{"id":465788,"date":"2025-12-23T03:51:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T03:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/465788\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T03:51:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T03:51:13","slug":"the-best-led-zeppelin-song-according-to-jack-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/465788\/","title":{"rendered":"The best Led Zeppelin song, according to Jack White"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Jack<\/p>\n

(Credits: Far Out \/ Alamy)<\/p>\n

Tue 23 December 2025 2:00, UK <\/p>\n

When it comes to Led Zeppelin<\/a>, Jack White has made his love pretty clear. \u201cThey are an immovable force in music,\u201d he once said, before defiantly claiming, \u201cI don\u2019t trust anyone who doesn\u2019t like them.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an unsurprising statement from a musician who has clearly taken the Zeppelin blueprint and thrust it into the contemporary scene. Jimmy Page\u2019s guitar playing showed White how the humble beginnings of blues music could be amped up to maximum sound, to make an unrelenting brand of stadium rock. Then there\u2019s Robert Plant\u2019s almost operatic vocals<\/a> that clearly gave White the credence to embrace the outcry of his own.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So when it comes to putting together the ultimate Zeppelin playlist, there are few better equipped than White to do so. Rattling through their nine studio albums, White carefully curated a list that largely showcased some of Zeppelin\u2019s deepest cuts. Besides the well-known hit \u2018Moby Dick\u2019,<\/a> the playlist is an education for the otherwise uninitiated. Alternate mixes of \u2018Two Ones Are Won (Achilles Last Stand)\u2019 and \u2018St. Tristan\u2019s Sword\u2019 make the cut, as well as \u2018The Girl I Love She Got Long Black Wavy Hair\u2019 and \u2018Traveling Riverside Blues\u2019, which was from sessions the band recorded for the BBC.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Amidst the playlist was a song from their triumphant debut album. Closing track \u2018How Many More Times\u2019 was chosen by White, which showcases Zeppelin at their blues-rock best. Recorded in 1969, when the early influence of blues bled all over their music, before it developed into the grander worlds of stadium rock. <\/p>\n

It was sultry and brooding, celebrating the exact sort of guitar playing that White would come to love. Page explained how the track was inspired by old-school blues rock, saying, \u201cWe had numbers from the Yardbirds that we called free form, like \u2018Smokestack Lightnin\u2019,\u2019 where I\u2019d come up with my own riffs and things, and obviously I wasn\u2019t going to throw all that away, as they hadn\u2019t been recorded, so I remodelled those riffs and used them again.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued, \u201cSo the bowing on \u2018How Many More Times\u2019 and \u2018Good Times, Bad Times\u2019 was an extension of what I\u2019d been working on with the Yardbirds, although I\u2019d never had that much chance to go to town with it, and to see how far one could stretch the bowing technique<\/a> on record, and obviously for anyone who saw the band, it became quite a little showpiece in itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Page was a part of The Yardbirds in the 1960s, he had already developed his instrumental chops to a point where he could create new and innovative sounds alone on guitar, and his bowing technique was certainly one of them. <\/p>\n

But what \u2018How Many More Times\u2019 goes to prove is just how better a musician he became when he finally found his band. On that track, Led Zeppelin were a band firing on all cylinders, right the way from Page\u2019s guitar to Plant\u2019s vocals, and the rolling thunder rhythm section that sat behind. When you listen to a song like that, it\u2019s hard to argue with White when he said people who don\u2019t enjoy the Zep are untrustworthy.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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