I think Plant liked adventure stories in general, although Tolkein in particular. Kashmir, I think, draws inspiration from the novel and film, "Lost Horizon."
I just noticed…..at the end…Robert says several time, “searching for my baby”. His latest album with Alison Krauss has a song on it called “Searching For My Baby”. How funny…..a theme …..
Battle of evermore Led Zeppelin is one that has a lot of Lord of the rings influence in it also. Robert and Sandy Dennys vocals are just insane on the song. Thanks guys.
@@vandalayindustries3057 The latter. If I live to be 100 I will always treasure how lucky I was to experience this music & see so many of the greats live. 😊✌️🌻🌻
@@vandalayindustries3057 The latter. If I live to be 100 I'll still remember getting to experience this music & see so many of the greats in concert. Wouldn't trade it for the world. ✌️🌻🌻
Imagine being 12 years old and being exposed to a seemingly endless plethora of music like this. It's only many years later that I have realized that I lived in the best of times.
This song always brings me right back to listening to this in 1983 when I was 15 in Boston. Tripping on purple microdot mescaline with about 50 friends on the railroad tracks. We had a big boom box tons of beer and the leaves were falling because it was fall. Great song!
Just FYI, purple microdots are acid, not mescaline. A dose of mescaline is around 200 to 500 milligrams, and you couldn't come anywhere close to fitting that into a microdot. You could maybe fit about 5 milligrams into a microdot, and then you'd have to take 40 or more to get high. But LSD, which averages about 100 _micrograms_ (not milligrams) per dose, can easily fit in a microdot. I'd be real careful about taking LSD these days though, as a lot of it is some form of 25-NB, which unlike LSD is very toxic and potentially fatal. You pretty much have to really _really_ trust your source, or do an Ehrlich test to make sure. You just can't trust drugs anymore. I'm glad I quit drugs a long time ago, well before all this fake shit atarted ahowing up. In any case, we sure had some fun back then, huh? Well, good times, bad times...
I did a dose of purple microdot and it was around 1983, too. My cousin and I went on a bicycle ride at midnight. Our plan was to find his friend and wake him up. We did, around 2am. He was not amused .
@@jackgilchrist You are probably right but back then they called it mescaline. Another name was orange sunshine and double barrel purple micro dot. I’ve only taken one each and window pain acid once. Was good times but most those kids I hung around with were dead before they reached 30. They lived hard and fast and payed for it.
The tapping during the song is John Bonham tapping on a guitar case to get the sound effects... Just brilliant. Great reaction and Peace out guys ✌️ ☮️
This on this cut and some of i heard is too loud and takes away/almost annoying at the beginning of the song, like fake electronic drum beats-just hit the button-while song is at a 5 db level, these are at an 8 too overpowering in the remix production.
I'm a J.R.R. Tolkien nut. I have all his books and I'm very happy with what Peter Jackson did to bring the stories and characters to life. Excellent. Jackson needs to tackle "The Silmarillion" next!
There's LOTR references all throughout LZ's discography. Even Stairway to Heaven, "There's a feeling I get when I look to the west and my spirit is crying for leaving" is a reference to the elven desire to leave Middle-Earth and return to Valinor.
Word. I’m a drummer and there are certain Bassist that are so fundamentally good it amazes you I saw Zep in 1977 in Oakland obviously to see John Bonham but JPJ just blew me away. That’s happened only a handful of times for me. Remember seeing Stanly Clark or Billy Sheehan play. About 5 years ago going to go see drummer Jeff Campitelli play and seeing Angeline Saris play Bass with him just flooded me I stopped watching him and started asking who in the hell is that bassist. 😂. JPJ is probably one of the best UNSECRET secret weapons in music
I went to school for audio engineering, and songs like this one were what got me interested in recording and mixing. The guitar solo with the two parts in different octaves panned left and right caught my ears when I was a kid. Led Zeppelin had several songs with very interesting things in the recording and/or mixing.
Maybe my favorite Led Zeppelin song. Their early music from 1969 was the Best in many people's and music critic's opinions. The Albums titled "Led Zeppelin1 and II" were so raw and gritty with that Bluesy influence. Thanks
John Paul Jones went nuts on the bass guitar, awesome! While you are on the 2nd album "The Lemon Song" and "Heartbreaker" are a must reaction if you haven't done them already.
really great bass line. have never heard a guitar bridge like that before or since making it even more unique and original. Bonham's drumming is in a class by itself in this melody. As usual. And Plant brings a reference to J.R.R. Tolkein into the mix. Only several other compositions of theirs does this. Once again unique and individual.
