is this actually by Otis Rush??????? cos I googled it and it only came up with the Zep version, really want to hear the original, this version is awesome though!!
Whoa I got shivers at 1.00 and I don't know why haha. This is raw! How is it possible that they can be just as good without any guitar? Love the pictures too.
Fantastic!!!! I wish Jimmy Page would get together all of these tracks they recorded for radio and get all the great live performances and put them on a CD. Similar to Like How the West was Won, but with more tracks from different perfromances and songs they normally wouldn't perform like this one. Awsome cover anyway!!
Actually I have a longer version called I Gotta Move (Improvisation). You hear Plant say at the beginning that Jimmy's broken a string, and therefore they improvised this.
Wow. Is Robert Plant the best lead singer ever? Seriously. Right here he is amazing. His voice sort of peters out at the end, but he was the best lead singer ever I think. Listen to this. Its amazing. I would give my left testicle to sing like this.
it takes practice to sing like this. try getting a drink (Bacardi, coke, pepsi, water, ect...), turn your stereo way up loud, put on a led zeppelin song, and try to sing along!!!
Robert says, "Jimmy's broken a string, so we hope to carry on with a thing from Otis Rush," in introducing the song, but that got cut off in this version.
outstanding, and although they didnt write alot of thier more bluesy tunes they did preform them with exceptional grace and talent that cannot by denied.
Amazingly full sound w/o guitar, you hardly noticeit's absence. Say what you want about Zep being overplayed or boring, they had a killer sound that is hard to reproduce. Perhaps impossible. Thanks for the upload.
Plant's voice was unbelievably powerful during this period. I have fiercely loved many bands and styles of music in the last 30 years but I always come back to Led Zeppelin for the goosebumps. They really do have a unique and endurig power in their music that nobody else has been able to match.
Your head is up your @ssh()le, you racist dimwit. Zep was great because they utilized African-American blues music in ways that surpassed any other white British bands before or since. Ever heard of Robert Johnson, Willy Dixon or Otis Rush - did you hear the reference, you simpleton? I never heard such ignorance in my life.
if you listen there is no guitar I thinki I read that jimmy was having problems with his rig and robert and the boys went on to this jem giving the roadies time to get jimmys rig up before dazed and confused
the most revolutionary and innovative canon in rock history. The enduring power, variety and sheer brilliance of Zeppelin's utterly unique music will be enjoyed for many generations after the tiny minority of idiot mud slingers fall silent
You always get these morons trying to crap on the greatest band in rock history, Led Zeppelin. The plagiarism rap against Zep is a tired old bitter spew that has been studied and dismissed by every major rock critic in the world. Of course, they took some old blues hooks and lyrics, but like Muddy Waters said " All musicians are thieves, the good ones take it somewhere new and the great ones do it more than once." Zep melded all their disparate influences with their unique talent and created
thank you! i just get tired of people just looking at the fact that they plagiarized and not at all looking at the music that was created. it's good blues people, don't dismiss it 'cause they didn't credit willie with it!
The reason music sucks these days is because musicians, in order to be successful, had to keep getting more and more "dangerous", because most young people want to rebel against their parents. This kept happening until music got all crappy, and now that's what people hear and they except it instead of looking out of whats popular and into whats good. That's why we will never see great bands like Zeppelin or The who again.
i am sorry r u saying lady gaga, kate perry and miley sirius aren`t rock stars shame on you
just kidding i hate them all i am serious i despise their existing and how they can make this music with a straight face and put out there as singles and stuff it is disgusting
God this sounds good. How great was Zeppelin? Not only are all four members now considered by many to be the best to have ever played their respective instruments, even more stunning is the fact that they were revolutionary innovators, blazing trails and changing the entire face of rock. What are the odds against that concentration of talent? The answer is in the fact that we will never again see a band the likes of Led Zeppelin.
Actually I used to agree with you. I'm sure there are a BUNCH of good bands(not as good as Zepp though). Its just that the record companies won't take'em. It's a shame, we could have experienced more legendary bands. Long rock LED ZEPP!
