You can see Jimmy look at Bonham to let him know he’s done with his spacey solo, so Bonzo does the count in drumroll to go back into the proper song.

First performance Zepp did was September 1968. This show was 16 months later, and they had just under 200 performances in that time. The great thing about them live, is they loved to improvise. So,.. How do they know when to come in? Practice, chemistry, and a gift from the rock gods.

They improvised at every concert...there was pure chemistry between them, that's why they were special❤❤❤

I went to a Led Zeppelin concert in 73 in the UK, but ,alas,I was still in my groovy mummy's tummy

When I was younger, I didn’t like the weird psychedelic part of this song, but as I age, I appreciate it more. Maybe that’s why I like prog rock so much. I want musicians(and everyone) to think outside the box and experiment.

they had musical chemistry together.

Dude you would totally fit in back in that generation. That song hits so hard it's fire 🔥. My fav Zeppelin song is "Trampled Under Foot" which is so funky. They were so versatile.

Talk about spreading the love. This whole show is great, in case you need other Zeppelin live stuff. Bring it on Home from this is amazing too.

Can you believe that the audience members are today's grandparents and in some cases, great-grandparents!! I imagine the same holds true for the band members.

SILAS, you can watch the Led Zeppelin movie “The Song Remains The Same” for free on KZfaq, it’s something every Zep fan needs to see. The concert footage was filmed in July 1973 at Madison Square Garden and it’s incredible. The movie came out in theaters in 1976 and people were lined up for blocks to get in to see it. For decades it was shown in movie theaters, usually with the sound system cranked way up.

One of the milestone shows in their amazing career. Royal Albert Hall 1970.

Love the Shirt! So glad you're doing Led Zepplin Again!😊

The members of Led Zeppelin perfected eye queues and head jesters when they wanted to do their changes in time.

The 1973 version from MSG is on absolutely incredible! It's also quite a bit different with some great improvisation. Bonham finishes there with the fire gong!

musicians from this era always had an ear for improvisation, it's what made performing live interesting for them. Led Zep and Deep Purple rarely play the same song twice in the same way, there were always subtle differences to keep it fresh for them!

Saw them in '76, and '79, but really would have preferred to see them here, still on the way up!✌

Outstanding (and you WERE standing some, lol!) Reaction, as we've come to expect! You picked up on the important point of "How do they communicate what to do next?" My brother was a drummer in many bands during his musical career, and he said you just "learn" your band, like you do with people in any relationship. Eye contact, a "code" of gestures, maybe, the mouthing of words for instructions, anticipation from what was done the night before. Guess it depends on the band. Zep EXCELLED at it.

Can’t you just see yourself as that guy in the front row, Silas? Yeah, he’s probably 70 by now. We oldsters had some pretty fun and wild times back in the day! 😏😉✌️

Family chemistry is how they are in synch. It is why they formed and it is why they disbanded. Love of each other is why.

Lo stesso pezzo non lo fanno mai uguale. infatti hanno un affiatamento unico- Quando è morto John Bonham non sono riusciti a sostituirlo perchè avrebbe dovuto imparare e memorizzare un'infinità di movimenti

Best live concert performance from Zepp !

what a terrific unique performance with such good improvisation. I assume that this has always developed continuously during a tour and has also changed when I compare it with other live recordings. At the time, that was not unusual for the big rock bands, because they were often inspired by the Blues and Jazz/sequence of solo parts: a musical firework display and that was CO2 neutral.👍 Thank you Silas!

and the version from MSG 73 is SO different!

Led Zeppelin became superstars thanks to America’s wild reception to their music…before Britain got on board.

70 YEARS OLD IS MY BEST ROCK FOR EVER

Watch this song live at MSG from 1973!! Unbelievable! Yes do the last albums!!!

That's the magic of the ( Super Group ) of all time ! There is no one like them ever.

