My first ever listening to Zep was this album and these versions. Whole Lotta Love was first. My favorite version of You Shook Me on CD1 and the acoustic numbers on the 2nd cd are absolute transcendent magic. Best version of Going to California and That’s The Way. Your video made me remember I really liked Thank You And not liking The Unledded version very much.
Back in the 80's on LA Rock radio (KMET and KLOS) the 1971 set would get played once in a while. I recorded it off one of these broadcast in 85 or so. For some reason it ends at the end of the rock n roll medley of WLL and never goes back to the main riff.
A few years later a bit of the 1969 session was broadcast that I was again able to record. It was only 5 songs. (CB, ICQY, D&C, YSM and HMMT) What struck me about that was hearing the jam at the end of 'Communication Breakdown" which has a funk riff that Jimmy used on the Deathwish 2 soundtrack in 1982.
So much little stuff to get into.
For these reasons i didn't buy the BBC sessions until much later. 2012 or so.
In the fall of 1982, my local FM rock station broadcasted the full and unedited Led Zeppelin Playhouse Theatre show
(recorded on Friday, 27 June 1969) and originally broadcasted in the U.K. on Sunday, 10 August 1969.
The tapes were discovered in that year (1982) by a BBC employee when he was cleaning out a drawer ― so the story goes… The sound quality was big and dynamic, and the performance explosive on the 1982 broadcast.
The show received a good write-up article about the find in my local daily newspaper. The show was praised and described as a ‘real stunner.’ The article mentioned how lead guitarist Jimmy Page, was being innovative by using the then-new state of the art electric guitar special effects such as: the Vox V847 wah-wah pedal, the Maestro Echoplex tape delay, and avant-garde performance techniques ― by playing his 1959 Cherry Sunburst Gibson Les Paul Standard with a (cello) bow.
The Led Zeppelin June 1969 BBC concert recording was aired nationwide on many FM stations in the U.S. that autumn. I recorded the broadcast from my hi-fi stereo receiver routed onto my Pioneer CT-F650 stereo cassette deck using the brand TDK SA high bias 90-minute cassette tape formulation, at a record level averaging +3 dB and peaking at +5 dB, using Dolby B encoding/decoding noise reduction for the best possible sound with the lowest noise.
The Playhouse Theatre location is: Northumberland Ave, London WC2N 5DE, U.K. (No street number is indicated; only the postcode)
I’ve never listened to the BBC sessions. Will have to now,how the west was won is my go to live zep. Never really like the song remains the same either
No love for Going to California?? That's probably the best live version of the song there is, it's quiet (don't you love English audiences) Plant's voice is as close as it will get to the recorded version, it's a great version of that song. If I could choose 1 song off those albums to play on an endless loop, if I was propelled into the depths of space, it would be this version of Going to California. Compared to modern California, which has become a wretched place where entitled adult size babies reside, this is a look back at what could have been. This is the last time that Plant's voice really sounded strong and weepy and melodic, too much smoking!
Classic, Spice Girls and Zep in the same room. But you know, JCM, the snooty sorts are going to rag on you for that one, brace yourself, sir. The snooty sorts can go their own way. The Spice Girls were relevant power pop, no doubt. We all have to get over ourselves. Neil Peart enjoyed riding his motorcycle between venues while listening to Madonna. He knew to just enjoy the music…I really have to get on avec my Rush productions.
The Paris Theatre show from 1971 was my holy grail of bootlegs, but many of the old vinyls of that show were horribly mixed. I was disappointed by the first BBC Sessions failure to reproduce the entire show. While I am glad the entire show is available, I think I like my current bootleg better, with all of the "Plantations" and mistakes included. In many ways, 1971 might have been the best year to see Led Zeppelin, but I'll take any year, when compared to any other band.
Great insight Jose, I recorded these sessions on tape back in the 1970's off the radio (John Peel used to repeat them on his late night show). Tommy Vance used to play them as well on a Friday night. I was really pleased when Jimmy put them out on cd. But maybe they could have issued them years earlier, when they would have had more impact? I play the cd from time to time alongside the Blueberry Hill bootleg, you can hear the growth in the band and their confidence. I'm not interested in the latest reincarnation of the sessions as, as you say detracts from the original with over load. The interesting thing for me was the change in Jimmy's voice from the accompanying interview cd. Jimmy did not start smoking until 1973, his voice gained a rasp by the end of the decade. Incredible detail in these exercises JCM. Thankyou for enlightening us.
I remember when i used to think i knew more about Zep than anyone. Then i got on the internet, and met people like my friend here.
