Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Experience (Tour)

[CustardPie87]

George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight interview:

Jason Bonham

http://www.cbc.ca/st...l?ID=1927838294

Thanks very much for posting this! But at one point of the video they show, the people who made it put a picture of John Entwistle instead of John Bonham. Now, what the hell is this?

[Deborah J]

Me and my brother have floor (standing) tickets for KC on thursday, so hopefully we can get right against the stage and get good shots. Would like to meet Jason as well.

Have a great time and please share your experience with us..and photos

[SteveAJones]

Bonham to share whole lotta love of Led Zeppelin

By David Burger

The Salt Lake Tribune

Published May 19 2011

While looking through some of his late father's belongings, Jason Bonham found an audio tape of the legendary Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham being interviewed in 1970.Bonham described the experience of listening to his father in a recent media conference call. "A reporter asks, 'Do you have any family?,' " Bonham recalled. "[My father] goes, "Oh, I've got a wife and a son called Jason, and he's a drummer. Really, yeah, he's four years old now. His technique is crap, but he's got good time. My ambition is that one day he'll play next to me at the Royal Albert Hall."

Bonham, 44, never got to play with his father at Royal Albert Hall. His father, John Bonham, died in 1980 at the age of 32, which led to the breakup of the band. Many musicians and fans consider John Bonham ­— known as the Bonzo or The Beast — to be one of the best drummers in rock history.

But the mythology and music of his father's life in the band Led Zeppelin hasn't died. Just past the 30th anniversary of John's death, Bonham will pay tribute to his father's band with his touring show, the Led-Zeppelin Experience, which will perform at The Depot on Saturday.

As long as there's demand from fans, Bonham plans to continue playing the music crafted by his father and famous bandmates Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and Robert Plant.

This show is different from concerts by other tribute bands who cover rock songs Led Zeppelin played four decades ago.

"I've actually played with the band a couple of times and had some moments in authenticity," Bonham said. "I give it a slightly different angle from the story content of the show, and I release and show some very tender and pure moments that not many people have seen, such as my dad as a child growing up."

That's in contrast to the drummer's legendary reputation, where he was thought to be one of the first rockers to have trashed a hotel room by throwing a TV set through a window. "But realistically," Jason Bonham said, "he was my dad and just an everyday guy, really."

Jason was 14 when his father died, and his father figures into many of his most memorable childhood recollections.

"Dad got me in to [see] a band called The Police, which at the time my dad had a blue vinyl version of 'Outlandos d'Amour,' which we still might have somewhere, so I'll keep that, treasure it," Bonham said. "But he took me to see The Police and it was a cool moment," he said. "I had never been to a concert with my dad ever before ... But I fondly remember The Police and is was a very, very cool concert and I remember my dad put me on his shoulders so I could see the band better. "

Afterwards, Bonham took his son backstage, where the drummer accidently stepped on Sting's foot and nearly caused a scene. "Sting said something like 'Don't step on my blue suede shoes,' " Jason Bonham recalled. "My dad turned to him and said, 'I'll step on your head in a minute.' So that was a nice father-son relationship [moment]. The meeting of old and new. It was quite funny looking across and seeing [guitarist Andy Summers] and [drummer Stewart Copeland] sniggering underneath, and I'm thinking 'Dad, come on, don't cause any trouble.' "

You would probably never guess another of Jason's favorite memories with his father.

"I remember we also saw The Osmonds and Bay City Rollers," Bonham said. "Yes, Dad did take me to see The Osmonds, and I saw Marie Osmond with her hair in curlers, which ruined the illusion at the time."

"Yeah, well, as a kid at the time, I was quite into Marie Osmond and she came out of the trailer and she was getting ready and she had her curlers in. [still,] it was pretty cool. They started with "Crazy Horses." They were on these wires and they came out across the audience back then, so Bon Jovi wasn't the first guy to do it."

The surviving members of Led Zeppelin invited Jason Bonham to play drums when the band reunited for one night in December 2007 at London's Ahmet Ertegün Tribute Concert. Rumors about the band reuniting to record and tour have circulated for years.

Bonham hoped to continue to play with Page and Jones, but talk of a reunion project died in December 2008.