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elvis just took was black culture was cultivating at the time but crackers were too narrow minded to listen so he put a white veneer on it and became famous for it... fuck an elvis presely the guy wasnt that great
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Innovators? Are you kidding? Led Zep was the biggest ripoff act in the history of rock. I can cite 30 examples of where they blatantly STOLE riffs form other musicians. Learn your rock history, pal. Led Zeo is the best COVER band of all time.
Prove it. Cite 5. I don't mean covers like from LZ 1 or 2 where they "cite" their "references" in the song notes. Prove your bogus crap... cause I think you are full of it.
YOU learn your rock history smart guy, or educate the rest of us on your unfounded statements.
white summer, stairway, whole lotta love, lemon song, how many more times,
whole lotta love and lemon song werent cited until they were sued. and whole lotta love is a willie dixon song, but they took the small faces version called "you need love"
The borrowing of songs has happened for years blues songs have been passed down since the blues was created! Kashmir, Achilles Last Stand, Since I've Been Loving You, Darlene huge numbers of songs that aren't as well known are amazing and written by Zep.
I certainly understand that. but some guy said to name five songs that zeppelin borrowed and did not cite. so i did. Tons of bands do this, zeppelin is just criticized the most because they are just so big. Don't get me wrong.
robert plant was a giant small faces fan and sung whole lotta love exactly how steve marriott sang it. white summer is not at all original, listen to the original. stairway's intro is stolen note for note. and how many more times is taken note for note from smokestack lightning by the yardbirds.
what i said was not false. this is coming from a giant zeppelin fan.
@TheDruidKing Lol note for note.....relax dude....we can hear the inspiration, they used the same chords, but led zep completely changed it. It's much more better and elaborated
read over what i said. have you even heard the song smokestack lightning? believe me, im as big a fan as you are. i have a giant bootleg collection and play zeppelin on guitar like crazy. what i said in my other post was not wrong at all
Yeah - I bought all my bootlegs in the late 1980s as records. Thanks for posting this song btw, my turntable is long gone, just tapes made 18 yrs ago...
Scrimmer, theres some software out that allows you to convert all those old records into digital files. Just throw em on the ipod or make a cd. You just need a cheap turntable and a computer.
Thanks! I have seen the USB turntables. For nostalgia reasons I'm tempted to get a real turntable for the specific bandwidth of sound that only a turntable can provide. The lows never seem the same when digitized.
I've read they weren't Led Zeppelin until this tour was over. This short tour was designed to give the band a chance to write for their first album. The material was mostly comprised of Yardbirds and a lot of blues stuff they were all heavily into at the time. Page admits it was mostly up to him to write, he had to rely on cover material for ideas. They actually did 3 covers on I. Whole Lotta Love was later challenged, and there are a lot of "similarities" with this Otis Rush tune.
Plant's voice during the first several years of Zeppelin was the just unbelievable. He had range and power at that time like no rock singer before or since. To this day he is still a very nuanced and gifted singer, but during those early days he could let it rip so powerfully that when Zeppelin's PA occasionally went out he would sing without amplification and still pull it off.
I agree but Im more fond of his current voice. The early work while powerful was a lot of wailing and screaming but in his later years he has really learned to control and perfect his voice. hes voice these days is really beautiful.
I'm surprised Jimmy didn't have a spare guitar (like his Telecaster) so as to not delay the start of the next song. I know it's early in Zep's career, but he always had a spare on stage, beside his amp just in case a string did break. I might speculate that this was an opportunity for Robert to show some range with the harp and vocals.... During their shows (which used to go on for up to three hours including outstanding encores) they would all have a crack at showing their virtuosity. I miss em
True... see: "Lemon Song" live bass improvision. JPJ was truly a legend. Very underrated performer, Zep had the absolute BEST in every member present.
The Lemon Song was recorded live in studio, and JPJ improvised the entire bass line. This jam does sound similar, but it's just his personal style, definitely not a composition.
The story I heard was the Page broke a string and had to replace it. There's no reason he'd have to sit it out just to retune his guitar, so I believe that it's true.
