Led Zeppelin 1973-1980 | Full Music Documentary | Robert Plant | Jimmy Page | John Paul Jones ⋆ Patriots Hemp

Foreign [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] Foreign so unique as a band with the four individuals who made up the band Before them they’ve been similar type of bands but the chemistry of those four individuals they were just the right people for that band at that time if you’ve listened to all the albums you’ll be able to listen to something and say that sounds like to say because

It’s a saying there was no yardstick for them there was no template no blueprint they couldn’t look at 20 other bands and go oh okay that’s what they’re doing we’re going to adapt this how do you feel about the Beatles we’re completely unlike the reasons virtually every guitarist that ever

Strapped on a Gibson sounds like a compared to Jimmy Page because he wrote the rule book for heavy rock guitar we knew we were appreciated by the fact that people were coming along to see us in such great vast numbers but no one expected this

I love them or hate them you cannot take away from the fact that they are probably one of the most influential rock bands of all time the whole idea of music from the beginning of time was for for people to be happy unquestionably the best heavy metal band there ever was

They were never seriously challenged Illinois [Applause] Such a lock but I’m afraid that you’ve got a lot and that’s what I want guys you’ll break down Communication Breakdown was a sharpened up version of the song train kept it rolling that Jimmy Page used to play with The Yardbirds it explodes basically into

Life it’s um it’s you know it’s got a real metallic crunch to it it’s they’re up and running straight away it tells you everything you want to know about Led Zeppelin in two and a half minutes give me Pages guitar solo comes in at like one minute 25 and it is just the

Most ferocious exciting solo you’ve ever heard in your life Led Zeppelin alone for their longer pieces so I think it’s a really good um illustration of the way Paige was able to build a riff in take the other three with him and create such intensity and behind it all is this

Tight tight Rhythm Section of drum and bass which allows Page and Plant the freedom to cruise around on the top before it all comes to an abrupt climax John Bonham Communication Breakdown a classic track I guess you’d call it just that lovely open Sound of big bass drum

You can feel it resonating through I’d say also you get that feel there was sort of an underlying almost Funk feel to his playing those Ghost Notes he would play a very powerful very open and again all those phrases those pushes that he would do with Jimmy page which were classic

Trademark playing styles of his great drums you know solid Bass the package is there it’s already delivered to you straight off foreign [Applause] Musical tour de force live it’s an even bigger Tour de Falls because it goes on for ages the original was what six seven minutes long eight minutes long something like that the improvisation within that track on stage live could go anywhere by the time that I’d heard it

Being played live which was you know early to mid 70s and some of the old bootlegs it was 27 28 minutes plus this was where Zeppelin would just string it out they would just be having the time of their lives on stage they weren’t they weren’t confined to to any sort of

Set pattern that perhaps the studio version would have tied them to when you look at the old footage of them playing it live it’s just amazing I can’t think of many bands that would manage to do that and hold you hold your attention for 25 minutes I think it’s the first

Instance where Jimmy Page um starts playing his guitar with a violin bow stroking the strings and making all sorts of atmospheric noises and then striking it striking the guitar strings with the violin bow and sending the sound spinning around the room it tells you Paige is the wildest most incredibly ferocious guitarists

That had ever walked the Earth this was sort of a fantastic extrovert Showmanship coming from uh Paige and he’s he uses it as a sort of as a total showpiece for electric guitar playing I don’t think anyone’s ever really matched his musicality and his uh improvisationally skills he’s a fabulous guitarist in the page I don’t think anyone would die with that perhaps lacking the tastefulness of Beck and maybe lacking The Inspired spontaneity of Jimi Hendrix um still he managed to sort of take the

Guitar solo to uncharted waters I actually think he was the first guy to sort of to make the rock rock God guitarist his sort of ax hero he’s more or less invented it Okay baby baby I’m Gonna Leave You I said baby I really The track Babe I’m Gonna Leave You um it’s obviously early in Led Zeppelin’s career and a lot of people were getting used to the way the band sounded and and Robert Plant of course uh fantastic voice and a very very unusual voice for the time soaked in the Blues but also was

Bringing on this new tradition of rock and roll music you know babe I’m going to leave you was was perfect for plants early vocals I mean he had the vibrancy of you know being to get the top end the bottom end and he had a lot of emotion in it rubber

Plant was a unique vocalist that I don’t think there’s anyone like Robert Plant and he wasn’t afraid to fall on his face and you can hear that now and when it works it’s just spellbinding I’ve got to remember there’s no Romanticism about it but obviously with the hard edge of the band um that sort of didn’t it took away any any sort of sugary sweetness that you might sort of it might otherwise have found what you do get with Babe I’m