There is a very beautiful electric guitar melody being played in the background during the 3rd verse that most people miss, even when I have tried to point it out while listening. It is one of those subtleties that makes LZ's production so great. Once you hear it, you can't miss it whenever you hear this song. My favorite song ever. The lilting verse, the thundering chorus.... fantastic!!
It’s the stereo mixing I’ll remember. Back in the day, riding around blasting songs like this on a car stereo. Just sounded soooo good . This and What Is and What Should Never Be.
Finally. Got the Led out with my original favorite Zepp tune, before I heard When the Levee Breaks. Been requesting it from other reactors for years with no luck. Thanks. Now try Boogie with Stu, with Ian Stuart on piano!
I had read Lord of the Rings about two years before this record dropped! To say I LOVED this song is an understatement! Peace - from between Kelowna and Vernon in “super natural” BC!
The honors ceremony for LZ at the Kennedy Center in 2012 was a well deserved recognition for what this band has given to the world. The pinnacle was Heart performing Stairway To Heaven. I have never seen a more moving cover than what was put together for this cover. The array of singers and musicians was almost beyond belief, a choir wearing Bowler Hats (John Bonham used to wear a Bowler Hat often), to what appeared to be a full orchestra were coreograhed in an epic manner. The icing on the cake came as a surprise to LZ, John Bonham's son Jason was playing drums (Jason had told LZ he had a previous committment and could not make it). I have never seen a better tribute in my 67 years of life! Thanks for reacting to Ramble On, a favorite of mine and many others as well.
Favorite fall song. Bonham tapping on a drum or guitar case. My wife gave me a beautiful yellow lab pup 20 years ago. He had huge paws so I named him Bonzo.
JPJ is a fuck Beast on this song. Great verse Riff and that spiral run is fantastic to isolate your attention on a re-listen. John Bonham is drumming with the Butt end of his sticks on Jimmies empty guitar case. Sounds like Bongos. Genius.
I 2nd everyone talking about the great bass lines in this song, a masterclass. The whole 2nd album has particularly great bass playing, though JPJ's always great on all the albums. Ramble On is one their great songs, but there are so many.
The battle of evermore is the song related to Lord of the rings Robert is a huge fan sam will absolutely love it and in the song is the only duet with Robert on the track
I enjoy listening to your takes & reactions, just a compliment as you both are insightful and good communicators. You promptly say many of the same things I've said over the years hearing that song many hundreds of times since the eary 70s. It's really a damn good song and as a bass player myself, I love how JPJ just lays down a fluid straightforward masterpiece.
Best bass line ever. Maybe the best vocals ever. Maybe some great minimalistic guitar thrown in. A masterpiece, to say nothing of a great line about Gollum. Oh, Gollum's precious!
It's a well-known fact that: Robert Plant was/is a declared J.R.R. Tolkien fan. [He had a dog named: Aragorn, in the '70s & '80s]. "Ramble On" is the most 'apparent' lyrical reference, but (pretty obvious, i.m.o.), the glorious duet with: Sandy Denny (vocalist with Fairport Convention and personal friend of the band): "The Battle Of Evermore" also has direct Tolkien connections. [Sandy Denny is, also, the only non-Zeppelinite (non-"official band member") to have an official Led Zeppelin sigil [i.e., the legendary "geometric shapes" and, so-called, "ZoSo" figure, designed/taken by Jim Page and Robert Plant's feather symbol.] made/designed for her (actually, chosen BY her!). The three equilateral triangles are Sandy's sigil and appear on the Untitled 4th Zeppelin album (it also, seemingly, mimics "an asterisk" on the album).]
Being English, they were inspired by northern European mythology and literature as well as the blues, more than other British bands that focused on rock, jazz or blues.
