Bonham was a titan!!! Paul McCartney invited him to play on Rockestra during the Wings sessions of 1978, Ringo Starr said that he was a giant, Keith Moon said that he's a meteorite with sticks on hands. The man was amazing!
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I end up doing that. It's good to release breath from the body when fatigue might be kicking in. I had a gig recently where I had a backing vocal microphone and I forgot to lean away from it when doing a fill and went "ARRGHHHHH" very loudly through the PA system
I love when a drummer hit that hard with all is heart , Bonzo was one of a kind, but he was also very subtle with the ghost note and the way he make this rythm swing and powerfull in the same time.
i understand what you say, but It's not even a shuffle, it's more like a sort of not precise or dirty drumming (let me say it in this way) but totally groovy, it's something you have or not have (my opinion obviously). And something that kills me it's the pause after the snare hit at 3.44...genious, a "stupid" pause...immense space and groove to the song. Incredible drummer.
+Cappedrum I totally had to go back and hear that! He perfectly slips things in like that but never overdoes it. It's like the just right thing but you don't expect it. Thee most satisfying rhythms. Absolute drumming phenom.
I'm no student of drumming/percussion. But the words shuffle and bounce certainly resonate with my thoughts as I listened to his drum tracks. Really great stuff.
There's so much soul, feel, finesse, swing, thunder, command, mastery and fire in his playing. It is really hard to believe he ever doubted himself. He literally invented rock drumming.
... what has been replaced during these last decades is not much the instrument(s) with machines, but rather the sophisticated threshold of appreciation, with a very superficial and coarse taste in music and performing arts in general.
@@MrUsermister There's always been superficial music but If you ever flip through the radio dial or stand in line at the checkout counter or go to a coffee shop or a restaurant you should know that most modern pop music today is heavily quanitzed and soulless.
Your comment does not contradict mine, it actually enhances it ! It has been a few decades long, social and cultural process, but before crap music could even possibly be perceived as good music, they needed to degrade people's appreciation, and only then the music industry could take advantage and "rebrand" what was commonly known as MUSIC ! @@frankmarsh1159 so to speak
Just proves Bonham was the engine room for Zeppelin. No wonder they couldn’t carry on without him. Most bands can replace one or two members and it doesn’t make much difference, but Zep were a four headed monster, and it could only be THOSE four. Jeez, they were beyond great !!!
Shuffle, baby. People assume this is a hard rock tune, but it is so much more than that because John Bonham put the funk on it, the shuffle, the wonderful percussion. This song changed my life. God bless everyone involved in this song and this youtube video and everyone listening to it.
Late in the song, you can hear Bonham yelling in the background and he doing long fills. Not like he's mad ... just kinda getting his caveman rock drums on ... I fucking love that.
Yeah listen to Chuck Berry. That has the 'Roll' that's missing today. I don't think it would work for every rock style song, but swinging the rhythm at some point in the song is almost always good for it. Something to keep in mind is most music, until headphones and at home record players, was made for dancing! I wish song writers of rock would remember that. I hate going to little concerts and all the bands make you want to do is nod your head and tap your foot. It's not like they don't have impressive skill and some good hooks, which tells me if they actually focused on subtly making the music danceable they could do it. In the 50s and 60s rock and roll was dangerous because it made the horny youth want to MOVE.
This is exactly why I get pissed when kids say Great Van Fleet is the next or better than Zeppelin. There will NEVER be another Zeppelin. Each member in their own right a genius.
Vicarious Johnson Can we just stop with all this greta van fleet bullshit! They weren’t trying to be like Zeppelin. They make hard rock music cause they have a passion. The only people saying they are the next Zeppelin have never listened to Zeppelin. Greta van fleet is great in its own way.
Stephanie Rodriguez That's my point. I think all of the people (not me) comparing them to Zeppelin have never really listened to Zeppelin. To me it's preposterous. I personally think GVF are nothing more than garage band quality. Would I rather see an average rock band get more popular than an average pop douche like Justin Beiber. Hell yes. But people need to pump the brakes on the them being the second coming...We'll see if they last as long as Kingdom Come.
Vicarious Johnson Kingdom come was fucking garbage. I like GVF, they have a lot more staying power than that trash. Most of their songs aren’t really as much “hard rock” as LZ. They’re just making music cuz they like it. That’s at least more than you can say about most artists today.