I bet after Page finished up, he sat back for a minute to listen and said to himself, 'Music will never be the same again.'
yes,you're right,when Robert announced this song said:"Jimmy is broken strings...guitar strings..." so this song is a SEMI-Led Zeppelin jam session....:)
This is one of Robert Plant's most brilliant moments ever...Hell, it's one of musics most brilliant moments ever. The first time I heard this and how he just decided to carry on until Page was ready again made me gain a whole new respect for his ability.
Yeah I've got this one as well.. Plant is great in this song, out of control and raw. Awesome song even without any guitar as someone else said here...
i'm not hearing dazed and confused at all, definitely the lemon song. dazed and confused was actually done by the yardbirds before led zeppelin was formed
I read this performance was from a show in San Bernardino, California (08-08-1969.) This is the only song from the show of good quality because the tape recorder was right next to Page's amp so the guitar drowns out all the other instruments when he's playing, and as Page was changing a string at the time this recording is of a better quality.
Otis Redding is a greater rocker than any individual Led Zep person! Check this guy out and be assured that Jimmy Page would have hired OTIS long before the very great Robert Plant...lol!
No offence, but Otis REDDING was a soul singer. And yes he was very good, but not the kind of singer that Led Zeppelin needed (Yah know, Rock band an' all) And I bet that Page would've hired him, if it wasn't for the fact that he had kicked the bucket 2 years before the start of Led Zeppelin.
oooooooooooooooooo!!essssssssa harmonica!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
nuevaordenmundial 3 months ago
only a band like zeppelin could ooze the pure essence of blues at this caliber..
specter1001 3 months ago
Insane Bass by JPJ like Always.
disda1n 4 months ago
A good band shows they don't need a guitarist.
flamencoprof 4 months ago
thx a lot
HemligaHemulen 5 months ago
Jam. Track.
tMattLZ 6 months ago
jimmy page looks so high at 53
corpralkirsch 7 months ago
can you ear the lemon song on this song like me?
diogobue 7 months ago
Elmore James~
MGSRaiden1232 7 months ago
wow SOOOO awesome. JPJ is inmcrrrrrrrrredible and so is plant!~
elruchito 8 months ago
@whasudr: I just followed what Plant said at the beginning of the song. Maybe they covered the version of Otis Rush or something =))
iamblase 9 months ago
this song is a Elmore James cover not Otis Rush
whasudr 9 months ago
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whasudr 9 months ago
The harmonica sounds almost exactly like in Bring It On Home, were they recorded around the same time?
gmenrule1024 10 months ago
listen how incredible this track is, and Page is not on it! God himself blessed these guys, they were incredible.
hardrockindaddy 10 months ago
I love how anything Led Zeppelin played that didn't make onto a CD is still better than what most musicians can come up with in the present.
edschin 11 months ago
Beautiful without the guitar. Love listening to JPJ so damn clearly.
mikegalsworthy 11 months ago 4
This is from San Bernadino in 1969
Conneyfogle 1 year ago
@Conneyfogle I have the whole concert up in full if anyone is interested
Conneyfogle 1 year ago
nice pictures.
YoniiBoy 1 year ago
hey do you know if this song has an album? i tried looking for it but i couldnt find it.
HU3TZ1N 1 year ago
is this actually by Otis Rush??????? cos I googled it and it only came up with the Zep version, really want to hear the original, this version is awesome though!!
thecries 1 year ago
Whoa I got shivers at 1.00 and I don't know why haha. This is raw! How is it possible that they can be just as good without any guitar? Love the pictures too.
LedHeadTillDeath 1 year ago
3'28 to change a guitar string and tune a guitar?! those studio guitar players are lame...
mtwallet 1 year ago
@mtwallet ... can you do better?
zed0469 10 months ago
@zed0469 whoa, led zep fans lack both good taste & sense of humour! ;)
mtwallet 10 months ago
Incredible soaring vocals from Percy in his prime! He can sure blow that harp, too.
