My Girlfriend And I React To Led Zeppelin - Gallows Pole!!!

[@glenpound9353]

There is Led Zeppelin, then every other band.

[@terryross1032]

I saw Zepp when I was 15, in London, I am now 65.

[@henriettaskolnick4445]

Great to see you, Olivia! I love this song. The story is a man about to be hung hoping to bribe the hangman to let him go. His friends are too poor, his brother brings silver and gold, and his sister tries trading sex for the hangman's mercy only to be told afterward by the hangman that he thanks them but "now I laugh and pull so hard to see you swinging from the gallows pole" while the song begins swirling as the instruments speed up. You can hear the other three all laughing as they sing "Ah ha ha ha". It's a bit of a macabre song but I like that sort of thing lol. As J Mar said, Jimmy picked up a banjo and sussed out the part that was added. The banjo was John Paul Jones' (Jones is a multi-instrumentalist) and Jimmy even traded Jonesy a guitar for it. Several years later they would trade back to mutual relief. This is an example of British folk and if you think it might sound a little southern, Bluegrass-like, that's because settlers from the UK came to the American south and brought their music with. If you've never heard Bluegrass, maybe give it a try; it often employs mandolin and banjo, as you heard here and it's often quite bouncy while still retaining a hint of ancient Celtic mystery (in my opinion).

[@may_it_please_the_court]

Wow, insanely good feeling listening to this song. Great story and makes me want to let my hair loose and air guitar with Led Zeppelin.

[@Alan-lt6us]

love how good musicians can build a song by adding layer after layer as the song builds to its finale

[@jmar7631]

Page played banjo, six and 12 string acoustic guitar and electric guitar. Jones played mandolin and bass, and Plant wrote the lyrics. Page said in an interview that he had never played a banjo before stating, "I just picked it up and started moving my fingers around until the chords sounded right, which is the same way I work on compositions when the guitar's in different tunings", and the arrangement of the song emerged from that. The song was inspired by an old English folk tune called, "The Maid Freed From The Gallows". Page also said it's his favorite song on the album. It really is wonderful and I'm glad you two liked it. And it's great to see Olivia again! :) Edit: So happy you're enjoying album 3. Wasn't sure you would. ;)

[@juliemanarin4127]

And he played Mandolin for the first time for Battle Of Evermore!

[@joelhaaland2639]

The song was actually traced back to Iceland in the 15 or 1600's

[@jenniferandrews1917]

“Hi Olivia!” Here’s the thing with Zepplin… you never know what kind of sound you’re going to get with each song. That’s the beautiful thing called diversity.

[@williamcabell142]

That’s the beauty! The GOATS!

[@danreed5171]

Diversity is not the appropiate word, it refers to difference....... Multi faceted.....In the groove is more like it...and highly skilled musicians with a plethera of styles and techniques........

[@1j007zm]

Great reaction!, your girlfriend's adorable!. 🙂 Keep in the order your going, that way your experiencing Led Zeppelin the way many of us grew with them, back in the day. Like I said before, it only gets better!. Thanks! Peace! ☮

[@toddk2737]

Love this song since I learned the lyrics.

[@PeterTea]

This song does speed up as it goes. Just like another song on their next album, Stairway to Heaven. Even the drums come in down the line in both songs. They were really at their creative zenith during this time. It's a great tune. And this is based off a song that goes back hundreds of years I believe.

[@Dan-zq5wt]

Zeppelin practically invented - certainly perfected - the “light and shade” texturing and composing in rock. Building layers of guitars and instruments, juxtaposing heavy but crisp Bonham drums, explosive and surprising moments building momentum to a climax, playing with tempo, Plant’s vocal range all add up to a song that sounds timeless. The way Bonham comes in is sublime - did anyone ever strike a snare drum with so much power and precision? Definitely a precursor to Stairway. My favorite band of all time, and Page is my favorite musician (not just guitarist). Good job, guys!

[@tektoniks_architects]

Great to see the dynamic duo back! Page and Plant did great live versions of this in the mid/late 1990's on their tours.

