As a drummer, "levee" and "kashmir" are some of my favorite songs to play. Even though I know about the echo effect in the recording of "levee", I still play it with the double because that's how my brain hears it.
John Bonham had a double bass for a vary little while Jimmy & Robert said it was too much Maple Ludwig glass kit Carmine Appice Had it ordered from Ludwig John Had a Premier at first
I play it with the single beat on the one count. To my ears the double beat starting at one feels like skipping over the groove, rather than the "laying it down solid" feel I get with the single. But each to their own.
I just watched the Rick Beato video on that exact subject of this song, the drumming, and that device about an hour ago!🙂 In fact Rick reconstructed the drum set up as it was done at Headly Grange and played the opening without the device than with the device. day and night difference.
It might have a "huge" part of the effect. But the immaculate, slo-mo rocking groove - which is what actually makes this so fantastic - is all Bonham. I'm not sure why unexceptional people always want to "know better" and try to pull the mighty down.....
OK, so what's your point? Do you think the intro to Voodoo Child would work as effectively without a wah-wah pedal?? Bonham is not the only drummer with access to an echoplex 'ya know......
Remembering some things John said: “I really like to yell when I play. I yell like a bear to give a boost. I like our show to be like a thunderstorm” “I never had drum lessons. I just played the way I wanted and got blacklisted in Birmingham” “If you play technically, you sound like everybody else. It’s being original that counts” “We had a mutual respect when we both realised we knew what we were doing. I listened to his bass drum foot and he listened to what I was doing. It was one of those rhythm-section marriages…” (John Paul Jones)
Like many Zep legends, this one needs a tiny bit of correction. While the Headly Grange acoustics contributed mightily to the drum sound (as Page says), there was also a small amount of tape/reverb delay added in. What sounds like rapid double pedal kicks are actually delay artifacts. Rick Beato covers this very thoroughly in one episode. It remains, nonetheless, one of the sonic masterpieces of percussion, one that just gets better and better and better over time.
Agreed, and while that natural echo is certainly the foundation of the recoding, you have to respect page’s minimalist approach to not over process the sound they achieved once they were in the studio. The use of the tape echo was genius in the way he achieved that effect!!! Remember this is the early 70s technology to 👍😎
@@ray8304 We had an old 'echoplex' tape echo. It was a lot of fun. Using it live was a hands on experience. It had a slider for the delay period, adjusting a physical gap between the two heads that the tape ran past. A foot pedal controlled the on/off function. I remember using it on stage for a Loverboy song called 'Jump' I had the spots marked so that it was at least close to the same every time for different songs.
How it’s recorded is a major factor in how resonant it comes across. There is no substitute for natural echo combined with Bonhams unstoppable and unwavering attack and sense of time. ITS THE FEEL
There was just something unique to him that made everything sound better. I made a post above where I hung out with Eddie Kramer in the early 90’s and we talked about them for several hours over drinks, and he told me everything about them. Was an amazing experience. He was shocked I recognized him since he wasn’t a public figure. Super friendly nice guy.
The first drumming that I heard that seemed to propel a song forward was by Charlie Watts drumming on "Satisfaction". He never got the credit he deserved.
Bonhams drum intro and their whole presence within this song is just massive. The effect and impact they have are just… HUGE. Great song. Definitely on the Mt Rushmore of drummers & bands
4 legends, all admired and thought of as being some of the top players in each bracket Plants vocals that developed over the years of the band, Page, Bonham, Jones all top guys and then the magic ingredient that made them all gell together so the sum of the parts is even greater.
I had this album on cassette that someone gave to me, I used to play it a bunch and was very familiar with "Levee", but one evening while l was listening to it, and I must've been in the right frame of mind, because it hit me just how powerful that intro was. I think it's my favorite intro of any LZ songs.
I played a gig at a Naional Guard building. The echo in the building was amazing. While doing my drum sound checks I HAD to play When The Levee Breaks. It sounded awesome, and I wish I could have grooved on that for an hour.
My eyes get watery when I listen to john and how much he influenced me when I was a 14 year old drummer. I play rock and roll and when the levee breaks all the time on the drums.
This is one I love to play. To try and duplicate the sound you hear, I like a little ghost note for the snare crack. It doesn't matter to me if it's 'wrong'. Nobody but me is hearing it anyway. I haven't played out live for years.
