Dread Zeppelin: A Song Of Hope | Full Documentary | 2024

[@7Moonbeam6]

2025 needs Dread Zeppelin ✊🏼

[@RyChanneler]

Agreed.

[@ToolFan68]

If you reunite we’ll ALL show up!

[@airgunfun4248]

YA mon!

[@7jackan7]

@@airgunfun4248 “Translate to English”

[@unifyhumanity360]

On various mandatory medications but oh yeah!

[@raimywinter2309]

Yhus

[@RyanCrase1]

100%!!

[@richard127gm]

The combination of Heartbreaker with Heartbreak Hotel is a work of pure genius. I cried.

[@GaryBaldy-o7j]

I cried with you, man. Still am. ❤

[@impalaman9707]

Heartbreaker---Hotel----Heartbreaker---Hote--Hote-Hote!🤣🤣

[@willambrose4682]

It was meant to be

[@MisterFastbucks]

Watching this I can't stop smiling. One of the greatest musical acts of the late 20th Century. Give them their due!

[@braindamage_eclipse]

I absolutely love that Plant is shown giving his stamp of approval right up front. It says a lot that he can appreciate their work with the original Zep material.

[@GaryBaldy-o7j]

Well, he was never a snob, y'know. And he has always loved great music. I think Jimmy and John Paul were fans too.

[@mrtangerineman]

@@GaryBaldy-o7j I seem to recall reading that Page hated them.

[@chicagowiley]

I am proud to say that my band opened for them back in 90's at a club called Cubby Bear. I will never forget their dressing room. I have never seen so many great outfits hanging up in one room. So glad to see someone made a documentary about them. Long overdue. They are truly one of the greats!

[@GaryBaldy-o7j]

You were truly blessed.

[@musekic4654]

It worked because the musicianship was so strong.

[@softhotty]

100%

[@jesselp50]

Only a super talented group of musicians could pull this off, and they did it!

[@kelmcg8922]

I love Dread Zeppelin so very much. I was trying to get this guy to talk to me, so I invited their band to do an in Store performance at our record store. I fell in love with the band. And Mr. Buttboy. Now we’re married. Tortelvis married us.

[@7jackan7]

The greatest musical story ever told!

[@tada8092]

Awesome

[@GaryBaldy-o7j]

He's a very lucky man, Mrs Butt-Mon. And very talented too. Love to you both 😘

[@RobertMusilli]

Was Charlie Haj there too?

[@shush317]

I saw these guys at Peabody's in Cleveland in 1997. To this day, it was one of the best shows I've ever seen. If they were to tour again, I would go anywhere on this planet to see them again, with my 8 year old grand daughter in tow, she listens to them with me when I'm carting her around.

[@ralph_wiley420]

This was great! Thank you! I'll try to keep this DZ story short...so, I was once program director for a defunct radio station (WVVV, Rock 105) in Blacksburg Virginia. We played everything: classic rock to college rock. When Un-Led-Ed came out we were playing a couple of tracks from it. The audience loved it, and eventually we got them to play a club about an hour from the station in Roanoke, VA at The Iriquois Club. The day of the show, myself and our sales manager, who owned a white stretch limo and leased it out for events, drove the limo from Blacksburg to Roanoke to pick them up for an on-air interview. We picked up Tort and Butt-Mon and headed back to the station. Going Up a mountain, the limo began to sputter and struggle as if the fuel filter was clogged. We continued to climb, slowly, and suddenly from the back, TortElvis says "Oh, my! This isn't where they filmed Deliverance, is it?" Very funny. We finally made it back, had a great time hanging with them, lots of pictures, lots of autographs, and I have to say that of the hundreds of concerts I've seen in my life, theirs was the most fun I've ever had at a concert.

[@vinniebarusa]

Thanks for the cool story! I remember hearing about this band time after time, but never looked into them.

[@Susie_Floozie]

Pure freakin' joy! Their existence warms me. I know the craftsmanship it took to pull the whole thing off so solidly it looks like effortless goofing around onstage. Man, they're pros!