Gonna Leave You is it’s plant nailing that that whaling baby baby baby kind of thing that that almost became one of his one of his very many stocks in trade once in a while if you listen to a few live takes or bootlegs or what have you

Once in a while he maybe takes things a bit too far but in the studio I I don’t think there’s anyone that could ever touch him for that kind of Primal Rage that he came out with what makes this so special of course is that they were just

Starting out and and you know just to hear it sometimes sends shivers down your spine used to do jump on him’s drumming on Babe I’m Gonna Leave You he’s very sort of stop start and disjointed but it gives the song a real dramatic quality acoustically uh

You know it’s all going on but then you’ve got a real solid BackBeat from John barnham it hits a kind of tribal Groove um and and it’s there that you see I think for you you really start to see an example of of the force of that John

Bonham was as a drummer mix that with John Paul Jones’s bass lines on that it’s just an incredible song The Rhythm Section interacts in such an amazing way on that song it’s fairly simple what he’s playing but just the weight and the intention and um he knows when not to play if anyone

Else played it I think it would just fall flat because it’s so ambitious in terms of this time signatures and what they’re trying to do they’ve got that Center section where it’s just bottom goes into that wonderful rock and roll beat that he’s got open hi-hats big sound big big big sound

That big bass drum just resonating the figures at the end to those in that sort of bridge section at the end of the verse where he’s playing all those figures in unison it shows you how tight it can be as a drummer as well the way he’s he’s done that I think is

Indicative of the way he was going to record many albums on from there he was a very very important part of Zeppelin the guy could do anything um and and that’s a perfect example of him saying hey look I’m a young pup but boy am I good wife How many more times how many more times is a great example of Bonham really playing off John Paul Jones because he’s very much a jazz riff it starts with a almost almost a jazzy kind of vibe to it which of course is intrinsically linked to the Rhythm

Section LED I guess by John Paul Jones’s bass player he’s got a real Groove to it I think it’s important to remember that John Paul Jones was as seasoned a session musician as Paige was if not more John Paul Jones and and John Bonham create this sort of stutter at the end

Of the phrases which is great it’s really exciting and very unusual it’s just a Groove and you can just feel bottom and John Paul Jones interacting in a kind of really funky way and you could tell it’s interesting you could tell they both listened to a lot of soul

Music and a lot of James Brown The Rhythm Section in in the track is indicative of how Zeppelin were going to put the tracks together I think strong drumming extremely strong bass line it moves towards a climax that shudders and grinds to a halt and it finishes one of the most

Remarkable albums that anyone had made at that point not only does it end the whole of Led Zeppelin one very well but I think it sets the tone for what they were going to do with Led Zeppelin too as well especially the very heavy blue stuff that that they’re getting into

Right at the end playing Zeppelin one it was clearly a band that had been out playing the stuff live practicing in the studio and Paige had certainly been playing it with other musicians or a lot of the songs with other musicians so by the time he got into the studio you know

You’re talking a budget of six or seven hundred eight hundred pounds or something like that recorded in four days you know wham bam thank you ma’am and there’s there’s the album and and the proof was in the pudding it was the music that sold it thank you A whole lot of love continues the Swagger that they had finished their first album with well it’s the rift that ate the world isn’t it Everybody knows it and it’s a calling card it’s like hey we’re here A whole lot of love is really the most exciting rock and roll song in the world ever burn none this sexually charged midsection where where plant comes into his own as it were yeah 26 000 larynx [Applause] [Applause] down inside it’s good all the ingredients some implants voices undoubtedly one of the best known moments in rock music um it’s a bit risque it’s a bit dangerous it’s a bit threatening there’s a sort of raw Sexual Energy the drums just hold you off almost like a kind of

Woman teasing you and the drums just hold you up and then Jimmy Page just comes in there with this furry solo that really is about the most exciting Led Zeppelin song and the most exciting rock and roll moment I can think of in history and I mean that

If I say to you tomorrow The castle I will take you know what’s to be then say s what isn’t what should never be was a conscious effort by Led Zeppelin to try something a bit different on their second album what is almost never be follows a whole lot of love on Led Zeppelin II and it is contrasting

Um and you’ve got love a plant with lyrics that you know begin to mean something it’s very dreamy the whole atmosphere on that track is really dreamy there’s moments where you’d be it’s easy to think that it’s not actually rock music it’s so mellow and dreamy it’s just got this great sort of

