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It's great when the brain makes the connection and you see someone realize that they remember something after all.

The first album by a band that I bought with my own money, 1971, Led Zeppelin III. I drop the needle on my parents HiFi, and this comes out of the speakers. Dad wasn't home, good, mom, well she was a little startled but she started to move a little. She was a little more "adventurous" than my dad with her musical tastes. And so it all began. That live footage is from Sydney, Australia.

The bass in this song is badass. Period. JPJ, baby!

Not a Tarzan scream,it's Plant's interpretation of what a Viking war cry would,perhaps, sound like.

It's used twice in Thor: Ragnarok, and also in Shrek the Third.

I can’t wait until you get to “Achilles Last Stand” on their album “Presence”. We are talking full on orchestration of guitar parts on that one, similar to “ten years gone “, but at an epic scale. Pay attention to the drum parts on that one, because they will fly right by you if you’re not paying attention.

It was prominent in one of the "Thor" flicks. I think it was the Ragnarok film where this song rings through the battle scene

The Bass Line Is Stunning, Especially The Fills Leading Up To The Rest. Page Always Added A Solo When Playing This Live.

I saw them in ‘71 at the Forum in LA. Fliipping incredible! A concert that was burnt into my memory.

Think of what the phrase “Valhalla I am coming” means! The warrior intends to die while fighting!!

It was used in School of Rock after Jack Black and the cast recited a plea to the band on video (an extra on the DVD). As far as I know, the first time Zeppelin had been used in a film.

Sometimes a burst of inspiration and a guitar riff is all that is needed for a song. Nothing complicated just rock and roll

We were at Watkins Glen, for the 28th July Summer Jam, with the Grateful Dead, The Band and The Allman Brothers Band, in 1973. Kids ran past us Sunday morning, as the remnants of 600,000 happy heads slogged out of the mud, and i shouted "Why are you running?" 😂😂❤ and one replied over his shoulder "We've got ZEP tickets!"🎉 And that was their second show at Madison Square Garden, on Sunday, after their receipts from Saturday were stolen from the hotel safe ... all of which forms their film: "The Song Remains The Same" ☮️☮️❤☮️☮️

One of the best Led Zeppelin songs.

A reaction to the entire album.... Yes, please.

III is my favorite Zep album

If memory serves correct, on “Led Zeppelin lll”, the “Immigrant Song” bleeds into the song, “Friends” which bleeds into the song, “Celebration Day” for a nice little 3 song medley that begins the album.

The film clip is from the Sydney Showground where the annual Royal Agricultural Show ( I’m guessing like a U.S. State Fair)is held each year at Easter in Sydney Australia. The clip was filmed for GTK (Get to Know) for the Australian Broadcast Commission, Australia’s version of the UK’s BBC. GTK was a youth program that covered News and culture for Australian youths. Occasionally they would have live in studio and out door performances.

In the movie "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" there is a good cover of "The Immigrant Song" by The Yeh, Yeh, Yehs (or their lead singer). It was used at the very beginning of the movie.

Yeah, the only thing wrong with “Immigrant Song” is its length. It would’ve been great for a 4:00 minute studio version!

I had never been the biggest Zepp fan, but a band I was in covered the live version of Immigrant Song, and the bass line was a lot of fun to play. That made me appreciate them enough to climb aboard the Zepp train.

Yes explore Led Zeppelin III. Since I've Been Loving You has one of the most beautiful blues solos ever. And that should lead you to Tea For One on Presence with a solo you wish would go on forever. I can promise you will love these.

Because it is so short and so incredible you never get enough and you want to hear it again and again.

Since I’ve Been Loving You, live at Madison Square Garden (1973) is absolutely amazing, from this album. Yes there are several acoustic songs on it, & it’s a great album.

Hi Doug , the only time I see Zep they opened with Immigrant Song and its stayed with me to this day , brilliant set at Bath Shepton Mallet UK. It was a privilege to see them . Night before we had Pink Floyd .

Hi Doug! If you want to hear the sequel of this, jump to Achilles Last Stand on the Presence album!

