Keith Richards is the master of the compliment that's really something of an insult.
He and Page are different types of guitarists. By rock standards Richards is much better in rhythm/timing. Page though is a better arranger/producer and seems more open to various different types of music. "Ten Years Gone" and "You Can't Always get what you want" are both superb songs.
As far as Bonham, yeah he wasn't as overtly swing oriented as Watts, but I think he got a bad rap on that. He's not going to ever be mistaken for Max Roach but he did have a pretty funky sense of timing and dynamics -i.e. "Black Dog", "Out on the Tiles", "The Ocean" , the Little Richard quote at the beginning of "Rock and Roll" and so on. I can't find it now but there is a story about Stubblefield and Starks watching Bonham play and being at least somewhat impressed while Bonham was geeked that they were impressed while pretending not to notice.
"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives." Winter is Coming Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