Almost Sunday afternoon kind of dreamy Vibe about it and then when they would get to the main riff John Bonham would attack the drum kit you know as only John Blair could and it would suddenly be a huge Rock sound What isn’t what should never be was to be a Hallmark of Led Zeppelin song constructions [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] Music Heartbreaker is is a a riff again and it’s a blues riff except he’s very clever because it shifts it goes up a tone musically and it changes key which was quite unusual for a rock band to actually change key quite so dramatic so it goes from one key to another key and

Goes back again [Applause] The song is all about the the musical interaction between Robert’s voice and Jimmy’s guitar plant is at his very best here um it’s so heartfelt again a lot of raw Sexual Energy going on uh that’s the undertone this is again a fine example of Jimmy Page Conjuring up this magical

Riff seemingly out of nowhere that’s so simple I’d say the Rhythm Section dominates it more than Page and Plant and you can’t often say that about a zeppelin track wonderful bass drum technique when it goes into that cut time for double time feel he’s just playing an open ride symbol just giving

It all he has when you listen to it live it just shows what a different band Led Zeppelin were playing live compared to in the studio they were great in the studio they were more than highly proficient but no matter how hard they tried they never captured the the

Essence of what the band were like live live Heartbreaker was another song that could get extended from anything up to 10 15 minutes and you can just tell that they’re having the time of their lives it may not be the most complicated of Led Zeppelin songs certainly that

Doesn’t feature the most complicated set of Led Zeppelin lyrics but it’s all about feel Blues is essentially all about feel and this this song has got it foreign [Applause] Immigrant Song is a classic that became an instant show opener for the band almost as soon as they’d written it by now Led Zeppelin were oozing Confidence from every poor and you can tell in the way that Paige John Paul Jones and Barnum all batter the rift to insensibility in their own

Little individual ways when it comes to thundering out the speakers it must have scared the hell out of the clergy at the time they wouldn’t know what the hell was going on Bangs straight in your face it’s demonic it’s it’s it sounds almost it it’s not evil but it’s it’s medicine Foreign The lyrics are inspired not by Celtic mysticism but by Norse mysticism come from the land of the ice and snowy a Hammer of the Gods Valhalla I am coming that you know this is all inspired by the Vikings I mean obviously Robert was on a bit of a Viking trip he got the

Idea for the lyrics when the band stopped off in Iceland on route to an American tour and played a show there I think years later Robert Plant said the lyrics really didn’t mean that much but then that’s quite often the way with rock songs isn’t it they’ve

Written what they want to write and we as fans and listeners interpret what we want into it and for me that was definitely and has remained one of the best Zeppelin tracks ever Black dog is the latest in Led Zeppelin’s storming album openers and by now they’re bludgeoning riffs we’re starting to develop some fiendish quirks a Twist on this one comes from a jam between John Paul Jones and John Bonham and it’s almost as if they can’t quite

Believe how good they are at it black dog is the opening crack on Led Zeppelin IV itself probably one of the greatest greatest rock albums of all time it couldn’t have opened in a more astonishingly appealing fashion I mean there’s that so it’s almost like Paige is winding his guitar up at the

Beginning as a little sort of couple of seconds of him and then bang they’re off hey hey Mama Gonna Make You Groove Gonna Make You Sweat gonna make you move what else do you want to know about life what else do you want to know about Led Zeppelin

You know that’s it all into two lines the whole lot all said and done perfect When it gets into the sort of the main body of the song uh it’s it’s another classic page rock and roll Rift simple effect of impossible Foreign tracks not one of my favorites as it happens rock and roll sums up everything that they they you know they’re about and like black dog opens with Paige winding his guitar up and letting him fly Rock and Roll opens with a little flourish from from

Um John Bonham open eye hats washing see those hi-hats if you ever seen just sort of washing in the wind that’s what we say as drummers Ringoes do that Charlie Watts to some degree in a different form of course but the principle was the same just that wonderful wash of hi-hat going

All the way through the song if you listen to what he’s doing on the bass drum he sounds like he’s got four drummers playing at four different bass drums he’s just incredible and yet he’s not showing off at all he was able to do the work of two or three different guys

You don’t need percussions when it comes to Led Zeppelin together foreign [Applause] I think why people like it so much it was a little bit of Light Relief to the kind of heaviness of Led Zeppelin it was almost like it had elements of a pop hit single about it it was actually very catchy they’ve listened to a lot of

Other rock bands by this point and they kind of made an amalgam of all those bands in something that’s very very commercial without it being a single as such it’s about the most mainstream that LEDs ever got and I think it actually brought into new fans for them as well [Applause] foreign [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] foreign Foreign [Applause] ERS you know had you done anything different on your new album um there’s about this uh two two tracks with acoustic yeah going to California that’s mandolin again and acoustic guitar yeah but you know it’s just sort of um songs that were you know that we

