Very rare if not unique to hear John Bonham talk so much and about the early days. The interviewer asks good questions and really listens to the answers.
Absolutely. Think the last interview with John Bonham I ever read was in Summer 1974, 6 months before Physical Graffiti was released. I visited his grave in Rushock, Worcestershire a while ago. It’s very peaceful.
Rightfully or not, John Bonham had a reputation for being a person who could be difficult to handle at times. These interviews show quite the opposite person. Soft spoken and thoughtful. He also sounds very intelligent. Robert Plant was fortunate to have him as a close friend.. Bonzo could have been a star by himself in any band. Yet he was a star in a band of stars.
like a lot of articulate people with their own demons (Jim Morrison), alcohol & homesickness brings out an ugly side. long stretches on the road with time to kill…. an endless supply of booze, coke & whatever else… it’ll happen
NO! JONH "BONZO" BONHAM, GOT A DOUBLE PERSONALITY! SO COOL, NICE, QUIET! BUT, THEN, WHEN HE WAS DRUNK, TAKING TOO MUCH COCAÏNE, ALCOHOL, HE BECAME, A REAL BAD PERSON! VIOLENT! WHO WANTED TO FIGHT, DESTROY EVERYTHING! BASICALLY, BECAUSE, HE NEVER WANTED TO BE A ROCK STAR! HE WAS A SIMPLE GUY! AND, THE FACT IS, WITH LED ZEPPELIN, HE WAS ON THE ROADS, 360 DAYS ON 365! EVERY YEARS! AND, HE HATED TO BE SEPARATED FROM HIS FAMILY! SO, HE TOOK TOO MUCH DRUGS, DRUNK TOO MUCH, WHICH, FINALLY, KILLED HIM!
Thank you for sharing this. Plant is always a good interview as he's erudite, witty and doesn't take himself too seriously, but I was also impressed by Bonham's answers here too. He made some good points about the roles of rock bands and charities and I loved his laughter at some of Plant's comments. He sounded both older than his age and at times just like a young guy. They seemed at ease with themselves and of course, credit to the interviewer who asked intelligent, topical and open ended questions.
my pleasure to upload it! it’s a real joy to listen to… hearing Bonham wax lyrical about The Beatles was fascinating. and his laugh at 51:22 when Plant mistakenly calls Australia a Dominion Of England, is priceless!
@@coldacre Australia became officially autonomous in 1942,but Great Britain still had elements of legal authority at the Federal level until 1986 I believe.
bonham as well as jones plant and page always strove to make the audience happy...thru their honesty and sincerity of the music...that is what makes LZ LZ...it was great to hear bonhams thoughts,,,very rare indeed. goat
Love hearing John Bonham talk - they were all so smart and measured when they spoke. These guys were chums. Love hearing Bonzo talk and sing - John sang the town crier part of Battle of Evermore with John Paul Jones at Landover, on May 28th, 1977.
@coldacre, thanks so much for this upload. We sort of know how they became Led Zeppelin, but hearing directly for the source, is excellent! And then how the thing developed from there on great! Thanks again.
I first heard a Jimmy page interview from 1977 . It was an aussie dj who interviewed him in his limo after a largo maryland concert and they used it to promote the "presence" album on 2SM.I was living in Sydney and not long after I heard the interview I sent a letter to the radio station to get a decent recording of it and get some background. He sent me 2 cassettes and one contained this interview. I traded the interview for other recordings and this is how it made it's appearance on boots. Your welcome
Thanks so much for posting this! This is a real treat because, like everyone else I guess, I've only seen the other two well known interviews of Bonham, with Robert Plant - BBC 1970, and with Billy Connolly. Great hearing Bonham speak.👍👍
I saw an interview with the director of the yet to be released documentary “becoming Led Zeppelin” …and he spoke about having to go on long search to find a long lost interview John Bonham gave to an Australian reporter… this must be it because it seems none of us have heard it before? Very cool
At 24:26 Bonzo coughs…and it sounds almost exactly like the one on PG after In My Time. I got a chuckle out of it anyway….well, great interview here! It’s nice to hear it from the horses mouth. There was so much bubble gum and stuff around England in the mid-late sixties. The crisp production of LZ I is what set it apart from everything else around it at the time. Jimmy’s apprenticeship at Olympic all those years served him well it’s safe to say. He’s a rather clever chap. With John Paul joining up with him, it just sealed the deal now didn’t it? Besides being the best rock bassist bar none, it’s like having a church choirmaster in your group too! He was a prodigy and without his monumental contributions to Zeppelin they surely would NOT have gained their famed cruising altitude that they did than without him. His Hammond Organ on Your Time and Thank You when I first heard these 40 years ago sent a cold chill down the entire length of my back. I was 13 then. It still happens today at 54.
