Led Zeppelin - Moby Dick Copyright - 1969 Atlantic Records "Moby Dick" is an instrumental tune and drum solo by English rock band Led Zeppelin, featured on their 1969 album Led Zeppelin II. Overview The title of the tune has no relation to the book of the same name by Herman Melville. According to Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham's wife, Pat, the tune 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." The tune emerged after Jimmy Page would often catch Bonham jamming in the studio, recorded parts of it, and then pieced it all together. Only guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist John Paul Jones play the tune's blues-based riff with Bonham's drums—as a power trio—at the very beginning and the very end of the tune, leaving the remainder open for Bonham alone. Singer Robert Plant did not play at all, and in concert would simply introduce Bonham to the audience before the tune started. Outtakes from the Led Zeppelin II sessions reveal that the drum solo recorded was edited down from a much longer version. The tune features strong influences from drummers Joe Morello and Ginger Baker and the tracks "Castilian Drums" (the live version from At Carnegie Hall in particular) and "Toad" (especially Wheels Of Fire version) respectively, utilizing bare hand drumming, triplets between hand and foot, bass drum double strokes among other techniques. The elements mentioned are heard in the aforementioned ...
Keywords: Led, Zeppelin, II, 1969, Jimmy, Page, Robert, Plant, John, Bonham, Paul, Jones, Atlantic, Records, blestemp
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