Imagine Hearing Led Zeppelin For The First Time

This one is just for Metalboy since his favorite band of all time is Led Zeppelin. Imagine hearing the band for the first time. Ok, now imagine you're like seven years old. Yep, it's time for another "Kids React" video. This one is pretty cute. Maybe not as hysterical as the recent Motley Crue episode... but still really good.

You know what I really want to see? I want to see an episode of kids reacting to Mayhem. Now THAT would be hilarious, but I digress. Enjoy the Zep and have some faith in humanity!

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[Gary]

A couple future head bangers here! 👍 On the other hand, Jackson,the little cynical dude with the long hair,,will be working as a critic for Rolling Stone in 10 years, extolling the virtues of U2 and slagging literally everything else. Lmao. Cool clip!!

[Metalboy!]

Thanks, Allyson! Very observant of you to acknowledge my proclamations over the years regarding my unconditional love of Led Zeppelin, despite guitarist Jimmy Page’s penchant for robbing the Willie Dixon canon.

I related the story not too long ago on here about the first time I heard Zeppelin. The year was 1969, at the tender age of ... ahem ... nine, the exact age or close to many of the kids featured in the clip you have posted above...

For my 9th birthday, among other things, I was given a funky looking RCA clock radio, the size of a small shoebox. I loved that thing and placed it on the shelf of the headboard of my trundle bed and would crank it up every night, lullabyed to sleep by the sounds of the local FM station, listening to such ditties as “Good Morning Starshine” by Oliver or The Archies’ “Sugar Sugar” and the like.

And then, one night, I awoke to Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love” and my reaction was similar to most of the kids in the video, except I think I wound up on my knees, still in my bed, gripping that clock radio on either side, clinging to every chord and THAT solo!

I got my dad to buy me Led Zeppelin II and I’ve been an undying “trainspotter” ever since. Such a shame Page couldn’t have figured more work arounds around Pain-in-the-A*s, lead singer Plant’s reluctance to tour or even just record as Led Zeppelin. Sure, there are obstacles to this notion, but nothing a little punch up in the studio, a concert mixing board or AutoTune can’t fix.

And though, drummer John Bonham tragically passed away in 1980, his son, Jason, does a damn good job carrying his legacy on the skins. Plant would never allow it but Page and Bingham should wrangle bassist John Paul Jones and hit the road with a hologram of Plant a la Dio’s Disciples performing with one of Ronnie James Dio, an idea I’ve floated here before.

It’s funny, but these kids on the video remind me of the various usual suspects in the Comments section of BBG!, aka, “The Peanut Gallery”, myself included. My fave kid is the boy in the blue shirt, screaming “Yeeeeeeessss!!!!” at the beginning of almost every tune and then proclaiming he would totally listen to Zeppelin with his friends, a sentiment shared with a couple of the girls.

As for the kid who looks like Harry Stiles, Jr. goes, we know what he prefers to listen to!!!

p.s. Haha!!, hilarious, as usual, Funny Gary! You hit a chord with me (no pun intended), as I despise U2, except maybe their first “hit”, “I Will Follow”, which, who knew, would serve as the template for guitarist Edge’s chalkboard squeaking level of almost unbearable playing on nearly every U2 song for the next almost four decades.

[Bob]

Count me as the President of the U2 haters club. I remember hearing "Two hearts beat As One" in the early 80s, and totally digging that groove. Who knew they'd go on to completely abandoning that groovy sound in favor of self-righteous, preachy non-rock at its most pretentious and annoying. and yes, Metalboy!, sir, Jason Bonham has matured into a fantastic drummer. I think all those years of slugging it out on the road with either UFO or Foreigner taught him a lot about how to be a solid live drummer instead of trying too hard to sound like his Father as he did with his first band, Bonham. I saw Bonham in around '89 or '90. They were terrible, and his drum solo was terrible. Oh how far he has come.