It was a joke by the drummer of The Who Keith Moon.. you will go over like Lrad Balloon. They thought Americans would pronounce it wrong like Leed instead of Lead like the metal..so they dropped the a.
They wrote this song in a 15 minute break because Bonham was getting graduated trying to play The best On Four Sticks. He started with An old 50'd intro and Page joined in with JPJ as a jam. Robert sand some lyrics from old rock n roll songs he knew. 15 minutes later.... In the can!
Guitarist and band leader, Jimmy Page was in another band, The Yardbirds. The Yardbirds also launched the careers of Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck (RIP). Anyway, The Yardbirds broke up in the middle of an American tour in 1969 and left Page holding the bag. He was talking to The Who's drummer Keith Moon about hiring some session players, and finishing the tour as The New Yardbirds. Keith replied, "That'll go over like a lead zeppelin (balloon)!" The rest is history.
The origin of the name "Led Zeppelin" came from a conversation involving Keith Moon and John Entwistle of The Who. They joked that a supergroup with them, Page, and Jeff Beck would "go down like a lead balloon," meaning it would fail spectacularly. The phrase "lead balloon" is a common idiom for something that fails miserably. Jimmy Page found the phrase amusing and liked the imagery. He decided to alter it slightly: He dropped the "a" in "lead" to avoid confusion over pronunciation (he didn't want people saying leed). "Balloon" was replaced with "Zeppelin", which conveyed something grand, powerful, and heavy but also light and able to soar. Thus, Led Zeppelin was born, perfectly capturing the band's combination of heaviness and flight.
This, and nearly every Zep song, was just as heavy when I was in high school in 1989 to 1993 as it was in 1971. Guess what? 2024, it’s STILL as heavy as it ever was! It’s pretty difficult to find more absolute timeless rock than Zep! 53 years from now, no one will be talking about an artist from the 2020’s. I’d wager Led Zeppelin will still be a tangible touchstone of music by then.
From Led Zep's fourth album. A total change up from "III", which had a whole acoustic side. Many great songs on the ZoSo, fourth album, though it is unnamed, but we have to call it something. Just do them all.
The critics criticize the previous album for being too hippie. So they wrote this as a response to the critics showing them that they could still rock and roll
Cool! Cadillac used it for a commercial a few years ago. We used to fake our way through the song in the garage band I was in back when I was thirteen circa 1980. Also check out the Velvet Underground "Rock & Roll" or the cover by The Runaways from the seventies or the cover by Jane's Addiction from the eighties.
6:10 Thanks for shouting out to the great JPJ, Smokey, LOL! Sweet reaction, guys. Please do yourselves a favor and check out the filthy - ass funky riff that is Zeppelin's "The Rover"! Or the bone- crunching metal that is "Nobody's Fault but mine." Or the sauce-sloshed gem that is "The Lemon Song." (You'll never overllook mentioning JPJ again after hearing him on that bass in "Lemon," LOL!) Cheers!
The "Led" were practically in every house back in the day (1970's) there wasn't a party that someone didn't play these albums, very loud all night long. Rolled many a joint on the front of the Led LP covers getting super stoned, drinking and dancing. Stairway to Heaven usually signaled the end of the party with everyone trying to sing the lyrics no matter how stoned we were. Rocking good times.
This is an homage to the early days of Rock and Roll. The drum intro was straight out of Little Richard's Keep 'a Knockin, and the guitar riff is a basic Chuck Berry like pattern.
Led Zeppelin is the number 2 band in sales, selling over 300 million, The Beatles are the only ones with more sales. Bonham got frustrated trying to play Four Sticks, using 2 sticks in each hand. He took a break & started pounding this out, & the others jumped in. They were still recording so it was captured it at the time, Bonham was then able to go back & got Four Sticks done. We got 2 songs instead of one. The Immigrant Song opened earlier concerts, & Rock & Roll opened later concerts, both would get the fans going. Thank you, it’s been awhile since you did LZ, glad to see you back.
The British rock guys were perhaps some of the biggest 'scholars' of American roots music: blues, R&B, Rockabilly, and incorporating it likewise on their artistic exports back over here and around the globe. Got a little Jerry Lee Louis, et.al. here!
