 there's an interesting story and now two people have now told me through uh well john hide who's a drummer who played with the band detective i don't know if you know about detective but they were on swan song records and john hide is from the boston area or he you know grew up there um and he said when he saw zeppelin he could swear bonham had two bass drums and what no but what what location would that have been at the tea party but it would have either been january of 69 or may i think of 69 and he doesn't recall the the month he just said that he was playing two bass drums now at first i thought well maybe he just misremembered that or you know because there are a couple photos from the tea party gig in january of 69 and he's he's just playing one bass drum he doesn't have two bass drum set up but another person recently i think it was a youtube comment told me that he also saw bonzo at the tea party in january of 69 and that he had two bass drums well how many how many shows did they do they did they did two shows they did an afternoon show and an evening show so the existing photos are just from one show so it's very possible that that other show maybe he tried out the two bass drums you know there's this there's this story about how peter grant and jimmy like no one liked the two bass drums and they're like it's too much it's overkill you know lose lose it and when he tried using the two bass drums later in the summer of 69 he pulled the two bass drums back out and set and there's a few gigs where he's using double bass drum yeah like four or five gigs right yeah there's at least five gigs where he was using them in a row in in august of 69 july and august and i think that might be the time when robert plant you know said he tells a story about how they used to hide bonzo's other bass drum because they didn't want him to play it so that would have likely been at that time you know he was probably like oh i'm gonna try this i want to try it you know and they're like hide bonzo's bass drum quick you know man too much thunder i'd love to hear outtakes of that like the different dubbed parts oh yeah i also think my personal opinion is he was playing double bass drum on that at least for certain parts um i think a lot of hardcore bonomites don't agree they think i don't know he could play anything with his right foot of course he could play that but there's a certain aspect to the feel yeah that doesn't sound like one foot playing that that uh pattern that it has more of a swung almost like yeah yeah like a little walker walker dog walker walker yeah but you did a great job in your in your video where you did it with one foot yeah i mean i think you i mean i think it's possible of course to do you know it just to me doesn't sound like it right and there's also no another important thing is there's no precedent for it bonzo never played that particular thing before yeah man you know what i mean it's not like the bass drum triplets yeah he never played uninterrupted 16th notes in a role like that that's going on under underneath everything yeah you know yeah so anyway the jury's out on what drum kit he used for bonzo's mantra who knows