John Bonham is the GOAT on the drums. The greatest since Gene Crupa. Gene was great but I don’t believe he could hold a candle to Bonzo. And yes, I saw Led Zeppelin live in Cincinnati in 1977, the last time they toured the States. It was the Presence Tour.😉
I watched Buddy Rich actually cut Krupa on some old b/w television program footage. Also, Krupa was never the greatest drummer...., not while Sonny Payne was around playing for Count Basie. I don't even like Buddy Rich, but Gene Krupa was never technically on Rich's level, not to mention all of the other non white drummers between Krupa's era and the Bebop era....., no, I don't think so.
It wasn’t just where or the equipment that made this opening explode, Bonham’s powerful drumming, were the main ingredient. Someone else trying the same thing same setup, still wouldn’t sound as great. Bonham was & always will be the greatest drummer, no other band drummer, gets to really show their skills song after song etc. John (Bonzo) Bonham, you are missed more then you would know.
I’m a bit off-topic here but…some 50 mins. of clean 8mm footage just recently surfaced of a Zeppelin gig at Montreal Forum, ‘75. The audio from a bootleg recording has been properly synched up and if anything else, we get to see a solid 5min of Moby Dick here. It’s so good to John at his prime in this footage.
While it is true the mics were hung as indicated, there is a Binson echo delay placed in the recording to get that ka-kaw effect. Rick Beato has a whole video on this effect.
Some of bohnam s best genius, is when and where he chose to not play , it gets overlooked, but those moments take discipline and an insight beyond ego , but using silence as a musical weapon
Achilles last stand is the greatest achievement of song in the career of Led Zeppelin. Everyone says Stairway to Heaven is their best song. Achilles is greater than Stairway, I guess that’s just me. Ten Years Gone is my favorite song.😊😊😊 If you ask me, which is their best work overall, I would say Achilles last stand is their Mt. Everest of songs.❤❤❤ The highest peak of their musical workmanship together, collectively as a band.🎉🎉🎉
You forgot to mention the Binson Echorec, which was a huge part of that sound. And as far as I know, they used close micing as well. It wasn’t just a set of mics at the top of the staircase.
Lucky enough to see them live, he was great ! But nobody should discount Jimmy’s mixing and sound amplification ! Sounds better recorded than live ! Mixing was the bomb !
in my opinion its not the full on million beats a second that are most impressive about Bonham it the slow tastefull perfect timing and phrasing performances. Like Since ive been loving you. That shows his true genius
Myself, I practiced that intro' countless times with a Speed King pedal, and later a "Ghost Pedal--slow antiques by today's standards. I believe John played the standard and heavy Speed King. A "tank" with very little "feel." Didn't slow you down. All heart and talent, Damn you John, so much more to play and do. Funny, I thought of you and Moonie when I gave up Booz. Thanks for the Inspiring, challenging chops and the unintended warning. From your genius, I played better, like you, self taught and invented a few of my own chops that spurred my band mates on...that's the f'ing point now isn't it? I Loved my whisky. But Sober is so much better. I'd probably be dead too and I still play Air Drums to the Levee every time it comes on--even when I'm driving. Yep, screw it baby.
Well, I missed a lot of it due to the epileptic fit I had cause by the annoying flashing and twinkly lights. Actually, I just turned it off. I already know John was the best!!
You know how Bonham did it?? In "When The Levee Breaks" he must have used a large boomy Ludwig set w/BOTH heads on the bass drum, then he played w/ the "big wood" size drum sticks..., 2B's! Try it out sometime...,
Fun fact: "When the Levee Breaks" was never played live in concert. The signature drum sound could not be duplicated, which is why it was never performed live.
@@sicotshit7068 Thanks for the correction! I was given a book about them, and in the book which was printed in 1974 it stated that the song would be too hard to replicate so they chose not to do it live! 🤷♂🤷♂
@@watchluver actually I looked it up, they played it 5 times live, in January of (1975). The song only played live once was Four Sticks, it was hard for Bonham to play. Actually we got the song Rock & Roll, because Bonham was frustrated trying to play Four Sticks. He took a break from playing it, & started pounding out the beat of R&R, the band wrote & recorded it in about 30 minutes. Bonham then went back to playing Four Sticks, & got it in two takes. I wasn’t trying to be a smart ass, I just had remembered it was played live. Sadly the live of Four Sticks is only audio, no visual, I’d have loved seeing him play it.