[@darrencampbell8817]

Holy shit this is it! To this day I still turn people on to this band. Fucking love it!

[@sidford8419]

Back in the early 90's, late 80's can't remember, I had a buddy who worked at 93Rock in Sacramento. He did an interview with DZ and told me when they would be there. Another friend and I showed up in the parking lot with a McDonald's cheeseburger for Tortelvis and a half empty bottle of Everclear. They gave us backstage passes for after the show and signed my Everclear bottle, which I still have. They were very nice and appreciative. I miss those days!

[@geraldhugley3618]

Reunite and Tour!

[@cdprince768]

"We want peace and love so badly, we're willing to kill for it."

[@jefp65]

One of many great lines!

[@cactibacti]

I ordered a VHS from DZ. It came with an autographed note from Tort! To this very day, I try to turn people on to their music. Mixed reactions of these people are more than worth the effort. Thank you so very much for posting this documentary. Loved it!!!

[@urberstud]

Same here.

[@chrismanfredi5205]

I owned a bar in lake Forest California called RockField tavern and had sold my half of the bar to go on tour with Walter Trout back in 95. We had a big going away party for me at the tavern and somehow got Dread Zeppelin to come play it. One of the funniest nights of my life. They were awesome and all genuinely nice ppl. I'll never forget it

[@GaryBaldy-o7j]

Very lucky!

[@ShaneSpeal]

Chibson knocked it outta the park! This was fantastic!!! Dread Zeppelin for the RRHOF - let’s make it happen!

[@drsyn67]

Over 3,000 viewers in 19 hours can’t be wrong!

[@elvis1736]

@@drsyn67 MYLANTA! Gonna be a sell out! Bring your asses to Naptown and sell out the Hoosier Dome

[@michaelkeudel8770]

That's 3,000 clicks, not necessarily views if they only watched 1 minute and said meh.

[@drsyn67]

@@michaelkeudel8770 hoping Mama didn’t raise any quitters.

[@michaelkeudel8770]

@@drsyn67 I watched 3 minutes of it, and quit, don't be a moron.

[@SpicyTexan64]

Of course they can.

[@TheKitchenerLeslie]

Best of luck with this! The people need to remember how great this was!

[@BeefSupreme-vk9sz]

A true slice of history 🤘🤪🤘

[@lw1zfog]

was fortunate to see them on tour in the uk, & it was indeed truly great.

[@elvis1736]

Addicted to prescription diet pills is a mega issue in this United States now . Ozempic is destroying our food industry! MYLANTA sales are down in the dumps! Go get a Big Mac! It ain’t the same anymore. Ruient! Entar States

[@kentaylor2416]

The song remains insane.

[@johng618]

😂😅

[@Espuds]

A good friend of mine from work back in the late 80s was always getting me to check out obscure musical acts (The Residents, The Dickies, Spot 1019, Henry Rollins - just after Black Flag, etc). He told me about Dread Zeppelin right after Un-Led-ed came out. We found out that they were going to play in Atlanta, probably 1991 at a venue that has since been torn down called The Masquerade. We got there early so we could get right next to the stage. Wonderful show. The interplay between Tortelvis and Charlie Haj was hysterical. Butt-Boy still had long hair and had a small stuffed animal hanging from the neck of his bass. It was obvious that the band members were having a blast. I’m glad I was able to experience Led Zeppelin music performed the way it should be.

[@gregmize01]

Still have my Dread Zeppelin cassette!!!!!!!!

[@michaelward9880]

I bought the CD when it came out. ❤ at first listen.

[@tada8092]

I have a CD. Nice

[@philgallagher1]

I still have an original "Un-Led-Ed" cassette from when it was released in England!

[@dzapper7]

Me too!

[@martinsouthon8206]

Me too😂

[@andrewc2024]

This must win the documentary Oscar that It Might Get Loud deserved. Love it!