Write and do at the particular time that an album you know and we say right that we’re going to put them in album ahead and we you know we do the songs that we were that we arrived in that particular time so the next one would probably be different still yeah foreign What can you say about it it’s a fine track it’s an awesome piece of music it’s obviously one of the most popular tracks it got bigger than life for Led Zeppelin is it Led Zeppelin’s finest moment yes immense amounts of money made out of sales is it one of the greatest

Songs ever written yes radio play is it the greatest song ever written yes it is etc etc Cause you know sometimes words It’s their way to Heaven Led Zeppelin’s finest moment I don’t think so by any means that’s the song that separates the tourists from the purists in terms of Led Zeppelin’s fans it’s a song that people love when they hear it on the radio if you go to real Zep heads I

Think it’s one of the last songs they’d pick because familiarity does breed contempt and you hear that song way too much there’s some strange uh some strange statistic that if you lined up every time it’s been played on American radio it would just be playing all the

Time and that’s over the past 30 years as Robert Plant says it was the right song at the right time and it’s not his fault that in years to come it became more of a cliche it’s just Stairway to Heaven has wonderful vocals beautiful guitar playing especially the guitar playing beautiful Rhythm Section everything it’s got the lyrics it’s got the feel it’s got the power it’s it’s a 10 minute plus epic and live it’s it’s even better um but the track was ripped off

The main riff for the song comes from an instrumental by the West Coast band spirit that Jimmy Page had heard to me it was sacrilege to bring it out bring a track out bring an album out with a track like Stairway to Heaven and not openly acknowledge where this has come from

But if you can close your mind off to all the distractions about the song and everything that has surrounded the song since the original magic is still there on the record If you split the zech career in two the first four albums you know they’re exploded out of the blocks then they’re finding their feet and understanding who they are they they reached that point with LED zeppel from then on you know they can’t repeat themselves so they’ve got to keep

On pushing the boundaries out and um and that’s what you start to hear in houses of the holies after the critical Acclaim that was heaped upon Led Zeppelin IV the houses of the Holy got a bit of a muted response at the time from the critics and the fans basically because it was

The first time Led Zeppelin are dead to sort of uh move away from the whole you know the rock blueprint the album itself seemed a little bit more fragmented than their Zeppelin 4 which had had a great cohesion to a real power you know a real sort of brooding

Intensity uh this one was was um collection of separate songs really didn’t didn’t really seem to have that that that that kind of consistency it was really a period where they were beginning to mature musically and I think that reflected in how the album fell whether it was what Led Zeppelin

Fans expected didn’t matter to them and I think that’s the important thing they were pleasing themselves and creatively they needed to do that people thought up until that point they knew exactly what to expect of Led Zeppelin and balls out rock and roll and of course they moved

Into all these other areas and it just confused people baby please don’t go You know the could you make a call a bit uh sort of tongue-in-cheek um the crudge coming from an idea of an impossible dance and they even toyed with the idea of putting their dance steps on their arm cover so that you know to show that you know so I think

They were just having fun at a time in the mid 70s early to mid 70s when most people in the UK didn’t really have an idea about reggae they introduced that sound with you through Jamaica do you make a is a fantastic track you know a

Lot of people have called it Cod reggae you know which is just harsh that’s kind of saying if you’re white you can’t play reggae music you know well Bob Marley also played rock music so you know it’s bollocks basically You hurt me to myself It was purely those throwaway tracks Jamaica the crunch which which seemed to me and probably weren’t thrown together in the studio they put a lot of thought going behind it and subsequent uh reviews you know you know when when the albums come out and it’s been remastered

Or stuck on CD have claimed that um you know Zeppelin would be a really bold and experimental by trying a bit of Reggae on Jamaica but at the time in The Cold Light a day when the album came out you just thought hang on a minute what are these guys playing at foreign It was more sophisticated sound from earlier zap and it worked pretty well I mean the American Market lapped it up the title was inspired by the fact that Zeppelin at this point were playing bigger and bigger venues obviously and particularly in the states uh you know the typical American in normal domes and

I think Robert Plant described them because they were just so big as the houses of the Holy as if they were sort of giant Cathedrals it reflects in tracks like the ocean for example which plans basically the theme of the song lyrically is about you know those Sea of Faces that he’s

Looking out at now you know the ever expanding audience the 1973 US tour which was off the back of the house early album is the tour where Led Zeppelin went from being a very good lock band to a complete lock institution the first two dates in