Bonham laid down so many killer grooves, a truly unique and masterful drummer. RIP and thank you for bringing down the hammer of the gods to us mortals. Forever a legend 🙌
There was some video i watched that said something that helped make Bonham unique was that he would play off of the guitar as opposed to playing off of and syncing with the bass. You could really hear that at the beginning of this song
I think modern musicians, especially pop people and other studio folks need to give this a listen. Zeppelin is regarded as one of the best rock bands ever, and in this isolated track you can hear the humanity in the drum part. There are small imperfections, and he moves around on the beat just enough to make it interesting rather than having everything heavily quantized (which you couldn't do back then) and robotic.
i think of it this way... you wouldn't eat at McDonald's every day, would you? Where all the ingredients are tested in the lab to be as addicting as possible while being cheap... the maximal efficiency of greed. so why would you do the same with your music? Sink your teeth into something fresh and unique every once in a while. give your soul a treat
@@Ste88til2 what the fuck!? You're the fucking unmale who love these so call artists (pfft!) with face tattoos and teeth things! Shame on you! Really really shame if your mum supposed to born a male!
Bonzo had that beautiful “swing” to his playing, I’m not a drummer, but Jesus, I love to hear him play. I had a friend in high school who could do that. Good times.
Bonham's hi-hat's playing is unique. It's not eight notes, but not 16th notes either. It's sloppy but groovy, yet tight. Duplicating this to perfection is pretty much impossible.
I think that's what makes Zeppelin sound so good. There is a skillful and musical aspect to their playing, but there is also a raw rock n' roll/punk rock/heavy metal sloppiness that adds to the mix. You get the best of both worlds.
@hugolafhugolaf it's a shuffle feel, where the 8th and 16th notes are clumped together. He also combined it with accents and tuplets (an amount of notes within a time frame, triplets, quintuplets) to make a sort of drunk feel.
He does just play 8ths on this track, but there is a delay effect on the recording that makes it sound like he is playing extra notes, same sorta thing on Heartbreaker, when I first heard it I thought he was actually playing 16ths on the hi-hat, but if you watch video footage of Zeppelin live, you can see he only plays 8ths on these songs and nearly all Zeppelin songs for that matter. In My Time of Dying and Night Flight do have some 16ths on the hi-hats, but it wasn't something he used a lot.
I've started thinking he actually slows down and speeds up within individual measures some times even though he always lands on point, but the rest of the measure he kind of loosens up and let's it go places. It's a very strange sensation, and unique to him.
I never quite understood why I always sounded just a little off while playing this seemingly straight forward song. Until I heard the isolated track and realized just how god**mn funky he is on it. Jesus it's so good. This is the thing that takes their music into the stratosphere. It elevated their songs from "I enjoy listening to this" to "I can't ever stop listening to this". That. F-ing. Groove.
@@THXx1138 Such a misunderstood aspect of his drumming by most people. That's one of the intangible things that is tough to pin down on musicians in general. You play the part, you have the equipment, you tuned the same way, but.....nope.
EXACTLY! He (Bonham) yelled, moaned & groaned much the same during his tracking of "All My Love" some 11 years later. Listen to isolated tracks of Keith Moon's "Who Are You". Same dealio. It must be a British thing...you know...visualizing the The Red Coats are coming, just as you're slamming down into a massive drum riff! BCRadio
@@BolsaChicaRadio like him, Mooney yeld and hollered the whole time while playing - both of them played like they were possessed ... demons out!!! so good! 🙌🏼
This guy's expression as a percussionist for a band is unmatched as far as I'm concerned. You'd honestly never know the band was a rock group if you just listened to his parts. The way he spoke through the songs musically was out of this world.
I'm a bassist of 45 years (or at least I try to be) Bonham was a bass players dream. His hands and feet were in smooth perfect sync with each other, I don't think I've ever heard anyone else come close Add the fact that he always knew what to play, how to play it, and a being a great writer of drum beats, there will never be another like him. It's been what, 40 or so years? He was a once in a lifetime..
"As soon as I heard John Bonham play", Jones recalled, "I knew this was going to be great ... We locked together as a team immediately" John Paul Jones on LZ first band session
The rhythm driving the greatest rock riff of all time is a damn shuffle beat. Its even hard to believe it when listening to it isolated like this. That is sheer creative brilliance.
