Led Zeppelin- When the Levee Breaks Reaction

[@ScribeCash]

Apparently this song was a cover and wasn’t an innuendo at all #ScribeScribe lol hey I told y’all I was new to Rock n roll , either way still loved the song and I look forward to learning and listening to more Led Zeppelin

[@teresaboone7298]

It's ok doll. We all learned it's meaning at one point or another and today was yours.🙂

[@peterbartolomeo5542]

Your listening to the GREATEST rock blues band ...Ever. Greatest drummer bass player guitarist lead singer. No one comes close. Play old live versions. 69 -73 best stuff

[@TRUMP-2024-STF]

ScribeCash lol.

[@gritz-blitz5364]

Zepplin --- stair way to heaven There biggest song ever

[@chrisd7047]

Heh. With Zeppelin, thinking there's an innuendo is always a fair take. "Squeeze my lemon till the juice runs down my leg" earns them that particular side-eye.

[@mrfrosty3]

Post war Britain produced amazing musicians and artists. When these folks were kids on their way to school there were still bombed out buildings in many cities. Young Brits couldn't get enough of anything American, spending time in record shops looking for blues recordings. Going to America was a big dream for youth back then. Bands like Led Zeppelin introduced many Americans to the music of their fellow countrymen.

[@jeffkemper7920]

The most ass-kicking live band ever! Giving away my age, saw them in 1972 in San Diego. They played for an hour and a half took a 15 minute break, then played for another hour and a half. EPIC!!! There will never be anyone close.

[@khs1656]

Seen a few videos of younger people listening to classic rock songs, I just love the looks on their faces and how they groove to the tunes. Us old fuckers had top shelf music in our youth.

[@mrgone658]

Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, thundered a drum kit like John Bonham!

[@georgeshotzbarger3955]

While set up in the main stairwell of an old mansion, no less!

[@davidbonham7512]

The best EVER

[@MrChuckwagon55]

His drumming was also recorded through several filters which gave it that thundering, powerful echo.

[@MrChuckwagon55]

Thomas Taylor - He did that sometimes early in career, but usually played them standard. Neil Peart played them backwards. Bonham was also 6’2 240 pounds of mass smashing those drums so it really didn’t matter.

[@philosopher0076]

MrChuckwagon55. Bonham was barely 5'10. Barely.

[@weltonreds]

Led Zep will never be surpassed for the remainder of time.

[@20th_century_Ghost]

I grew up with a love for Zeppelin, and now, watching the world change in my 40's I cherish their music more than ever.

[@midkingsteve]

::literally the only time Robert Plant isn't singing about sex:: 😆😆

[@juliemanarin4127]

😂 not true

[@midkingsteve]

@@juliemanarin4127 I know I know but it's funny. But forreal she had me going, okay if anyone would be using this flood song also as an innuendo it'd be him lol

[@veganapiranha7365]

Funny comment, he did a lot of sexual innuendo- this just isn't one of them.

[@raymcarthur3870]

So true😀

[@PeterTea]

Except he says he’s “going down now” 😂

[@centuryrox]

Hear that great drum beat? It was recorded at the bottom of a stairway in a mansion (Headley Grange), with the microphone suspended 2 floor above the drum set. The magnificent musicianship from the mind of the greatest drummer of all time, John Bonham, also known as Hammer of the Gods.

[@michaelwhitton8226]

Best rock band ever.

[@LiberalsArePoop]

Definitely top 5 with probably Sabbath and Pink Floyd in there as well.

[@jonk9154]

I agree. Zeppelin was the best.

[@tomantush4867]

Best cover band ever.

[@GTLyons]

after listening 60 plus years of rock I agree with you 100%!

[@spacemunky53]

No the rolling stones better then early genesis then the who then the jam

[@Chockner]

Nobody blames you for thinking the lyrics of a Led Zeppelin song are a sexual metaphor because... well, Zeppelin.

