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  • Unfortunately the sound quality sucks :(

  • this must be the pride of led zeppelin , I think.

    

  • A few years back i discovered led zeppelin. Today, pretty much everything else has started to sound shit compared to them.

  • what is up with the wavering pitch in this recording??? sounds really bad on Page's guitar!!

  • @snakehunter1964 ... he's playing slide

  • the problem with discovering Led Zeppelin for the first time is the fact that its as good as rock and roll gets . Anytrhing else you discover will be infereior

  • @Cincinnatus1869 I know! I never used to listen to music much, you know, just a little bit of older rock bands. Then I started listening to Zep. They are still the only music I listen to. People always complain that I don't listen to much else. Why should I ? :D

  • @ScrubinMcNubins please see my comment regarding Jeff Buckley on this post. from one musiclover to another.

  • @Cincinnatus1869 Check out Jeff Buckley's entire catalog--He was a big fan of Led Zepp; in fact, he and his friend were listening and singing along to LZ when he was pulled underwater and drowned. What's more interesting is that Jimmy Page was a big fan of Jeff Buckley. He did some rock, but he didn't fit into any one category...

  • @CattailsandRoses sure man I know Jeff Buckleys music ! A great vocalist . Such a shmae what happened to him . Thx !

  • @Cincinnatus1869 agree..

  • This is is like perfect .... everything fit !

  • I play Guitar.

    But every time i listen to this song it makes me wish i was a drummer...

  • Fu..in' slideshow :((

  • Ahahaha! I love Jimmys face in that picture!! But I really do love this song ahaha

  • the first time i heard led zeppelin was when i was working on a chicken coop with my brother... he said, "this will either make you work harder or just want to sit down with your mouth open"

  • I Love This Song! played it at some redneck dive in Newago MI some years ago on the jukebox and almost got killed. Don't know why they had it on there, cuz they didn't appreciate it at all. Seriously, we had to leave to avoid a riot!!!!

  • never heard a live version of this song ;O WOW!

  • @championofhardrock only one

  • This was magical, why didn't they do this song more often‽

  • @moreblack ... It think it was because they had to lug stuff for the drums that was cumbersome and they needed to shorten the set. But the couple of times they played it thankfully Peter Grant didn't get to.

  • @zed0469 the whole reason they never did it live is because the production effects couldn't really be recreated i.e. bonzo's set was recorded in a 3 story stairwell with 2 different mics in order to get the right reverb. like who the fuck thinks "hey, imma put this big ass kit in a stairwell".........zep, thats who

  • Best Zep....song.........when all you ever heard as a kid was stairway to heaven......should have been playing this more on the R A D I O .....

  • Led Zeppelin is what it is............

  • I was 10 years old when my brother played this for me.  I had grown up on Beatles and Stones and 'Levee' broke my back and raised my soul. This was a combination of R&B and rock I had not really experienced. John's drumming was what made it, for sure.

  • When I hear this song, in my head I imagine the members of led zeppelin looking down at the earth from atop mount olympus, wearing robes of pure gold

  • @WindyFellow What type of drugs are you on?

  • @IwshIcldstrtover lol :D

  • @WindyFellow Or the girls of Sucker Punch kicking ass!

    But not to worry, I knew of this song before the film, which made it even more exciting. This is my most favourite Led Zeppelin song :)

  • This concert was just a repition with the show at Amsterdam,when belgiums and dutch people had knew that,were very furious...

    Was the first interpretation of this song has stoped in end of january in USA.

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  • I've never heard a bad live performance by Led Zepellin... until now. Sorry dudes but this just doesn't sound good.

  • @iClubMidgets I was in 6th grade in 75,I had Houses & stole my brothers Zep II & 4 all the time & just as high as could possibly be on Zeppelin. A kid brought in a few bootleg live Dbl albums to school,I listened at home & was Really - Really disappointed, this was b4 TSRTS.Never heard live b4. Rec. quality was bad so were the performances. It was a wake up call to studio vs live and that they were human, & some shows blew.

  • @tjfreak Its time to reinvstigate the bootlegs. There are some that the sound quality is 10 out of 10. For example 01-15-1973 Southhampton. I haven't listened to a studio album in years.

  • @rjlongo I wish I could,1 was Seattle,the other 2 I cant remember at All.The weird part, the album jackets were kinda nice,more emphasis on those than the recordings themselves.I'm sure there were / are

    descent bootlegs lp's from that period... these weren't. The kid (Peter Fine) that brought them in to class took them from his older brother also..I got slapped around when I got caught.I don't play the albums, only to take a rest from it & have it sound that much better after a long reprieve

  • i play the first ten or so seconds of this song over and over again... it gives me an O face.

  • Bonham's finest moment and he had a ton of them. Man he was the best.

