Levee Breaks - Michael Ward, Ben Harper, John Paul Jones

Short clip of Michael playing bass at the Bonnaroo Superjam with Ben and John Paul Jones

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• michael
• ward
• ben
• harper
• bonnaroo
• john
• paul
• jones

[3star2nr]

DAMN IT I wanted to do this!!!! God its like everything I think of Musically Led Zeppelin has done it :(

[MrBeeleevr79]

You guys were awesome! Do you have the whole song?

[fishboy91]

How ever they wish to play it is correct. No one is required to try and match it beat for beat and note for note against a moment in time over 30 years ago.

[bapyou]

That's it? Thirty-nine seconds? Hmmmf.

[BigAndo21]

Yeah I heard it was a hallway, but either way, I think people are being overly critical, because it is near-impossible to reproduce the force of the recorded drums for this song in a live setting.

[GreatGuiseppe]

drum sound sucks....snare way to tight.....

[bkfindlay]

Hate to say it, but it's a tune that Zep covered. Memphis Minnie wrote it years before they did it. How cool is it to have a slide guitar and slide bass? There was a lot of studio trickery that went into making Leevee a great album track. Recording drums in a two-story stair well, as well as recording in Open G then slowing the tape down to F can't really be reproduced "live" by proxy...Also, this isn't a slam on anything you said, just adding my two cents. Peace!

[humangus333]

But you ain't and you will never be......

[mrfluglechug]

playing*

[mrfluglechug]

nah, the drum beat is actually echoed, no double lash or anything, when they recorded it they had bonham laying at the lower end of some stairs and recorded at the top, so it gave the echo.

[carlos13fred]

i play that drum right and im a guitar player

[trombone7]

He got the drum beat wrong. From Levee Breaks. He got the drum beat from Levee Breaks wrong. WTF ?

Its buh-bump... conk... bump, buh-bump, conk.

The whole fun is that first kick drum sounds like an echo.

[Zboots]

My pots and pans sound better than that drum set guys....

[pearljam96]

You kidding? This is wicked, if anyone has a right to do this song then John Paul Jones does, especially with talent like Questlove and Ben Harper. Who cares if it isn't Led Zeppelin playing is, it still rocks I would have gone crazy.

[soulstice99]

the absence of bonzo is glaring here. these guys werent even close

[BananaHurricane]

Eh, sure it's not the same without bonzo. But come on, when plant comes in with the harmonica at the beginning its like "Ooooooh shiiiiit!". I think this is one of those zep tunes that shouldn't be covered ever.

[thejugglenaut91]

are you kidding, you have to have bonzo... robert is a side item

[duegold]

the percussion just isn't the same

[Greenlite89]

yeah harmonica, "MOMMMMMA YOU GOT TOOOO MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE"

[matteocs]

to play it you need robert, no way

[enlightening]

love this song!!!!