[@randycrocker9459]

True words, as Jack Black said when he was MC for Zeppelin's introduction to the Kennedy Center , " they sang about making love, they sang about Vikings, they sang about making love to Vikings". As you said, "Zeppelin ", but damn they did it way better than good....

[@randycrocker9459]

That's induction, spell check got me again, sorry about that, my fault for not proof reading before pressing the arrow

[@donaldandbecki]

indeed!

[@homeone4054]

No squeezing lemons round 'ere!

[@harpoon9996]

It's not a Zep origonal...written by a black artisr.

[@juliemanarin4127]

They are the best! Try Ramble On and The Battle Of Evermore! Please continue to do Zeppelin! Gotta love em!

[@denisenjim284]

Battle of Evermore really shows Zep's Celtic vibe!

[@TheMusicmaester]

Oh yes!!

[@Rockin_Roll]

Misty Mountain Hop

[@paulharrison6490]

The Battle of Evermore...good call Julie.🙂

[@TheCornishCockney]

saw them for the first time in '69 when they toured their debut album at The Rainbow,London and I've been a Zeppelin nutcase ever since.

[@scottcrosby-art5490]

It’s actually a very old blues song about actual floods 😂

[@CrociatoAzzurro]

@@rkernell Doesn't Mother Nature affect people of all shades?

[@rkernell]

@@CrociatoAzzurro Not in this case. Read about this flood and you will see why...

[@rkernell]

@ReetaR You really need to read what happened if you are to understand the reason that there is such a distance between white and black people in that area.

[@rkernell]

@ReetaR You may feel that it is not necessary but most black people would disagree with you...

[@rkernell]

@ReetaR So only black people can state the fact that whites have done terrible things? I think that your aversion to my statement shows a need to repudiate or ignore the facts of American history. Feeling a little guilty?

[@7475bluesman]

Another great reaction. Thanks for posting more Zepplien. You've got magnetic personality for miles...keep rocking....

[@RobertWorthLexus300]

IF you are a fan of Zeppelin...spell their name right.

[@JKM395]

Blues rock has never been done so well as Zep did it. Every album is pure gold.

[@juliemanarin4127]

Yep...amazing!

[@peterbartolomeo5542]

AMEN

[@nursemarn]

You can def hear the blues in many of Zep’s music. I’ve been crazy about them since I was about 6-7. My father may have been a hippie but I’ve been listening to blues and rock since the crib. Apparently a would freak out to Hendrix dancing in my playpen when I was 1

[@JKM395]

@@nursemarn I've got three natural kids, and all of them heard Zep in the crib. I'm very open minded about music, but there are classics that kids need to hear.

[@randycrocker9459]

True words have never been spoken, the wrestler, Randy "Macho Man" Savage put it as well as I've ever heard or read, "those guys were just on another level". Yes, they damn sure were..... Like that movie Jack Nicholson was in, "As Good As It Gets"

[@alanfriesen9837]

I like this girl. She reminds me of the stoners I hung out with in high school, a little headbanger in the making.

[@davebriggs2919]

Tf

[@veganapiranha7365]

This song is actually about a flood. They gave songwriting credits to Memphis Minnie for the original track, and the made it their own rather than an easy copy. The did some great blues covers, check out "I Can't Quit You Babe".

[@fadjdarwish6581]

The greatest band ever led zeppelin the master's of rock and roll

[@gchristyer]

Zep....rock n roll .......

