FIRST LISTEN TO LED ZEPPELIN IV *Stairway to my heart!? GOING INSANE?!!!* Side II

[@iambecomepaul]

Misty Mountain Hop based on real events. I’ve been to that park 😮

[@CrystalMarieShannon]

oh wow!!!! That’s incredible!!!!🧡🧡🧡🧡 thank you oh so much for being here Paul! 🧡 I am so grateful for you!!!! 🧡✨ I pray you are feeling well and having the most astounding day!

[@iambecomepaul]

@@CrystalMarieShannon what’s funnier is how I got there. I was in the U.K. (around Aldershot/Farnham) on business and my birthday fell on a Saturday. Feeling sort of alone-ish, I decided to drift into London and see what that was all about… which was daunting at first because I had no idea how their currency worked except abstractly 😛 Caught a train. Ended up at Waterloo. Started walking. No phone battery (whoops! 🥴) so no maps. Met some Queen’s guards (by accident-they didn’t yell at me). Trifalger. Got lost in Chinatown. Figured I go see Abbey Road and get a pic crossing the street like the album cover. Welp… that’s a few miles away from where I was. But I was alone so I didn’t know any better. Took my shoes off (like McCartney) but it was the dead of winter… no matter. I dodged some cars and got the shot nearly freezing my feet off. Stumbled around St. John’s Woods, ended up in Regent’s park by chance and Hyde Park by accident going back to Waterloo station. Found myself suddenly surrounded by a bunch load of people and couldn’t figure out why. So I’m just sorta trying to plow through it and I ask a chap what the hell was going on and he tells me I’m in the midst of the global Women’s March (this was one day after Trump’s inauguration). Go figure. Back to Piccadilly. Crossed the Thames. Saw Battersea Station (Pink Floyd’s “Animals” cover) from the train. Almost missed Farnham Station. Exhausted. Fell into a pub near my hotel. THAT was my birthday. All sorts of rock history absorbed that day. 😎

[@philshorten3221]

When the Levee Breaks is 100 years old! Google it!

[@Caesarianus9]

When The Levee Breaks. Greatest drum intro in galactical history.

[@Lona_Chess]

Agreed! It's epic and unforgettable.

[@CANDOKNOWHOW]

@phillydiscoBeastie Boys

[@bobcharles1204]

Great album!

[@CrystalMarieShannon]

Bob!!!! 🧡🧡🧡🧡 Thank you oh so very very much! Sending you my love and the warmest wishes for an incredible Friday! You deserve the world! 🧡

[@CrystalMarieShannon]

bob! 🩵 we’ve got an all new video out for you today my extraordinary friend! kzbin.info/www/bejne/l3empYVso6Zqjq8si=4JoG2Ue3PX8IQVRB

[@CrystalMarieShannon]

my wonderful friend! 🩵🩵🩵 I hope your sunday is delightful and having an exciting first day of october! 🧡🖤 I hope you enjoy today’s new reaction: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pXuklXaDmNKrjLcsi=h2GkCCaYoSMYdhvJ

[@happymethehappyone8300]

"When The Levee Breaks",, speaks of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927..The most destructive flood ever in U.S. history...R.I.P. To the 500+ lives lost. 🙏❤️

[@CrystalMarieShannon]

😔💔❤️‍🩹

[@robertbutler4672]

Hi Crystal! The girl with flowers in her hair is Joni Mitchell. Going to California was Zeppelin's shout out to her. Love that drum pattern on When the Levee Breaks, it was a staple among the first generation of hip hop samples. For my money, the best Zeppelin album. You're great as always, love the reaction and passion. Cheers!

