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11:01 hear Bonzo roar!

Bonham: Caveman Bonzo, beat drum really good!

Sorry, Love them all, but NOPE! Nothing before or since has come close to Zeppelin's harmonious sound!! Four members working tirelessly to make one another sound better. Bonzo was the "anchor", that gave every member what they needed, and got paid back in sound quality...and alcohol. Lot's of free vodka...

@@burtburt2263 I could make an argument for Van Halen's sound.

THE ZEP HEADS NEEEEEED THIS!

Amen bro

Listening to these videos makes it obvious how each member’s talents contributed to making the band phenomenal. One of a kind brilliance. Magical.

Led Zeppelin makes Led Zeppelin great

What a fantastic idea...a series of "What Makes Led Zeppelin the Greatest Rock Band of All-Time! Seriously Rick, us Zeppelin fans (and there are sooooo many of us) can't get enough of these guys and your breakdown and analysis is second to none! Don't make me beg....OK, please please please make this happen!!!!

human thigh bones? i always imagined them to b wooly mammoth thigh bones.

Ha! Right?!? I often listen to only the drums...you can't escape them

Tree trunks

He would like Thanos as a drummer

Near enough. ☘

RIP

Bonham is great but I love Neil Peart more

i know Bonham was the best but I still prefer Stuart Copeland over him

I could never pick one . Depends on the day. Depends on the type of music. After all it’s not track and field.

I’ll take Roger Taylor over Bonham. But,Bonham is definitely top ten. Maybe even top five.

Totally. I'm laying here in bed saying the same thing, my wife thinks i'm nuts...

LoL, just posted similar comment as bassist. :D

Obviously as a drummer, Bonham is the lord God and I shall worship no god above him, but I’m sitting here just marveling at Jimmy’s tone. Come to think of it, the solo was probably recorded on an icepick bridge Tele. Still, it sounds so ridiculously awesome

Man the bass tone is so nasty too! Amazing how they all managed to get phenomenal tones and not overpower each other. A great mix.

Great to see both guitarists and drummers respecting each other.

I concur he seems to enjoy it rather so.

Indeed, he should definitely make a career out of this.

I think Rick understands that breaking down a really good rock song should be somewhat of an appreciation party and when he’s having fun then we’re having fun. The other thing Rick does it not dumb down the analysis for non-musicians but he makes it cool to know enough music theory to follow along.

We need Rick to show today’s musician a thing or two about how to play real music...

@@grantbentley4177 I don't know about all that, but I do know he knows a hell of a lot more about the engineering aspect than I do.

@@philipm06 oh, you are lucky! Im very happy for you😄

1972 ZOSO tour for me.

@@philipm06 you got to send that to me.

My first of many Led Zepplin concerts was in Seattle. Maybe 1968. They were the backup band for Vanilla Fudge. I didn’t even know how to spell the band name on the back of my ticket stub ((which is part of my old ticket stub collection). I saw the band many more times after that cause they toured a lot - coming to town every 6 months or so. The concerts could be volatile…Jimmy Page was a bit touchy. I love them.

@@philipm06 My home town! That Southampton Uni gig was great as well

Somebody had to sing. It just happened to be the fourth musical genius of the group.

I think the same....

Of course we all know without any one of them the whole thing is missing something, you could make an argument that any of the 4 of them were the greatest ever at their respective instrument

@@xTheNameisEthan JUST LIKE RINGO !!

@Jim Vaughn Bonzo was better on the drums than anyone will every be on any instrument

Amen to that, Bobby :D

@Jesus is deep inside me with no lube I'm sorry, but Tool is not even in the same universe

Which genius their musical one or the genius of ripping off other blues musicians, cause the ripping off is still going on in the music industry 😂 and yes I love Led Zep just speaking facts

​@Jesus is deep inside me with no lube I agree .. Tool is quite amazing. Led always my #1 but damn Tool is unique (and gifted) just like Led.

@Jesus is deep inside me with no lube i like tool, but never in my life i have seen a band less expressive. it is very technical and and mathematical. it has no soul to it.

lol my little sister too. No one can resist ZEPPELIN!!

Its an expression of total respect. Like some weird feeling of proudness.

So was Plant. Can you believe that voice came out of a 21 year old?!?!

And the scariest part is that he wasn’t even a trained drummer. Pure Natural talent. Just born to drum

@@Nred9999 Just born to drum... yeah! that's it!

