... 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
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 🙌
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
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 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.
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.
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 !!!
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.
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.
The man could SWING. That and his uncanny ability to perfectly compliment some of the greatest rock n roll of all time is what makes him the greatest...
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.
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
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.
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'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'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..
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
@@theallamerican3778 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!
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.
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! 🙌🏼
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!!!
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: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ks7ovOW3nWg.html ... it is all in there, and Bonzo understood
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!🤔
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.
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!
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.
"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
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.
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!
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.
Holy $hit. I have been listening to this song for 40 years but had never actually heard it. Thank you so much. I feel like someone just told me my name is really Jason and not Marc. Jason is a pretty good name.
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!
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!
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.
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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.