Atlanta and Tampa they played to 90 000 people Atlanta was 49 000 at the opening day of a U.S tour that’s a phenomenal amount of people As of the Holy it was a departure from the fourth album obviously because he had a title which is more than we had before although obviously didn’t have the band’s name on the cover so we were still uh slightly confused there it is the springtime of my loving the second season You are the sunlight in my growing Sun little one I felt before just got the angular lifts it’s got Jimmy Page at his Peak still particularly dancing days is an obvious one something made the same but there’s a lot of stuff you know you’ve got the line song which is like a pastoral

Symphony um very different to what anything they’ve done before The Rain Song itself is is a beautifully flowing almost a Serial evocative folky piece it’s so well presented you you can actually have the vision in your mind of the country the English Countryside it’s a very English song Houses capitalize on you know more orchestrated sounds synth sounds instead of staying in a very uh sort of guitar oriented format it’s an album uh by a band that had been around the world several times shagged a lot of girls taking a lot of drugs and you know this

Was this was them looking back at the last few years As the success grew as the audiences grew um I think their arrogant school as well and it would do they were you know mid-20s Millionaires and you know you play the 60 000 people you’re not going to switch off to like at the end of the

Night you know go to bed you’re going to have a good time and Led Zeppelin knew how to have a good time Foreign They were you know Gods on stage and they were you know animals off it that’s that’s that’s purely it you know and I think the the whole Zeppelin bandwagon was was geared to that um kind of behavior Peter Grant went up to uh Bob Dylan backstage in the mid 70s

And introduced himself as Led Zeppelin um manager and Bill Bob Dylan said I don’t come to you with my problems so don’t come to me with yours he was looking after these four wild men of rock who had been let loose on the world and it’s so much money they didn’t know

What to do with you know the alcohols there the drugs are there the women are there I wouldn’t do it they they would and could hire out an entire floor of a hotel for themselves and then just party there bestial sex obviously on the menu at some point

Allegedly the whole shark incident in Seattle you know with a groupie and the shark’s been um distributed in certain orifices and uh you know Jimmy pins with all those naked girls and jacuzzis and you know black magic the red snapper be it about the outrageous Antics in hotels

Television sets being thrown out of Windows Led Zeppelin never debunked the myths at all they allowed the Mist to carry on which means to this day a quarter of a century after they split up The Mists are still as enormous as they were at that time they personified

Everything that we now perceive to be you know either from a cliched piss tape point of view the spinal tap thing all the serious Bulls Out rock and roll thing you know these guys invented the rock and roll rule book Foreign [Applause] Above everything above the mix above the road favor the excesses was about the music and that is what fueled the success and fueled their motivation to go out and play those songs live to that amount of people it was never just about let’s just have a good time it had to be

Let’s move on let’s once we get in you know to the studio let’s creatively move on all I want for you today [Applause] you don’t get as big as Led Zeppelin unless you’ve got that belief in yourself it’s not arrogance it’s belief and they you know believed and they’re they’re to believe they must know they knew how good they were they knew how big they were going to be and were huge

By the time that Physical Graffiti came out it was an album people have waited for for a long time and when it came out I don’t think it disappointed very many people Bearing in mind in my view the comparative disappointment of houses of the Holy in comparison to its predecessor Zep four suddenly Zeppelin come back on the form with this just really really daunting powerful Moody mesmerizing project called Physical Graffiti you know it was their first swan song their

Own label they’d set up their own label it was their their first release so possibly they thought you know we want to make a pretty special the eight tracks have got for their sixth album as it was going to be were too long for the old vinyl album I think it clocked in

About 53 minutes something like that so the idea was do we shove a couple of the tracks didn’t really want it they’re all quality uh or did we go with a double album uh I should say just over 50 percent of the stuff is new and some of the stuff is old

Crazy stuff you know really good stuff that we thought we can’t keep it in the can any longer let’s put it out you know so it’s about 50 50. a couple of things I’ve set for night flights one of them the Rover is is from House of the Holy

What else is there down by the seaside is that three uh Boogie with stew is kind of the same session they did rock and roll with um Ian Stewart from the lonely Stones Camp playing piano I mean houses of the Holy the track doesn’t appear on houses of

The Hawley but it does appear on Physical Graffiti um does that mean that it was like a throwaway track so does that then mean oh these were just the tracks that were left on they thought well we’ll bring them out and and you know give something

To the fanat I don’t really feel that that’s the case people said oh it’s a bit excessive isn’t it it was a bit indulgent a double album well it’s 15 songs and in this day and age when we’re talking about CDs a lot of albums come

