I wonder what it would have been like to have seen them live in a small setting in 1968-19699, pre-Internet, having almost no idea what you were going to witness.
Damn! Thank you for uploading the entire performance of this song, and this one has great audio! I watched this DVD so much that neither disk plays anymore. lol
I gotta say that when I saw this version, I blown the fuck away. It was after I heard the BBC sessions version. This is just awesomesauce. The group as a whole is just amazing....even 43 years later!
Ah, the memories!! Takes me back to spring of 1969, I and some friends used to sit in an unoccupied wooden house together and listen to this song over and over again as we smoked pot and got stoned out of our heads... good times!
Definitively not a cover of the Howlin' Wolf song. If you look at the lyrics the only thing that's the same is "How many more." The rest of the lyrics were written by Page and Pant (although they did take the "They call me the hunter, that's my name" lyric from the Albert King song The Hunter). The music is also completely different, if you listen to Howlin' Wolf version and the way Page plays it.
@nkovachki bassline was from JP's days with the Yardbirds. Modified to what they were doing with Zep...... Definitely originated from Smokestack Lightnin' by Howlin Wolf (duly noted here by Jimmy Page during his intro. These guys were infatuated with Howlin Wolf). You are right though...not a cover...just inspiration.
8:30-9:00 cracks me up when page is messin with bonham, trying to throw off his timing, notice page's smirk as he looks toward plant and bonham but bonham is completely unphased
I dont think this video is not 1951 though... are you sure it is?? its impossible... no led zep in 51, shout i wish the were together since 51-2012... maybe i got the tittle wrong??
@60sAnd70sHardRock I am a 14-year-old musician and I aspire to play like Jimmy Page because I am against the garbage that people my age have come to call "music" today.
The riff is basically Howlin' Wolf's No Place to Go played in the energy of Smokestack Lightnin'. Lyrics are a mix of No Place to Go and How Many More Years plus additional new lyrics.
@bran1226 ive listened to the album version like a million fuckin times ive listened to howlin wolfs version alot of times to i hear the similarity but it doesnt mean theyre rip offs it just means theres influence all bands take from one another
@chichi1742 this it is actually based on a song written by willie dixon, and performed by the great howlin wolf. check out (you gonna wreck my life) by howlin wolf. it's mind blowing.
Little Robert Anthony...19 years old. Inconceivable now. Robert was absolutely right--there is no way that a group could put itself together from scratch like Zeppelin did today and even remotely hope to take over the rock & roll world like they did.
@lashutterbug Yes, and it's remarkable how fully formed and musically mature this band was less than a year after they got together. They were all so young then. Page was the "veteran" of the group, and he was only 25 at this time. I can't imagine a bunch of 20- or even 25-year-old rock musicians being this badass, sure of themselves, and talented these days.
@avocate201 Thats what makes them timeless. And consider that Plant was a teenager when they started...He was justin beiber's age....singing like a MAN. Percy, forever the master of "Buhaaaaabyyyyy"
@MBledzephed In 1968 i think Plant was 19. Teeanger yes, but justin biebers age, no. Biebers 17 years old. But at 17/18 Plant was singing like a man. Have you heard his pre zep shit? Puts beebs to shame.
@MBledzephed Exactly. We live in an age where people like Justin Bieber and the Jonas Brothers are considered "talented" young artists, but Robert Plant and John Bonham weren't much older than those kids when the first Led Zeppelin album came out. And Led Zeppelin pretty much invented a new musical genre and changed the course of rock music history.
this is sooooo awesome..... there really are no words that can describe what you are seeing and hearing.... only that enoughpeople HAVE NOT seen this.... LED ZEPPELIN ROCKS!!!!!!
I wonder what it would have been like to have seen them live in a small setting in 1968-19699, pre-Internet, having almost no idea what you were going to witness.
geoffrobinson 14 hours ago
Best band ever to step foot on earth. You can not deny that fact. You just can't. Impossible.
