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  • ik was ook bij het consert in 1975,maar kan niks vinden op youtube

  • one of the most graceful things ever done in rock.....Page recognizing that death of Bonham meant that Zep was finished.....he preserved their legacy forever and that authentic sound .....Bonham was NOT replaceable...he was a monster.

  • @photinia99 Yours is one of the best comments I have ever heard aside from their press release that said ' because of the loss of our dear friend, and the undivided harmony we felt, and respect we have for him and his family, we decided we could not continue as we were"

  • one of their most under rated albums.

  • amazing

  • There is many videos of Achilles Last Stand hon. Type in live and u will find it. They are orgasmic live!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Deaf people wouldn't dislike Zeppelin. They can feel the awesomeness. Dislikers of this can't hear, feel, or see. The musical dead.

  • Sad to believe this is only 3 months before the end...of Zoso.

  • @dthevideofan657289 I think you mean Bonzo. Zoso is still with us :) But yeah... A huge loss. No other can drum like him. He's a beast on the drums. He's a real man on the drums. He's the best on the drums.

  • @Fonsveritas Bonzo. Thank you.

  • Bonahm and Plant in fine form, but Jimmy's an out-of-tune mess.

  • Rihnana and Neyo arent fit enuff to wipe pages or plants ass!!!

  • hell yeah! Plant the god 8:21

  • BMFA! An incredible version. I had planned to see them in USA in 1980. Wish there were video of this.

  • Fantastic solo. Love the 4:27-4:33 riff. Love it all.

  • fuck anyone who thinks that this isnt good.

  • Presence was in the bargain bin at stores. I think it is equal to any best album they made. Thank you God for making LED ZEPPELIN.

    After listening to the BEST. Fock the rest. ha ha

  • jimmy page is going to hell for doing such a badass solo

  • only retards does not listen to led zep 

  • Page absolutely sears through this song. And the haters said the mighty Zep were washed up at this point. Go figure. Like Page said,...critics are just frustrated musicians who never made it !!!!( or as I say, never had the talent)

  • gooooood god led zeppelin melted face 

  • 2:00 AM and I´m really enjoying again(and again) my favorite version of Achilles...

    Incredible song, incredible performance, incredible force.

    Far away from other groups. Nice that radio hasn´t corrupted this song by cutting to 3 min format.

  • @alejandroulises For Me it has to be Knedworth on YTube try it out. 0208am

  • bonzo as ever is staggering

  • zeppelin rules

  • is this bootlegged or official

  • @hazetubist

    bootlegged

  • This is IMHO the best version that I ever heard from best band in world!

    The best song of Led Zeppelin and the best performance.

    First time that I heard this version was with an old cassette tape that my father acquires in the street. I´m still having that bootleg that has this version. My favorite over all great Zepp´s songs. Bonzo as a God of Drums!! Thanks for share the audio.

    Long life Led Zeppelin!!

  • @alejandroulises Very good version ('77 tour had better I'd say), but DAMN they still had "it" on this tour, shame it all went down in flames. My 1st Zep CD boot was Zurich '80, it was a 2cd set and cost $90 in 1988, and I was blown away by the perfect sounboard quality!

  • @TheMikemazz Awesome this Zurich 80) was my first CD boot as well. My first LP vinyl was from Earls Court 75 though.

  • God, I wish I would have been alive back in the day. These guys just tore it up. They didnt open for bands. Bands begged to open for them.

  • @JustinPierce1226 are you dead now???

  • @Omudindulap Lol, not anywhere near it. I'm 22 :p

  • @JustinPierce1226

    yes they did open fpr others bands, like taurus...

  • @ArtemArtak Well, if you look at their track history is this time period, it was not very frequent. Now, in their younger days they sure did open for others. And a little through the 70s. But, when other bands say they became superstars, they literally did. They had music by the nuts. Their arrogance with Peter Grant also shows how they became bigger than life. Whatever they wanted, they got.

  • i think this was one of their last concerts :(

  • does john paul jones play with a pick in this song

  • hell to the yes

  • His giutar work is impressive to say the least..If he didnt have his fix it coulda been worse .4 outta 5 stars...

  • Really weird I was there! I was 15, the 21st indeed because it was my cousin s birthday and she chose to stay home.

    The lady at the boxoffiche informed us wrongly about the selldate of the gig. So I got there late and had a ticket from a far..I was also having flue or something and I felt very ill. But still, I was there!!!! Did not recognise the first song. Must have been Train kept a rollin? I still had alot of work/music to trawl through before I had any clue.