Brings back great memories of my late dad cranking his Led Zeppelin records when i was a kid in the 70's early 80's, he died in 2011 at only 60 and my mom 4 years later at only 63. They were big fans of Led Zeppelin.
When i played high school basketball in the 70s, before i left the house I blasted this song in my room for an hour before I left for the game.. Great song, great memories.
I believe Led Zeppelin IV (Untitled) has sold in excess of 33 million copies since release in 1971. over 30 times Platinum, Or equal to over Three Diamond Awards, (Ten Million Units each) and then some!
So my favorite detail about this song; there's no amp. Jimmy Page plugged his guitar directly into the mixer for that super dry, fuzzy tone. Distortion in rock came from broken speakers, and I think he was trying to imitate that.
This song made famous again ten years after it came out with this line in the movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High. "And, five, now this is the most important, Rat. When it comes down to making out, whenever possible, put on side one of Led Zeppelin IV." Although, A rock journalist like Cameron Crowe, the director of the movie, would never make this mistake. The producers weren't able to secure/license songs from Led Zeppelin IV but had access to Kashmir. From a character/in-universe standpoint, one could say Rat was clueless and played a song from the wrong album.
How did you not know this was Led Zeppelin?! This is one of their anthem songs! Check out the live version from their film The Song Remains The Same …of their 1973 concert at MSG….it was their opener.
The jacket of this LP also named and defined the “bundle of sticks” on the old man’s back. If you know you know. P.S. I’m proud to say I own this album.
One of the best examples of a LZ number credited as a Plant/Page original, yet is undeniably a blatant copy of Killing Floor by Howlin' Wolf, save for a few words that were changed and a heavier arrangement. The balls it takes to put ones' names on a masterpiece created by a legend.
If you knew Led Zeppelin in any way how could you not know that it was them? It is pure uptempo rock and Zeppelin sounding from start to finish. I love you guys but you also should know the Zeppelin catalogue to some degree by now. Rock N Roll might be the FIFTH best song on Led Zeppelin IV behind Stairway To Heaven, Black Dog, Misty Mountain Hop and When The Levee Breaks.
Admiral David Farragut said the damn the torpedoes line during the US Civil War during the battle of Mobile Bay in 1864. John Paul Jones is an American Revolutionary war naval hero who famously said, "I Have not yet begun to fight."
This song was in response to the flack they got after their acoustic heavy 3rd album. They wanted to show they could still rock hence the first line 'Its Been A Long Time Since I Rock and Roll'.
Since you're already familiar with the studio version you need to check out the live version from the song remains the same. Watch them getting down in their prime
The Cure since you mentioned Robert Smith, one of the best if not the best in musical terms that were rattling around in the Uk at that time. The Cure go under the radar, I always thought they had some great songs. Something about the painting symbology can't remember like a dream I saw but have no recollection of and yet it echoes through my soul. I can hear it calling me.
Absolutely no snakes in New Zealand. And NZ is in the Southern Hemisphere, while Sweden is in the Northern, so you guys could absolutely visit each other and avoid winter if that's your thing. However NZ winters aren't very cold.
UB-40. Def Leppard. 83. Oops. 🤷🏽 Morrissey. That drum intro is borrowed from Little Richard's 'Keep-A Knockin' '. This whole album - cut after cut - blew our effing minds when we listened to it right outta the shrink wrap when it came out. This was roots, babies. For them, for us. They had a decade and a half on us, grew up with it, learned it, built on it and gave something new to the world. All killer, no filler. 🖖🏼😊🎶❤️🍁❤️🎄🥃✨️🕊
Plenty of people already did my comment about where the name Led Zeppelin comes from so I will just make my other comment. Def Leppard (note the same misspelling as in Led Zeppelin) wasn't a hair metal band. Def Leppard came over from Britain around the time of Iron Maiden in the early 80s as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. Hair metal doesn't come around until the late 80s. But Def Leppard played an instrumental role in paving the way for hair metal. Def Leppard was the first metal band to have a following that was as much female and male. (If you see the movie This is Spinal Tap you will see that one of the jokes in it is about why the band attracts such a male audience). The idea that metal could double its audience by being as popular with women was a great draw for record labels. And so it was one of the reasons that labels pushed bands into the hair metal model. On a different note, you have apparently heard Black Dog, and have now heard Rock and Roll, and presumably have heard Stairway to Heaven. That means you are at most one song away from having heard all of side one of Led Zeppelin IV. The last song, The Battle of Evermore is well worth listening to. (You may have heard parts of side two as well which consists of Misty Mountain Hop, Four Sticks, Going to California, and When the Levee Breaks. It is unlikely you have heard Four Sticks, but the others are classics as well).
