Drum Teacher Reacts: John Bonham "When The Levee Breaks" by Led Zeppelin

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2. You'd think...and there were some skeptics on YT posting that they didn't believe him. Piecing his comments

there together, he apparently had heard of the song but instead of listening to it had heard other drummers try to play that intro, and of course they didn't sound like Bonham so he wasn't that impressed. Till he heard the real thing.

He's in his late 30s, I think. Graduated from college in 2009, the Auckland University Jazz Program. Apparently didn't listen to much classic rock growing up.

I've posted a lot here about Silveroller and how their lead singer, Jonnie Hodson, who's in his early 30s, was influenced by Paul Rodgers and by older blues singers. But Jonnie was unaware of Paul Rodgers until he saw Paul doing a concert with Queen 20 years ago, and was blown away by how good Paul was. Jonnie worked backward from there, learned about Bad Company and Free. He says now that Muddy Waters is God, but he learned about Muddy Waters and other blues greats first from Paul's album Muddy Water Blues.

So these are younger musicians finding out about music recorded decades before they were born.