The greatest drummer slash pants shitter , predatory ol dude on the road , husband n father back in the U.K ....after indulging in debauchery with 13 year old groupies . Died after suffocating in his own vomit . Yeah granted initally a great if not overly bombastic drummer , reduced to a bumbling alcholic.
Bonham was incredibly accomplished at such a young age! I know middle aged guys who have played drums for 40 years and have talent, but they still aren't anywhere near what Bonham was at 21 years old. If you look at the people who were in the area around Birmingham in the late 60s , Plant , Bonham, dudes who were in Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, ELO , Moody Blues Christine McVie Carl Palmer Glen Hughes, Deep Purple, Winwood etc it makes me wonder what was the water around there !
It was a much different time and a lot of Brand New types of music being developed that was unheard of until it was released on the radio . Think about just how music made leaps and bounds from the FAB 4 all the way to Black Sabbath , Led Zeppelin within 5 or 6 years , give or take . And 5 or 6 years on down the road Edward Van Halen began developing a style and technique that changed the world and the way the Guitar as a instrument could now be played . Theres nothing came since or after that comes even close to it . And never will
Rock and roll or load is dead, shadow's and light are individual.Enjoy hearing the late J.Bonham speaking.Old Chris a retired fiddler of Albuquerque NM
It sucks that John Bonham was so unhappy at the end of his life but it is totally understandable. People think that having incredible talent and lots of money would be the greatest life . But he had young kids and a loving wife that he couldn't be with because he was on the road and basically forced to stay away from his home because of the ridiculous tax rates on wealthy people in England. He drank too much and took drugs because he was miserable without his family , and it killed him while he was still young. Just a damned shame. His life's work is still appreciated though and it's brought a lot of pleasure to a lot of people. I'm one of them. Nobody has matched his sound and his groove in my opinion. He made those songs live and breathe. Ginger was great, Charlie Watts made his band better, Moon was fun to listen to, Cozy was powerful and he rocked. But Bonham had it all . The best
Bonham was a freak of nature. Self-taught too, in an age without the internet or even CDs and cassettes. He grew up drumming to MoTown and rockabilly and blues and he ended up pushing drumming to another level and setting a new standard that didn't exist before him.
I always like to hear from JB and JPJ because they always seem to be more in the background. Of course they weren't musically but unless you're interviewed maybe your opinion isn't registered. I understand and agree with ending the group but at the same time I think if Bonzo could speak to Robert in a dream wouldn't he say "Put Jason in my place for a bit. I want my son to have my success before you call it. He's up to the task"? I think Robert was the only insurmountable object infinitum. I love what we have though.
Imagine how Glynn Johns felt after helping out with the Rocket Ship take off of Led Zeppelin 1 in October of 1968 and being around that creative electricity and then 2 months later having to sit through the underwhelming non productive Beatles "Get Back" sessions in January 69. He must have been bored to tears.
@@heliotropezzz333 yeah it’s definitely there. it was common back then to try and hide a northern accent. wasn’t til the Stone Roses & Oasis came along that bands wore it proudly on their sleeve
@@coldacre I understand. I'm a Londonder now but grew up in the Midlands and have also lived in the North. Each region has its own identities but to Londoners it's all north.
Very rare if not unique to hear John Bonham talk so much and about the early days. The interviewer asks good questions and really listens to the answers.
Absolutely. Think the last interview with John Bonham I ever read was in Summer 1974, 6 months before Physical Graffiti was released. I visited his grave in Rushock, Worcestershire a while ago. It’s very peaceful.
Yes good questions not stupid stuff like what’s your favourite movie or colour and more importantly shut up and listened to answers
😊 so glad to hear the voice behind the drums
The man speaks..