AnnihilatingAngel 1 year ago
Definetly should've been on Zep 1
MegaAries1992 1 year ago
why did they not release this it's so sick.
jbest55 1 year ago
the harmonica is the same as bring it on home
tebestofgod 1 year ago
@tebestofgod not even close
jbest55 1 year ago
Fantastic!!!! I wish Jimmy Page would get together all of these tracks they recorded for radio and get all the great live performances and put them on a CD. Similar to Like How the West was Won, but with more tracks from different perfromances and songs they normally wouldn't perform like this one. Awsome cover anyway!!
68SSCAM 1 year ago
Actually I have a longer version called I Gotta Move (Improvisation). You hear Plant say at the beginning that Jimmy's broken a string, and therefore they improvised this.
and it's awesome >:-D
Vieck 1 year ago
WUUUAUW I NEVER heard this before and I'm from Denmark. This is really funny. Thumbs up!
ABshookme 1 year ago
john paul jones best bass player ever.
BLOODYCLQ 1 year ago 4
chills
TexasMist 2 years ago
John Paul Jones!!!!
nfguler 2 years ago 9
i found 'earlest led zep show recorded' there set was a mess, from song to song, but is there a full recording of this???
TEMPmichaelhansen 2 years ago
god just listen to stuff like this when ur feelin blue about women and life, make u feel better.
devilzgrip 2 years ago 5
Wow. Is Robert Plant the best lead singer ever? Seriously. Right here he is amazing. His voice sort of peters out at the end, but he was the best lead singer ever I think. Listen to this. Its amazing. I would give my left testicle to sing like this.
dudleyboy2682 2 years ago 4
exacly. there is absolutely no one that could even wish to be like plant. he is the fucking golden god.
Alu142 2 years ago 5
Squeezze his lemon! :D
Luzzeppelin 2 years ago 3
it takes practice to sing like this. try getting a drink (Bacardi, coke, pepsi, water, ect...), turn your stereo way up loud, put on a led zeppelin song, and try to sing along!!!
TEMPmichaelhansen 2 years ago
@dudleyboy2682 id save some sperm and give my right one to(:
aczeppelindc2908 2 years ago
WHERE'S JIMMY??? I can't hear him until the last chord?
likemike06 2 years ago
he's tuning his guitar.
JackGBowman 2 years ago
Robert says, "Jimmy's broken a string, so we hope to carry on with a thing from Otis Rush," in introducing the song, but that got cut off in this version.
jaysfca 2 years ago
i want to get the original tune, the otis rush one, anybody knows how, i cant find it anywhere!
stainwalk 2 years ago
what a brilliant time killer...shows great stage presence.
poohen223 2 years ago
outstanding, and although they didnt write alot of thier more bluesy tunes they did preform them with exceptional grace and talent that cannot by denied.
ta2joe13 2 years ago
Gotta good little groove fryin' here...
DapperDanP 2 years ago
great!
bluesmankgk 2 years ago
Great music. Sounds a lot like "The Lemon Song", especially the bass line.
boscoruby 2 years ago
The main riff of "Lemon" is just a simplified blues bass line.
Theloniousfunkk 2 years ago
it really does, sounds lyk a few tunes mixed from the Led Zeppelin 1&2
paperpaker1 2 years ago
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no guitar???? why would I want to listen to this?
francescaemc2 2 years ago
Then don't! :))
iamblase 2 years ago 14
I did. guess that wasn't clear.
Very nice. But page adds that je ne sais quoi.
I don't know what it is I like about it, but I like it a lot!
peace
francesca
francescaemc2 2 years ago
Amazingly full sound w/o guitar, you hardly noticeit's absence. Say what you want about Zep being overplayed or boring, they had a killer sound that is hard to reproduce. Perhaps impossible. Thanks for the upload.
