The Story of Led Zeppelin's Explosive Debut

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[@EMBEEAY]

Unrelated, but I think it’s so cool how KZbin lets you do “square” layouts/cropping for videos like this, thought it was a short at first!

[@niemand0]

Well, nice to see that someone is enjoying it. For me personally though, i don't like it at all. I hate shorts and their layout. Still, it works here, because album covers are the same layout.

[@tungtobak]

It actually works well for me as I more often than not watch videos on half-screen on my desktop computer while doing something else on the other.

[@rorybessell8280]

Annoyed the hell out of me, had to turn on auto-rotation, rotate it and then go back and lock it. Honestly made me consider not watching the video

[@toppsizfckd]

it's the snyder cut of the video, how it was originally intended to be experienced

[@Stettafire]

I'll be honest, it sucks on mobile and it just makes things tiny and hard to see on PC. Not a fan

[@RockandRollWoman]

Hipgnosis, which designed Zep album covers, Floyd covers, and so much more, has published several books discussing their work. Highly recommend. Great video!

[@aidenlosh9518]

I'd love to see a cover story for Rush's Permanent Waves album.

[@WritteninBlood]

That would be so awesome.

[@josephstone2112]

There actually is a video about the creation of that cover on the official Rush channel.

[@ecurewitz]

Or Moving Pictures

[@italyball2166]

Man, you really need to make the cover story of Jethro Tull's "Thick As A Brick". That's, in my honest opinion, one of the most genial packaging ever made in the history of music

[@mactavish100078]

Just bought that album on vinyl, had no idea it folded out into a whole ass newspaper!

[@samnic1998]

an episode focusing on newspaper style record covers would be cool - theres quite a few

[@earthlingjohn]

@@mactavish100078 And scattered throughout the whole ass newspaper can be found the lyrics of the whole ass album !

[@vinylarchaeologist]

More astounding than Led Zeppelin's debut is the fact that two thirds of the Hindenburg's passengers actually survived that huge fire and crash!

[@TheClash122]

That surprised me, too.

[@DrumJunkie-pk8oo176]

What happened to them?

[@zOsO0535]

Jimmy took the fractured ‘New Yardbirds’ on tour in Scandinavia. He didn’t leave the yardbirds, he was one of the final members of the Yardbirds.

[@juliemanarin4127]

Exactly

[@jaysworld8055]

yeah and he tried to hold the band together too.

[@victorblakey4260]

Not only was ‘Led Zeppelin’ basically a renaming of ‘The New Yardbirds’, the name came from a review of one of the bands last gigs (as the new yardbirds) where the reviewer lamented the collapse of the original yardbirds, and suggested that the new songs being presented went down with the audience “like a lead zeppelin”.

[@zOsO0535]

@@victorblakey4260 Few corrections mate. Once upon a time Jimmy Page somehow ended up in the same room with Keith Moon and began discussing the want of a super group, like Cream, that would include Clapton and other big names. In reponse to this proposal Keith Moon said, "That would go over as well as a led balloon." Seeing as a Zeppelin is a very exaggerated form of a balloon Jimmy Page thought that more emblematic. So no. Jimmy Page ironically made one of the best bands in the world based upon a comment that predicted its doom.

[@PeterTea]

The Led Zeppelin I cover is also full of light and shade just like Zeppelin’s music.

[@ikisss0412]

Your content on Led Zeppelin is amazing wow!!!

[@derekroberts6654]

i can see why it would be controversial but it fits the band and a great debut intro. I’m curious to see your take with Electric Light Orchestra and their fascination with “Wizard Of Oz” and why they used that scene for thier album “Elderado”.

[@tony_fortunato]

I'd spend hours and hours watching these videos... I LOVE THIS CHANNEL ❤

[@strawberryfields253]

me too its so well made!

[@sumubi3133]

led zeppelin I is one of my favourite album because i love each song so much and the artwork is sooooooo beautiful

[@lopolik]

Into The Pandemonium, from Celtic frost, I thought it is interesting the Hieronymus Bosch's depiction of Hell was in the artwork, and I think it might be cool making a video how Hieronymus Bosch influenced a lot of the dark themed artworks of the more extreme and dark metal bands, like Slayer (Reign in Blood cover is also kind of similar to Hieronymus Bosch's paintings.)

[@HunterPolk-gw4be]

I just found you out and I already LOVE your videos (this is the third one I watched)

[@freeviolet7199]

I would love to have a video like this about any of the rush albums, I'm thinking specifically perminant waves

[@o-mega7515]

Hey Poly, quick video idea, do you think you could to a cover story/any other video format on Jethro Tull's "Thick as a Brick" if you haven't already? The album has some of the most unique packaging ever!

[@iggydeohgee]

Disappointed you didn't mention how Eva met the band before the show, found them to be polite young men. Only when she was on her way out did she see the cover art and flipped her 💩.