@@sicotshit7068 All good! thanks for the trivia! I seen them in 1975 at Olympia stadium in Detroit, It was actually my first concert! I've been a Led head ever since!
Anything Bonzo did ,especially live was on another level. For me though as a former drummer, studio version of In my time of dying was Olympic levels of drumming.I was never a fan of his boy Jason's drumming with LZ. he has a different feel. he used a double bass pedal and was more tight and technical in a more modern style .I did like his playing with Foreigner and UFO though .I have always said in a hypothetical situation Heart's 70s druummer Mike Derosier was much closer to Bonzo . Just listen to something like Mitral Wind live from that line up and you'll see what I mean. xoxo
millions of car speakers in the 70s blown by the raw bass he provided. On the radio go from cranking the Stones to Led Zep and you'd have to either turn down the volume or cut back on the bass before they blow. Hardest loudest and best drummer ever. No disrespect Leon Helm or Keith moon he just is.
Bonham didn't set up the drums, he was at lunch and the road crew set up his new kit there. He came back and Jimmy said, we have to mic it and the rest is history. Since you won't look up the proof, skineyemin, here it is from Mr. Pages mouth. ua-cam.com/video/KWI9bMe7gHE/v-deo.html You can skip to 30 seconds in if you want.
If there was a "road crew", that would mean they must of played a few shows before they recorded, at least they all at least had a brief discussion about how the set was going to assembled in the studio. Stop it.
@@skineyemin4276 I am afraid you are wrong. You shouldn't call someone a liar without doing your research. As said by Mr Page himself at the 33 second mark ua-cam.com/video/KWI9bMe7gHE/v-deo.html
2:02 "Legend has it..." The Headley Grange part is not the legend. The legend is that the staircase (only three stories) was tall enough to create the slapback delay of almost 1/4 second. In audio, that's a lot. In fact, the staircase would have to be 12 stories (120 feet) tall and have a perfectly reflecting dome at the top. The delay was created by a tape loop machine, the Bison EchoRec, which Page explains in other interviews. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_Levee_Breaks#Recording The staircase created the multi-dimensional reverberation that gave the track its weight and fullness, but the punch and the power came from tape.
Ok Check This Out…Yes This is a Heavy Hitter among Everything Else he Played(They Played)…But…an Album came out Wayyy Later…After John Died(I Think)…Coda !…I Bought the Album…can you Believe I Barely Listened to It !!…I Was So Fascinated with the Other Heavy Hitter Albums & Songs that I Never Really Listened to Coda…which are Songs that Zep had that were Leftover’s so to speak…Songs they Didn’t put into Previous Albums….So One Day (2008-9-10)somewhere at that time…I heard Wearing & Tearing….O M Fkn God…I Couldn’t Believe that I had the Coda album since it was First Released….& Never Played the Album All the way thru to Hear This Song !!….Now Wearing & Tearing does to Me what This Video is about ….along Side Levee…just Pure Amazing Stuff !!…I remember when I First heard Wearing…I Played it Over & Over for Days….I played it to All my Musician Friend’s whom Never Heard it Either ….they were Blown away also…to Me …John is Not the Best Ever tho…He is Definitely an All Time Favorite…but as I Grew Up….Listening to Other Bands,I found Many Drummers Just as Good as John….there Is No Better Drummer…That DOESNT Exist in My opinion…just Amazing Great Drummers…John Sure Chiseled his name in the History Book for Sure🦾🔥
Now you all GIVE CREDIT to Robert Johnson, Howlin Wolf, Muddy Waters, Son House, T-Bone Walker, Albert King, John Lee Hooker, Bukka White, Memphis Slim & all the other black delta Bluesmen who architected the style that Zeppelin & other rock bands emulated & ripped from while most of these blues architects died broke & manipulated & passed on poverty to their children. And YES, Bonham was a prolific drummer who also studied black music art forms which is apparent & prevalent in how "Bonzo" grooved hard!
Black Dog of course gets cudos as well. Ya, I was a beginner drummer in 6th grade when I bought my first 45 record at the music store where I took lessons. "whole Lotta love" and the B side was "livin' lovin Maid" about 1970. I wore the grooves out of it on my dad's completely inadequate strereo. Oh, to have a time machine...
It's no wonder Jimmy declared Led Zeppelin dead with the death of this great drummer. Yes, many try his grooves, I've never heard anybody nail it. Power, force and timing, not even Ginger Baker could carve up time like John!