    Mark Nolde, Rotterdam

  • ACHILLES........ LAST........ STAND,,,,,,,, 

  • poor play

    

  • Dig it. Paqe is god. Or so the rock said. Great version. Go back 1 yr. if you want to see him do a mediocre job at it but completely blown out on the diesel. Dig it Dave

  • This is an excellent performance. The intensity, the solo, the power, mystery, and hammer of the gods . . . 4:00 - 4:34 is/are spectacular!

    The delay (repeat) effect on the guitar does work well here actually. But in 1980, you couldn't really synch a guitar delay to the drums unless the drums were on the identical digital beat (which did not really exist unless a drum machine). So, a great result despite the obstacles.

  • This is an excellent performance. The intensity, the solo, the power, mystery, and hammer of the gods . . .

    The delay (repeat) effect on the guitar does work well here actually. But in 1980, you couldn't really synch a guitar delay to the drums unless the drums were on the identical digital beat (which did not really exist unless a drum machine). So, a great result despite the obstacles.

  • Led Zeppelin rules Rock

    sorry for the others

  • Best guitar effect sound ever.

    Unreal

  • Led Zeppelin = the spirit of Rock

  • Jimmy was unreal - an ubelievable innovator, guitarist, songwriter and producer. I like that they went back to the guitar a bit more at the end.

    That Les Paul is singing! I love it.

  • this is the best solo by jimmy ive heard on this song. its sloppy but its sick

  • 3:31

  • what can i say...

  • The only song ive heard more powerful than this is Revalation mother earth with randy rhoads. Two best songs ever.

  • it looks like some kind of echo effect is being used in some passages....i may be wrong..

  • @ishu161 Or you may be right...

  • This is an awesome version.. Thanks for posting!

  • blistering guitar

  • Music doesn't last this long, endure so many changes or span so many generations and influence so many artists - Unless it is made bay Rock Gods such as them.

  • These guys ended up defining Rock music, don't know if they set out to do it, but they ended up doing it. I've played with some of the best, members of Sabbath etc, but this is another level. Hats off to them.Bloody marvellous !!

    Probably the greatest session guitarist that ever lived, coupled to an exceptional vocalist and lets not forget the rythmn section, irreplaceable drummer and bass.

  • agree

  • BLOATED

  • @truchc Exactly. Led Spinal Tap.

  • @TruthAxe I finally got around to watching the official DVD. They are a bit overindulgent at times but it is quite a spectacle even all these years later to watch on my big screen. I'm sure seeing them live in the 70's was moment.

  • @TonyDollard What? Of this performance? I'd watch it.

  • @TruthAxe no not this night. It is a chronological DVD set with shows from 70, 73, 75, and 79. I liked it.

  • Awesome!!! takes me back to high school!!

  • Awesome live version, they were really made a huge comeback in 79'. They were really getting it together. So sad Bonzo's drinking got him after all they had been through. Yeah a huge piece of Rock and Roll died that year. Led Zeppelin rules Rock forever. For those who don't think so, you don't know Rock and Roll. R.I.P. Bonzo

  • Wow! Definitley an improvement from the 1977 version. Jimmy is really tearing it up. Great playing here! Very hit or miss guitar player. No doubt brilliant, but it seems his performances are based on what ever levels of substances he consumed. I read that during the 77 tour Page hardly ate, and had a steady diet of Cocaine, Heroin, and banana daquiries. No wonder his playing was very spotty on that tour. Lucky to still be alive.

  • This version is wicked!!

  • 9:00 plus minutes of wankery.

  • @TruthAxe aren't you a fag

  • You amuse, 0live0wire0.

    That your subconscious has revealed your homoerotic fantasy says much about you.

  • Your ignorance never ceases to exist. Quit trollings.

  • You amuse, AmericanMizfit. Again!

    You've donned your cape, flying from one LZ vid to the next, vowing to defend your poseur super heroes, Led Zeppelin.

    What a Super Zero you are.

    LMFAO

  • EPIC!

  • wow, the delay effect on that solo did not work at all!

  • Best band ever period  they rule!!!!!

  • @mikedubmixing agree

  • @mikedubmixing you can't say period and add 2 more words

  • @TasOMW If those 2 words are ''They Rule'' you can ! Especially when we are commenting upon Led Zeppelin everything is permitted!

    Period !

    Ah and ^%$^ u so much ! Period!