[@happilyeggs4627]

Gallow's Pole is based around an old English folk song from the 1700s. Before Zeppelin recorded it, I can remember learning it in music class. I always wondered if Page learnt it at school (we are almost contemporaries) (I'm an old git). Back in the 40s this was also recorded by Leadbelly (Huddy Leadbetter) under a slightly different title, "Gallis Pole". This was due to the recording engineer mishearing the title. I believe he in turn learnt it from Woody Guthrie.

[@hog7203]

It's hard to pick a favorite Zep song, but this is on my top ten list. Love the way Plant let's it rip on the vocals. And it's not one of their tunes that has been played to death. Glad to see young folks enjoying this amazing band.

[@hamnhock]

I bought this album when I was 13 yrs old. I was blown away by this band, so amazing!

[@gedwhittaker874]

Me too!

[@mikebunner3498]

"O" Great to have you back. When I look at you, I think you would have fit right in back in the 60's - 70's. Robert shows his voice off on this song. They ALL are masters of their craft. There is an acoustic version of this you all would love. It even has a hurdy gurdy in it. Keep in mind that Robert and Jimmy have much time in the studio and working with a mixing board. They have taken many traditional songs and converted them to rock.

[@franklinzappa7043]

I saw Page/ Plant 2x in 1996 and 1997 in Colorado USA and they Absolutely Shredded it both times. This song kinda Epitomizes their shows. Great Musicians 🎸🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼

[@TheMikelleh]

The mighty Zep are the kings of the ‘Build Song’……just like Stairway. Once again, they sat out the greatest drummer ever for half the song.

[@ianwarnes6197]

First heard this when i was 20y old 😁.. 72y old now and still listening 😁

[@monjiaitaly]

and the story being told in the song, you can feel the urgency and the quickening of the pace which he is begging for help not to die by hanging.

[@renewillner5061]

You two are adorable.. lovelovelove ❤️✌🏻🌸

[@mattbailey9396]

Two thumbs up! Love the folksy storyline and sounds! 💥

[@bishlap]

Alivia has a great ear, she's really tuned into the songs w/out ever hearing them previously.

[@The-Saxon]

This has been one of my favourite songs from Led Zeppelin ever since I first heard it when it came out when I as around 12 years old.

[@MapManLK]

My favorite song from the 1970 album. . .when I was 20. (Still have the vinyl album.) Been enjoying your Zeppelin trip for a while now. Good fun for me to watch!

[@FarAwayEyes69]

Olivia you’ ROCK ! You guys are listening to the greatest rock band EVER ! PEACE ☮️

[@charlesstoeckle4880]

This is a song that is centuries old

[@kevinbrady6075]

Right Charles olde English tune,...

[@billthompson4197]

Love seeing you kids liking the music I grew up on! So FUN to see!

[@neilmcdonald9164]

Occasionally live they would combine it with my favourite "Physical Graffiti" track "Trampled Underfoot" as :Trampled under Gallows"...no,really 🎩

[@Scoobydcs]

this middle section of sibly, out on the tiles and gallows pole is simply sublime!

[@williamcabell142]

This is an old West tale about a bandit that is to hanged! 😎 The GOATS!

[@johngolden5257]

John Bonham’s crushing entrance on drums makes this song for me.

[@DrummerJay74]

I watch quite a few reaction channels and I just wanted to say that I get really good vibes from you guys. You really seem to listen and enjoy the music and I appreciate that.

[@mattjohn4731]

I love folk and rock. This song is a beautiful combination of the two. And it was written in early 20th century when the states hung their condemned prisoners. So it's another Zeppelin song with lyrics of bygone days

[@ibrahimfarooq2224]

I like your review channel, for a olde like me it's very refreshing to see Young people really enjoying good music and appreciate it keep it up 😎

[@franrichards5131]

Just Subscribed.. Love watching you enjoy the music 🎶 I grew up on.Led Zeppelin has always been my therapy lol😁✌️💜

[@marymargaretmoore9034]

Jimmy Page played banjo (as well as guitar) on this track; never had played it before.

