Led Zeppelin: the greatest band of all-time. Simple as that.

I guess you're not ready for this, but your kids are gonna love it.

Plant and Bonham barely were out of their teens at this gig. JPJ was 23. Page was 25. Let that sink in. They walked out on that stage that day in front of a dead fish of an audience and produced two mind shattering versions of songs that were 10 years ahead of their time. People talk about how revolutionary Hendrix was and rightfully so. But nothing in rock history compares to early live Led Zep.

Even in a sterile setting, the band plays like they're in Rio. They put their whole heart into it. Fantastic!!!!

The energy of this performance is octane level. The subdued audience doesn't seem to be tuned into the pure magic they are experiencing.

Holy fuck..John Paul Jones was absolutely killing it on those bass runs! And the audience was like 😳😳😳

This was 1969, and this is pretty much the first band that melted people's faces. Even by today's standards this is pretty heavy music. Once you add Bonham's brutal drum smashing and Plant's vocal to the refinement of Page and Jones, they all pushed each other over the edge and just melted faces. It's a beautiful thing.

In 1969 Zeppelin were still playing small clubs and universities in the UK. I saw them in April 1969 in a hall behind a pub called The Roundhouse in Dagenham, Essex that held about 300 people. The stage was tiny and about two feet high! This was before the second album so their set was most of the first album plus Killing Floor, Train Kept a- Rollin' and Moby Dick. Imagine being a couple of feet away from Zeppelin, the noise was extraordinary. I remember Plant being tall and thin with wild corkscrew hair and Page's guitar hanging down to his knees, I'd never seen anyone playing guitar like that before. They were supported by the wonderful Blodwyn Pig. Six months later the second album came out and the rest is history. Those were great days.

My god..Plant's voice is tearing through those people like an air raid siren..

The greatest band to have ever graced this planet.

These guys were way ahead of their time! But they are timeless! The greatest hard rock band of all time without a doubt!

I am not sure that any band could play like this today. The raw energy and precise skill that all of them had just seemed like one entity producing music.

Music was so raw and pure back then ... The atmosphere in the late 60's and early 70's is beyond words .

This video never gets old. If it’s a shitty day for ya? Watch this performance.

Plant was 21 here and Page 25. I’m 34 and I’d consider these kids now hahaha. And they just come out there and melt your face off. Unbelievable. No act today at this age can come even close to this kind of live performance

Raw, powerful & untouchable in rock music history

Man , over fifty years later , and one can still feel the energy. Intense.

The audience mood, completely unsure and bewildered. Little did they know the actual weight this heavy LED ZEPPELIN.

Hypnotic, sublime, outstanding 👏 👌 🙌 best band EVER. Greetings from Danmark 🤜 🇩🇰 🤛

Glad I grew up in the 60's & 70's no one can ever experience such an awesome time.

Boham is a beast on drums!

The people in the audience couldn’t comprehend this in early 1969! These guys were MONSTERS! Ultra-talented monsters! And the notes Plant was hitting! Jeez!

John Paul Jones has got to be the most underrated bassist. Dazed spotlights his steady hypersonic speed.

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that Bonham is an absolute legend. Dazed and confused is the standout here but what most don’t realise is he is only just out of his teens here at around the age of 20. No surprise he still tops every best drummer poll in perpetuity and rightly so.

Damn Robert’s voice in the early days was incredible

They were soooo good at this point. Plant had an unbelievable voice.

In front of that crowd, I admire their perseverance. But I saw them in 1970 in a huge room -- Madison Square Garden. The place was jammed, the crowd was wired, and they were fantastic. So very different from this performance. By then, Jimmy had a wall of Marshall stacks. JPJ also played a Hammond organ for a few songs. Bonham had a few more kit, including double bass drums. Robert played the Garden's massive sound system like an instrument, using more silence to allow the room to echo back like a huge cavern. It was an exciting, mind-blowing experience and no one sat on their hands. We left that hall dazed and confused, and a bit wobbly on the pegs, but feeling like we all had shared something unique and very special. Being part of this huge crowd of freaks walking up 8th Avenue, ears buzzing, with all of us grinning like loonies, I wish that I were 16 again and could do it once more -- like a Groundhog Day moment!

Vintage Led Zeppelin, there’s nothing like it. Wish I could’ve seen these guys in concert!!