  • Bonham's finest moment and he had a ton of them. Man he was the best.

  • bonham rules!

  • was this one of the warm-up shows?

    Becuase they didn't tour Europe in 1975

  • @nothingbutrock666 they toured Britain, at least they had a stand at the royal albert hall

  • i don't know much about blowin the harmonica but Plant is awfully good at it

  • i was there too!! 19 years young,an amazing concert

  • is "Taking Torronto by Strategy" a bootleg album?

  • @SHamed92 lucky man

  • This isn't a good recording, not a poor performance by LZ, they are awesome, just the sound sounds messed up.

  • @MrMike3865 Find us a better one, mate ;)

  • unfortunately I'm never surprised by the shape of Robert's voice live. That's such a letdown. He simply couldn't keep up what he once was able to do vocally. I understand he had nodes on his chords.

  • Shame they only did it a few times live, it sounds magical to say the least.

  • led zeppelin were like a musical juggernaut ..just blew everything away that was in its path...and there are other great bands out there...as well...they were unique...and the music round that time was as well...timeless.

  • 0:30: Must be the heaviest drum fill of the history of rock and roll.

  • Absolutely the heaviest band of all time. It's incredible how they could produce this type of sound on stage. It's like the sound of a hurricane in music form.

  • Has been my favortie song by Led Zeppelin since the first time I had ever heard, even my parents say I loved this song as a child, though, I've yet to hear the original.

  • The single best clip of Bonham that I've ever seen on youtube is entitled: "Led Zeppelin- Moby Dick (Live At Royal Albert Hall 1970)". It's taken from the 2003 Led Zeppelin DVD release....Watch this clip!!

  • Thank´s for this real rocking video!!! Amazing stuff.......................ZE­P forever.

  • One man: John Henry Bonham .... RIP

  • quite remarkable. I remember the first time I heard Black Dog. I was about 12. I'm now 43 and still marvel at it. Levee did slay me, but so did D'yer Maker and many more. I agree. It is exciting to think about kids today discovering what makes their music today, but of course, we cannot credit Zep for this music. The Blues have been with us a long time. I too am anxious to expose my son to this amazing music. I hope he is captivated like I was.

  • @FoghornLeghorn66 i am 12 years old, and I appreciate all of this older music. I just like the sound of the raw instruments.. I dont like the sound of about 20 synthesizers, a drum machine, and a person that talks fast that claims to be singing... This music is so much better!!

  • @jimihendrixtribute Good for you young man! This period is one of two times in American history, the other being with the advent of Jazz in the late 1800's-early 1900's- when the most innovative music was also the most popular. Makes todays music pale by comparison. I remember I was your age in 1975 when alot of this was coming out and somehow KNEW I was lucky. Zep only did this on stage a few times, this version is one of those times. It was too hard to recreate on stage all the studio...

  • @jimihendrixtribute ...tricks they used to make it IMHO one of the greatest rock cuts of this era. For a great cover version check out Buckwheat Zydeco's version with Sonny Landreth, one of the greatest living slide guitarists--it SMOKES!!

  • @jimihendrixtribute youre bound to go far young fella. you have taste for starters

  • @jimihendrixtribute I think you're on to something! Keep going, don't ever stop Rocking!

  • @jimihendrixtribute

    Nobody really gives a shit how old you are.

    I'm getting sick of these "I'm 12 years old, 70s = great, Modern = shit, now where are my thumbs?" comments.

    Just listen to it, post if you like it, post if you don't.

  • @TheDarkFrontier yeah i posted that when i wasn't mature enough to understand that.. :P

  • @TheDarkFrontier i was just thinking that !

  • Does anyone know, why the blue blazzers my all time fav band never played this in concert. Totally bezzar.

  • Yes, it's true, only two live versions. Song is far too difficult to play live.

    I have the other live version, it was played in Chicago (fitting enough), I believe it was '73, just going by memory here, I have the CD stored away somewhere. I think it is a better version than this one, but, it is not near the epic sound of the live version.

  • this is the FIRST bootleg i bought...oh...the memories....i played this thru (3) girlfriends!!!!..

  • more proof: Zeppelin is the best groovin band ever to have walked the earth

    hell yeah

  • Wow i wish there were video of Page playing steel guitar!!

  • I love Led Zeppelin A LOT, but this is terriable.

  • @blackdog3030 i disagree passionately.

    the original recording had about 3 or 4 guitars on it. it is really really really hard to be 3 or 4 guitars live. and the drums at the beginning is also really hard to recording live

    i think its pretty decent

  • @blackdog3030 this rocks! it's your spelling that's terriable

  • I love jamming this song. John Bonham is one of my idols :)

  • This is so different From Kansas Joe McCoy & Memphis Minnies version....Which was almost verging on an upbeat Joyful Minstrel Dance.....Like sort of early black Fiddle & Banjo tunes before Blues took off in the early part of the 1900s

  • @Maguirearch Upbeat? I don't hear it that way. Memphis Minnie's version is deep, full of pain.

