"Led Zeppelin" drum sounds have ruined rock 'n rol

[MoreSpaceEcho]

dude, takeout, have you listened to any records made in, oh, say, the last decade? do that and then pick a record from the 80s and get back to us.

i totally agree that 'lead drums' are annoying, but with current compression and limiting "standards", it's kinda hard to imagine the drums poking out too much. or having any life whatsoever for that matter.

[lyman]

you make a good case.

Post-Zep: everyone gets a hard-on over "how huge the drums sound, dude". And if you like drums that sound like cannons and are mixed loud enough to supplant just about everything else.
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if you don't like big, agressive sounds, then maybe rock and roll really isn't for you.

[chris harris]

flaming lips

[mjau]

My nephew Lamont is also partly responsible, always listening to that junkyard music in the truck. I tell him all the time "hey Lamont! how about some Sabbath for a change?"

Totally agree. Lamont has killed rock and roll.

[Grady]

My nephew Lamont is also partly responsible, always listening to that junkyard music in the truck. I tell him all the time "hey Lamont! how about some Sabbath for a change?"

Totally agree. Lamont has killed rock and roll.

Fred almost had "the big one" when Lamont brought home an Mbox last year.

[KennyLusk]

Well...

...when John fucking Bonham is your drummer what are you going to do?

It's not like you could "hide" his drums in the background some place. He would just bang 'em harder.

[takeout]

if you don't like big, agressive sounds, then maybe rock and roll really isn't for you.

If I have to like "big" drums to the exclusion of everything else (including vocals) in order to like rock 'n roll, then I guess you're right - "big" = "good", no exceptions.

P.S. two pages in the time it took to get/eat lunch. Outstanding.

[Grady]

Big gearslutz thumbs up. Good work.

[John Jeffers]

Everything kills rock and roll and some point. Today it's Bonham's drums. Tomorrow, I'm going with Yngwie J. Malmsteen.

[MoreSpaceEcho]

yngwie playing bonhams drums would be rules though.

[mjau]

Bonham beating on Yngwie would be even better.

[jeddypoo]

Rock n' Roll was spawned in the stars by the Old Ones before the faintest whisper of time. It lies dead and dreaming it the ancient, alien city of R'Lyeh as it awaits the time when the Elder Gods will return- Yog-Sothoth, the gate-keeper, and Chthulu the high priest, upon whose visage to gaze is to go mad, and thus it cannot be killed by Earthly means.

[mpedrummer]

Well...

...when John fucking Bonham is your drummer what are you going to do?

It's not like you could "hide" his drums in the background some place. He would just bang 'em harder.

Yeah, really...Bonham was a monster, played a fairly large kit, and if I recall, rarely did more than two takes, because he was so stoned/high/whatever that he just said fuck it.

MPEDrummer

[JGriffin]

Rock n' Roll was spawned in the stars by the Old Ones before the faintest whisper of time. It lies dead and dreaming it the ancient, alien city of R'Lyeh as it awaits the time when the Elder Gods will return- Yog-Sothoth, the gate-keeper, and Chthulu the high priest, upon whose visage to gaze is to go mad, and thus it cannot be killed by Earthly means.

So...you're saying John Bonham was a Deep One?

[jeddypoo]

Possibly. He did have webbed toes.