[@CrystalMarieShannon]

oh wow! that is so beautiful! thank you so much for sharing that with me Robert, my amazing friend 🩵 I pray you are having the absolute most wonderful day and that you enjoy our newest video out today! this one was pretty difficult for me to get through since I felt pretty sick throughout but I tried my very very best, put a ton of energy into it & did it with lots of love ! 🩵 kzbin.info/www/bejne/l3empYVso6Zqjq8si=4JoG2Ue3PX8IQVRB

[@CANDOKNOWHOW]

The Beastie Boys- “Rhymin’ and Stealin’”. 1st song, Side One of their debut LP “Licensed To Ill”

[@MarissaM312]

Great reaction and analysis of Led Zeppelin IV. I love that cardigan you have on. Where ever did you get it? 😛. Wishing you a wonderful weekend, Crystal and sending much love your way! 💕💕💕🙏🙏😊💯🔥🎼

[@CrystalMarieShannon]

Thank you oh so very very much marvelous and beautiful Marissa! 🧡🧡🧡🧡 you are the most amazing! I actually got this on Amazon!!!! I just looked up Taylor Swift cardigan! 🧡 but I know she sells them on her site as well! 🧡🧡 sending you my love and hoping you have the most astonishing day!

[@Sweetish_Jeff_]

“Misty Mountain Hop” is my favorite track from this album. It’s so hard to pick a favorite, but that’s my jam. Every song on this is a banger. After The Beatles broke up, as sad as it was, it did help usher in new bands for the 1970s. It was a new decade and new sounds were being created. Bands like Led Zeppelin, The Who, Queen, etc. It was a heavier rock sound that was aided and abetted by modern technology. But it worked. 🤗🤗🤗🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️

[@CrystalMarieShannon]

such an excellent selection of a favorite! love it! I don’t think it’s too hard to tell what my favorite is! ohh every time I think about the beatles breaking up I can’t help but to think of what else they could’ve given us the possibilities are endless but I guess it’s not only pointless but heartbreaking to think about that 🥹🩵 very grateful for all of those bands though! each one brings something unique to the table musically and continues to change the landscape!

[@Lona_Chess]

I LOVE that you did this album, Crystal! And, as always, you remain my favorite music reactor on KZbin. Please keep going with all the Zeppelin studio albums. They're one of the few bands where every album is worthwhile and a different journey than their previous record. Zeppelin is only an inch behind my favorite band of all time (The Beatles.) So, hearing you react to each band is such a treat. Keep up the amazing work!

[@CrystalMarieShannon]

Thank you!!!!

[@shemanic1]

"Music is the soul bird that flies in the immense heart of the Listener." Sri Chinmoy.

[@CrystalMarieShannon]

that is profound and lovely 🩵

[@m_v__m_v]

Awesome, I'm so glad you're back on the LZ trek. This album may be their best, but there are still some amazing albums still to come. When the Levee Breaks is an old blues song from the 1920s, written about a real catastrophic flood that happened in (I think) Tennessee. The drum intro is iconic - Beastie Boys (among others) sampled it on one of their songs. Levee is one of my top 5 LZ songs, along with Ramble On, Stairway and two others you haven't gotten to yet. Great reaction as always!

[@bobmessier5215]

Music heals the deepest wounds, Crystal. It works from the inside and radiates out. Keep playing music and keep on singing.

[@olli__]

so glad you continue your led zeppelin journey😀 can't wait for houses of the holy album! it's prolly my favourite tho it's hard to decide :D

[@CrystalMarieShannon]

ohhh i’m so happy that we still have LZ material to cover they really so bring so much joy! 💛 I hope you are having an amazing day and that you enjoy our latest reaction: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l3empYVso6Zqjq8si=gnomUSxLT9DM_HBn

[@666tubedragon666]

Well done! Listen to their final performance Kashmir Live from Celebration Day when they were in their 60s to understand how good they were on stage from start to finish...thanks. Crys

[@CrystalMarieShannon]

Thank you so very very very much remarkable Richard! 🧡🧡🧡🧡 you are completely a hero! 🧡 I appreciate you with every fiber of my being! I pray you are having the most beautiful day! you deserve only blessings to come your way! and thanks for the suggestion! I will totally have to check it out! 🧡

[@666tubedragon666]

really do check it out...your subs are as rabid about zep as they are about the fab 4 and it would be a blast to see you review that performance...and JPJ kills the keys and John Bonham's son stands or sits in for his pops who passed in 80 and plays his kit....it will change your life as a musician and performer @@CrystalMarieShannon

[@CrystalMarieShannon]

@@666tubedragon666thank you for steering me in this direction! here’s a question… would it be better to continue with their discography first and get through all the albums and return to this performance? I guess what I mean is will there be any songs include that we haven’t covered yet?

