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John Bonham Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated Apr 2024
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I hate it when people slag us off. We had done three tours during 1970 and we finished off feeling we had just about had enough. We had done so much in that short space of time, we were drained.
John Bonham
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Sometimes touring gets a bit wearing, but that's only I'm married with kids at home. I've never gotten pissed off with the actual touring. I enjoy playing - I could play every night. It's just being away that gets you down sometimes. I still enjoy going through different towns that we haven't been to before. But you get fed up with places like New York because they're not interesting anymore.
John Bonham
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I've wanted to be a drummer since I was about five years old. I used to play on a bath salt container with wires on the bottom, and on a round coffee tin with a loose wire fixed to it to give a snare drum effect. Plus there were always my Mum's pots and pans. When I was ten, my Mum bought me a snare drum. My Dad bought me my first full drum kit when I was 15. It was almost prehistoric. Most of it was rust.
John Bonham
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Brushes? Nah. Hit 'em as hard as you can.
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Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at.
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Sometimes you'd come up against a brick wall... or sometimes you go into a fill and you'd know halfway through it was going to be disastrous.
John Bonham
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With Zeppelin, I tried to play something different every night in my solos. I'd play for 20 minutes but the longest ever was 30 minutes. It's a long time, but whenI was playing it seemed to fly by.
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I dare not drink before a gig because I'll get tired and blow it. So I have to sit drinking tea in a caravan.
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I remember in the early days when we played six nights a week for a month and I was doing my long drum solo every night. My hands were covered in blisters.
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Not everybody likes or understands a drum solo, so I like to bring in effects and sounds to keep their interest.
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We had offers to go everywhere and we could have done them. But what would have been the point? We were tired. We had worked hard and needed a break before we got stale. We spent six months at home and writing songs.
John Bonham
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If we'd have said we were not upset, they would have thought we were so rich it meant nothing to us, and if we say we're upset about it, they'll say money is all we care about.
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My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine.
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When I left school I went into the trade with my Dad. He had a building business, and I used to like it. But, drumming was the only thing I was any good at, and I stuck at that for three or four years. If things got bad I could always go back to building.
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I swore to Pat that I'd give up drumming when we got married, but every night I'd come home and just sit down at the drums. I'd be miserable if I didn't.
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I've always been obsessed with drums. They fascinate me. Any other instrument, nothing. I play acoustic guitar a bit. But it's always been drums first and foremost. I don't reckon on this Jack-of-all-trades thing. I thing that felling is a lot more important than technique. It's all very well doing a triple para-diddle, but who's going to know you've done it? If you play technically you sound like everybody else. It's being original that counts.
John Bonham
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When I listen to drummers I like to be able to say 'Oh! I haven't heard that before.' Being yourself is so much better than sounding like anyone else. Ginger Baker's thing is that he is himself. So it's no good trying to do what he does.
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I had so much to consider before I joined Led Zeppelin. It wasn't a question of who had the best prospects, but which was going to do the right kind of stuff. I knew Joe Cocker was going to make it. But, I already knew from playing in Band of Joy with Robert Plant what he liked, and I knew what Jimmy Page was into, so I decided I liked that sort of music better. And it paid off.
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I usually play for twenty minutes, and the longest I've ever done was under thirty. It's a long time, but when I'm playing it seems to fly by., There have been times when I have blundered, and got the dreaded look from the lads. But that's a good sign. It show you're attempting something you've not tried before.
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When I first joined the group, I didn't know Jimmy, and I felt a bit shy. He was the big star, and had been around for ages with The Yardbirds. Now the group is closer than ever, and there is a lot of scope for all of us.
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