Quotes by Jason Bonham - Page 2

I was really into motocross. I started racing when I was 10 years old and did very, very well. That was my dream, if anything, more than drumming.
Jason Bonham /
Drumming
Racing
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I remember when I went to see Led Zeppelin live in 1979 at Knebworth, there were certain songs that stood out to me and will stay with me forever.
Jason Bonham /
Certain
Forever
Remember
Remember When
Me Remember Will
Stay
Me Live Will
Led
Led Zeppelin
Zeppelin
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I've searched all of my life for approval from my dad who is not around. So if I can get approval by his fans or from peers and critics, it helps me.
Jason Bonham /
Approval
Critics
Peers
Life Dad Me
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To play like John Bonham is the hardest thing in the world because you're not John Bonham. It's how you breathe out of your heart. It's your emotions.
Jason Bonham /
Breathe
Hardest Thing
Heart World Your
The Hardest Thing
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As I've gotten older, as I've gotten familiar with all different types of music, stuff that I didn't like when I was younger I actually kind of like now.
Jason Bonham /
Familiar
Different Types
Types
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I was thrilled to hear Mick Jones wanted me to be involved in celebrating 40 years of Foreigner. I spent three years as their drummer and had a great time.
Jason Bonham /
Drummer
Time Great Me
Celebrating
Foreigner
Great Time
Thrilled
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If you had asked me in 2005, when I had just joined Foreigner, that I would leave the band in 2007 to play with Led Zeppelin, I would have said you're nuts.
Jason Bonham /
Band
Nuts
Asked
Leave
Foreigner
Joined
Led
Led Zeppelin
Zeppelin
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I loved 'Rain' and its take on the Beatles. The way they used a timeline and news reel to create a mood, and crafted set changes throughout, it was stunning.
Jason Bonham /
Mood
News
Rain
Stunning
Crafted
Throughout
Timeline
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Dad's influence naturally came into me, rather than trying to emulate every detail. His way of teaching me was to be sparse, and to be explosive when it needed to be.
Jason Bonham /
Emulate
Dad Me Way
Dad Me Influence
Detail
Explosive
His Way
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Everyone knows these stories about a wild and crazy guy called Bonzo, but at home he was just like any other father; always hollering at me for not doing my homework.
Jason Bonham /
Homework
Home Father Me
Hollering
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As far as being a drummer, to me it's a positive that he's my father. To be mentioned alongside him... I mean, you Google his name and mine comes up, too - wow! Not too shabby.
Jason Bonham /
Drummer
Shabby
Alongside
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Every drummer I've ever spoken to or read an interview with - my dad is always in their top three. I'm honored to share his name and represent him all these years after he's gone.
Jason Bonham /
Drummer
Honored
Interview
Spoken
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I think that my performances with Led Zeppelin got better with each performance and I think that our performances as Led Zeppelin Experience have also gotten better with each show.
Jason Bonham /
Led Zeppelin
Zeppelin
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Performing my father's songs at the Led Zeppelin O2 reunion concert in 2007 was an honor that I will forever remember as one of the most bittersweet, yet greatest nights of my life.
Jason Bonham /
Bittersweet
Forever
Honor
Performing
Reunion
Nights
Concert
Led
Led Zeppelin
Zeppelin
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I'm playing my father's music and I'm a fan of Led Zeppelin. The response has been beyond what I ever imagined it would be. Unreal. Everyone seems to understand the story I'm telling.
Jason Bonham /
Response
Unreal
Led Zeppelin
Zeppelin
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I found my childhood scrapbook and there's an interview in there with dad from 1970. He talks about how long he's been playing the drums and he'd only been playing drums six years in 1970.
Jason Bonham /
Drums
Interview
Talks
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Led Zeppelin is part of my life, a huge part, that I enjoy immensely. But I don't want people to think this is all that I do. There is a creative side to my brain that needs to be fed, too.
Jason Bonham /
Brain
Life People My Life
Life Brain My Life
Fed
Huge Part
Immensely
Led
Led Zeppelin
Zeppelin
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When I turned 17, I had a bike malfunction at a race, and in my head, I went, 'You know what? I'm done. I'm going to go play drums.' I still ride my bikes for fun, but that was the turning point.
Jason Bonham /
Bike
Malfunction
Play Drums
Turning Point
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It's imperative that I continue putting together the best shows and take it to the next level. I'm talking to people about holograms, and my dream is to do the hologram drum solo with dad next to me.
Jason Bonham /
Next Level
Solo
Drum
Imperative
Putting
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I heard heart wrenching stories about fans who had tickets for the 1980 show in Montreal, the first concert that didn't happen, when my dad died. They'd be in tears. It was hard to deal with sometimes.
Jason Bonham /
Dad
Died
Fans
Heard
Montreal
Stories
Tears
Tickets
Concert
Deal
Happen
Wrenching
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I am notoriously hard on myself in terms of working on new material and while I am critical of my performance on the Led Zeppelin material, I am way more critical of my own stuff. I'm pretty hard on myself.
Jason Bonham /
Critical
Myself I Am New
Led
Led Zeppelin
Performance
Material
New Material
Terms
Zeppelin
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My daughter wasn't into that type of rock music and kind of played it off. But then these teenage boys started coming around, and Led Zeppelin, I don't know, it became reinvented. Now she's very proud of her grandfather.
Jason Bonham /
Grandfather
Rock Music
Teenage
Reinvented
Led Zeppelin
Zeppelin
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I did not want to go onstage and play Led Zeppelin songs; there has to be more than that. I wanted to create a complete experience of what Led Zeppelin means to me, growing up around them and being part of it all my life.
