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When I first first first got my first set of drums I wanted to play just like Bonham and remember how delighted I was getting the hi-hat part to I Can't Quit You, Babe down. But the first Zep song I got all the way through was The Ocean, which I learned by singing the drum parts to myself.
I sure didn't understand 7 & 12 then. [img]eek.gif[/img]
Thank You. The whole of Led Zep II is great.
Closely followed by The Lemon Song....'till the juice runs down my leg...' heh.
Lemon is soooo funky; it was the first song they recorded for Led Zep II. I've got a bootleg of them doing a note perfect rendition of it at the Fillmore West in April '69. Three months later I was blessed to see them perform it in a much more drawn-out fashion as the last song of their show.
Before their 10 minute encore version of Comm Brkdwn. [img]rolleyes.gif[/img]
I had LZ I and this crappy old LP player next to my set, played that and the Allman Bros. "Beginnings" over & over......& over.
The first drum part that really tripped me out was actually Narada Walden's intro on Beck's "Led Boots". There was a guy in my group of friends that could nail that one.... it just confused me....Good stuff!
Mmm, always loved the dynamics & grace notes that John plays in Lemon Song. Would loved to have seen them live...
5/8 - How did you feel about Ten Years Gone - my all time favourite track, off Physical Graffiti?
For me it was also "rock and roll", although I did spend a lot of time trying ot figure out the opening fills on "good times, bad times"
Ya know, one of my faves is The Song Remains the Same.
That thing grooves hard.
ashio, Ten Years Gone is a great look at the pop side of Bonham, just like Tangerine. Just when you think there's nothing to it Bonzo turns it inside out like a sock in the washing machine.
I would've liked to hear him play his version of Rosanna too. [img]rolleyes.gif[/img]
Celebration Day deserves some props. That thing just crushes from the beginning...I love playing to it.
I've got a live Celebration Day from Berkeley 1971 and John Paul Jones owns it. Only Led Zeppelin could have a bootleg called My Brain Hurts.
FIrst LZ song I played -- "Whole Lotta Love." I was 15, and I realized JB was in a different world.
I played Rock N Roll for the first time at a gig last week. Man, I had a hard time with it.
Prior to this, I had gotten the new Zep DVD and noticed JB rides 8th's on both the hat and snare at the same time.
I tried doing the same and about 2 minutes into it my left had got tired.
He did it effortlessly.
Stairway to heaven
Rock and Roll.
I used to play in a cover band in college that played extended versions of Zep tunes...that was a blast.