[@juliemanarin4127]

Yep lol

[@DanielSnyder-bz8kp]

Me too, I thought they would tell that story. I think I read that in Hammer Of The Gods book when I was in jr. high school. Ironically I cut school to sit under a bridge and read it.

[@MaxTovstyiMusic]

BTW Led Zeppelin I with BLUE logo and band name are super expensive, I wish I could afford one since it's my favourite band! Cool video as always.

[@joshuafornelli8673]

You got me to sign up for Nebula. Love your stuff.

[@benjaminbeudard628]

crash tes, dummy

[@jpmojo]

I always enjoy any historical retelling of the Hindenburg… But enjoy even more since I grew up 3 miles away from Lakehurst though that happened 32 years before I was born the history is still there. The album cover makes the history for us locals connected to Led Zeppelin in a very unique way. Great video!

[@scottbubb2946]

Strange to think about how Entwistle and Moon would have changed Zeppelin. Or Steve Winwood on vocals (as Page wanted). I wouldn't change LZ if I could. Especially not JP Jones, but it would be cool to go to an alternate universe where those guys did join the band. Just to hear what it would sound like.

[@IgnatiusAlpha]

Great video as always. It's by far their best album, in my opinion. Perfect from front to back.

[@mr.k905]

Great video! What's the "shrieking monkeys" (great band name btw.) font called? I love it!!

[@marcsullivan7987]

Jeff Beck recorded Truth before LZ1, pioneering the innovations often given to this (also great) album

[@juggert]

Love Jeff Beck. But the "light and shade" drum intro to "Good Times Bad Times" sound like they are announcing a new era in music. Announcing a new coming in pop music, if you will. Best recorded first notes by any band IMO

[@lyndoncmp5751]

Jimmy Page already inspired Beck when he wrote Beck's Bolero in 1966. It's just that Beck formed his own band first. Jimmy had to wait a bit longer, but we can see that the ideas were really Jimmy's because Jimmy kept coming up with them into and through the 1970s whereas, being blunt, though Beck was an an amazing guitarist he never really managed to write/compose anything that was on the level Jimmy kept coming up with. RIP Jeff though👍

[@marcsullivan7987]

@@lyndoncmp5751 Blow by Blow and Wired, and many other things (“Where Were You”, for example). And I LOVE Zep. Also, I’m a guitarist (and a staunch apologist of Page against the “he was sloppy” critique leveled), but Beck was a MUCH better player

[@lyndoncmp5751]

@@marcsullivan7987 You seriously think those were on the same level as what Jimmy Page composed? Really? Beck was a mediocre songwriter/composer. That was his flaw. Page ate Beck alive on acoustic and being able to never play a song the same way live twice. That's just a fact. Cheers 👍

[@fifbeatle1]

Perfect timing man 😂 Right now I'm writing a paper on Led Zeppelin for my ELA project in school

[@TheCharlesAtoz]

great channel, as usual

[@gearandalthefirst7027]

First of a long, long line of heavy music using black and white, hyper-saturated photos of death as album covers. D-Beat to death metal, helluva trend to start!

[@carlybfilmclub5851]

The new intro is sick bro

[@still-standingrunner8109]

I want one of these videos for the cover of Aqualung

[@EvanFrenchMusic93]

I hope someday you do a video about the story and legacy of the velvet underground and nico album

[@tylerhackner9731]

Legendary debut

[@looselytelling]

A Radiohead cover story would be very cool especially delving into the artwork of Stanley Donwood, a lot of people talk about how the music fits the album and each one has such meaning to it. Its fascinating and I'd be awesome if you covered it, no pressure though :3

[@rams6702]

awe hell yeah, cover stories! if you're gonna do more rock, can you do Hendrix's and how he hates all of them

[@JS-yj7ow]

Actually, the cause of the Hindenburg fire is fairly well understood with new video evidence, and experimental recreation. There’s a good NOVA program on it.

[@pauldecoster]

By the way, could you do a video on Hall and Oates?

[@luvbasses5487]

First album, first song: Good Times Bad Times. This was a statement as apparent as a head on collision. The would-be competition of the day surely took note...upon burying head in hand.

[@hahahhahahahufool2114]

You should do a video on Jaco Pastorius! Seeing that you already did one on Jimi Hendrix.

[@JamesInfinity]

LETS GO LED ZEPPELIN VIDEO

[@DaveNarn]

Good news .. I guess. The cause of the Hindenburg explosion was found to be static electricity from the rain storm the zeppelin was landing in. As the mooring ropes got wet, they grounded the ship. As the fabric of the ship got wet it began arching until it reached a leaking hydrogen bag at the tail end - then BOOM!