[@richardmarstonealy4155]

These boys are friends going way back. I have witnessed Joe, Gary, Curt, Carl, in many other bands through the years and each incarantion and/or lineup was pure unadulterated rock and roll. I am an LD and actually "auditioned" at a small club in Long Beach to be the guy to light them up on their first tour but for some odd reason their manager at that time didn't like my "style," WHAT'S THAT YOU SAY, HOW CAN THAT BE?...anyway, they went on to be the talk of the town, whichever town they were in, and their legacy lives on in recorded form and now on film, congrats on the success you attained...Black Dog/Hound Dog was my fav...Joseph "Jah Paul Jo" Ramsey: rock in peace: I miss you brother...

[@SteveGaghagen]

👍👍

[@JasonWorstenholm]

Ive been to 197 concerts, and i saw dread in detroit in 1990 and again in 1991. 2 of the best nights of my life

[@SpicyTexan64]

Who counts the number of concerts they've been to? God, I'm old.

[@JacquesDray]

I never thought that i would ever see the day that someone would come up with a documentary of a small cover band fronted by an Elvis impersonator. God love you guys for making that happen!

[@robbieyates1685]

Thank you for this! Glad to say I was able to experience them live. They deserve to be immortalized in a documentary.

[@bradhorning19]

Big time Zep head since the mid 70's. Went to a Dread show just after my daughter was born at a bar in Ballard Washington. They didnt come on stage till after mid night the warm up bands werent great and the wife was ready to go! I held my own and said im staying, we stayed for a awesome show! I wasnt driving so i could drink and was looped, the stage was just 15 inches high. So was i, anyways i jumped on stage and became part of the show pushing Hodgy out of the way so i could wipe the sweat off of Torts brow! I bowed at Torts feet filling in for 2 songs! They could see i wasnt a risk and just let me be part of the act and left the stage in my own and got credit from Tort himself as went back to the crowd! Ive been to hundreds of shows in my life, this being one of the smallest just a couple hundred people but felt much bigger and did sound fantastic! I was looking a few years ago anything about DZ, saw something about a documentary in the works but that was the last thing i heard! Last night i saw it pop up on you tube watched it tonight! What a great surprise, answered some of the questions ive had about them! RIP Joe, i like many would love to see a reunion tour or like Zeppelin themselves put on a single final show in Joes honor! Truly a entertaining and fun well done movie! Thanks to all that made it and of course to the band and Tort himself! They do deserve to be in the rock and roll hall of fame! Good times, brilliant concept and great musicians!

[@snfu6574]

Cool, thankfully hospital wasn't far away. I lived in Ballard for years on 85th across the street where you saw them

[@claytonb9685]

Thank you so much for posting this awesome documentary on Dread Zeppelin, I would’ve spent cash on this whether Blu-ray or Digitally and it would be so much worth the money. Been a big fan of DZ since seeing them the first time on MTV News with Kurt Loder back in 89 and I have bought every CD available and later on in the late 90’s I would purchase VHS copies and T-Shirts from both Tortelvis and Jah Paul Jo. In 97 I was able to get ahold of Joe Ramsey aka Jah Paul Jo to tell him how much of a big fan I was and he said “Gee Clayton, you make me sound like I’m a famous celebrity” and I told him that he is in my world. He gave me the fan only CD “Ruins” and the rock star baseball type card that has the famous Butt-Boy pose that Gary Putman mentioned at the end of the documentary. I will be forever grateful of the phone conversations I had with this awesomely cool guy. Sir Jah Paul Jo, you are sadly missed 😔🙏

[@daverudnick2153]

Quick, find me every single organization, group, or film festival...this movie deserves awards from each and every one!

[@FourteenWords-n4l]

OH MY GOD! Remember these!! I thought they were a figment of my adolesant mind!! I haven't watched this yet.. I've butterflys in my stomach!!

[@jeffjeff4477]

2025, Come back DZ!!!! The world needs a tour

[@rechargeandrelax1618]

And the name of the tour can be: "The World Needs a Tour"!

