The Lemon Song live at Filmore

[@Snagglefratz]

I saw these guys in Philly in 1972. I've seen almost all of the great bands. These guys were in a class by themselves. Best ever.

[@dyermaker4731]

Do you remember anything about the performance or remember taking photos?

[@ctrlshiftqq9846]

Did you or anyone you know tape the show?

[@kenruiz8714]

I was there also

[@jokervienna6433]

I´ve never seen them, but when I´ve watched them in clips, they belong to the bands that where great in the studio, but blew the roof off when they played live. For me, they belong to the best live bands EVER.

[@nofortunatesonII]

Snagglefratz: I saw them a few years after you did, 1975. We had floor seats about 10 rows from the stage. Good show, no opening act, all LZ. They did take a short break in the middle of the show. I think we paid $6.50 for the tickets.

[@patrickh6500]

That intro riff is the greatest thing ever

[@colindebaggis1262]

I wish they made a whole song out of that riff it would be awesome

[@Kane6676]

+Colin DeBaggis soundgarden did. It's called smokestack lightnin on their first album

[@colindebaggis1262]

Wow sick I just listened to it! Would have never found that song if it wasn't for you! Rock On!

[@Kane6676]

+Colin DeBaggis ya I was able to find the guitar tab for the soundgarden song and I've been playing this all night lol

[@colindebaggis1262]

damn if I was a guitar player I would be doing that as well! catchy as fuck!

[@pjpoirier3706]

LED Zeppelin, the best band in the land. I was just 15 when this came out, so glad I grew up with the best Rock n Roll. ZEPPELIN HAS IT ALL. LOVE U GUYS!!

[@ColdenBaller]

That intro may be the greatest riff I have ever heard. Indescribable. And that tone... God it's so sick.

[@oosqueezemylemon]

ColdenBaller the first part is a take on a Howlin' Wolf song called Evil

[@sirpancho]

+Squeeze My Lemon Nope, it was taken from Smokestack lightning

[@Kane6676]

Soundgarden does this riff too

[@askledhead]

It sounds like B. Sabbath .

[@TNTQc]

Yep, Smokestack Lightning (Howling Wolf) and SoundGarden plays it in their debute album (UltraMega OK) and Cornell does, and this is my personal opinion, one of the best performance in studio.

[@willardjohnson3832]

How can anybody not 'like' this? If you call yourself a fan of The Blues then this should be in your collection!

[@dph22013]

Willard Johnson i am and it is😉. This song is in my top 5.

[@PJoverland]

the bass in this song has been in my head all day long

[@soapboxearth2]

got you down on that killin floor

[@readerocean]

It's a "bass" guitar not base and yes it's insanely good.

[@PJoverland]

readerocean haha thanks, i knew that -_- and u wont believe me now

[@readerocean]

i believe you..anyhow you are right great bass..john paul jones is great

[@tnix80]

This is one of the best bass performances of all time

[@Mr_Angus]

2020 and this is still an experience, the best band ever

[@toneyisaiah8505]

They were young and ready to conquer the world.

[@JamesPetroff]

This is great. I listen to this over and over. I learned to play it on guitar. I would love to have time to learn the Smokestack Lightnin into. Damn. I am a lawyer loving this. Led Zeppelin is timeless. These people complaining about plagiarism are misguided. If you love this music of black blues, these guys will make more money. This opens the door to Wille Dixon, Howlin Wolf, Robert Johnson. That is beautiful.

[@thecourierNCR]

One of the cool lawyers

[@mgn5667]

i coined the term Rob n Roll.))LOL...actually:>rock was the news paper for us leading us to the blues mens music..((the fans meaning us.. i play also and have 1960's guitar 68 gibson SG 74 fender strat Ect...

[@kramerbassplayer]

That guitar tone is filthy

[@billhannis6095]

Yup. Filthy in the best way.