Hey you guys I can not believe you have not reacted to Led Zeppelin's masterpiece The Rain Song please for the love of God react to it. Oh and No Quarter too. 🙏🏼✌🏼♥️
To "ramble" can also mean to go for a walk, wander off for a hike, not just to talk incoherently. It could be a bit of both where he's muttering to himself aimlessly while going for a walk. 😊
this song was kind of our anthem for 9th grade which was the year I really started partying more lol. right around 1981. I also remember going to see the zeppelin movie "song remains the same" at the spartan triplex theater in east Lansing MI somewhere around the that time. It was like the midnight movies along with rocky horror picture show. It was there for months or even years. who can remember.
Yes, that bass is doing a lot of the work. But I also feel this is one of Plant's most honest recordings. It's something I think he would still defer to today. Although I don't know how much he rates the Lord of the Rings references.
I always thought, at least in that line the "girl" is the all-consuming one ring...& if u listen to the whole song that way, that line makes more sense.
JPJs bass line is a musical masterpiece on its own !!!!!
In every bass players top 10 favorite Zep... for me #1 👍
It carries the entire song along.
It is SO sweet. If it was in physical form it would be dripping chocolate.
For sure!
One of the most beautiful bass line ever.
If Sam likes Lord of the Rings inspired, listen to “The Battle of Evermore” from Led Zeppelin 4.!
Yeah! Featuring the late great Sandy Denny on guest vocals along with Robert.
she'd dig it the most! i was never into Tolkien but that's one of my favorite Zep songs!
Totally agree
LOTR is nothing without Sam.
@@ronaldmorgan7632 All hail Samwise Gamgee, hero of the Free Peoples of Middle-earth.
Robert was so obsessed with Tolkein he even called his dog Strider.
Me too...
I think Plant liked adventure stories in general, although Tolkein in particular.
Kashmir, I think, draws inspiration from the novel and film, "Lost Horizon."
@@thomashiggins9320 regarding Kashmir …no. You might think so, but no. Long story, but if you research it just a bit, you’ll get the answer.
I just noticed…..at the end…Robert says several time, “searching for my baby”. His latest album with Alison Krauss has a song on it called “Searching For My Baby”. How funny…..a theme …..
@@thomashiggins9320he loved Welsh and Norse mythology…….medieval history,….
Battle of evermore Led Zeppelin is one that has a lot of Lord of the rings influence in it also. Robert and Sandy Dennys vocals are just insane on the song. Thanks guys.
Sandy Denny sounds like a wounded angel on that song. Just gorgeous.
Led Zeppelin "No Quarter" (Studio Version First) 🔥❤️🔥
Tool does a great version of it also
No Quarter is a beast of a song. Studio version first absolutely.
The way john bonham and john paul jones played off each other is truly superb.
Hell Yeah Y'all
The best percussion I've heard!
How spoiled we were expecting this level of music & always getting it. The good old days.😊✌️🌻🌻
couldn't agree more , this was our natural , and we thought it would last forever , ahhh , days of future past.....
Excellent observation. I agree. Am I getting old or is today's music pure shit?
@@vandalayindustries3057 The latter. If I live to be 100 I will always treasure how lucky I was to experience this music & see so many of the greats live. 😊✌️🌻🌻
@@vandalayindustries3057 The latter. If I live to be 100 I'll still remember getting to experience this music & see so many of the greats in concert. Wouldn't trade it for the world. ✌️🌻🌻
Around here, local rock stations 'Get the Led Out' on a regular basis. You never have to wait too long to hear one of theirs.
Sounds familiar. Bay Area?
@@48mastadon Maybe there as well. But this is Northeast Ohio. Cleveland has some well-known rock stations.
The smile on Sam's face when Robert mentioned Gollum is priceless. 😊
The bass line is a thing of beauty.
You SHOULD know that, requests for Zeppelin will never end.
i can't tell you how many people i've met who've said, "THIS is my favourite led zep song!" . . .
Imagine being 12 years old and being exposed to a seemingly endless plethora of music like this. It's only many years later that I have realized that I lived in the best of times.
This song always brings me right back to listening to this in 1983 when I was 15 in Boston. Tripping on purple microdot mescaline with about 50 friends on the railroad tracks. We had a big boom box tons of beer and the leaves were falling because it was fall. Great song!
i wanna party with you, dude.
Just FYI, purple microdots are acid, not mescaline. A dose of mescaline is around 200 to 500 milligrams, and you couldn't come anywhere close to fitting that into a microdot. You could maybe fit about 5 milligrams into a microdot, and then you'd have to take 40 or more to get high. But LSD, which averages about 100 _micrograms_ (not milligrams) per dose, can easily fit in a microdot.