The syncopation @ 3:30 between the tambourine and the rest of the drum set, especially the bass drum is AMAZING!!!! There will NEVER be anyone GREATER!!!
El mejor baterista de la historia y no solo por su habilidad, sino que para la época era algo totalmente desconocido tocar como el, y marcó la tendencia hacia los años siguientes… porque puede que existan mejores en técnica que no lo dudo pero tan influyentes ninguno.
Had a chance to hang out with John Paul Jones at a club in Manhattan one night in the 90s. He was so down to earth, had to keep reminding myself who he was!🤔
this is the best drum track. Bonzo was just straight awesome! I like the bongos, snare sound, foot drum, hi hat, and tamborine at last verse. especially the way he grunts! boy that old carpenter could really knock those drums!
Not saying these guys are any better but Ian Paice and Bill Ward are right up there with Bonham. Listen to some of their isolated tracks. Especially highway star and into the void.
Let's not under rate John Paul Jones in this discussion. His relationship with the beat of Bonzo is one of the best in the genre. The bass and the drums are what gives Led Zeppelin that primeval beat.
@@matthewhart6857 Let's face it the engine room of any Rocki Band is the relationship of the Base Guitarist and the Drummer. In this aspect Led Zeppelin had it all.
This guy deserves every accolade that ever comes his way! The grooves he laid down... the FEEL! 👀 Stunning. The father of modern rock drumming. One sees why the lads called it a day after his passing.
One of very few drummers who could make their drums literally sound like the electric guitar. What a friggin' legend. Hear that, kids? This is what REAL music sounds like.
Listen at 0.75sp and it’s swinging heavily, guitars in background tarishly grooving. Listen at 0.50sp, guitars are nothing more than repeating early blues riff, however the drums reveal something completely different still unheard of, truly indescribable. As if Bonham was channeling some sort of rhythmic sentience
John is Thor. Never ever heard such a Rock Percussionist and Great Shuffler before and after. With that Grove You can't be wrong as a band of Joy 😉. Keep in rockin' in a free world my dear Lover of Rock & Roooooooohhhhhhl. Badabadahbam 🎸🥁
Just hearing the pure sound, groove, and feeling from Bonham, how could you like any other drummer more?! This right here, or any other drum track, is all you need to prove it!
Nothin like hearing the sound of John Bonham's ambient big oL fat LUDDY !!! Such magic wow. I heard things in this not previously heard! Thanks for the post!!
O led é tao incrível..por ter um showmen...tocando bateria..de forma pura ..eu iria no show deles só pra ver boham...certo ..n que n gostasse dos outros ..mais essa bateria ..é incrível simples assim
He had some of the best taste and catchy beats ever. He was not a standard drummer with standard beats, he had feel as well and knew when do to what, a natural which is hard to come by. Remember its not just about playing fast, which he could also do.
Thank you so much for this. I could quite happily listen to an entire album of his isolated drums and that glossolalia-type yelling makes it even better.
So very cool, you can see Bonham's 'swaggle', something that's hard/impossible to write correctly in music notation. Turns basic beats into Bonham beats.
The frenetic primal brilliance of John Bonham! Warts and all it's the character of the drum and not the sterileness of perfect time that matters. He plays with a feeling deep in his stomach! This is part of what makes Bonzo one of the Greatest Drummers to have ever lived!
He maybe? The greatest drummer that ever lived. but buddy rich was also the greatest drummer to ever live that put down.other drummers that he deemed beneath him!
it's always arguable who the best lead singer, bass player, guitarist is/was. it's not arguable that Bonham wasn't the greatest rock drummer of all time. i take comfort in that. dude was just hauntingly brilliant at his craft.
Its the SOUL, bonham was such a lover of Soul and Funk. Those subtle ghost notes he is playing. Sure he could hit hard but really his genius lies in his dynamics....and of course his groove. Just wow.
I wouldn’t mind if they just made an entire album of all bonzos isolated drum tracks
I agree I’ve said it 100x..up to Jimmy.
I would
@@goonashwah6568 why?
Yeah what a great sound
Definitely
There’s a “bounce” to his groove that I just can’t explain… hard to replicate.
his son may know.....
Bonham played a shuffle times ten !