WeShallNeverStop 20 hours ago
led zeppelin me deja con la boca abierta
luisfran04 1 day ago
Damn! Thank you for uploading the entire performance of this song, and this one has great audio! I watched this DVD so much that neither disk plays anymore. lol
Crust218 2 days ago
I wonder if those kid's life change for good after that moment.
darthsadic 5 days ago
It stopped loading! what the hell!
metalheadfaceperson 2 weeks ago
JOHN PAUL JONES IS MR. BASS!!!!
rockerforever6973 2 weeks ago
Never get tired of this.
lapislazuli7 2 weeks ago 7
@lapislazuli7 I know, Just heard it three strainght times already. You never get tired. THAT BASS!!!!
PabloMGP 4 days ago
@PabloMGP Just lovely. ;-)
lapislazuli7 3 days ago
The Real Deal is right here, folks.
I've not seen a more important performance.
noclouds111 2 weeks ago
Keith Richards reckons Zeppelin are Page. I agree, but hard to imagine them being as great with that Plant power-voice, the JPJ bass and the Bonzo.
WaltHawtin 2 weeks ago 3
Jimmy Page busts out the bow = Everyone's minds blown
JLil 2 weeks ago 3
1:06 greatest Zep moment ever
m4kes0meno1se 3 weeks ago 7
This is the best R'N'R Vid of all freak'n time!!!! This is how it was done .
sn00pyize 3 weeks ago
holy fuck. that was awesome.
kermicheo 3 weeks ago
the greatest band to ever walk the Earth
mrslappy001 3 weeks ago
oh my god! what a wonder ... these times that I see is your existence. Thank you for sharing this rare gem.
marcosapo 1 month ago
I gotta say that when I saw this version, I blown the fuck away. It was after I heard the BBC sessions version. This is just awesomesauce. The group as a whole is just amazing....even 43 years later!
desertrat198 1 month ago
John Paul Jones sooooo under rated, he later produced some of Paul McCarntneys stuff, would have loved to been a fly on the wall in that studio
mikegeddykelly 1 month ago
Zero dislikes
the way it should be
0PERAT0RPLEASE 1 month ago 4
Ah, the memories!! Takes me back to spring of 1969, I and some friends used to sit in an unoccupied wooden house together and listen to this song over and over again as we smoked pot and got stoned out of our heads... good times!
teghe55 1 month ago 4
Great tune, but yeah it's not the Howling wolf song.
deadflo 2 months ago
If there is ever an apocalypse, I hope this is the only evidence of the human race to survive.
HueyRocks23 2 months ago 38
@HueyRocks23 Lol 2012, perfect time for the comment.
Phenomenon58 1 month ago
This isn't a cover of how many more years it just has a similar title....
PianoMan347 2 months ago
7:17 to 7:33 best bass i have ever heard!!!!!!
rokhank 2 months ago 4
mid-terms can suck my nuts, im gonna jam to this XD
snakeXeater69 2 months ago 5
A melhor geração do rock!!!!!!!
Ads6889 2 months ago
Minha banda de rock favorita,geniais!!!!!!!
Ads6889 2 months ago
Arguably the best live performance of any song by Led Zeppelin ever.
GallowsPole805 2 months ago 5
Led Zeppelin ..Best early performing video
Greatest Band of all Times
ThrashRoC 2 months ago
Definitively not a cover of the Howlin' Wolf song. If you look at the lyrics the only thing that's the same is "How many more." The rest of the lyrics were written by Page and Pant (although they did take the "They call me the hunter, that's my name" lyric from the Albert King song The Hunter). The music is also completely different, if you listen to Howlin' Wolf version and the way Page plays it.
nkovachki 2 months ago
@nkovachki bassline was from JP's days with the Yardbirds. Modified to what they were doing with Zep...... Definitely originated from Smokestack Lightnin' by Howlin Wolf (duly noted here by Jimmy Page during his intro. These guys were infatuated with Howlin Wolf). You are right though...not a cover...just inspiration.
GallowsPole805 2 months ago
PLANT IS THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RafaArkanjo 2 months ago in playlist rock
Sitting here as an 18 year young boy, and wishes i was 18 in 1969 :(
DaphneBlue50s 2 months ago
I love how in the stat of the video Plant put the mic in the stand, then after only 30 seconds he takes it off the mic.
