Monday, October 6, 2014

KLEM FM

The very first song on the first Led Zeppelin LP: "Good Times, Bad Times"


I always thought the lyrics were disingenuous...a rock star bitching about a woman dumping him?

The real reason I put this up tonight was to draw attention to the amazing right foot of John Bonham...specifically to the so-called triplets he kicks with one foot. I'm talking about what sounds like a horse galloping by (if you ignore Plant and listen to the drums).

I found this -- one of many YouTube videos -- which neatly explains the technicality of what Bonham did:


9 comments:

chickelit said...

The song has plenty of cowbell, too.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

I watched the technical video first. It gave me a leg up on the song.

chickelit said...

Rim shot!

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Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Thank you bags.

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Chip Ahoy said...

My older brother played this album on endless loop there for awhile.

It's trippy.

But I never EVER picked out the drum.

Listening hard for it, sounds like tippy-tap tippy-tap tippy tippy tippy-tap tap tap.

And the guy's description of what I was supposed to be hearing is so definitive and clearly delineated and deconstructed, he literally broke it apart, slowed it down, sped it back up, added it back together, showed it on the left side of the kit, moved the whole thing to the right side of the kit, showed it from happy lilt form to hard drive form so I was looking for all that in back in the first video, listening carefully to pick it out, but could not. Everything else overwhelms it.

And all that from a guy with a debilitating accent and the whole time you're going, "take your hat off." But if he did take his hat off then unkempt dreadlocks would tumble out along with various bits of debris such as compressed into vacuum cleaner bags and you'd go, "put your hat back on."

I figured that out by the lumps in the hat. But I made up the part about debris.

chickelit said...

But I never EVER picked out the drum.

Thanks Chip. The Bonham triplets have been long famous in certain circles -- drum circles.

↑ did you see that? I think that's the the correct usage of the present perfect tense. It's used to convey something which began in the past but continues in the present. Had I written "the Bonham triplets had long been famous..," it would have indicated that the fascination has ceased.

deborah said...

*polite golf clap*

:)