Bonham was only 21 when they recorded Zep 2. That blows my middle aged wanna-be mind.
Dayum
Andrew Harvey a true alpha
Sepultura were only 15/16 when they released the bestial devastations ep
That's an amazing feat! he was just a baby!
Age has nothing to do with talent
Bonham was a titan!!! Paul McCartney invited him to play on Rockestra during the Wings sessions of 1978, Ringo Starr said that he was a giant, Keith Moon said that he's a meteorite with sticks on hands. The man was amazing!
🙂
Did he play for McCartney?
If those guys said Bonham was a monster, then best believe he's a monster
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So you're saying he's decent at those drum things?
I love how he talks, shouts, makes noise, etc. as he's playing. Awesome.
I end up doing that. It's good to release breath from the body when fatigue might be kicking in. I had a gig recently where I had a backing vocal microphone and I forgot to lean away from it when doing a fill and went "ARRGHHHHH" very loudly through the PA system
a lot do but it is cool
I love when a drummer hit that hard with all is heart , Bonzo was one of a kind, but he was also very subtle with the ghost note and the way he make this rythm swing and powerfull in the same time.
I've never heard anything so heavy and so damn funky at the same time.
And that was five years before other rock bands started to get funky.
Even his straight groove sounds like a shuffle. There's so much bounce.
i understand what you say, but It's not even a shuffle, it's more like a sort of not precise or dirty drumming (let me say it in this way) but totally groovy, it's something you have or not have (my opinion obviously).
And something that kills me it's the pause after the snare hit at 3.44...genious, a "stupid" pause...immense space and groove to the song. Incredible drummer.
Cappedrum it's just amazing the little things he did to make it sound so awesome.
+Cappedrum I totally had to go back and hear that! He perfectly slips things in like that but never overdoes it. It's like the just right thing but you don't expect it. Thee most satisfying rhythms. Absolute drumming phenom.
Pepper3961 there’s some added delay on the snare which I think helps, makes it even more bouncy
I'm no student of drumming/percussion. But the words shuffle and bounce certainly resonate with my thoughts as I listened to his drum tracks. Really great stuff.
Damn, now I know why Plant always moans....
I laughed so hard.
Fany Rose ha ha
@John Afella that is Bonzo getting into the music. He is playing he's soul of this recorded track
nyahahahahahaa
*Damn
There's so much soul, feel, finesse, swing, thunder, command, mastery and fire in his playing. It is really hard to believe he ever doubted himself. He literally invented rock drumming.
This is why machines could never replace people in real music.
... what has been replaced during these last decades is not much the instrument(s) with machines, but rather the sophisticated threshold of appreciation, with a very superficial and coarse taste in music and performing arts in general.
@@MrUsermister There's always been superficial music but If you ever flip through the radio dial or stand in line at the checkout counter or go to a coffee shop or a restaurant you should know that most modern pop music today is heavily quanitzed and soulless.
Your comment does not contradict mine, it actually enhances it ! It has been a few decades long, social and cultural process, but before crap music could even possibly be perceived as good music, they needed to degrade people's appreciation, and only then the music industry could take advantage and "rebrand" what was commonly known as MUSIC ! @@frankmarsh1159 so to speak
Sorry say but anything that humans can figure out, AI can figure out exponentially more quickly.
@@MP-db9sw even humans can't fully understand art, we just feel it. What are the chances for AI to figure out human irrational feelings?
Just proves Bonham was the engine room for Zeppelin. No wonder they couldn’t carry on without him. Most bands can replace one or two members and it doesn’t make much difference, but Zep were a four headed monster, and it could only be THOSE four. Jeez, they were beyond great !!!
Shuffle, baby. People assume this is a hard rock tune, but it is so much more than that because John Bonham put the funk on it, the shuffle, the wonderful percussion. This song changed my life. God bless everyone involved in this song and this youtube video and everyone listening to it.
God bless YOU
Indeed. God bless you
3:45 AAAAAH
"Let's change the kick pattern, why not?"
John Bonham's roar when he's into it.
Yeah beast mode.
Led Zeppelin Rarities AHHHHH
Yeah dude most drummers make some crazy ass mouth noises while we play, y’all just can’t hear it 😂😂
Late in the song, you can hear Bonham yelling in the background and he doing long fills. Not like he's mad ... just kinda getting his caveman rock drums on ... I fucking love that.