I hate drum solos but I really enjoy vids about drummers just doing what they do but in a way that complexity and nuance goes unnoticed in a casual listening. This is a ripper of a vid for that.
The greatest is subjective IMO. The biggies have the guys that click. John wlth The Who? Keith in LZ? Charlie for Ringo? Na. Right guys at the right place at the right time who clicked. So many fantastic musicians on every instrument that picking one is, again, subjective. I try to enjoy, on vinyl, many different bands which we will never see again. But, I do appreciate the really big fans of their favorite band, emphasis on their because there are so many. A musical conversation is pretty cool. Enjoy!
As a drummer, "levee" and "kashmir" are some of my favorite songs to play. Even though I know about the echo effect in the recording of "levee", I still play it with the double because that's how my brain hears it.
I wish there were videos of Bonham playing the drums in Kashmir, especially the big drum rolls
John Bonham had a double bass for a vary little while Jimmy & Robert said it was too much Maple Ludwig glass kit Carmine Appice Had it ordered from Ludwig John Had a Premier at first
I play it with the single beat on the one count. To my ears the double beat starting at one feels like skipping over the groove, rather than the "laying it down solid" feel I get with the single. But each to their own.
There is one thing missing from this story, the mention of the Binson Echo device that was used, a huge part of the effect
and Andy Johns
I just watched the Rick Beato video on that exact subject of this song, the drumming, and that device about an hour ago!🙂 In fact Rick reconstructed the drum set up as it was done at Headly Grange and played the opening without the device than with the device. day and night difference.
It might have a "huge" part of the effect. But the immaculate, slo-mo rocking groove - which is what actually makes this so fantastic - is all Bonham. I'm not sure why unexceptional people always want to "know better" and try to pull the mighty down.....
OK, so what's your point? Do you think the intro to Voodoo Child would work as effectively without a wah-wah pedal?? Bonham is not the only drummer with access to an echoplex 'ya know......
Thank you!
Remembering some things John said:
“I really like to yell when I play. I yell like a bear to give a boost. I like our show to be like a thunderstorm”
“I never had drum lessons. I just played the way I wanted and got blacklisted in Birmingham”
“If you play technically, you sound like everybody else. It’s being original that counts”
“We had a mutual respect when we both realised we knew what we were doing. I listened to his bass drum foot and he listened to what I was doing. It was one of those rhythm-section marriages…” (John Paul Jones)
high praise from one of the best masterminds in music. Such a hidden gem
Like many Zep legends, this one needs a tiny bit of correction. While the Headly Grange acoustics contributed mightily to the drum sound (as Page says), there was also a small amount of tape/reverb delay added in. What sounds like rapid double pedal kicks are actually delay artifacts. Rick Beato covers this very thoroughly in one episode. It remains, nonetheless, one of the sonic masterpieces of percussion, one that just gets better and better and better over time.
Agreed, and while that natural echo is certainly the foundation of the recoding, you have to respect page’s minimalist approach to not over process the sound they achieved once they were in the studio. The use of the tape echo was genius in the way he achieved that effect!!! Remember this is the early 70s technology to 👍😎
@@ray8304 We had an old 'echoplex' tape echo. It was a lot of fun. Using it live was a hands on experience. It had a slider for the delay period, adjusting a physical gap between the two heads that the tape ran past. A foot pedal controlled the on/off function. I remember using it on stage for a Loverboy song called 'Jump'
I had the spots marked so that it was at least close to the same every time for different songs.
How it’s recorded is a major factor in how resonant it comes across. There is no substitute for natural echo combined with Bonhams unstoppable and unwavering attack and sense of time. ITS THE FEEL
Except it wasn't entirely natural echo.
@@jc3drums916 of course👍 but it was certainly the foundational sound in that great hall that they achieved. A master piece of sonic resonance
One great example of a drummer effectively providing dramatic space. Not every second has to be filled with sound.
With Bonzo it wasn't just some of the things he played it was (everything) he played. He was..and is..untouchable.
There was just something unique to him that made everything sound better. I made a post above where I hung out with Eddie Kramer in the early 90’s and we talked about them for several hours over drinks, and he told me everything about them. Was an amazing experience. He was shocked I recognized him since he wasn’t a public figure. Super friendly nice guy.