Amazing interview, one of the best most candid and unguarded music chats I've ever heard. Thanks for uploading!
So rare, to ear BONZO'S VOICE! SUPER COOL! 👍
Zep were all very, very bright which also shows the musical "telepathy". Bonham was cocky! Check out the latest Bonzo bio "Beast". Love it,!
Wow! Thanks for this! Love hearing Bonham talk ❤️🥁
Thanks for posting this. Great to hear them both be so erudite and succinct. Bonham the homeboy, Plant the wandering minstrel, so heartwarming.
Listening to John Bonham speak and laugh just brought tears. I appreciate this interview being shared! Thank you so much! Love Bonhams laugh!🥁🎶
Rightfully or not, John Bonham had a reputation for being a person who could be difficult to handle at times. These interviews show quite the opposite person. Soft spoken and thoughtful. He also sounds very intelligent. Robert Plant was fortunate to have him as a close friend..
Bonzo could have been a star by himself in any band. Yet he was a star in a band of stars.
like a lot of articulate people with their own demons (Jim Morrison), alcohol & homesickness brings out an ugly side. long stretches on the road with time to kill…. an endless supply of booze, coke & whatever else… it’ll happen
NO! JONH "BONZO" BONHAM, GOT A DOUBLE PERSONALITY! SO COOL, NICE, QUIET! BUT, THEN, WHEN HE WAS DRUNK, TAKING TOO MUCH COCAÏNE, ALCOHOL, HE BECAME, A REAL BAD PERSON! VIOLENT! WHO WANTED TO FIGHT, DESTROY EVERYTHING! BASICALLY, BECAUSE, HE NEVER WANTED TO BE A ROCK STAR! HE WAS A SIMPLE GUY! AND, THE FACT IS, WITH LED ZEPPELIN, HE WAS ON THE ROADS, 360 DAYS ON 365! EVERY YEARS! AND, HE HATED TO BE SEPARATED FROM HIS FAMILY! SO, HE TOOK TOO MUCH DRUGS, DRUNK TOO MUCH, WHICH, FINALLY, KILLED HIM!
Thinking exactly the same thing
Difficult only when drunk, I understand.
He couldn’t handle the touring and the bad influences that piled pressure on him to look for relief in drink and drugs which fuelled his paranoia.
Thank you for sharing this. Plant is always a good interview as he's erudite, witty and doesn't take himself too seriously, but I was also impressed by Bonham's answers here too. He made some good points about the roles of rock bands and charities and I loved his laughter at some of Plant's comments. He sounded both older than his age and at times just like a young guy. They seemed at ease with themselves and of course, credit to the interviewer who asked intelligent, topical and open ended questions.
my pleasure to upload it! it’s a real joy to listen to… hearing Bonham wax lyrical about The Beatles was fascinating. and his laugh at 51:22 when Plant mistakenly calls Australia a Dominion Of England, is priceless!
@@coldacre Australia became officially autonomous in 1942,but Great Britain still had elements of legal authority at the Federal level until 1986 I believe.
Amazing interview , with John Bonham, genius drummer, forever 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Yes. Absolutely. Saw Zep 4 times between 1971 and 1979 and Bonzo was incredible every time!!
bonham as well as jones plant and page always strove to make the audience happy...thru their honesty and sincerity of the music...that is what makes LZ LZ...it was great to hear bonhams thoughts,,,very rare indeed. goat
so great! hearing John Bonham's voice, Priceless! Thank You!
Great post, great to hear John Bonham speak and laugh thank you...
Thanks for posting this interview. Very interesting and a treat to hear John Bonham speak freely. And RP is always articulate and witty. What a treat!
no probs glad you enjoyed
made my night finding this ty
Love hearing John Bonham talk - they were all so smart and measured when they spoke. These guys were chums. Love hearing Bonzo talk and sing - John sang the town crier part of Battle of Evermore with John Paul Jones at Landover, on May 28th, 1977.
A pretty rare interview. Met Robert back in 1988. Super nice guy.
As a drummer and life long Bonzo fan it's great to hear this. Thank you so much for posting it up.
Thank You for Uploading a great Interview with John Bonham speaking with his Dear Friend Percy. ❤️
This is fabulous!