JPJ was LZ

Probably the greatest overall rock musician of all-time.

Agreed, it’s hard to shine when you’re the fourth guy behind Page Bonham and Plant but he manages to do it. My favourite bass player of all time but I’m biased because Led Zeppelin is my favourite band of all time.

I've always said Jones was the best all around musician in Zep.

@@roberthouston2684 oh yes. He'd been an outstanding musician even before he formed Zeppelin.

Joel da Silva and yes

You beat me to it, Mr. Kite! The YES video is what made me subscribe to Rick.

I know! I've already watched this video close to 10 times, his excitement is contagious!

Awesome. Rick and Zep There is a god.

Have you seen his video on The Who?

Bonzo's sound was almost exclusively defined by his very slight lag on the bottom beats. He drove the tempo of their songs with that imperceptible lag, especially in the kick.

@@staystrong8966 He put so much english on every beat, if he put any more swing on it, he'd fall completely off the back.

unreal!!!!!!!!

JPJ is so underrated ong

He was an animal! Never be another like him.

Fockin maniac

I never did either!

Its because it will always just get buried in the mix because it has so many other layers to the song.

@@mrcravinggaming4600 if anyone ever did catch it in good headphones, they would have presumed it was Plant doing his thing. This is the coolest thing I have ever heard.

👍

Mmmmm, Toto

Floyd

@@juanalvarololimelendez6142 No

And no one can beat Jimmy. Say what you will, name whoever, when you add the success, hits, coolness and shear musicianship, no one comes close.

I really appreciate your comment. I ALWAYS make a point before putting on Led Zep 1 (to my kids or friends) that they should imagine a young fella taking this "new" record round to his mate's house (back in 69) and the reaction when the needle first hits the vinyl. It really must have been EXTRAORDINARY!! And of course stills sounds bloody amazing. 🙂

@@RogueReplicant I agree, but it is litterally like 3 songs out of >100

The Rain Song for sure

@@gabe2869 I hope you aren't calling The Rain Song a dud. 😮

It'd be great to see him cover one of the amazing less "popular" songs, like "In My Time of Dying" or "Achille's Last Stand."

@@A_Final_Hit that would be sacrilege.

Watch the film Song Remains the Same. You can see Jimmy whipping the air to make the theramin scream.

And this instrument was invented by the Soviet physician whose inventions helped the Soviet Union to spy on American ambassadors.

I think the beach boys also used a theremin on pet sounds in Good Vibrations

Because not usually a topic; ok... now you can make it so.

There's a theremin in the kids part of the science museum in Sydney. Visitors can play it, or more accurately, try to play it. I was able to create some fingernails-on -a- blackboard type sounds. Fortunately no one else was in the room.

I remember some mag or TV show had a public vote to create a supergroup from the history of rock The members of Led Zep topped the poll for each category.

lol does anybody remember "XYZ"? =)

not one,the're the greatest

@KEM boy there's one in every crowd.

They are the greatest

So awesome. 🔥

Yeah I love that you hear Bonham grunting as he plays.

@@troyharmerliveinconcertaty8410 Jerry Mercer from April Wine grunted/growled during his drum solo back in '01 Saint john, NB

Carl Gustov ok"?

You can see this style in Animal, drummer of Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem.

I see what you did there lmao

I just peed a little when you said your first car was a 67 Impala. Bet you regret getting rid of it now!

@@staystrong8966 You got that right! I’ve looked around to see if I can find one to restore and they’re beginning to be a little pricey. Man that car could cruise!

@@johnb7889 yeh the Supernatural tv show pretty much ate up every Impala they could find for filming and parts. They have also become a fan collector and restoration item. They are extremely hard to find in driving condition. But Zep played in an Impala?? Good god that’s heaven right there.

Haha.

That would be so great. I've been wanting to hear a breakdown of Fool in the Rain for years. I love all Led Zeppelin, but there's just something about that song I can't put my finger on.

Too bad the title of it would be called "What Makes This Zeppelin Song Get Blocked on KZfaq."

I totally agree

@@lizzy-wx4rx There's a video called 'What makes John Bonham such a good drummer?' - around the 7 minute mark it talks through Bonham's drum part

@@lizzy-wx4rx You can find Bonzos isolated drum tracks for it here on KZfaq. It's Bonzos groove that makes that song for me. Have a listen.

