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… — John Bonham Copy Share Image
I never had any lessons. When I first started playing I used to read music. I was very interested in music. But when I started playing in groups I did a silly thing and dropped it. It's great if you… — John Bonham Copy Share Image
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… — John Bonham Copy Share Image
Not everybody likes or understands a drum solo, so I like to bring in effects and sounds to keep their interest. — John Bonham Copy Share Image
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… — John Bonham Copy Share Image
My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine. — John Bonham Copy Share Image
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… — John Bonham Copy Share Image
I've always liked drums to be bright and powerful. I've never used cymbals much. I use them to crash into a solo and out… — John Bonham Copy Share Image
I remember in the early days when we played six nights a week for a month and I was doing my long drum solo… — John Bonham Copy Share Image
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… — John Bonham Copy Share Image
I was so keen to play when I left school, I'd have played for nothing. In fact, I did that for a long time,… — John Bonham Copy Share Image
I had a group with Nicky James, an incredible lead singer. But we had so much of the equipment on hire-purchase, we'd get stopped… — John Bonham Copy Share Image