Here's my story. I got into two bands at the same time. ACDC and Zep. Hell Aint A Bad Place to Be by ACDC was surely easy enough to find. But then there was this other song by Led Zeppelin that i heard and loved. Long, driving, heavy as shit, and slightly like Hell aint a bad place oddly enough. This stuttering guitar pattern. But i did NOT know the title, and no one could help me when i tried to describe the song. Well, long story longer, i ended up having to buy FOUR ZEPPELIN 8-TRACKS (yup, that's what i had in 79!) before i found this strange long driving song that i fell in love with. Kashmir. But by the time i found it i already loved the first album more!!! HAHAHA
I wasn't feeling the Spice Girls but I was 10 in 1983 . Belinda Carlisle, Bangles and Debbie Harry were the ones who made me understand what all the fuss about girls was about. Suddenly I understood why my brother had Linda Ronstadt on his wall despite the fact that he listened to Aerosmith and Led Zeppelin
Long time Zep fan here. Had many of the bootlegs I bought in the early 90s which included some of the BBC tapes and TRB. Our local radio station used to play some of the BBC transcription discs on the weekend specialty shows too and I had my cassette deck ready to capture the magic. Kind of funny, I just found out about the 3 disc edition that came out a few years ago. So finding your video was perfect timing. 😅 Thanks for all your hard work on this video. A 70s heavy rock band called Budgie had some BBC tapes found by a home taper and were officially released eventual as well. Amazing things like this can be found and released to the masses.
I much prefer this album or even How The West Was Won to The Song Remains The Same soundtrack album. Beginning as early as late 1972 Robert Plant was having problems with his voice and by 1977 when his voice was getting a bit better Page and Bonham were having problems with drugs and alcohol.
Thank you for the excellent video, I have the same 3 CD edition as you and after watching this made me give this a spin after a long time, thank you again !
Great work as always JCM. The BBC sessions is the one CD from that last round of remasters that I never picked up. I have a digital bootleg version of the BBC sessions and the sound is very good – along with the 1997 BBC version I don't see the sense in spending the money. I would spend money on quite a few shows that I have bootlegs of (last 2 Earl's court shows, southhampton 73 just to name a few) if they were cleaned up as much as possible and packaged nicely.
Do you remember me saying there’s a record store right by me? I went today. Guess what? I bought you another ITTOD album. They had 3! Let me know where to send it. My gift to you for the incredible content. ✌🏻
The BBC original 2 CD is my favorite Led Zeppelin disc, not album, my favorite disc. it gives me goosebumps every time I hold it and listen to it. Why, well because when it released in 1997 it was the trigger for me to move from Led Zeppelin being a band I like, to the phase of Led Zeppelin painful, aching addiction and craze. And I used to hold this CD for hours, read the booklet again and again.. the edited photos and the clean white of apple (both the tech company and the Beatles white album lable) was magical… and then concept of having 4 versions of the same song on the same disc was my first exposure. It was alsoy first exposure to extended Led Zep jams, I didn't have the song remains the same. I had no idea it existed. The booklet mentioned an few extra bars of the bolero section on how many more times. Itvwas my first exposure to what geeking on music details mean… I never looked back… I can tell hundreds of stories about this disc. From me imagining how the decision to jump into medleys was spontaneous, where Jimmy plays a riff and the band follows masterfully, to hearing the guitar bow technique for the first time (the studio version, for a 1990s music listener sounded like studio trickery so I never understood what they meant by guitar bowing…)
Anyway, I will stop here. Oh and please check out my email on the mysterious BBC Vinyl
First ever Zeppelin album I bought myself. I love it. The solo in Thank You is an all time fave, still gets me going every time. HMMT is a highlight too. I remember Immigrant Song blowing a nu-metal fan friend's mind; "I didn't know those old bands were so heavy" 😂 And you know "White Summer" is a total crib right? Search youtube for Davey Graham She Moved Through the Fair
Loved the bit about the Spice Girls. Ginger was my favourite with Posh as a close second. A metal head and film buff friend of mine in high school liked Sporty best. As for Zep at the BBC for me it's mostly all about disc two.
Jose, I laughed hard on this video. Thanks Brother. I’ve been sick the last 3 day. The comments were very appreciated
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My first ever listening to Zep was this album and these versions. Whole Lotta Love was first. My favorite version of You Shook Me on CD1 and the acoustic numbers on the 2nd cd are absolute transcendent magic. Best version of Going to California and That’s The Way. Your video made me remember I really liked Thank You And not liking The Unledded version very much.
Chris Grant's interview is incisive around 15.45.
Back in the 80's on LA Rock radio (KMET and KLOS) the 1971 set would get played once in a while. I recorded it off one of these broadcast in 85 or so. For some reason it ends at the end of the rock n roll medley of WLL and never goes back to the main riff.