Asymmatrix 2 years ago
one of my favourites
jamieakabear2316 2 years ago
Plant's voice was unbelievably powerful during this period. I have fiercely loved many bands and styles of music in the last 30 years but I always come back to Led Zeppelin for the goosebumps. They really do have a unique and endurig power in their music that nobody else has been able to match.
fredzepp1 2 years ago 4
yeah, its when he sounded a lot like steve marriot. zeppelin is so awesome.
llZosoll 2 years ago
NastyNole1:
Your head is up your @ssh()le, you racist dimwit. Zep was great because they utilized African-American blues music in ways that surpassed any other white British bands before or since. Ever heard of Robert Johnson, Willy Dixon or Otis Rush - did you hear the reference, you simpleton? I never heard such ignorance in my life.
gahrzahk 2 years ago 2
jimmy page was replacing a broken string during this number
bluessoul1286 2 years ago
otis rush PLUS led zeppelin= CHICAGO BLUES
djrogers1989 2 years ago
this recording is yet another proof that plant is bloody great with ot without a page (who is also great, but never so great without a plant)
sexypoetry 3 years ago 4
Sure hope Robert changes his mind & tours. Otherwise Jonesy & Jimmy go do it!
wjv4me 3 years ago 6
if you listen there is no guitar I thinki I read that jimmy was having problems with his rig and robert and the boys went on to this jem giving the roadies time to get jimmys rig up before dazed and confused
93652 3 years ago
the most revolutionary and innovative canon in rock history. The enduring power, variety and sheer brilliance of Zeppelin's utterly unique music will be enjoyed for many generations after the tiny minority of idiot mud slingers fall silent
sansured 3 years ago 10
You always get these morons trying to crap on the greatest band in rock history, Led Zeppelin. The plagiarism rap against Zep is a tired old bitter spew that has been studied and dismissed by every major rock critic in the world. Of course, they took some old blues hooks and lyrics, but like Muddy Waters said " All musicians are thieves, the good ones take it somewhere new and the great ones do it more than once." Zep melded all their disparate influences with their unique talent and created
sansured 3 years ago 41
thank you! i just get tired of people just looking at the fact that they plagiarized and not at all looking at the music that was created. it's good blues people, don't dismiss it 'cause they didn't credit willie with it!
nfsfreak72 2 years ago 4
@sansured Well said I plan to memorize you comment and hit anybody that throws the plagiarism rap at me with it.
capodencia85 10 months ago
The reason music sucks these days is because musicians, in order to be successful, had to keep getting more and more "dangerous", because most young people want to rebel against their parents. This kept happening until music got all crappy, and now that's what people hear and they except it instead of looking out of whats popular and into whats good. That's why we will never see great bands like Zeppelin or The who again.
JimmyPageWannaBe 3 years ago
i am sorry r u saying lady gaga, kate perry and miley sirius aren`t rock stars shame on you
just kidding i hate them all i am serious i despise their existing and how they can make this music with a straight face and put out there as singles and stuff it is disgusting
nashorlandonosh 2 years ago
That's a very astute & accurate observation
sunbird2 2 years ago
Gods of rock !
patoo1000 3 years ago 4
God this sounds good. How great was Zeppelin? Not only are all four members now considered by many to be the best to have ever played their respective instruments, even more stunning is the fact that they were revolutionary innovators, blazing trails and changing the entire face of rock. What are the odds against that concentration of talent? The answer is in the fact that we will never again see a band the likes of Led Zeppelin.
sansured 3 years ago 45
It's a complete pity that we never see and good new rock bands today.
ravenxj220 3 years ago 4
I couldnt possibly agree with you more
rastazac 3 years ago 5
Actually I used to agree with you. I'm sure there are a BUNCH of good bands(not as good as Zepp though). Its just that the record companies won't take'em. It's a shame, we could have experienced more legendary bands. Long rock LED ZEPP!
thnelement 3 years ago
the music industry is corrupted and good music aint heard on purpose, elvis was great also.
newjersey02 3 years ago 2
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elvis just took was black culture was cultivating at the time but crackers were too narrow minded to listen so he put a white veneer on it and became famous for it... fuck an elvis presely the guy wasnt that great
rastazac 3 years ago
Fuck you, you dirty black ass nigga....Zeppelin rules..
Watermelon, fried chickin' eatin', ignorant, plantation mentality coon ass ignoramus...
NastyNole1 2 years ago 2
so true!
turbomaximus1966 3 years ago
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Innovators? Are you kidding? Led Zep was the biggest ripoff act in the history of rock. I can cite 30 examples of where they blatantly STOLE riffs form other musicians. Learn your rock history, pal. Led Zeo is the best COVER band of all time.
thesoni 3 years ago
Really genius? You can cite 30?