[@13_13k]

Thanks to the producers and the band members for this documentary. It was well done and gave fans, both new and old, perspective of what D.Z. was all about and some insught into who they are without the costumes. I became a fan hearing their first and second singles played on the radio in L.A. on KXLU 88.9 Loyola Marymount University's college radio station which the University is in the neighborhood I lived in and grew up in at the beach in L.A. . Being a huge music fan and L.Z. being my favorite band and I was listening to a lot of Steel Pulse atbthat time i was blown away by the music. Then I saw them live not long after, I can't remember where, maybe The Strand in Redondo Beach ? But that was amazing. I went to see them play 3 or 4 more times over the next 5 or six years. I still try to get people who have never heard of them to check them out to this day. They deserve to be inducted into the R. & R. Hall of Fame.

[@carlosdanger6129]

One of the top 3 concerts I've ever seen..

[@howardhughes7596]

I worked for University of Arizona, read the student news every day and saw a blip on DZ playing that night at a small club on the south side of campus… went and was blown away. The Grateful Dead were the best band I ever saw, DZ was the funnest band I ever saw. Turned all my buddies on to the band and every time they played town, we were there. Fast forward a decade or so and I’m carrying my baby daughter around doing the baby bounce to their first album. Put her right to sleep every time.

[@Themacchuck]

I rocked, I rolled, I laughed, Jah died and I cried. This documentary is a must watch. Thanks for making it.

[@browntabproductions]

A Most Excellent Documentary. Thank You. Dread Zeppelin Rules 🤌

[@BillyHellbent]

One of the best shows I ever saw... Phoenix Hill Tavern Louisville Kentucky. Still trying to tell the world about this band. Now I have to make them watch this documentary too. Just genius...

[@LouCheezeYouSleaze]

A reggae Led Zeppelin cover band with an Elvis impersonator front man is sheer genius, pure lunacy, or both. The band was so much fun back in the day. In the early 2000s I ran a web site that featured the local college party scene in a fun and irreverent way, and I declared Dread Zeppelin the web site's official band and would occasionally post a random Dread Zeppelin reference. Somehow the band found out and sent me a ton of free merch and CDs (it was, after all, the early 2000s as far as the CDs were concerned). Even had a couple of email convos with Tort Elvis. This was a true rock n roll band, in every sense of the word, plus one with a spectacular sense of humor. Love those guys and their music.

[@MrTheBaron]

Before Beatallica, there was Dread Zeppelin. If there's gonna be someone who would produce this doc, thank God it's Chibson USA

[@BloodaxeOfficial]

One of the best live bands I ever saw. Crocks n Rolls, Thunder Bay, Ontario.

[@Kane-yg5zy]

Tour with them GWAR and Mac Sabbath would be epic!!!🤘

[@stevaandthedivas]

Saw them at the Railway Club Vancouver 89-90-ish. So good & Sooo much fun!

[@willambrose4682]

I remember stumbling onto these guys in the 80's at the University of Wyoming and turning everyone on to them!

[@orkharrid7065]

A massive Zeppelin fan and precursors are are interchangeable. Unforgettable. Both bands changed music and peoples perceptions of it. We have one Zeppelin in the hall of fame, now it's time for the other. Rock on Peace and Love

[@7wo7rees]

Saw them in DC, then Dallas. I dragged a few more friends the second time and had a blast! Got all their autographs, bought all their music. No regrets. Great band, great doc! Thanks Chibson!

[@karac833]

I saw the band, play in Australia, in their heyday at a middle sized venue (North Gong Hotel) awesome show...

[@Bikewithlove]

I saw them in Philadelphia at the Chestnut Cabaret. My friend and I were sitting in the back at a table talking about something unimportant when out of nowhere Tortelvis blasts “AAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaAH!” and we cracked up and ran to the mosh pit. One of the best shows of my life! Thank you guys you are awesome!!

[@tada8092]

I saw them at Palimino, David Crosby, and biker buddies were there. Truly a memorable evening. Still listen to the CD. Much love. ❤❤❤

[@Cyklopz007]

Saw these guys like 4 times at Summerfest when I was in elementary school. Very enlightening 😂. Still jam them out at my pizza place to much bewilderment from my gen z coworkers lol.

[@marcellondon443]

I still have one of his towels from a show in San Luis Obispo!!