Out single albums with 15 songs 10 of which are fillers three of which are okay and two which are rather good there are 15 great songs on Physical Graffiti you listen to it from beginning to end and you you’re hard-pressed to find a bad song on there we did it

In different stages I should say all together the new stuff took about four or five months you know but nothing was there was no continuous work employed at all you know we worked so long and then suddenly we feel maybe we should take our rest for a bit in fact that’s that’s

Led Zeppelin really the tracks that really Define what Led Zeppelin are all about if you needed to explain to someone who had no idea who or what they were if you just played them custard pie um cashmere In My Time of Dying it would tell you everything you need to know Zeppelin I think just pulled it off you know they they they just had it they had two albums worth of material and each song was just fantastic and the overall atmosphere that permeated Physical Graffiti was was something else as well it was um it was a very

Consistent very moody album and and the souls flowed uh that atmosphere was all pervasive it was a representation of what they did best so there was the best rock tracks Blues tracks the light inside the acoustic uh every area that up to that point they’d covered was covered well you got the

Eastern influence coming in with cashmere you’ve got the um esoteric feel of in the light and you’ve got the basic lockers which they could just do in their sleep I like Custard pie kind of rewrote the rule book of rock and roll I I would say Eden however long that is four minutes five minutes whatever it’s it’s just so edgy and um on the money there you can see the band just looking at each other in the

Room there’s such a vibe there you know it really defined it also I think defined the sound of a good rock and roll record it was so perfect foreign of custard pie which is about oral sex by the way not about culinary activities all the way through to the Rover 10

Years gone the wanton song Brony or Boogie with stew and of course cashmere and trumpet on the foot it’s just an album full of tremendous songs a band of their absolute Peak Casper is one of the best on there I think for a lot of zip big zip fans it’s probably the all-time

Best Zep track Foreign Just penetrated everything from movies to BYU name it to advertising it’s not for cashmere is a step further it’s more it’s much more of an orchestrated piece it’s got a great Melody which everybody remembers Robert Plant is chanting rather than singing and it’s the way that it actually sort of is allowed to

Roll through there is no sense of rush there’s no sense of being extended or elongated and over the years it’s become such a catchphrase for everything in eastern inspiration through Rock [Applause] It’s a very strange World rubber plant was driving through when he wrote that song in Morocco and we went on this long journey I think that took me two days just down a straight road and that’s the the original song was called driving to Kashmir you know there’s so much vibe in

That record it’s it’s it’s dark actually the lyrics are I think quite optimistic a lot of them but they’re Viber the record is just dark they’d somehow and I still don’t know how I’ve done it to this day they’ve Amalgamated that they’re very very atmospheric Middle Eastern feel into a

Song of enormous power they’re brought in brass players and like a horn section and and string players you know they’d never use session positions or really thought about that before brilliant production as well from Jimmy Page it’s it’s very basic to production it’s it could have easily been overloaded with

Things but it wasn’t it was allowed to be what it should be again Serendipity played as part another time another Studio another album maybe it would have been overbalanced this time it works brilliantly foreign Track from Led Zeppelin that that would silence critics and go yeah yeah I mean they’ve got their moments but you know they’re just a bit rock and roll really you know here was he was attracted that couldn’t be missed for its Dynamic you know uh intent had Led Zeppelin’s career finish with

Physical Graffiti in some respects it might have been the perfect place to end because the only way seemed to be down after that the tour began in the States in 1975 and again massive tour two legs getting playing huge places got to the point where now if they booked the you

Know Los Angeles Forum it wasn’t going to be too nice it wasn’t going to be three it was five it was six you know it was you know so many people wanted to see them at this point They were going through a lot of problems by the mid 70s I mean there’s a whole myth was growing up about Jimmy Page’s fascination with Aleister Crowley and black magic and dabbling in that aspect and the way that bad karma was starting to affect the band and in 1975

When Robert Plant had a car crash when he was with his wife at the time Maureen and Rhodes and Greece as people suddenly were talking about oh that’s it the bad calm was starting to hit home and they had to actually push back the recording of presence a little bit because of that

Car crash Robert Plant and Jimmy pigs composed a lot of the material while in Malibu or the Hawaii or somewhere while he was recuperating from the accident um you know so they were in a much in a nice mellow environment but very different into where they’ve been before

Then they went into rehearsals and plant was you know sitting in an armchair with his leg up you know singing and even he said it was just so odd to be with Zeppelin like in his armchair trying to you know deliver the presence is definitely not Led Zeppelin’s best album