Good god.. they were so damn good 👍🏻. I live near Plant and see him about occasionally. He is polite and unassuming. To see him now in his seventies it is incredible to think of this amazing journey he has been on

the crowd had no idea they were watching the greatest Rock band in history,,,,,little did they know,

"... We got together for the first time and we'd never played together. Someone asked if we knew any songs that we could all play. We knew. Someone said train kept a rolling all night long. They had all played that before. We started playing... And the sound was unbelievable!"- John Paul Jones on led Zeppelin's first session

It's almost unbelievable how balls-out Rockin' that set is! The French, as a nation, were simply stunned that day.

Epic talent, there was nothing before and there will never be anything after led Zeppelin.

Jimmy was an animal back then. Using all modern sounds, technology, and expressive expedience's of that time to drill new ideas into the music of that time. Jimmy was a major player of then, and now, into todays musical influence. His best performances were much better than anyone else's. And oh yeah, Plant, Jones, and Bonham were stunning performers as well.

You put any band up against these guys at the height of their powers and the Mighty Zeppelin prevails. Four perfect band members for each other. Absolutely perfect.

Loving the Bonzo vibe on this one....already a master, they were so lucky to have him. Small kit, big sound, loads of confidence and a ton of flair with those right hand twirls! One in a billion.

What I wouldn't give to have been at one of these early shows. What raw power. Individually they are beasts. As a group, I can't even put it into words. WOW!!!

John Paul Jones is sooo underrated. His stability supported the entire band and certainly allowed for Page and Plant to go off script while allowing Bonham freedom to get into his earth shattering fills and propel the band like none other during these early days of what would become Heavy Metal.

Zeppelin is unbelievable. BEST ROCK BAND OF ALL TIME. 🕊✌🏼🍃

Wow! WOW! What talent! Amazing performance. The audience is surreal.

The band's chemistry comes about so effortlessly.

Nobody laid it down as HEAVY as Zeppelin...........EVER!

Greatest band of all time

Just listened to this again. Can’t be any better than this. The moves, Plant, page, so genious, Bonham , Jones the whole scene absolute genious!M❤️💚🖤🤍🧡💛💜💞

They were great from the moment they got together. And it wasn't easy performing in front of zombies.

This is HISTORY, people !!!!!!!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵

These guys just nonchalantly walk out onto that stage and put in a perfect and incredible performance. Unbelievable. I'm convinced no other band could do this. They were and still are remarkable and wonderful. No other band to touch them.

Brilliant to see JPJ playing amazingly well up close. It's rare to see film of him. He's often forgotten by the cameramen. Greatest band ever!

I think the fact that four dudes with such energy and godly musical talents standing in front of a bunch of unpleasured people just makes it that much cooler of a video

Four Gods of Rock 🐉🎸🥁🎹🎤 ! What a perfection!

This band has potential!

This is the original all imposters have tried to imitate for 50+ years now.

i love how the audience could not see what they were seeing. history in the making.

Early Zeppelin..... much love for these guys!

Plant’s voice is incredible.

I was so blessed to see them 3 times. All four of them are off the chart talented. Plant's vocal command is like no other, he plays his instrument beyond a master level. They are/were the best

The whole show is like Marty McFly going haywire at the end of Johnny B Goode at the prom, right down to the audience reaction

Robert Plant was only 21 years old here, truly impressive

Dazed and Confused gave me chills.

Robert Plant agreeing to join the new band was surely the best day in Jimmy Page's musical life. Plant was on the same wavelength and brought out the absolute best in Page.

This is so amazing and ahead of its time. Audience had absolutely no idea what to make of them yet. Little did they know....

Pure raw energy...Led Zeppelin!!!

The greatest band in music history!goosebumps!

True masterpiece of epic talent, raw and no filters, synthesizers, digital. I saw them in Philadelphia. Wonderful and truly sad that hungry, raw music talent seems less available.

Led Zeppelin ... the juggernaut of Valhalla, simply BRILLIANT 👏 👌 😀 the best band EVER.

More of their shows should had been filmed.

to see them around this time would have been absolutely incredible.

OUTSTANDING!!! THANK YOU!!!

The beginnings of an incredible musical journey...Thanks for the great memories

Class, style, extreme talent, and no tattoos.

I share this one so much,i can,t get enough of this great one i loveeeeee it.They were here incredible incredible great.Chapeau.

John Bonham was an animal that could never be contained. This man was just a monster on the drums🥁❤️👍💯

Damn, Jimmys‘ Les Paul still had a lot of red in the sunburst at this point!

Bonzo's punk rock drum beats! Absolutely stunning ahead of it's time for drummer's of all genre of rock.