[@GregoryMarkel]

I always loved Greg. Happy to have referrred two members to the band, mentioned in the end credits. Gary is a much better guitar player than most people know.

[@hardrockinmofo9742]

Thank you, thank you, thank you so, so much for this! Got to see Dread Zeppelin twice back in the day, once in Philly and once in Delaware. Man, I really miss these guys! I wish I could still be wearing them old tour shirts!

[@BobWhitmore-nl3sy]

It's so hard to grasp that my good friend, Joe Ramsey (Jah-Pa-Jo) has been gone for 10 years! I miss you buddy!

[@Route9Signs]

First saw them in 1993 in Modesto. Honored to call Ed Zeppelin, Fernandez and Spice friends.

[@claybishop3791]

Saw ‘em in Flagstaff early 90’s at Monsoon’s. Mind blown, ears hurt, perma-grin, soaked in sweat. Best night ever.

[@slimhanson5792]

Should have a million views!!!

[@thepandemicfiles9331]

Amazing work ! What a great documentary on this Wonderful group ! Always love hearing them play. Now time for a reunion guy's, the world needs it !

[@liveatminkys]

So Awesome!! Thanks Chibson!!❤

[@mpf4434451]

I loved this documentary. I remember being a teenager in 1990. MTV talked about the change in music and showed Dread Zeppelin for 2 seconds. I was a huge Zeppelin fan AND an Elvis fan. I also always thought Zeppelin could have done another reggae song after Dyer Maker. When I saw the 2 seconds of Dread Zeppelin doing "Black Dog" immediately I was intrigued. I had to get a cassette. The Internet was not really a thing yet and my record store didn't have it, but they did have this Chicago phone book of a catalog. I could order it. I found it! Un-led-ed. I played that so much and it was great. I was too young to see them when they played in a bar close to my city, promoting "5,000,000 Tortelvis fans can't be wrong", and by the time I was 21, I don't think they ever came back to my area of the U.S. However, even though I was never able to see them live, their albums made the 90s' great for me when everything was depressing grunge music. I always said for me the best music of the 90s was Beck, Lenny Kravitz, and Dread Zeppelin.

[@valeriesorrells]

I remember seeing you back in the early 90's... one of the best concerts I ever went to!

[@paulwisham5943]

I didn’t know that I needed that! Thank you..?

[@craigtoelle1052]

Fantastic doc! Saw these guys 3 times back in the day, crazy fun! Even saw the disco era of the band.

[@themmamertz]

What a fun documentary! Thanks to all that were involved. I am proud to say that I share in a little bit of the history of Dread Zeppelin. I filmed 2 of their official DVDs back in 2002/2003.

[@fives.]

Fucking masterpiece, huge props to Jason & the team at Chibson Brands ❤

[@NoSacredCowFla]

I still have a stub from April 29th 1995 at Club De Wash in Madison WI. A tiny room and the greatest show. I was so happy. Thanks to all.

[@NoSacredCowFla]

Oh and they were better live than recorded unlike Boston. 😁

[@RoboMelvana]

rad as hell, thanks for giving a closer look at what these folk were up to while still adding in jokes every now and then also re-release spambake, that album ruled and copies of it are unbelievably rare

[@kaewonf8]

"You let him die, there's a lot of paperwork." Spoken like a true manager.

[@7jackan7]

Was in Vegas for a trade show in the mid oughts and saw a flyer for them. Was there with a president of an Italian speaker company who was a huge Zeppelin fan, so we took him to the show, but figured it was a huge gamble and could go either way. He was so stoked, he was calling friends back in Italy, where it was about 4:AM to let them hear the cell phone in a club version. It made an awesome evening that much better.

[@willwaggoner8805]

Wow. I've been a fan of their music for a long time, and this just brings a whole new level of appreciation.