I'd be real careful about taking LSD these days though, as a lot of it is some form of 25-NB, which unlike LSD is very toxic and potentially fatal. You pretty much have to really _really_ trust your source, or do an Ehrlich test to make sure. You just can't trust drugs anymore. I'm glad I quit drugs a long time ago, well before all this fake shit atarted ahowing up.
In any case, we sure had some fun back then, huh? Well, good times, bad times...
I did a dose of purple microdot and it was around 1983, too. My cousin and I went on a bicycle ride at midnight. Our plan was to find his friend and wake him up. We did, around 2am. He was not amused .
@@jackgilchrist You are probably right but back then they called it mescaline. Another name was orange sunshine and double barrel purple micro dot. I’ve only taken one each and window pain acid once. Was good times but most those kids I hung around with were dead before they reached 30. They lived hard and fast and payed for it.
The bass line is fantastic!!!
The tapping during the song is John Bonham tapping on a guitar case to get the sound effects... Just brilliant. Great reaction and Peace out guys ✌️ ☮️
This on this cut and some of i heard is too loud and takes away/almost annoying at the beginning of the song, like fake electronic drum beats-just hit the button-while song is at a 5 db level, these are at an 8 too overpowering in the remix production.
I would agree that The Battle of Evermore would be a fantastic follow up to this song. I love it, nearly as much as I like this one.
This is the song that first grabbed me, It's the bassline and the drums. Great tune....
You guys are "old" people listening to this....imagine hearing it at the age 17 or 18. We had the bestest music back in the day.
I'm a J.R.R. Tolkien nut. I have all his books and I'm very happy with what Peter Jackson did to bring the stories and characters to life. Excellent. Jackson needs to tackle "The Silmarillion" next!
This is one of the best production pieces that Jimmy had created.
I was a teenager in the 70's. Wow what music we had! What a time. The radio was playing 24 hrs aday We heard the best music ever made first! ❤
This is one of my more favorite of their songs. I've found myself playing it back-to-back-to back on road trips.
There's LOTR references all throughout LZ's discography. Even Stairway to Heaven, "There's a feeling I get when I look to the west and my spirit is crying for leaving" is a reference to the elven desire to leave Middle-Earth and return to Valinor.
Not the only Led Zeppelin song about Lord Of The Rings. Also check out Misty Mountain Hop
JPJ really was the foundation that the rest of the group built marvels of musical architecture on top of. 💗
Word. I’m a drummer and there are certain Bassist that are so fundamentally good it amazes you
I saw Zep in 1977 in Oakland obviously to see John Bonham but JPJ just blew me away. That’s happened only a handful of times for me. Remember seeing Stanly Clark or Billy Sheehan play. About 5 years ago going to go see drummer Jeff Campitelli play and seeing Angeline Saris play Bass with him just flooded me
I stopped watching him and started asking who in the hell is that bassist. 😂.
JPJ is probably one of the best UNSECRET secret weapons in music
“Girl” is symbolic of the Ring.
John Paul Jones and Master Bonham , greatest rhythm section ever.
I bought this on vinyl when it was first released, and it was my favorite cut on the album.
Those were the days!
Led Zeppelin is my generations Beatles.
I went to school for audio engineering, and songs like this one were what got me interested in recording and mixing. The guitar solo with the two parts in different octaves panned left and right caught my ears when I was a kid. Led Zeppelin had several songs with very interesting things in the recording and/or mixing.
One of my favorites of theirs, no doubt.
This is a great track, all elements are perfect and perfectly interlocking ❤
Maybe my favorite Led Zeppelin song. Their early music from 1969 was the Best in many people's and music critic's opinions. The Albums titled "Led Zeppelin1 and II" were so raw and gritty with that Bluesy
influence.
Thanks
Another great one from that album is What Is And What Should Never Be
John Paul Jones went nuts on the bass guitar, awesome! While you are on the 2nd album "The Lemon Song" and "Heartbreaker" are a must reaction if you haven't done them already.
Love love love the bass
really great bass line. have never heard a guitar bridge like that before or since making it even more unique and original. Bonham's drumming is in a class by itself in this melody. As usual. And Plant brings a reference to J.R.R. Tolkein into the mix. Only several other compositions of theirs does this. Once again unique and individual.