Prove it. Cite 5. I don't mean covers like from LZ 1 or 2 where they "cite" their "references" in the song notes. Prove your bogus crap... cause I think you are full of it.
YOU learn your rock history smart guy, or educate the rest of us on your unfounded statements.
loodwigi4 3 years ago 4
white summer, stairway, whole lotta love, lemon song, how many more times,
whole lotta love and lemon song werent cited until they were sued. and whole lotta love is a willie dixon song, but they took the small faces version called "you need love"
llZosoll 2 years ago
The borrowing of songs has happened for years blues songs have been passed down since the blues was created! Kashmir, Achilles Last Stand, Since I've Been Loving You, Darlene huge numbers of songs that aren't as well known are amazing and written by Zep.
parisianUK 2 years ago 4
I certainly understand that. but some guy said to name five songs that zeppelin borrowed and did not cite. so i did. Tons of bands do this, zeppelin is just criticized the most because they are just so big. Don't get me wrong.
llZosoll 2 years ago 3
Ah okay ;)
parisianUK 2 years ago
They were sued over lyrical, not musical content in "Whole Lotta Love." The musically content was from Jimmy Page.
guderian2000 2 years ago
yeah, but listen to the way robert sings it and listen to the way steve marriot sings it.
it is identical
llZosoll 2 years ago
False. They took parts of the lyrics, but the wrote the music
Mouskit0 2 years ago
robert plant was a giant small faces fan and sung whole lotta love exactly how steve marriott sang it. white summer is not at all original, listen to the original. stairway's intro is stolen note for note. and how many more times is taken note for note from smokestack lightning by the yardbirds.
what i said was not false. this is coming from a giant zeppelin fan.
llZosoll 2 years ago
I know Bert Jansch's Black Waterside became Zep's Black Mountainside but what is the Stairway intro 'stolen note for note' from?
TheDruidKing 2 years ago
A song called 'Taurus' by Spirit
iamblase 2 years ago
@TheDruidKing Lol note for note.....relax dude....we can hear the inspiration, they used the same chords, but led zep completely changed it. It's much more better and elaborated
Mouskit0 1 year ago
@TheDruidKing lmao note for note? not at all
mwhan1 1 year ago
how many more times is a slight rip from how many more years, and ur sayin ur a giant zep fan
bonzo 2 years ago
read over what i said. have you even heard the song smokestack lightning? believe me, im as big a fan as you are. i have a giant bootleg collection and play zeppelin on guitar like crazy. what i said in my other post was not wrong at all
llZosoll 2 years ago
Apparently, he didn't reply.....guess he didn't get your message...lol
thinkbeforeyouleap 2 years ago
one of the best and truest comments i have ever read on youtube
sslink1 2 years ago
I had a bootleg years ago & this exact version was on it. What's this from?
robdog1973 3 years ago
Me too, on vinyl (still have it). Plant sounds gnarly in this early stuff. It is from a radio broadcast in 1969.
Scrimmer08 3 years ago 2
wow wow wow. vinyl? I just found this somewhere online!
iamblase 3 years ago
Yeah - I bought all my bootlegs in the late 1980s as records. Thanks for posting this song btw, my turntable is long gone, just tapes made 18 yrs ago...
Scrimmer08 3 years ago
Scrimmer, theres some software out that allows you to convert all those old records into digital files. Just throw em on the ipod or make a cd. You just need a cheap turntable and a computer.
LeadSplitter 3 years ago
Thanks! I have seen the USB turntables. For nostalgia reasons I'm tempted to get a real turntable for the specific bandwidth of sound that only a turntable can provide. The lows never seem the same when digitized.
Scrimmer08 3 years ago
all the info i know is in the vid + about the vid part... :)
iamblase 3 years ago
basses, listen to the bass... its amazing!
utkuozdemir 3 years ago 2
ZEP ROCK`S
ryssevik 3 years ago
GREAT!
