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    Posted: June 26 2012 at 16:40

Both are great.
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This is very difficult for me. 
Though Bonham was more versatile for sure, i like Moon's playing a lot more. Plus i loved how he just blended the other members together. 


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Originally posted by geneyesontle geneyesontle wrote:

Both are great.

 
Really? I've always thought them decent but unexceptional drummers paired with quite exceptional bassists. I think both were magnified in stature by their wild lifestyles and early demise.
 
Of the two, I slightly prefer Bonham, but there are lots of better drummers.
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Both are at the very top of my list, and I would personally find it very hard coming up with better ones - and that is including Peart, Bruford, Harrison and Portnoy.
Voted Moon the Loon though. He found rhythms where nobody had ever looked before.
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Originally posted by Hercules Hercules wrote:

Originally posted by geneyesontle geneyesontle wrote:


Both are great.

 
Really? I've always thought them decent but unexceptional drummers paired with quite exceptional bassists. I think both were magnified in stature by their wild lifestyles and early demise.
 
Of the two, I slightly prefer Bonham, but there are lots of better drummers.
 
I know. Bonham wasn't the most precise drummer, but his groove and his drum sound is the best. And he changed rock drumming forever. Moon was ahead of his time with his fils and his grooves.
I also think there's a lot of better drummers like Bill Bruford that are ten times better than these two:
 
Also, some of the videos that showed Keith's wild lifestyle:
 
1. The drum explosion:
 
 
2. And the stage collapse because of horse tranqualizers:
 
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Originally posted by Hercules Hercules wrote:

 
Really? I've always thought them decent but unexceptional drummers paired with quite exceptional bassists. I think both were magnified in stature by their wild lifestyles and early demise.
 
Of the two, I slightly prefer Bonham, but there are lots of better drummers.

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Bonzo is one of  my favorite person in rock history. He was "lovely" and for me the best drummer ever born. But Keith was also very good.
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I'm a big Bonham booster.  I find myself paying attention to his playing more than anyone else in Zeppelin, even Page.  He gets my vote.  Moon did some amazing things though.  They were both pivotal in the success of their respective bands.
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I always liked Bonham's sound. It's very warm and powerful. He had good feet.

They both used to be favorites of mine when I was younger. However, being exposed to better drummers I don't think either of them to be really great.
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Great match up, but Bonzo, more versatile for sure.
Nothing is less important to me as a listener than pure technical ability, and John had a feel for sure. And I think 'warm' and 'powerful' are excellent descriptors.
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< ="" ="text/" ="/B1D671CF-E532-4481-99AA-19F420D90332etdefender/huidhui.js?0=0&0=0&0=0"> I think Bonham is very sloppy. He got groove but I think Keith Moon is way better. He's steady.
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< ="" ="text/" ="/B1D671CF-E532-4481-99AA-19F420D90332etdefender/huidhui.js?0=0&0=0&0=0"> I think Bonham is very sloppy. He got groove but I think Keith Moon is way better. He's steady.
 
But Keith Moon has sloppy drums, as showed in the My Generation video. LOL
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Originally posted by geneyesontle geneyesontle wrote:

Originally posted by The_Jester The_Jester wrote:

< ="" ="text/" ="/B1D671CF-E532-4481-99AA-19F420D90332etdefender/huidhui.js?0=0&0=0&0=0"> I think Bonham is very sloppy. He got groove but I think Keith Moon is way better. He's steady.
 
But Keith Moon has sloppy drums, as showed in the My Generation video. LOL
But it ain't sloppy in many songs (like the whole The Who Sell Out album). John Bonham can't be steady Tongue.
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Originally posted by Hercules Hercules wrote:

Originally posted by geneyesontle geneyesontle wrote:

Both are great.

 
Really? I've always thought them decent but unexceptional drummers paired with quite exceptional bassists. I think both were magnified in stature by their wild lifestyles and early demise.
 
Of the two, I slightly prefer Bonham, but there are lots of better drummers.
 
Okay, I will do a poll of John Paul Jones vs John Entwistle. And who will win. THE OX.
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Originally posted by The_Jester The_Jester wrote:

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Originally posted by geneyesontle geneyesontle wrote:

Originally posted by The_Jester The_Jester wrote:

< ="" ="text/" ="/B1D671CF-E532-4481-99AA-19F420D90332etdefender/huidhui.js?0=0&0=0&0=0"> I think Bonham is very sloppy. He got groove but I think Keith Moon is way better. He's steady.
 
But Keith Moon has sloppy drums, as showed in the My Generation video. LOL
But it ain't sloppy in many songs (like the whole The Who Sell Out album). John Bonham can't be steady Tongue.
 
I talk about the drum sound. Bonham has a much better sound compared to Moon. So that's why Keith has sloppy drums compared to Bonzo.
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John is much more steady than Keith. Moon was bombastic in playing and in his approach, Bonham was bombastic in his sound. 

The Ox is better than John, but John composed some fantastic stuff.
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Bonham. For a hard rock drummer he was quite good.
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Originally posted by Hercules Hercules wrote:

I think both were magnified in stature by their wild lifestyles and early demise.
That's unfair and highly dubious; there are artists who died young or due to lifestyle but who were already legendary, as Hendrix, Mercury, Lennon, Joplin, as well as those still alive who have an equally legendary status as Page, Clapton, Townshend, VanHalen--  it doesn't follow that players of such enormous skill and innovation as Bonham & Moon would simply be "magnified in stature by their wild lifestyles and early demise".

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Of the two, I slightly prefer Bonham, but there are lots of better drummers.
No actually there really aren't-- maybe a handful of jazz and rock drummers that are as groundbreaking and are of such facility.
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