Led Zeppelin Experience: Q&A With Jason Bonham
Alan Sculley: Well lets ask about the tour itself and this whole concept that you had that brought this together and I think one thing Im real curious about is what you think makes the Led Zeppelin Experience show youre taking out something different then any number of the tribute bands that are out there for Led Zeppelin. What are you doing that really separates it from, you know, those kind of shows?
Jason Bonham: Well, one thing I kind of give it is that Ive actually played with the band a couple of times and had some moments in authenticity. First and foremost JBLZE is a concert. But 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 with his father and interacting with his own family and his brother and his children.
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. 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.
We didnt live in the era of everything being recordable on your phone and very easily accessible. So when you see these moments, theyre 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. Theres nothing weve 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 thats why its my, Jason Bonhams Led Zeppelin Experience and this is where I suppose its different from the others. 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....
Gary Graff: You started to talk about every song having a story and such but what was the song selection process like for you and the criteria? And what were some of the particularly special songs for you to play?
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Alan Sculley: Well let's ask about the tour itself and this whole concept that you had that brought this together and I think one thing I'm real curious about is what you think makes the Led Zeppelin Experience show you're taking out something
Jason Bonham has had to live with a large shadow his whole life. But as he told the assembled repeatedly throughout Monday's Led Zeppelin Experience show in UB's Center for the Arts, “The guy you all know as 'Bonzo' the crazy drummer was just dad to me
Combining home movies and personal recollections with spot-on recreations of Zeppelin classics like Rock and Roll, Whole Lotta Love, Stairway to Heaven and Kashmir, the concerts are both a celebration of Zeppelin and a way for Bonham to carry on his
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Encore number one began with a shocker: “Whole Lotta Love” by Led Zeppelin. Prince does Zeppelin? Yes, as a matter of fact, he does. Singer Nikka Costa came out to do vocals on the song, while Prince performed Jimmy Page's famous guitar lick in a
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Imagine a freight train speeding toward you at midnight. Or a rockslide barreling down a hill as you try to outrace it. That's the feeling of the ominous, chugging Jimmy Page riff that kicks off Led Zeppelin 's 1970 Stonehenge of rock, "Whole Lotta Love." And that's before singer Robert Plant leans into one of the nastiest, ecstatic rock screams this side of the Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again."
That's the song Adam Lambert chose to sing on "American Idol" rock night Tuesday (May 5), and, needless to say, it was a challenge that the eyeliner-loving Los Angeles stage veteran was more than up for, hitting a series of high notes and rock screams that would have made Plant proud. It was a risky maneuver that paid off for Lambert, who chose a tune that came in at #75 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" in 2004.
The legendary British rock act recorded the tribute to Chicago blues icon Willie Dixon during their second U.S. tour after working it out in their live show, including it on their 1969 classic album Led Zeppelin II. Like many of the songs Zeppelin performed early in their career, "Love" was a blues standard turned on its head with a heavy dose of crunching psychedelic guitar and thundering drums, courtesy of late drummer John Bonham. The song was based on a 1962 tune by another blues forefather, Muddy Waters, called "You Need Love," which was penned by Dixon.
For Zeppelin's version, Plant customized the lyrics by adding some lyrical quotes from a few other songs Dixon wrote for Howlin' Wolf, "Back Door Man" and "Shake For Me," nailing the tricky vocal in a single take. It was also inspired by 1966's "You Need Loving" from the British rock group the Small Faces, for whom Zeppelin had great affection, but they also did not credit Dixon for his part in writing the original lyrics. The song became Zeppelin's first U.S. single and their only U.S. top 10 hit. Though their manager would not let them release singles in the U.K. because he thought it cannibalized album sales, the song was finally released as the band's only British single in 1997.
Dixon sued Zeppelin over the song in 1985, claiming it borrowed too heavily from his "You Need Love," and Zeppelin reached an agreement with him, with Dixon using the money he received to set up a program that provided musical instruments for schools. A cornerstone of heavy rock, the tune -- which was the theme song for the long-running British countdown show "Top of the Pops" in the 1970s and '80s -- has been covered by dozens of artists over the years, from Tina Turner and Ben Harper to Prince, Slash, Leona Lewis, Train's Pat Monahan, the London Symphony Orchestra and Jane's Addiction.
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