Very Interesting Video, What made Mr Bonham great? |
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Very Interesting Video, What made Mr Bonham great? |
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Oct 24 2019, 09:00 PM |
Came across this looking for some isolated guitar tracks on YT. The analysis is fascinating and for me, the examples are hard to hear sometimes but very interesting all the same.
Let me know your thoughts https://youtu.be/UvOm2oZRQIk -------------------- SEE MY GMC CERTIFICATE “Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in instalments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.” Israelmore Ayivor |
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Oct 24 2019, 11:44 PM |
Bonham was a bit amazing imho. Even now, he is still appreciated. His sense of rythm was well complex yet groovy. He could let the band pass over him while he played 4/4 or he could pass by them playing 16/8, they caught up with each other at the chorus usually He had a syncopation that really added to the music. The only other drummer that comes to mind with such a musical sense of rythm is Mr. Peart from RUSH. Both guys make the drums in to a musical instrument, not just a rythmic instrument.
Came across this looking for some isolated guitar tracks on YT. The analysis is fascinating and for me, the examples are hard to hear sometimes but very interesting all the same.
Let me know your thoughts https://youtu.be/UvOm2oZRQIk |
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Oct 26 2019, 07:44 AM |
I had heard the musical side of his playing but after watching that video I now understand why some Zeppelin stuff sounded strange to me, I could never put my finger on it but now I know it's Page and Jones playing a different time signature to Bonham
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Oct 26 2019, 06:17 PM |
It cannot be overstated how much Bonham was into jazz, soul and funk music.
Kashmir is just in 3, not two different time signatures. JB may be laying down what feels like a back beat but that doesn't change the time signature of the song. Same for Fool in the Rain. Bonzo is playing a 12/8 shuffle groove ... as is the rest of the band. Black Dog is totally weird in the section that's mentioned and no one, including this video, has ever been able to explain it clearly. *I don't think Page and Jones are playing in 9 over Bonham's 4. I don't know what the fck it is. This post has been edited by klasaine: Oct 26 2019, 06:53 PM -------------------- - Ken Lasaine
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Oct 27 2019, 01:37 PM |
I would imagine that John Paul Jones had a whole other world of influences he brought to the band. All the orchestral parts and any keyboard things were played and written by JPJ. Page gets a lot of press about about being a session guitarist prior to the Yardbirds but it was John Paul Jones who was making his living (a very good one) exclusively from playing bass and keys and writing string and horn parts for British TV and playing on a ton of pop records made in London at the time. -------------------- - Ken Lasaine
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Oct 29 2019, 10:36 AM |
Cool video. Found this for a bit more basic explanation of one of the ways to complicate the feel;
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Oct 29 2019, 03:24 PM |
What made him such a great drummer was luck, Luck = preparation meeting opportunity. A band, probably a very good band led by Page would have existed w/o Bonham or any of the rest of the guys - but Led Zeppelin would not have. There are always hypothetical "could haves" or "maybe nots". If the Beatles' (first) drummer's mom didn't own a club maybe Brian Epstein would have never heard them. If the receptionist at Sun Rercords didn't call Sam Phillips (at home) to say that some truck driver just came in to record a song for his mother's birthday and it's really good - you should hear him. If Jimi Hendrix decided not to go to London on a whim with a guy he met through his girlfriend. If David Bowie (and Jackson Brown) didn't hear SRV at a small bar in Montreux, etc., etc., etc. Page found Plant through Reid and found Bonham through Plant. The Zen guy would say ' following the path'. Right place, right time and prepared for the job. That's how one gets a gig. "It's all luck, it's just luck. You get a little lucky and you make a little money" - Joni Mitchell (the Dry Cleaner From Des Moines). This post has been edited by klasaine: Oct 29 2019, 04:16 PM -------------------- - Ken Lasaine
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Oct 29 2019, 05:09 PM |
Right place, right time and prepared for the job. That's how one gets a gig. But this is about his drumming skills not how far he got in the industry, had Zeppelin not happened with Bonham he may still have been alive and been that amazing drummer in that pub band that played pubs in Kinver with occasional appearances from his mate Robert Plant. Little story: I nearly ran Robert Plant over in my car once, I was driving through Wolverley and this bloke was jogging towards me in a red tracksuit, a car overtook another on the other side of the road and I had to brake and swerve, Robert jumped onto the verge cursing but I had stopped before I was near him. I used to drink in a pub called the Live and Let Live in Wolverley not far from where he lived, anyway, that very same night he was in there at the bar, I told him it was me that gave him a scare and what happened, bought him a pint and all was good. -------------------- SEE MY GMC CERTIFICATE “Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in instalments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.” Israelmore Ayivor |
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Oct 29 2019, 08:00 PM |
Awesome rock star story!
My point about Bonzo and "luck" was to iterate that regardless of how the circumstances unfolded, it's always a process of circumstances unfolding that results in whatever coming to be. I'll bet if you ask Page he'd say that he was the lucky one. I hate playing the "what if" game. There are no what ifs, only what is. This post has been edited by klasaine: Oct 29 2019, 08:02 PM -------------------- - Ken Lasaine
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Oct 29 2019, 08:06 PM |
The point is though, he had the skills to be a great drummer, the video isn't about how famous he got but about his great skills
Another story but where its me nearly getting run over, I was with my girlfriend (now my wife) and we were going for a Saturday afternoon pint in the Lock Inn also in Wolverley, the car park is on the other side of the road which is a country lane, I ran across the road when Roy Wood came along in his Range Rover at a mad speed just missing me. I soon my fist at him, he put his thumb up out of the side window Both of those stories happened sometime in the mid 80's. I used to see Plant a lot in that pub, (now houses ) most of the time he was talking about his fitness training. This post has been edited by Phil66: Oct 29 2019, 09:12 PM -------------------- SEE MY GMC CERTIFICATE “Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in instalments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.” Israelmore Ayivor |
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Oct 29 2019, 09:07 PM |
The point is though, he had the skills to be a great drummer, the video isn't about how famous he got but shot his great skills Believe me I agree about JBs talent. I'm in the camp of 'best rock drummer ever'. Hence my comment; Luck = opportunity meets preparation. This post has been edited by klasaine: Oct 29 2019, 10:49 PM -------------------- - Ken Lasaine
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