Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Evening Tickets

Having been honored to see the Jason fill in for his dad at the Zep gig in London in 2007, I had to see his tribute to his late father. He Rocked! The Band Rocked! It Rocked! He is Bonzo Jr, and has the right to play Zeppelin songs; more so than anyone. He is 1/8 Ledded, and one hell of a drummer.

Awsome ...just awsome!! I tokk my two teenage sons and it was a very bonding moment.

What a concert it brought tears to my boyfriends eyes

This Zeppelin experience was amazing. I felt like I was listening to Led Zeppelin themselves. Growing up, i didn't have a chance to see Led Zeppelin, primarily because I was too young (I am currently 47 years old). Because there was a direct blood line to the original band, it was a concert- that for me- will be as close as to the real thing.

Jason Bonham's homage to his late father John Henry "Bonzo" Bonham and one of the greatest bands of all time was not only heartfelt, but rocked! The footage of dad playing the solo from Moby Dick -- while Jason did the same live -- was a highlight. A great setlist, with some unexpected gems.(like "I'm Gonna Crawl", "the Ocean" and "Your Time is Gonna Come"), rounded off a great evening. The band was smokin', and while it wasn't entirely covering LZ note for note, it was definitely doing the songs justice.

...they were fantastic and a great experience. All musicians strong and performed with a passion for the music and the opportunity to tour. Venue was good except restrooms got overwhelmed at intermission.

really enjoyed jason bonham's led zeppelin experience. jason is a first class drummer and seems like a great guy; the musicians were excellent, especially lead guitar. however the music was just a bit off. the pace was a bit off, the key or the tuning was just a bit off. something like this should be perfect covers. what it did do was remind how wonderfu and grand LZ were. hope they do one last tour

One of the best live shows I've ever seen. 2 1/2 hours of raw power. If you love Zeppelin, this show is a must. I would go again if there were more shows. Bonham keeps it authentic with 10 and 15 minute sets.

The band killed Dazed and Confused and When the Levee Breaks. The drum solo with his dad on Moby Dick was impressive. There were a few moments with nice footage played on the screen behind the band but I thought there could have been more footage of Zeppelin and his dad.

Jason Bonham has his fathers love of music and is able to find that " special moment " during his performance that all artists search for but so rarely find. It was poignant and brilliant in it;s conception. His father would have been proud. It was more than a tribute. Perhaps an education as to what we forgot and need to find. It was magic and that says it all. I am NOT a fan of tribute bands but I would consider it an honor , a privilege and a pleasure if I could see him tour again.

Bonham's group did a great job of recreating the Zeppelin sound. The lead singer sounded like Plant on most of the songs so it was easy to pretend we were attending one of their concerts from the 70s. I would definitely go if they come into LA again.

This group brought together by Jason Bonham is the closest thing there is to the great concert days of Led Zeppelin. The Black Crowes with Page was excellent but, this show was just a solid two hours of Rock n and Roll n the Led Zep way. You close your eyes and it brought me right back to the Forum in Inglewood 1977. GO SEE THIS SHOW! Great venue to see it also!!

I took my 13 year old who is the real Zeppelin fan, and she felt like she was hearing the original band! The energy of the crowd was fantastic, and the dual drumming set with Jason and John Bonham was extraordinary! Loved the video of Jason entertaining his folks when he was a kid-he had great rhythm even then!

Jason did his homework and was a great tribute to his dad John" Bonzo" Bonham. The choice of musicians, the equipment, the sound, the live vs. studio Led Zeppelin presentation. I hope Jason decides to do this again. I saw Led Zeppelin 9 times and I thought the show was a perfect time spent. Jason showed there was a "Whole Lotta Love" in this project!