LesPaulGoldTop21 3 years ago 2
the yardbirds are a totally differen't band!
joere444 3 years ago
Yardbirds evolved into Led Zeppelin... If it weren't for Keith Moon, Led Zeppelin would have been known as The Yardbirds...
LinkBulletBill 3 years ago
ya zeppelin! best classic rock band ever
figaromagniffico 3 years ago
I've read they weren't Led Zeppelin until this tour was over. This short tour was designed to give the band a chance to write for their first album. The material was mostly comprised of Yardbirds and a lot of blues stuff they were all heavily into at the time. Page admits it was mostly up to him to write, he had to rely on cover material for ideas. They actually did 3 covers on I. Whole Lotta Love was later challenged, and there are a lot of "similarities" with this Otis Rush tune.
tomitstube 3 years ago
I think this is from "69 In Flames"
It is indeed a radio broadcast.(Otis Rush Cover). Some of this show was released in the BBC Sessions
StuffByMe 3 years ago
fucking awesome
Vebbster 3 years ago
Greatest Band there ever was and ever will be. Bar none!
ramjet1962 3 years ago 2
great song
jimmypagek26 3 years ago
Plant's voice during the first several years of Zeppelin was the just unbelievable. He had range and power at that time like no rock singer before or since. To this day he is still a very nuanced and gifted singer, but during those early days he could let it rip so powerfully that when Zeppelin's PA occasionally went out he would sing without amplification and still pull it off.
sansured 3 years ago 12
I agree but Im more fond of his current voice. The early work while powerful was a lot of wailing and screaming but in his later years he has really learned to control and perfect his voice. hes voice these days is really beautiful.
RaidenTheAlmighty 3 years ago
plant, your vocals during early zep and your current stuff are the heights of your career, simply legendary.
kneelio321 3 years ago 8
I've been watching U-tube videos awhile now this evening, and I guess I'm done now. Can't top this and it's not even a video.
Highport5 3 years ago 5
I'm surprised Jimmy didn't have a spare guitar (like his Telecaster) so as to not delay the start of the next song. I know it's early in Zep's career, but he always had a spare on stage, beside his amp just in case a string did break. I might speculate that this was an opportunity for Robert to show some range with the harp and vocals.... During their shows (which used to go on for up to three hours including outstanding encores) they would all have a crack at showing their virtuosity. I miss em
Georgie2047 3 years ago 3
Who needs a guitar track when the mighty John Paul Jones is out there laying down a stunning bass line??? hahaha Just joking...God bless the Zeppelin
monkeydaystboi 3 years ago 9
True... see: "Lemon Song" live bass improvision. JPJ was truly a legend. Very underrated performer, Zep had the absolute BEST in every member present.
mussman717word 3 years ago 11
This sounds like the original basis behind "The Lemon Song"
MusicianMeTube 3 years ago
The Lemon Song was recorded live in studio, and JPJ improvised the entire bass line. This jam does sound similar, but it's just his personal style, definitely not a composition.
mussman717word 3 years ago 3
lol... how come pages guitarr tuned out? great song anyway... heheh... made me wanna play harp... and great pictures...
hinkarpage 3 years ago
haha cause page rocks so hard DUH
Chairbedcouch 3 years ago
if you play a guitar, it dosen't tune out dude...
hinkarpage 3 years ago
You said that the guitar does not tune out when you play?
LUCASFR0 3 years ago 2
The story I heard was the Page broke a string and had to replace it. There's no reason he'd have to sit it out just to retune his guitar, so I believe that it's true.
I bet after Page finished up, he sat back for a minute to listen and said to himself, 'Music will never be the same again.'
Priole2000 3 years ago 5
yes,you're right,when Robert announced this song said:"Jimmy is broken strings...guitar strings..." so this song is a SEMI-Led Zeppelin jam session....:)
hekfreedom 3 years ago
SO fuckin bluesy. good shit.
Nationist 3 years ago 3
THANK YOU ALL FOR THE COMMENTS!! HAHA
I will post dazed and confused from the same show SOON (sorry if I won't be able to make a video on it anymore HAHAHAHA)
iamblase 3 years ago
This is one of Robert Plant's most brilliant moments ever...Hell, it's one of musics most brilliant moments ever. The first time I heard this and how he just decided to carry on until Page was ready again made me gain a whole new respect for his ability.
