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"According to Led Zeppelin guitarist and producer Jimmy Page, the song's structure "was a riff that I'd been working on, but Bonzo's drum sound really makes a difference on that point." The famous drum performance was recorded by engineer Andy Johns by placing Bonham and a new Ludwig drumkit at the bottom of a stairwell at Headley Grange, and recording i
t using two Beyerdynamic M160 microphones at the top, giving the distinctive resonant but slightly muffled sound.Page later explained:

We were playing in one room in a house with a recording truck, and a drum kit was duly set up in the main hallway, which is a three storey hall with a staircase going up on the inside of it. And when John Bonham went out to play the kit in the hall, I went "Oh, wait a minute, we gotta do this!" Curiously enough that's just a stereo mike that's up the stairs on the second floor of this building, and that was his natural balance.

Back in the Rolling Stones' mobile studio, Johns compressed the drum sound through two channels and added echo through guitarist Page's Binson echo unit.The performance was made on a brand new drum kit that had only just been delivered from the factory.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbrjRKB586s



The making of "Catch a Fire" by bob marley and The Whalers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OQg8CIuyxA


"It might get loud"
http://www.crackle.com/c/It_Might_Get_Loud/It_Might_Get_Loud/2487114

The making of "Transformer" by lou reed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J629FITNEU&feature=related
 

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