Mmmmm! This was my first introduction to Led Zep way back in 1976 on a ship sailing to South Africa from the UK. I was 18 and my crew mates were older and wiser. I listened. And never looked back!!

I think Zeppelin 3 is such an overlooked album.

Doug, I was unaware that Peter Schickele aka. PDQ Bach passed away last month. You might consider a memorial for a great musical satirist.

You want a solo? Jimmy is only too happy to melt your face.

One of the great rock riffs!

Shortest song they do. I've always wanted it to be longer.

One of the best. Very best. Bonhams beat is tribal. Great video ✌🏻

We saw 'em live in Bremen, Germany, in 1980. Half a year before Bonzo passed away. I had gotten my driving liscense just a year before. Driving down in mom's car with my younger brother and 2 classmates of him. We even had a camera with us. (Yes! That was still allowed.) Kodak Ektachrome 400, pushed to 1600ASA in the development. Two or three of them pics are now hanging in a guitar shop in Perth, Australia.

This and Fool In The Rain shift regularly as my favorite.

My old man was at that Sydney show in '72! He was 15 and got in for free (my grandfather was an usher and snuck him in) 😂

It's a fantastic album - mostly acoustic but with several rockers. And several classics - especially Since I've been Loving You (and this one of course).

Hi Doug. You mentioned that 'Led Zeppelin III" might be a candidate for a full-album reaction, and I 100% agree. This album was a departure from the band's first 2 albums, and I liken it to Bob Dylan's 'Bringing It All Back Home' in terms of signalling a new direction. But, whereas Dylan expanded his repertoire from acoustic to electric, Zeppelin went the other way. They also made enormous strides in terms of the various instruments played and the use of alternate guitar tuning. 'Led Zeppelin III' is certainly viewed as their acoustic album, and this is half true. Only 1 of the 5 songs on side 1 is acoustic, but all 5 songs on side 2 can be considered acoustic. Again, this is roughly equivalent to how Dylan sequenced the material on 'Bringing It All Back Home' (which always made me wonder why the folk purists where so alarmed when he played a portion of his set on electric guitar at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival ... he had already shown where his music was heading).

Their live version of this is amazing!

One of my favorite songs. Love it.

If you're going to start doing stuff off Zep 3 then you have to do Since I've Been Loving You. One of Jimmy's greatest guitar solos

This is THAT song? Classic. Listen to Since I've been Loving You off Led Zeppelin III.

This song absolutely blew my mind the first time I listened to the album Think: Lindisfarne It’s heavy stuff

Tritones and lions and bears, oh my! After all these years, still my favorite Zep song.

There's a track on Led Zeppelin III called 'Friends' that has a quality I've never been able to explain and I would love to hear your take.

This song was great in Thor Ragnarok

They played a clip of this in the TV show _"Rock Follies"_ in the '70s. This guy was trying to show how to focus in to tap your inner energy and power, and one of the girls was listening on headphones. Some time after 9/11, a guy got arrested because people complained that he was listening to this on headphones and thought he was going to do something dodgy on the plane! {:o:O:}

LOVE this song. But it's not "pop" rock. Zeppelin did do some pop rock, but that's more like songs such as _The Rover, Houses of the Holy, Fool in the Rain_ and _The Song Remains the Same._ _"Immigrant Song"_ belongs in the "mystical/progressive" group, along with _Achilles' Last Stand, Kashmir, In the Light_ and so on. You can actually make 5 CDs of Led Zeppelin music, Acoustic, Blues, Mystical/Progressive, Poppy and Rock. {:o:O:}

I was at the Bath blues and progressive rock festival at Shepton Mallet. In 1979, I was 20 years old. It was the best festival I have ever been to and I have been to a lot of festivals. ❤

"How did they let the song fizzle out like that?" Valhalla I am cominggg!

3 is honestly my favorite Zep album.. although it's hard to pick only 1 lol. Their 1st 5 records are back to back gold 🥰

Timeless classic !

This is one of my strongest memory of my childhood. I was 12 when I heard this on the radio. I remember thinking only not humans could play such a thing. This was like coming from nowhere, outerspace but not from something I could handle. I then fell in love with rock music !