But it’s still a great Led Zeppelin record you know I think maybe the songs weren’t as as um Timeless as a lot of the material that they’d released before that some people say it’s a lesser part of their Cannon I would disagree I think it’s one of the most

Vital things I ever did it’s edgy uncomfortable guitar bass drums bass lacks the diversity of some of the earlier albums or the other albums but what it’s got is immense power Achilles Last Stand For Your Life this is a band on the Edge challenge their whole lifestyle is in is now in question

The lead singer can’t walk they can’t tour you know they’re challenged and that brought out the best certainly in Jimmy Page Jimmy Pitts took a greater a control over a lot of the compositioning was his production was his and he sent himself this arm as us with our backs

Against the walls screaming really loudly it was his court um so there’s a there’s a there’s a power from the album [Applause] Foreign Any album that opens up with an 11 minute long track called Achilles Last Stand but it’s just this enormous swirling rock and roll statement how can you not like that I think Achilles Last Stand had it been written earlier and who knows maybe it was but it actually

Would have fitted in very very well with the material that was on side one and two of Physical Graffiti it had that sort of very full vibrant sound that Led Zeppelin managed to achieve really from houses to Holy onwards It’s a fully orchestrated track it’s it’s uh it’s again one of those sort of Epic kashmiri type tracks stay with the heaven it’s in its length and it’s and it’s it’s all shape and color [Applause] S the Urgency of the playing in that album the questioning you know of the lyrics lyrical content is very questionable plants saying well you know I’ve got this far and yet you know it can all stop within seconds you know you know the top of the tree and suddenly I have

A car crash and everything stopped and I think that changed a lot of his thinking out of that Welling period they came back stronger and presence if you listen to it in that context is a very emotional and a very powerful edgy record the sound of presence is

Slightly raw raw but it was recorded over a much shorter period of time Than Physical Graffiti was um but yeah I mean it’s back down to a single album and even though you open with like an 11 minute song the songs are starting to get shorter it is almost as if

They are aware of the changing kind of mood of music and even although it’s very Majestic all the way through I’m just very very Zeppelin um it’s quite raw and it does Rock any other band would be delighted to have made presents but I think with Led

Zeppelin maybe it isn’t seen as one of the real Classics you know among amongst the fans and and you know I think the songs aren’t as tight or as Timeless but I think the playing is still fantastic foreign [Applause] [Applause] A lot of people felt something had gone out of the band and you listen to into the outdoor and there are people who regard it as their weak point when it first came out I just thought it was an arm of outtakes to go through but I

Didn’t really realize it was a new album it wasn’t recorded in in Britain or America it was actually recorded in Abba’s polar studios in Stockholm so they went away to Stockholm Jimmy was going through huge drug problems I don’t think it’s any Secret at that point the motivation for Paige because of his

House wasn’t really there so what you’re finding with that album it’s not a Jimmy Page album It’s a John Paul Jones album John Paul Jones got his keyboards back out for the album I think he was strictly on base for uh for the preceding record presence

Um which which lends it you know a slightly more lightweight feel there are some ideas on him through the outdoor that don’t quite work it’s got more sort of synthesizer kind of sounds on it which would have been a bit alien to a lot of so exact fans [Applause] it’s a much more light-hearted record I’d say and it’s less straight out rock and roll you know they’re stretching out into a lot of other territories in the evening Charis Alhambra these These are pretty good songs um you know I mean in the evening that’s

Got the whole that’s that’s you know the sort of the creepy mysticism and then The Stomping Rock in the evening is a fantastic open track but says here we are again and Paige is on phone for that in the bottom a very very good taunting trait typical

Of the stuff that Zeppelin would use to open a show or open a um an album and you saw that with presents with nobody’s fault but fine it’s in the same vein as that Again very sort of almost slightly laid back late night in a bar with smoke-filled rooms type of atmosphere too and there’s some very good music on on Instagram they were very aware of the the onset of punk and there are a lot of these kind of 70s guys were going to land up

Looking like dinosaurs they were very aware of that and so that I think they were moving on at that point and were not going to be left behind and and looking out of date really they were fascinated by what we now know as World music at the time and you listen to something

Like all my love which is Robert Plant’s song to his late son and it’s a wonderful piece of music and it really has a sense of emotion and presence in there as it were years The standout track is all my love um which is just so so sensitive and so so well rendered and and has has become you know I think quite a little Zeppelin classic um in its quiet way and I think if people take that song in isolation

And listen to it and then you tell them it’s often through the outdoor you’ll think hey I mean that was under zipping three or something before now it’s running through the outdoors all my love is it is from Robert’s point of views is a very reflective song I mean obviously you know

