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  1. Mook
    Yeah, Hinton did say that he went through a few bass drum heads as the beater would fly off his pedal & the stick would go right through the head. From my own experience of playing drums, that's the worst thing that can happen & you would be hoping the roadie could sort it out quickly (not that I ever had a roadie myself).
  2. Mook
    Ha ha, if we had a time machine I reckon we'd have so much fun enjoying the music that the drum heads would be the last thing on our minds. One interesting thing I read was an interview with Mick Hinton saying they had spare drums by the stage so if Bonham ever broke a head they would simply replace that drum as quickly as they could in between songs, I suppose it makes sense really but I don't think he broke that many heads as he hit the drums so sweetly.
  3. Mook
    I'm really not sure about the snare head at all. The person who wrote the website below appears to agree with you about the clear tom head on the earlier picture although again, I remain unconvinced. http://users.tpg.com.au/adsle4l5/johnbonhamdrums/index2.html
  4. Mook
    Brilliant, thanks.
  5. Mook
    Or because one or more of them don't want to.
  6. Mook
    Thanks. It looks earlier than 1980 to me but I could well be wrong (wouldn't be the first time).
  7. Mook
    Another couple of interesting ones...
  8. Mook
    Where & when was this taken?
  9. Mook
    This doesn't prove anything as it's from a different gig but you can see he's using coated heads on his toms here...
  10. Mook
    Yeah, I don't think we can really get to the bottom of it without more pictures. I'm still in shock about the clear head on the bass drum to be honest. Be great to see more of these though, love them & you can really get a feel for what it must've been like to have played to those crowds.
  11. Mook
    Having looked again, you are right about the bass drum head, it's clear, the angle was throwing me - apologies. The heads on the toms are coated though, I'm certain of that.
  12. Mook
    I don't think any of the heads are clear, the bass drum symbol is shining through to the beater head & the tom head is definitely coated, it's the shadow of the microphone you are seeing there. Love the photographs in this thread, never seen some of them before.
  13. Mook
    Some of the top selling LPs in 1980 were The Wall (Pink Floyd), Emotional Rescue (Rolling Stones), The Game (Queen) & Back in Black (AC/DC) so there were plenty of 70s rockers doing well for themselves going into the 80s. Also worth point out that Deep Purple split up between '76 & '84 & writing off punk rockers as 'poorly educated' is a bit of a sweeping generalisation when a lot of them came out of art schools. Having said that, I'm of the opinion that some things belong in a certain time & place & I would apply that to Led Zeppelin & the 1970s, I think it's for the best that they broke up & left a pretty untarnished reputation musically.
  14. Mook
    Ha ha, you're not far wrong there. I don't think Robert Plant's remarks need an awful lot of scrutiny to be honest, he would probably be the first person to admit he talks a load of tripe (it's one of the things I find endearing about him actually).
  15. Mook
    Apologies, yes - it appears I misunderstood the tone of your earlier post.
  16. Mook
    I agree, it just amazes me how angry some people seem to get about it all. For the record, I think some of the Page & Plant stuff was amazing, the Kashmir with the orchestra, The Truth Explodes & Thank You are things I often go back to watch on Youtube, would it have been much better with John Paul Jones? Maybe, but you can see why they went ahead without him. The other boy was a great bass player too.
  17. Mook
    Some people take all this stuff far too seriously, there are people starving to death in the World, I'm not going to lose any sleep about what some millionaire rock stars say about each other in the press. The Page & Plant thing was 20 years ago, it was great, it's done, no point crying over spilt milk now.
  18. Mook
    Yes, well some sort of middle ground where the rich aren't constantly getting richer while the poor live in squalor would be a good start. Anyway, apologies for dragging things off topic.
  19. Mook
    So we should just let some people earn 100 times what other people earn? No, capitalism is destroying the World and people defending it are the problem.
  20. Mook
    Why does anyone have to be blamed for anything? The tax laws were what they were (I'm a socialist myself so have no issues with them) & no-one was forced to stay in any country against their will as far as I'm aware.
  21. Mook
    I once found a clip of Bonham doing a mini-solo/ending to a song, it was the US tour 1975, he had his full Clockwork Orange outfit on & it was taken from his left hand side (where Mick Hinton used to stand), it lasted about 30 seconds I think & there was a load of really quick right foot stuff. I saw it about 8 or 9 years ago on Youtube & have never been able to find it again, can anyone help?
  22. Mook
    Fine for a one off but we all know it wasn't really Led Zeppelin deep down.
  23. Mook
    I agree 100% with everything in this post.
  24. Mook
    I would've though In My Time of Dying & Achilles Last Stand would have been as tough as anything they ever composed. How Many More Times is a long piece with many different parts too, although I suspect a lot of that was written during their first gigs together & came together quite naturally,
  25. Mook
    No, I think you're 100% correct. I don't believe Miles Davis had any issues working with white musicians if he considered them to be good enough. Whether he believed Page was good enough is open to conjecture although I would point out that a guitarist like John McLaughlin is in a different league to Jimmy Page, Page would be the first person to admit this & in fact went to McLaughlin for guitar lessons in the 60s.

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