"It kind of came to a halt, which was a hard thing for me to get over for a while," he said. "You know, I had just played the concert of my life. Playing with them was a great point, one of the greatest points of my life. Then when I got the call to come back and do some work with Jimmy and John Paul in the writing environment, it was fantastic. I believed it was eventually going to continue on and be whatever it was going to be. There are a lot of things I will never understand and it's purely, as I say, you'd have to ask them."

It seems as if the reunion is on hold, so see the next best thing will be this Saturday at The Depot.

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/entertainment/51832774-81/bonham-dad-band-led.html.csp

Edited May 20, 2011 by SteveAJones

[SteveAJones]

Bonham's Led Zeppelin Experience celebrates father's legacy

Jason Bonham performs in the Led Zepplin Experience concert.

Photo courtesy MSO.

By Doug Fox Daily Herald (Provo, Utah) | Posted: Thursday, May 19, 2011

More than 30 years after his death, Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham's reputation as a wildman -- both onstage and off -- succeeds him.

Rock fans at large, however, might be somewhat surprised to learn that the tales of reckless abandon and outrageous antics that are attached to the "Bonzo" legend, don't necessarily jibe with the memories Jason Bonham has of his father.

In fact, when he was asked to detail some of his favorite recollections during a teleconference with national music writers in late April, Bonham immediately mentioned three concerts his dad had taken him to as a young boy. The concerts were The Police, The Osmonds and the Bay City Rollers.

Back up ... did you just say the rowdy drummer of Led Zeppelin took his son to see the Bay City Rollers ... gulp ... and The Osmonds?

"Yes, Dad did take me to see The Osmonds," Bonham said, "and I saw Marie Osmond with her hair in curlers, which ruined the illusion at the time."

Such a revelation is too good to not follow up on, so Bonham was asked for a few more details of the encounter.

"Yeah, well, I was a kid at the time, and I was quite into Marie Osmond, I think," he said. "And she came out of the trailer, and she was getting ready and had her curlers in. And it kind of ruined the illusion. Yeah, it didn't quite do the same thing for me."

He remembers the actual Osmonds show that night with more fondness.

"It was pretty cool," he said. "They started with 'Crazy Horses.' They were on these wires, and they came out across the audience back then -- so Bon Jovi wasn't the first guy to do it."

Bonham's reminiscences of his father -- along with the legendary music he helped create -- are the driving beat behind Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Experience (JBLZE), which makes its local tour stop Saturday at the Depot in Salt Lake City. The show received critical acclaim during a 38-city North American jaunt last year, leading Bonham to resurrect it for a limited theater tour this month.

The show is not only a celebration of Led Zeppelin's music, but augmented with home movies, concert footage and personal recollections of the band and his father as only Jason can deliver them. In one sense it's a tribute concert -- but then again, how many tribute musicians can actually say they've performed with the real band in concert (as Jason did when he sat in for his father during Led Zeppelin's much-ballyhooed, one-off reunion show in 2007 at London's O2 arena)?

It's the personal touches in the show, Bonham said, that help separate it from other tribute projects out there.

"We didn't live in the era of everything being recordable on your phone and very easily accessible," Bonham said of his younger years. "So when you see these moments, they're very few and far between as my dad could record and capture. And, also, I like to touch on the love I have of the music, playing with the guys every kind of song that has a different story, a different element of where I put it in the show. And each song is chosen for a reason. There's nothing we've put there because it was a popular song or whatever. I have a story for each one. But the music does the talking in itself, and I just tell a few moments that were not spoken too much about, the reasons I do certain songs in the set and my own personal take on when I played them with Led Zeppelin.

"So that's why it's my, Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Experience, and this is where I suppose it's different from the others," he said. "But, obviously, one of the major differences is I have been lucky enough to have played with the band a couple of times. Not many of them can say that."

Another thing they can't say is having received the blessing of band members to pursue the project. Bonham said that at one point he became aware of some disparaging remarks about his work that were circulated by someone who was a family friend of the whole band. So he called lead singer Robert Plant and discussed the situation with him.

