Re: The Queen meeting Jimmy and not Robert oh my!

[Steve Thomson <steve.thomson@xxxxxx>]

Yes, thanks to both you and Tangerine Man for this info. I thought Bryant and 
Jones 
established a good **groove**, something I feel has been missing from 99.9% of 
the 
work both Page and Plant have done since Zeppelin. So many Zeppelin imitators 
and 
wannabes just never get this. They think it's about hitting the drums harder, 
getting bigger drums, getting the right recording engineering, whatever. It's 
the 
feel damnit!

The surprising thing is that both Page and Plant have mentioned this special 
Bonham 
quality in interviews, yet neither has really succeeded in finding anyone who's 
able to do that for their music. I mentioned Midnight Moonlight in a recent 
post. 
When I compare the Firm's rendition with the demo Page and Bonham did, Chris 
Slade 
plays basically the same drum fills, etc., but he sounds almost sounds like a 
lifeless drum machine. Part of it was the lame drum sound, but a lot of it was 
lack 
of feel or groove. It sounded like Page was playing as if Bonham were backing 
him 
up, but Bonzo wasn't there. On the new Plant cuts we heard from the French 
radio 
interview, there's a big Bonham sound in places, but again the feel is missing. 
There's almost a Bonham feel where the band drops into the Manic Nirvana-
like "chorus" section of Enchanter, but then it's lost in those infernal 
Dreamland-
like verses.

I recall reading an interview with Jones around the time Zooma was released. He 
talked about how he wrote the drum parts out for his session drummers with a 
Bonham 
feel in mind. I think he succeeded. (Note to Jimmy: If you're reading this, 
call 
JPJ and do an album with him! Forget Percy, just go for JPJ. Oh and listen to 
him 
when he recommends a drummer :).


On Mon Mar 14 12:40 , Nech <tytlane@xxxxxxxxxxxx> sent:

>You must be thinking of Terl Bryant.  He was indeed quite good.
>
>Nech
>
>steve.thomson@xxxxxx wrote:
>  >
>> Actually, the closest I've heard to Bonham in terms of feel was the guy who 
played 
>> for Jones on the Zooma tour (can't remember his name right now, Terry 
>> someone? 
or 
>> someone Terril?).