HELLO JULIE! ♥️✌️🇫🇷
Thank you for this upload❣️ We appreciate it 🥁
no worries, glad people are enjoying it!
Excellent, so rare to hear Bonzo! 🖤🔥🥁
@coldacre, thanks so much for this upload. We sort of know how they became Led Zeppelin, but hearing directly for the source, is excellent!
And then how the thing developed from there on great! Thanks again.
I first heard a Jimmy page interview from 1977 . It was an aussie dj who interviewed him in his limo after a largo maryland concert and they used it to promote the "presence" album on 2SM.I was living in Sydney and not long after I heard the interview I sent a letter to the radio station to get a decent recording of it and get some background. He sent me 2 cassettes and one contained this interview. I traded the interview for other recordings and this is how it made it's appearance on boots. Your welcome
"You Get To A Point Where It Doesn't Matter What You're Doing, Anyway--
As Long As People Are Digging It" .
Great interview of a human being...Great Drummer! RIP🙏🙏🙏
Thanks so much for posting this! This is a real treat because, like everyone else I guess, I've only seen the other two well known interviews of Bonham, with Robert Plant - BBC 1970, and with Billy Connolly. Great hearing Bonham speak.👍👍
I also recommend this one. ruclips.net/video/gYlpaphm4VA/видео.html
@@ellebrook3413 Thanks!
Always great to hear old audio of John Bonham talking.
I saw an interview with the director of the yet to be released documentary “becoming Led Zeppelin” …and he spoke about having to go on long search to find a long lost interview John Bonham gave to an Australian reporter… this must be it because it seems none of us have heard it before? Very cool
Thank you for sharing this. ✌️❤️
Great interview
This is extraordinary. A gem! Thank youi
At 24:26 Bonzo coughs…and it sounds almost exactly like the one on PG after In My Time. I got a chuckle out of it anyway….well, great interview here! It’s nice to hear it from the horses mouth. There was so much bubble gum and stuff around England in the mid-late sixties. The crisp production of LZ I is what set it apart from everything else around it at the time. Jimmy’s apprenticeship at Olympic all those years served him well it’s safe to say. He’s a rather clever chap. With John Paul joining up with him, it just sealed the deal now didn’t it? Besides being the best rock bassist bar none, it’s like having a church choirmaster in your group too! He was a prodigy and without his monumental contributions to Zeppelin they surely would NOT have gained their famed cruising altitude that they did than without him. His Hammond Organ on Your Time and Thank You when I first heard these 40 years ago sent a cold chill down the entire length of my back. I was 13 then. It still happens today at 54.
Really nice hearing the greatest rock drummer of all time 💯
Ginger Baker ?
@@rosehickey8483 more like Jealous Baker
@@rosehickey8483 NO
@@rosehickey8483eye roll.
The greatest drummer slash pants shitter , predatory ol dude on the road , husband n father back in the U.K ....after indulging in debauchery with 13 year old groupies . Died after suffocating in his own vomit . Yeah granted initally a great if not overly bombastic drummer , reduced to a bumbling alcholic.
Good work,thanks for posting mate
wow amazing.........now I will put a voice with the drums....ty
Bonham was incredibly accomplished at such a young age! I know middle aged guys who have played drums for 40 years and have talent, but they still aren't anywhere near what Bonham was at 21 years old. If you look at the people who were in the area around Birmingham in the late 60s , Plant , Bonham, dudes who were in Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, ELO , Moody Blues Christine McVie Carl Palmer Glen Hughes, Deep Purple, Winwood etc it makes me wonder what was the water around there !
Filthy canal water, peppered with coal dust.
Listening to Robert he has referred to the thud and bag of the machinery in the industry that used to fill whole Midlands environment at that time.
It was a much different time and a lot of Brand New types of music being developed that was unheard of until it was released on the radio . Think about just how music made leaps and bounds from the FAB 4 all the way to Black Sabbath , Led Zeppelin within 5 or 6 years , give or take . And 5 or 6 years on down the road Edward Van Halen began developing a style and technique that changed the world and the way the Guitar as a instrument could now be played . Theres nothing came since or after that comes even close to it . And never will
Amazing, thanks so much for this☮️
Very good interview, thank you.