Guys, there were no big Led Zeppelin hits really. They never ever released a single. Not one. They were purely an album releasing band. In fact to get some of their music on to the UK's most famous chart show Top Of The Pops they used an instrumental version of Whole Lotta Love as the theme tune for several years when I was a kid.
Rock and Roll giving tribute to R&R Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp, tributing stomp music ( and Robert's dog, Stryder a blue eyed merle) Boogie with Stu- doing the Boogie Woogie with Rolling Stones 6th man Ian 'stu' Stewart.😂😂
Still waiting on that Wheel reaction to Hyperion, you could do that next, I did request it in spiral Out Sunday in October, really want to see y'all's reaction to it.
It was a joke by the drummer of The Who Keith Moon.. you will go over like Lrad Balloon. They thought Americans would pronounce it wrong like Leed instead of Lead like the metal..so they dropped the a.
Thank you, I didn't want to type all that out tonight. 😊😊😊 your the best.
@@stevefilley9765 😅"you're"
They wrote this song in a 15 minute break because Bonham was getting graduated trying to play The best On Four Sticks. He started with An old 50'd intro and Page joined in with JPJ as a jam. Robert sand some lyrics from old rock n roll songs he knew. 15 minutes later.... In the can!
The old 50's intro was the opening to Little Richard's "Keep A'Knockin'"
Guitarist and band leader, Jimmy Page was in another band, The Yardbirds. The Yardbirds also launched the careers of Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck (RIP).
Anyway, The Yardbirds broke up in the middle of an American tour in 1969 and left Page holding the bag. He was talking to The Who's drummer Keith Moon about hiring some session players, and finishing the tour as The New Yardbirds. Keith replied, "That'll go over like a lead zeppelin (balloon)!"
The rest is history.
The stuff LZ did as The New Yardbirds is very tasty. Not the same punch as later stuff, but still bluesy and groovy AF.
@@throwabrick Yeah! They did finish a few dates in Europe as The New Yardbirds before the name change and recording their debut.
May have been the first Zeppelin song I remember hearing as a kid in the early 70's
Def first one I ever heard - the live version on SRTS
Great choice. This track rarely gets reactions. It’s an absolute banger,very prominent in pop-culture. Movies / commercials etc. looking forward to it
Bonham is a killer! So high energy
The bass drum is on 1/8 notes pretty much all the way through the song, with a bouncing dynamic. My leg would lock up so hard!!
The origin of the name "Led Zeppelin" came from a conversation involving Keith Moon and John Entwistle of The Who. They joked that a supergroup with them, Page, and Jeff Beck would "go down like a lead balloon," meaning it would fail spectacularly. The phrase "lead balloon" is a common idiom for something that fails miserably.
Jimmy Page found the phrase amusing and liked the imagery. He decided to alter it slightly:
He dropped the "a" in "lead" to avoid confusion over pronunciation (he didn't want people saying leed).
"Balloon" was replaced with "Zeppelin", which conveyed something grand, powerful, and heavy but also light and able to soar.
Thus, Led Zeppelin was born, perfectly capturing the band's combination of heaviness and flight.
Another one of my favorites..they're all my favorites amazing category of music
MORE ZEPPELIN!!! This live at msg in 1973 is amazing!
1 Of the most rockin rock songs that ever rocked
Led Zeppelin started in 1969 and lasted till John Bonham passed in 1980.....Huge throughout the 70's!
Best concert opener ever
Morning guys! Led Zeppelin is always a great choice!❤❤
This, and nearly every Zep song, was just as heavy when I was in high school in 1989 to 1993 as it was in 1971.
Guess what?
2024, it’s STILL as heavy as it ever was!
It’s pretty difficult to find more absolute timeless rock than Zep!