  • @mikedubmixing calm down everything will be fine no need to have a fit :)

  • @mikedubmixing AGREE

  • but wait a sec, they never performed after 1979

  • They did. They toured Europe in '80 and were going to tour America after that. But it didn't happen.

  • brennan, oh yes they did!! European tour of 1980. Do you feel stupid in public now?

  • no... i made a mistake do you feel like an asshole in public now?

  • It wasnt me that made the mistake, so err no I dont!!

  • @brennanloltehlol

    I found that doubly hilarious.

  • well, thanks lol

  • @coltsuperocean10

    i found that quite hilarious.

  • @LobeWan, thanks, but brennan did make a fool of himself!! look!! he even took the trouble to give me the thumbs down for his stupidity!! hahaha

  • @brennan, did you get dropped on your head as a baby? You stupid retarded fuckwit? What a fool!!

  • ok... does it make you feel better that i dont care

  • Led Zeppelin ended at exactly the right time,for all the wrong reasons.

    n '80's Led Zep?

    Yikes.

    Prog Rock hell!

  • @FasterLouder Their last album wasn't too great..

  • Just imagine if John Bonham didn't die, what happen to Led Zeppelin.......Maybe they make more albums.

    John Lennon, Bon Scott (AC/DC) and John Bonham die in the same year in 1980, What sad year that was.

  • and John Lennon as well.

  • yes that's why some people say that's the year music died

  • @darkness2121 The year rock died

  • it sounds pretty bad,but,the drums always sound frsh.even if page was too high to really kick-as as is the case on this one,John Henry Bonham was taking no prisoners!And even some of the solo here sounds untouchable,really complicated and he isn't missing much of it!!!They were the baddest,that is all there is to it!biggest druggies of all-time too!!!LOL!!!

  • this is the best sounding live version i've heard. all the others sounded like absolute crap.

  • me too. especially the knebworth

  • damn it.. howcome everytime they play this song live it sound like shit and especially the solo can never sound like the studio version one. i hate it. i am a huge zeppelin fan but it sounds weird.

  • @juanc2499 because when he was doing any show live starting after the release of presensce page was taking heroin and couldnt play guitar as well robert plant was depresed about his son john honham was drinking like 10 times as much and John Paul Jones just really hated being there

  • @juanc2499

    because their songs are so hard, even they can't do them perfect live.. :D

    plus they're hippies and were probably on something xd

  • yeah they were probably recording it on a cheap tape recorder.

  • @juanc2499

    Simple, studio version is recorded in a closed, padded room with multiple layers of guitar. A live version is often recorded in a big open venue with hundreds if not thousands of humans who each change the sound wave simply by standing there.

  • @juanc2499 Well, live, Page didn't have the whole layered guitar effect backing him up. Also, since Page was such a studio wizard, he could use this to his advantage and get the exact tone he wanted to make his solos sound as incredible as they did.

    Not to mention that Page seems to have gotten progressively sloppier perpetually since Zeppelin debuted as a band >.>

    That said, he better put together another f-ing album before he dies, or I'm going to.... cry.

  • Amazing... ! Led Zep 4ever... !

  • wonderful

  • An impossible studio recording to perform live guitarwise still here Page at least almost pulls it off. Way better play than e g the Knebworth mess.

  • If he would lay off the phaser pedal this would have sounded better. Muddying up his tone makes the one guitar sound sluggish in a song where the studio version has at least 3 to 5 guitar parts. The delay pedal on the solo sounds pretty cool.

  • OK, thanks.

    watch?v=usdkTj1kKaw

    Better, or what do you think?

  • The sad thing is that Bonham died just as the band was rejuvinated and ready to tour again. This song, and several others that I have heard from this tour stand as a testament of this.

  • this would have to be jimmy page's hardest live song to play. He loves the challenge and it brings out the best of him..hard to beleive he only had a single guitar for this live performance..un matchable! he his a freak on guitar..

  • This is a complex piece,how many guitars do you need?can only play one at a time..

  • with the one guitar its sounds like there are three. i think in the studio version three guitars are overdubed for this song..

  • Jimmy plays one, and the heroin plays another.....at least thats how it was at knebworth

  • ВОЛНУЕТ.........

  • magnifica.......XD

  • At least put up a picture from the 1980 Tour Over Europe instead of a photo from the 1977 Tour in America... That way the people who sit for the 9 minutes and 14 seconds looking at their PC screen can imagine what it was like to see them as well as hear them during this very show/tour.