[@tomitstube]

led zeppelin was blowing people's minds in 1969. nobody had heard anyone this good in rock and roll yet, jpj said they would rip out 3 tight ass balls to the wall songs by the time most bands of the day would get tuned up. bands that zeppelin were opening up for just stopped showing up because most of the audience would leave after zeppelin was done... after a month it was zeppelin touring by themselves, and people were showing up in larger numbers every night. by the time zeppelin was done with their first tour in the u.s. they were playing 3 and 4 hour shows because nobody would let them leave the stage, zeppelin was of course thrilled with the reception and would oblige.

[@KevinHallSurfing]

In Sydney '72 I checked my watch when they kicked off at 2,00pm and ended 5,20pm. Plant said "You keep clappin' and we'll keep playing" and they sure did!

[@sfbayareagirl]

tomitstube I love hearing history notes like this. My Led Zeppelin claim to fame was seeing them 2x in one week in late 70s. My kids roll their eyes now everyone I regale a new friend w that one, lol.

[@johnwilson4158]

It aint bragging when you can back it up and nobody can it up and deliver the goods like the mighty LED ZEP.

[@kduquett]

I'd have to say Hendrix and Cream laid out some excellent R&R before Zep.

[@hulamusicofficial4656]

0:09 Goosebumps every time...that intro riff is definitely in my top 5

[@ashutoshthapa6936]

Smokestack lightin electric version

[@PolyphonicSigma]

6:31 is tops lol

[@puromichoacan8339]

Heartbreaker - LIVE at Montreaux, Switzerland BEST ZEPPELIN INTRO RIFF EVER

[@benhobbs8705]

THAT INTRO. THAT TONE. Man, too bad money can't buy that kind of fuzz.

[@soapboxearth2]

check out a traynor yba 1 .its a bassman / plexi toneclone for 400 bucks..mmm.smooothe

[@RCAvhstape]

If you have enough money you might be able to hire Jimmy Page to come to your house and play it for you. More money still maybe he can get JPJ to come with him.

[@rojerweller2881]

It CAN, if you can afford an old Acoustic 360 folded horn bass amp with an 18inch speaker in it!

[@_Singularity_]

@@RCAvhstape he should start a gofundme

[@garywilloughby6893]

@@soapboxearth2 More Fuzz please

[@carlosjuarez7449]

Back in 1972, all we had were vinyl to learn to. Been playing this all my life basically in zep cover bands!

[@RaulSanchez777]

The Jimi Page Experience!

[@SMSSTUDIOS76]

Jimmy*

[@SwankSong]

Sean Sandy ... The Fillmore April 27th, 1969 Zeppelin shows appears on a humorously titled "The Jimi Page Experience" (obvious mash-up of Jimmy Page's name and Jimi Hendrix' band name).

[@veronicalake2751]

CHRIShizit : You ForGet John Paul Jones & the drummer Too.! LED ZEP was All & everything With All 4 People.! Satan Get into that band & they are lucky they all got 10 year as a band together.! One player dies the whole bad is Gone. That’s why they all moved on & did what they all went to school for they moved on & are happy.!

[@saleconomos473]

Indeed....

[@ricardosolari1557]

its jimi ...

[@CONCRETE13]

Pay attention kids. This is real music. This is rock and fucking roll

[@chrisschmuch6819]

damn right.

[@robjob182]

Amen

[@BenDover-ud1ve]

You act like hip hop and rap isn't good music lmao

[@colindebaggis1262]

cause it isnt. :)

[@Sotinaged]

shut the fuck up, i love led zeppelin, but if dont get the musicality of rap its probably because you dont know shit about music. Go listen to some Biggie and learn about flow and get some respect

[@razkev]

The chemistry that this band had together was amazing

[@Karpoza]

Amazing! Really shows off what this band is all about. It's like Blues on Steroids.

[@jlow532]

the raw power of the sound. Unmatched in rock

[@jeffk493]

Grew up with them. Fricking awesome; I saw the old boys back in 72.Best concert ive ever seen by far in my short little life..............

[@dyermaker4731]

What concert did you attend?

[@Charliefalke]

lucky bastard😂❤

[@BubbaZen10]

Man i was hoping there was video of this!

[@scottiehippie]

BubbaZen10 aww thought I'd see you here.