One of my favorite Led songs. Resonates with my Danish heritage!

Check out Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck doing it from The Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame. Beck does the Plant screams on guitar. Rockin!

The live footage is from the Sydney Show Ground in Australia, 1972 ... my Father was at the show ... the audio is however taken off the desk from another show in Melbourne I believe, They spliced the two together.

My first Zep aibum. Still one of my favourites.

Your always amazing Mr. Helvering, thank you so much for so much content and joy!

That live version was filmed in Sydney.

My introduction to and favorite version of this is from the BBC sessions. Same with Since I’ve Been Loving You

The live is a little longer, it’s been in several movies, like School of Rock. I believe a few commercials too, it is a song many realize they’ve heard it before. In case you didn’t know, Valhalla is where Vikings go when they die, especially if they died as a warrior in battle. They believed there were different halls in Valhalla. The thing I find odd, one other time listening to you, you kept saying oh shut up Robert. Sorry but that is Plants instrument, & he’s very talented at using it, & his voice is one of the most amazing ever. This band is the most talented group of 4 men, the writing the music, is all pure genius.

I was at the Bath festival & saw Led Zeppelin perform, among many other great bands.

Led Zeppelin is like Beethoven. Anything you check out ends up being awesome.

Music like this is not made anymore 😢 What a band, such talents, what an awseome recording. Just hear the drama created on how its produced, the dynamics from full on to more smoth and softer parts. And then the variations created live… thx Doug🙏

0:27 "It took me AWHILE to get to Led Zeppelin on the channel..." Word! People out there in KZfaq land, I am one of the people on the august COUNCIL OF DOUGS who spent nearly a YEAR getting the good Dr. to pay more attention to this band, thank you very much! Dr. Doug complained about Robert Plant's voice - but he usually praised the band's rhythm track in particular, as well he should! Give Bonzo much love! And don't forget John Paul Jones, 'cause that would be a sin... The other three get the lion's share of the glory, but JPJ's bass, organ, and arranging skills are par excellence! You said you haven't done any other songs from this third album. Well... SINCE I'VE BEEN LOVING YOU is the best song by the band for many many many LZ fans. It's one of the very blues songs ever recorded. (Okay, maybe Howlin' Wolf's SMOKESTACK LIGHTNING is number one.)

I was at that concert in Sydney at the old Showground.Great show on a hot arvo in summer. I was deaf for a week afterwards!!!

Oh please, yes! Led III is my favorite album of any and all albums. That’s high praise given the plethora of fantastic music that gifted our generation.

Love zeppelin love this track it's always good to hear the difference between studio and live , for me live is always best as each performance is different

“It’s this song…” that was hilarious. Great video.

I often wonder on these reviews, when you pick apart he song structure etc how much the band know what they are doing and how much just sounds good to them. Steve Harris from Maiden always says he knows no music theory, it's all done by ear. I suspect in this case, both Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones know exactly what they are doing. Great review again.

For me 3 is their best album. They really leaned into their folk and blues roots. Gallows Pole, Tangerine and Since I've Been Loving You are some of their best studio tracks.

I love this song. I got shivers when it showed up as a soundtrack in Thor: Ragnarok.

Woah that last Daily Doug song bit at the end was amazing! Loved it!

They left you wanting more, Doug! Lol The best thing about the third album is it showed Zeppelin going in a new direction away from the first two. I’ve always felt like they covered familiar ground at first and just did a variation on the British rock of the sixties that Hendrix, Cream and others started. IV was the first album they made that sounded like no one else. III was a transitional album.

Great reaction as usual. Thanks!

🤘Yeah ❤ Led Zeppelin 😅 Let's dance 😂 Always live in those days🎉🎉🎉 Grat job 😊 Love your reaction and your channel, God Bless you and yours 🙏 You Rock 👍🎶💯🔥 Masterpiece ❤🎉❤

6:10 "Hang on. It's THIS song." That happens to me a lot ... 8-)

Thanks for this reaction and greetings from Iceland🙂 Yesterday I attended one of the greatest concerts I've ever been to in Reykjavik. The Icelandic band "The Vintage Caravan" was doing a Led Zeppelin tribute with some Icelandic singers and of course this was the first song. What a show this was and it is hard for me to believe tere's a better Zeppelin cover band in the world even though it's not their purpose. The have their own carrier going. I strongly recommend listening to these great young guys!!