I think about this with Elvis Presley a lot but watching Robert with the microphone there, and having played and sung in bands for years, it's interesting to think about how much the concert technology has changed. They didn't really even have monitors out on stage until around 1970, and for some groups it was later than that. Of course nowadays it would be in ear, and then of course the microphones have cords on them so your link is limited but there was this whole thing of figuring out how long can you make the cord in case you wanted to wander down into the audience versus the longer it is the more likely it is to get a bad connection when people Yank on it and step on it, and also the signal strength diminishes quite a bit because of microphone doesn't really put out anything but a very very weak electrical signal. So anyway in between all that then we got cordless microphones. And now people were free you could either put it on the mic stand or you can pick it up and carry it around with you you could even put it in somebody else's face like a reporter on a television news, to get an audience member say to say something, something we did at our shows sometimes by asking them funny questions and then seeing what they're impromptu responses were, laugh, but anyway now you would have in-ear monitors and a throat mic they're actually is nothing you have to pay attention to whatsoever other than just your motion and your singing. But in a way, utilizing microphones and microphones stands was a huge part of the evolution of rock music. Just watch any of those really old Elvis videos from the Louisiana hayride or his television appearances in the 1950s and you will see how he uses it as a prop and still has to deal with it as an actual thing that allows him to sing into it, laugh. Anyway I've always thought Robert Plant was really good with a microphone as well.

Always amazing...especially live!! Always improvisation...there are subtitle clues to each other! Jimmy plays a Theramin! In this one it was Bonham doing the certain drum part that started them back in!

Ok I'm back zeppelin yes.

Live is always better! 😎👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Silas - you are overdue for watching the documentary movie - "The song remains the same"

Highly recommend watching their movie " song remains the same". Mostly concert footage, with a little bit documentary and psychedelic story sequences added to enhance the live footage

Rock -n- Roll is real!

LZ was my first concert a few months before this. Whole Lotta Love was last song. I remember other people came on stage to sing backup with Jimmy ( roadies?). Try Wearing and Tearing at Knebworth. Jimmy joins Robert for only performance of song as Bonzo died.

Oh for a time machine.......

Please do yourself a favor, Silas. Same concert, song is called I CAN'T QUIT YOU BABE. Strap in cuz it's about 20 mins long they play the beginning of the song and then a medley of songs, genres, talent everywhere, Robert going crazy, and then the end of the song. One of the most incredible performances ever imo. I might go watch it now - for the 900th time.🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

Plant was 20 or 21 yrs young at that time

John Bonham, the drummer, is the quarterback. He let them know when to come back into the song from the improv. Listen to the drum fill right before they come back into the song and it's the same drum fill that is on the recording.

The improv is Bonham and Jonesy watching Jimmy and then forming a structure for him to lead with Robert. It's all about a rhythm section that can adapt on the fly and a band that is comfortable and talented enough to run with it. There is actually a 33 minute version of No Quarter out there from LA in '77. That and Dazed are the 2 big jam songs.

It’s improve to a point, all they need is a look or node, to get back to the core of the song! GOATS! 😎👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Silas you need to remember that in 1970 the top ten included songs like Sugar Sugar fun the Archie's, Elvis Presley, Englebert Humperdink, Kenny Rogers Tom Jones, great songs maybe but very cruisey soft pop... THEN THIS Blowing people's minds really.

I owned that shirt your wearing in the 70s only it was black and gold. I miss that shirt 😁✌

Love the shirt!!❤

Cool I got the same shirt! Their best as far as I’m concerned

You react to great music like I did when I was your age. Now aged 60, I still react the same but a bit slower coz my bones and bits creak a bit these days! 😄

Oh yes!! Good stuff!! 💥💥💥

Check out the songs 'The Song Remains The Same' and 'The Rain Song' live from the 1973 Madison Square Garden concert. The Rain Songs comes right after the first song. Jimmy Page totally kicks ass on both songs.