[@mbear1639]

I know, right? The thing that I LOVE about LZ is that they understood the importance of " breaking America". They toured here first, before Britain. (And I'm not counting their contractual obligation to tour Denmark for like 10 gigs as The New Yardbirds that they did first, first....in late '68 I believe).

[@finn6861]

Yeah-This goes back to the roots-Blues -field songs-the origins-And they made it their own-They were real masters of their craft.

[@twilfond]

This rendition from 5 min on is unbelievable, shows the roots of the band. Its a prelude to greatness!

[@coltsuperocean10]

This is completely new in 1969, remember this was the era of hippies and flower power. Then LZ came along and BOOOOOOOM!! ...and they took the world by storm! Fuckin magic!!

[@asmundukkelberg8741]

That is not quite true. The Jeff Beck Group did this sort of thing a year earlier.

[@maxpower92]

Cream too

[@jlow532]

The Hendricks distortion, the Mississippi heavyness with the Page skills. Love it

[@IAmWatcher]

HendriX.

[@teresajowilliams3750]

Very well put

[@graceallen1473]

im glad jimmy page isnt super drunk and sloppy on this track. excellent performance.

[@duncanbrodie3615]

Thank you to whoever uploaded this. I've been a monster Zep fan since I was 9 years old and this might be one of the greatest live clips I've heard. God bless the mighty Zep. Never be another band that come close to what they did in our lifetime!!!

[@aramburu3032]

2018 AND THIS IS STILL SICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@waynedanberry]

Awesome Beginning! Page Was No Slouch!

[@rollingstopp]

This is where jimmy page chops down a mountain with the edge of His Axe********

[@shootagang7410]

No, that was Jimmy Hendricks.

[@mgn5667]

but this is page doing it thats what i meant,) i used to have the username james marshall , i have guitars from the 1960's and cover hendrix n page stuff

[@navynugget7]

@@mgn5667 *attempting to play Jimi!

[@mgn5667]

navynugget7 jimi was the best the world will have ever seen

[@mgn5667]

@@gsxrkz right on amigo

[@deborahwagner-tudor3505]

+angel ramon diaz....I couldn't agree with you more! I am passionate about Led Zep, 'cause I grew up in that magical era & Peter Grant changed musical/artistry forever...I'm not going to tell the story here, yet in most things, there is Always a 'first' & the status granted to Led Zep through the hard work of Grant is legendary (if people still read) & made history. I Love many artists, songs - Alot! Yet no one group has touched my very soul like Led Zeppelin. Each member of the group was the very best @ what he did: vocals, guitar's, keyboard+, and drums. With that combination, a manager who made sure 'his boys' were paid 1st (approx.90% vs 10% known to struggling musicians), gave Led Zep the ability to take risks no other group had, in so many, many ways resulting in some of the finest R&R on the planet. Yeah, they had (have) ego's, naturally - & didn't give a shit what anyone thought. This rebellious attitude catapulted their creativity & genius to never before-or since, status. I am eternally gratefuI as I was in my teens, & I am now, to have experienced living legends. I will always pray for 'just one more reunion' ~ just like everyone else.

[@LedZeppFan1973]

Liebe Deborah; Du sprichst mir aus dem Herzen. Ich bin seit 1974 glühender Led Zeppelin Fan aus Deutschland! Und ich liebe den Gesang von Robert Plant. Mein großes Idol für immer und ewig!

[@deborahwagner-tudor3505]

Horst Boßer Hello I couldn't translate your message/comment RE The Lemon Song.....i am so frustrated by this technology!

[@LedZeppFan1973]

Deborah Wagner- Tudor Hello; I´m Fan since 1974, love singing from Robert Plant, it´s my Idol

[@J303LL]

Deborah Wagner- Tudor Here is translation: Love Deborah; You speak to me from the heart. I am since 1974 glowing Led Zeppelin fan from Germany! And I love the vocals of Robert Plant. My idol forever!

[@joeschmoe5406]

+Deborah Wagner- Tudor: Very well expressed and very cool times for sure!