[@t0dd000]

This song is ... So. Damn. Good!

[@jonathanlocke6404]

The band likely knew this song from the version called "The Gallis Pole" recorded by legendary singer Lead Belly in 1939, though I expect other versions were often performed by folk artists, or people busking on the street, that they might have heard.

[@cletusbeauregard1972]

This song is ancient

[@quentinmichel7581]

"Sounds kinda....nostalgic" 😀 My dear...this IS nostalgia...it was released in 1970 when I was 17. Which I guess make ME nostalgia as well. 😏

[@brianshockledge3241]

An old English folk song and my favourite on the album.

[@bernardsalvatore1929]

Olivia again very good perception with the nostalgic feel that you mentioned!! If I'm not mistaken this is a led Zeppelin cover of a very old tune from the early 1900s I believe or maybe even the 1800s!!

[@daveheesen9174]

little earlier...French Revolution, i think

[@steveallmon8900]

All zeppelin kicks ass

[@daseguin]

You two are a great match ❤️ Alivia needs to start pursuing the reactions herself.... as she has some serious insight into what's goin' on. Don't lose her, brother. She's the bomb. ❤️

[@davidpatterson2178]

Best rock band.

[@juliemanarin4127]

Aren't they amazing? Each album gets better! Hi gf!

[@VIDSTORAGE]

It is hard to say what my fav song is on Lz3 because it is my fav go to album when I am in the mood for the mix it has .Side 2 is very mesmerizing in a large way ,if I can pick just 1 word for that ,,yea that is it.. and I could see that from 1st listeners

[@scottzappa9314]

Well, it feels nostalgic to me but that's because I've been listening to it for about 50 years, LOL. But I see what you mean, if I try to listen to it with fresh ears. Yes you're girlfriend is great. Another chapter from the book of Zeppelin.

[@johnshatzko4153]

I suggest NOT pausing the song. Listen to the entire song ...then comment!!

[@lookmanohands1966]

You two are seriously listening and THAT is where Zep shines. Keep going. And dude, any girl hearing like she's hearing this stuff? Stick with that one if she'll have you man. Keep on exploring Zep, check out live versions of 'How the West Was Won' cd. High quality sound and premium live recordings. Best live stuff for my money. Fan since I was 10 in 1976.

[@williamcabell142]

Olivia it’s all Good....the are after all the GOATS!

[@Bill_Jones.]

Olivia does wonderfully on the technical side of the reviews and needs to be included in the future.

[@stevedahlberg8680]

Wow, I totally forgot how fucking cool this is. Everything about it. I've been a musician for several decades now since I heard this stuff as a kid and my appreciation for it now after all these years is an order of magnitude greater. It's just phenomenal, I knew they were always good when I was young but now I appreciate how good they really were. And I've been in a lot of really good bands that I loved how tight we were and how creative we were and I hear all of that energy and fun and emotion and passion and creativity in just about every one of their songs I listen to. But what's nice about this third album is I haven't heard it as much. I bought it and listened to it sometimes but not nearly as much as the others. So now it is this incredibly fertile ground to experience stuff that I have not heard on the radio over and over but I used to hear a long time ago. It's fantastic. I love the idea of you working through all their albums. It's doable because they really only have about eight, some people would include Coda I suppose. And that's a good album too. But for me it's right up through when Bonzo died and that's it.

[@mauricestevenson5740]

I thought this snippet of information might be interesting in this context. It is a transcription of an excerpt from the liner notes on the cover of the 1969 12 inch black vinyl record "Led Zeppelin" which I purchased in 1975. It was the first record I bought after buying my first stereo. “Robert Plant’s voice is so powerful that when the speakers broke down during our first date in Sweden, you could still hear his voice at the back of the auditorium over the entire group.” I have searched exhaustively throughout the data available on the internet to find some - any - corroboration of this story but no dice. Thank goodness for hard copy, eh?