Priole2000 3 years ago 7
fucking a
upgrade69 3 years ago
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Conneyfogle 3 years ago 2
WOW!!! This is so cool, I love JPJ's bass lines and yes does remind me of the Lemon Song...
doomer79 3 years ago
so it takes 3 minutes and 27 seconds for Jimmy Page to tune his guitar? lol!
gorbing 3 years ago
It would have been kind of odd if he just came in durning the middle of the song, lol. Besides, how badass is this?
burntoast 3 years ago
LOL!!!
rocknrollman1234 3 years ago
Yeah I've got this one as well.. Plant is great in this song, out of control and raw. Awesome song even without any guitar as someone else said here...
Scrimmer08 3 years ago
I've heard this before. Do you have any more tracks from the same concert?
acidtones1 3 years ago
Yes, I do :)
How many more times, I can't quit you baby and dazed and confused.
I haven't posted dazed and confused yet
iamblase 3 years ago
Awesome then! I'll check out your "I Can't Quit You Baby" then. Thanks!
Rock on!
acidtones1 3 years ago
1.40 :D
CPFCEAGLES25 3 years ago
OK, what type of bass is Jones using at 137? i've seen him play it before, but what type is it?
guitarfreak1324 4 years ago
Alembic
UraniumWilly 4 years ago
THANK YOU! its been buggin me!
guitarfreak1324 4 years ago
hey wich was the song thas was about to start at the end of the video????
i oughtta know
IsaaAl 4 years ago
dazed and confused
iamblase 4 years ago
i'm not hearing dazed and confused at all, definitely the lemon song. dazed and confused was actually done by the yardbirds before led zeppelin was formed
acousticroots13 3 years ago
Yes, the song was, at that time, called, "I'm Confused".
docjohn7992 3 years ago
jimmy broke a guitar string...
smiles43 4 years ago
1:33 puffy shirt!! lol holy fuck
samuelshepard 4 years ago
I love it! Thanks so much for posting this. :)
Zeppelin ROCKS!
zoezeppelin 4 years ago
no guitar,and they STILL made it work and rocked the hell outta that song!yup.thts zeppelin 4 ya xD
Pwonts94 4 years ago
this is from stockholm, sweden NOT copenhagen, denmark...it is also from 1969 not 1968...and it is a song by OTIS RUSH not otis redding....
pageyzoso 4 years ago
Yes, thank you for the correction.
I edited the details in the "About the Video" part.
iamblase 4 years ago
I read this performance was from a show in San Bernardino, California (08-08-1969.) This is the only song from the show of good quality because the tape recorder was right next to Page's amp so the guitar drowns out all the other instruments when he's playing, and as Page was changing a string at the time this recording is of a better quality.
typewriter10000 3 years ago
Otis Redding is a greater rocker than any individual Led Zep person! Check this guy out and be assured that Jimmy Page would have hired OTIS long before the very great Robert Plant...lol!
itzjoeymac 4 years ago
No offence, but Otis REDDING was a soul singer. And yes he was very good, but not the kind of singer that Led Zeppelin needed (Yah know, Rock band an' all) And I bet that Page would've hired him, if it wasn't for the fact that he had kicked the bucket 2 years before the start of Led Zeppelin.
Other than that, he's great!
juttezak 3 years ago
thought plant sounds a bit like steve marriot of the small faces
philthemod 3 years ago 2
i have a copy of this on cassette i tape off a friend who had this bootlegged on vinyl. haent heard this in a while.thanks
zepfan74 4 years ago
havent heard this! and i hav a reputation of knowing all Zep (i no its otis)
BagofSunshine1001 4 years ago
greatest band ever Led Zeppelin is and was... and willing always be!!!!
jedijenkeez45 4 years ago
amazing voice. wot a great band. in my top 3
libertinedave 4 years ago
you seriously cant beat 60's robert plant
jeffbebe123 4 years ago 7
thats the truth!
drumbum12191 4 years ago