Zepparella band history of acdc
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clementine on playing zeppelin
I first fell in love with Led Zeppelin as a youngster listening to KMET radio in Southern California. They played “Zeppelin A to Z” one weekend, and I stayed up for 3 days recording the entire thing onto cassette tapes. (I still don’t know which songs are on which record. I just know them alphabetically.) Those tapes were the soundtrack of my life for many years.
When I started playing drums much later, I realized how much my love of Zeppelin had to do with the drums. And Bonham’s style must have sunk in over the years. The first time I ever recorded with a band, after I’d been playing for about a year, the bass player told me, “I’ve played with over 100 drummers in my career, and your feel is the closest to Bonham’s that I’ve ever played with.” That’s my very favorite compliment, though I still think he might have been blowing a little smoke.
Even with that I didn’t consider the idea that I could ever really play Bonham. I brought in The Ocean transcription to my drum teacher at one point, and although I learned most of the song, the bass drum triplets seemed unimaginable, and the subtleties of the feel were so deep that I put the idea of learning more Bonham on the far future burner. It was too sacred for me to attempt when I wasn’t ready. I
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VIDEO: Zepparella: Stairway leads back to Poughkeepsie
A Dutchess County native who graduated from Arlington High School and the State University of New York at New Paltz, Noelle Doughty has seen a lot of shows at The Chance in Poughkeepsie.
There were many Hot Tuna concerts — electric and acoustic — as well as Bob Dylan, Jimmy Cliff, Edie Brickell, Iron Buttetfly, Stanley Jordan and many others.
"There was a doorman who used to tell me that I paid the electric bill there," Doughty, who grew up in Poughkeepsie and currently lives in Placer County, California, near Sacramento, told the Journal during a recent telephone interview. "I was there as much as I could possibly be. And back in the '80s and early '90s there were so many great artists who came through."
Doughty, a vocalist who performed with various bands while in high school, college and after, the bands Funktional Loonacy and Monica's Kneepads among them, was thrilled when she finally performed at the Chance years ago.
"When I finally played at The Chance with Funktional Loonacy," Doughty said, "it was such an honor to be on that stage."
Doughty is set to return to the stage at The Chance tonight, as she and her bandmates in the ensemble Zepparella place their stamp on the legendary song catalog made famous by
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Gretchen Menn: Overachieving to Refrain from Recreational Self-Loathing
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