"Robert told me not to be concerned," Bonham said, "and then we went on an interview together and then a DJ tried to throw me under the bus, saying, 'Hey, what did you think about Jason doing a Led Zeppelin tour without any of you guys?' Robert turned around and went on the defensive for me and said, 'Well, Jason can do whatever he wants, when he wants.' He said, 'Jason plays these songs like nobody else.' He said, 'There's a few people that think they can play them like him but nobody can and they know who they are.' He really went on the defensive, and he said, 'As long as Jason does this with a smile, he has my blessing.'

"So it was kind of like, 'Leave him alone!' That was a big step for me when Robert came in there and said, 'You know what? This is Jason representing his family and his father. Just let him be.' "

By shedding a different light on his father's life, Bonham hopes to somewhat dispel the mythology and perception about his rowdy reputation. In fact, the younger Bonham said his father was "actually kind of a quiet chap at home."

"And, you know, this is a man that would grow up to be the Beast, the guy Bonzo, the legendary guy that was one of the first to throw a TV set through a window," Bonham said. "But realistically he was my dad, and just an everyday guy really. So within the context of the show, I talk a little about him as a personal person, you know, as a guy that I knew not so much as the guy that you know as Bonzo, but as my father. I show some of the moments we shared together which were and are, you know, very cherished now."

Perhaps the two sides of John Bonham, who died in September of 1980 as the result of asphyxiation on his own vomit after a bout of binge drinking, are best captured in Jason's recollections of that Police concert long ago, where he fondly recalled his father hoisting him up on his shoulders so he could better see the stage. A glimpse into the flip side occurred following the show.

"He got us backstage afterwards so we could say hello," Jason said. "And it was just a great moment when my dad stepped on Sting's foot and he was wearing blue suede shoes at the time, and Sting said something like, 'Don't step on my blue suede shoes.' My dad turned to him and said, 'I'll step on your head in a minute.' So that was a nice father, son relationship. The meeting of old and new. It was quite funny looking across and seeing [Andy Summers] and [stewart Copeland] sniggering underneath, and I'm thinking, 'Dad, come on, don't cause any trouble!' "

If You Go

Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Experience

When: Saturday at 8 p.m.

Where: The Depot, 400 W. South Temple, Salt Lake City

Tickets: $30 advance, $35 day of, $130 VIP table, available at Smith's Tix locations (800-888-TIXX, www.smithstix.com)

Info: (801) 456-2888, www.depotslc.com

http://www.heraldextra.com/entertainment/music/article_a0738cb0-c9b7-5e1b-963c-13d01ea5269c.html

Edited May 20, 2011 by SteveAJones

[SteveAJones]

This review of the St. Louis concert comes via For Badgeholders Only (The Led Zeppelin Mailing List):

The JBLZE played St. Louis last night at The Pagaent. Despite backing from KSHE, the local rock station, the show was very much undersold. The group played to approximately half a house, but the crowd was enthusiastic and a good mix of ages. The band did not seem to experience any drop in intensity as a result of the small house.

As much as I was excited to see Jason Bonham, it seems to me this is just a really good Led Zeppelin tribute band. Taken as that, it was a great evening. The band gave over 2 hours of dedicated performance. My favorite of the show was their version of In the Light.

In listening to this performance, and listening, occasionally, to other tribute bands, I start to believe the music has a life outside of the original musicians. If one treats the original performances as a document (like sheet music), the others are performing that piece. They sound like the original, but each performance brings the personal stamp of the musicians. Its still really good!

- Kip Bilderback

[SteveAJones]

Jason Bonham channels dad in 'Led Zeppelin Experience'

By Jim Carnes

The Sacramento Bee

Published: Friday, May. 20, 2011

The first time Jason Bonham heard his dad's music, he thought it was "a scary noise." He was 2, and the song was "Your Time Is Going To Come."

That eerie organ intro could scar a kid for life.

"As a child, I was terrified of church organists. That cathedral organ had a haunting vibe to it," Bonham said in a recent telephone interview.

Luckily, though, he overcame his fear.

"Your Time Is Going To Come" is one of about two dozen songs featured in "Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Experience," which comes to Sacramento's Crest Theatre on Thursday.

Bonham pays tribute to his drummer dad, John Bonham, in the show, which features home movies, concert footage and a live band. Jason Bonham is the drummer, of course playing the unforgettable blues-rock music of Led Zep.