Phenomenon58 2 months ago
Those Danish kids are so fuckin stoned.
pianoman7345 2 months ago
8:30-9:00 cracks me up when page is messin with bonham, trying to throw off his timing, notice page's smirk as he looks toward plant and bonham but bonham is completely unphased
peterberk67 2 months ago
VERDADEIRAS LENDAS DOROCK AND ROLL...
yonghoshoiung 3 months ago
nasci tarde =/
achemaro 3 months ago
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achemaro 3 months ago
there was Mozart then Led Zeppelin, pure genius!
4gdvibes 3 months ago
I dont think this video is not 1951 though... are you sure it is?? its impossible... no led zep in 51, shout i wish the were together since 51-2012... maybe i got the tittle wrong??
Bonzostriplet 3 months ago
@Bonzostriplet the song they covered was made in '51
evb4mvp 3 months ago
@Bonzostriplet The song was written in 1951. This video is 1969
deeapril 2 months ago
Nostalgico!
Handyhenrique 3 months ago
wow¡ que pinche musica tan chingona
itzcoatldefuego 3 months ago
They were all modest, thats the best thing about them.
Phenomenon58 3 months ago
fucking epic end
greengeckofeet 3 months ago
Gotta love the Yardbirds throwback halfway through Jimmy's first solo...Over Under Sideways Down I think......
MBledzephed 3 months ago
@60sAnd70sHardRock Still getting used to this sorry about thanking you twice but I guess that's not a bad thing.
nighthawk4592 3 months ago
@60sAnd70sHardRock Thanks for the support people just don't appreciate music anymore, it seems like it's only my drummer and me sometimes.
nighthawk4592 3 months ago
@60sAnd70sHardRock Thanks for the support, man!
nighthawk4592 3 months ago
this is not cover.... Howlin Wolf ---- this is 100% style of zepp////
david62241 3 months ago
God our father on guitar, His son on vocals.
oddbumbles 3 months ago
for me..they are the greatest rock band of all time
paulofernandesilva 3 months ago
@60sAnd70sHardRock I am a 14-year-old musician and I aspire to play like Jimmy Page because I am against the garbage that people my age have come to call "music" today.
nighthawk4592 3 months ago
JPJ is on fire starting at 8:15
lzacdcmir 4 months ago
Back in 1969 in NYC we had the Fillmore East where many great bands like Zep made several appearances.
gannonb4u 4 months ago
Page really knows where he's going with that wah pedal. He's amazing
StevO1942 4 months ago
Fucking love Bonham drum fills.
Phenomenon58 4 months ago 4
great vid one of the best ive seen
circleseverywhere 4 months ago
Love the Smokestack Lightnin riff when Jimmy is introduced. Sounds badass thru the Wah Wah
BluesBurner 4 months ago
JOHN PAUL JONES = 1 BAD MUTHA FUCKA
TheSoundOfATitan 4 months ago 28
@TheSoundOfATitan You here him with Them Crooked Vultures? What a great career encore they are for him.
WaltHawtin 2 weeks ago
6:56 A GROOVE THAT ONLY THE MIGHTY ZEPPELIN CAN TAKE YOU INTO... THESE GUYS WERE GODS IN THE MAKING
TheSoundOfATitan 4 months ago
<3!!!
InMysteriousWays 5 months ago
brilliant bass playing
rokhank 5 months ago
this is the best version of this song on youtube
rokhank 5 months ago 3
The riff is basically Howlin' Wolf's No Place to Go played in the energy of Smokestack Lightnin'. Lyrics are a mix of No Place to Go and How Many More Years plus additional new lyrics.
omersy92 5 months ago in playlist Led Zeppelin
Absolutely spectacular.
duncanstpt 5 months ago
human in the fullest of form
bloodmoney0270 6 months ago
love that transition down the fret board jimmy does @4:23 !!!
stage462 6 months ago 4
JIMMY PAGE IS ONE BAD MOFO!!
gleemo1 6 months ago
I don't think the audience had enough chemical stimulation to be allowed to SIT thru this.
bluesdad54 6 months ago
CHILLS
TNT73BLF 6 months ago
@bran1226 nope. zeppelin rules i win
chichi1742 7 months ago
@bran1226 ive listened to the album version like a million fuckin times ive listened to howlin wolfs version alot of times to i hear the similarity but it doesnt mean theyre rip offs it just means theres influence all bands take from one another
chichi1742 7 months ago
Summer of '69!!
