Dude, I was 18 when I fell in love with their artistry. I'm 69 now and still love them because of their musical genius. You've got some great experiences ahead. 👍

That was an interesting question midway through the song. I assure you, from someone that grew up in that era, that mostly we wouldn't have known what to ask for from this band until after we had heard them perform it. They were all master musicians, and together they were greater than the sum of their parts. They combined different styles and genres into something that was uniquely their own, and each member brought his own unique contribution to the end result. I look forward to watching you discover and appreciate Led Zeppelin.

You're doing a great job. The Zep rabbit hole is deep. I like that you are going in song and album order. You can hear and feel the growth of the band that way. Keep it up

We can’t ever really know what was their motivation. As a child of that era, a teen in the 70s, we were pretty obsessed with relationships and love and that is what bands were talking about. I’m 65 now and they were my band!

Plant & Page repeatedly have said that Old school American Blues was the fuel & inspiration for almost everything they created. You hear the roots of deep south blues in so many songs by Led Zep, with Robert Plant's vocals screaming and powerfully gripping you with many of his "call backs" found as vocal fills within much of their material. They added heavy guitar riffs which appealed to many heavy metal, hard & pop rock fans. But blues fans could appreciate their music as well due to the never ending classic soulful blues inspired vocals & lyrics. Led Zeppelin married all these elements together to create a sound unlike any other at the time, and became the world's biggest Rock band thanks to the incredible ability of each of it's members. Much respect to you for continuing your journey down the Classic Rock path brother. Keep going forward, it will really be worth it!!

This music at the time was incredibly groundbreaking, they were constantly subjected to harsh reviews because none of the reviewers understood what the band were doing, this was very new to people at the time, but there were obviously enough people who did understand it as they pretty much blew up not too long after this album was released. Otherwise the lyrics were a lot of the time borrowed from old blues songs songs and mainly written by the founder and guitarist of the band Jimmy Page, but you only have to listen the raw passion in Robert Plant's voice and the raw passion in the playing of Page, Bonham and Jones to understand that this was absolutely coming straight from the heart.

Led Zeppelin were truly unique. They stayed together a long time and totally did their own thing. Their heyday may have preceded you, so that may be why you’re not overly familiar with them. I’m glad you like what they did.

To be fair Robert Plant the singer was under contract with another label and also very young at the time. So he couldn't write any of the lyrics on this album, so Jimmy Page wrote most of the first album. Besides the project was Jimmy's baby, so he had ideas and inserted influences that he projected on this album. He paid for the whole session out of his own pocket, they recorded in 30 hours. Besides you can't take sex out of the Led Zeppelin, nor Lord of the Rings 😉

Plant was 20 when they recorded this. So was the drummer, Bonham.....just a very talented group of young folks. As for Plant, the dude just had so much soul in his voice......unreal for someone so young.

They were the FIRST...metal ...hard rock....a new genre...the look on my face when the needle dropped......still got it

Communication breakdown is where we are today.

i was 13 when i herd my older sisters boyfriend playing crouselambra on his tape deck.asked him who it was,he said Led Zeppelin.i was mesmerized by the song he went home recorded the "in through the outdoor" and i was hooked .I've seen page&plant in concert and it was memorable .i'm 52 now so ,just be glad you've been introduced to a genera of music you now have a new found love.wait tell you do Queen,Pink floyd ,tool.enjoy the trip

I like your reactions, and your viewpoint. I don’t like theatrics. Zeppelin was incredibly different than anyone else at the time. They were Chicago Blues fans( the electrified ), and that lead to the originators in the South. Jimmy Page wrote most of the music and produced all of their records. He was previously with the Yardbirds who were very popular in the US, before that a very well known and loved studio musician. When the Yardbirds disbanded, he and his manager, Peter Grant, decided to form a band and Jimmy had a clear idea what he wanted to do. He asked a well known singer named Terry Reid to join him but he was already obligated for touring and I think he had signed with a label. Reid recommended Robert Plant. Robert Plant agreed and they both meshed with their musical preferences. John Paul Jones was next to join, and was also a studio musician, one of the best. He plays bass, keyboards and mandolin, and also did some arranging and wrote some music. Robert Plant wrote most of the lyrics, and played harmonica, and he explains himself as a very feeling and emotional singer. John Bonham “Bonzo”, RIP, was the drummer, known now as the best rock and roll drummer ever, and was doing quite well locally working in clubs. He and Robert were close friends, and Robert recommended Bonzo to Jimmy when he was forming the band. Robert talked Bonzo into joining them, he was hesitant at first. JPJ said the first time they played together, they just did a song Jimmy suggested, gave them the basic info as to how to play it, and he says they couldn’t believe how good they were together. Jimmy paid for their first album, $7,000.00, and they recorded it in 36 hours. They did a few tour dates that the Yardbirds were obligated to do, so they played as “The New Yardbirds”, then did a short Scandinavian tour. Peter Grant got them signed with Atlantic records, and they toured the US. By the end of that tour, they were selling out everywhere.

