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Mook

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  1. Mook

    Bonzo

    Thanks, I have seen that one before, I was really looking for one of him playing.
  2. Mook

    Bonzo

    I've been looking online & can't find any pictures of John Bonham playing drums pre-Zeppelin, can anyone help? Be great to see him playing with The Band of Joy or Tim Rose.
  3. It's odd that Page says it's Plant singing. It sounds more like Richard Cole than Robert Plant.
  4. Before I get started on the rest of your post, can you just confirm how it's possible to write 'a few one hit wonders'?
  5. Imagine painting over one of Jimmy Page's guitars. I can only imagine the bloke who done it was completely off his tits on Toilet Duck or something, what a twat.
  6. John Bonham went for a few lessons during his teenage years & said that he wished he'd stuck in with reading & writing drum music. He was clearly well versed in snare & kit rudiments, a quick watch of Moby Dick from the Albert Hall will tell you that. If someone is studying something they love & trying to improve themself then I don't see how that makes them an 'asshole', you can understand written music & be the greatest technician around and still be very genuine in my opinion.
  7. Ginger Baker is a million times the drummer Lars Ulrich is. One of the them revolutionised drumming, the other is a bog standard heavy metal plodder.
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    Hot pics of Jimmy

    The picture is the wrong way round.
  9. I bought Funky Snakefoot on mail order and had it on full volume tonight, had to laugh thinking about Bonham playing along all night in a hotel. Great drumming on the LP, a lot of high hat barks and single stroke rolls.
  10. Barriemore Barlow (Jethro Tull), from Wikipedia:- Barlow is known as a very technical and creative drummer. His drumming on the live album, Bursting Out, is testimony to his creative talents as a drummer, notably on his drum solo in the song "Conundrum". He was called "the greatest rock drummer England ever produced" by John Bonham. In a comment on his drumming for the Jethro Tull albums he said; "I've always admired people who invent – and on a percussion level I admire inventors of rhythm. I tried to strive for that in Tull, but now I go to great lengths to advise the drummers in the bands I'm managing not to play anything like I used to play in Tull, because it was so busy and over-the-top."[5]
  11. Thanks for that, I've never seen a specific album mentioned so I'll need to check that one out.
  12. Just thinking back to one comment from Robert Plant when he said at the 1995 induction to the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame something along the lines of "John Bonham had been listening to Alphonse Mouzon albums." when Led Zeppelin were on tour (I'm paraphrasing slightly). Looking over Mouzon's discography, I have my suspicions that the album Bonham might've been listening to on the 1975 tour would've been Mind Transplant (1974) which features Tommy Bolin on guitar, I'm a big fan of this album myself & you can hear its influence on the likes of Achilies Last Stand, where Bonham started incorporating more cymbal work into his fills. Like I say, I'm kinda guessing here but that LP must've been pretty popular amongst drummers in the mid 70s. I remember reading in one of my books about John Bonham that he'd been to a Billy Cobham gig around this time as well so he was certainly listening to the big hitters in Jazz Fusion.
  13. I don't recall him ever commenting on Ringo's drumming although personally I feel he was influenced by him when you listen to some of his more melodic fills. I'm a huge Ringo fan just as an aside. (Can't believe I missed out Carmine Appice).
  14. Just thinking of all the books I've read over the years & the Drummers we've heard about receiving compliments from John Bonham (& indirectly from other sources):- Ginger Baker Gene Krupa Buddy Rich Barriemore Barlow Bernard Purdie Alphonse Mouzon Max Roach Joe Morello Simon Kirke Keith Moon... are the ones that I can remember off the top of my head, can anyone think of any others or find any anecdotes/quotes attributed to Bonham in this regard?
  15. Are there no clowns in California? Maybe he loves England because it's his home.
  16. Absolutely love the covers of Down by the Seaside & Ten years gone.
  17. I think the decision is the second best decision in the history of rock music behind Jimmy Page's decision to form the band. Allegedly.
  18. Given Robbie Williams is the musical Anti-Christ, I hope Jimmy Page goes round & beats him to death with his own shoe.
  19. Where did you see those photos?
  20. I find that some of the songs I didn't appreciated fully when I first got into Led Zeppelin tend to be my favourites now, Since I've been loving You, Achillies Last Stand & Dancing Days are three good examples. I find ITTOD & Coda quite patchy but up until then I think every LP they put out was class from start to finish.
  21. Not so good at wars though...
  22. I have to say I'm offended too. When I work out what I'm offended by, I'll get back to you... NURSE.
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