[@97warlock]

jOHN bONHAM - The First to bring Power Groove into rock music. Swagger & style in his playing, all about that Groove

[@bryanburton6087]

Wanna' stay heavy? "In My Time of Dying" "You Shook Me" "Heartbreaker" Wanna' get slow? "Gallows Pole" "Going to California" "Thank You" Wanna' get weird? "Hot Dog" "Hats Off to Roy Harper" "Boogie With Stu" Just stay in this rabbit hole. You've barely even descended a foot yet. Miles to go before you sleep. Loved how you jammed to Levee. It's one of my go to songs when I'm feeling the need to sweat. That beat is relentless. John "Bonzo" Bonham is justifiably considered one of the greatest drummers to ever have lived. Peace, Love and Rock and Roll

[@centuryrox]

Wanna get sexual? "The Lemon Song", "Trampled Under Foot"

[@rdhudon7469]

"When the Levee Breaks" is a country blues song written and first recorded by Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie in 1929

[@justindavies7317]

zep did it better lol

[@dongogerty3766]

that intro hits harder than my father.

[@oscarwilde6649]

"I'm Gonna Crawl", the album finisher from their last album together. One of my all-time LZ faves.

[@bhasley5224]

Super cool!

[@libraryfiles4470]

Led Zeppelin broke your levee

[@pattyfree2970]

Thanks for the react. It was really good. You have a really great quality that may be undefinable. Its easy to like you. You seem genuine and have fun listening to some new shit. Also that intro music is pretty legit. If thats you than keep doing what your doing. Thanks again!!

[@anitapaulus937]

I think Memphis Minnie wrote this song in the 1920’s.

[@TheCornishCockney]

where was she from?

[@anitapaulus937]

Cockney Red My best guess would be Mississippi, because the floods were in Mississippi. Or maybe Memphis???

[@TheCornishCockney]

@@anitapaulus937 I was being sarcastic and i apologise for that.Memphis it is.

[@anitapaulus937]

Cockney Red, oh I figured

[@palermotrapani9067]

@@anitapaulus937 1927 floods, impacted delta in MS, AR, and LA all the way down South of New Orleans.

[@gritz-blitz5364]

Love these young ears introduced to classic rock n roll great job

[@nadanada5698]

Dirtybird Smith - She wii never ever go back to that Rap (CRAP) again 👍🏽 👍🏽 👍🏽 👍🏽

[@gritz-blitz5364]

@@nadanada5698 I think shes seen the light

[@nadanada5698]

Dirtybird Smith - i hope so 😊 for such a sweetheart she sure is open minded 😊 and a Beautiful Young Woman 🥰

[@nadanada5698]

Leon Anderson - Finally A Brother That Understands ✊🏾

[@GTLyons]

best thing I found during the lock down...

[@steveezell9722]

This song will be played at my funeral

[@TheSaiyanRace]

How Many More Times, You Shook Me and Since I've Been Loving You should be on your Zeppelin reaction to do list!! So happy you are reacting to Zeppelin!! Welcome to the Rabbit Hole!

[@lawoftheuniverse8089]

I just love this Girl...!!!! You truly do Rock ScribeCash...!!!

[@micko11154]

Originally performed by Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie in 1929. The song is about the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. A huge portion of the delta area was devastated people were rendered homeless and jobless, this resulted in an exodus from the south to places like Chicago in search of work.

[@EJ-tm1fe]

SC, if you are ready to Rock AND Roll (and you said it 3 times, so you can't deny it!) then you have to LISTEN and react to Led Zeppelin's "Rock And Roll" - at least before you climb out of this deep 'Zeppelin rabbit hole...

[@Scoobydcs]

this is 1 of the rare zep tracks that ISNT innuendo lol. its a cover of a blues track from the late 20s about the flood that ravaged the area

[@johnd4567]

One the most sampled drum hooks.....nobody swings like bonham

[@glennclarke4239]

The original When the Levee Breaks was done in 1929 by Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie and it was referring to the 1927 flood of the MIssissippi River.

[@Rob-fw1dv]

Dam girl !! Love that you are digging Zeppelin. please. Do more ! 🤟🇨🇦

[@williamsherman1089]

I always hit the like button before she starts the song (I've heard all these songs about a million times)

[@shannonpace9433]

Mississippi blues in the hands of Gods!

[@LordtwigPI]

I subscribed 30 seconds in. You are refreshing to watch and made me shoot soda out of my nose at one point, lol.