[@1337megahacker]

The band name and Atlantic Records logo were actually turqoise on the very first press of the album

[@starry_lis]

how long until it's okay to make a WTC album cover?

[@Steinwelt]

Very unconventional 1 by 1 ratio. I like it

[@thomasglynn2282]

Static electricity is what set the fire off, when they dropped the landing lines they were wet, and as soon as they came in contact with the ground it sparked

[@tonyrun5802]

2:41 it's not entirely true. Based on the weather data on that day, studies suggested it sparked due to electric charges channeling from the ground through the docking ropes and into the gas chamber, which supposedly was compromised prior to the arrival. I'll try to link sources but this was pretty much it

[@jaustill237]

Yeah, odd that he mentioned that it was about to dock when historic video clearly show I bbn in the process of docking.

[@robgronotte1]

Huh? The normal way the end of the Yardbirds is presented is that all the other members left the band so that Page was the only member left. LZ even played some shows as the "New Yardbirds" to fulfill concert contracts, before coming up with their new name.

[@wayneclayton5426]

I've seen the original art work. Pen & ink on a piece of tracing paper copied straight from the photograph. Only about 7 x 7 inches big. Blown up to fit the album cover.

[@FourByteBurger]

YEAHHHHH NEW POLYPHONIC

[@fartcheeks3000]

you should do a video about the fragile album by yes

[@michaelsaville9985]

The story I heard was it was John Entwistle who said “it will go over like a lead zeppelin”. In North America we say “lead balloon” but in England it’s more popular to say “zeppelin”. I could be wrong on either one but this is just what I heard

[@nicholsonfile]

Like all good quotes, they are unverified.

[@michaelsaville9985]

For sure. There’s so much folklore surrounding Zeppelin that it’s impossible to verify everything

[@knottsscary]

I think you mean Keith Moon, that's what almost all the quotes say

[@lyndoncmp5751]

Brandon Supposedly it was John Entwistle and not Keith Moon according to Richard Cole who worked with both The Who and Zeppelin. He's the only insider who has talked about it.

[@knottsscary]

@@lyndoncmp5751 I might be mistaken but in the official Led Zeppelin book I believe Page said it himself that it was Keith Moon

[@hahahhahahahufool2114]

Polyphonic, I am BEGGING you to do a video on Jaco Pastorius! This shall mark my Day 1.

[@LanceEads]

Is that Syd Barrett's mirrored telecaster at 00:32?

[@Goatchild90]

Always knew that cover is iconic, since I first saw it

[@brizzieleif5258]

The orange graphic wasn't the original artwork design it was actually turquoise, orange came later with the reissued copies

[@evanneal4936]

The whole thing with eva von hindenburg is strange because she and the other hindenburgs related to the airship were all German and not from the Netherlands where Copenhagen is... so why was she so mad when they were not even playing in her country? Its so strange that at first I thought it can't be true information but it is probably more likely that this particular aristocrat, despite being named "hindenburg" was not actually really related to "the hindenburgs" and was using it as a scam to sue led zeppelin. Or by complete coincidence she happened to live in Amsterdam at the time I guess.

[@alanlittlemoon8194]

Maybe an episode about the formation of LZ and the forgotten genius Terry Reid.

[@marrow94]

These “The Nobs” are pretty good, huh

[@haven2161]

Do you have any specific instrument that you play?

[@alfioinsaudo4179]

Il miglior gruppo hard rock del pianeta

[@ladyhonor822]

Absolutely Fabulous. Philadelphia USA 🇺🇲☦️🙏😇❤️💋🩰

[@williamsimpson7410]

You should do a video on Kashmir

[@jeremywanner4526]

Check out JCM-Led Zeppelin Stories if you’re a die hard Led-head.Its an amazing series!

[@BoHorn]

Jimmy didnt “leave” the band, there is a lot of errors in this video but thats a weird one to mess up.

[@BoynamedMagnus183]

I would love a video about how The Rolling Stones Shaped the 70`s!!!😊😊😊

[@midwestogkush1969]

The who's manager found out jimmy was trying to scoop entwistle and moon and there manager asked Jimmy page how would ya like to play with broken fingers ... jimmy changed his mind apparently

[@CaseyWinehouse]

So does this whole channel just explain the things people find out immediately as soon as they’re introduced to a band? Would love to hear your over-explanation of Chocolate Starfish…

[@tenasantiago8218]

Please do an iron maiden video 😅. Your content is among the best of the best on youtube 🙌🙌

[@squarl5922]

Yes

[@TheHippie27]

I'm really happy for you that you can run a separate, paid service providing more content, and earn what you are rightfully deserved for the content you create! But honestly, as someone who can barely justify the expense of paying for spotify and netflix, it kind of sucks to see hints at videos I can't afford to watch while otherwise enjoying your content. I don't know if others feel the same, but that has been my feeling for the past few months... hope that doesn't come off too harsh! Long story short, I love your content and want to see more!