[@alvarotorresmestre]

Menuda joya 50 años oyendo a los Zep y todavía salen grabaciones extraordinarias Esta ha sido excepcional Muchas gracias Mallorca-Spain

[@johntoes52]

They were the first band I ever saw.

[@kul793]

+johntoes52 I'd say you're pretty freakin lucky. Queen was my first concert.

[@johntoes52]

+BERNIE067 that would have been a good one too!

[@maldicientin]

Is it true that the down side of having Zeppelin be your first ever is that they ruin any other you may experience later?

[@HardRockMaster7577]

Same here... August 22, 1970

[@theshadowlands14]

That sucks. Ruined every concert afterwards because nobody can live up to Led Zeppelin except Led Zeppelin 😂

[@RockxRevy]

This is just the best song in the history. I have no words...

[@tor5457]

That’s the Jimmy I sooo love! Thanks

[@kimberlylongman8299]

Zepplin just happens to be my favorite band since I was 15. My first time to hear this song in a while and fantastic. I love the video. Whoever uploaded this, Thanks.

[@wwjudasdo]

It's easy to hear why early critics said they were tearing the shit out of the blues! I'm glad they did. The outcome and all it influenced was worth it.

[@NeoRipshaft]

rofl - having spent a lot of time with musicians that have a similar energy, and how there's so many parts of this where it's clear they're just having fun and vamping off eachother - I can't help but picture the intro as just being 100% dorking out - I see Page just going for it blind, and looking at the other guys on the first riff and giving the eye-bulge/shrug and seeing them one after the other just build on it and every time one jumps in they just start feelin it more and more and it's a rockin feeling that I just cannot articulate... I cannot imagine the void in my life that would exist if I hadn't been so privileged to spend so much time among phenomenal musicians - it's such a ride.

[@majestic7s711]

Thanks for the pic. Its the first time Ive ever seen John Bohnam playing two kick bass drums. VERY cool.

[@paddymeboy]

It's a shame they didn't play this more, it's one of the best things they ever did.

[@klonczie]

It's Smokestack Lightening by Howlin' Wolf. Soundgarden covered it as well on their 1st album.

[@GnomesWearBoots]

Still fails to cease to amaze me...i love it

[@tommypizzo1677]

I love less pauls but Jimmy Page had one of the best tele's EVER. That tone he got out of it, just amazing. I like his early tones he got out of that tele better than his later large amps and LP sound. Just amazing!

[@mypalfootfoot9591]

I saw them at the Fillmore East in May '69.

[@duncanbrodie3615]

Thank God for KZbin The amount of Zeppelin that's out there is amazing!!!

[@constantine7382]

The GREATEST purely jam son EVER!

[@Rocky54167]

yea this is the best bass line to a song ever

[@drivershigh29]

this track is just plain awesome. i love the fact that this was when page was still using his dragoncaster lol

[@RCAvhstape]

That intro is vintage kickass Zeppelin. Page; "Hey guys, check out this riff." JPJ: "I got this." Bonham: "Cool, I got a sick beat for that." Plant, "I won't be left out, watch me sing along to the guitar."

[@ssn0651]

Has to be one of the few times Bonham played a double bass kit . Awesome photo !

[@susankutner3217]

Page shreds-

[@patrickmichels7888]

I have the entire 3 CD box set of this show and the other that came with it. Best damn boot I've ever owned without a doubt. Page plays absolutely brilliantly. Their version of How Many More Times is best thing Zep ever did. It just goes on and on.

[@faaversa]

What is this CD set you’re referring to? I’d love to see if I can find it

[@patrickmichels7888]

@@faaversa kzbin.info/www/bejne/oWeTmJmumJyBp8U

[@MrRadishhead]

My 1st leg cd from condor toasted. Soundboard and cut off in the begining and the fade in on who ever combine and or found audience recording to blend back the sound board, GREAT JOB THANK YOU!!!

[@fastedward53]

Was at this show ! the volume in the Filmore East was crazy back then . your ears would ring for days ! the Butterfly too !!!!

[@Scoobydcs]

youre in for a treat if you get into zep bootlegs/live gigs!