Funky as hell. Somewhere along the way rock music lost its funk.
... you're listening to the wrong music.
Samurai Jacques it lost the roll and turned into Metallica
Yeah listen to Chuck Berry. That has the 'Roll' that's missing today. I don't think it would work for every rock style song, but swinging the rhythm at some point in the song is almost always good for it. Something to keep in mind is most music, until headphones and at home record players, was made for dancing! I wish song writers of rock would remember that. I hate going to little concerts and all the bands make you want to do is nod your head and tap your foot. It's not like they don't have impressive skill and some good hooks, which tells me if they actually focused on subtly making the music danceable they could do it. In the 50s and 60s rock and roll was dangerous because it made the horny youth want to MOVE.
@@daveinindy Lost its soul. Lost its blues. Lost its punk. Lost its funk. I agree.
So true!
This is exactly why I get pissed when kids say Great Van Fleet is the next or better than Zeppelin. There will NEVER be another Zeppelin. Each member in their own right a genius.
Vicarious Johnson "Van Fleet" over rated !
I like Greta Van Fleet but I won't say they are better than Led Zeppelin or even as good as them
Vicarious Johnson Can we just stop with all this greta van fleet bullshit! They weren’t trying to be like Zeppelin. They make hard rock music cause they have a passion. The only people saying they are the next Zeppelin have never listened to Zeppelin. Greta van fleet is great in its own way.
Stephanie Rodriguez That's my point. I think all of the people (not me) comparing them to Zeppelin have never really listened to Zeppelin. To me it's preposterous. I personally think GVF are nothing more than garage band quality. Would I rather see an average rock band get more popular than an average pop douche like Justin Beiber. Hell yes. But people need to pump the brakes on the them being the second coming...We'll see if they last as long as Kingdom Come.
Vicarious Johnson Kingdom come was fucking garbage. I like GVF, they have a lot more staying power than that trash. Most of their songs aren’t really as much “hard rock” as LZ. They’re just making music cuz they like it. That’s at least more than you can say about most artists today.
Anyone else do Page's guitar in their head (perfectly) at 3:14?
i air-shredded it too
Umm. EVERYONE else did. :P
I can't not do it 😂😂
I was out of time ...... ;)
Sure did, and hit it perfectly I might add.
I'm a drummer since my 14 years old, and I can say ....
John Bonham is a genius .
The best
Yes he is
One of the best rock drummers ever
55 years of playing myself. Bonham and Keith Moon were the two best. Moon was the paradiddle king.
Wow!!! Simply amazing to hear!!! For the record: Led Zeppelin is and will always be my favorite band.
Jesus I had no idea his part was so intricate and subtle while still being so obviously rock solid.
You've listened to Bonham, rite? I mean since Zep I... no Bonzo, NO Zep.
I can’t stop the smile coming to my face whenever I listen to this awesome drummer.
The same 😏
442 knuckleheads voted thumbs down??????? WTF??? This is priceless drumming!!!
Bonham laid down so many killer grooves, a truly unique and masterful drummer. RIP and thank you for bringing down the hammer of the gods to us mortals. Forever a legend 🙌
The incredible sound of the bass drum is killer.
I love that too, sounds like a 20" deck gun from a destroyer 🙂
Those ghost notes are delicious.
Isolated has a different feel entirely. So great to hear how the kick pattern fits into the song - what a monster! 🤘🏽
Little Brother Eli Yeah, so true man
It's a funk groove. Actually. #syncopation
There was some video i watched that said something that helped make Bonham unique was that he would play off of the guitar as opposed to playing off of and syncing with the bass. You could really hear that at the beginning of this song
That kick drum hits like a truck.
0:53 this is perfection. There’s a reason this man’s playing has been sampled a zillion times
The pedal kick?
The whole groove
Even during the bongo-cymbal part, he's composing and thinking. The cymbals have their own melody. Incredible drummer.
I'm a drummer and have been listening to this song since it came out. Why id I never notice the prominence of the bongos?
Because in the general mix they are almost not audible. But when I mixed the tracks for the video, I made the track with percussion much louder.
Bongo solo woulda been tight af on a zepp record too bad you couldn't hear it
Agree. I'm like...bongos??? I'd better go listen again!!