Vikings? That's for Immigrant Song..

@@alexzabala2154 Yes.

But...right comment but not for this song

I understand what you're saying. "Immigrant Song" is about Norse mythology (Vikings, Valhalla). That's why I responded "yes" to your comment.

@@r.m.m.1333 two thumbs up!

Kinda like Pagey knew what he was doing putting them all together!

Except they weren't the best singer, bassist, drummer, or guitarist of their time when the band was created. They became one of the best of each of these in rock later, but even then not the best except in personal opinion, but not by most critics, fans, experts, or polls. All are in the top ten, tho, which being in the same band is exceptional.

O000ooopps...you forgot "Best Bass Player".

​@@restedjazz he was not only a great bassist but a great songwriter and composer.

And best bass player

Not really I think... he invented that power (chord) sound for the band including the scheme of how it should sound overall

I've always thought Page was somewhat overrated as a lead guitarist, but he was a fantastic producer. But with what I said about his lead playing, I am still envious of his acoustic guitar chops.

at 5:00 you can hear him singing harmony on the backing vocals too

Marcin Żmuda I don’t think Page *was* underrated as a producer. His awareness of dynamics, effective and innovative use of microphone placement and layering of guitar parts was revolutionary. Part of the reason that Led Zeppelin’s music has aged so much better than their contemporaries’ is that their records *sound* incredible even after 50 years. Journalists working at the time of the first Zeppelin album’s release remarked on how they had never heard anything with that dynamic range before.

DinsdalePiranha67 I’ve always felt the same. He played blues licks fast... and pretty sloppy for the most part.

I think I remember seeing one of those old promo Zeppelin videos from the 60's where when they would do the slide fill during the chorus and it would show footage of him using the bow but did he actually use it on the recording or was that just a visual effect for a promotional thing? Also was he using a Marshall and LP on this or a Supro and a Tele?

The Trippy Part LOL Right there with you.

When I saw them play this they didn't have a therimin on the stage. It was just Jimmy's guitar playing the "trippy."

I always thought that too. Just commented on that. Theres parts of it to me that sound like pick slides and whammy dives to me.

same here. that tripped me out lol just gives me a whole new level of respect for this song.

Original words i wrote that gave Plant the idea. I been rakin; baby I'm not fakin' Thought I was done but, I was mistaken Way way too many times, honey those trees They wanna give me their leaves They wanna give me their leaves OHHHHHH!!! Gotta whole lotta leaves Gotta whole lotta leaves Gotta whole lotta leaves Gotta whole lotta leaves You been blowin', baby I been mowin' All them damn leaves baby baby we're not controllin' Way way down inside, our neighbors need it We're gonna give 'em our leaves Gonna give 'em our leaves OHHHHHHH!!!! Gotta whole lotta leaves Gotta whole lotta leaves Gotta whole lotta leaves Gotta whole lotta leaves (Either Page and Plant mumbling and screeching or a leaf blower solo, not sure which) You been naggin', baby I been baggin' All these leaf bags, I been a-draggin' Hey, hey look outside, I done cleaned our yard I went and cleaned up every inch of our yard Yeah! All right! Let's go! Raked a whole lotta leaves Now they're droppin' more leaves Wind is blowin' more leaves That's a whole lotta leaves HEY! LOOK! OUTSIDE!!! WUH-MUN!!! YOU'LL SEE.... LEEEEEEEEEEEAVES!!!!!!! RAKE for me, girl! I wanna see this back yard clean! Hey! Oh! Hey! Oh! Ooooooooooooh! Keep a-rakin' baby! Keep a-rakin' baby!

@@oppothumbs1 wonderful

A million times yes

One of my biggest pet peeves, it makes the shelf life of the music so much shorter when everything is perfected, copied and pasted, mastered too loud etc.

Eric Clapton Slowhand he's great cos he is an accomplished musician with a wide knowledge of different styles of music ranging from Coltrane .Davis etc through jazz fusion ..Holdsworth etc and on to straight ahead rock as demonstrated in this video

David Scott I do believe his comment was a play on this series😉

It's his knowledge combined with real enthusiasm

enthusiasm for sure

Assaf Levy -- and friendliness too

You can hear Bonham yelling his head off during those fills. Gold.

