This week I've somehow ended up watching clips of legendary drummers such as Buddy Rich and John Bonham on YouTube. I have very mixed feelings about drum solos: on the one hand they're very impresssive, but also rather pointless, and often pretty dull.
For many years I disliked John Bonham purely for the fact that he had the audacity to put an 8 minute drum solo on an album and call it a song. I stll think that Drum solos shouldn't be on albums, but if anyone should be allowed to, them it's Bonham (and that includes Buddy Rich, undoubtedly the best technical drummer ever, but Bonham always managed to maintain a groove in his solos, which [mostly] prevented them from becoming tedious).
I did find two jems on youtube though. One was a drumming dual between Buddy Rich and Animal on the Muppet Show which was entertaining . The other was a tv interview with John Bonham and Robert Plant from 1970. Blimey, was tv really like that then? Also, for Rock and Roll party monsters, the Zep were certainly polite young lads.
It also tickles me that the presenter consistantly refers to them as The Led Zepplin. Someone commented on that in the comments on Youtube - possibly the only intelligent thing I've ever read on YouTube comments - why do all YouTube comments sections always degenerate into adolescent slanging matches within 5 posts?
Probably because most of the posters are adolescents, I guess...
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