Led Zep Fool in the Rain

@soix, Yes, I’m going to learn Fool In The Rain! I dig all of the videos that can help!

One artist I love to watch is Gina Knight. She’s really good and a total babe! I played in the adult pit orchestra last March for the HS production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. One of the tracks required a samba beat. I practiced very hard and was good but I’m still practicing to make it as good as Gina does it.

Yeah, that scene in Whiplash was great! The way his dad started to pile on cutting him down was weak and sad. The movie is a study in toxic interpersonal relationships.

His dad did come to watch him for the last performance but almost contributed to sabotaging him. It was a bitter pill to swallow realizing that his dad didn’t think he was talented enough. That was part of the motivation he used to do what he did! He had to prove it to both of them and the world! Very Michael Jordan like, very inspiring!!!

You hear about no respect for drummers but I don’t feel that way. I’m grateful to play with anyone. I picked up the sticks again after a 40 year hiatus from drumming.

I returned home from military service to learn that my mom sold my kit while I was away. It was a total gut punch, It felt like the love of my life just dumped me. But I hid that pain and moved on in life with college and work. Every time I saw live music there was a pain in my heart thinking that I used to be a drummer.

Resurrecting my stereo after a 15 year hiatus almost 5 years ago contributed to me wanting to play drums again. I started with sticks, a practice pad and private lessons, just like when I was 8...

It seems that having a Purdie shuffle foundation is a certain recipe for making a song I will love. I am aware of no exceptions. Enjoying the thread. 

Lido Shuffle, Porcaro

Fool in the Rain is a great song.  I’ve always loved the drumming in it.  Didn’t know till not too long ago about the shuffle beat that’s in it.  Learned about it in Rosanna and Everybody Wants to Rule the World at the same time from a guy who plays the drums.  I’ve played some but I haven’t in a while.  I’ll have to check out Home at Last though since  I’ve never noticed it in that song.  It’s certainly a great rhythm.

Back to the OP original question about why they never played Fool in the Rain live.

If my research is correct, they released ITTOD in August 1979 (at a time when Page & Bonham were both struggling with addictions). Led Zeppelin only played 14 times after that release, starting June 17, 1980 in Dortmund, Germany until their last ever show on July 7 in Berlin.

John Bonham choked to death on his own vomit, a la Hendrix, September 25, 1980 and that was the end of the story.

Listening to Jimmy Page' hi-def remasters series makes it perfectly clear how essential Bonzo was to that band, and it was a heartbreaking end to an amazing group during a time when music trends had not been kind to the original classic-rock juggernauts.

It makes sense to me why Fool in the Rain was never played live.