  • Simple but BAD ASSS DEMON fill @ 3:11, This Bonham is such a genius

  • I mean @ 3:08

  • @m1bug No two ways about it Bro,HE WAS THE MAN BEFORE BEING THE MAN WAS THOUGHT OF,I never heard him miss time EVER,I own 40 bootlegs and countless live stuff and he's the one player in the band who NEVER messes up and if he did he would catch it with his off-time shuffle playing,I been drumming for 30 yrs and I never get bored with his playing,HE'S A TESTAMENT TO HIS BREED.

  • Zep and Metallica, best cover artists of all time. No one covers tunes like them. Pure rule.

  • This song encompasses the greatest drum beat and guitar riff in my opinion. Page on the slide guitar with Bonham laying an incredible drum beat. Simply the best

  • beautiful !!!

  • I cant believe that those smiley nice looking chaps create such BADASS music!

  • @Ravenite1 And they definitely don't know how Beatlish they look. :)

  • diosessssssssss

  • this song always had a great rhythm

  • this song is one of zeps best songs,but overlook because of the lp it was on.Nobody plays live like zeppelin never have may never will

  • first time I heard this song on the album I listened to it about 10 times in a row. I was blown away. I couldnt believe the sound of the drums, guitar, everything. I usually dont love a song the first time I hear it but this song floored me. Its The only Zep song I remember hearing for the first time as I had heard most of the other masterpieces on the radio growing up (Im 26). I envy people that are able to discover classic bands like Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd for the first time...

  • @mystro810 It's possible to "discover" great art, writing and music through out your entire life, over and over again, that's why it's great. Kashmir changed my life when I first heard it in Feb of '75 when I was 15. Since that time, it and every song and performance in Zeppelin's catalog continue to grow and change with the passage of time, getting better and stronger with newer meaning. This power resides in all of us, great music enables us all to realize that power!

  • @mystro810 Exactly the same happened to me. I was randomly listening to Stairway to heaven, and suddenly i heard those badass drums, guitar and harmonica. I heard it one and another time, and have heard it many times since, and i will ever get bored of it. It's one of the most amazing songs ever, in my opinion.

  • @mystro810 my fave LZ song just in front of Immigrant Song

  • HOLY SHIT!!!!! THIS MUST BE THE ONLY LIVE RECORDING OF THIS!

    Mind = Blown

  • COOL!!!

  • This for me proves the real talent of Led Zeppelin, namely in Page's guitar playing. But in this song the harmonica courtesy of Plant means at least as much.

    My fav. Zep song (together with 'Babe I'm gonna leave you' that is)

  • PRICELESS.THANX

  • haha pretty damn good for being recorded in 1975.... recording maybe cleaner but this one is fantastic

  • cant stop listening to this fucking song... lmao

  • I know! Its just so heavy and badass!

  • this version makes the recordind sound like SH*T it is awsome!

  • I love this song but I don't see how this version is better?

    Maybe if the recording was cleaner it might sound better, but the studio version sounds better to me IMO.

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  • you are right-one time somebody sold me a bogus bootleg video of this song, which was the studio version with a film of all these ZEPPELINS being manufactured ect...

  • no he didnt...

  • Jim sort of muffed the middle eight. Nonetheless this is pretty cool.

    I think in order to recreate the drum sound on the studio version they put Bonzo's drumkit in a bigass pit that they hauled onstage, and they figured it was too much of a pain in the ass and dropped it from the set.

    Now my question is, why did the Wanton Song get dropped?

  • how sweet would it be if they dropped like a 25 foot vistilite pipe around bonham and his kit. like a giant pipe thats see threw with an orange tint like his famous vistilite kit. and put the mikes at the top, to recreate the sound that would've been awesome

  • When all they'd need to do is send the drum mics through an Echorec.

  • Wanton Song was the the Opening number for both the '95 and '98 Page&Plant tours.

  • i dont know why they didnt do this song live more often. this is soo bad ass

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  • The studio recordings are for longevity and artistic respectability. Live performances are for the hard, sweaty rock and roll experience!

    I Iove the guitar here, its sounds so rusty and gnarled, maybe representative of the yielding levee.

  • Oh, how I wish there was VIDEO footage of this song live. So far I have not seen anything. Feedback or something from John's bass guitar, or just powerful bass playing by John -- actually had to turn down my speakers because it hurt my ears.

  • anything by zep is worth listening to....great

  • did robert plant play harmonica

  • ya mon of course he did!

  • yeah!

