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Jason Rossi of Cheatsheet.com revisits a comment that he once said about John Bonham, that his drumming didn’t sound human on one song.
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Jason writes:
Led Zeppelin’s four members were extremely talented musicians on their own. Still, the band somehow became greater than the sum of its parts, and John Bonham’s thunderous drumming was a key piece of Zeppelin’s sound. Bonham once lost to Karen Carpenter in a best drummer contest, which is unfathomable when you hear Bonham’s drumming on one song that Zep singer Robert Plant said didn’t sound human.
He sits out two of the eight songs on the seminal Led Zeppelin IV, but he still leaves his mark. Bonham could only do two takes of “Four Sticks,” but he nailed the complicated beat he played with — wait for it — four drum sticks. Some nifty recording techniques elevate his beat on “When the Levee Breaks” from simplistic to epic.
Every Led Zeppelin album included Bonzo leaving his mark. Still, Plant pointed to Bonham’s drumming on “Achilles Last Stand” from Presence as perhaps his crowning achievement. It was a “Bonzo track where nobody could even believe a human could do it,” Plant once said, per Far Out.
One listen makes it clear that “Achilles Last Stand” is one of the finest examples of Bonham’s drumming skills.
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