His genius was also in what he DIDN'T play.
Tony Williams or Billy Cobham vastly SUPERIOR to fat boy bonham.
@@DaveSmith-mn4vu He must have listened to Miles Davis
Zeppelin is the greatest EVER, Bonzo,the human sledge hammer 🔨
The first drumming that I heard that seemed to propel a song forward was by Charlie Watts drumming on "Satisfaction". He never got the credit he deserved.
When the Levee Breaks is definitely a force of nature that can’t be held back… kind of like Led Zeppelin themselves.
Best drummer on the planet…Still!
We miss you, Bonzo! 🥁🙌💕
Neh, Ricki Rocket is the greatest drummer ever. No contest!!!!!!!!
@@toddgersh 😂😂😂😂😂😂
I seen Zeppelin live when I was 19, it's still one of the highs of my life and I had a terrific life.
...and the amazing harmonica...But yeah, loved this.
Bonhams drum intro and their whole presence within this song is just massive.
The effect and impact they have are just… HUGE.
Great song.
Definitely on the Mt Rushmore of drummers & bands
Thanks incredible story, of one of the best drummers of all time , Led Zeppelin the best band of planet
Indeed They Are.❤❤❤
4 legends, all admired and thought of as being some of the top players in each bracket
Plants vocals that developed over the years of the band, Page, Bonham, Jones all top guys and then the magic ingredient that made them all gell together so the sum of the parts is even greater.
What about Meytal Cohen?
I had this album on cassette that someone gave to me, I used to play it a bunch and was very familiar with "Levee", but one evening while l was listening to it, and I must've been in the right frame of mind, because it hit me just how powerful that intro was. I think it's my favorite intro of any LZ songs.
Greatest Band Ever !!!!
The drum intro of When The Levee Breaks is captivating
Totally agree 👍
Absolutely 💯 the BEST LED ZEPPELIN
Have to agree!
Couldn’t agree more. When I say that Beatles fans freak out. Far away the better music, better singer, better musicians, etc. IMO
First song I ever played on my first kit
I played a gig at a Naional Guard building. The echo in the building was amazing. While doing my drum sound checks I HAD to play When The Levee Breaks. It sounded awesome, and I wish I could have grooved on that for an hour.
The sound of those drums is just so damn violent and raw. It's amazing.
You're right, one just can dream to create something like that.
My eyes get watery when I listen to john and how much he influenced me when I was a 14 year old drummer. I play rock and roll and when the levee breaks all the time on the drums.
This is one I love to play. To try and duplicate the sound you hear, I like a little ghost note for the snare crack.
It doesn't matter to me if it's 'wrong'. Nobody but me is hearing it anyway. I haven't played out live for years.
Very good! But I still have to bring up Don Brewer with Grand Funk Railroad, TNUC for example
One of the best compositions to overhit on the drums & cymbal crashes for real, all out fun - also one of the best tunes ever written by any band
The result of loving music.
John Bonham is the GOAT on the drums. The greatest since Gene Crupa. Gene was great but I don’t believe he could hold a candle to Bonzo. And yes, I saw Led Zeppelin live in Cincinnati in 1977, the last time they toured the States. It was the Presence Tour.😉
No Quarter with Page and Plant was my only taste in '94. I'm not going to forget kashmir
Maybe you mean Gene Krupa.
I watched Buddy Rich actually cut Krupa on some old b/w television program footage. Also, Krupa was never the greatest drummer...., not while Sonny Payne was around playing for Count Basie. I don't even like Buddy Rich, but Gene Krupa was never technically on Rich's level, not to mention all of the other non white drummers between Krupa's era and the Bebop era....., no, I don't think so.
Fat boy bonham couldn’t hang with Tony Williams or Billy Cobham!
Buddy Rich, period.
GREATEST DRUMMER EVER... GREATEST BAND EVER... NOT EVEN CLOSE...
Bullshit. Plant can’t sing for shit, bonham is boring. Tony Williams or Billy Cobham vastly superior!
Buddy Rich
@@richardbulman8569 GREAT DUMMER.... BUT NOT IN THE LEAGUE OF THE GREATEST J. B....
@@richprokop5155 Bonham not in Rich's league. Go on tube and catch a vid of Rich. Any drummer will tell you he was thge best ever.
@@richardbulman8569 WRONG... ALL POLLS INCLUDING DRUMMERS HAVE BONHAM 1 OR 2... LOOK IT UP...