Great show and tribute.I saw Zep back in '73 and '75,so i had to be won over and i was.Jason's band was awesome,they played the songs flawlessly and with passion,The cool thing was that they were'nt trying to imitate the old band members from Zep,didn't even look like them.The singer is bald and nothing like Robert Plant,but what a voice,he hit all the high notes.The only thing i didn't care for was Jason's sister playing harp on "When the levee brakes",she was drownded out by the band. That could have been done much better.all in all good concert. The addition of an extra guy playing keyboards and guitar really rounded it out.BIG sound.

This show, if you're not familiar with it, features Jason Bonham, the son of the late Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham, playing the band's music as well as home movie clips showing the private side of John Bonham. I went into this with a mixture of excitement and trepidation. I've studied Zeppelin like some people study the Pyramids, so I knew there would be dork-level kicks in it for me whether the music was good or not. I was worried, frankly, that the music would be a letdown. At Led Zeppelin's final reunion show in 2007, Jason Bonham performed with the three surviving members, and it was...fine. I wasn't blown away by his performance; his playing seemed much more studied than felt, though he'd clearly studied and prepared well. The people he's playing with on this tour are not famous musicians; in fact, he found the singer on Youtube. So, you can see why I went in mainly anticipating the video clips. I'm happy to report that my knees are very sore, because I, like many of the crowd, spent the last half of the show dancing in the aisles. It was like a Zeppelin show in the best ways; it featured both acoustic and electric music (light and shade, as Plant would call it), and touched on musically rich obscurities as well as the hits. The arrangements were very close to the originals, but the playing was free and easy and had some improvisations thrown in (tight but loose, as Plant would call it) (I TOLD you I'm a dork). It was the opposite, in other words, of the 2007 Zeppelin show itself - this band felt the music more than studied it. It wasn't perfect, mind you; Jason overplays at times, and the singer, though possessed of a fine voice, was the most imitative of the group. He was trying to BE Robert Plant rather than singing songs Robert Plant first sang. None of them tried to look like Zeppelin; the singer actually looked like Rob Halford. I think the best thing I can say is that you could close your eyes and believe you were at a Zeppelin concert; the music was the focus. With a lot of tribute bands, they spend so much time getting the look and the stage moves down that the music is almost secondary. If these guys could've played behind a curtain, I think they would have. It was all about the sound, and the sound was great. Now for some dork-level things: Jason Bonham came out in a black bowler hat that looked an awful lot like the one Bonzo would wear on the '75 tour. I would really like to get an answer on this, but I don't imagine that'll be possible. The guitarist was exceedingly faithful to Page, gear-wise. A couple of the songs were based on arrangements from live albums, rather than from the record, even down to the vocal improvs that Plant used to throw in. These were the moments that made me smile, because they showed that Jason Bonham is as big of a Zeppelin minutiae freak as I am. I appreciate that. Another good sign: I made it to paragraph six before even discussing the video clips I was most anticipating. These were both home movies and performance footage, with probably 60% performance. The most impressive was during "Moby Dick," where John Bonham is playing the song on-screen while Jason performs it live beneath him. Frequently, the playing was seamless - their arms were moving in tandem. It was the best kind of eerie, and really showcased Jason's ability, which is substantial. The best of the home movie clips came at the beginning of the second half of the show, in which Jason is shown as a child dancing along to a Gary Glitter song as his sister and Bonzo crack up on the side. It's a totally embarrassing clip, and major kudos to Jason for showing it to everyone. The set list was a delight: It began mirroring the '73 tour, with Rock & Roll, Celebration Day, and Black Dog, then went backward to feature two little-played songs from Zeppelin's first album - Your Time Is Gonna Come and Babe I'm Gonna Leave You (with the guitarist playing both acoustic and electric guitars). The was followed by a wonderful Dazed & Confused, incorporating video of the band produced to look the way the Dazed & Confused did in Zeppelin's movie, "The Song Remains The Same." This was followed by two MORE rarities, What Is & What Should Never Be and The Lemon Song. The paucity of hits to this point made me think two things: A) He's really trying to display the musicianship that Zeppelin had that gets lost behind the famous riffs. B) Well, either that or Zeppelin wouldn't LET him do the famous songs. The first half of the show ended with Thank You and Moby Dick, after which Jason said they would be back in 15 minutes (let me add here that this was a VERY tightly run ship - it was to begin at 8 PM, and it started at precisely 8 PM. The intermission was supposed to be 15 minutes, and they put a 15-minute timer on the screen. Very unlike his Dad's band, at times). I thought that the bit following the intermission would be the encore, and was slightly put off by that. They'd played well, and it had been interesting, but it wasn't particularly long, and my ticket was $77. Thankfully, the second half of the show crushed all my concerns. They started off with Good Times, Bad Times, then played searing versions of four straight foot-stompers - How Many More Times, Since I've Been Loving You, When The Levee Breaks (featuring Jason's sister Zoe on harmonica), and The Ocean. It was during this portion that my knees began to hurt, because it was heavy, raunchy, funky...everything that's made Zeppelin run the last 20 years of my musical life. They then took it down a bit with Over The Hills and Far Away and the evening's biggest rarity, I'm Gonna Crawl - a song Zeppelin never played live and which I've never heard of any tribute band playing live. I still dug it, of course, and it allowed my knees some precious recovery time, because the three-song finale was the holy triumverate of Zeppelindom: Stairway, Kashmir, and Whole Lotta Love. There was a wonderful moment during Stairway. At the beginning, most people were sitting down, but as the band approached the solo, there was an organic, almost frantic rush of people jumping to their feet. It seemed primal, even, and was another moment of silly grins for me in row ZZ, seat 209. Dorks will know that Plant in concert would add the line "Does anybody remember laughter?" after the Stairway lyric about laughter, and to his credit, the singer acknowledged this line without saying it - he simply held out the mike and let us do it for him. I am certain that I will never see a Zeppelin show; Plant will never do it, and even if he did, it won't be what it was - no extended jams, no rockabilly inserts in Whole Lotta Love, no more joy. They're older now, and Plant in particular has been through too much tragedy to perform those songs free of cynicism. After all, the very basis for Jason Bonham's show is the death of his father, and Plant lost a son and almost his own life during Zeppelin's run. No, those days are over, and I think that was what I loved most about this show - it brought back that spirit that you can hear in all the old bootlegs, that smirk behind the vocals, the leering from the guitar. 20 songs, about 2 1/2 hours, hot music with nods to the dorks, dancing and grooving and singing along...not a bad way to spend an evening. Highly recommended and well worth the price.