[@jamesgibbens3015]

Hi,Olivia you're in for a treat. Enjoy your trip down the rabbit hole. 🐇

[@bowtiefidenine]

Welcome to the Led Zeppelin Club 😮

[@lindakessler8768]

Love that you're going from one album to the next. We're LZ family!! 👍❤🤙

[@danjohnson2986]

Good react. Good song. The lyrics are thought provoking. Desperate times call for desperate measures.

[@danreed5171]

U2 are pretty chill....................and I love ur name Olivia

[@TheCondomconnor]

You are listening to rock history, kids. Good luck with your channel- hope you make lots of friends- you're coming over real nice.

[@chriscody2778]

That's a song by an old blues artist called Leadbelly ❤️He was brilliant 🪕

[@charlesstoeckle4880]

You have to show your girlfriend Since I’ve been loving you live from Song Remains the same

[@zosometalgod]

You guys are a very cute couple! Keep getting a led out! You're doing great! Jimmy Page played the acoustic guitar the banjo and the electric guitar in this one song Jimmy is the wizard and dark strings of the guitar!

[@jimsebastian2846]

It’s a pretty dark song really. He asks his friends for silver and gold and they are too poor. His brother brings them both and then his sister shows to save him from hanging and the hangman ends up laughing and hanging her at the end.

[@fixzeichner5592]

very nice reaction from you both. You have the same taste in music, you go well together. I've seen Gallows Pole live and heard about Page/Plant. They used an accordion instead of the banjo. Greetings from Germany .

[@sutech161]

great post guys / one of my favs / keep em coming / stay safe

[@daveheesen9174]

hey...old dude here... early 1980s i was watching a movie set in Paris in 1799ish a street musician was singing this song in front of Notre Dame Cathedral (spelling)? The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1930s-40s this is a VERY old song

[@garylagstrom3864]

It’s like The Edge from U2 said: That’s the thing about a real band: They have a sound that’s immediately definable!

[@debraschiro6234]

I have one word for you Stairway to Heaven you will love it like I did in 1973 or 72 can't really remember when it came out but I was a teenager

[@randyrodgers5056]

I hope you really listened to the lyrics, the story is about a man facing death by hanging,.he asked his friends to pay the hangman to spare his life, but they didn't come through so he asked his brother and he gave the hangman gold and silver but it wasn't enough so he asked his sister to do the hangman,and she did ,but even with all that it wasn't enough and hangman said now I won't have to pull so hard to see you swinging from the gallows pole, and that sucks

[@boki1693]

Another fine job Silas. It is fun how you bring in your dad and Olivia to help out. Is mom going to make an appearance at some time too? LOL. Did you guys catch that he brought his sister to the hangman so she could offer him "something else" besides gold? But then the hangman hung the sister?

[@SK-lk3iu]

Where do they say that he hung her??

[@boki1693]

@@SK-lk3iu My bad, all these years I thought he was singing something else until I just looked up the lyrics. Lol. I like my lyrics better.

[@SK-lk3iu]

@@boki1693 LOL

[@jeffreywright2294]

Nothing like the classics

[@denniswhitney6147]

Good channel you two. I cannot wait till you start on the houses of the holy album. NO QUARTER will blow your minds. See if you can guess the characters...have fun.

[@SirMan48]

This is a great great song.

[@DorothyFarias]

Love this song.

[@MattJaissleFilms]

Go ahead to Zeppelin 4. That's the album that made them the biggest supergroup in the world.

[@paulkazakoff9231]

Yep that's an album that everyone had a copy of ! I saw them just 3 months after it's release.Fantastic show of course !!!

[@michaelthomas8592]

To the Lyrics: The guy who is forward to be hanged, talks to the 'Hangman' and find any excuses ("my brother's coming", 'my sister's coming") but at the end he "is swinging on the gallows pole"...

[@tomheglund6994]

Watch the move song remains the same it’s from their live Madison square gardens concert in 73 it’s amazing

[@nowhere982]

Dazed and Confused live is about 28mins long but blows your mind.

[@shawnk7832]

This is my fave off III by them, and I don't love III by them.... Sure I'm not alone. I will listen to more you did here. This is a great song!!!

