RIP John Bonham

Clapton is certainly entitled to his opinion about what was "wrong" about where music was heading, after all, he is "god."

I continue to be amazed at how utterly good The Band was. "Life Is A Carnival" is in my will, to be played at my wake.  LOUDLY.  Even whilst dead I'll probably hear something new in it. I do every time. (Wow, wotta cool idea for another thread.)

it is incredible to me how a discussion of john bonham morphed into talking about dylan and the band in less than 20 comments...
john bonham changed the course of rock drumming when he hit the scene...he was put upfront in the mix in a big way. his drums were large, unmuffled and recorded along with a mike in the center of the room, hence his "stadium" like sound. he started out as just a heavy hitter, but quickly gained finesse in his grooves, in part by listening to and emulating james brown records. listen to his drumming on "no quarter" or "the crunge" and you'll see what i mean. one of my favorite tracks is "the lemon song", which shows off his creative abilities while improvising along with jp jones.
live, he was a monster. between he and ian paice of deep purple, no one in rock could touch their energy and technical prowess, especially when playing an arena drum solo. guys like bonham were geniuses, and mere mortals like us could only sit back and wonder at the things they created. they had attitudes, and their talent "excused" them from it. to coin buddy rich "it ain't bragging' if you can back it up!" i will always miss "what could have been", but glad to have been influenced by mr bonhams' masterful playing. rest in peace

Bonham passing 37 years ago doesn't seem possible, man time flies. Never got to see Zep but did see Page & Plant at Red Rocks years ago and what a show. As far has Jon being a A hole on tour yes that seems to be the word but at home he was supposed to be a great dads and great guy with his friends. 

Plant is like a father to Jason and flew instantly to be with the Bonham family after Jon passing and stayed for quite some time.

Jason last I heard was playing drums for Sammy Hagar, not  a bad gig.
Im sure Jon would be proud to hear Jason play Im sure. 

RIP Jon, what a legend.

Threads have a way of meandering off-point that sometimes take on new lives and subjects. 

For me personally Bonham was the guy that made me acknowledge drums as an instrument. I didn't possess a bias against drummers or anything, after all I was about 12 when Zep broke. I recognized that something was DIFFERENT the moment one of my brothers played Zep 1 on our Magnavox console stereo for the first time. Before that I pretty much paid attention to any other instrument/player, but this was remarkably different. He, perhaps more than any other player made me LISTEN more carefully to music in general. To bands and how the members synced/contributed/and made what is truly magic together. 

That's Bonham's contribution to me. 

I remember being a kid ( born in 69 ) and my mom had taken my cousins and I to see Kiss and the thought was we would go see Led Zeppelin for the In Through the Out Door tour. Well of course they never made it to the states. I'm a guitarist who grew up in the guitar business but have always loved and been close to drums as well.

John Bonhams blend of blues, rockabilly, funk, Celtic etc, made him such an original.
God bless him.
RIP.