A few years later a bit of the 1969 session was broadcast that I was again able to record. It was only 5 songs. (CB, ICQY, D&C, YSM and HMMT)
What struck me about that was hearing the jam at the end of 'Communication Breakdown" which has a funk riff that Jimmy used on the Deathwish 2 soundtrack in 1982.
So much little stuff to get into.
For these reasons i didn't buy the BBC sessions until much later. 2012 or so.
Hi JCM,
In the fall of 1982, my local FM rock station broadcasted the full and unedited Led Zeppelin Playhouse Theatre show
(recorded on Friday, 27 June 1969) and originally broadcasted in the U.K. on Sunday, 10 August 1969.
The tapes were discovered in that year (1982) by a BBC employee when he was cleaning out a drawer ― so the story goes… The sound quality was big and dynamic, and the performance explosive on the 1982 broadcast.
The show received a good write-up article about the find in my local daily newspaper. The show was praised and described as a ‘real stunner.’ The article mentioned how lead guitarist Jimmy Page, was being innovative by using the then-new state of the art electric guitar special effects such as: the Vox V847 wah-wah pedal, the Maestro Echoplex tape delay, and avant-garde performance techniques ― by playing his 1959 Cherry Sunburst Gibson Les Paul Standard with a (cello) bow.
The Led Zeppelin June 1969 BBC concert recording was aired nationwide on many FM stations in the U.S. that autumn. I recorded the broadcast from my hi-fi stereo receiver routed onto my Pioneer CT-F650 stereo cassette deck using the brand TDK SA high bias 90-minute cassette tape formulation, at a record level averaging +3 dB and peaking at +5 dB, using Dolby B encoding/decoding noise reduction for the best possible sound with the lowest noise.
The Playhouse Theatre location is: Northumberland Ave, London WC2N 5DE, U.K. (No street number is indicated; only the postcode)
Thank you for this great episode, JCM
Cheers! 🍻
'Hey, Robert…who's YOUR favourite Spice Girl ? ' 'Baby, Baby, Baby, Baby, Baby, Baby…..'
Thank me for watching?? How about a big thank you for making. Great stuff as always!
I’ve never listened to the BBC sessions. Will have to now,how the west was won is my go to live zep. Never really like the song remains the same either
Thanks JCM for increasing my understanding of these sessions and their historical context.
No love for Going to California?? That's probably the best live version of the song there is, it's quiet (don't you love English audiences) Plant's voice is as close as it will get to the recorded version, it's a great version of that song. If I could choose 1 song off those albums to play on an endless loop, if I was propelled into the depths of space, it would be this version of Going to California. Compared to modern California, which has become a wretched place where entitled adult size babies reside, this is a look back at what could have been. This is the last time that Plant's voice really sounded strong and weepy and melodic, too much smoking!
Classic, Spice Girls and Zep in the same room. But you know, JCM, the snooty sorts are going to rag on you for that one, brace yourself, sir. The snooty sorts can go their own way. The Spice Girls were relevant power pop, no doubt. We all have to get over ourselves. Neil Peart enjoyed riding his motorcycle between venues while listening to Madonna. He knew to just enjoy the music…I really have to get on avec my Rush productions.
The Paris Theatre show from 1971 was my holy grail of bootlegs, but many of the old vinyls of that show were horribly mixed. I was disappointed by the first BBC Sessions failure to reproduce the entire show. While I am glad the entire show is available, I think I like my current bootleg better, with all of the "Plantations" and mistakes included. In many ways, 1971 might have been the best year to see Led Zeppelin, but I'll take any year, when compared to any other band.
"Telecaster's last stand." You're a clever guy.
powerful live material, the mighty Zep #1
Thank You once again for another awesome episode JCM-all the best from New Zealand
Great insight Jose, I recorded these sessions on tape back in the 1970's off the radio (John Peel used to repeat them on his late night show). Tommy Vance used to play them as well on a Friday night. I was really pleased when Jimmy put them out on cd. But maybe they could have issued them years earlier, when they would have had more impact? I play the cd from time to time alongside the Blueberry Hill bootleg, you can hear the growth in the band and their confidence. I'm not interested in the latest reincarnation of the sessions as, as you say detracts from the original with over load. The interesting thing for me was the change in Jimmy's voice from the accompanying interview cd. Jimmy did not start smoking until 1973, his voice gained a rasp by the end of the decade. Incredible detail in these exercises JCM. Thankyou for enlightening us.
I remember when i used to think i knew more about Zep than anyone. Then i got on the internet, and met people like my friend here.
