But Bonham also had the power of the straight eighth-note. He was the first. A lot has been made of his gear, but Bonham could make any drum set sound huge. John Bonham is the only one who could ever truly sound like John Bonham. That sound was him — not necessarily his drums. Bill Ward sees it differently. It was his dexterity, his touch that seemed to intuitively know how to find the power points on each drum. Obviously, so did Bonham.
He had several kits before Zeppelin, mostly Ludwig, I think. They gave him the same setup as mine, complete with gong. He loved it. A few years later Ward saw Bonham on a different setup. It was small in comparison to a regular kit, but John sounded incredible. Whatever drums he had, he could make them sound huge and very tonal.
Today, click tracks and a dependence on the drummer to keep the time limit opportunity for the music to breathe the way it did with Zeppelin. Another thing John Bonham had going for him was volume.
Bevan thinks he may have influenced that. When Marshall stacks showed up, as a drummer, I had to triple my energy output. I had to learn how to be accurate and forceful. And when PA systems and mikes showed up I had to relearn all over again. As others influenced Bonham, so did he influence others.
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Open Culture openculture. He never took formal drum lessons, picking up tips from fellow drummers instead. He became well renowned on the local gig circuit as a talented stickman, taking his pick of the up-and-coming bands to play with.
In , Bonham became semi-professional with Terry Webb and the Spiders and met his future wife Pat Phillips around this time. A couple of years later, he joined A Way Of Life but after their demise he hooked up with a blues band called Crawling King Snakes, whose leader singer was a curly haired chap called Robert Plant.
Despite the prickly initial assessment, Plant and Bonham went on to forge a dynamic relationship in Led Zeppelin and had a mutual respect for each other. Plant and Page formed another band initially called The New Yardbirds and they set about hiring Bonham, but he was not keen at first.
Page and manager Peter Grant had seen Bonham play for Tim Rose and soon saw what Plant had already recognised in the formidable drummer. Joining the three in the band that became Led Zeppelin was another big talent, the bass and keyboard player John Paul Jones. Musicians All musicians New arrivals Music genres Music eras.
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