[@CrystalMarieShannon]

@@666tubedragon666ooop! we’ve also got an all new video out for you today my amazing friend! 🩵 I hope you enjoy: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l3empYVso6Zqjq8si=4JoG2Ue3PX8IQVRB

[@Beatles4Sale.]

You did a great job! I just want to mention that Robert Plant has done two albums with Allison Krause. To see them do Black Dog, When the Levee Breaks, and Rock & Roll live in the genre of country\blue grass is a hoot. The two have won eight Grammy’s together. The live performances are on KZbin. They’ve also been on PBS. My ears are still ringing from seeing Led Zeppelin live at the Capital Center (no longer exists) in high school. Those were crazy times. To be able to see Led Zeppelin, Yes, McCartney and Wings, ELO, Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, Billy Joel, Moody Blues…we didn’t even consider how special that was back then! May I make a suggestion? When you hit progressive rock (yes, roundabout as an example), get out the headphones! You mentioned Boston? But that begins with a B and not a C! 😂😂😂 Have an amazing weekend!

[@CrystalMarieShannon]

My kind and exceptional friend! 🧡🧡🧡🧡 I send you all my love! Thank you so much for joining and spending time with me here today! That means the world to me! 🧡 I am extremely grateful for you! Thank you for sharing your experience! That sounds absolutely amazing!!!! I am quite jealous! but my heart feels so full to know that you were able to experience something so magical! 🧡✨💥 Thank you for the suggestion! i’m not 100% how to film and have the audio appear on the video while listening through headphones! fingers crossed we figure something out! 🧡🧡🧡🧡 I pray you have the most brilliant day! you deserve all the best on this world! 🧡🧡🧡🧡✨

[@CrystalMarieShannon]

hello!!!! my fantastic friend! 🩵 I hope you enjoy our newest video out today! sending you my love! kzbin.info/www/bejne/l3empYVso6Zqjq8si=4JoG2Ue3PX8IQVRB

[@nathansellers8454]

I do so much appreciate your analysis. Led Zeppelin, my favorite band, thank you for another amazing reaction ❤

[@CrystalMarieShannon]

I appreciate you with all my heart nathan! I hope you have had the greatest weekend possible and that you enjoy our newest video 🩵 this next one was extremely tough for me to do since I was feeling under the weather but I gave my absolute best effort to push through so I hope it’s still okay! 🩵 kzbin.info/www/bejne/l3empYVso6Zqjq8si=4JoG2Ue3PX8IQVRB

[@bradwilliams7198]

Thanks for the "Diminished" explanation--that makes sense and your playing examples illustrate it well! "When the Levee Breaks" is actually a cover version of a blues song from the early 20th century, describing a flood on the Mississippi River. There's a video of the original artists (Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy) performing it on KZbin. The original was played on an acoustic guitar and some of the lyrics were re-done by LZ.

[@nathansellers8454]

Thanks!

[@CrystalMarieShannon]

thank you oh so very dearly my kind and exquisite friend! sending you my love & wishes for the most excellent day 🧡

[@CrystalMarieShannon]

Nathan!!! 🩶 I am sending all my love your way 💌 and hoping you have had the most remarkable weekend! 🤍 We have a brand new video up for you and I hope with my entire heart that you enjoy it! kzbin.info/www/bejne/mGnHn6yuqZp9b5osi=yL5eMHUNsjvzIsyN

[@happymethehappyone8300]

One of the very best at lyrics & just plain beautiful music,, the truly legendary music icon,, Cat Stevens "Tea For The Tillerman" Album.

[@CrystalMarieShannon]

thank you for sharing this with me, my beautiful friend! 💛 i’m happy to let you know that is on our list to cover in the near future! ✨ I hope you are having the most delightful day and that you enjoy our most recent video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l3empYVso6Zqjq8si=gnomUSxLT9DM_HBn

[@happymethehappyone8300]

@@CrystalMarieShannon You are more than welcome my sweet & kind friend..May life always find you well & smiling 😃 ❤️

[@walterpanovs]

Nicely done, as always. The combination of your genuine appreciation and astute analysis of this classic album is endlessly heartwarming..