Its cool that one of the members read lord of the rings back in the 60's
One of my favorites from Led Zep II. I was 15. Classic.
Gotta love this one!! Keep going v with Zeppelin!!
There is a very beautiful electric guitar melody being played in the background during the 3rd verse that most people miss, even when I have tried to point it out while listening. It is one of those subtleties that makes LZ's production so great. Once you hear it, you can't miss it whenever you hear this song. My favorite song ever. The lilting verse, the thundering chorus.... fantastic!!
It’s the stereo mixing I’ll remember. Back in the day, riding around blasting songs like this on a car stereo. Just sounded soooo good .
This and What Is and What Should Never Be.
Funky little tune from all those years ago. We loved it..
Do In My Time of Dying or In the Light both from Physical Graffiti.
Finally. Got the Led out with my original favorite Zepp tune, before I heard When the Levee Breaks. Been requesting it from other reactors for years with no luck. Thanks. Now try Boogie with Stu, with Ian Stuart on piano!
One of my favourite from Led Zeppelin! ❤
Ramblin on is my favoite Zepplin song
Ramble On
The only known “ live” performance video is on the “ Celebration Day” show recorded in late 2007, some 40 years after the studio version!
The girl's name was Mary Sue. 😆
Robert's been a big-time Ringer since the 60's.
Hey guys There is many many more Led Zeppelin. My next Zeppelin request would of been "Trampled Underfoot"
Feeling right at home ; - with every new tune you hear ! Get surprised & in love - EVERYTIME
I had read Lord of the Rings about two years before this record dropped! To say I LOVED this song is an understatement!
Peace - from between Kelowna and Vernon in “super natural” BC!
Thanks for the reference! I went to high school and some college in Kelowna 1965-1971. And I love Lord of the Rings too.
Definitely check out 'Misty Mountain Hop' and 'Battle of Evermore' for more LOTR Zeppelin goodness!
Autumn was always time for me to go, this song takes me back there. Thanks guys😊
No Quarter (album version) and then Live MSG 1973
If you really want to hear a Led Zeppelin baseline and drum song - The Lemon Song is a must.
Big Zep fan and LOTR fan. Love this tune!
If the Lord of the Rings Trilogy only had one soundtrack artist it would be Led Zeppelin!
Love this song!! ❤
Great warm up a few weeks before the start of Zeptember.
❤ (6:00) I think you hit the nail on the head right there. Not only do they create songs from all different styles of music, they do them all well!!!
Y’all are killing me! Kashmir - 2007!
But, Ramble On….Let’s Go!
Traveling riverside blues, nobody's fault but mine. What is and what should never be
fav zeppelin song
Yeah, loved the bass-forward mix. Long-time fave. Used to play it.
😊❤
Journalists: "Why are all your songs about sex, or Lord of the Rings?"
Zeppelin: "Nah those are about sex too."
(not a real quote, just a joke)
😂I never heard that quote.
@@neilmartin99 It's just a joke, not real.
@@Tijuanabill Good one.
The honors ceremony for LZ at the Kennedy Center in 2012 was a well deserved recognition for what this band has given to the world. The pinnacle was Heart performing Stairway To Heaven. I have never seen a more moving cover than what was put together for this cover. The array of singers and musicians was almost beyond belief, a choir wearing Bowler Hats (John Bonham used to wear a Bowler Hat often), to what appeared to be a full orchestra were coreograhed in an epic manner. The icing on the cake came as a surprise to LZ, John Bonham's son Jason was playing drums (Jason had told LZ he had a previous committment and could not make it). I have never seen a better tribute in my 67 years of life! Thanks for reacting to Ramble On, a favorite of mine and many others as well.
The greatness of this cannot be better. Mighty.
Thanks for more Led Zeppelin
Lord of the rings song ❤
I recommend "Nobody's Fault But Mine".
Favorite fall song. Bonham tapping on a drum or guitar case. My wife gave me a beautiful yellow lab pup 20 years ago. He had huge paws so I named him Bonzo.
JPJ is a fuck Beast on this song. Great verse Riff and that spiral run is fantastic to isolate your attention on a re-listen. John Bonham is drumming with the Butt end of his sticks on Jimmies empty guitar case. Sounds like Bongos. Genius.