Never matched! Guy was a drumming genius.
It wasn’t just where or the equipment that made this opening explode, Bonham’s powerful drumming, were the main ingredient. Someone else trying the same thing same setup, still wouldn’t sound as great. Bonham was & always will be the greatest drummer, no other band drummer, gets to really show their skills song after song etc. John (Bonzo) Bonham, you are missed more then you would know.
I think if the Band Of Gypsies Buddy Miles played that "Levee" Led Zep groove, it would be just as powerful and most likely even funkier.
@@skineyemin4276I doubt that.
Very interesting I loved it except that flashing camera is f***ing annoying!
Ruined it for me I covered the screen and just listened. Great story. Also the unwanted crappy sub titles.
@@lesmaybury793 Same ...
I have never seen a list of the greatest drummers of all time where Bonham's name WASN'T at the top.
Fantastic review, well done!
Take a look at YOYOKA SOMA cover Bonham it's unbelievable skills in that young kid.
In my book the drum intro for "How Many More Times" is, BY FAR, the best of his drum intros to any Zeppelin song you'd care to mention.
This is one of my favorites the song has an eerie tribal sound to it.
There’s a reason Bonzo still tops best drummer polls despite dying over 40 years ago. Another one of my favourite grooves is Kashmir.
Fat boy bonham is a bottom. Doesn’t top anyone.
He made the most out of the least...just brilliant
Testosterone and deep musical listening. That's the real magic behind the entire band. No whinny cute boys in shiny outfits.
Greatest drummer to hit the skins
Excellent video. Very informative
Thank you! Glad it was helpful!
Love this song and the music very much❤️
I ve always loved the opening to Rock n Roll, the bashing of the cymbals then the rest of the band start.
Love Good times so much. ❤️
I’m a bit off-topic here but…some 50 mins. of clean 8mm footage just recently surfaced of a Zeppelin gig at Montreal Forum, ‘75. The audio from a bootleg recording has been properly synched up and if anything else, we get to see a solid 5min of Moby Dick here. It’s so good to John at his prime in this footage.
When the fan named Led Zeppelin IV came out it was bad azz.
Absolutely, MAGICAL ARTIST, complete, rip MASTER
While it is true the mics were hung as indicated, there is a Binson echo delay placed in the recording to get that ka-kaw effect. Rick Beato has a whole video on this effect.
Some of bohnam s best genius, is when and where he chose to not play , it gets overlooked, but those moments take discipline and an insight beyond ego , but using silence as a musical weapon
I was a drummer in a band in the 70's and I styled my drumming from Ginger Baker and Don Brewer.
And that is relevant how?
Bill Bruford retired 15 years ago, and he can play it.
Achilles last stand is the greatest achievement of song in the career of Led Zeppelin. Everyone says Stairway to Heaven is their best song. Achilles is greater than Stairway, I guess that’s just me. Ten Years Gone is my favorite song.😊😊😊 If you ask me, which is their best work overall, I would say Achilles last stand is their Mt. Everest of songs.❤❤❤ The highest peak of their musical workmanship together, collectively as a band.🎉🎉🎉
Amazing!
You forgot to mention the Binson Echorec, which was a huge part of that sound.
And as far as I know, they used close micing as well. It wasn’t just a set of mics at the top of the staircase.
I also love the intro to Rock &Roll.
An echorec was used on the drums for levee.
Lucky enough to see them live, he was great ! But nobody should discount Jimmy’s mixing and sound amplification ! Sounds better recorded than live ! Mixing was the bomb !
Saw them in the summer in 72 in Tucson
The drumming with his bare hands is honestly what I most clearly recall of that evening 😎
The band was absolutely amazing, but John stood out for me the first time I heard Led Zeppelin. Back in 1974
in my opinion its not the full on million beats a second that are most impressive about Bonham it the slow tastefull perfect timing and phrasing performances. Like Since ive been loving you. That shows his true genius
The levee,one of my favourite songs ,powefull pure 💪💪👏👏😀
The MAN!
Stop interrupting the music!