Blistering show, my favorite Zep was the first 2 albums as they took no prisoners before they broadened their sound with many types of their magical versions of rock music. Try the live What Is and What Should Never Be from that show, another classic Zep tune. Enjoy! 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎶

Ole, ole y ooooleee (es una expresión muy Española cuando hay mucho arte en algo) ¿Puedes hacerte a la idea de que estos muchachos (Zepp) tenían entre 20 y 23 años aprox en esas actuaciones? ¡ Me encanta tu camiseta!. Feliz Año Silas. Para tu novia y toda tu familia también.

I think you will like In Through the Out Door. It feels like the band is coming into the 80's in style. I know it is generally not on a lot of Zep fan's top lists, but it is probably my favorite after Physical Graffiti. I like where the band was going, and JPJ was very prominent on the album. Don't forget Coda too (you will want to hear Traveling Riverside Blues and Hey Hey What Can I Do which was actually a throwaway song by the band).

I would love to have a Led Zeppelin shirt!

Thanks for wearing some headphones , sounds great mate!

Well here is one giant double thumbs up for finally going through their last album. It's so damn good. I didn't steer you wrong on Rush 2112, just saying ... 😀

this performance was on Jimmy Page's birthday, i believe Eric Clapton was there and a few more but dont really remember. Early Zep also man, they were just meant to be man, they recorded Dazed and confused from the first album the first day they met, how crazy is that Great video man, as always, keep it up!!! 🔥

Bought that same shirt for my niece - she sleeps in it. Peace, Silas.

FIFTY THREE YEARS AGO??? No way!!!! So, if you were 18 years old at this concert, you’d be 71 years old now… 😲

It's called rehearsal. They tried this out before they went live.

There are cues they know that tells them when John or Jimi are coming out of solo, OR wever!

Much of the sound effects and missed timing was originally added to freak out anyone tripping out on drugs

John Bonham cued them with the drum roll on the snare for Jimmy's guitar part.

Brother I got that shirt but only the winged angel guy part on a black t shirt. Rock on...

Good job young man 🤘 Continue Rocking 👏 👍

i am 21 so is my boyfriend and this is our song

Bad ass shirt..lovelovelove ❤️✌🏻🌸

Hola. Focus - Hocus pocus. Jeff Healey Band - See the light.

Yes, yes, please, react more Led Zeppelin, specially in live Madison Square Garden 1973. Impresionante!!!... You made a reaction of Daze and confused, but only a part, from the first in el MSG are amazing

Cool T-shirt, love it!

Fun fact, this song doesn't work with the metric system. "Gonna give you every 2.5cm of my love" doesn't have the same ring to it lol

They follow a cord progression. It's all about timeing.

Most performers will rehearse numbers sometimes during a mic check that's not to say some improvisation isn't included so to answer your question it's a little of both I have a suggestion how about some Rolling Stones

Do The Song Remains the Same, Silas! Just get it over with! Lol

You are adorable! Enjoying your videos. Rock on!🤟 Subbed

Ps. Read about In through the out door first. Then listen to it in context, you might hate it but it will eventually crawl under your skin and become required listening I promise

Can't believe you had a question

Improv ? The thing is with excellent musicians, they never play the same song the same but are always tight regardless, like the bass is the left leg ,drums the right guitar left arm vocals right arm .... all apart of the same thing

Great reaction Silas, as a comparison, you should check out the live version of the from Celebration Day in some 37 years after this performance and see how good they were when I their 60's also great from Celebration Day was Kashmir trust me you will be amazed how good they still were.

you,ll must react Moby Dick, from this concert. A Bonzo solo. Amazing

Cause the drummer gives the signal.

Jimmy's birthday.His mum made his jumper.

I want a LZ shirt!

TRY the song INSIDE LOOKING OUT (LIVE) by Grand Funk Railroad

They must have been close to your age then. This was done on Jimmy's birthday.

