Posted on 12/11/2007 2:55:21 PM PST by blam
Led Zeppelin was light years ahead of all the others. Great rock music and superb acoustic work as well.
However, for me, they are not really Led Zeppelin without John Bonham. Jason Bonham is a great drummer, but it’s not the same.
That was the original version, a better one too. The Zeps stole all kinds of riffs from Neil Sedaka, Bobby Rydell and even Jimmy Clanton!
“Green Tamborine?”
They do tell a tale, it’s just the kind of psuedo-intellectual tale that is generally a blight on rock and roll. But somehow it all works, in spite of the fact that every part of the song is somewhere between laughable and lame the song is great. Proof that the people who try to formulize creativity are wrong from the start.
Amen. I think Moon meant a lot more to "The Who" than Bonham did to LZ. Without Moon, The Who is just Pete Townshend's backing band. Moon gave The Who their personality, and he was such a kick-ass drummer, so unique, nobody could ever sound quite like he did.
I wonder if any drummer like the late Kieth Moon had or has the ability to “beat lyrics”.
Rember Frampton in concert picking and singing through the same amp?
Moon drummed to Daltry in much the same way and was,according to Townshend (still one of my guitar heroes thus proving I’m no homophobe),pretty mundane otherwise.
Only the good die young.
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