…was done in 1969, gong and all.
The Lemon Song…
Put your headphones on, crank it up loud and listen to the drums….
This has always been one of my top.
Dazed and Confused is also pretty credible.
Damn strait. And x2 on the LOUD. All LZ should be cranked. I have been a headphones guy since the bean bag era. I will also vote for zep’s Rock and Roll. That song is just tight, every instrument, every riff, right where it’s supposed to be.
Band in its prime, hitting on all cylinders.
My kind of drumming. No fancy solos just solid rhythm through some crazy changes in tempo.
Solid base line too.
Dazed and Confused is also pretty credible.
I agree, I got to see them on that tour too…yes I’m old.
Band in its prime, hitting on all cylinders.
My kind of drumming. No fancy solos just solid rhythm through some crazy changes in tempo.
Solid base line too.
Ah, see? By concentrating on the drums you are opened to the rolling, meandering yet firmly anchored bass line.
Also, keep in mind that Bonham used a single bass drum which on occasion he makes sound like doubles.
And the gaps, the shit he doesn’t hit are almost as important as what he does play.
Lucky!
Dazed and Confused is also pretty credible.
And makes for a darned-difficult song to run to, if you try to match your candence with the beat.
Its ok. My favourite drumming by him is fairly basic but it’s what draws me to this song.
“The Rover” grooves pretty hard, too.
Bonzo was just unbelievable. I could never play like him…at all. The feel is just so difficult to reproduce. The guy just absolutelty grooves. Thanks for posting this song. I’ll have to work on it for a while before getting frustrated.
I’ve always thought of the big three in rock being Peart, Bonzo, and Moon (not specifically in that order), with all three being completely different talents.
If anyone has ever seen the TV show Freaks and Geeks, there was a funny episode where the dad told his daughter’s drummer friend that Neil Peart sucked. After arguing a bit, they went to the living room and the dad played him Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich. It was pretty amusing. Lots of great jazz drummers out there, though jazz isn’t really my thing.
Its ok. My favourite drumming by him is fairly basic but it’s what draws me to this song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEQTJV_3-w
Such a great drum sequence (if that’s the right word) and also gave us this gem:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAQCHZpM_3I
twomarks
There are a lot of other Zep songs where the drumming is *really *good but this one (for me) is done *with the music *as good or better than any of them. The way it pairs with the bass is just too good.
Other songs not mentioned yet where the drums really make me want to be a drummer are…
Achilles Last Stand
The Crunge
Kashmir
Re: Peart. He’s great but I just don’t really get into him. He’s (sorta) like the drumming equivalent to Steve Vai on guitar.
A drummer who I think goes unnoticed (sometimes) is Stewart Copeland. His beats are just so *weird. *
I saw a video that he was in a while back (can’t remember what it was even about). It was just him playing the drums for Walking on the Moon and it took me a minute or two to even recognize there was a beat there and I didn’t know what song it was until they laid the rest of the music over it.
Jazz? Yeah, I don’t know enough about it.
Don’t forget to strap on the headphones and listen to some Tool drumming sometime.
Don’t forget to strap on the headphones and listen to some Tool drumming sometime.
I was going to mention Tool. Thanks.
Not much to it, honestly, but Max Weinberg sounds like an airplane waiting for takeoff in “Candy’s Room”
Not much to it, honestly, but Max Weinberg sounds like an airplane waiting for takeoff in “Candy’s Room”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pku_NPaWTY8
I always liked Max’s drumming.
Its ok. My favourite drumming by him is fairly basic but it’s what draws me to this song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEQTJV_3-w
Listen to it again. It isn’t “fairly basic”. That’s the one of the things about Bonham. On the surface a lot of his stuff sounds basic. Listen to *Levee *with headphones and just listen to the drums. He’s got this triple bass hit going (remember he’s only using one bass drum) that is unreal and incredibly difficult. He recorded that “live” in a stairwell with the mic a couple floors above him, btw.
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Its ok. My favourite drumming by him is fairly basic but it’s what draws me to this song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEQTJV_3-w
Listen to it again. It isn’t “fairly basic”. That’s the one of the things about Bonham. On the surface a lot of his stuff sounds basic. Listen to *Levee *with headphones and just listen to the drums. He’s got this triple bass hit going (remember he’s only using one bass drum) that is unreal and incredibly difficult. He recorded that “live” in a stairwell with the mic a couple floors above him, btw.
Boom tis bap
tis
boom boomboomboomtis bap tis
boom tis bap
tis…
boom boomboomboomtis bap tis
All I know is that the first time I heard the song about three bars into it I thought ‘this song is awesome’. That isn’t normal.