Jason Bonham /
Life Experience Me
All My Life
Complete
Led
Led Zeppelin
Onstage
Zeppelin
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I never imagined in my wildest dreams when I was 17 watching Van Halen at a Donington Park rock festival and seeing Sammy Hagar later on when I was in the United States playing that I would end up with a band of guys I bought albums of.
Jason Bonham /
Band
Van Halen
Wildest Dreams
Bought
Festival
Halen
Later
Park
Van
Wildest
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Dad was pretty solid. He had great grooves and there was occasional moments of sheer brilliance with fills and things, but in general, the sheer brilliance is the simplicity, how much groove, how much feel he had, all the subtleties that we miss.
Jason Bonham /
Brilliance
Groove
Moments
Occasional
Sheer
Miss
Fills
How Much
Solid
Subtleties
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We were both into motocross. My dad would wake me up at 6:30 on weekends, brew some coffee and make some sandwiches for us. Then we'd spend the day racing together. I know he had this reputation as being wild and irresponsible, but I never saw any of that.
Jason Bonham /
Dad
Coffee
Irresponsible
Racing
Reputation
Sandwiches
Together
Together Me Day
Dad Me Day
Dad Together Me
Brew
Wild
Saw
Spend
Wake
Weekends
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Everyone knows who Bonzo is - you can just go pick up those books and read these fisherman's-tale stories. But at home he was a regular dad who would ground me and embarrass me in front of my friends. He was in Led Zeppelin and he would still embarrass me!
Jason Bonham /
Home Dad Me
Embarrass
Led Zeppelin
Zeppelin
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I don't mind talking about dad and stuff, because that's part of my life, you know? For me to pretend to be like him, and do the same things he used to do is over. I can see past it now. It took me thirty-eight years and sobriety to realize who Jason Bonham is.
Jason Bonham /
Dad
Jason
Sobriety
Stuff
Talking
Pretend
Realize
Same Things
Took
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I've been working on some original songs with the band that does the Led Zeppelin experience. We're going to start writing as an original band and see what comes out of it. It'll be kind of Zeppelin-esque because of the way the guys play - but there's nothing wrong with that.
Jason Bonham /
Be Kind
Led Zeppelin
Zeppelin
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Somebody asked me the other day, 'What do you love the most about the show?' I said, 'The conversations that I have with my father in my head while I'm playing.' If I do something pretty good... I mean, I'm playing the gig and I'm saying in my head, 'Hey, check that one out, dad.'
Jason Bonham /
Hey
Asked
Love Good Dad
Check
Conversations
Gig
Pretty Good
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My biggest 'Spinal Tap' moment was a stupid one as well. When we were rehearsing for the Zeppelin O2 gig, I was having an argument with my drum pedals. I actually took them outside, and drove over them several times with the car. Shouting at them and telling them they'll never work again.
Jason Bonham /
Rehearsing
Shouting
Spinal Tap
Tap
Drum
Gig
Spinal
Zeppelin
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I'm hugely affected by what people think. It could be a million people saying, 'Great.' And then one person writes, 'What the hell is this kid doing?' and starts slagging me off, for some reason, and then I have to join in the blog and sign in under a different name and go,'Why don't you like him?'
Jason Bonham /
Affected
Blog
Hell Is
Hugely
Join
Million
Million People
Sign
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I've loved Range Rovers. That goes back to when I was a kid. My dad had the first ever Range Rover that was ever made - the first wave back in the '70s - and he had one every year from that moment, and mom has continued to do that. From the moment they started Range Rovers, they've been in my family.
Jason Bonham /
Family
Dad
Made
Range
Wave
Loved
Family Dad Mom
Goes
Moment
Rover
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I think I misunderstood the following in the footsteps bit, in a few of my early drinking years. I'd take any form of being compared to Dad as flattery. So if I fell off a stool or smashed up a TV set just because I was drunk, and somebody in the bar went 'Hey, man, that was just like Bonzo!' I would be really happy.
Jason Bonham /
Dad
Drinking
Drunk
Flattery
Following
Footsteps
Form
Hey
Tv
Bit
Bar
Compared
Set
Early
Few
Smashed
Stool
Tv Set
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When the album 'Duke' came out, by Genesis, Phil Collins beat Dad in a drummers poll. My dad got me to learn 'Turn It On Again' by Genesis. I'd play it, and he'd go, 'Do it again,' until I got it right. I'd play it until I nailed it, and then he went, 'I don't see what the big deal is. My 12-year-old son could play that song.'
Jason Bonham /
Dad
Big Deal
Genesis
Son
Again
Dad Me Song
Album
Beat
Came
Collins
Deal
Drummers
Nailed
Phil
Phil Collins
Poll
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You know, I went through the whole blond hair bit. And dad took me to see The Police when I was 13. And I was like, this is a cool band, dad. See this is a cool band. And I felt bad for years because then a year later... I never had a chance to tell him how great I think was. After he passed away, I would go and listen to his music.
Jason Bonham /
Cool Great Music
Blond
Cool Music Great
Year Later
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Well, when you grow up in a family situation like in England, you're whole - we call it pub culture, and it is, really. You grow up, you literally come home from work, everyone goes to the pub at 6:30, you drink till 10:30, go home and go to bed. That was our entire life - all my aunts and uncles, and my grandfather drank 'til he was 85.
Jason Bonham /
Uncles
Bed
Drank
England
Grandfather
Situation
Life Family Work
Aunts
Entire
Entire Life
Go Home
Grow Up
Literally
Till
Pub
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