![]() Wednesday, Novemin Waukegan, IL Photo by Barry Brecheisen Jason Bonham poses outside the Genesee Theatre prior to a performance by Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin. What began in 2010 soon grew into a multimedia experience, complete with home videos which enabled Bonham to play along with his father, a drummer who rarely rehearsed and didn’t keep a drum kit in the house, for the first time.įollowing outings alongside artists like Heart and Peter Frampton, today, Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Evening tours as a five piece group which puts the focus squarely on the songs, meticulously recreating the music of Led Zeppelin over the course of two hours on stage each night. People just loved hearing the music in a live environment.” But I soon realized that it was about the music. This is their music.’ There’s an extra sense that I have to do it better - better than I ever could imagine I could do it - so that every detail gets done. And I didn’t want to spoil that,” said the drummer. And doing it in a moment when it was really good and everyone was on form was nice. “I felt what I had achieved by getting the chance to play with Zeppelin. “When my manager made the comment, ‘Why don’t you get together and do like a tribute thing?’ I went, ‘Really? After playing drums with the real thing, you want me to go out and play with a cover band? Are you kidding me?’ So it was the last thing on my mind,” Bonham explained. Jason Bonham performs during soundcheck prior to a performance by Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin. You can’t help but feel such a presence with those guys. And most of the time with Robert on the weekends, we would socialize. Six weeks of seeing them five days a week. I spent a lot of time with the boys, with my dad’s mates. “When we did the O2, we rehearsed and rehearsed. When, for most of your life, you’ve waited for this chance to play with Zeppelin and kind of prove yourself - and to a couple of times have a go at it… As much as I thought I was prepared for it to stop, I don’t think I was,” said Bonham backstage in Waukegan. ![]() Because I think deep down inside, I had an inkling that maybe we were going to do more. “We had done the Celebration Day O2 Arena reunion. Film will be released worldwide on Octoby Omniverse Vision on 1,500 screens in over 40 territories, it will then be available in multiple video and audio formats on November 19, 2012. Celebration Day captures their 2007 tribute concert for Atlantic Records Founder Ahmet Ertegun at London’s O2 Arena. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images) Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant joined by Jason Bonham discuss concert film, Celebration Day, in New York City at Museum of Modern Art. Zeppelin Celebration Day Press Conference on Octoin New York City. NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 09: John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and Jason Bonham attend Led.
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