"The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down".

@onhwy61 ”John Bonham couldn’t play in The Band. No way.”  
“No way”??? How is this statement logical?  
Levon could be his typically great self, singing wonderful lead vocals, singing great backup harmony vocals, and playing a multitude of instruments.
The musical difference in the songs of The Band and songs like “Tangerine,” “Hey, Hey, What Can I Do,” “Boogie With Stu,” “Bron-Y-Aur Stomp,” “Your Time is Gonna Come,” “Black Country Woman,” “That’s the Way,” “Gallows Pole,” and “Down By the Seaside,” is minimal.  
Furthermore, each of those songs feature extremely sensitive, tasteful percussion that serves only to improve the song.  
John was an extremely sensitive and intuitive artist who simply loved music; simply loved good songs. Bludgeoning the skins was not imperative to him. It was just another thing he did. In the case of Led Zeppelin, it came in handy.  
Again, this was not imperative to John’s artistic expression, just another component that may or may not be useful depending on the song.

“Plant, it’s a few decades early in his development.”  
Come again?  
Plant is a perfect contemporary of The Band (‘68-‘76). If that is true, and his vocals were, at best, equally good (at worst, demonstrably worse) in advanced age, how can your statement on Plant’s “development” make any sense?

@bdp24 those songs I mentioned beg to differ.
The Band was nowhere near the aggressive musical outfit that Zep was.
Zep often played big ol’ aggressive music wherein the bludgeoning you referred to was not only appropriate but beneficial.
Given the technical proficiency, versatility, sensitivity, and tastefulness of Bonham’s drumming (the 3rd-through-8th LPs are the ones to listen to, I’d personally recommend III and Physical Graffiti, NOT the derivative, Blues Hammer 🤣 first two LPs - I love that reference, BTW 😆), it’s exceedingly difficult for me to believe he wouldn’t have brought all his creativity and subtlety to those Band songs, and/or been more than willing to “tone it down a notch” if one (or several) of the guys asked him to 😉.