Yes! This was something I could never understand watching bands cover this song (woefully, unfortunately) - why is the guitarist not bending the D on the 5th fret sharp? If you get a tele and play this iconic part, pinch that D slightly sharp until you hear dissonance between the two strings and viola! Whole Lotta Jimmy!

Glad you mentioned this! That fretted D note pulled sharp against the open D string creates a slight dissonance that to me, is an essential element of the riff.

Yeah, it's interesting because I've seen folks play it where they bend the D a bit sharp, but don't hit the open d behind it - and I've seen where they just hit the D on the fifth fret but put zero feel into it. They both sound passable, but not quite right.

Eli Friedmann That pocket is as deep as the Mariana Trench.

True dat!!!

Hvx

Ccx

David Boi allredy did that

@@guitarboy4629 Boi? It’s BOWIE.

It actually was first played on Mars.

You didn't see him blushing & smiling ? That's fan boy mode in disguise ha ha.

Absolutely! They truly were exceptional.

Kathleen McCarthy - never to be topped 🌟🔥

Agreed, "Bonzo Ghost Notes" should be a registered trademark!

Absolutely Remu. Bonham had the ability to sit in a pocket but still make it funky and have his singular unique signature playing stand out without stepping on what the other players were doing. He was amazing.

You can hear Bozo's greatest beats via his son Jason when he joined the guys in playing a lot of the B sides from Houses of the Holy, Physical Graffiti and others live. The video is on youtube.

Great rhythm is always more impressive. As a guitar player, I often find myself more interested when I listen to awesome rhythm parts than solos.

90% of great drumming is what the drummer is doing with the kick, the snare, and the hi-hat - of how those components are talking to each other. And Bonzo was a master of that, and knew that keeping those three things going (especially the kick!) was the secret of laying down a great groove.

I got close at one point... the dust would float off the floor...

Page: hot heavy licks Jones: thundering bass Plant: gritty vocals Bonham: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

@@samanthajones9198 poor you but copying a top comment and paste it here won't help

Infinite energy is unachievable, hence your point stands.

Not in my neighborhood back in the day anyway! Nothing could handle to bass. we traumatized a few stereo systems trying!

Oh that's cool.

Cool

About 30 years or so ago, I used to work with a drummer who used to make stupid noises all the time when he was drumming. We asked him to STFU while we were recording. He said "I'm sorry, but I can't, I'm sorry, it's a bad habit I know." In the end, we just gave up and when we were finished we realized that it wasn't so bad and barely heard in the mix. Made no difference in the end and we weren't no Zep.

Not until I heard it here. Layers and layers, and all analog -- this is the kind of thing that will never happen again

@@joshmeyer7384 True. That's because music back then was created organically. Today's popular music is made in a factory.

This is exactly it and I’ve always thought this. Robert Plant sang like a blues guitarist plays guitar. He was a blues singer. Many people who imitate Robert Plant sound awful because they take inspiration from Robert Plant directly and not the blues. They just go straight for the high notes but with none of the emotion. And a lot of people just go all out on chest voice screaming or falsetto which sounds horrible. Plant sang in mixed voice which almost everyone fails to replicate.

He was the producer so this is kind of the same thing.

His UNDERSTANDING of 'Alchemy'... + Passion Love Dynamics Frequency Vibration Harmony Ego-Less Un-Bias understanding of optimal ... "Combinations"

Shitloads of talent.

So he was the one who is yelling during the drum fillings!!! :)

u bet he was

Majed Suleiman yah that’s him! He does it a lot. If you listen to other recordings of just him you can hear it. I would look up “All my love” drums isolated. You can hear it real good there

THank you sir!

I have a friend who is a really good drummer who does that when he's playing. His isn't quite as loud. I was making fun of him one day and he argued that I was making it up... until we recorded him playing and he was like "What's that annoying sound I keep hearing in the background?" and I was like "That's those noises that you don't make while you're playing!"

Where do you live? LOL...😉

@@kensalazar5066 Probably far from you...but we are connected in spirit in our Zeppelin love. 💗

@@jacquelinea.graham2173 🥰

mine too. makes me a bit uncomfortable being a heterosexual male in all. haha

Any pics or videos of this happening?

Yep. It's just how he played.

Those are the drums screaming for mercy.

cЯ best reply ever

AAAAAAAAAYYYEEEAAAHHH

Yea IKR? lol

I guess when a band steals 3/4 of their biggest songs they get a little trigger happy that somebody might want to return the favor.