Bonham first performed the show last year, playing a 38-city North American tour that was so successful, he's brought it back for more shows in more cities. He'll present it Tuesday at the Saddlerack in Fremont, Wednesday at the Uptown Theatre in Napa, Thursday at the Crest, and next Friday at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles.

"The first tour just amazed me," he said during the interview, from Montréal, where he was about to appear. "I never imagined that the tour would receive the overwhelmingly positive reactions that it did."

John Bonham died in 1980. In 2007, Jason Bonham performed with the surviving members of Led Zeppelin in a reunion at 02 Arena in London and at the 2008 MOJO Awards show (in which the group was named "greatest rock 'n' roll band of all time").

Bonham also fronts his own band, Black Country Communion, which will release its second CD next month.

Originally, Bonham conceived of the "Experience" show as "a simple tribute to my father and the music of Led Zeppelin" he said. But he had some apprehension.

"I didn't want any of this to tarnish what I had accomplished (as a musician) or reflect poorly on my father. That's what made me really work on the show, making it more of a personal journey, with the home movies and me, playing with heart and sharing some images that I have of Dad.

"It had to be more than me just playing some Led Zeppelin music."

In one segment of the show, there is a very striking "child is father to the man" vibe, with Jason playing drums live, accompanying his father seen in a concert clip from Led Zeppelin's first performance at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

"It was really weird the realization that I'm a 45-year-old kid playing a solo along with my dad, who was 22 at the time! I was always known as 'Hey, that's Bonzo's kid,' and here I am now playing with the old man, but he's the young one.

"Nothing makes sense, but you know, that's rock 'n' roll."

"Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Experience,"; 7:30 p.m. Thursday; Crest Theatre, 1013 K St., Sacramento; $29-$45 advance, $34-$50 at the door, $125 VIP seating; (800) 225-2277.

http://www.sacbee.com/2011/05/20/3637411/jason-bonham-channels-dad-in-led.html

Edited May 20, 2011 by SteveAJones

[SteveAJones]

Review | Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Experience at the VooDoo Lounge

By BILL BROWNLEE

Special to The Star

May 20, 2011

Led Zeppelin cover bands are a dime a dozen. Zoso leads the pack, but the long list of mildly disreputable imitators includes Black Dog, Swan Song and all-women acts Lez Zeppelin and Fem Zeppelin. The death of Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham in 1980 may have ended the influential band's 12-year run, yet the public's desire to hear Led Zeppelin's music performed live remains insatiable.An audience of about 400 purchased tickets ranging in price from $28 to $100 to hear something more substantial than just another cover band Thursday at the VooDoo Lounge at Harrah's Casino. They received their moneys' worth. Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Experience offered a completely captivating multimedia experience.

"This is my story," Bonham intoned in a sentimental introductory video. "Of what my dad and Led Zeppelin meant to me."

Bonham assumed his father's place on drums as he led a five-piece band in an immaculately rendered 130-minute tribute to Led Zeppelin. Although he's well into his '40s, Bonham is still in awe of his father's accomplishments.

"We're all fans of the greatest rock and roll band in history," Bonham said. "It just so happens that the drummer was my father."

Images of both Bonhams frequently appeared on the large video screen behind the band. Charming home movies of the Bonham family were interspersed with multiple live shots of the action on stage and from within Bonham's drum kit. Blacklight-style backdrops heightened the drama during atmospheric songs like "Stairway to Heaven" and "Kashmir." Coupled with the VooDoo's superior sound system and sight lines, the effect was occasionally spine-tingling.

While the band makes no effort to resemble Led Zeppelin physically, its members have Led Zeppelin's proto-metal sound down cold. The pinched shriek and lewd moans of James Dylan were dead ringers for Robert Plant's original vocal work. Fans who closed their eyes and allowed their imaginations to run wild could momentarily trick themselves into believing that they'd been transported to a mid-'70s Led Zeppelin concert. If there's a criticism to be leveled at the band, it's that it sometimes sounded a bit too precise. Only during the raucous blues of "The Lemon Song" did the band sound slightly unhinged.

Even the theremin solo on "Whole Lotta Love" was a nearly exact replica of the familiar original version. Recreating each inflection was precisely the point. As the title of Led Zeppelin's concert film suggests, the song remains the same.

Set list: Rock and Roll, Celebration Day, Your Time is Gonna Come, Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, What Is and What Should Never Be, The Lemon Song, Thank You, Dazed and Confused, Moby Dick, The Ocean, Over the Hills and Far Away, Since I've Been Loving You, In the Light, When the Levee Breaks, Kashmir, Stairway to Heaven, Whole Lotta Love.

http://www.kansascit...d-zeppelin.html

Edited May 20, 2011 by SteveAJones

[Flyingzepp]

REVIEW: Jason Bonham live at the Voodoo Lounge in KC

Damn, what a great accurate representation of the songs. I am amazed, i was 10 feet from Jason all night, caught a broken stick of his at the end of "Thank You", got him to pose for my camera during Stairway, Smacked his hand at the end.

The singer was dead on with everything, i mean EVERYTHING, he sounded just like studio Plant.

Lead Guitarist was spot on with every riff and solo.

The other guys were good.

And Jason was just amazing to watch, perfect perfect musician.

Snatched the setlist at the end of the show, caught a stick, high fived Jason, got amazing photos, what a great amazing expierence.

[SuperDave]

REVIEW: Jason Bonham live at the Voodoo Lounge in KC

Damn, what a great accurate representation of the songs. I am amazed, i was 10 feet from Jason all night, caught a broken stick of his at the end of "Thank You", got him to pose for my camera during Stairway, Smacked his hand at the end.

The singer was dead on with everything, i mean EVERYTHING, he sounded just like studio Plant.

Lead Guitarist was spot on with every riff and solo.

The other guys were good.

And Jason was just amazing to watch, perfect perfect musician.

Snatched the setlist at the end of the show, caught a stick, high fived Jason, got amazing photos, what a great amazing expierence.

You did and got it all! Pretty much, the ultimate concert experience.

[Flyingzepp]

Ha yeah, me and my brother even walked back around the ropes, to sneak a peek at them warming up, they were rehearsing 'in the evening'. Didn't play it in the set though, so i'm assuming they were practicing it for another show.

Also, for anyone that wants to know, they are following the studio versions of every single song, no long extended jams or anything, still a unique and wonderful expierence though.

Heres a pic of the stick i caught

Edited May 22, 2011 by Flyingzepp

[Flyingzepp]

Some more pics from the Voodoo Lounge in Kansas City 5/19

[SuperDave]

Good photos flyingzepp. It's a great show. Saw it back in NYC in November.

[PerpetualMotion]

Not a word from anyone who might've been at the Salt Lake City show?

[sam_webmaster]

Press Release | 5-24-2011

JASON BONHAM'S LED ZEPPELIN EXPERIENCE CONCERT

GARNERS MORE RAVE REVIEWS AS FIVE SHOWS REMAIN ON THE SECOND NORTH AMERICAN LEG

INCLUDING THIS FRIDAY NIGHT, MAY 27 AT THE GREEK THEATRE

"Jason Bonham dropped the hammer of the gods on the Ogden Friday night. The son of John Bonham, the berserk-footed drummer of Led Zeppelin whose death in 1980 dethroned the greatest rock 'n' roll band of all time, directed a powerful, precise and yet personalized replica of Zeppelin that culled rabid response from the full house."

--Jason Blevins, DENVER POST, (May 23, 2011)

"This show was a gift to Zeppelin fans. It reminded us at once how incredible this music can be in the concert setting, and how significant the body of work Zeppelin created remains."

--Jeff Miers, BUFFALO NEWS , May 10, 2011)

JASON BONHAM's LED ZEPPELIN EXPERIENCE concert has continued to garner more critical acclaim on the tour's in-progress second North American leg. Only a handful of dates remain for the show that has been hailed by Rolling Stone: "Led Zeppelin's magic was in effect …a rousing two-hour-plus set of classics from the Zep canon. The encore of 'Whole Lotta Love' coupled with 'Rock and Roll' earned a standing ovation" (Ritchie Yorke, October 10, 2010). The month-long spring trek will culminate this weekend including a not-to-be-missed show this coming Friday, May 27 in Los Angeles at the Greek Theatre.

The show is a unique trifecta of a spectacular rock concert featuring the unforgettable blues-rock of Led Zeppelin, atmospheric video and light displays and the history that JASON BONHAM shares with the legendary rock n' roll band. It features BONHAM on drums, TONY CATANIA on guitar and theremin, STEPHEN LEBLANC on keyboards/pedal-steel guitars, MICHAEL DEVIN on bass and JAMES DYLAN on lead vocals. The group perform 20 iconic Led Zeppelin songs encompassing the band's albums including their 1969 debut Led Zeppelin ("Your Time Is Gonna Come," "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You," "Good Times Bad Times"), 1969's Led Zeppelin II ("Thank You," "Lemon Song" and "Moby Dick"); 1970's Led Zeppelin III ("Since I've Been Loving You" and "Celebration Day"); 1970's Led Zeppelin IV ("When The Levee Breaks," "Black Dog," and "Rock and Roll"); 1973's Houses Of The Holy ("The Ocean," "Over The Hills And Far Away"); 1975's Physical Graffiti ("Kashmir") and many more Led Zeppelin favorites.

Here's more of what the press has been saying about JASON BONHAM's LED ZEPPELIN EXPERIENCE:

"People were freaking out from the beginning, as the band dove into a pair of sets that ended up leaving the gathered in a state of Zeppelin-esque befuddlement. The music is so completely awe-inspiring that any time one hears it done well, one reacts."

--Jeff Miers, BUFFALO NEWS (Live review, May 10, 2011)

"…'BRILLIANT' is a word that seems a bit underused in American culture. Ironic, since it is a word that adequately describes the sum of Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Experience. Jason, the son of late Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham, has painstakingly put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into the creation of this experience. It's obvious from the personal video segments, which included home movie footage from his family growing up. It was apparent from his heartfelt and at times humorous introductions to several songs. But mostly it was obvious from the music, which featured near-perfect--Dare we say, rapturous? Yes, we dare--reconstructions of songs that were undoubtedly originally experienced by most members of the audience over the course of thousands of revolutions of vinyl records. It took all of about 10 seconds of live music to drive this point home. After an introductory video segment, the show surged out of the gate with the iconic drum-solo opening of 'Rock and Roll,' a classic tune off the Led Zeppelin IV album. Once the full band kicked in, an almost palpable surge of adrenaline coursed through the crowd. There's just something about vintage rock 'n' roll that thrives in a live setting, with the amps dialed up and the fans dialed in. This was one of those shows. So if you love Led Zeppelin and are interested in seeing the music played perfectly live, then Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Experience is the next best thing, and not to be missed."

--Doug Fox, DAILY HERALD (Provo/Salt Lake City, UT May 23)

"Montreal must be the Led Zeppelin capital of the world. Or at least it was hard to draw another conclusion Thursday night after seeing what had to be the most deliriously appreciative audience to squeeze into the Metropolis in recent memory. They were there to catch a return appearance, after only six months, of Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Experience. …what sets JBLZE apart is musical: they are, when all is said and done, a superior Led Zeppelin cover band. Eschewing any physical resemblance to Led Zep — Dylan, with his shaved head, is the physical opposite of Plant, and the same goes for Bonham fils--the band must offer much in musical chops. And they have 'em. From the moment the group--Bonham, Dylan, keyboard player Stephen Leblanc, guitarist Tony Catania and bassist Dorian Heartsong--kicked into 'Rock and Roll,' the question of authenticity was beside the point. Perhaps best of all, they avoided the tribute-band cliche of trying to replicate studio takes. Bonham told us last October that he gives his band members Led Zeppelin bootlegs to listen to. The original Zeppelin took huge liberties with its songs on stage and JBLZE plays with that in mind. They sound like a live band, not a museum piece. So in the end, maybe it is Jason's story. And ours, of course."

--Bernard Perusse, MONTREAL GAZETTE (May 13, 2011)

"[JBLZE singer]…Dylan showed flashes of the bluesy, high-ranged howls and wails of the evocative Plant--especially during 'Babe I'm Gonna Leave You'--and the pounding, beast-like Bonham as bandleader led the band in spirited and almost note-perfect replicas of songs such as 'Thank You,' 'Rock and Roll,' 'Immigrant Song' and an appropriately groovy 'The Ocean.' During 'Dazed and Confused,' Catania [guitarist] even pulled out a bow to play the guitar, as Page was known to do. And the large crowd ate it up. …the most lasting images were from a rendition of 'Moby Dick,' when Bonham played the famed drum solo. The screen was halved, so on the left side you could see the younger Bonham bashing away; on the right side of the screen was his father, playing the same solo. At one point during the show, Bonham said it was an 'honor' for him to play his father's songs, and despite the usual skepticism associated with tribute shows, you believed him. No joke."

--David Burger, SALT LAKE TRIBUNE (May 23, 2011)

"Fans who closed their eyes and allowed their imaginations to run wild could momentarily trick themselves into believing that they'd been transported to a mid-'70s Led Zeppelin concert."

--Bill Brownlee, KANSAS CITY STAR, (May 23, 2011)

For more information, visit: www.jblze.com.

JASON BONHAM'S LED ZEPPELIN EXPERIENCE tour dates:

DATE CITY VENUE

Tue 5/24 Fremont, CA The Saddle Rack

Wed 5/25 Napa Valley, CA Uptown Theatre

Thu 5/26 Sacramento, CA Crest Theatre

Fri 5/27 Los Angeles, CA The Greek Theatre

Sat 5/28 Las Vegas, NV Alliente Casino

[reids]

Thanks, Sam.

Can't wait to see if a DVD will be released of either the first or second tour leg.

R

[Deborah J]

Not a word from anyone who might've been at the Salt Lake City show?

Speaking of Salt Lake City...

Jason Bonham's led zeppelin experience -whole lotta love at the depot salt lake city 5/21/2011

flyingzepp, thanks for the review, sounds like you had a great time!

Sam and Steve the articles are great^^ I am so ready to go again!!!!

[Deborah J]

Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Experience tour kit revealed

[SuperDave]

According to news reports, tonight's show at the Greek in L.A. and tomorrow in Las Vegas have been canceled due to an undisclosed illness of James Dylan. It was on Blabbermouth.com. They have been rescheduled for mid October. No other details were given.

[ledzepfvr]

That is too bad. Some dis appointed fans tonight I'm sure.

Pop & Hiss

The L.A. Times music blog

Singer's illness prompts postponement of Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Experience shows

Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience has postponed Friday night’s show at the Greek Theatre and several other dates because singer James Dylan is ill.

The Greek show has been rescheduled for Oct. 14. Other affected shows include a stop Saturday in Las Vegas, which has been moved to Oct. 15.

Dates that had been slated in Sacramento and Napa Valley earlier this week are still being rescheduled.

Tickets from the originally scheduled shows will be honored at the new dates, or ticket buyers can get refunds at the point of purchase.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2011/05/jason-bonham-led-zeppelin-experience-postpone-shows.html

[bigzepfan]

For all of the fans who were not able to attend:

Achilles Last Stand from the State Theatre, New Brunswick, NJ.

May 5, 2011

Live from the Front Row!

Enjoy!

[sam_webmaster]

JBLZE Article by noted author/journalist, Ritchie Yorke:

http://www.jasonbonh...e_new_yorke.pdf [PDF]

[jabe]

JBLZE Article by noted author/journalist, Ritchie Yorke:

http://www.jasonbonh...e_new_yorke.pdf [PDF]

Great article.

The last paragraph rings so true.

[SuperDave]

Good article Sam. Thanks for sharing.

[reids]

Cool.

Thanks, Sam.

R

[SteveAJones]

The JBLZE's NYC gig (November 8, 2010) has been released as a 2 DVD-R set. Produced by NYC Bitch Committee, this is a single cam digitial video shot from the balcony with digital stereo audio. Although there are some momentary obstructions - particularly during the opening set - there are some truly exceptional closeups throughout, to include Jason pounding the skins during Moby Dick and Tony Catania with the bow during Dazed And Confused. The intimate club gig atmosphere is evident and makes for a fun viewing experience. Sure to become a favorite amongst the various collector's networks.

Edited July 3, 2011 by SteveAJones