Can I ask you where did you find the separated tracks?
Those bongos are killer with the drums.
I think modern musicians, especially pop people and other studio folks need to give this a listen. Zeppelin is regarded as one of the best rock bands ever, and in this isolated track you can hear the humanity in the drum part. There are small imperfections, and he moves around on the beat just enough to make it interesting rather than having everything heavily quantized (which you couldn't do back then) and robotic.
Shut the fuck up
@@Ste88til2 no you shut the fuck up you gay bald bitch😅😅
i think of it this way... you wouldn't eat at McDonald's every day, would you? Where all the ingredients are tested in the lab to be as addicting as possible while being cheap... the maximal efficiency of greed. so why would you do the same with your music? Sink your teeth into something fresh and unique every once in a while. give your soul a treat
Thanks for pointing that out. I was about to say something very similar. It's great because it's human.
@@Ste88til2 what the fuck!? You're the fucking unmale who love these so call artists (pfft!) with face tattoos and teeth things! Shame on you! Really really shame if your mum supposed to born a male!
Bonham was a MONSTER! One of the best ever.
Not just "one" of the best...THE best!!
He still is the best
Bonham was a BEAST!)
dogbarbill Don't count Neil Peart, Gavin Harrison, Craig Blundell, Mario Duplantier, Chris Maitland and Marco Minneman out too quickly.
Fynii neil peart is better
Bonzo had that beautiful “swing” to his playing, I’m not a drummer, but Jesus, I love to hear him play. I had a friend in high school who could do that. Good times.
The secret sauce is Bonham's ability to "shuffle," play slightly behind the beat and still stay in time. Who needs click tracks?
The most melodic drum groove i have ever heard.
This beat just sings to me.
All of his (isolated) tracks just show the same..
Bonham's hi-hat's playing is unique. It's not eight notes, but not 16th notes either. It's sloppy but groovy, yet tight. Duplicating this to perfection is pretty much impossible.
I think that's what makes Zeppelin sound so good. There is a skillful and musical aspect to their playing, but there is also a raw rock n' roll/punk rock/heavy metal sloppiness that adds to the mix. You get the best of both worlds.
You should check out swing.
@hugolafhugolaf it's a shuffle feel, where the 8th and 16th notes are clumped together. He also combined it with accents and tuplets (an amount of notes within a time frame, triplets, quintuplets) to make a sort of drunk feel.
He does just play 8ths on this track, but there is a delay effect on the recording that makes it sound like he is playing extra notes, same sorta thing on Heartbreaker, when I first heard it I thought he was actually playing 16ths on the hi-hat, but if you watch video footage of Zeppelin live, you can see he only plays 8ths on these songs and nearly all Zeppelin songs for that matter. In My Time of Dying and Night Flight do have some 16ths on the hi-hats, but it wasn't something he used a lot.
I've started thinking he actually slows down and speeds up within individual measures some times even though he always lands on point, but the rest of the measure he kind of loosens up and let's it go places. It's a very strange sensation, and unique to him.
I never quite understood why I always sounded just a little off while playing this seemingly straight forward song. Until I heard the isolated track and realized just how god**mn funky he is on it. Jesus it's so good. This is the thing that takes their music into the stratosphere. It elevated their songs from "I enjoy listening to this" to "I can't ever stop listening to this". That. F-ing. Groove.
Stunned me at age 5 when Immigrant Song was released. I was hooked.
@@THXx1138 Such a misunderstood aspect of his drumming by most people. That's one of the intangible things that is tough to pin down on musicians in general. You play the part, you have the equipment, you tuned the same way, but.....nope.
3:45
Those aren't Plant overdubs by the way folks. That's Bonzo going Beast Mode and yelling at the gd drums
XD
EXACTLY! He (Bonham) yelled, moaned & groaned much the same during his tracking of "All My Love" some 11 years later. Listen to isolated tracks of Keith Moon's "Who Are You". Same dealio. It must be a British thing...you know...visualizing the The Red Coats are coming, just as you're slamming down into a massive drum riff!
BCRadio
BolsaChicaRadio Wait. The British were the redcoats…
@@EATSLEEPDRIVE2002 Actually cumming
@@BolsaChicaRadio like him, Mooney yeld and hollered the whole time while playing - both of them played like they were possessed ... demons out!!! so good! 🙌🏼
@@EATSLEEPDRIVE2002 Yup...ya got me on that one!!!