53 years from now, no one will be talking about an artist from the 2020’s.
I’d wager Led Zeppelin will still be a tangible touchstone of music by then.
"Rock & Roll" is on the same album with "Stairway to Heaven", "Black Dog", and "When the Levee Breaks". Yep, solid gold stuff from 1971.
This song was a tribute to the original rockers, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, etc...
“Keep-A-Knocking” by Little Richard, specifically.
From Led Zep's fourth album. A total change up from "III", which had a whole acoustic side. Many great songs on the ZoSo, fourth album, though it is unnamed, but we have to call it something. Just do them all.
The critics criticize the previous album for being too hippie. So they wrote this as a response to the critics showing them that they could still rock and roll
Back in the 70s, a friend said he didn't get Led Zeppelin, I told him to think of getting laid
Always a fun time in Live With The Tribe! Much love, y'all!
Cool! Cadillac used it for a commercial a few years ago. We used to fake our way through the song in the garage band I was in back when I was thirteen circa 1980. Also check out the Velvet Underground "Rock & Roll" or the cover by The Runaways from the seventies or the cover by Jane's Addiction from the eighties.
Definitely Rock N Rolll
This is classic rock and roll to the core
6:10 Thanks for shouting out to the great JPJ, Smokey, LOL! Sweet reaction, guys. Please do yourselves a favor and check out the filthy - ass funky riff that is Zeppelin's "The Rover"! Or the bone- crunching metal that is "Nobody's Fault but mine." Or the sauce-sloshed gem that is "The Lemon Song." (You'll never overllook mentioning JPJ again after hearing him on that bass in "Lemon," LOL!) Cheers!
I didn't get into them until I was in my 20s, but when I did, boy was I hooked.
The "Led" were practically in every house back in the day (1970's) there wasn't a party that someone didn't play these albums, very loud all night long. Rolled many a joint on the front of the Led LP covers getting super stoned, drinking and dancing. Stairway to Heaven usually signaled the end of the party with everyone trying to sing the lyrics no matter how stoned we were. Rocking good times.
Zepplin set the trend for every other genre of music….. revolutionary as much as the Beatles were their soft rock
Really? Even manele?
If a person has never heard rock and roll before or had no idea what rock sounded like-this is what you play.
love this song, often overlooked
This is an homage to the early days of Rock and Roll. The drum intro was straight out of Little Richard's Keep 'a Knockin, and the guitar riff is a basic Chuck Berry like pattern.
Bonzo is killing it on this one 😊 Tangerine or Hot dog are two of my favorites from them. Great reaction and Peace out 🙏 ☮️ ✌️
Led Zeppelin is the number 2 band in sales, selling over 300 million, The Beatles are the only ones with more sales. Bonham got frustrated trying to play Four Sticks, using 2 sticks in each hand. He took a break & started pounding this out, & the others jumped in. They were still recording so it was captured it at the time, Bonham was then able to go back & got Four Sticks done. We got 2 songs instead of one. The Immigrant Song opened earlier concerts, & Rock & Roll opened later concerts, both would get the fans going. Thank you, it’s been awhile since you did LZ, glad to see you back.
A Little Richard sound but an original Zeppelin song! Made in the spur of the moment.
Mythbusters made a giant lead balloon fly.
Led not lead.
@adriantrusca1245 ...yes, lead, it was lead foil...and it worked... Season 6 ep. 2
The British rock guys were perhaps some of the biggest 'scholars' of American roots music: blues, R&B, Rockabilly, and incorporating it likewise on their artistic exports back over here and around the globe. Got a little Jerry Lee Louis, et.al. here!
Brings back great memories of my late dad cranking his Led Zeppelin records when i was a kid in the 70's early 80's, he died in 2011 at only 60 and my mom 4 years later at only 63. They were big fans of Led Zeppelin.
Unlike every other band you mentioned Led Zeppelin everything they did was fantastic. greatest of all time.
When i played high school basketball in the 70s, before i left the house I blasted this song in my room for an hour before I left for the game.. Great song, great memories.
I believe Led Zeppelin IV (Untitled) has sold in excess of 33 million copies since release in 1971. over 30 times Platinum, Or equal to over Three Diamond Awards, (Ten Million Units each) and then some!