[@CrystalMarieShannon]

thank you Walter, my awesome friend 💛💛💛💛 I hope you are having the most brilliant day & that you enjoy our most recent upload : kzbin.info/www/bejne/l3empYVso6Zqjq8si=gnomUSxLT9DM_HBn

[@ronniecarter2645]

Great reaction. Thank you for doing their entire album. Enjoy your channel and charisma.

[@CrystalMarieShannon]

you are so kind and amaizng! 🩵 sending my love to you & hoping you have had the most magical sunday! I hope you enjoy our newest video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l3empYVso6Zqjq8si=4JoG2Ue3PX8IQVRB

[@mottahead6464]

First time I heard When the Levee Breaks I was just.... flabbergasted. How can such a sexy instrumental go along with such sad desperate lyrics? Was that an accident? Fully intentional? As in what? A perfect yin and yang balancing act? None of the questions - I feel like there's no hope for an answer. Yet this song stills takes me places. I think it will till the day that I die.

[@bernardsalvatore1929]

Hearing this always brings me back to my teenage years in the 1970s! Such a great time to be interested in music and listening to the music that was evolving and coming out at that time!! When you heard on the radio that a favorite band was releasing an album, you would hear a single, or two maybe, from that album but that would be the only thing that you had!! It wasn't like today where you could go on Spotify or whatever platform and get a sample of the entire album before you even buy it!! But you were always confident that the band you loved would not disappoint!! Using Led Zeppelin as our example, they released their first album in January of 1969 and released Houses of the Holy, which was their fifth album, in March of 1973!! So you basically had an album coming out every nine months!! It was the same for most of the popular bands in those days!! It was always fun to anticipate the next album!!

[@targetshootr]

Oh wow you're gonna have a lot of subs with your beauty and smarts. Give this album a listen with headphones sometime.

[@CrystalMarieShannon]

you are too kind! 💛 I hope you are having an astonishing day and that you enjoy our newest latest vid: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l3empYVso6Zqjq8si=gnomUSxLT9DM_HBn

[@paulm5288]

Fantastic reaction once again! Have you had a chance to check out 'Hey, Hey What Can I Do'? It's the B-Side to 'Immigrant Song' and isn't featured on any of their studio albums. You will need it to complete their amazing catalog.

[@CrystalMarieShannon]

Hey there my astounding friend!!!! 💛 thank you so very very much!! 💛💛 I appreciate you reminding me! 💛💛💛 we will have to get to it! I hope you are having a beautiful day and that you enjoy our most recent vid: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l3empYVso6Zqjq8si=gnomUSxLT9DM_HBn

[@BlueSky...]

Best rock album ever, IMO. So glad you enjoyed it so much.

[@CrystalMarieShannon]

Thank you my amazing friend 💛 i’m so glad to share this experience with you! 💛💛 I hope you are having the most astounding day and that you enjoy our latest video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l3empYVso6Zqjq8si=gnomUSxLT9DM_HBn

[@BlueSky...]

@@CrystalMarieShannon Thank you! I really enjoyed your GV video as well!

[@johncampbell756]

When the Levee Breaks has been slowed down a little. If you haven't heard it, my favorite album period is "Grace" by Jeff Buckley. I.also recommend "We Like It Here" by Snarky Pupoy, but I don't know if you can watch videos, and the videos are mandatory to understanding the musical insanity therein.

[@CrystalMarieShannon]

thank you so much for your thoughtful recommendations! I appreciate it very much!

[@glass2467]

The harmonica, played by Plant, is run through a guitar amp for a bit of distortion - which was very common in traditional blues once amps became available.

[@charliecochran3035]

In Levee Robert is playing rhe harmonica through a guitar amp. This is their best song, IMO, and its the harmonica thst steals the show. So ominous.