I 2nd everyone talking about the great bass lines in this song, a masterclass. The whole 2nd album has particularly great bass playing, though JPJ's always great on all the albums. Ramble On is one their great songs, but there are so many.
The battle of evermore is the song related to Lord of the rings Robert is a huge fan sam will absolutely love it and in the song is the only duet with Robert on the track
What's really different is you get to watch a video with the music but when it came out all you could do was stare at the album cover.
Great road song
One of Zepp's best. Unique all the way around ( even though Zepp cornered the market on creating "unique" songs. )
They recorded this album when they were touring, one of the big reasons so much energy in the entire masterpiece.
Called LED ZEPPELIN II
Ramble on means to keep rambling on forward on the journey and Don't stop!
To Ramble is to roam with no particular destination in mind.
You should do the duet songs they play on the radio, Heartbreaker and living loving maid- she's just a woman. You will not be diapointed
Black Sabbath,Led Zeppelin,Deep Purple the holy triad of rock music🤘
I enjoy listening to your takes & reactions, just a compliment as you both are insightful and good communicators. You promptly say many of the same things I've said over the years hearing that song many hundreds of times since the eary 70s. It's really a damn good song and as a bass player myself, I love how JPJ just lays down a fluid straightforward masterpiece.
I did hear the tapping sound you hear at the beginning is John Bonham tapping his drum sticks on jimmy page's guitar case.
Best bass line ever. Maybe the best vocals ever. Maybe some great minimalistic guitar thrown in. A masterpiece, to say nothing of a great line about Gollum. Oh, Gollum's precious!
Check out "Battle Of Evermore" off Zep 4. It goes deep in Tolkien references.
It's a well-known fact that: Robert Plant was/is a declared J.R.R. Tolkien fan.
[He had a dog named: Aragorn, in the '70s & '80s].
"Ramble On" is the most 'apparent' lyrical reference, but (pretty obvious, i.m.o.), the glorious duet with: Sandy Denny
(vocalist with Fairport Convention and personal friend of the band): "The Battle Of Evermore"
also has direct Tolkien connections.
[Sandy Denny is, also, the only non-Zeppelinite (non-"official band member") to have an official Led Zeppelin sigil
[i.e., the legendary "geometric shapes" and, so-called, "ZoSo" figure, designed/taken by Jim Page and Robert Plant's feather symbol.] made/designed for her (actually, chosen BY her!). The three equilateral triangles are Sandy's sigil and appear on the Untitled 4th Zeppelin album (it also, seemingly, mimics "an asterisk" on the album).]
The lyrics are Gollum And the Evil One crept up and slipped away with her☺️😉
Being English, they were inspired by northern European mythology and literature as well as the blues, more than other British bands that focused on rock, jazz or blues.
How you two appreciate this music without being stoned is mindboggling.
It's quite easy for those who appreciate music.
I love that effect sitting way back in the mix. It sounds like he’s kind of high-pitched whispering. Yes, that’s it. That’s all I have to add. Lol.
❤❤❤Robert ❤❤❤
The live version from 2007, is fire !
Hey you guys I can not believe you have not reacted to Led Zeppelin's masterpiece The Rain Song please for the love of God react to it. Oh and No Quarter too. 🙏🏼✌🏼♥️
Know nothing about Tolkein but just a bloody good track. 💣💣💣
It's pretty much a song that we imagine is being sung by Bilbo Baggins, the main character from The Hobbit.
To "ramble" can also mean to go for a walk, wander off for a hike, not just to talk incoherently. It could be a bit of both where he's muttering to himself aimlessly while going for a walk. 😊
this song was kind of our anthem for 9th grade which was the year I really started partying more lol. right around 1981. I also remember going to see the zeppelin movie "song remains the same" at the spartan triplex theater in east Lansing MI somewhere around the that time. It was like the midnight movies along with rocky horror picture show. It was there for months or even years. who can remember.
Add some sound treatment on that back wall and you guys are golden
Yes, that bass is doing a lot of the work. But I also feel this is one of Plant's most honest recordings. It's something I think he would still defer to today. Although I don't know how much he rates the Lord of the Rings references.
I always thought, at least in that line the "girl" is the all-consuming one ring...& if u listen to the whole song that way, that line makes more sense.