John Bonham
John Bonham
John Henry Bonhamwas an English drummer, musician and songwriter, best known as the drummer of Led Zeppelin. Bonham was esteemed for his speed, power, fast bass-drumming, distinctive sound, and "feel" for the groove. He is considered one of the greatest rock drummers...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth31 May 1948
break british-musician everywhere hard home months needed offers six spent worked
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.
ems brushes hard
Brushes..? Nah. Hit 'em as hard as you can.
absolutely remember scenery
The scenery there, I just remember that being absolutely stunning,
It's been fantastic, the response, ... It's been overwhelming the fans.
absolutely british-musician coming great john jones paul splitting studio
There was absolutely no intention of splitting up. We had so many great ideas to use on the new album. John Paul Jones was incredible, coming to the studio each day with new instruments to play.
america british-musician
We once did six tours of America in 15 months.
british-musician meant money upset
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.
british-musician feeling finished hate people three tours
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.
enough loud
Nowadays you can't be loud enough!
drumming drummer lethal-weapon
Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at.
thinking marketing needs
I think the marketing needs work.
qualms-about quality qualms
I have no qualm about the quality of the contemporary repertory,
wall bricks sometimes
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.
night play long
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.