Myself, I practiced that intro' countless times with a Speed King pedal, and later a "Ghost Pedal--slow antiques by today's standards. I believe John played the standard and heavy Speed King. A "tank" with very little "feel." Didn't slow you down. All heart and talent, Damn you John, so much more to play and do. Funny, I thought of you and Moonie when I gave up Booz. Thanks for the Inspiring, challenging chops and the unintended warning. From your genius, I played better, like you, self taught and invented a few of my own chops that spurred my band mates on...that's the f'ing point now isn't it? I Loved my whisky. But Sober is so much better. I'd probably be dead too and I still play Air Drums to the Levee every time it comes on--even when I'm driving. Yep, screw it baby.
Well, I missed a lot of it due to the epileptic fit I had cause by the annoying flashing and twinkly lights.
Actually, I just turned it off. I already know John was the best!!
You know how Bonham did it?? In "When The Levee Breaks" he must have used a large boomy Ludwig set w/BOTH heads on the bass drum, then he played w/ the "big wood" size drum sticks..., 2B's! Try it out sometime...,
Fun fact: "When the Levee Breaks" was never played live in concert. The signature drum sound could not be duplicated, which is why it was never performed live.
Another fun fact: yes they did play it live, January 12, 1975 at Forest National Brussels.
@@sicotshit7068 Thanks for the correction! I was given a book about them, and in the book which was printed in 1974 it stated that the song would be too hard to replicate so they chose not to do it live! 🤷♂🤷♂
@@watchluver actually I looked it up, they played it 5 times live, in January of (1975). The song only played live once was Four Sticks, it was hard for Bonham to play. Actually we got the song Rock & Roll, because Bonham was frustrated trying to play Four Sticks. He took a break from playing it, & started pounding out the beat of R&R, the band wrote & recorded it in about 30 minutes. Bonham then went back to playing Four Sticks, & got it in two takes.
I wasn’t trying to be a smart ass, I just had remembered it was played live. Sadly the live of Four Sticks is only audio, no visual, I’d have loved seeing him play it.
@@sicotshit7068 All good! thanks for the trivia! I seen them in 1975 at Olympia stadium in Detroit, It was actually my first concert! I've been a Led head ever since!
When Jimmy broke his finger tip , they played it live because the slide was easier to manage with 2.5 fingers ! True story too.
Best Led Zeppelin song….period.
If it isn't already, Hedley Grange needs to be protected as an international music treasure.
It had echo applied to brilliant effect.
Anything Bonzo did ,especially live was on another level. For me though as a former drummer, studio version of In my time of dying was Olympic levels of drumming.I was never a fan of his boy Jason's drumming with LZ. he has a different feel. he used a double bass pedal and was more tight and technical in a more modern style .I did like his playing with Foreigner and UFO though .I have always said in a hypothetical situation Heart's 70s druummer Mike Derosier was much closer to Bonzo .
Just listen to something like Mitral Wind live from that line up and you'll see what I mean. xoxo
millions of car speakers in the 70s blown by the raw bass he provided. On the radio go from cranking the Stones to Led Zep and you'd have to either turn down the volume or cut back on the bass before they blow. Hardest loudest and best drummer ever. No disrespect Leon Helm or Keith moon he just is.
Bonham didn't set up the drums, he was at lunch and the road crew set up his new kit there. He came back and Jimmy said, we have to mic it and the rest is history. Since you won't look up the proof, skineyemin, here it is from Mr. Pages mouth. ua-cam.com/video/KWI9bMe7gHE/v-deo.html You can skip to 30 seconds in if you want.
If there was a "road crew", that would mean they must of played a few shows before they recorded, at least they all at least had a brief discussion about how the set was going to assembled in the studio. Stop it.
@@skineyemin4276 I am afraid you are wrong. You shouldn't call someone a liar without doing your research. As said by Mr Page himself at the 33 second mark ua-cam.com/video/KWI9bMe7gHE/v-deo.html
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@@skineyemin4276 Why should I "stop it"? This is from Jimmy Pages mouth. ua-cam.com/video/KWI9bMe7gHE/v-deo.html. 30 second mark
Oh, you should have seen them in concert. I miss the 70's when there was no auto tune and concerts were 5 to 7 dollars.
In the pocket like no other Rock drummer. AVH came close.
"When The Levee Breaks" AND "Fool In The Rain" are peak John Bonham!
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I’m recovering from an epileptic fit with all the flashing
greatest of all time
Drums in Kashmir were pretty good, too
The absolute best band bar none!
As a drummer; one of Bonzo's easy beats...Out on the Tiles, In my time of Dying, The Crunge THOSE are Bonzo masterpieces.
