JASON BONHAM – “I Was Very Fortunate I Didn’t Kill Anybody Else, Other Than Myself”
May 10, 2016, 8 years ago
In a new interview with the Las Vegas Review-Journal, drummer Jason Bonham discussed how he’s been sober for 15 years.
Jason says he used to get so trashed, he woke up in a Vegas hotel room in the late 1990s, looked outside, saw a rare snow blanketing the Strip, and he thought it might be a practical joke.
“I was, like, ‘This is not right. I really need to stop drinking. This is really freaking me out,’” he recalls.
“It snows a lot in Vegas, but for the wrong reasons, if you catch my drift,” he adds. “It was always snowing, but never a skier in sight.”
His addiction could have been worse, he says.
“I was very fortunate I didn’t kill anybody else, other than myself,” he says. “It was all playful, boisterous stupidity. Overdrinking.
“I was always like that bloke, the Tasmanian Devil, just spinning into a room, then I’d stop, and go to sleep.”
Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience is currently on tour in the US. Go to Facebook for dates.