Here's my story. I got into two bands at the same time. ACDC and Zep. Hell Aint A Bad Place to Be by ACDC was surely easy enough to find. But then there was this other song by Led Zeppelin that i heard and loved. Long, driving, heavy as shit, and slightly like Hell aint a bad place oddly enough. This stuttering guitar pattern. But i did NOT know the title, and no one could help me when i tried to describe the song. Well, long story longer, i ended up having to buy FOUR ZEPPELIN 8-TRACKS (yup, that's what i had in 79!) before i found this strange long driving song that i fell in love with. Kashmir. But by the time i found it i already loved the first album more!!! HAHAHA
Love your work and you brother! My fav youtube follow
I wasn't feeling the Spice Girls but I was 10 in 1983 . Belinda Carlisle, Bangles and Debbie Harry were the ones who made me understand what all the fuss about girls was about. Suddenly I understood why my brother had Linda Ronstadt on his wall despite the fact that he listened to Aerosmith and Led Zeppelin
Long time Zep fan here. Had many of the bootlegs I bought in the early 90s which included some of the BBC tapes and TRB. Our local radio station used to play some of the BBC transcription discs on the weekend specialty shows too and I had my cassette deck ready to capture the magic. Kind of funny, I just found out about the 3 disc edition that came out a few years ago. So finding your video was perfect timing. 😅 Thanks for all your hard work on this video. A 70s heavy rock band called Budgie had some BBC tapes found by a home taper and were officially released eventual as well. Amazing things like this can be found and released to the masses.
I much prefer this album or even How The West Was Won to The Song Remains The Same soundtrack album.
Beginning as early as late 1972 Robert Plant was having problems with his voice and by 1977 when his voice was getting a bit better Page and Bonham were having problems with drugs and alcohol.
ROCK SOLID
Pink Floyd's BBC Sessions were all released separately on the 1968, 1969, 1970 and 1971 box sets. The 1967 was a bonus on The Early Years Box Set.
I liked scary spice 🤪
The Greta Van Fleek comment was hilarious 😂
i was another 10 year old boy attracted to a female musician and i was a proud member of the suzi quatro fan club ‘74😅
Thank you for the excellent video, I have the same 3 CD edition as you and after watching this made me give this a spin after a long time, thank you again !
Great work as always JCM. The BBC sessions is the one CD from that last round of remasters that I never picked up. I have a digital bootleg version of the BBC sessions and the sound is very good – along with the 1997 BBC version I don't see the sense in spending the money. I would spend money on quite a few shows that I have bootlegs of (last 2 Earl's court shows, southhampton 73 just to name a few) if they were cleaned up as much as possible and packaged nicely.
1966 was arguably the greatest year for pop music…
Do you remember me saying there’s a record store right by me? I went today. Guess what? I bought you another ITTOD album. They had 3! Let me know where to send it. My gift to you for the incredible content. ✌🏻
Toward the new PC. Thanks for the great insight into Zeppelin
This was my first Bootleg ever, and I fell hard for Ginger spice as well! Great episode as always.
The BBC original 2 CD is my favorite Led Zeppelin disc, not album, my favorite disc. it gives me goosebumps every time I hold it and listen to it. Why, well because when it released in 1997 it was the trigger for me to move from Led Zeppelin being a band I like, to the phase of Led Zeppelin painful, aching addiction and craze. And I used to hold this CD for hours, read the booklet again and again.. the edited photos and the clean white of apple (both the tech company and the Beatles white album lable) was magical… and then concept of having 4 versions of the same song on the same disc was my first exposure. It was alsoy first exposure to extended Led Zep jams, I didn't have the song remains the same. I had no idea it existed. The booklet mentioned an few extra bars of the bolero section on how many more times. Itvwas my first exposure to what geeking on music details mean… I never looked back… I can tell hundreds of stories about this disc. From me imagining how the decision to jump into medleys was spontaneous, where Jimmy plays a riff and the band follows masterfully, to hearing the guitar bow technique for the first time (the studio version, for a 1990s music listener sounded like studio trickery so I never understood what they meant by guitar bowing…)
Anyway, I will stop here. Oh and please check out my email on the mysterious BBC Vinyl
First ever Zeppelin album I bought myself. I love it. The solo in Thank You is an all time fave, still gets me going every time. HMMT is a highlight too. I remember Immigrant Song blowing a nu-metal fan friend's mind; "I didn't know those old bands were so heavy" 😂 And you know "White Summer" is a total crib right? Search youtube for Davey Graham She Moved Through the Fair
Loved the bit about the Spice Girls. Ginger was my favourite with Posh as a close second. A metal head and film buff friend of mine in high school liked Sporty best. As for Zep at the BBC for me it's mostly all about disc two.
Scary spice for me lol…mels,and freema Agyeman (Dr Who)…just…yummy hahaha (Homer Simpson drool 🤤)
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Swinging 60s dodge charger commercial…lmao..wow..
HA HA HA love this!!!! Zep heads unite around Spice Girls. ha ha ha ha
Ha ha ha ha ha. Diggin this JCM!