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How Led Zeppelin Changed the World
They marked the moment when vast numbers of people, for the very first time, experienced rock ‘n’ roll as a kind of reckless orgy of the self.
That said, Led Zeppelin loomed like figures on Olympus over the entire cosmos of metal: the hard-charging thunder chords and blistering guitar solos, the long-haired priapic strutting, the vocals that scream out their omnipotence, the eroticized vandalism, the power. When you see the documentary, which presents the four members of Zeppelin from their earliest years on, and covers how they came together in the second half of 1968, then spent 1969 putting out their first two albums and playing live, often at the music festivals that took place in the wake of Woodstock, you feel the special charge of volcanic intensity they gave off. What struck me drinking all this in now, as opposed to, say, 50 years ago, when Zep was the soundtrack of my youth (definition of teenage bliss, at least for me, in the ’70s: playing air hockey in a pinball parlor with “Black Dog” blasting through the speakers), is that the spirit of Zeppelin, rather than being stuck in time, feels larger and more alive than ever.
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