2007-01-08 15:51:29 · 5 answers · asked by Milo M 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
According to Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham's wife, Pat, the song is named "Moby Dick" because his son, Jason, asked him to play "the long song". When John asked why, the boy replied, "It's big like Moby."
2007-01-08 15:57:15 · answer #1 · answered by VicBrownfox 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NEIL PEART...hands DOWN! now to not take some thing remote from the others. Peart is a drumming professor, a technician with severe precision. Bonham become self taught, and performed from the middle, and did one hell of a pastime of it. They way he saved a 4/4 time over an straightforward meter alongside with in Kashmir blows my options. Moon turned right into a finished spas, a kit of pent up fearful skill basically waiting to be released. it truly is been stated that it truly is bodily no longer achieveable to to have as many beats in step with second happening as he did, yet someway he did it. the final analysis is ALL 3 are, or were ideal for the bands they're commonplace for, so all 3 are large. yet i nonetheless pick Peart the most.
2016-12-28 12:12:41 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Among other theories, Moby Dick has become a metaphor for something that is pursued vigilantly, but that will ultimately destroy us. Something we become obsessed with and in the end consumed by. Which is exactly the way Bonham lived his life with alcohol.
2007-01-08 16:09:14 · answer #3 · answered by ThinkaboutThis 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's the name of the song, by Led Zeppelin
2007-01-08 15:56:25 · answer #4 · answered by berko 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because he plays it with three sticks. Left hand right hand, and his .......
talented man.
2007-01-08 15:59:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