[@shawnk7832]

Communication Breakdown, never loved it... Tangerine no way... Still gonna check out this stuff again cause it's been years.

[@JacobBailey]

Wait, what? A banjo? I assume Jimmy played the banjo, too? Ha! The banjo is brilliant here!

[@kevinbrady6075]

Mandoline,then banjo,....😉

[@kevinbrady6075]

@@jmar7631 Yep,I have seen Jonsey with one,...never Sir Jimmy.

[@deadchannel3274]

@@kevinbrady6075 Page has played the mandolin as well

[@gevowavemagnet]

Before all the media we have now, a person would slip on headphones, put on side 2 of this album and be transported to another place and time.

[@curiousman1672]

Ya, the tempo sped up as the song progressed. Could you hear the hurdy-gurdy being played? Classic song.

[@artandrade1]

great music!

[@streetlevel4996]

Also if ya dig and enjoyed this video was such a groovy hippy song and amazing vocals. Blessings you two 😀 you may also enjoy the song " Most of All " By Glenn Kaiser and Where Roses Grow Live by Rez Band Awesome songs check them out. Also I remember hearing the song by Led Zepp " In My Time of Dyin " during my drug years and made me think about death and Jesus. Then a hippy friend that dug Jesus told me more of Jesus love and forgiveness and how I could also know Jesus love. So in 1981 I cried out to Jesus and wow man He came into my life and I had and have so much joy and peace and now know that through Jesus when I die I will be with Him in Heaven. Hey Jesus loves each of you also and yall can know Him if you are at all open. Just cry out to Him and a good question to ask yourself if you were to die today would you go to heaven ? And if yes why ? To find out more please read the Gospel of John in the Bible or check out the movie on KZbin. 😀

[@bernardsalvatore1929]

Olivia please if you can stick with Silas for the rest of this album because the upcoming two or three songs are really awesome, lighter tempo acoustic and very deep! I do believe that you will enjoy them!!

[@tomroome4118]

I hope he sticks with her longer than that!!!

[@fewwiggle]

Don't know if you saw my recommendation for Alivia's songs -- so hope you don't mind that I repost it here: - - - Babe I'm Gonna Leave You You Shook Me Dazed and Confused - - - Whole Lotta Love Thank You Ramble On - - - Since I've Been Loving You - Tangerine That's the Way - - - The last two you haven't actually hit yet on LZ III, but you'll hear them in a few days, AND they show some different aspects of LZ that I think you and Alivia will enjoy. Regardless, ALL Led Zeppelin songs are "classics", so it's hard to go wrong ....

[@666tubedragon666]

Alivia makes everything better, Silas...She's a keeper

[@RobbHuman]

Yay Alivia 2 👍👍

[@pop9095]

She almost grokked the banjo, nice.

[@mitchellbeston1033]

The missus has a good ear like yourself, dad and your uncle. Hi from Australia!

[@Lil_bird2]

Keep em coming

[@scottviverette14]

I've got the original album in a frame in my collection and wait till you get to Hats off to Roy Harper enjoy 😉

[@mitchgold4666]

Alivia looks like she came out of a Time Machine from the late 60s. Just pop a pair of hippy sunglasses on here and she’d set.

[@zindi1138]

those were happier times

[@cuales1955]

Por favor , acciona los subtitulos !! Saludos desde Buenos Aires, Argentina.

[@bobbyn.9773]

This album they experimented more with alittle blues and some British folk influenced songs and not like their more heavier rock and blues songs

[@simply_psi]

It is the benefit of Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones being session musicians in that they can play multiple instruments, which is why Led Zep have things like banjos, mandolins, Lutes, bass and Ukuleles etc as well as pianos and synthesisers, although Jimmy Page can play piano most of the keyboards we're left to JPJ as he was better.

[@Zoso-lz8ov]

Welcome aboard !

[@toddk2737]

Not a happy ending. Brother brought silver, sister slept with the executioner but ends up swinging anyway.