[@samleonard3909]

legends

[@snfu6574]

Saw them on the lawn in front of Seattle court house and they just rocked, so much talent what a good time

[@reinerwalchi9348]

Wow, Thank you so much !!! I'find that Album ( the Perfekt Mix👍🙏❤ at 1992 in Bangkok..., and love this Stuff so much !!! And Now i find This wonderful Docu. !!!! I'am very Happy !!!! With my Best Wishes for you !!! And many Greeting from ,Tegernsee Mountains, Bavarian , W.- Germany !!! 🏁🙏👍😎🏴‍☠️⚓️Rainer.

[@jeffmcpeek2526]

In 1990-1991,we needed a good laugh. No one should ever have a complete bad day.Dread Zeppelin make everything better.

[@SevenTwentySeven27]

I was in a Band call PIG Inc. that opened a show with them in Philly and I got to say that was a Very crazy interesting night..... GREAT TIME

[@johnnyd63]

Ahhh..Tortelvis, Ed and the boys were just fantastic.

[@thedave2429]

I remember when I first heard these guys back in the early 90's and was like "whoa, they are f'ing great!!!!" This is f'ing great too. Thanks for doing this doc.

[@WKelleyLucas_KustomScatterguns]

I saw them in 1990 at Summer's on the Beach, Fort Lauderdale... Literally one of the best shows I've ever seen. Super fun, great musicians.

[@SuperMickey57]

My class at Art Institute of Dallas put on a concert from conception to promotion to production. We were delighted to have Dread Zeppelin as our headlining act for Reggae Fest '89! Man, that was a long time ago!

[@MarkAbenstein]

it's about time! wonderful!

[@andymiller3745]

saw them in Brighton Eng around 1990. Still smiling.

[@kendoknackersackee]

I did too, at the Top Rank/ Event (whatever it was called at the time). Such a great band!

[@andymiller3745]

@@kendoknackersackee same place, same night. Still smiling.

[@BroadwayJoe99]

I attended Washington State University in the early 90's as a Music Education major, and one day at a meeting with my counselor, he asked me what I was listening to on my Walkman. I pulled out my copy of "Un-Led-Ed" and handed it to home, and said, "give this a listen, it'll blow your mind". I didn't get the tape back for weeks, as he wound up passing it along to other members of the Music faculty, to the point where most everyone in the faculty had listened to it.

[@melthebell33]

Cheers for the doc, great band, sadly never seen live but owned a couple of releases back in the day

[@michaelward9880]

Dread Zeppelin 4 ever! I don't get how anyone cannot like, if not love them.❤😂❤😅❤

[@michaelkreger6344]

I’ve got the CDs and I saw them live in Cleveland at their peak and they were and are an absolute blast!!! What got them over was the fact they are great musicians otherwise they’d been lucky to get their 15 minutes of fame. Get back together guys!!!

[@duncanpaton8227]

This is so iconic, stupid , and abslutely brilliant🎉 thanks for making this 😎👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@jeffreykasky2798]

Such great memories - this band brought so much joy

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

😬

[@PeterByker]

well, ah bless my soul...

[@joerecordsNYC]

Saw them open for the Stray Cats at the Ritz NYC. What a show!

[@chris-rv9gd]

Oh these guys were brilliant.

[@charmcrackermusic4250]

Glad to see these guys still together I remember buying there CD I thought they were great and cool maybe it’s a joke I don’t care they sound good real good So cool

[@bernardquasaar1254]

Awesome guys! Thanks for sharing. Dread Zeppelin concerts were the best.

[@keythinwatford7153]

I was fortunate enough to see DZ at the Town & Country Club 2 in London UK. A night I have never forgotten. Just ordered my 2nd DZ CD.

[@helzapoppin9810]

I was a big fan of these guys back in the day in LA. Still have all their CDs. Brilliant shit.

[@jrastoff]

I never saw them live, I never had any interaction with them, I simply loved their music. Sure, it was kind of funny, but I really just loved the music. I played 5,000,000 about that many times. Still one of my favorite albums of all time. I am so glad to know the full story now, thank you for this!!!

[@davidtraina9295]

Loved the Band and Documentary. Five Stars. Balls ass ending.

[@ChampippleD]

Always loved these guys. It’s great to have a peek behind the sideburns.

[@bellhorn0433]

Long live Dread Zepplin