Big Drum Thump

at the official Led Zeppelin YouTube channel. The band (or rather its management minions) have uploaded a buttload of bootleg and rare videos, including some shot on spectacularly grainy 8mm. Start off with this performance of “Achilles Last Stand” from a concert in Seattle in 1977:

[via Music Radar]

Idea Generation and the Fame Bureau are teaming up to sell off one of Bonzo’s kits. In fact, it’s being billed as “the only Bonham drum kit in existence outside the Bonham estate.” We have no idea if that’s a fib, but we do know we want those goddamn drums. Got $40,000 to lend? We’ll need it by auction day, September 4, 2008.

We don’t know where the bloody hell these Bonham outtakes came from or how this guy got his hands on them, but download all 23 while you can. They are from Zep’s In Through the Out Door sessions. Also check out the cool Bonham-related links, especially the list of cymbals he received from Paiste.

[via Digg]