Jimmy rips it up on this one! Really enjoying your reactions. Zep was waiting for you to find them

The answer to your question at about 3:40 is not always. They were just good. Their main musical inspiration came from American blues, and they put that kind of emotion into their work because, well, thats how it's done. Later in their career the music did start to get more personal. You can feel real emotion in a lot of songs like The Rain Song, 10 Years Gone, Kashmir, All of My Love, and many others.

This is the best band there ever was! They were in and out of love several times but all we girls sure loved them!

I grew up with Led Zepp, so great to see you find them. I saw them at Knebworth 1979 where they did great versions Kashmir & also Achilles Last Stand 😊

Zeppelin is the one. They are arguably the best rock and roll band of all time.

They were just creative genius. Nothing else was like it. It was dare I say....ordained! 😎👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

There are millions of Zep Heads out there. Bring em on home.

A lot of Led Zeppelins songs were actually old blues songs which was the music that influenced them, so many of their own songs were blues rock themed.

You will be listening to zeppelin for the rest of your life once you get hooked.Enjoy the ride!👍

A lot of their songs are remakes of old Blues songs from back as far as the 30's. That's why so many are about love and loss.

They opened up a new rock sound that many bands for 2 decades tried to emulate.

This was pretty revolutionary at the time. Music wasn’t really this fast and explosive. You had Hendrix who was loud but the raw energy of these guys, the collective talent, unprecedented.

Jimmy Page wrote most of the lyrics for the songs of the band's first two albums: mostly inspired by American blues. When Plant began contributing lyrics most of them drew from either his interest in history & literature (the Lord of the Rings in particular); or his own feelings about & reactions to being a traveling musician. There are recurring themes in Zeppelin's songs, which you chart the progress & maturation of throughout their album releases. The songs of their latter albums are filled with very personal lyrics about love, loss, & strife within the band.

This song came out in 1968. Please play SINCE IVE BEEN LOVING YOU live 1973 Madison Square garden

Thank you for taking me on this yourney with you and experiencing a lot of these tracks like I'm hearing them for the first time. Keep it up!

Since you’re in the early 70’s you should check out their competition Black Sabbath try War Pigs live in Paris 1970 Ozzy Osbourne lead singer 🔥🔥🔥

They pretty much did what they wanted to so i believe.

Here are some suggestions of songs and bands from the 60s-70s that you may or may not be familiar with. Pink Floyd's 'Echoes' and 'Time'. Martin Denny- 'Quiet Village'. Moody Blues- 'Nights in White Satin'. Supertramp- 'Goodbye Stranger' and 'Even in the Quietest Moments'. Rush- 'Freewill'. Frank Zappa- 'Pink Napkins' and 'Inca Roads'. Steely Dan- 'Deacon Blues'. Procol Harum- 'A Whiter Shade of Pale', (especially live in Denmark), Led Zeppelin- live versions from the TSRTS concert, ( 'Dazed and Confused', and 'Stairway to Heaven'), ELO- 'Livin' Thing', live. Yes- 'Wonderous Stories', 'Awaken', and 'I've Seen all Good People'. I can't stop! Also groups like ELP, the Beatles, Renaissance, the Who, and Jethro Tull.

Zeppelin was influnenced by american blues the blues is about heartache and loss. Later plant wrote some absolute masterpiece's of music about real incidents in his life

From my understanding of Jimmy Page, he was a session musician who played for other bands for years before Led Zeppelin and he was also an experienced music producer so I think he was very deliberate in the sound he was creating. It was a wild time in rock music, but I think he was a fare more disciplined craftsman than the overall sound of the band gives on.

I'm so glad you're starting with early Zep. That makes the most sense as you go through their catalog. They're sound changes as they mature. Some masterpieces await further down the road...

Can you imagine I'm around 13 when the first album was released. Up to that point, it was Beatles and other British and American bands. All my music is on 45s listing to my older sisters music because no cash at 13 14 yrs old. Zeppelin 1 comes out. I'm fucking blown away. I'm hooked. I know what I wanted for Christmas Zeppelin. Black sabbath. Grand Funk. God dammed Zeppelin is recording 2 albums in a year I believe. Only hours in the studio for this amazing music by Kids. I grew up excited about every new album. Saw them live in the 70s. Now 64. I'm still listening. Still in my playlists. Will any generations have their Led Zeppelins? Blasting the same band for 50 years now? Can't see that. Who knows.

