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The recording of Four Sticks took place the day after John Bonham had attended a gig by drummer Ginger Baker at London’s Lyceum. Suitably inspired, Bonham came in to the studio the next day determined to emulate his ex-Cream hero. Led Zep’s only documented live performance of Four Sticks was at a gig on May 3, 1971 at the KB Hallen in Copenhagen on their European tour. It would go on to become a much-played number on the Page & Plant Unledded tour in 1995. In October 1972, Page and Plant recorded a version of Four Sticks with the Bombay Orchestra at EMI Studios in Bombay, India. It surfaced under the title Four Hands on the extended version of Coda in 2015. John Paul Jones played a Minimoog synthesiser on Four Sticks.