[@zacharygutshall8452]

I treat myself every night then

[@kevinrogers7650]

Page's off the cuff riffs are just amazing!

[@josephliptak]

Gawddamn this is good. This generation today sucks with the music they're putting out. Glad I grew up in the late 60s-early 70s. This is the era nobody can touch.

[@crossrodde]

that is so true... otherwise people my age (18) wouldn't still be listening to them

[@JDarrylSSS]

there's still good music but the mainstream can hardly be penetrated these days. try beating an average pop song with some legit rock. play your heart out, it's still unlikely. rock is weird and old, let alone the blues roots. I personally dig the stuff but that doesn't change the face of society and their tastes. There's still good music coming out but you'll need to search for it in the right places (a place that experimental/early bands can afford to use) which boils down to the internet, really. I can only speak for venues around here, but they don't let "nobodies" play unless you're just repeating covers. Internet is where it's at this time around

[@aramburu3032]

I grew up in 1998 and i fucking hate today's music, nothing will be like this music never. i'd like to grow up in 50-60s

[@fjgindy]

Man oh man you can here the original Tonebender fuzz tone on this....wow oh wow. Thanks to whoever posted this....

[@gsxrkz]

The intro is killer!!

[@JaredDavis145]

I love the Howlin Wolf nod they play in the beginning. The first 3 Zeppelin albums just bleed out the blues when they're played.

[@PauloRoberto-sw8mu]

JaredDavis145

[@chrisunsworth6655]

I'd an argument with a guy who said Zap weren't a blues based band.

[@francescaemc2]

Pagey needing two hands? Wow, I'm there! Django needed only two fingers. Thanks for the ETVCandy comments. Listening to this,you know I already aspire to greatness, or at least to listen to it as often as possible. one of my fave alltime tracks. Thank you. F

[@tomitstube]

filmore "west" to be exact. 2nd u.s. tour for zep... this is very rare actually, they stopped playing "the lemon song" after the next u.s. tour, on the first tour it was simply called "killing floor" or a jam song of a howlin wolf song of the same name, guess they got so good at it they figured it would pass as their own, howlin wolf of course should get credit for some of the lyrics but the two songs are a universe apart in their style.

[@ancientsymbol]

This is awesome. Thanks for posting!

[@robertbrewer5779]

I still listen to this on vinyl, I have many boots, good to see it here!

[@JAMESGANG-f5u]

Too bad Pages Tele just didn’t have the power to be THE guitar for Zeppelin because I really prefer it’s tone and fuzzy distortion over his later acquired Joe Walsh Les Paul. I love his Tele tone on those live, black and white videos from Switzerland (or maybe Sweden). Those shows were recorded before LZll was released. I believe they were done right after the band changed their name from ‘The New Yardbirds’ to LZ.

[@dancingtrout6719]

col as ice

[@DarkLittleCherry]

love how robert mimicks jimmy's guitar!!

[@rollingstopp]

i thought i heard howlin woolf doing that but not that heavy,, and then i looked for it & i couldn't find it again -im pretty sure he did it

[@goshawk1974]

i heard a bootleg of this same recording in the mid 90's. this one much cleaner. great post!!!

[@kendee2749]

Yes, it’s true that these original blues riffs and music and soul came from the black underclass of America, and I would never take anything away from the awesomeness and beauty of the music of Howlin’ Wolf and the like. But somehow, these hardscrabble postwar working class white British boys recognized and resonated with that sound, with that heart, and that soul, and filtered it thru their own hard times and their own psyche’s, and felt it thru the prism of their own different-yet-the-same (and just as valid) blues, and their soul, and somehow they came up with their own sound that respected the original but was very much their own original creation, in and of itself…and it was just as soulful and real….in a way that the bland suburban white youth of America of the same era never could have done. It’s funny how this native American music had to go to another country to be respected, re-interpreted and re-invented and then passed back to us in a new unique…. yet just as original and passionate and freakin’ REAL….way. The first 1:40 of this recording is still….45 years later….so awesome, so transfixing, so incredible…that I still sit spellbound and awed and in a different world every damn time I listen to it. I believe Jimmy Page, just like Robert Johnson, must’ve sold his soul to the devil also, to have gotten this.