A magical time in music history!!
I remember like it was yesterday!
gannonb4u 7 months ago 14
@gannonb4u dont tell me you saw this live because im gonna die from jealousy !!!
xTheGreenLightx 4 months ago
They Call Me The Hunter ... Albert King :)
bluebirdreviews 7 months ago
OH ROSIE !!!
bluebirdreviews 7 months ago
it is a mix of old blues songs `[american]
bcace 7 months ago
im pretty sure led zeppelin wrote this song
chichi1742 7 months ago
@chichi1742 this it is actually based on a song written by willie dixon, and performed by the great howlin wolf. check out (you gonna wreck my life) by howlin wolf. it's mind blowing.
bran1226 7 months ago
@bran1226 yeah i knew it influencde but its not a cover
chichi1742 7 months ago
Zeppelin=Like a fucking boss
tyrehoward 8 months ago
Little Robert Anthony...19 years old. Inconceivable now. Robert was absolutely right--there is no way that a group could put itself together from scratch like Zeppelin did today and even remotely hope to take over the rock & roll world like they did.
lashutterbug 8 months ago
@lashutterbug Yes, and it's remarkable how fully formed and musically mature this band was less than a year after they got together. They were all so young then. Page was the "veteran" of the group, and he was only 25 at this time. I can't imagine a bunch of 20- or even 25-year-old rock musicians being this badass, sure of themselves, and talented these days.
avocate201 8 months ago 24
@avocate201 you should check out a norwegian band called Inception! they are really good!
EmilBariaas 5 months ago
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EmilBariaas 5 months ago
@avocate201 Inception-Yellow dust. its on Youtube ;)
EmilBariaas 5 months ago
@avocate201 Thats what makes them timeless. And consider that Plant was a teenager when they started...He was justin beiber's age....singing like a MAN. Percy, forever the master of "Buhaaaaabyyyyy"
MBledzephed 3 months ago 4
@MBledzephed In 1968 i think Plant was 19. Teeanger yes, but justin biebers age, no. Biebers 17 years old. But at 17/18 Plant was singing like a man. Have you heard his pre zep shit? Puts beebs to shame.
Phenomenon58 3 months ago
@MBledzephed Exactly. We live in an age where people like Justin Bieber and the Jonas Brothers are considered "talented" young artists, but Robert Plant and John Bonham weren't much older than those kids when the first Led Zeppelin album came out. And Led Zeppelin pretty much invented a new musical genre and changed the course of rock music history.
avocate201 2 months ago
@avocate201 It was easy that time because they were real men and mature not like the suspiciously low testosterone men they have in America today.
jimmy27paul 2 months ago
@avocate201 ohhhhhh...so true
lafleurdumal76 2 months ago in playlist Liked videos
@avocate201
Ads6889 2 months ago
10:36 I GET IT ITS LIKE SEX
axelsteel05 8 months ago 4
This is...too freakin' good for words to describe this!
TheBaronzero 8 months ago
I'd like to introduce Led Zeppelin. Epic song to begin a concert with.
Layne77Staley 8 months ago 3
true magic <3
evilnovass 9 months ago
Just great !"·$%!" fuckin like it !!
Travelaquez 9 months ago
the fans in the back? little did they know.
DonRico333 9 months ago
YES!
JimiHendrix87 10 months ago
Bravo!!! This is the best forever!!!
Smayser 11 months ago
HOW COME THERE ARE ONLY 503 VIEWS?!?!?!?!?!!?
Esbruganzai 11 months ago
this is sooooo awesome..... there really are no words that can describe what you are seeing and hearing.... only that enoughpeople HAVE NOT seen this.... LED ZEPPELIN ROCKS!!!!!!
rhondarenae36 11 months ago
KICK ASS!
JimmyPagesSoloLover 1 year ago