What Does Led Zeppelin Mean to Your Inner Adolescent?

In the 1970's, Led Zeppelin created a mythological space for people to feel something where they couldn't before. The bands keen awareness of sound was used to create an environment for something else to suddenly occur in ones life. Adolescents found and still find themselves running away to this newly created environment to step away from life's confusion. Anyone and everyone can form they own interpretation to Led Zeppelin. It means something different to everyones individual life. Adolescents began using Led Zeppelin music as a right of passage during such times of confusion and during a major state of transition. Led Zeppelin facilitated this time of adolescent confusion on an unconscious level. Prevalent drug use at this time helped to aid the transit to adulthood and served as another right of passage.

Led Zeppelin connected with drug users as it provided a new trance type of music bringing people to far away lands and creating a loss of inhibition. Erik Davis describes trance music as a sudden shift that happens to you right then. It makes you feel alive and in a moment. There is a certain crispness to the happening moment where you just loose yourself. This made fans crazy and as Led Zeppelin became more and more popular they created a fierce violent intensity within their fan base. The raw intensity of their concerts allowed people to get used to getting off on their energy and stage presents. Led Zeppelin turned concerts into rituals. Their concerts were famously sloppy.