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“Moby Dick” is an instrumental tune and drum solo by English rock band Led Zeppelin, featured on their 1969 album Led Zeppelin II. It was also known by the alternate titles “Pat’s Delight” and “Over the Top” during various points of the band’s career.

The tune emerged after Jimmy Page would often catch Bonham jamming in the studio, recorded parts of it, and then pieced it all together. Only Page and bassist John Paul Jones play the tune’s Drop-D blues-based riff with Bonham’s drums—as a power trio—at the very beginning and the very end of the tune, leaving the remainder open for Bonham alone. The structure of the main riff is that of the twelve-bar blues. Singer Robert Plant did not sing at all, and in concert would simply introduce Bonham to the audience before the tune started. Studio outtakes from the Led Zeppelin II sessions reveal that the drum solo recorded was edited down from a much longer version.

The guitar riff can be traced back to the BBC unused session track “The Girl I Love” which was recorded in the Summer of 1969. It is an almost note for note copy of a riff which appears in Bobby Parker’s 1961 single, “Watch Your Step”. Jimmy Page was a fan of Parker’s, and at one point in the 1970s attempted to sign him to Led Zeppelin’s Swan Song Records label. John Lennon also admitted the same Parker riff had been a big influence on The Beatles’ “I Feel Fine”. Page’s riff was used as the theme to BBC2’s Disco 2 rock show.
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  • Led Zeppelin II
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  • II
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  • On Blueberry Hill - CD 2/2
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  • How the West Was Won (disc 2)
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  • yukkieparu

    WHAT A DRUM SOLO, MAANN!! This is amazing!! Love it, love it so much :))

    yesterday morning

  • Lukinhas_44

    Drum Solo Nivel: GOD

    15 days ago

  • helloimjoshua

    sexy

    last month

  • Zodiark111

    Pretty good... Pretty good...

    March 2012

  • georgeypoorgy

    Most drummers can't do half what John did with twice the setup. BEST drummer EVER!!

    March 2012

  • lelisloa_

    Just. Love. It.

    March 2012

  • bigbossx96

    IT NEVER ENDED

    February 2012

  • jtruesdell8

    IT DOESN'T END! I love it!

    February 2012

  • SirPsychoFlea

    i really don't care for the drum solo either. probably my most skipped track on this otherwise really great album

    February 2012

  • FernandoVGP

    "How The West Was Won" version!! [5] a melhor que já ouvi

    February 2012

  • r-iman

    love the drum solo!!!!!!!!!!

    February 2012

  • jvictorrock

    John Bonham yeaah !!!!!

    February 2012

  • ronny_ramone

    mrdt. ♥

    February 2012

  • wmcfaul

    bongo solo. too bad he drank himself to death.

    February 2012

  • jvictorrock

    John Bonham !!!!!

    January 2012

  • rockandrolljoe

    John Bonham John Henry Bonham

    January 2012

  • CandyStore-Rock

    Whale of a drum solo

    January 2012

  • the_betterman

    good riff but boring rubbish drum solo

    January 2012

  • Tapani69ofBodom

    DRUUM SOOLOOO!!

    January 2012

  • blazikens

    ohhhhhh YES

    January 2012
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