BCRadio
This guy's expression as a percussionist for a band is unmatched as far as I'm concerned. You'd honestly never know the band was a rock group if you just listened to his parts. The way he spoke through the songs musically was out of this world.
In all my years of playing I never met a drummer that can keep this beat.
What powerhouse of sound he was!!! I could listen to this the whole day!!!
the whole fckxx track is an never ending ORGASM of Drum Masterpiece book! Legend John Bonham
Most badass drums i've heard in my life
I'm a bassist of 45 years (or at least I try to be)
Bonham was a bass players dream.
His hands and feet were in smooth perfect sync with each other, I don't think I've ever heard anyone else come close
Add the fact that he always knew what to play, how to play it, and a being a great writer of drum beats, there will never be another like him.
It's been what, 40 or so years?
He was a once in a lifetime..
Jesus Lord that man could PLAY!
He sounds like a whole band. So much groove and timing you can almost hear the other instruments.
"As soon as I heard John Bonham play", Jones recalled, "I knew this was going to be great ... We locked together as a team immediately"
John Paul Jones on LZ first band session
The rhythm driving the greatest rock riff of all time is a damn shuffle beat. Its even hard to believe it when listening to it isolated like this. That is sheer creative brilliance.
That guitar riff is a shuffle beat in itself... listen here: ua-cam.com/video/Ks7ovOW3nWg/v-deo.html ... it is all in there, and Bonzo understood
How many people realize what an incredibly funky drummer Bonham was - especially considering he was the drummer for the biggest rock band ever??
The syncopation @ 3:30 between the tambourine and the rest of the drum set, especially the bass drum is AMAZING!!!!
There will NEVER be anyone GREATER!!!
One of a kind drummer. Absolutely insane talent
Is that him screaming at
3:30, love that man
Man, his snare sounds soooo good!
his snare and kick perfectly complement each other. so well tuned i think. just drives the groove
El mejor baterista de la historia y no solo por su habilidad, sino que para la época era algo totalmente desconocido tocar como el, y marcó la tendencia hacia los años siguientes… porque puede que existan mejores en técnica que no lo dudo pero tan influyentes ninguno.
Had a chance to hang out with John Paul Jones at a club in Manhattan one night in the 90s. He was so down to earth, had to keep reminding myself who he was!🤔
His ability to syncopate simple grooves eludes soooooo many modern drummers. By doing less, he was able to do more.
this is the best drum track. Bonzo was just straight awesome! I like the bongos, snare sound, foot drum, hi hat, and tamborine at last verse. especially the way he grunts! boy that old carpenter could really knock those drums!
best drummer in history
History ain't over yet.
I heard there was a caveman that was better.
Magic Mike Dave Cotgreave takes the cake for me
Best Rock drumner for sure
You’re right magic mike. Don’t let anyone tell you different.
As a guitarist Bonham makes me want to play drums! Guy was incredible!
John Effin Bonham. Nobody plays/played with more groove and feeling. NOBODY
Greg Decker You might be right
Greg Decker 100% agree!
Jeff Porcaro does
Not saying these guys are any better but Ian Paice and Bill Ward are right up there with Bonham. Listen to some of their isolated tracks. Especially highway star and into the void.
Not according to Ginger Baker....😂
Jimi Hendrix said that Bonzo had an electric right leg! Only saw them once, Adelaide 1972. What a night!!
John Bonham best and most powerful drummer ever
Let's not under rate John Paul Jones in this discussion. His relationship with the beat of Bonzo is one of the best in the genre. The bass and the drums are what gives Led Zeppelin that primeval beat.
JPJ played a big part but Bonzo is renowned for following the guitar parts.
@@matthewhart6857 Let's face it the engine room of any Rocki Band is the relationship of the Base Guitarist and the Drummer. In this aspect Led Zeppelin had it all.
Love that you can hear the snare rattling in the beginning
He is why i love the drums as much as i do!!
The band as a whole is a musical masterpieces!!!
Its something today's generation don't know.
Las congas, no las había persivido en la coda final. Para el folklore cuyano, gran inspiración
Crazy good. The complexity of what Zeppelin did all the way around is mind boggling.
i've got the sticks he used the night STH was premiered! belfast ulster hall,march '71!
have you got pictures? I'd like to see them!
