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3 hours ago, porgie66 said:
Yes, although this is Pages how solo so he's either not playing or he's doing some little rolls or accents. Sometimes he would cross stick at this point. Also, note the Slingerland chrome snare.
Good spot, I was too busy looking at Bonham to notice what Page was up to.
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Here's another interesting one, looks like Bonham is using traditional grip here. Although there are a few pictures of him using the grip down the years, this is maybe the only one I've seen of him live with Zeppelin...
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Amazing, thanks.
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3 hours ago, porgie66 said:
Thanks, appreciate that very much! Hope all is well in your world. 🏴😁
Aye, just about surviving.
You too Porgie, strange times for us all.
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16 minutes ago, porgie66 said:
@Mook Yes I posted it recently on my Instagram. From a gig w Terry Webb. There is another where he is seated behind the drums posing with the band. I got it off the recent YouTube tribute / memorial video ....I took a screen shot. It's hard to tell but it looks like he's playing a Trixon kit. It's so frustrating that the one pic of him playing pre - Zeppelin , you can't really make out the drums. I haven't seen one other pic of him playing before Zep. This is it. I think!
I had a feeling you may have seen it. I'd go along with the Trixon theory, those ride cymbal stands look like an accident waiting to happen.
Good to (cyber) speak to you again, it's been too long. Not much happening in Zeppelin world these days unfortunately although I still watch your YouTube videos (which are always amazing).
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2 hours ago, RainbowElf said:
Cool pic Mook.👍
Thanks, I was over the moon to see it as I've been looking for a pre-Zeppelin drumming picture for years.
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@porgie66 Thought you would be interested in this.
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8 hours ago, 76229 said:
Mook, I have to ask, where did you find this??!
It was on a 'Remembering John Bonham' Facebook page.
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Apparently the earliest known picture of John Bonham playing drums at the Red Lion pub in Worcestershire. This is with Terry Webb & the Spiders & Bonham was 16 at the time.
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On 2/2/2020 at 10:07 PM, Victor said:
I always wondered what Bonzo thought of Carl Palmer. I know that Zeps and ELP's paths crossed a number of times (I'll have to dig out the anecdotes from Keith Emersons autobiography), and he must have been aware of how many times Carl Palmer was voted best drummer in the UK music papers in the 70's, they were very very different drummers and both must have been well aware of each other. Jason Bonham certainly was as his band supported ELP on their come back tour of 92.
There is a Bonham quote about Palmer somewhere. He said something along the lines of 'Carl went for lessons' when he was discussing his early days of drumming. Not much to go on but he was well aware of Carl Palmer.
Palmer is also a Bonham fan, when asked about Bonham around the time DVD came out, he said something like 'Words are meaningless, just watch Moby Dick at RAH'.
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What Jason said hardly means that John was unaware of Peart.
I don't think Bonham was a huge rock fan so unlikely to have bought any Rush albums & I doubt he had conversations with his Son about every drummer he ever heard of.
Most likely he was aware of Rush & Peart but not a huge fan of either in my opinion.
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2 hours ago, SteveAJones said:
If you don't, once I have a copy I'll digitally scan that photo and post it to the forum if someone else doesn't do so first.
That'd be great, thanks.
I'm kinda done buying Zeppelin literature, I've got books & magazines coming out my ears.
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1 hour ago, zeplz71 said:
Great photo. That's a new one. I wish they taped that pre-show chat instead of the short "interview".
Agreed.
I'm tempted to buy the magazine just for that photograph.
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My mistake, Bonham is wearing an ITTOD sweater so it is a warm up or pre-show photograph for the 1980 interview.
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8 hours ago, SteveAJones said:
Have yet to see that issue but do not show any additional television interviews conducted with Connolly. He does wear a brown leather coat for a 1970 television interview but nothing to do with Connolly.
Here's the Alright Now television program recorded at Tyne Tees Studio in Newcastle, England. March 4, 1980.
Photo: Alright Now TV Show 1980 - Ted McKenna, Gerry McAvoy, Billy Connolly, Rory Gallagher & John Bonham
Thanks, Steve. I'll scan the picture in the next day or so for you to see. It's really thrown me.
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Steve, have you seen the new MOJO Zeppelin 'latter days' special?
There's a picture in there of Bonham with Billy Connolly circa '77, it's definitely not from the televised 1980 interview. I can't for the life of me figure out where it's from but it really looks like an interview in a TV studio, Bonham is wearing a great looking brown leather jacket.
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Can't believe they asked him about Lori Maddox, I was wincing when I read that.
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4 hours ago, SamoKodela said:
Great news, but I really don't understand why some of you are so interested in seeing unreleased clips, that's not really a point of a musical documentary, it's about bringing new insights into the music and musicians that created it.
We have seen pretty much all the footage and most importantly heard all the bootlegs, so I would much preffer them talking about their musical heroes and how they got together and about the first two albums(even of I would like to hear them talk about all of them like in the MTV Rockumentary but more in detail).
I still wouldn't mind some new footage from the studio sessions but even that is not as interesting as actually hearing them talk interesting things. But some poeple here starting to fantasize about more material being in the can, I think that is a bit silly.
Most of us are desperate to see more footage.
Music & visuals can say a lot more than mere words can.
I'm hoping the Bath footage is included in this, the timing sounds spot on.
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Exciting.
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I too thoroughly enjoy the video.
Used to have it on VHS for years before it came out on DVD. I never watch it now but it was brilliantly put together.
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11 hours ago, hummingbird69 said:
I have every live show there is to hear. My question was regarding the earlier post that suggested that the 50th was getting serious.
There's nothing serious coming from Led Zeppelin or Jimmy Page, unless you're counting trainers & snowboards.
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On 3/17/2019 at 3:45 PM, mickey g said:
Steve Marriott. Humble Pie @ Rockpile, L.I. NY March/April 1971
That's a great picture, thanks for sharing.
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52 minutes ago, rm2551 said:
Thats really interesting about Bonzo. Think of how beautiful the drumming is even as early on as How Many More Times when he is whispering through the middle break and other light touches in later tracks like Ten Years Gone - it seems he did have a good understanding of light and shade. Maybe very early nerves???
I think a lot of it was late 60s macho, showing off, especially live. Most rock drummers were at it then.
There's an interview with one of Bonham's old bandmates in a book I've got, he says Bonham turned up at his house with a copy of the first album & when he played it, the other guy said to him, 'Where are all your fills, John?". When you look back on that album now, it's pretty heavy on the fills as well, so you can only imagine what Bonham's playing was like in the mid 60s.
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10 hours ago, Autumn Moon said:
If I remember correctly Bonzo´s loudness wasn´t the problem. Young John Henry showed some nerves and simply overplayed everything, too many fills, breaks & rolls- simply too much.
This is correct, Page had Grant tell Bonham to calm it down a bit or he would be out on his ear.
I think time has proved Page right as well, Bonham's drumming has aged better than the likes of Mitch Mitchell, who did overplay a lot in the studio.
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