[@nunyabeeswax3936]

The levees did break in the early 1900's during Mississippi flooding... song was written.....this was an interesting and fabulous re- do....=)

[@silvanorossi6416]

That harmonica is smokin and Bonzo smashing those buckets

[@rutssy]

Ready for more Led Zeppelin! Thanks for listening to your viewers!!!

[@tanyaweathersby9393]

❤Robert❤❤❤

[@thomasd6470]

You bobbed your head the whole time...which is exactly what you're supposed to do while listening to this song.

[@AndyIsleman]

FYI The drumbeat is NOT a natrual echo recorded in some fancy manor hallway with microphones placed up the stairs. Its a Binson Echorec.

[@florymha]

Your reactions are Fire!!! keep up the good work

[@shawnlovering1841]

I watched... I enjoyed... Thank you.

[@amorodioamor4388]

Have you done the Lemon Song. It is a song about the many uses and versatility of the Lemon.

[@charliecochran3035]

I think this is their best song. It's such a wall of brilliantly orchestrated sound. The harmonica steals the show though.

[@smulkeysmulver]

Its an old delta blues track that they re-worked. The drum sound comes from setting the kit up at the base of the 3 story stairwelll....purely by chance - got that perfect reverb sound as a rsulut.

[@smulkeysmulver]

Having said that their compressed os fuck, extra reverb added and a you can the here the chorus processor heavy on on the cymbals. Still magical though very engineered and knew exactly what they were doing

[@johnnyd63]

Flirting with the top dog ain't the same as doing him. Zeppelin has the best catalog in rock. I highly recommend checking it out.

[@randycrocker9459]

Like your style in that statement, that's what makes a writer's work something that one looks forward to reading and then doesn't want to put it down.

[@jon590]

One of my favorite Zeppelin song! Great reaction!

[@Gr8erh8er]

Your face says it all!!!! Perfection!!!

[@PressRecord777]

Wasn't there, but when Katrina was thrashing Norleans, I couldn't get this song out of my head. As bad as the news had been reporting that the winds and rain were, somehow I knew it was going to get a whole lot worse. And it did.

[@jessicas6586]

I love watching younger generations LISTENING to our music from the day. WE WERE VERY LUCKY. We just didn't know it. WERE JUST HAVING THE TIME OF OUR LIVES GOING TO CONCERT AFTER CONCERT. I MISS THOSE DAY'S. And pay attention to the lyrics. SERIOUSLY profits. Sound FAMILIAR. The levy's broke because of the hurricane in new Orleans. CREEPY. This song describes what happened. Freaks me out sometimes. Crazy

[@jameshance64]

your so lucky to get to discover all this great music, I have been listening to it since it was new and still love it. Wish I could relive the first time I heard it.

[@nicebluejay]

wow they collape things from mono to stereo and back again at the end starting at 9:10, never noticed that. whoa

[@Igor-ug1uo]

Definitely one of my favorite Led Zeppelin song. I'm glad you enjoyed it. 😁

[@alioueidat6908]

I tell you what "you shook me" is the one you should be listening to its really psychotic and music in the guitar solo is like a big firework

[@michaelgreen9792]

Loved your reaction, Keep reacting to that album like Stairway to heaven.. Bebe I'm gonna leave you '

[@Frankincensedjb123]

If you could actually hear the harmonic (too buried in the mix here), it would blow you away. It's some of the best playing ever. Always felt Plant should have used it on more songs. Epic.

[@JamesWilson-vr3ql]

Yeah, Bobby and Oz both blow a pretty mean harp. Don't hear either often enough.

[@glenntjornhom4501]

When the levee breaks is a cover, with Led Zeppelin flair, writen in the 1920'S as a blues song.

[@blackbird5634]

"When the levee breaks" -it's all about tha love!

[@rustyaxelrod]

I like to see young folks finding out about our (70’s kids) music. It ain’t all good but there is a hella lot of good stuff from back in the day.