No you don't
mmayfield70 How do you know? Don't make assumptions bud.
Take a pic, post it on imgur, and then send us the link.
john mccaffrey god bless you
This guy deserves every accolade that ever comes his way! The grooves he laid down... the FEEL! 👀 Stunning. The father of modern rock drumming. One sees why the lads called it a day after his passing.
Better than any drum machine I've ever heard. The groove is awesome.
One of very few drummers who could make their drums literally sound like the electric guitar. What a friggin' legend. Hear that, kids? This is what REAL music sounds like.
Bonham best drummer for all history classic rock music
Love Bonham's passion!
Listen at 0.75sp and it’s swinging heavily, guitars in background tarishly grooving.
Listen at 0.50sp, guitars are nothing more than repeating early blues riff, however the drums reveal something completely different still unheard of, truly indescribable. As if Bonham was channeling some sort of rhythmic sentience
Before pro tools, there were pros...💯
Joe Momma hahahahaha lol lmao poop
@@theseats4886 hahaha
And now there's pro tools ... and their "tools." LOL.
God damn you nailed it!
This was a quote from a Nashville studio musician to Sturgill Simpson
John is Thor. Never ever heard such a Rock Percussionist and Great Shuffler before and after. With that Grove You can't be wrong as a band of Joy 😉.
Keep in rockin' in a free world my dear Lover of Rock & Roooooooohhhhhhl.
Badabadahbam 🎸🥁
get goosebump hearing John drum track...... the best drum enuff said.
Best rock drummer of them all - end of.
The slapback reverb really helps the groove a lot. Its a grace note in and of itself.
Christ I love the echo and the groove of this. So good even in it's own right.
Just hearing the pure sound, groove, and feeling from Bonham, how could you like any other drummer more?! This right here, or any other drum track, is all you need to prove it!
*bonzo always sound like a train to me **0:42** , best fucking drummer EVER*
That kick drum!!
Nothin like hearing the sound of John Bonham's ambient big oL fat LUDDY !!! Such magic wow. I heard things in this not previously heard! Thanks for the post!!
One of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll drummer who ever lived
Amazing. The funk and groove that John Bonham laid down was incredible.
I would kill for an isolated track of In My Time of Dying
Me too. Me too.
O led é tao incrível..por ter um showmen...tocando bateria..de forma pura ..eu iria no show deles só pra ver boham...certo ..n que n gostasse dos outros ..mais essa bateria ..é incrível simples assim
These fills are so simple, but so damn good!
Everything he did sounds.. alive...pulsating... there's an elusive quality there. Amazing
He had some of the best taste and catchy beats ever. He was not a standard drummer with standard beats, he had feel as well and knew when do to what, a natural which is hard to come by. Remember its not just about playing fast, which he could also do.
Thank you so much for this. I could quite happily listen to an entire album of his isolated drums and that glossolalia-type yelling makes it even better.
So very cool, you can see Bonham's 'swaggle', something that's hard/impossible to write correctly in music notation. Turns basic beats into Bonham beats.
The frenetic primal brilliance of John Bonham! Warts and all it's the character of the drum and not the sterileness of perfect time that matters. He plays with a feeling deep in his stomach! This is part of what makes Bonzo one of the Greatest Drummers to have ever lived!
John Bonham's drum style was all groove,that's it there's no mystery to it!
Seriously, Felony beating. That drum kit never had a chance.
Love it. 🤘Beating his kit like it stole his money,but groovy as fuck. Bonzo style.
just the best drummer that ever lived
The best drummer that ever lived was Buddy Rich.
@@johngarnhum1619 nope John bonham
He maybe? The greatest drummer that ever lived. but buddy rich was also the greatest drummer to ever live that put down.other drummers that he deemed beneath him!
it's always arguable who the best lead singer, bass player, guitarist is/was. it's not arguable that Bonham wasn't the greatest rock drummer of all time. i take comfort in that. dude was just hauntingly brilliant at his craft.
God put a hell of a lot of heart and soul into this man. He died way too soon.
Its the SOUL, bonham was such a lover of Soul and Funk. Those subtle ghost notes he is playing.
Sure he could hit hard but really his genius lies in his dynamics....and of course his groove.
Just wow.