Jason Bonham’s son Jager Henry spoke to the Loudwire Nights and revealed why he wanted to be a singer instead of a drummer like his father.
“Yeah, I just kinda liked making music. It’s not trying to hide the name, not that it’s not important either, it doesn’t really matter for what I’m trying to do,” he explained during the chat. He also revealed that people were comparing him to his father and grandfather, John Bonham. “When people try to compare ‘Oh, why are you doing this? Why are you doing that?’ I’m like, ‘Because let it have its thing.’ It was such a beautiful time and it was such a moment, it was history. Why should I try to go and replicate something that I personally don’t have the capability for?”
The singer also pointed to AC/DC as a major influence. “I just wanna do something that makes me happy and maybe it was the one moment where I got to see AC/DC live and [it] clicked. I was like, ‘I don’t wanna be behind the kit, I wanna be out there dancing in the front.’”
In another interview last month, the singer revealed whether or not he was ever pressured to play drums like his father and grandfather did.
“I don’t think it was ever pressured. It was definitely something that was always around the house,” he told Leo Weekly. “There was a kit and it was something I enjoyed doing, but it was never something for me.”
“I’ll steal the cool line I said in my last interview: I looked in front of me and I saw my dad’s shoes and my granddad’s shoes, and a lot of people decide to fill them or try to when it comes to their parents, and I kind of stepped over them, kept walking and I saw a pair of shoes with my name on them and I knew that was the path I was supposed to take. So it’s not that I didn’t want to, and it’s not that I don’t enjoy playing the drums, it’s just wasn’t what I truly loved,” he added.
The singer is supporting Letdown. for their current tour. After he is done with the short tour, he will then join his father’s band, JBLZE [Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Evening], for a short run of dates to close out the year.