[@mikecaetano]

"Misty Mountain Hop" resolves to a seventh chord in the chorus, iirc. So the resoluation retains some twang, as it were. Dig the play with the beat pattern in the verses. It foreshadows the time signature play in "Four Sticks". "Going to California" is the calm before the storm of "When The Levee Breaks". The line about the girl "with love in her eyes and flowers, in her hair" evokes the Hippie movement that arose from the Summer of Love in San Francisco in 1967. The second and third verse of "Going to California" make more sense when taken as an ode to the earthquakes we have here in California. "The mountains and the canyons start to tremble and shake..." Yes, a levee like the levee you drive your Chevy too. 😃 And that is Robert Plant on harmonica. Dig how the shuffle in the bridge disrupts the hypnotic charge of the minor dirge that drives most of the song with some major chord carnage -- "Oh, don't it make you feel bad \ When you're trying to find your way home \ You don't know which way to go \ If you're going down south, they got no work to do \ If you're going north to Chicago\ Ah, ah, ah, hey" ... "When the Levee Breaks" was recorded by Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie in 1929.

[@456012]

Awesome reaction and breakdown as always! Can’t wait for you to do Blue by Joni Mitchell. You must do it!

[@CrystalMarieShannon]

Thank you for your incredible suggestion my fantastic friend! 💛 We will definitely get to it! I hope you enjoy our newest reaction and that you have the most spectacular day: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l3empYVso6Zqjq8si=0ktSoT-XHGjvgZaB

[@thunderbolt2145]

Welcome to the wonderful world of Led Zeppelin. They're timeless

[@verginithe]

I like @ 10:12 Levee made you twitch, got down into your soul

[@CrystalMarieShannon]

haha you are spot on my brilliant friend! that moment is just too good not to be fully felt right down to the very core! 💛 I hope you are having a fabulous day and that you enjoy our newest reaction: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l3empYVso6Zqjq8si=gnomUSxLT9DM_HBn

[@iambecomepaul]

Spoiler alert: there is no California. There’s just looking up trying to figure out a way.

[@CrystalMarieShannon]

🧡 that is so beautiful and profound!!!! thank you paul 🧡💥

[@9999bigb]

Yeah it's California as an idea. As a romantic ending place. Which is what millions of people used to think about it, like it was more than a "place" but a state of mind and being. Great way to say it so succinctly.

[@iambecomepaul]

@@9999bigb Thanks! It’s fun how you mentioned, “ending place” because I was telling Crystal (on the side one video) this was the song going through my head when I was at MY “ending place” in ICU. But I’m still here. Roughed it out. It’s “not as hard, hard, hard as it seems.” 😀

[@9999bigb]

@iambecomepaul bless you, Paul. I'm glad you made it through, mate. And I'm glad our minds met at the same place. That's a great, and rare thing!

[@CrystalMarieShannon]

@@9999bigb that is quite extraordinary 💜

[@olli__]

john bonham played four sticks with 4 drumsticks, hence the name four sticks!😁

[@CrystalMarieShannon]

that is just so beyond cool!!!! 💛

[@sonnypeek6418]

There's a crazy distortion thing that happens when you play harmonica forcefully directly against an old school microphone. Little Walter Jacobs Discovered it I think ... you should give hom a listen (if not a video)

[@ihateusernames96]

Are you not showing entire song bc of copyright fear?

[@fewwiggle]

From you, it's only sweet, sweet Irish/Scottish even when it's not . . . :-)

[@CrystalMarieShannon]

jajaja! I appreciate that 🩵 my love to you!

[@vangannaway1015]

Levee Breaks guitar technique is slide guitar played on a cheap Sears Danelectro guitar no. self respecting pro would play because the cheap pickups couldn't handle it a broke up and crackled. Brilliant.

[@dbclassic8733]

There's a reason it's sold 37 million albums

[@LordEagle]

Is Bonham playing Four Sticks,,,,with,,,,,4 sticks???? 💥💥💥💥🤪

[@bowtiefidenine]

1927 Mississippi flood

[@ihateusernames96]

Or just to save time

[@phila3884]

Haha, it's a harmonica. Robert Plant would've been known as a virtuoso harmonica player, except for the fact that he could sing like a viking god.

[@James_Loveless]

PLEASE Don't take months in-between to do each album As you'd be better continuing the Led Zeppelin album journey as then you'd realize why many/most consider Led Zeppelin the Greatest Band ever...