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Re: Bonham- mee
> [O'Neal, Kevin W.] I'll give you that. I don't know what I was
> thinking when I wrote "close" second. I've always been one that gets mad
at
> the ongoing debate of who was the better drummer. To me it's no
> contest....Keith!
Kevin:
Seems like it to me! When someone talks about Bonham, I think: "Yeah, he
was loud. Mixed high in the studio. But what did he do, other than hit the
Hell out of the drums?"
> Until I was talking with a friend who pointed out that
> drummers in "the day" were by comparison much more sedate than today.
Heavy
> Metal really opened the door for 'bombastic' (love that word now)
drumming.
I GUESS, if you say so. I don't know; they aren't impressing me. Maybe
we're not listening to the same things.
> Back then you had Keith, John B. and a few others like Carl Palmer.
They were musicians, not Rock Stars.
Cheers ML
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