#rhythm section

“Like Bonzo, Jones was already married with children. But Jones was also a softly-spoken middle-class Southerner; Bonzo a raucous, working-class Midlander. Yet somehow the two hit it off immediately. Even later on when Bonham was on a drunken rampage, Jones was rarely the target for his ire.

As he later told me, “Musically, we were very proud of our capabilities as a rhythm section. We’d listen and leave space for ourselves. There was a great deal of mutual respect. We were always incredibly locked in - phrasing the same and always coming to the same conclusion. The empathy we had when we played was always incredibly exhilarating. But then i was fortunate. I was playing with the best drummer i’d ever known, and i’d known most of them…”