This is why Bonham is the greatest rock drummer of all time

Never know which part gets me the most, the guitar, drums or that bassline - all together is just🤯🤯🤯

Zeppelin’s take on Blues music has always been what draws me to the band

Actually, what you are likely hearing is called “distance miking”. Page said, “distance makes depth”. He found that by placing a microphone, say 1 foot in front of the bass drum, followed by another 2 feet away, followed by yet another say two or 3 feet away, he would capture the difference in time it took for the sound to reach from the first mike, to the second mike to the third mike, etc. Hence, distance makes depth, producing a much deeper sound and most accurately capturing the sound of the room.

Epic slide guitar. Jones ona fretless bass and Bonham being inhuman on drums!!!!

I’ll be brave and say this is my favorite song of theirs. You should watch the live version from Earls Court 1975. Jimmy is hypnotizing. They stopped playing this after Robert’s son died. But they did it at the reunion concert a few years ago.

Listening to Bonzo kill the drumming in this song, then watch Jason do the same at the O2 concert shows how good a drummer Jason has become. when PG was released I rushed down to my local music store to find out that it hadn't hit Australia yet. When I finally got the album I couldn't wait to play it. WTF wasn't a phrase used back in those days, but FFS ( For F**k Sake ) was and I said to my girlfriend at the time " can you believe this album" we were both transported to a higher level of Zeppelin that I thought at the time couldn't be attained. Even though this album was released a lifetime ago it still stands up today like all the Zeppelin stuff. Jump ahead 200 years and Led Zeppelin will be revered like Beethoven and Mozart are today.

How can you not play air drums listening to this song. The last 45 seconds, they are just going crazy. Love it!

This is my funeral song #4. Yes, I have a list. 😂 It’s dedicated to my best friend Diana. Zeppelin was ours, the soundtrack of our misspent youth (despite it being the 90’s, born in the wrong decade), a love we shared, and share still. Till our time of dying. Long live the mighty Zeppelin, the unrivaled gods of rock.

Never has a Danelectro guitar sounded so good!

My current favourite zep track. It's a fucking MONSTER

This song was recorded in one take, in the studio, you can hear Bonham in the end saying " this has got to be the one" This is the rarest song they ever did in the studio without ant editing.

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Follow Bonham’s kick. IMO that’s what drives the song.

Jimmy and John drove each other hard on this one.

Led Zeppelin 4 and Physical Graffiti were both recorded at Headley Grange, that’s why you hear that awesome echoing sound on both albums.

It's a drumming masterpiece. Bonzo at his best?

Now you should go and watch them perform this. RAH 1975 is incredible 😍

Concerning why they put Houses of the Holy on the Physical Graffiti album, according to to JPJ, because the could.

DJ’s reaction after the song EXPLODES at 4:05 😂 He pretty much knew what he was in for after that.

Your comments about the drums are spot on. Lot of the songs from around this time were recorded by the band at an old Country House using a mobile recording truck. Bonham would set up his drums at the bottom of the grand staircase........ and they would set up the mic(s) to record him 2 floors up. So none of the drums are individually mic'd and the echo of the drums bouncing around the stairway add to the depth of the drum sound.

This song is a reworking of the Blues song by Blind Willie Johnson. Indeed, as others have mentioned, this is a perfect example of one of Jimmy's mantras of "distance makes depth" and is a feature he learned to do from his session musician days. Why keep the end of song banter? It's another one of those little touches they had to hopefully make the listener feel as if they were in the studio with them. One of the things they were proudest of was being known as a "working band" meaning they went out on the road and performed rather than do mostly studio work (not that there's anything wrong with that; mostly studio work served the Beatles admirably, however, they were unique in many ways) so when they did record, they liked to leave "mistakes" in because just like live playing, it's not perfect all the time. Yes, they left the song Houses of the Holy off its namesake album because they didn't think it fit the overall flow of that album.

Epic. Possibly my favorite song on my favorite Zeppelin album. Too good.

So excited for this one 😁

This has to my favourite led zeppelin song for the sheer fact that it’s so bluesy and moody and groovy and dark all at the same time.

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Yes, he drummed in the foyer at Headley Grange and they hung the mikes on the 2nd floor overlooking the drummer.

The best part is at 5:13, watching dude watching for your buddy’s reaction. I was waiting for it too. It was right there that your man’s mind got blown forever! Now you know why we had to smoke ALOT of pot just to be able to handle the magnitude of this masterpiece of Electric Magic!

One of my favorite Zeppelin songs (and that's saying something). When I was in college, I used to turn this up loud and play the "air drums" to it. While there are more mind-blowing examples of John Bonham's genius on the drums (Fool in the Rain, Black Dog), I just love the drums on this song. They are relentless. I love the slow triplets he does near the end of the song after Plant sings "Oh My Jesus" several times.

Yes. Houses Of The Holy was a leftover from HOH the album. A few of the songs were "leftovers" from III & IV as well

Well that was worth it. MCA's eye roll at 4:00 was awesome. More fun's a comin'. Thanks boys!

You really have to show him the live version of this from Royal Albert Hall in 1975. Correction, Earl’s Court

My favorite of theirs...and it’s hard to pick one! 😎👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 You should show him a live version of this tune!

Some years ago I instructed my son to have this played at my funeral.

This was played at my brothers best friend's wake. He was my brother too, miss you Brian.

The fact is Jimmy Page was such a good producer and he got the sound how he wanted it especially the drums.

If you look up the word "impossible" in the dictionary, it actually says "The act of choosing a best Led Zeppelin song." For sure this makes most Zep fans Top 5, if not #1.

You have to carb-up for this one....its a physically and emotionally draining ride....but so worth it.

You're now in tune with the greatest band in history

Absolute masterpeice and Bonzo!!!

