I saw Foreigner, Cheap Trick, and Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience all in one night!
I saw them at the Riverbend Music Center in Cincinnati Tuesday, August 8th.
The show started off with Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience.
It’s a tribute band featuring the son of Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham, Jason Bonham.
Even though he is John’s son, I just consider him a great drummer, and he has played with Zeppelin (Even at his own wedding!)
He plays nothing but Zeppelin hits and album cuts.
The band is solid, especially singer James Dylan, who does a great job singing Robert Plant’s parts.
I missed some of their set because I had a pressing engagement (more on that later in this writing), but I saw most of the set, and it was great.
Jason is a beast on drums.
Cheap Trick came on shortly afterwards and were fun.
Robin Zander is still a great singer, Rick Nielsen rocks on guitar, Tom Petersson rocks on bass, and Dax Nielsen rocks on the drums.
Then Foreigner closed the set.
Led by the founder and only original member, Mick Jones, Foreigner played several of their classic hits and a few album cuts.
Singer Kelly Hansen does a great job, as does the whole band.
Now to that pressing engagement.
I met Mick Jones backstage during Jason Bonham’s set.
He was very nice and gracious to me, even as I was fanboying on him.
I had a few minutes with him, so I was able to tell him how much I loved his music and the band.
He even liked my Paul McCartney shirt.
When I told him I saw Sir Paul two years ago, he said he saw him, too.
And Mick also signed his new book, A Foreigner’s Tale, for me.
It’s a quick read, but very good.
Mick has been around and has done a lot of great things.
I definitely consider him a legend.
But most importantly, I consider him to be a nice person.
Well, that’s my last concert for a month.
