he was being taught drums before he could walk let alone ride

Well said. The way people dis each other these days, it's a wonder we can get through the day. But some people have no lives and all they can do is criticize for the sake of criticizing. And I agree that Jason isn't like his dad exclusively. When you hear him play with other groups like Foreigner or Black Country Communion, you see how versatile he really is.

I also think if you are going to criticise you need to understand what he is playing. No n drummers do not realise the difference between a good drummer and a bad drummer. If I said to my non drummer friends what do you think of Phil Collins they tend to either judge him on his personality of the simple fill in In the air tonight without realising what a truly outstanding drummer he was both with Genesis and Brand X. Jason Bonham will forever be compared to his father but he is not his father. John Bonham had a style that everyone including myself has tried to replicate but no one has. The possible closest fit to John Bonham is Carmine Appice. That said Jason Bonham is still a damned good drummer. Most rock drummers whether they are Blas Elias, Frankie Banali or Dave Grohl are heavily influenced by John Bonham. That is just a fact and it is never going to change. I can imagine some 10 year old child in his room now listening to Good Times Bad Times and trying to work out what John Bonham is playing with those 16th note triplets and the reason why is because no one has affected us in the way John Bonham has and considering he recorded Led Zep 1 in 1968 and it is now 2015 and we are still having the same discussion. I think this discussion is going to run and run because I do not see anyone ever being as important to rock drumming as John Bonham. Some of you may think that is a naïve view but it has not happened yet in nearly 50 years.

They all need to realize Jason isn't John reborn. He is his own man and has is own sound. No one will ever sound like John cause he had his own mind and the way he wanted to sound. Just because they share the same DNA, don't mean they will play alike.

Kerry B Aman friend shaking my head with the negative comments... Jealousy gets you no where in life or envy hate all the above. Jason good guy and one hell of a drummer. His dad is Def smiling down upon him. Keep it real and its all about the music....

@@nojnoj3069 so post your videos you god like human being.....

He may be a good bloke but he does not have his dad's feel.

@@gr8dane626 check his playing now he's really improved!!

@@andrewcruz7595 He's better, but he's just not that great. He doesn't drive the songs the way John did.

Went to school with him. I remember he was crazy. Great guy. I beat him to having ear pierced though. And him the son of a rock legend......

@@gr8dane626 Of course he is great Sammy Hagar said hes the greatest drummer he've ever played with.

Roxanna Mason I don't see how :) Maybe try Porcaro's Rosanna breakdown and Purdie 'splaining his Purdie Shuffle. :)

+TheRealDeadRock Watch a video with more drumming in then you whining douchebag

Same here mate.Fake title. Three idiots back slapping. neptune. you're an asshole.

That fat fuck can't play for shite.......Spawn of the best drummer ever, and still cannot play!......Pure fuckin muppetry.

@@LewieLeway idiots? You are the idiot for Saying that.

I think that’s part of the reason why he preferred to do stunt biking over drumming when he was younger

Dude, if John wasn't his dad we'd never have even heard of the guy.

@Batphink Reynolds True, I am envious of him kinda like I am envious of Ringo. It's not that I'd like to play like him, but he does have a steady lucrative gig!

Yep it's a bit like Jon Lord (Hammond Player from Deep Purple), there are plenty of better players than him but none can come close because he was the pioneer of that sound. I think Jason is a great drummer - probably more proficient than his dad, it's just that his dad did a lot of things before him

True let Jason be Jason

“A Custom” Mastersound 15 inch hats just like mine.. lol. ;-)

No you don’t Bonzo was a genius but he also had a lot of problems.

we know that.

For rock drumming I completely agree and despite being a punk drummer I spent a large proportion of my teens learning every Led Zeppelin song I could find due to my love of his bass drum work but then go back further and listen to Joe Morello and you can see where some of John's ideas came from. Also as someone else has mentioned Fool by Led Zep is the Bernard Purdie half time shuffle but Bonham does play it very well indeed. John Bonham is my favourite drummer due to his feel and the way he used his technique but there are technically better drummers such as Steve Smith from Journey. I think only drummers know how good Steve Smith is as he often plays it very straight with Journey but if you listen to some of his Steps Ahead rhythms you realise just how good he is and from there you start getting into people like Steve Gadd and realise a lot of training and technique is the only way to play those rhythms.

misfit I like Smith's aiming for the floor LOUD! :)

misfit yea, I agree, Steve Smith is also very good... but to me, nobody compares to Bonham. it might be because he was the first drummer I'd ever actually listened to, or the first one to get my attention, but it was Bonham and zeppelin that got me playing, so for that, Bonham will ALWAYS BE my #1 pick.

You Bonham worshippers and try to be like like dudes are all amateurs. LMAO

bnhmisthaman 4 life!!, not best drummer ever! Rock yes, over all not even close. Look up Billy Cobham!

Nah, Ringo and Buddy Rich initiated more drummers each by far than John Bonham ever did.

Yep Ringo and Buddy were the two most influential, you could also argue Gene Krupa as well.

Mark Duffy I'd never sell mine, so quit asking! :)

There's a great bit from a John Paul Jones interview about when they were rehearsing together for the first time. This was for the MSG reunion gig they did in the late 80's/early 90's, something like that. Anywho, Jones says that they were playing away and, during Ramble On, he threw in this old fill that he use to do. What surprised him was that Jason managed to play along with it which, as Jones described it, is something that's difficult to do unless the rhythm section has been 'married for 10 years'. When the song was over, Jason looked at him and went 'Chicago, 1974'. If that doesn't show his hard work ethic, I don't know what will.

Thanks!

Which Bonham took from Bernard Purdie. Check out the Purdie Shuffle.

Valentino Patat Porcaro took Rosanna from Fool in the Rain.and Purdie's particular half shuffle mentioned by Porcaro, is Home At Last. Pattern: kick on uh 1 and uh 3. . hat= uh 1, uh 2, uh 3, uh 4, and snare on 3. mind you, those 3 songs are NOT exactly identical. And even Poracro says 1 thing then does something else, lol.

J B Makin Money I remember NOT SOBER years ago. it was baaad, as in "not good."

Good Times Bad Times

+KeeYoungChoi That's it, thanks!

Francisco Caldas Ludwig Vistalite.

as long as it was a drum kit you would here the most frightening drum beats

Video was uploaded 6 years ago.

I'd play whatever I got given for nothing quite happily.

Paiste for the record.

+4 more hit the nail on head on several levels 4 m. i'd add that this drummer should play something else.be his own man and not the son of all Zep fan's who want it to continue. top fuel drag /singing

He talks like him but NOWHERE NEAR looks like his Dad.

Fuck him and shit DW drums too

limzog9 try jam nites, you'll be bound to be better than most guys :)

I was about to say the same thing.

wow, you know more about Bonham than his own son!!!!