Jason Bonham takes the audience back in time to a better day when rock and roll was the dominant musical force. The show was part family scrapbook and part blistering rock and roll show as Bonham drew back the curtain on the domestic Bonzo as a devoted father and husband as well as a ground backing drummer for one of the best rock and roll bands of all time. The rest of the Zep tribute was excellent musically most notably the guitar player Kitanya. While not slavishly imitating the brilliantly sloppy licks of the live Jimmy Page, Kitanya nonetheless wowed the crowd with gritty renditions of all the favorites. Whether you're a Zep fan or just a fan of rock and roll in general, this show is well worth the price.

It was amazing and better than expected. I never thought they would find someone who could pull of the front man role of Robert Plant, but they did! The lead guitarist was kick a** as well, but needed to play 'to the crowd' a bit more, rather than just stand in front of his amp. All in all it was an EXCELLENT show and I would highly recommend anyone going to see the show if they get the chance. Well worth the ticket price! Way to go Jason and the band; thank you thank you thank you!!!

I'm only 25 and never had the chance to see led, grew up a led-head thanks to my parents who collectively saw Zeppelin over 30 times. I thought I'd be impressed with Jason's drumming but it was much more. These guys do great justice to led Zeppelin and if you ever get a chance to see this show you will LOVE when Jason goes into the Moby Dick drum solo. Zeppelin for life, keep rockin Jason!!

The theatre was great. I had never been there before. The sound system was great as well. The Led Zeppelin Experience was awesome. The band made my family go back to the seventies and we realy enjoyed that.