EPIC!!🔥🔥

I love the way dudes face is melting !

Always loved this....he's pleading with Jesus to take him into heaven....it tears me up every time....

If this album had Black Dog Stairway To Heaven. ROCK n ROLL ....it would've been one of the best albums of all time

Physical Graffiti was Led Zeppelin's first release on their own Swan Song Records label, which had been launched in May 1974. Until this point, all of Led Zeppelin's albums had been released on Atlantic Records, who would distribute Swan Song. The album was first announced to the press on 6 November with a planned release date of November 29 1974 and an accompanying US tour (the band's tenth) starting in January. Delays in the production of the album's sleeve design prevented its release prior to the commencement of the tour. It was finally released on February 24 1975. The album was a commercial and critical success, having built up a huge advance order following the delayed release date, and when eventually issued it reached No. 1 in the UK charts. In the US, it debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart, rising to No. 1 the following week and staying there for six weeks. Physical Graffiti has since proven to be one of the most popular releases by the group, shipping 8 million copies in the United States. It was the first album to go platinum on advance orders alone. Shortly after its release, all previous Led Zeppelin albums simultaneously re-entered the top-200 album chart. Plant later felt that Physical Graffiti represented the band at its creative peak, and has since said that it is his favourite Led Zeppelin album. Page has also said the album was a "high-water mark" for the group, and the creative energy from jamming and gradually working out song structures together led to some strong material. Of course, by the time In Through the Out Door came along... Jimmy Page was nursing a cocaine habit with a side of being a control freak about every aspect of Zeppelin. (That's why Robert Plant won't tour with Jimmy Page and only does one-off reunions.) Jimmy has a tendency to control everything and everyone around him. Robert hates that. Currently, Jimmy Page controls the Led Zeppelin catalog and if someone wants to use a Zeppelin song, royalties are like $3Million dollars and up. There are very few cover songs I like and for Jimmy Page being a control freak, the fact that Jimmy endorsed Puff Daddy ruining KASHMIR... I lost some respect for Jimmy after that. Jimmy REFUSED to release singles off an album ... I think he allowed ONE radio edit single and HATED the result and never did it again. Yet, he let someone ruin KASHMIR.

My top 5 Zepp tunes change weekely... But this tune is always on it..

A phenomenal peice of drum work, possibly never to be rivaled.

Never gets old🎶🎵👏👏❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

this is imo their best track. they just demolish this........ i always come back to this one its got everything. its savage, beautiful, intricate, relaxed, deep, and soulful. incredible.

Heck yes. And you got me wearing headphones too.

Bonzo always loved to let the drums breath. 7 feet above the drumset

It's all about the drums.

I've always felt Bonzo never quite played this well (meaning fast enough) on any bootleg version I've heard. To really hear it as it was on the album, but live, listen the Jimmy Page/Black Crowes version. It is a true live drumming masterpiece of this song!

they're 'tight but loose', that's why they're the best. keep 'em comin'!

And they could do it live!

Still feels pretty good up here….

I hope he watches some lives then, because this song live at Earls Court (1975), is even more mind blowing. Page uses a steel guitar, which he really plays the shit out of.

So, right in the middle of an epic 10 year career filled with classic after classic, they stop and write THAT SONG, with all it's infinite detail, with long pauses that make it so hard to play live (yet they did many times), with all it's rises and falls, slow downs and speed ups...and then they play the frickin thing LIVE IN THE STUDIO, with it's crazy cough-cough-cough ending left intact, and it's the only song they never did better LIVE-live, because Bonzo takes over in it and plays LEAD DRUMS, and Jimmy who has mixing board control and could dial that shit down any time he wants, JUST FRICKIN LETS HIM, because it's BONZO and he's JIMMY, and he just LETS HIM take over the frickin song, and I can never hear it without beatin the hell out of the steering wheel... Can anyone tell this is my favorite song?

Amazing. Bans!!

Love the ending

Bonham's drum kit filed charges against him for assault.

And just think it was recorded in a bus converted into a mobile studio. " There's an airplane let..." " Naw Naw leave it !"

You know if they build a place of worship, Zeppelin could start a religion. Thats how great they are.

My favorite album of all time and it gets better if that’s possible!!!!!!

I’ve been looking forward to this one.

Zeppelin? Rock and Roll band? Sure. Best blues band ever? YES!

This song sounds like it was done live in the studio. I can't detect any overdubs which is amazing when you think about it.

Drums playing lead :) Bonham saying -follow me and try and keep up

They just played and recorded it lol

Up there with the BEATLES

Epic Zep!

If you like a slide. Try Tedeschi Truck's band, live is best

Drums sound like there in your ears.

It is can't be legal. It's drug. Voodoo. Incredible musicians.

They did this song in one take.

I don't know why, but every time I hear Led Zeppelin, I think of Big Bill Broozny on steroids!

Zep1 and 2 the best

“I only wanted to have some fun…”

I always felt like Zep lV should have been on Physical Graffiti...

The only thing better than a Jimmy Page guitar solo is 3 or 4 Jimmy Page solo's in one song!

Typo! Sorry. Broonzy!

For a long time this was my least favorite song on this record. Took awhile t before I took the time to actually listen to the song as a bunch different parts. Once I did that it finally clicked. I blame that on my 17 year old ignorant ears. Wish I had a time machine so I could slap myself. And then afterwards tell myself to buy stock in something called Google in the next decade.

Bonzo is God !

Everyone needs a musical mentor…it’s an entitlement. Make sure the mentor doesn’t think the Carpenters were great.

If you keep doing this to him, you know he's gonna break eventually, Right?...

“GOD”- “SOURCE” is real if you agree or not 🤔🙏🏼

This is just not worth trying to cover. Listen and enjoy.

The guy on the right makes every one of their videos unwatchable.