[@MrUndersolo]

Some of the best bottleneck slide ever recorded on the electric guitar, on top of that incredible drumming and harmonica accompaniment...

[@carcarjinks1430]

i LOVE watching you move to the music. i don't have a dancing bone in my body, but it's always fun to watch people who do!

[@morthnadic1]

New subscriber here @ScribeCash . I have related this song to my own relationship with my ex wife (14 years)... "If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' a break". But the song is actually based upon a real historic event... The Great Mississippi Flood from the 1920's... if my memory serves me correctly. I watched most of your Zeppelin videos last night, then before I got into your Pink Floyd reactions tonight, I went back to the beginning of your videos on this channel and watched #4 of your own videos... and I got to say that I was very impressed. You go girl!! Great material! I love 💕 your work! I will share it with my 4 daughters (ages 26, 29 and 32twins). I am a 59 y/o drummer and have played in front of 2000 people, but mostly around 500. I also mix live bands on my own top of the line JBL/QSC system. Could you react to "In My Time of Dying" by Zeppelin? Thank you! 🤘😎 💕

[@donalmulvey8743]

The beT is so pwerful, cause it was recorded in the hallway in Headly Grange House. It was 3 stories high, and was only meant to be a practice space.

[@donalmulvey8743]

*beat

[@donalmulvey8743]

You are so pretty…my word

[@michaelthomas8592]

The HARMONICA is brilliant!

[@marauder7538]

From Wikipedia: When blues musical duo Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie wrote "When the Levee Breaks", the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was still fresh in people's memories.[2] The flooding affected 26,000 square miles of the Mississippi Delta - hundreds were killed and hundreds of thousands of residents were forced to evacuate.[3] The event is the subject of several blues songs, the most popular being "Backwater Blues" by Bessie Smith (1927) and "Mississippi Heavy Water Blues" by Barbecue Bob (1928).[4] Ethel Douglas, Minnie's sister-in-law, recalled that Minnie was living with her family near Walls, Mississippi, when the levee broke in 1927.[2] The song's lyrics recount the personal toll on a man who lost his home and family. Despite the tragedy, biographers also see in it a statement of rebirth. The original recorded version has nothing in common with the Zeppelin version except the lyrics, but it was a good song. Zeppelin made it GREAT!

[@myownchannel247]

you wanna hear a song of theirs about sexual innuendo react to the Lemon Song!

[@myownchannel247]

you definitely won't forget this one

[@rachelbenson4701]

Lemon song also has lyrics taken from old blues song, squeeze my lemon section taken from Robert Johnson

[@johnroberts7018]

@@rachelbenson4701 OMG mind out of the gutter pls. Robert Johnson once worked at a fresh lemonade bar in Mississippi. That part is about his job only.

[@roberthutchison2749]

This song was originally written in 1926...Zeppelin gave it Life

[@JAMESMOORE-gq4vv]

Hi SC, also, Robert Plant has a solo career, he also did an album in the 80's with the Honeydrippers, covers of vintage songs, nice.

[@winstonbrown1516]

That face! Ha haaa, rock on, you Rock chick you! Thing is, when speaking at the beginning you sound, not like a Rap artist, but a real Rock singer!

[@StonefieldJim4]

2 minutes in and I'm already smitten. Love and peace from Staffordshire, England. ✌️ ❤️

[@chrisdarkly]

This is a remake of an old blues song written close to 100 years ago about a time when the levees along the Mississippi river broke and left people homeless. Led Zeppelin was HEAVILY influenced by American blues music.

[@raymcarthur3870]

Here they go again, they have some many Great songs. They are the best Ever. If your Head wasn't bobbin you probably have a broke Neck! I love your reactions and Damn you can Sang.

[@richardkersey4960]

Robert Plant and John Bonham both were talented with the Harmonica I don't know about the studio but, they both play Live. They grew up together so I imagine some hours were wild away playing the Harp.