Best drum-part complete from Bonzo is Achilles Last Stand!
YES ! Freaking chilling.
Great content.
2:02 "Legend has it..." The Headley Grange part is not the legend. The legend is that the staircase (only three stories) was tall enough to create the slapback delay of almost 1/4 second. In audio, that's a lot. In fact, the staircase would have to be 12 stories (120 feet) tall and have a perfectly reflecting dome at the top. The delay was created by a tape loop machine, the Bison EchoRec, which Page explains in other interviews. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_Levee_Breaks#Recording
The staircase created the multi-dimensional reverberation that gave the track its weight and fullness, but the punch and the power came from tape.
Cool.
Zeppelin is and forever will be the yardstick by which I measure all music.
"God" of all drummers in the whole universe 😢😮😅❤
Great Drummer all times
Best drummer ever!
Not the first intro that came to my mind (Rock and Roll) but, ALL of Bonzo's intros are "the most memorable", right?
Rock & Roll intro was copied note for note from a Little Richard disc.
Classic.
Ok Check This Out…Yes This is a Heavy Hitter among Everything Else he Played(They Played)…But…an Album came out Wayyy Later…After John Died(I Think)…Coda !…I Bought the Album…can you Believe I Barely Listened to It !!…I Was So Fascinated with the Other Heavy Hitter Albums & Songs that I Never Really Listened to Coda…which are Songs that Zep had that were Leftover’s so to speak…Songs they Didn’t put into Previous Albums….So One Day (2008-9-10)somewhere at that time…I heard Wearing & Tearing….O M Fkn God…I Couldn’t Believe that I had the Coda album since it was First Released….& Never Played the Album All the way thru to Hear This Song !!….Now Wearing & Tearing does to Me what This Video is about ….along Side Levee…just Pure Amazing Stuff !!…I remember when I First heard Wearing…I Played it Over & Over for Days….I played it to All my Musician Friend’s whom Never Heard it Either ….they were Blown away also…to Me …John is Not the Best Ever tho…He is Definitely an All Time Favorite…but as I Grew Up….Listening to Other Bands,I found Many Drummers Just as Good as John….there Is No Better Drummer…That DOESNT Exist in My opinion…just Amazing Great Drummers…John Sure Chiseled his name in the History Book for Sure🦾🔥
Sheer genius.
the GOAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Absolutely the best drummer there's ever been! 😎
Bullshit! Elvin Jones, Tony Williams, Billy Cobham, or Lenny White are vastly superior!
And levees don't rise, the water does.
Bonzo and Neil are my 2 all time favorites….
Take a listen to Joe Morrell sometime, you can tell he heavily influenced Bonham.
Now you all GIVE CREDIT to Robert Johnson, Howlin Wolf, Muddy Waters, Son House, T-Bone Walker, Albert King, John Lee Hooker, Bukka White, Memphis Slim & all the other black delta Bluesmen who architected the style that Zeppelin & other rock bands emulated & ripped from while most of these blues architects died broke & manipulated & passed on poverty to their children. And YES, Bonham was a prolific drummer who also studied black music art forms which is apparent & prevalent in how "Bonzo" grooved hard!
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Black Dog of course gets cudos as well. Ya, I was a beginner drummer in 6th grade when I bought my first 45 record at the music store where I took lessons. "whole Lotta love" and the B side was "livin' lovin Maid" about 1970. I wore the grooves out of it on my dad's completely inadequate strereo. Oh, to have a time machine...
It's no wonder Jimmy declared Led Zeppelin dead with the death of this great drummer. Yes, many try his grooves, I've never heard anybody nail it. Power, force and timing, not even Ginger Baker could carve up time like John!
Bonzo !!!! Youll always live in our hearts. My favorite drummer, forever,,,,
I hate drum solos but I really enjoy vids about drummers just doing what they do but in a way that complexity and nuance goes unnoticed in a casual listening.
This is a ripper of a vid for that.
The greatest is subjective IMO. The biggies have the guys that click. John wlth The Who? Keith in LZ? Charlie for Ringo? Na. Right guys at the right place at the right time who clicked. So many fantastic musicians on every instrument that picking one is, again, subjective. I try to enjoy, on vinyl, many different bands which we will never see again. But, I do appreciate the really big fans of their favorite band, emphasis on their because there are so many. A musical conversation is pretty cool. Enjoy!