  • sometimes I am surprised that people don't realise that rock and roll is supposed to be rough and that the rougher the better.

    like this is Bach or somin :P

  • This is rough and how the blues should sound.

    The album is cleaner which makes for listening in the car, maybe, but thsi is the shit

    ec

    x

  • Great!

  • It was difficult for them to recreate the same sound from the album live, just the 4 of them. They probably felt it wasn't worth the effort. I am glad to have found this though, I've been looking everywhere for a bootleg with this on there.

  • fuckin spectacular

  • I LOVE this song but now I can see why this was not performed live.

  • do explain.  It sounds good to me.

  • jimmy page looks like a old enlishman who is a retired professor

  • Bonham remains the greatest rock drummer that ever stepped on a stage.

  • @fredzepp1 I am a drummer. I totally agree with you on John. I still get goose bumps listening to his drumming after 30 years. Proberly my fav drumming by John When The Leeve breaks. Then again might be msity mountian top, Fuck who knows lol

  • Bonham has apparently been voted as the person that people want brought back to life in rock, above both Freddie Mercury and Elvis. He was also voted as the greatest drummer over Neil Peart. John Henry Bonham is, and always will be, the single greatest drummer ever. He's done more for drumming than George Washington Carver did for peanuts.

  • @fredzepp1 have you never heard of meg white ;-)

  • @fredzepp1 Ringo!

  • @fredzepp1 YUP bonham on drums is like a freight train heading for you. Or like god raining thunder from the sky.

  • @fredzepp1 I so totally agree. Every time those bombasting scales shake the house they sound like the stage is part of the drum kit. Led Zep musicians must a suffered from schin splints and fragemting bone syndrome...

    When the levee breaks (M. Minnie L.Z. retake) = the HEAVIEST piece of music that ever was

    Shhhhiiiit!

    Check out Zepparella's version on Youtube (quite surprizing)

  • One of my faves of zep

  • Bonzo is the best of Led Zeppelin

  • Agreed!

  • Agreed, and if you are the best in Led Zeppelin then you are the best of the absolute best. Zeppelin was a band with four revolutionary groundbreaking virtuosos.

  • Yes, four virtuosos and Bonham absolute best.

  • hey new orleans lol

  • adding &fmt=18 to the url helps the sound

  • Why does everything about Zepp. have to be linked to something satanic, I love all of their music. Mostly this and Kashmir...Do me a favor and get a life!!!!

  • uhh they didn't write this song, and its not linked to something satanic

  • bombastic!

  • Holy shit.

    That songs grabs you, and it don't let go.

    I've always loved that song.

    Too bad they never played it when I saw them in 77.

  • why "SATANIC"?

  • If I have to explain...you'd never understand.

  • nor would I.

  • My favourite song of Led

  • speaking of that ,why don't you go to hell...

  • cool!!

  • bad ass!! i never thought they did a live version of this song in the 70s

  • yeah they just played a couple times in 75

  • HEAVY STUFF!!!!!!

  • Time. Dimensions. Light. Knowledge. I am myself, but awoke to a different world. Thanks for the tunes, Id like to invite you to come check out"Nightmare on Blog Street" a poem I wrote to infect the sane.

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  • dude i like that first line a lot.

  • thanks man. it just came to me one day. I liked it so much just by itself I decided to use this as a tool to turn people on

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  • there is a performance during the 90s or in the 00s but it was with neil young and it was pretty cool. ALOT OF GUITARS + distortion=badass. Plant rips out a gibson or somthing half way and plays like 2 notes and then just hold it lol. typical plant.

  • yeah, live at rock n roll hall of fame, i love that one. half way through he even goes into a ''for what its worth''

  • DUDE can you post mp3's of the whole album?

  • ME TOO! DUDE can you please post mp3's of the whole album. PLEASE!

  • SlaytanicMegaforce,

    I love how you have the Show No Mercy

    beast as your pic, and you have posted a Led Zeppelin vid

    I love when other ppl have mixed taste =]

  • OMG fantastic! One of my favorite led zeppelin song

  • wow, where did you get this?

  • i bought it at some record shop in denmark. it's pretty rare obviously

  • you lucky bastard, anyway u can send the mp3s of the whole album?

  • @SlaytanicMegaforce tell me where's the place! i'm flying straight to denmark! hahah

  • @2109MI Aarhus haha :D

  • @SlaytanicMegaforce I allready downloaded it from torrents :D i was in london and tried to find some bootlegs but i couldn't because cd shops are scared of being sued.

  • Pagey really nails the main riff live....the middle eight is a bit dodgy though. Shame the audio doesn't capture the booming drum and bass sound.

    Overall though...awesome!

  • They only performed this song twice live apparently, this is one of those two times.

  • okay, i didn't know that, thanks for the info