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Beat of the Day

In celebration of my cousin’s birthday how about getting the Led out with Three for Thursday:

Oh, what the hell, here’s a bonus beat:

4 comments

1 thelarmis   ~  Jan 12, 2012 10:55 am

Bonham RULES!!!

2 Matt Blankman   ~  Jan 12, 2012 12:11 pm

[1] I think context is everything. In another band, Bonham might have sounded really ham-handed. In Zeppelin, he's just exactly perfect. A singular sound.

3 Alex Belth   ~  Jan 12, 2012 2:01 pm

They were just so damned funky.

4 Matt Blankman   ~  Jan 12, 2012 3:24 pm

I figure you have to give Page & Jones a lot of credit for being guys who had logged a lot of session work prior to Zep. Those guys could play anything.

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