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" Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at. "
Ever
Thing
Good
" I dare not drink before a gig because I'll get tired and blow it. So I have to sit drinking tea in a caravan. "
Because
Tired
Tea
" If we'd have said we were not upset, they would have thought we were so rich it meant nothing to us, and if we say we're upset about it, they'll say money is all we care about. "
Say
Money
Nothing
" I hate it when people slag us off. We had done three tours during 1970 and we finished off feeling we had just about had enough. We had done so much in that short space of time, we were drained. "
People
Space
Time
" I remember in the early days when we played six nights a week for a month and I was doing my long drum solo every night. My hands were covered in blisters. "
Remember
Solo
Week
" My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine. "
Fine
Time
Started
" Not everybody likes or understands a drum solo, so I like to bring in effects and sounds to keep their interest. "
Keep
Interest
Solo
" People who don't take care of their drums really annoy me. "
Me
Who
Take Care
" Sometimes you'd come up against a brick wall... or sometimes you go into a fill and you'd know halfway through it was going to be disastrous. "
Know
Halfway
Brick
" There was absolutely no intention of splitting up. We had so many great ideas to use on the new album. John Paul Jones was incredible, coming to the studio each day with new instruments to play. "
Great
Day
Ideas
" There were times when I blundered and got the dreaded look from the lads. But that was a good sign. It showed I'd attempted something I'd not tried before. "
Got
Sign
Good
" We had offers to go everywhere and we could have done them. But what would have been the point? We were tired. We had worked hard and needed a break before we got stale. We spent six months at home and writing songs. "
Done
Writing
Tired
" We once did six tours of America in 15 months. "
Did
Months
Once
" 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. "
Fly
Long
Long Time
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