[@robertmysliwski7881]

This is a song about the great Mississippi flood of the 1920's.

[@ronmerchant3934]

One of the first albums I bought in the 70's as a teenager was Led Zep II

[@zoniekat]

I guess Robert Plant can make a song about a flood sound sexy. Lol! That was cute. Hey, sometimes it seems like that's all he sings about. Good reaction. 🎸🎸🎸🎶🎶

[@robertquinting9701]

If the water level gets too high, the pressure will break through the Levee and the city will flood! Something that happened in southern Louisiana many times. You mentioned it is a sexual innuendo -You are correct!

[@mikefeeney9828]

I saw that sneeze...bless you😊

[@xmanual]

Damn you, you're making me like Zep! LOL Two suggestions: "Kashmir" and "Hots on for Nowhere".

[@kevinwaters5872]

Kansas Bob and Memphis Minnie wrote this about a natural disaster in the 1920’s. “Prayer won’t help , cryin’ won’t do you no good.”

[@mrichards6795]

I would recommend Stairway to Heaven, from the same album. That song is genius! Nice reaction!

[@kesleycottrell1416]

The mighty Led Zep is a.wonderful blues based rock band. If you check it out they redid a lot of songs that came from the Mississippi Delta a very long time ago. If you want to check out where it all came from look up Leadbelly, Son House and the greatest Robert Johnson. That would be a good start.

[@stephenpatterson8031]

Great job love it! 🤙

[@IZZY_EDIBLE]

I've been listening to this song for almost 40 years, and innuendo never occurred to me. But you make some sense. About the end: "Goin' down, goin' down now. . ." You can count just how many times he repeats that line - so before he heads to Chicago, he's GIVIN' HEAD. Like, for an extended amount of time. Like, baby, I'm good - now it's time to make YOUR levee break. Y'know?

[@davidpost428]

Great to watch someone feel this music - how can it not rock you ?

[@TexasMagnolia]

Now that your on the Zeppelin train...you have to discover the badass women of Rock! Sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson and their band Heart. Check out their tribute to Led Zeppelin- Stairway to Heaven...will blow you away. Also, check out their hits (live is best): Crazy on You; Magic Man; Alone; Straight on for You. Thank you.

[@lisadickson190]

First heard them when I was about 12 and now I'm 58. Definitely the best rock band ever in my opinion!

[@tric5122]

any rock based this deeply in the blues tradition is going tobe amazing, but Led just took it to another level.

[@paullasko8911]

You rock Lady! Great reaction to a great song by the mighty zep! Pink Floyd suggestion song called Time will blow you away seriously! Keep on Rocking! Thanks. 🎸😎

[@Snlad90]

Yeahh !! I like this Girl!!!🤘🤘🤘

[@mikefeeney9828]

Crying won't help ya...praying won't do you no good.......badass song

[@BeigeHolland]

People who are hearing Led Zeppelin for the first time are lucky. Back then the bass could not be heard except in concert. Our speakers and ear phones couldn't handle true bass. they would rattle and vibrate so badly. When the industry figured out good speakers and earphones, many musicians from back then went back into the studios to remaster their tapes and fix that true bass so you could hear it on your car stereo and other speakers. Jimmy Page spent a lot of time remastering all their songs so on the record you could hear true bass. On this particular song, they really wanted to hear the drums louder than they usually could do on a record. They were in a small studio that looked more like a Livingroom in someone's house. They couldn't get the sound right, the drums up, so they crammed John Bonham (the drummer) at the base of the staircase in that room with all his drums. They hung microphones directly over his drums and turned it as loud as they could to capture the exceptional drumming on this particular song. They had to use what they had back then. But now you guys. and us who heard it back then, get to hear the song as it was intended to be heard.

[@davesacc5174]

Any song on Zeppelin albums 1 through 5 would be great. A reaction to every song would be best but any would do.