John Bonham Quotes & Quotations

John Bonham Quotes

» 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.

» We once did six tours of America in 15 months.

» My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine.

» 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.

» Not everybody likes or understands a drum solo, so I like to bring in effects and sounds to keep their interest.

» 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.

» 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.

» There were times when I blundered and got the dreaded look from the lads. But that was a good sign. It showed I'd attempted something I'd not tried before.

» 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.

» 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.

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