This was epic footage of Zeppelin!! One of the best live performances I seen by them!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘

Wow. Wow because that was so good, and wow because here I am, eleven years after this video was uploaded of a performance 51 years ago, commenting on how energetic, driving, creative and swinging that was. To think that I lived at the same time as these four people!!

Totally love this raw performance of Led Zep! The French audience sat on their hands. Such a subdued audience. How could one not move to this music?

I saw them in 1971 at Dorton Arena in Raleigh NC..I got up near the stage with my camera and told the security guys I was with The News And Observer and they the me through..I stood right behind John Paul Jones and took pictures..He was playing "Your time is gonna Come" on the B3 and playing bass pedals..I was 15 and very humbled and impressed..JPJ very amazing musician..

The isolated camera shots of the people in the crowd was hilarious. Some of them looked like they're old enough to be my grandparents. Awesome!

Jimmy è un talento puro, incredibile veramente 👋👋👋 anche usare l arco di violino e non rovinare le corde della chitarra! Questo modo di suonare è assolutamente geniale, nessuno sarà mai come lui.

That was so fun to watch. I loved the interaction between the vocal and guitar.

1969 been together about a year. Robert Plant being the definition of Rock God, Bonham being the definition of Rock drummer, Jimmy being the definition of Rock guitar wizard, and JPJ the definition of brilliantly gifted silent bass player in the background. Damn, these guys were good😍😍😍😍

What a video!! You guys hear John Paul Jones on this! Freaking awesome. You can hear his technique and Bass Kung Fu soooo very well. I don't know how you can watch this and not see how their the best band to ever produce something called Rock Music. Improvisation, artistry, super tight, everything you needs in this.

Ladies & Gentleman,Led Zeppelin at their prime!

Thanks, James Barnes, for uploading this. It's such a treasure! I had never seen it before, only in photos.

Amazing drums, unbelievable on that set. Amazing group!

The best R&R group of all time!!

The fashions, music, and the looks. I am so jealous of Mom's generation!!!!!😎❤

The greatest rock band ever to grace this, or any other planet. Glad I got to see them several times in the States between '70 and '77.

The big heavy rolling combos in Dazed an CONFUSED Bonzo's sound is uniquely his own!!

This is an American Idol. His voice. My Goodness

And this, my friends is named as REAL MUSIC from REAL GODS!!

The audience has never seen, felt, touched, tasted, or heard anything remotely close to what actually is before them. They are dumbfounded in amazement. And to think how much more was to come . At this time the Mighty Led Zeppelin had it together. When they were still striving to be the greatest

Just WOW 😲 That raw sound and attack is incredible.

😅 led Zeppelin has to be my very favorite band of all time I absolutely love they're outstanding talent inspiration through music every single note Jimmy and this particular video is one of my favorites going to California particularly because my mother plays mandolin mother plays mandolin Paul The Sweet sound of it back so many sacred memories and I love the rain song ramble on Good times bad times black dog I had a wolf farm dog when I was five we lived on 144 acres that belong to my great-grandfather I was picking flowers one morning for my mother I'm just given birth to my baby sister he was my guard in the woods alone one day a wolf came upon Us deep in the woods it was the first time I ever saw him aggressive he showed his teeth knocked me down to the ground covered me showed his teeth once more then circled me then took off after it you ran it all the way out of the woods and I started to call for him and cry and soon he came running back to me and started licking the tears from my face and as I started I was picking flowers for my mother one morning the truck started down the road from the East catty-cornered across the field and I started hollering wolf no wolf no and I ran into straight line up my driveway and just before I stepped out into the road he had been chasing alongside the truck and a car came from the East just before I stepped into the road and struck him and he landed at my feet...DEAD. his instincts that day saved my life KOKOHONIAHAKA Little Night Wolf TOMASKA MIGHTY WOLF WAYA Wolf. FMEUSAJET KOKOHONIAHAKA NURSE and EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION USAF CIVILIAN FIELD MAJOR ENGLISH FENDER SULLIVAN AND SNYDER Russetta JEAN WILDER CRAMER UTTERBACK ENGLISH HAMILTON FENDER SULLIVAN AND SNYDER

I love how Jonesy almost never takes his eyes off of Bonham. 🤘

4:54 only jimmy page can calmly waltz to center stage while playing such an iconic riff

tough crowd! great performance

LZ = No.1 rock band of all time.

When Jimmy said that "HE GAVE EVRYTHING HE HAD FOR LED ZEPPELIN" he wasn't joking, this vid is proof that no matter who, what where, when etc., Jimmy and the band are giving it all for what looks like a less than stellar arena/audience.