What can you say about the gods that are Led Zeppelin ❤🙏

Have you done the live double album The Song Remains The Same

💀⏩🔽⏪💀 👆 🎹📡💫👉OK, THIS IS ACTUALLY JIMIS BDAY, AND HE'S WEARING THE SWEATER HIS GRANNY KNITTED HIM!!! MICHAEL KANE

You should turn off the autofocus on your camera. Just focus it manually to be on you, and let it ride, it will look better I promise.

Damn, dude, now you are starting to think like a serious musician. That is a fantastic question about how does the band know how to negotiate these stretches of improvisation and then keep it all together. Very insightful of you. To tell you the truth, that is one of my favorite aspects of playing in a really tight band where you all know each other really well. On some level you just know, but the reality is and this usually gets worked out in practice and then refined during live shows and of course it changes if the size of the stage you are on changes your band's configuration as far as each member's position. But I contact definitely matters. In fact, it's almost a really funny thing to say ironically because it's so cliche, but if somebody in the band says, well how will we know how to come out of this section here, and then somebody else says well we just have to find a way to make eye contact. That sentence right there is iconic. And if you say it now, I would just start laughing or I mean everybody in my band would start laughing. And then my drummer would just start trying to exaggerate and say I know we can make little bird sounds in the distance, cuckoo cuckoo cuckoo, lol lol lol But no, there are all kinds of landmarks and signs you can incorporate into any given song. And it varies depending upon the band it varies depending upon the song it's just whatever works. But for example, right here in this one, the key to come back out of it and then hit that amazing Jimmy Page guitar solo, is when John Bonham does that machine gun blast on the snare. And it's important to notice that he did that once during the middle of the Improv or at least some point because he was essentially reacting in real time to what Robert Plant was doing and he just mimicked it and he knew it was close to the signal riff but it's not exactly what it was right? The one that you're familiar with from the recording and that they always used as a trigger to come right back into that amazing final part of the song with the stops and then Jimmy Page's guitar going nuts, or he's all bent over holding his guitar really low to the stage? That's so fun. He influenced a lot of punk guitar players later on to do that. But anyway it's that particular snare drum blast with that specific Cadence that can end it at any time. John Bonham can end it at any time at the drop of a hat. However, any other band member in particular Robert Plant since he is the front man can also signal to Bonham that hey man it's about time to wrap it up, or if somebody's taking another round at a guitar solo you can just not add them like one more time and then the band just instinctively starts getting ready for that change. And then in this case, John is aware of that that this is the last Loop through this, and then he triggers it with that snare Cadence and then everybody is Bam right there. And it does just kind of smack the audience in the face. It's so fun. I hope that helps answer your question a little. And it just made me thought of something I haven't thought of in a long time. You know what the ultimate version of these kind of landmarks is? In Northern Indian music, I don't know if you've ever heard an Indian raga, you know a sitar and drone instruments and hand drums and so forth? But they have a lot of protocols that go into those compositions. But one thing that rhythmically is universal is exactly a landmark to either end a section or end the entire song. It's called a "tehi" and it is any rhythmic pattern, no matter how short or how long, that gets repeated three times right in a row with a fair amount of emphasis and then everybody knows that on the very last beat of the third iteration of it. That is either the downbeat of the next section or that is the essentially Stinger at the end of the song. I learned those and I learned a whole bunch of classic ones. And some of them are several syllables long which translate to different patterns on the hand drums since they match all the sounds on the tables to verbal syllables. That way people even if they're jamming in front of the beginning of a raga, they can sit there and recite the tehi really really fast and just kind of give you an idea of the whole structure of the song and then they start playing. It's mind-blowing to me. But it did evolve over centuries for sure. But that's the ultimate landmark of the kind that I am talking about.

U think this crowd is large that's nothing to compared to the concert in Moscow Russia in 1991 Monsters of Rock Tour with Metallica check out that video I'm not going to tell you how many people were there but it makes this crowd look like a fly Speck on the map

Unfortunately, the album track is much better...

Could you get any more stoned.