- Everybody knows this song.
- (FBE) So we want to see what you think
of the younger generation's opinions.
- (Jake) Led Zeppelin is so goooood!
- See? Now that is a smart kid.
♪ (ragtime intro) ♪
- (FBE) So recently we had the elders react to Greta Van Fleet,
a band that many say sounds like Led Zeppelin.
- Oh, wow.
- (FBE) So much so that we had the elders
try to guess to see which songs were Greta Van Fleet
and Led Zeppelin. - Yeah, and I aced it.
I love Led Zeppelin! I love you, Robert!
- (FBE) And people were very excited when we released that episode
and many people wanted to see us actually react
to Led Zeppelin, and so that's what
we're gonna have you do today. - Okay.
- That's one of the greatest bands of our time.
- You better make sure Catherine is on it
or she'll have a flipping heart attack.
- Are you kidding me? - (FBE) Nope!
- Are you kidding me?! OH MY GOD!
The best band ever.
♪ (electric guitar riff) ♪
- Doesn't sound familiar.
- Oh, yeah! I remember this.
- "Whole Lotta Love."
- ♪ (vocalizing guitar riff) ♪
- Everybody knows this one.
- Go get 'em, Led Zeppelin!
- ♪ I'm gonna send ya ♪
♪ Back to schooling ♪
♪ A-way down inside ♪ - (nostalgic sigh)
So many memories.
- ♪ I'm gonna give you my love ♪
- This one's all right.
- I love his voice.
- ♪ Want a whole lotta love ♪ - Good song.
- ♪ ...you need-ah ♪ - You need love.
♪ ...loooove ♪ - Hmm.
- ♪ ...looooove ♪
♪ (tempo speeds up) ♪
- I like it. (chuckling)
- Epic and iconic. This song is an anthem!
- You would hear that song and you'd just get in a party mood.
Everybody liked that song.
- We all need a whole lotta love!
I love that song.
It was exciting, but there was almost
a dangerous feeling to it.
♪ (drum solo) ♪
- "Rock and Roll!"
- Now you're talkin'.
♪ (drum solo) ♪
♪ (upbeat rock) ♪ - Oh, this I like.
- Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
- ♪ It's been a long time since I rock and rolled ♪
- Every day, rock and roll. Every day.
- ♪ It's been a long time since I did the Stroll ♪
- These guys were so wild.
- ♪ ...long lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely time ♪
♪ Yes, it has ♪
- ♪ Lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely ♪
(laughing)
- This, I liked.
I used to dance a lot of rock and roll.
- It's timeless, good music. Oh my god!
I can't believe it! (squealing)
- ♪ Ramble on ♪
- (slurring) ♪ Ramble on ♪
- ♪ And now's the time, the time is now ♪
♪ To sing my song ♪
♪ I'm goin' 'round the world, I got to find my girl ♪
♪ On my way ♪ - Listen to that bass guitar.
- ♪ Shake (sing my song) ♪
♪ I gotta find my baby ♪
- I think he's headed towards rap in here,
because he's just rambling on, talking,
but with a little more music in the background.
- ♪ ...do, do ♪ - He's gonna ramble on.
If I had known that I could become a multi-millionaire
by writing the lyrics "ramble on, ramble on, ramble on"...
(grunting) If only I'd known!
- The lyrics are not as exciting as some of the other ones.
A lot of redundancy.
Gee, that's interesting because sometimes that's been
my criticism of rap music.
- I liked this not as much as the first two.
You can't win 'em all.
- That voice is real high, yet it has a raspiness to it.
Probably has to spray his throat after every performance.
- Uh-oh, this is "Immigrant Song."
- They've got a good lead guitar.
- ♪ Ahh! ♪
- The great Jimmy Page, master. And that vocal!
- ♪ We come from the land of the ice and snow ♪
♪ From the midnight sun where the hot springs flow ♪
- Sing it like you mean it!
- ♪ On we sweep with threshing oar ♪
♪ Our only goal will be the western shore ♪
♪ (heavy metal music) ♪
- Oh, that's just-- I mean, come on. That's rock and roll.
- Good, fast, driving rhythm.
- If you hit those notes, woo, that guy is an octave above
what I could do.
- I like Robert Plant's voice. I think it's very sensual
and it almost permeates your soul.
You almost just kind of go, "Oh-ho-ho!"
♪ (soft rock ballad) ♪
- "Stairway to Heaven."
- This one, everybody knows this song.
Great song.
- This was a very big one.
- ♪ There's a lady who's sure ♪
- (singing along) ♪ All that glitters is gold ♪
- ♪ And she's buying... ♪
- (singing along) ♪ ...a stairway to Heaven ♪
- See, this is slower and more of a ballad.
