I Never Had Any Lessons. When I

Mistreating Your Drum Set Is Just One Step Below Child Abuse

I've Always Been Obsessed With Drums. They Fascinate Me. Any Other Instrument - Nothing. I Play Acoustic Guitar A Bit. But It's Always Been Drums First And Foremost. I Don't Reckon On This Jack-of-all-trades Thing. I Thing That Felling Is A Lot More Important Than Technique. It's All Very Well Doing A Triple Paradiddle - But Who's Going To Know You've Done It? If You Play Technically You Sound Like Everybody Else. It's Being Original That Counts.

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 Minutes. It's A Long Time, But Wheni Was Playing It Seemed To Fly By.

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 Can Write Things Down.

I Have No Qualm About The Quality Of The Contemporary Repertory.