Yess Full album reaction please

I love the way you talk over the guitar solo. Such a pleasure

Yes! Please do a full album reaction! Plus the packaging of the vinyl is super cool

It was home movies! I believe they crowd-sourced video from people attending the show and pieced it together to make the video. 😂

Also this song in F # was inspired by Mr your a better man then I with the Yardbirds, Page did a live version with them you can hear it on KZfaq. Cheers again any Zeppelin performance questions I can usually answer, not the greatest but I’ve been following them and Page from his studio days . I like watching you guys with these Zeppelin tunes especially first timers , it brings when I first got into them , I was hooked for life . Be well

In my top 1000 Led Zeppelin is no 1 Thank you for your everything you do

Greatest band ever

Love it when Doug pulls out the air drums.

Yes...there are acoustic songs from the album that paint a very 'dramatic mindscape'.....this is a beautiful sounding album...very diverse. ❤

Here's my impression of Doug listening to Zep: "That guitar is so great! Those drums, wow! What smart bass playing! The production is fantastic! Shut up, Robert."

Immigrant Song was a great concert starter. It was Led Zeppelin's habit then to start concerts with three hard rock songs in a row without a pause and in 1972 Immigrant Song was followed by Heartbreaker and Black Dog. This got the band in the groove and let the audience to let off steam. It was after these songs that Plant would greet the audience and the set list moved into songs that needed to be to be listened to. In this era concerts ended on Whole Lotta Love with a variable rock and roll medley in the middle. It rocked like the opening numbers and the rock and roll numbers such as Mary Lou and That's All Right Mama, injected a lot of fun. Encores followed. As more albums were released set lists changed - songs came in, songs dropped out. In the final concerts Whole Lotta Love sans medley was relegated to an encore and only Black Dog remained from those 1972 openers. It was performed mid concert.

That was fun, Doug. Thanks! And yes, by all means you should do an EPL with LedZep III. Lots of tasty tidbits in store for you there, and many of them are at least partly acoustic.

Professor, it's good for you to bring the band that revolutionized, that influenced the history of Rock N Roll Led Zeppelin.

When you're ready after Zepplin, check out Chicago's live performance at Tanglewood 1970 "I'm A Man" it's fire

one of my all-time favorite albums

Back in those days, a track restricted to 2.5 mins was because it was intended to get radio plays on popular radio shows, because Singles hoping for Chart success were restricted to that time historically by radio stations. Radio shows aiming for a different non-Chart orientated audience (usually on FM) were quite prepared to play tracks of 5, 10 minutes or longer.

Coming to you from your future, Fat Tuesday. I haven't watched in a couple weeks so it's nice to get back into your content with this phenomenal song. Thanks for being you! From your neighbor to the south.

This was very helpful even as a musician to hear his commentary and input to help me think musically and learn from it.

The Viking war cry that Plant is singing is based on "Bali-Hai" from the broadway musical South Pacific - so says Robert Plant.

This album is tied with PG as my favorite LZ album. And, yes, most of the rest of the album is much more of an acoustic nature. There's also a blues song, Since I've Been Loving You, which is awesome. Immigrant Song is pretty much the most "hard rock" on the album. Out On The Tiles is, maybe, second. This album demonstrates why they generally had an acoustic set during their shows, with them all sitting on stools at the front of the stage. This album is also where they gave Roy Harper some recognition, with a slight renaming of their cover of a traditional song, Hats Off To (Roy) Harper. Roy and Jimmy did an album together in the 80s, too.

Sales of The Immigrant Song jumped by nearly 1000% after it was used in Thor: Ragnarok. It took nearly two years to secure the rights to use the song in the movie, but it paid off for all involved ... plus made the movie even better. It introduced a new generation to Led Zeppelin. Many went on to find more Zeppelin songs and because of that Led Zeppelin sales in general increased after Thor: Ragnarok.