Originally Posted by Skaligojurah

Well, to think that Led Zeppelin invented to drum solo(or anything...) is ludicrous. To be honest, Jazz drummers well pioneered the art before either Bill Ward or Jon Bonham ever hit the scene. In fact, compared to a really good jazz drummer even Bonham falls very very short.

As for the drum solo, it's short, and it's very fun to listen to. It's not like he's whipping out a 20 minute Deep Purple-escue extended solo. Honestly, I don't think it sounds that bad, and it seems to be well transposed into the song, I could care less if he's virtuoso, or how he stacks against other drummers.

Honestly, I see Rat Salad as less of an attempt to imitate Moby ****, and more of an attempt to emulate the vastly popular jazz-fusion sound at the time, and to be honest, unlike most emulations, it does a decent job of keeping the tone that Black Sabbath established.

Sabbath I think experimented much more than they're given credit for, and I'd consider Rat Salad one of the few successes from that experimentation. I mean, it's a B-side, and it's one where they're actually taking a risk not playing it safe with in the boundaries of the sound they invented, and were the only figments of at the time. After all, nothing about Sabbath was about virtuosity, it was all about creativity.

I mean, at least it wasn't the ten thousand of ****ty ballad songs they did. Apart from Planet Caravan, were all terrible.