Bonzo's Montreux

Infobox Song
Name = Bonzo's Montreux


Artist = Led Zeppelin
Album = Coda
Released = 19 November 1982
track_no = 7
Recorded = 1976, Mountain Studios
Genre = Hard rock
Length = 4:17
Label = Swan Song
Writer = John Bonham
Producer = Jimmy Page
prev = "Darlene"
prev_no = 6
next = "Wearing and Tearing"
next_no = 8"Bonzo's Montreux" is a song by English rock group Led Zeppelin. The song is a solo by drummer John Bonham, recorded in September 1976 at Montreux, Switzerland. [ [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/ledzeppelin/albums/album/165410/review/5945716/coda Led Zeppelin: Coda : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone ] ] Jimmy Page added the electronic effects afterwards.Dave Lewis (1994), "The Complete Guide to the Music of Led Zeppelin", Omnibus Press, ISBN 0-7119-3528-9.]

The song was left unreleased until 1982, when it was included on the album "Coda".

The song was also included on both of the band's boxed sets. It was presented in a medley with Bonham's solo on "Moby Dick" on the first boxed set in 1990, and as an individual track on the second boxed set in 1993.

Although the version of "Coda" included on the career-spanning boxed set "The Complete Studio Recordings" featured the new songs that were released on the boxed set series, the "Moby Dick/Bonzo's Montreux" medley (released on the first boxed set, in 1990) was omitted.

This is one of the few Led Zeppelin songs in which it is possible to hear the squeak of John Bonham's bass drum pedal in the recording studio, the others being "Since I've Been Loving You" from 1970's "Led Zeppelin III", "The Ocean" from 1973's "Houses of the Holy", and "Ten Years Gone" from 1975's "Physical Graffiti".

"Bonzo's Montreux" was never performed live at Led Zeppelin concerts.Dave Lewis (1994), "The Complete Guide to the Music of Led Zeppelin", Omnibus Press, ISBN 0-7119-3528-9.]

References

*"Led Zeppelin: Dazed and Confused: The Stories Behind Every Song", by Chris Welch, ISBN 1-56025-818-7
*"The Complete Guide to the Music of Led Zeppelin", by Dave Lewis, ISBN 0-7119-3528-9