It won’t look at the description, he was all the time in contact with Warner.

@Doodle Master a few have.

Queens of the Stone Age, Fleetwood Mac

I get the impression that section being played might get the video taken off KZfaq. Not sure why though.

Brian Holzwordt 😹

LOL

You're thinking of Grateful Dead.

@Brian H Bwahaha...you not the only one, one of my best buds back in my teen years called it the koolaid song!

Yes, still do

Same here, always swore it was the guitar

Me too . I thought it was the BOW and Theremin. Nor did i ever notice the two chords on the chorus slide track. Fabulous expo

You never saw The song remains the same?

@@eddyfree33 I always thought it was guitar and echoplex as I had heard Lemon Pipers, "Through with You" with a lot of echoplex tricks which sounded similar.

Lothar and the Hand People (late 60's). Theremin until your eardrums burst.

Same here mate! LD is my first musical shock. I was 5 and my uncle used to play great 70s music. First time I listened to LZ II and Whole Lotta Love, I was bewildered! I turned 43 in July and LZ is still one of my favourite bands ever! :D

That is so, so, so true ! The 1st time I heard LZ - I was like - WTF is that ???!!!! In the best way possible...

So many people who heard LZ records right when they first were released say - "I just never heard anything like that before !" Even when they nicked stuff from other musicians - they still turned whatever song or riff it was upside down and on its head. They were one of a kind. It's pure passion and love of music !

I remember hearing this for the first time. I was upstairs in my room, probably 14 or 15. My brother, who was always one step ahead of me when it comes to new music, came home with Led Zeppelin 2, slapped it on the cappy turntable downstairs and cranked it. As the opening riff tore through the house, I thought...what the hell is this. I'd never heard anything like it before. It was completely compelling, I had to investigate. Later, I played it over with headphones, totally blown away by the echos and reverb nuances. It makes me smile to this day.

@@mattanthony3963 Very nice ! I love hearing these stories and experiences !

The really awesome thing about that fill is the timing of it and how it weaves into the melody that was always noticeable to me and let's not forget the ultimate bonham fill that he is actually most famous for and that is the finale at the end of the the Dazed and Confused solo. I think that's the one that most people would say is his most famous and he recycled those triplets a lot through different songs but that one I think is his trademark that he is most known for...but I agree you have a really good ear to pick that particular fill out; that one only gets noticed by really good drummers mostly because it's not straightforward like you would think it's actually pretty tricky and I rarely see anybody actually pull it off the way Bonham plays it. George Fludas does a great job of it on his channel he is probably the closest drummer alive to channel Bonham as accurately as a mere mortal can. Peace, Paiste Bob

The greatest fill he ever did for me is the one in Achilles Last Stand

Ryan Whiteside Greatest fill for me is when he played with his hands on Moby Dick

Michael A. Phillips well mine went to 12x

Mine like over 9000

Don't touch the song! No! Don't point. Don't even look at it!

11×1000000

But why not make 10 louder?

Need all Bonham isolated tracks for all Zeppelin songs. really

Fool in the rain.

Kartik Deshpande I’ve never noticed this in my life.... fuckin crazy!!

That’s fukn crazy. I love it

kind of spooky too, poor Bonzo.

deb-o-rah J yeh it is kinda spooky

Savage

Do the O2 version.

Hard Rock Master the one at knebworth is better

all great, & i would add to that, the page plant version where jimmy does an incredible effects laden intro.

@Steven Morse I agree. Definitely! He needs to give us Kashmir at some point.

@@HardRockMaster7577 i dont understand. What's the point of Rick doing the version without John Bonham? Drums is a huge part of "Kashmir".

Yes. Many.

done!

Awesome!!! Not every hero wears a cape.

Please upload it to servers in China and/or Russia. And also save a hard copy inside a safe-deposit in Switzerland, next to your bitcoins!

Julio A. Done

good lookin out brother!

LZ1 is a great opening album. But the "King Crimson 1, In the court of the Crimson King, 1969 " is equally the best...

This was the very first LZ track that I ever listened to. It was in October of 1969, and I was 14, and I was listening with Koss over-the-ear headphones with an RL mastered LP. My introduction to Hard Rock. Neither my friends or I had older siblings to show us the way. I picked up the album simply by word of mouth, a conversation overheard in the classroom. By the time I listened to HB, I was All In.

Hahahaha! I know, right!!!

same for me