[@CODYj423]

"sounded like a catastrophe" An example of Poly's turn of phrase that makes his analysis and music history bits legendary. 🎉

[@pitersjezups2692]

Do a video on phonk

[@piersonsauberan9058]

jimmy page in the studio like yeah this tragedy goes hard let's put it on our first (and second) album

[@chevken1831]

Oh, the humanity!

[@david.leikam]

I would recommend you checkout, NOVA: Hindenburg - The New Evidence (2021). 👍

[@panrick]

What do you mean when you said “to this day, nobody knows the cause of the fire”? -that’s not true. It was caused when a mooring line touched the ground, causing an electrostatic discharge that ignited leaking hydrogen. They’ve known the cause since the disaster happened.

[@PaulTheSkeptic]

"How to listen like a musician." It's funny that you say that. One of my podcasts they said how their musician friend told them to listen to this or that little thing and they said that that's not how they listen. They don't hear music like that. I was quite surprised by this. I'm a musician. Most people don't hear music like I do. I had no idea. I thought everyone who was a little more into music could do that. Interesting.

[@dagonzalez1757]

Your videos are always a little bit quieter than the rest, not sure why

[@Simon.the.Likeable]

"Oh the humanity..."

[@ikisss0412]

YESSS LED ZEPPELINNN

[@JMK65]

Page left the group???

[@baronrogers806]

By asking politely :*)

[@karenyoung60]

🖤🖤🖤

[@marciashiraishi5891]

What the hell, Mrs. Eva Von Zeppelin should be proud to have her last name associated with the greatest rock band in the world. There was no disrespect there

[@darrylbennett4297]

Jimmy didn’t leave the yardbirds. The yardbirds left Jimmy Page. Jimmy owned the rights to the band, and was trying to get new members for the new yardbirds.

[@jackbonney3267]

"Blimp go boom"

[@RockandRollWoman]

Like today's Space X launch! 😂

[@juliemanarin4127]

Because it would go down like a lead balloon! Lol

[@the80sdumpster]

They first put out the text in turquoise? Why gloss over that?

[@tommonk7651]

They could have always changed their name to "Shrieking Monkeys"....

[@1glassMilk]

Yes the Zeppelin also looks like an advocado... showing that Led Zeppelin would be populair all over the world, from Europe to tropical countries. :P

[@johnvertudazo7205]

Hindenburg

[@johnvertudazo7205]

Hindenburg**

[@thesis_gaia7960]

Santos dummont invented airships

[@aeroglyphe]

Some facts are not acurate as to why the Yardbirds dismembered.

[@delavan9141]

I always like you videos in their beginning, but then your poetic descriptions just become so over-wrought that the whole thing descends into ridiculousness.

[@guldenaydin9918]

🌈💝

[@mazgaming6842]

Hello Polyphonic! pls leave a reply pls thank you

[@SpookyLuvCookie]

square and not square

[@tjg555]

pretty sure that's spelled The Knobs, dude...

[@riotttx]

First, pin? :)

[@thejollyjoker187]

So, this is a Nebula advertisement and incidentally we mention the click bait name of Led Zeppelin. And that's how we manipulate people to give us 24K views. Nice.. instant dislike.

[@paulbrookes413]

Disastrous Start 😄

[@eshep71]

Don't do one on the cover of Led Zeppelin 4. People today would be offended with the fact that it contains a literal depiction of a derogatorily used term. Perhaps it was a form of protest but there is certainly no mistaking the usage. I'm surprised they haven't been retroactively cancelled..

[@drunkdragonborn]

What depiction? I own the album physically and I don't know what you mean...

[@lopolik]

what are you even talking about? Led Zeppelin 4 was just an old man carrying a bundle of sticks. The main thing is the 4 symbols, representing each member of the band, and the the it has a song ''four sticks'', but that artwork is not offensive at all, the Houses of the Holy artwork was deemed more controversial.

[@eshep71]

@@lopolik do you know the term they used for that exact thing in England? They would throw gay men into the fire along with the sticks...linking them to the term.

[@lopolik]

@@eshep71 Yes I know it. But are you suggesting that Led Zeppelin meant it in this way? The 19th-century rustic oil painting on the front of the album was purchased by Robert Plant from an antique shop in Reading, Berkshire, England. Isn't it possible that Led Zeppelin used it as an artwork just because they liked it? Not because it vaguely means what you THINK it means.

[@lopolik]

@@eshep71 that's a big stretch of your imagination, I get what you're saying, but you are literally the first person I heard say that that cover has something to do with the meaning of the term that I can't even type on youtube (it got deleted I wrote it)

[@grahamjones4974]

It’s hilarious that there are people in this world who actually think that Queen is better than Led Zeppelin 😂