[@schreds]

just amazing when u listen to this early stuff ,, u hear Jimmy's brain just going ,, i heard at least two other Zepp song in the first minute of this intro

[@rollingstopp]

i think the begining is smokestack lightning howlin wolf

[@Starless_2112]

this is freaking awsome, but its too bad there are no videos of them actually playing this live back then instead of just audio (or at least i havnt found any)...

[@345Weeehrs]

Wickest guitar I've ever heard

[@rollingstopp]

...Years ago i had bought a Zep Bootleg Album ,and this was it- the intro to this Song was the First thing i heard// and i didnt know what was going on

[@RonPro-u1t]

Untouchable. Ginger baker couldn’t touch Bonzo.

[@narishma]

Fucking filthy opening riff

[@jeffn.918]

If your head ain't bobbing and your foot ain't tapping, you're just not right...

[@PeterTea]

That intro cuts to the core!

[@Sanctitatis]

Wow. Amazing. I wish they had released this as some Live B-Side or something like that. Thanks so much for posting.

[@mbear1639]

The Lemon Song is in my top 5 of LZ songs (i dont rank them after number 5.....theyre all number 1 for me). This is their love letter to the Blues.

[@Rocky54167]

your welcome and yes it would be amazing if they released as some live B-side single in the furture or better yet the whole show

[@zachmcfatridge]

must have been one of his last concerts with his tele cas if you watch the DVD he has the Les Paul in Tous en scene

[@jlow532]

Unreal. The Page tone.

[@ewanleitch-g3h]

Wit a braw and raw rock'n roll band

[@philipshirk2228]

Thanks, Rocky54167, you ROCK!!!!!

[@vernvandekerckhove5946]

just pluck the open E and open B simultaneously...the rest will teach you.

[@francescaemc2]

guilty as charged. you got me. That explanation above drove me to it. lol.

[@rollingstopp]

So they came out with a Yard Birds jimmy page telecaster Guitar******

[@rocknrallsoul94rockero4]

Great riff one of the million reasons why zep is my all time fave

[@francescaemc2]

OMG!!!! That's what this song is about??? And I really used to love it! Are you sure? It would change the whole feel of this song if that were true...I thought it was his heart!!!

[@frankzappa71]

I have the Dancing avacado cd, which they claim is the same night as this, but IT'S NOT. This is beyond awesome.

[@arfshesaid4325]

Robert Planet IS awesome on this, do you agree ?

[@frankzappa71]

Yes you are correct. I have that too. Not the same night.

[@lzjpzoso]

This beginning is SO BADASS!!!!!

[@zozoa1]

Jesus christ this is so friggin good. Why cant groups produce music like this anymore

[@antoniolorenzosanchez5393]

Pos porque ya se hizo en aquellos años.. Ahora es el tiempo del reguero y la basura semejante.. No hay más.. Tomás.

[@cgravier]

this is def tele>mkII toenbender fuzz>rickenbacher amp

[@BrettValentine]

+Christoph G I think I can get this with my tele and a ZVEX Mastotron. You can dial in the touch sensitivity of the attack, and the "spittiness" of the release separately.

[@joshuareynolds9527]

man this rocks so hard

[@davidstenzel8326]

Levitra commercial! Haha that's awesome, thank you for the addendum. Jimmy Page obviously borrowed from this song but it seems he added notes in between the main chords and at the "bottom" of the chord progression (Soundgarden 100% copied Led Zeppelin's version). But yes, very badass.

[@tobyschmitt4325]

That sounds like it would have been REAL loud. Sick performance!

[@vicrattlehead8665]

Omg this version is new to me... in the other one plant's vocals are so quiet, i always thought his humming in 4th beginning was some weird effect :P Cool!

[@klonczie]

Love the Smokestack Lightening opening, and the greasy tone Page has on this! Soundgarden covered that tune on their 1st album.

[@bluesaxeful]

I just keep getting older, and the older I get, the more I love Zepp.