It's something I would listen to.
- ♪ Ooh, it makes me wonder ♪ - Good song.
- ♪ If there's a bustle in your hedgerow ♪
♪ Don't be alarmed now ♪
♪ It's just a spring clean for the May queen ♪
- It's real dreamy.
♪ (guitar solo) ♪
- Just the best guitarist.
- ♪ And as we wind on down the road ♪
- Yeah, it's real dreamy and then it's real wild.
- ♪ There walks a lady... ♪
- They set you up with a slow-- coming into it slow,
and now its picking up and this has been put together good.
- And then slow it down.
- (singing along) ♪ She's buying a stairway to Heaven ♪
(sighing) That is at the top of my stairway to Heaven,
is Led Zeppelin.
The best rock and roll band ever was, ever will be--
they just blew it and took it and ripped it apart
and reinvented rock and roll and it's just, to me,
it's the gold standard.
- So this song, and the first one, they could have just done
those two and retired.
- The guy's got a set of chops.
I mean, he can sing.
- I liked the way that it starts slow and easy
and then gradually builds and gets you into it
and then brings you back down again.
- (FBE) So before we get into a few questions,
we actually had the kids react to Led Zeppelin kind of recently.
- Oh, yeah?
- (FBE) So we want to see what you think
of the younger generation's opinions on the band.
- This ought to be very fun.
- I bet they liked it.
- (FBE) So this is going to be Led Zeppelin.
- (Madison) Led Zeppelin?
- (Tida) Iron Man?
- (Jackson) They're definitely not the greatest band of all time.
- (laughing)
- (Jake) I love this band!
My dad plays it in his car all the time.
Thank you so much!
- (Sophie) I have no idea what they said at the first bit.
It sounds like "I need oatmeal." - (laughing)
- (Sophie) It sounds like "I need oatmeal."
- I thought it said "We need Kool-Aid."
♪ (soft rock ballad) ♪
- (Jake) Oh, I love this song!
- Oh, he likes the same one I like.
- (Jackson) I just don't like real instruments in music.
- What do you like, kid?
- (Jackson) I don't like real music, according to my dad.
- I agree!
♪ (hard rock music) ♪
- (Tyler) I've heard this song before. - That's the song, "Kashmir."
- (Sophie) It sounds like rock and roll
and also groovy. - Hey, groovy cutie pie!
You're adorbs.
- (Jackson) All right, I'm happy this is over.
- (Tida) Led Zeppelin--
- (Jake) Led Zeppelin is so gooood! - See?
Now that is a smart kid.
- I expected them to be giving looks like
"What the hell is that? Oh my god!"
- I expected them to react exactly the way they did.
What I did not expect is for them to be so mind-bogglingly adorable
while they did it.
- (FBE) So Led Zeppelin was formed in 1968
and were considered one of the founders of heavy metal.
- That was it. See, they weren't rock and roll.
They were heavy metal.
That's why I didn't take to it.
- I never liked metal music.
I want it with nice words, you know, and something I could dance to.
Except the "Stairway to Heaven." That one, I like.
- (FBE) So Led Zeppelin is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,
and are one of the best-selling music artists of all time
and considered to be one of the most influential bands.
They were very popular through some of your younger years
and some say changed the face of rock and roll forever.
- Well, you know, he's got a great voice.
- I was there when it came in, you know,
and it was banned in some churches.
- It was very different from what my parents were listening to.
It didn't make any sense to them that we liked this
loud, aggressive, rowdy kind of music.
- (FBE) So, obviously, music is subjective,
but for you, where do they place amongst the greatest of all time?
- Maybe not first, but right in there.
Top five.
- They're high up there. I mentioned Presley
and Mick Jagger and those guys, and The Beatles.
They would go under them.
- Top five or ten, I'd say.
Everybody knows Led Zeppelin, even if they've never
ever heard any of them or been to a concert.
Led Zeppelin is just sort of in the vernacular.
- They would be right up in the top ten.
Clearly, they were juggernauts in many ways.
Clearly, they were talented beyond the pale.
Clearly, they resonated with the teenagers
of the world like crazy.
- Nobody comes close to Led Zeppelin.
It's the number one band.
There's always something new to hear, and when you go back
and I play the first album and it's still contemporary to me.
It is the soundtrack of my life and every song has
a memory associated with it.
- Thanks for watching this episode of Elders React.
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And shout-out to Riley Wrenn.
- Shout-out to James Corner.
- Thanks for watching. Bye.
- Hi, guys, Vartuhi here, a producer here at FBE.
Thanks so much for watching this episode of Elders React.
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