Great song!!
Becoming Led Zeppelin... a new documentary on the band hits IMAX on February 7th. Zep are the best 🤘🏼
So my favorite detail about this song; there's no amp. Jimmy Page plugged his guitar directly into the mixer for that super dry, fuzzy tone. Distortion in rock came from broken speakers, and I think he was trying to imitate that.
Love the Sammy Jr impression guys!
Talking over Bonhams intro is Criminal
Over The Hills And Far Away
Nobody's Fault But Mine
The Ocean
My fave Zep song. It’s so good, it really doesn’t matter what the lyrics are.
This song made famous again ten years after it came out with this line in the movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High. "And, five, now this is the most important, Rat. When it comes down to making out, whenever possible, put on side one of Led Zeppelin IV."
Although, A rock journalist like Cameron Crowe, the director of the movie, would never make this mistake. The producers weren't able to secure/license songs from Led Zeppelin IV but had access to Kashmir. From a character/in-universe standpoint, one could say Rat was clueless and played a song from the wrong album.
Black Sabbath,Led Zeppelin,Deep Purple the holy triad of rock music🤘
How did you not know this was Led Zeppelin?!
This is one of their anthem songs!
Check out the live version from their film The Song Remains The Same …of their 1973 concert at MSG….it was their opener.
The only thing missing is the hiss and pop the needle makes when it touches the vinal before the song starts. I'm old
Me too
The jacket of this LP also named and defined the “bundle of sticks” on the old man’s back.
If you know you know.
P.S. I’m proud to say I own this album.
I bought every album!
There is no cover of this song. Nobody would dare. 🤘
Heart does an amazing cover of this song and several other Zep songs with full approval of Led Zep!
The Lemon Song!
One of the best examples of a LZ number credited as a Plant/Page original, yet is undeniably a blatant copy of Killing Floor by Howlin' Wolf, save for a few words that were changed and a heavier arrangement. The balls it takes to put ones' names on a masterpiece created by a legend.
No. It was a heartfelt tribute to Rock And Roll.
If you knew Led Zeppelin in any way how could you not know that it was them? It is pure uptempo rock and Zeppelin sounding from start to finish. I love you guys but you also should know the Zeppelin catalogue to some degree by now. Rock N Roll might be the FIFTH best song on Led Zeppelin IV behind Stairway To Heaven, Black Dog, Misty Mountain Hop and When The Levee Breaks.
The opening drum part is actually inspired by the guitar part in "Johnny B Goode"
Heart does this too.
Keith Moon said about starting a new Yard Birds - That would go down as a Lead Zeppelin
Lead balloon
Yes, this was from their 4th unnamed album.
um...NOT a Van Gogh painting. It's a photo of a photo on a wall.
Sing it brother. 😁
John Paul jones is the only member with a stage name, he's named after famous naval captain that said damn the torpedos
Yes his name was originally John Baldwin
Admiral David Farragut said the damn the torpedoes line during the US Civil War during the battle of Mobile Bay in 1864.
John Paul Jones is an American Revolutionary war naval hero who famously said, "I Have not yet begun to fight."
@ericelander9936 my bad got the quotes mixed up
This song was in response to the flack they got after their acoustic heavy 3rd album. They wanted to show they could still rock hence the first line 'Its Been A Long Time Since I Rock and Roll'.
Nice crooner harmonies chaps!!! ❤😂
All of that LZ, whole lp's. Music I grew up with, learned to play drums from.
With the piano if I thought it was an old school artist..it would be Jerry Lee Lewis
Ditto,"That'll go over like a lead zeppelin (balloon)!
Check out the "lead zeppelin" episode of Mythbusters 😁
Now you ready for The Lemon Song....
You guys enjoy the classics, you should check out some Cold Chisel tracks - Australia’s favourite rock band.
Since you're already familiar with the studio version you need to check out the live version from the song remains the same. Watch them getting down in their prime
Heart does the best cover of this song I've ever heard.
It sounds like Little Richard to me.
I'm jealous both my mom and uncle saw them open for the Who
Heart did a great cover of this song. It was on their Greatest Hits album. They were heavily influenced by Led Zeppelin.