    Just a suggestion from a long time Mighty Blimp fan,

    Paneeks/Boston

  • page is a lot better here than in 77 and so forth.

  • Aw F*ck man I love this song,, Bonham Rules R.I.P.

  • Nothing ever came close to Led Zeppelin, before or since.

  • I wonder if there ever will

  • @BobbyB430 you gotta put the crack pipe away son, it ruinating yuor brain

  • @wasyes Damn you spell well

  • @dawoool Except Led Zeppelin in Studio.

  • @dawoool i completely agree

  • @dawoool

    As much as I dig Zeppelin, I have to take umbrage with you and say the Beatles still reign mightily over all in terms of influence and appeal.

  • Nice jeans.

  • Does anyone know how well Jimmy's health was by 1980? Was he doing better then his 1977 and 1979 tours? Was Heroin still a big thing to him?

  • I think 77 was his low point, and it improved in 79.... dunno about 80 tho...

  • He was doing much better by 80, 77-79 were forgettable years for Jimmy, but was faring much better against his addiction by 80. Sadly, before he could return to normal, the band was done :(

  • thank god he is still alive !!!!!

  • Unbelievable to find this version on you tube...i was there that evening in Ahoy...this song was one of the highlights.....thanks for posting this gordonroyal! How you ever got hold of this?

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  • severina of the mission uk is so much better

  • I think this is my favorite live version of the song. Most of the others somehow seem to lose the heavy power of the original.

  • Way better than Knebworth

  • The Zurich recording on this tour is my favourite ALS version.

    They became more experienced during the years

    performing this song.

    Page puts too much delay on his solo.

    Bonzo picks up quite some tempo from minute 5 on

  • i really love this song.. one of my led zeppelin favorites :)

  • they should continue, and grow up, leaving the drugs and alcohol before a bad thing happened, just like bonham case, i tink that paul jones, page, and plant, would continue for the bonham memorie...

  • Listen to Bonzo fucking SLAM SLAM SLAM!!! WHAT A MONSTER!!!

  • 6:20 through 6:50

    YASS! :D:D:D:D

  • this is my favorite version of the song

  • So sad Bonzo was gone a few months later on 9/25. They don't make them like this anymore. Never will. If it weren't for Jimmy I wouldn't have picked up the guitar and brought the beauty of playing that instrument into my life. They have been with me all my life, death, divorce, happy and sad times (good times/bad times) and their songs always find different meanings and new light that help to guide, Happy b-day to RP tomorrow. Long live Zeppelin

  • simply amazing, next to trampled underfoot, this is my fav zep song, great live version to-- love it, and i agree with grajdrums, no the same without the best drummer to ever hit the kit

  • Dude, I've listened to the new records, like "No Quarter" with Page and Plant. Without Sir John Bonham, Zep is not the same. Even his own son is missing something that his father had... In my opinion, they couldn't have continued without Bonham. R.I.P.

  • It's very hard to believe later that year Bonham passed away an there's no more zep T.T...

  • died less than 2 months after this!!!!!!!!

  • I meant less than 4 months later Bonzo died. Sorry.  9/25/80

  • He took ill a few days or weeks after this during a Berlin show in early July.. Simon Kirke sat in or do I have that wrong. One of their last shows. Yes.. alcohol and drug abuse took this band down for the count after the misfortune of Plant's accident and losing his son. The lifestyle was completely out of control and Page would be out of commission for years after this. Had they outlived the drugs and wildness 1981 tour would still be talked about today!

  • Such an interesting song.... page was obviously working some kind of univibe, or phaser with his foot during this take.... sounds cool. He used few effects on record, seemed to experiment more with the songs live....thanks Jimmy! And hey thanks for posting this, one of the best songs ever recorded..... and just listen to Bonham!

  • Haha, so true.

  • sweet vid thanks. please check out Immigrant Song live in Orlando (with backwards solo)

  • what the heck everything that is a led zeppelin song on youtube has become bad quality lately its frikin stupid

  • That's becasue we can't post the good videos because it's "copyright infringement" so we have to find the not published stuff wich sounds bad just to play it at all. That's fricking stupid.

  • that sucks... why does the law have to try ruin everything?

  • watch--Achilles Last Stand FIXED and UNFIXED

  • I'm always conflicted between Hendrix and Page...

    Long Live Zeppelin!

  • as am I.

  • As I am too. Both very unique and talented in their own way.