Thanks. This was great to hear ✌️
Too Cool and thank you so much!
Rock and roll or load is dead, shadow's and light are individual.Enjoy hearing the late J.Bonham speaking.Old Chris a retired fiddler of Albuquerque NM
Great to hear him laugh. I like that the best. Thanks
loved listening to this.
Interesting to hear more about the early start of Plant & Bonham. Nice interview, never heard it❤💔
Sounds like Plant had a bit more dialect/accent back then..but i could be wrong.
Big Peter, sitting on his throne, back-left.....
Historic ! 👏👏👏
I love John's laugh, so childish yet so familiar to my own; the drummer's laugh, if you'd like
only in your mind but that's OK.
And laugh of Keith Moon, so childish
It sucks that John Bonham was so unhappy at the end of his life but it is totally understandable. People think that having incredible talent and lots of money would be the greatest life . But he had young kids and a loving wife that he couldn't be with because he was on the road and basically forced to stay away from his home because of the ridiculous tax rates on wealthy people in England. He drank too much and took drugs because he was miserable without his family , and it killed him while he was still young. Just a damned shame. His life's work is still appreciated though and it's brought a lot of pleasure to a lot of people. I'm one of them. Nobody has matched his sound and his groove in my opinion. He made those songs live and breathe. Ginger was great, Charlie Watts made his band better, Moon was fun to listen to, Cozy was powerful and he rocked. But Bonham had it all . The best
Bonham was a freak of nature. Self-taught too, in an age without the internet or even CDs and cassettes. He grew up drumming to MoTown and rockabilly and blues and he ended up pushing drumming to another level and setting a new standard that didn't exist before him.
He just liked to get lit too much.
What a treasure this is
I got 2c them sept 71..stage collapse show..msg nyc .then 73.75.77 2x each msg nyc.....now ? Im old ..but.still playn drums
Did you see the camera's in the 73 show?
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I always like to hear from JB and JPJ because they always seem to be more in the background. Of course they weren't musically but unless you're interviewed maybe your opinion isn't registered. I understand and agree with ending the group but at the same time I think if Bonzo could speak to Robert in a dream wouldn't he say "Put Jason in my place for a bit. I want my son to have my success before you call it. He's up to the task"? I think Robert was the only insurmountable object infinitum. I love what we have though.
Notice the camera man on stage. Would love to see the ProShot. 👍
Very soft Bromsgrove burr where some words you can hear very mildly bordering West Country
🤟😎
the photos here are wonderful, is this from a video of that show? If so, where can we find that?
there are no videos from the Australian shows of ‘72… apart from the 10 min of footage that’s already on youtube
It’s funny how similar John bonham and Keith Moons voices sound.
Gold dust
Imagine how Glynn Johns felt after helping out with the Rocket Ship take off of Led Zeppelin 1 in October of 1968 and being around that creative electricity and then 2 months later having to sit through the underwhelming non productive Beatles "Get Back" sessions in January 69. He must have been bored to tears.
brilliant comment 🤣
Zeppelin the band that cast a shadow over Rock n Roll
OOIH tell us Gatekeeper of.. oh, nothing. No band was perfect but Zep changed the entire business allowing more freedom (and $$) to everyone. Duh.
@Scot- the dude who should’ve just scrolled on instead of trying to cast a shadow over music you didn’t get.
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@@jayannakelley9051 it's seems to be a lot of unhappy people here glad I'm not one of them have a blessed day
@@amess0stuff89 seems to be a lot of unhappy people here glad I'm not one of them have a blessed day
Both Robert and Bonzo had real Brummie accents back then. Still local yokels to some extent.
He's very well spoken, hard to believe he's from the black country..hmmn
You can still hear the accent in places. It's just subtle.
@@heliotropezzz333 yeah it’s definitely there. it was common back then to try and hide a northern accent. wasn’t til the Stone Roses & Oasis came along that bands wore it proudly on their sleeve
@@coldacre Midlands accent please.
@@heliotropezzz333 ok ok 🤣 sorry just meant a non-London accent in general
@@coldacre I understand. I'm a Londonder now but grew up in the Midlands and have also lived in the North. Each region has its own identities but to Londoners it's all north.