of them - In the realm of chordophonia, I believe in a polytheistic pantheon).
Robbie Blunt was cool, but there was something about the chemistry between Doug Boyle and Phil Johnstone (RIP) that, along with Bob Plant's inimitable vocal prescence made those three albums stand-out above all others. However, it is the latter - Fate of Nations that is the perfect Plant album. With the smooth smokey guitar of the late Kevin MacMichael drifting us through the soundscape of that consummate album and remains one of my most favoured albums of all time.
Top solo from FoN ? Greatest Gift and Great Spirit for sure.
Here is the debut of 'Now and Zen' live at Madison Square Gdns in 1988 [Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary]
th-cam.com/video/TTZIGnjG2KI/w-d-xo.html
Time stamp: 6:40 - Ship of Fools
That’s wonderful. Like reading a passage out of my Zeppelin bible on the shelf there.
I’m not overly familiar with that album in its entirety, I’ll put it on this week as I have a decent drive. Thanks for sharing and keep an eye out for more Planty. 😏✨
BTW - I jamn to Fate of Nations often... It's just a great ablum all round.
I’m on it.
Agreed! I listened to Fate of Nations on holiday not long after its release and didn’t get it. Started listening again maybe twenty years later and Wow, love it, great guitar work on it, think it might have Doug Boyle on some tracks and other guitarists on others.
You are the best
Thank you! 🥹
What do I think of Sped? Seems a decent bloke and that hat, man... that's a cool chapeau!
Haha, I said "it better be good." and this definitely passes. Thanks Eddie.
I just want to know when Mr. Plant is going to finally give you the call for an album "Sped Zeppelin"??
I’ll put in a call first thing. 0739PLANTY 📞
Indeed sir, when I saw the title I began stroking my beard.
You can continue that over to the next one now. 😏
Does the whammy bar control the eye brows? Or do the eye brows control the whammy bar?
Hahaha I think it’s actually the eyes that are in control after all! 👀
You are cool, my friend
So are you! 🙌🏻
I think the improv was very good.
Thanks so much, I had fun with that.
Big Log?
Definitely everyones favourite.
The Sped Spedding eyebrow metronome.
Hahaha good spot. Syncs with the trem automatically. 😏😏😏
I ghostwrote Plant's Now & Zen +Manic Nirvana & parts of Fate of Nations to beg Plant to re-unite w/Page 1987. For Ship of Fools my model was the elegant song Big Log from his earlier 80's,so stuck in my head.I can't play guitar well,or read music notation,but I sing the guitar notes and real guitarists do it well.I ghostwrote for many artists.
Amazing! Which tracks on Manic Nirvana and Fate of Nations did you ghost write?
@@chiswaah all of Manic Nirvana & Now & Zen,but just a few on Fate of nations,29 palms,I believe & Calling to you,off the top of my head.
@@jerrilehane7815 What exactly is 'Ghost Writing'? Must have been an amazing experience.
@@chiswaah I think it was the best time in my life,age 29.I had the determination to write songs,tv,movies concepts for my fave artists and got it to them.Most important I imitated them on tape to raise their eyebrows"stealing"& giving back,as gift & tribute,all free.
@@jerrilehane7815 So did you write Calling to You and Tie Dye on the Highway?
You’re looking like John Lennon in the Beatles last photo session
Cheers lid.
Plants a decent guitarist
Rumour has it he wrote the Back In Black solo on a banjo.
@@SpedSpedding love your channel Sped! Keep the videos coming!!!
@@SpedSpedding strung with 13s
did you get smart and simply separate out the drum/bass pasts using Moises?!?
I was born quite smart and getting smarter by the day. 💪🏻😏😂
Tie Dye On The Highway would be my #1 ,... this 2nd. Love it.
...think this planet is the "ship of fools" tho...
0.04% CO2 is NOT a problem,.. you numptys out there! ...theres millions of 'em!
1 out of 2 ain’t bad. I need to spy on you more. 🦇
Great riff but robby blunt wrote the best riffs for plant.
See next video….
Hey sped any chance we could get a whole The Rover lesson? Its my absolute favorite LZ song and there arent many lessons out there and you already have the solo lesson on your channel. Could you ever fit the rest of the song on your plate? Thanks for the effort and time youve put into this channel.
I was going to give you a hard time about your hat, but the wonderful lesson completely made me disregard that.
It’s Christmas mate. Where’s your hat?