The Cure since you mentioned Robert Smith, one of the best if not the best in musical terms that were rattling around in the Uk at that time. The Cure go under the radar, I always thought they had some great songs. Something about the painting symbology can't remember like a dream I saw but have no recollection of and yet it echoes through my soul. I can hear it calling me.
The GOATS. Listen to some of their lesser hits you'll be amazed how good they are.
A lot of fans were disappointed with Led Zeppelin III because it wasn't as heavy as I and II. So this was the bands statement.
Absolutely no snakes in New Zealand. And NZ is in the Southern Hemisphere, while Sweden is in the Northern, so you guys could absolutely visit each other and avoid winter if that's your thing. However NZ winters aren't very cold.
UB-40. Def Leppard. 83. Oops. 🤷🏽 Morrissey.
That drum intro is borrowed from Little Richard's 'Keep-A Knockin' '.
This whole album - cut after cut - blew our effing minds when we listened to it right outta the shrink wrap when it came out. This was roots, babies. For them, for us. They had a decade and a half on us, grew up with it, learned it, built on it and gave something new to the world. All killer, no filler.
🖖🏼😊🎶❤️🍁❤️🎄🥃✨️🕊
Plenty of people already did my comment about where the name Led Zeppelin comes from so I will just make my other comment. Def Leppard (note the same misspelling as in Led Zeppelin) wasn't a hair metal band. Def Leppard came over from Britain around the time of Iron Maiden in the early 80s as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. Hair metal doesn't come around until the late 80s. But Def Leppard played an instrumental role in paving the way for hair metal. Def Leppard was the first metal band to have a following that was as much female and male. (If you see the movie This is Spinal Tap you will see that one of the jokes in it is about why the band attracts such a male audience). The idea that metal could double its audience by being as popular with women was a great draw for record labels. And so it was one of the reasons that labels pushed bands into the hair metal model.
On a different note, you have apparently heard Black Dog, and have now heard Rock and Roll, and presumably have heard Stairway to Heaven. That means you are at most one song away from having heard all of side one of Led Zeppelin IV. The last song, The Battle of Evermore is well worth listening to. (You may have heard parts of side two as well which consists of Misty Mountain Hop, Four Sticks, Going to California, and When the Levee Breaks. It is unlikely you have heard Four Sticks, but the others are classics as well).
The UK seems to have a great musical
Influence right now. REN, Chinchilla, Romaine Axisa. It would be fun and find great music.
I think they nailed the song title.
Guys, there were no big Led Zeppelin hits really. They never ever released a single. Not one. They were purely an album releasing band. In fact to get some of their music on to the UK's most famous chart show Top Of The Pops they used an instrumental version of Whole Lotta Love as the theme tune for several years when I was a kid.
The Stroll and The Book of Love were songs from the late 50’s.
Perhaps the version you heard was the cover done by Heart, which was outstanding.
It’s also mean hard rock with a light touch
Iron Maiden
Guns and roses
Iron Butterfly
Etc etc
Yo, Spacehog "in the Meantime"
And/or Ben Folds Five "Army"
Both better as studio versions. Yall are great dudes. Love the show!
Been listening to this song for 50 years. Just learned about half the lyrics today. lol
Mythbusters successfully made a lead balloon that worked.
Check ✔️ out Dazed and confused
Zeppelin didn’t make a bad song pick any
I like you guys but I usually scroll through until the music starts. 😂
Rock and Roll giving tribute to R&R
Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp, tributing stomp music ( and Robert's dog, Stryder a blue eyed merle)
Boogie with Stu- doing the Boogie Woogie with Rolling Stones 6th man Ian 'stu' Stewart.😂😂
Sammy Hagar and Eddie Van Halen do a kick ass version of Rock & Roll from a Farm Aid Concert! You should check it out!
💛💛💛
Song starts at 7.49
I would move to Sweden, so I could hang out with Avatar 😊😊😊
It's still their biggest seller. It's on the same album. If Elon builds a balloon like his death cars....no thank you
Great song but too short.
🔥🔥🔥
Still waiting on that Wheel reaction to Hyperion, you could do that next, I did request it in spiral Out Sunday in October, really want to see y'all's reaction to it.