Check out Travelling Riverside Blues

He was writing from the heart and the groin.

This album is now 52 years old!

Another song from their first LP (albeit another amazing song from their first LP). For a real experience, check out a video of a live performance by LZ. IMO, this song can be considered one of the very first photo-heavy metal songs in rock. All lyrics were written by vocalist Robert Plant. These guys were HUGELY influenced by the blues, especially on that first album, and the lyrics really tend to be the kind you find in the blues. (E.g., my woman done me wrong, etc.) Get into their later stuff and you’ll hear some different themes lyrically.

Interesting that rock reviewers at the time (notably Rolling Stone) hated this album and Led Zeppelin II. I was a teenager at the time and we loved these first two records. Classic example of critics telling us what we should and shouldn’t like. We ignored them.

Zeppelin may have borrowed from blues a lot, but they were pretty innovative for their time. No one was doing it like this. Was fortunate to have seen them twice in the early 70s.

Page had all these songs in his head for years and waited to find the right guys.

Keeping it real

Best music ever made

They are the most original band ever, trendsetters.

Led Zeppelin got their name from the who's drummer Keith moon he told Jimmy Page you guys will take off like a lead balloon and the rest is history. Also after just 5 minutes of rehearsal together they new that they had something special

If u wNt to here their mastery of their instruments try u shook me

these guys were all very private in their home life..they guarded their families from the spotlight and frequently wrote about their relationships ..if they felt good in it ..or if they had a fight or arguement..

A lot of their songs borrow from or were influenced by blues legends. For this song, Jimmy had the guitar riff and the rest of the band crafted the song around that. It's almost proto-punk, to my ear. Please do more Zeppelin.

A proper banger...

The totally turned rock on its head. Revolutionized the industry. Nobody else was or has since come close to the influence this group had. There was and still is a strange stigma attached to them. The media hated them because they didn't rely on good press to build their fan base. There was even made up hype that they worshiped the devil. People claimed Stairway to Heaven had satanic subliminal messages. I remember seeing some guest on a talk show was actually playing the song backwards and pointing out the specific portions. Call it audio pareidolia. The heard what the needed to hear to support their claim. It didn't sound like that to me. Anyway, the were doing their own thing. Jimmy Page put together the band and I would say the driving force being the direction they took. It began as his vision

What happen was they got together n played a trial run too see how it goes n they played train kept a Rollin n when they finish they looked at each other n said this is gonna gonna work everybody was on cue when playing

Robert Plant was definitely in love and married and lost one child to death...

There was nothing like this at the time. No band ever did what they did before or since. You really had to see them live to believe it.

Liking your stuff my friend...

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Listen please: sails of charon - deep purple

Have you got to Good times bad times it's leads off Zep 1

This band were surrounded by groupies all the time…..no love was involved with them….all one night stands…

this has been out since 1969..

The music came from inside, from the beginning of Led Zeppelin there was nobody remotely like them they were a one off

Keep in mind - the lead singer, Robert Plant, is 19 years old here.

You should experience Moby Dick. Find the longest live version.

Then I checked your play list

They invented the music

All of Zeppelin were extremely young during the first two albums Robert Plant was just 19 and he was definitely a lady’s man so that’s probably all he had going on then! I’m sure Jimmy Page wrote a lot on those albums too.

They weren’t TOLD to do anything! This is creativity coming from them, based heavily on American blues and American rock and roll from the fifties and early sixties......Elvis, Little Richard, buddy Holly, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf....they grew up on these artists and it shaped their musical tastes....,as it did all the other English rock groups who came to America at that time (the so called British Invasion)....The Beatles, The Who, The Rolling Stones and a dozen others. American black music inspired them, and they brought it back to us changed into this. And hey, you didnt realize it, but you were scratching yourself ALLOT. It’s distracting. Just sayin’. You’d want somebody to tell you that, right?

Naw. They wern't that in love. Zeppelin is heavily blues inspired and especially the first 3 albums had a lot of blues like lyrics and themes. Much of the lyrics to blues is a woman done a man wrong theme. As you keep listening you will notice how they start to change their style.

Led Zeppelin never released singles, so they weren't going totally for the cash grab.

Your last reaction segways into this song... might help put into context.

Was the emotion real?...... man, this ain't pop music, written by 6 old guys in an office and given to a hand picked band to play....