Um coming back and writing lyrically you know when you’ve lost your son it is you know you’re not gonna sing really upbeat happy songs a lot you want you’re gonna be in at some sort of reflective state [Applause] hello I love my love they use strings in there

And it was technically very very well put together and I think today actually stands they stand out as tracks that are easy it’s very easy to listen to they may not be typical Zeppelin or classic Zeppelin but they’re actually more listenable in some ways than some of the

Earlier material is ever going to be I mean yeah they they there are a couple of songs on there I mean the hot hot dog which is you know I mean I love country music but I don’t really want to hear Led Zeppelin take tackle country music

So when you look at this album and through the outdoor you’ve got southbound stories not my favorite at all in the rain it’s okay hot dog which is completely not a rubbish so you’ve got really three bad tracks out of seven As an album I don’t think it holds together quite as well as what went before it’s possibly and this is all comparative the weakest of Led Zeppelin Studio albums however it’s still got enough strong moments on it to make it far more than just a throw or a record

Which marked the end of a career and something to be buried under a carpet there isn’t a sense of closure about in through the outdoor it is a sound of a band who know who they are they know what they’ve done but they’re also aware that if they’re going to carry on

They’ve got to be able to not match what’s happening but move with the times and and adapt their sound accordingly they were ready to carry on you know there was new places to go and I think into the outdoor was a launch pad for what was

Going to be the next step But ultimately they didn’t get to the next step none of them would have realized that when they recorded industry the outdoor it would be the last record that the four of them would ever record with each other you know no one knew that what was what

Happened to John Bonham what’s going to happen to him foreign America to be in the October and that was going to be the first part of what they were going to call the Led Zeppelin 1980s campaign and it was going to go into you the next year and then good

Plans and then we’re going to record an album and it was all going on it was you know the malaw was good so all that was ready to go when the rehearsal for the first um U.S states were set up in Bray Studios and that’s where John Bonham arrives

Very drunk and he’s plainly not that well and he’s not that fit to play I think they played for about an hour um they’re all staying at Jimmy Page’s house in Windsor and they all went back John one was put to bed um and that was the end of it John Paul

Jones tells the story that he woke up in the morning um John Bonham got up they left until about two or three in the afternoon John Paul Jones goes up to Sterling no answer goes in and he was dead um he was dead he died choked on his own vomit

When John died uh they were definitely Tremors you know felt throughout the uh the Music World um purely because he was just such a fantastic drummer and indeed created those Tremors you know when when he when he hit his drum skins I mean he’s just got such a unique style to me

To me he always when I listened to him it just sounds like he he’s playing drums while he’s falling off the edge of a cliff jump on him it was certainly the the most um exciting rock and roll drama I think there’s ever been um he also he also invented what we now

Know as heavy Rock drama an absolute show-off at what he did which was part of the magic and the Brilliance of his drumming but technically he was not a brilliant drummer he wasn’t not brilliant but he he wasn’t out he wasn’t superb he was big because of the band he

Was in but it was more than able to carry it off as well it was so integral to Led Zeppelin so that when he died and Led Zeppelin basically said we’re not carrying on everyone understood plant’s right the moment John Bonham’s gone no Led Zeppelin It would have been fascinating to hear what they would have come up with if they’d carry on certainly for a couple more years I mean I’m sure at some point they would have probably all felt well this is it we can’t do any more than we’ve done um go our separate ways

But um I think that’s that’s something that’s possibly haunted Jimmy Page of more than anyone else if you listen to any of the artists solo albums you know you listen to Robert Plant’s solo albums when he where he’s gone on and made quite a number since Zeppelin split up or ended

And Jimmy Page has had sporadic efforts John Paul Jones has as well but not one of those solo albums has been anywhere near in the class of any one of the Led Zeppelin albums and I think it’s a classic case of the sum of all the parts made up an absolutely brilliant band Back story was quite clear I don’t know anybody in the U.S who wouldn’t heal them as the definitive band absolutely and I mean in some quarters they are the heavy metal band you know I’m sure they hate that but they were the template Zephyr often called a heavy metal band

Which is completely wrong they’re just a really really awesome powerful rock band the band were brilliant life the band had their moments of Brilliance in the studio but in many cases they were grossly overrated as as the super hyped brilliant band there were other bands that were just as good if not

Better they’re not the most influential band they’re the most influential rock band so they wrote the rules and defined the rules for rock and roll in the 70s in a hundred years time you want to know what rock and roll is this is it you just you basically play people three or

Four Led Zeppelin albums that’s rock and roll Foreign [Applause] [Applause] Foreign