You know that part of Led Zeppelin's "Fool in the Rain" where they come out of the silly Latin section back into the main piano riff and there's like a steadily rising drum roll and

Very true. Charlie NEVER hit both the snare and the hi-hat at the same time.

-- Mr. Snrub

play in a well and put a mic outside of it.

omg

i figured it out--they drum fills are there to prepare you for the song to slow down.... you get so hyped up by the middle section they basically just calm you down

yeah but the latin section has to climax first, which is what the mad 16th-note triplets do, culminating in the big cymbal crash. then the cascading fills come down the mountain in time and land right in the middle of the beat.

all pretty astounding, how something that big (the sheer force of his beat) can move so freely and swing so widely.

he's a funky paul bunyan

Listening to the O2 "Kashmir" right now and Jason did right by Pa.

As per earlier discussion here is an interview with Levon Helm where he discusses setting up his drums.

actually I found out how Bonham got the sound on this, It was a complete accident that I even figured it out and I got that sound , I really don't feel like sharing it though because its such a secret, Its something that should be kept to myself and I can tell you it was that sound because I play music by ear and when I hit the drum I realized I have achieved a sound section from fool in the rain and it was the part after the latin percussions. So Im saying it is possible to do and if you mess around and try different things youll get get it, Although if you figure it out please don't share it

one of my favorite moments in all of music.
― john, a resident of chicago. (john s), Wednesday, August 2, 2006 9:51 PM (thirteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

I came to this conclusion late Saturday night. There is a little pause in that first fill that is instant ASMR.

I really don't feel like sharing it though because its such a secret

lies

This seems like a good place to mention that great bir in 'In The Evening' where it sounds like the whole band (although it's rpesumably just some whizzy Page effects) is changing gear or something.

That moment is remarkable -- it's like the song suddenly "melts away" into the bridge.

(btw, re: the thread title - I like the samba breakdown in "Fool in the Rain"!)

Bonham doing his Pretty Purdie impression and page’s super fuzz on the solo make this one great, ham-fisted whistle interlude aside

ho, baby

just don't seem to stop when i'm thinking it over
o tired of the light, but i just don't seem to find
have you . . . wait? get away. i see it in my dreams
but i just don't seem to be . . .

I've always thought of this track as Led Zep trying to do Steely Dan.

this video came up in my sidebar a few months back and it shows you the actual stave notation for fool in the rain, which kinda opened up my third eye or something:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvOm2oZRQIk&t=7m35s

The meta-ness of Plant singing "I watch the people go shuffling downtown" while Bonham is playing the half-time shuffle had never occurred to me until tonight.

^I was wondering recently if there’s a thread for that kind of thing (songs where an aspect of the music “expresses” something in the lyrics), but don’t really know how to search for it.

Oh, you kind of took another thread in that direction (here: The meta lyrics thread)

Would that include songs like "On Broadway" or "Late in the Evening" where the lyrics mention playing guitar and the guitar goes widdly widdly in a suddenly conspicuous manner?

Or ones where the drummer acts out lyrics involving knocking on a door or using a six-gun? ("1999," "I Fought the Law")

The meta-ness of Plant singing "I watch the people go shuffling downtown" while Bonham is playing the half-time shuffle had never occurred to me until tonight.

xpost There's definitely a thread for that, or at least, I'm pretty sure we've talked about it in some thread.

I got to see this special benefit show, which ended with Pearl Jam backing Robert Plant for iirc his only ever performance of "Fool in the Rain."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqJJMiMzkks