The Rover Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 Source: http://vipnation.com/programs/jason-bonham--heartbreaker-tour One premium reserved ticket in the first 10 rows That's anywhere first 10 rows.... front center section, or front side sections, inner isle, outer isle. Tempting at $250, as the the seats alone are $99 plus (ab)use taxes.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ledded1 Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 They could bring this tour to the UK if they wanted. I wouldn't mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strider Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 Has anyone besides me had a bad experience at a Heart concert? I saw them in '82 and I thought they were terrible live. I guess I find it a bit hard to believe they have improved 30 years later, although I guess anything is possible. In truth I only liked their first 2-3 albums, and I think they changed several members after that... I haven't seen Heart in concert since 1981. The first few times I saw them in the 1970s, they were pretty good, and Ann definitely had the pipes...man, could she sing. But when I saw them at the 1981 Texxas Jam at the Houston Astrodome, they were so boring that I actually was looking forward to seeing REO Speedwagon, ferchrissakes...and this was when REO was in their "High Fidelity" wimpy period. When you're blown off stage by REO Speedwagon, something is wrong. Heart's entire set was way too mellow...too many piano-based power ballads, etc. The only time the crowd got rocking was when they encored with Zep's "Rock and Roll" After that, Heart's albums in the 80s became increasingly dire and I never had the need or desire to see them in concert again. But, now that it has been over 30 years since I saw them last, and on the recommendation of a friend who saw them on their last tour, I think I'll check out this Heart/JBLZE tour when they play the Greek in August. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deborah J Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 I am looking forward to seeing this. I'll have a full review:-) Two of our friends may not be able to make it and since we have front row seats Left Box 1, Row A - if anyone wants to buy a ticket PM me. June 20th Chastain Park - Atlanta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad LaBorde Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Just bought my tickets for the Houston show! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter Posted March 27, 2013 Share Posted March 27, 2013 I will attend the Tampa show on 6/18, just deciding the avenue towards the best seats. Never have seen Heart, but have been a fan for many years. Saw Jason with Page in '88, on his own in '90 and the JBLZE in '11. It WILL be a very fun evening! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Dounim Posted March 27, 2013 Share Posted March 27, 2013 I'm coming back to the states in early June and I plan to attend the VA Beach show on 2013/06/24! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chillumpuffer Posted March 27, 2013 Share Posted March 27, 2013 ........... and the UK fans just keep on waiting. I mean how hard is it to play in the UK anyway? One of my closest friends is the tour manager for a well know band. They are playing a few dates in Russia. And I don't mean just Moscow or St Petersburg. This is in the far north of the country. But i suppose being a "Led Zeppelin Experience" it means 7 shows in 6 years is pretty much same old same old? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strider Posted March 27, 2013 Share Posted March 27, 2013 ........... and the UK fans just keep on waiting. I mean how hard is it to play in the UK anyway? One of my closest friends is the tour manager for a well know band. They are playing a few dates in Russia. And I don't mean just Moscow or St Petersburg. This is in the far north of the country. But i suppose being a "Led Zeppelin Experience" it means 7 shows in 6 years is pretty much same old same old? What are you moaning about? You guys got the O2 show. You got Knebworth. The last decent gig Led Zeppelin played in the U.S. was 1977. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLastSpartan Posted March 27, 2013 Share Posted March 27, 2013 As far as the UK/Europe dates go, you guys ever think maybe they will announce them later on, or do another leg and announce it after this one? Bands do it a lot... Anyways, as far as Heart goes I was never a huge fan, but this made me interested but of course no Oklahoma dates. I missed out on JBLZE a while back, which I do and don't regret. I don't really have a problem with them doing this, I do view it as more of a respect thing more than a milking. Hopefully some good videos get and some audio recordings come from this tour though so I can at least see what I am gonna miss! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chillumpuffer Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 What are you moaning about? You guys got the O2 show. You got Knebworth. The last decent gig Led Zeppelin played in the U.S. was 1977. Agree with you. How can i not. How many did you get in 77,75,73,72,71,70,69? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chillumpuffer Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 As far as the UK/Europe dates go, you guys ever think maybe they will announce them later on, or do another leg and announce it after this one? Bands do it a lot... I won't bet my house on it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roxie Posted April 2, 2013 Share Posted April 2, 2013 Heart killed in Toronto a few weeks ago. Sold out show and the crowd was awesome. I urge you to see them live if you can. On a related note: Newly announced show JULY 23RD - TORONTO - MOLSON AMPHITHEATER. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slave to zep Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 What are you moaning about? You guys got the O2 show. You got Knebworth. The last decent gig Led Zeppelin played in the U.S. was 1977. and we got ONE, in 1972 ..... i had tickets to see the jblze sydney show, and he cancelled the whole australian tour ...... still waiting ........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deborah J Posted June 16, 2014 Share Posted June 16, 2014 ^^ So sorry stz:-( Bump: Photo of Nancy (left) and Ann Wilson, as well as Jason Bonham (below), by Dave Sidaway/ The Gazette. Click here to see Dave’s photo gallery from the show. The strutting, stomping power chordage of Barracuda tried valiantly to overcome the Bell Centre’s typically awful sound – which was even worse than usual – during the opening moments of Heart’s concert Saturday night. In the midst of it all, Ann Wilson’s voice fought to be heard above the sludge. (When Wilson, one of rock’s most powerful singers, is in danger of drowning in the sonic mess, you know you have a serious problem with the acoustics.) It wasn’t looking good. Things improved only marginally as Heartless followed. But somehow it soon became possible to shift one’s focus to the sheer exuberance of Ann’s sister Nancy, doing her trademark cross-legged jump and kick-back moves while scratching out Chuck Berry basics as blasted through hard-rock steroids. The spirit began to take over and, well, what the hell? This was, after all, arena rock. We have surrendered to its noisy, muddy assault for decades and we will do so as long as musicians can pound out an E chord. It took very little time for the audience, numbering just under 6,000, to get on board. And once they were in that zone, they got a concert that was, give or take, much like Heart’s past two shows here (in 2011 and 2013) – in the 75-minute first set alone. Eighties artifacts like What About Love and These Dreams, roadhouse rockers like Kick It Out and Straight On and must-plays like Crazy On You mixed with rock-solid recent material like the PTSD-themed Dear Old America to give the fans what they came for. The highlights of the opening set were, perhaps, the unexpected ones: the obscure, but fascinating, labyrinthine epic Heaven, with its fascinating shifts from trad-folk drone to prog-rock drama, and an excitedly-received and remarkably faithful version of Paul McCartney’s Let Me Roll It. Clearly, they were only getting started with the covers. After an intermission, they returned for an eight-song, 50-minute set made up exclusively of Led Zeppelin songs, with explosive assistance on drums from Jason Bonham, son of the late Zep drummer John Bonham. The junior Bonham – who, at 47, has seen 15 more summers than his dad ever did – got behind the kit at the one-off Zeppelin reunion in London in 2007. Behind Heart, he killed, showing how easily he can negotiate the thrilling dropped beats of Four Sticks and The Ocean and deliver body blows on a more straight-ahead galloping rocker like Immigrant Song. But the Zep set was, essentially, Ann Wilson’s big moment. Robert Plant – who has scuttled the prospects of a Zep reunion, to the angry disappointment of many fans – would have raised an eyebrow. The singer, in fact, could only have concluded that the legacy of his Zep work couldn’t be in better hands than Wilson’s. The chances of him being able to hit key moments in No Quarter or Kashmir with anything equivalent to her forceful ease seem slim, at best. You could see the closer coming a mile away. A just-about-perfect Stairway to Heaven – with some members of the Quebec Celebration Gospel Choir on stage but, sadly, barely audible – ended it all. The lights went up shortly after the last notes of the anthem were heard. Refreshingly, the standard dumb charade of making the audience scream for alleged encores that were already on the set list was bypassed. (No time-wasting opening act and no applause-milking encore: could we be lucky enough for Heart to have started a sensible trend here?) Incredibly, some people booed when the Wilson sisters and band didn’t come back out. But they couldn’t – and shouldn’t – have. http://blogs.montrealgazette.com/2014/06/15/concert-review-heart-with-special-guest-jason-bonham-at-the-bell-centre-june-14-2014/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henrybonzo Posted June 16, 2014 Share Posted June 16, 2014 Yet again a lack of dates in the UK and Europe. agree, whats up with that? i did ask a year or so ago (on twitter) and the management said they were working on it, if the Australian Pink Floyd can tour the globe and book the 02, i'm sure JBLZE could too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deborah J Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 ^^Sorry gentlemen..maybe dates will be added:-) Heart & Jason Bonham, June 18, 2014 @ Ottawa, ON ^^ Nice mix of a few songs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deborah J Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Heart and Jason Bonham team up for classic rock tribute By: Alan Small Posted: 06/22/2014 11:11 PM DAN HARPER / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Heart and Led Zeppelin almost go hand-in-hand during discussions about 1970s arena rock, so it’s fitting that Heart continues to keep the Led Zep fires burning. Sunday night at the MTS Centre, Ann and Nancy Wilson, the sisterly duo behind Heart, joined up with Jason Bonham, the son of Zeppelin drummer John Bonham, whose death in 1980 led to the split-up of the band. The Heart-Bonham combo picked up steam after they appeared together during the Kennedy Center Honors concert in December 2012 as part of the organization’s tribute to Led Zeppelin. While rumours always swirl that Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones will reunite for a tour, the closest Led Zep fans will get to hear those 1970s arena rock anthems again is from the Wilson sisters and Bonham. The combo brought a powerful take of some of Led Zeppelin’s biggest songs, like the mandolin-influenced The Battle of Evermore, the opening song of the set, the drum fiesta Four Sticks and a creepy No Quarter. There are few singers around today who would, or should attempt to match the vocal histrionics of a young Plant, but Ann Wilson bravely gave it a go Sunday. She did pretty well on shriek fests like theImmigrant Song and Kashmir, but it would be hard to imagine a 21st-century Plant take those on these days. The band, led by Nancy Wilson on guitar, provided the requisite rumble that made Led Zeppelin a legend. Their awesome version of Kashmir, an early set highlight certainly wound up the crowd and its famous riff was faithful to the original. Stairway to Heaven, which Bonham and the Wilsons performed at the Kennedy Center, was expected to be played to massive cheers and flicked lighters after press time. Prior to the elegies to Zeppelin, Heart came out with a hit-laden 75-minute set that showed their songs are no slouches in the arena-rock department either. They kicked it off with what is arguably their trademark song, a pitch-perfect Barracuda, and singer Ann proved she’s still got the vocal chops other singers from the 1970s dreamed they had then and their accountants wish they had now. It was the first of a string of six Heart classics that led to their being inducted into the Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Fame in 2013. Fans roared their approval when they heard Trudeau-era classics Heartless, What About Love?, Dreamboat Annie, Little Queen and Even It Up. The Wilsons, backed by a four-piece band, mellowed out a bit with 1985’s These Dreams, with Nancy at the microphone, and then Ann took over with a rousing rendition of Alone. The song was a sappy power ballad when it went to No. 1 in 1987, but a quarter-century later, it was more power than ballad, with Ann turning it into another showcase for her vocal prowess. Magic Man and Crazy On You, again note-for-note from the 45s that boomers have in their treasured record collections, finished the opening set. While many bands from the 1970s have lumbered into irrelevancy, it’s a credit to the Wilsons that Heart, no doubt older, but no doubt wiser, continues to matter. alan.small@freepress.mb.ca http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/arts/Heart-and-Jason-Bonham--264187161.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperDave Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Thanks for this Deborah! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deborah J Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 ^^Most welcome. Just fun thinking, it would be great for Jimmy to jump on stage with this crew for a song IMHO!!! Kashmir - Heart feat Jason Bonham (Led Zeppelin) -Regina June 23 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deborah J Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 CONCERT REVIEW: Heart (with Jason Bonham) June 24, 2014. 12:23 am • Section: Entertainment Ann (left) and Nancy Wilson of Heart Heart(with special guest Jason Bonham)June 23Brandt Centre Jeff DeDekkerLeader-Post Going on 40 years in the business and Heart still knows how to rock an audience. The Wilson sisters — Ann and Nancy — brought their Rockin Heaven tour to the Brandt Centre on Monday night and gave a testimonial to why Heart was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last year. When the band walked out onto the stage at 8:10 p.m. and Nancy Wilson began tearing into the opening licks of Barracuda, it was obvious this night was going to be more than just a run of the mill rock show. The setting was somewhat intimate for an arena show with the stage set at centre ice, as opposed to the west end of the venue for a standard setting. The stage housed a video wall of seven vertical screens, three in the centre and two on each side. That was it as far as the extras went. Instead of depending on pyrotechnics and lasers to get the attention of the fans, Heart grabbed it the old fashioned way, with their music. They came out of the gate with some classics — Barracuda, Heartless, What About Love and Dreamboat Annie. After Even It Up, with Nancy Wilson handling the lead vocals, Heart dusted off Little Queen. “It’s a song you probably haven’t heard, unless you’ve been following us across Canada,” said Nancy Wilson. “It’s a song about love coming down from Heaven.” Which, of course, led to Heaven, with Nancy Wilson playing an acoustic guitar upright with a bow while Ann Wilson strummed on an autoharp. While the sisters did speak with the fans a little, the dialogue wasn’t as extensive as in earlier visits to Regina in 2013 and 2007. The venue probably had something to do with that — making yourself heard and understood in an arena setting is a little more challenging than in the comfortable confines of the Conexus Arts Centre or the Casino Regina Show Lounge. Yet the Wilsons did try to drive home a few points. “It seems that heaven is the theme for tonight,” said Nancy Wilson when introducing These Dreams. “While the next song isn’t about heaven, it is ephemeral.” Whatever they played, whether it was an old song, a new song or a song from somewhere in between, Heart delivered a sound that was top notch and world class. Describing Ann Wilson as a great singer would be the understatement of all understatements. Her remarkable voice sets the standard for anyone, male or female, who wants to front a rock band. Her power, her range and her interpretation of songs make Ann Wilson the complete package when it comes to singing. Her voice is a gift from a higher power. And while Nancy Wilson is no slouch as a singer, her gift is her guitar playing. There was no better example then her extended intro into Crazy On You which was simply mesmerizing. As the set of Heart originals was winding down, Ann Wilson brought the crowd to its feet with Alone. “I suspect at this point that anyone could come up here and sing that, right?” she asked with a devilish smile knowing full well that anyone else would be foolish to even attempt to fill her shoes. While a complete Heart performance would have easily satisfied the crowd, it was the second set of the night that made the concert special. The hook for the tour was the addition of Jason Bonham, who is, according to Ann Wilson, “the carrier of the Led Zeppelin legacy,” for a set of Zeppelin tunes. Bonham, the son of Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham, who passed away tragically in 1980 at the age of 32, has toured extensively with his own band and its Led Zeppelin Experience show. Combining Heart with Bonham resulted in a set that was amazing in its content and performance. After opening with an acoustic cover of The Battle of Evermore, Bonham joined Heart on the stage and became the engine that powered the remainder of the set. An eclectic mix of songs was chosen, from hits like Immigrant Song and Kashmir to the less obvious like No Quarter and The Ocean. And of course everyone, and I do mean everyone, was waiting for the final song of the evening, the classic Stairway To Heaven. Heart and Bonham first joined forces on Stairway To Heaven in December of 2012 as part of the Kennedy Center Honors to Led Zeppelin. Video of the performance has over 12.5 million collective views on YouTube and although it was an exceptional performance, it still is just a video. On Monday night, it was the real thing and absolutely no one was disappointed by the performance. Ann Wilson’s vocals were phenomenal while Bonham’s furious drumming pushed the song to a frenetic finish. The band also added a nice local touch with members of the Greenall High School choir helping out with the backing vocals. I’m positive many in the venue got chills during the song which was worth the price of admission on its own. The night couldn’t have finished on any better of a note. jdedekker@leaderpost.comTwitter.com/ThePloughboy Heart set list 1. Barracuda 2. Heartless 3, What About Love 4. Dreamboat Annie 5. Even It Up 6. Little Queen 7. Let Me Roll It 8. Heaven 9. These Dreams 10. Alone 11. Mashallah 12. Magic Man 13. Crazy On YouEncore: Led Zeppelin songs 14. Battle of Evermore 15. No Quarter 16. The Ocean 17. Immigrant Song 18. Kashmir 19. The Rain Song 20. Stairway To Heaven http://blogs.leaderpost.com/2014/06/24/concert-review-heart-with-jason-bonham/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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