Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience will be the main attraction at Seattle’s WaMu Theater on Saturday (ticket info here.) Some of you read my piece on drummer Jason Bonham and his Led Zeppelin Experience on the blog Wednesday or in today’s GO section. And now you can listen to clips from the interview itself. Just click the links below to hear Bonham talk about …

… how he went from the 2007 reunion show to the current tribute tour.

… still missing his dad after 30 years.

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With Led Zeppelin, “Bonzo” John Bonham provided the techtonic beats behind some of rock’s most epic recordings. Then his untimely death brought the band’s legendary run to a sudden, shocking halt on Sept. 25, 1980.

But 30 years later, his legacy lives on with his son. It has been three years since Jason Bonham sat in with Zeppelin’s surviving members during a one-off reunion gig at London’s O2 Arena (“Kashmir” video here.) And now Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience is ready to rattle Seattle’s WaMu Theater with “Kashmir,” “Stairway to Heaven” and other Zep classics on Saturday night.
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Tickets for the Sonics’ New Years Eve show at Olympia’s Capitol Theater go on sale at 8 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 22, and will be available through Brown Paper Tickets, Olympia Film Society announced.
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Here’s some big news manager Buck Ormsby wasn’t quite ready to announce yesterday: The Sonics will play Olympia’s Capitol Theatre on New Year’s Eve, only the legendary Tacoma garage-rock outfit’s third local performance since the classic lineup broke up in 1967.

The show will support the Sonics’ forthcoming EP “8,” featuring the band’s first new songs since the ’60s (see previous blog item.) The band also plans to shoot video footage during the Olympia performance for a future DVD release.
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Prog-rock kings Rush and their faithful converged on Auburn’s White River Amphitheatre on Saturday to celebrate one of the band’s most critically acclaimed albums and to party like it’s 1981.
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How big of a Beatles freak is Debbie Cafazzo, my bud over on the TNT’s education beat? She flew down to San Francisco last weekend to check out Paul McCartney at the Bay Area’s AT&T Park. She even wrote a little something up to share with all her fellow fanatics out there.

By Debbie Cafazzo
Staff writer
I am still recovering from my 24-hour Paul McCartney experience.

No… it wasn’t THAT kind of experience. Although a woman of a certain age never abandons hope!
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The Fabulous Wailers had been out of commission since December as front man Kent Morrill battled serious illness (related story here.) But the godfathers of Northwest rock roared back into action this weekend with a pair of crowd pleasing and sometimes emotional performances, the first Saturday in Issaquah and the second last night capping off a Gulf coast benefit at the Swiss Tavern. Morrill sounded great, and shaky camera work aside, I managed to record this garage-rock classic for those of you who missed it.

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Last fall, I reported that Tacoma garage-rock legends, the Sonics, were working on a batch of new songs with Seattle producer Jack Endino. (If you missed that post, click here to find audio of lead howler Jerry Roslie describing the new songs.

Then, Roslie thought the band might release a four-song E.P. But today I got this e-mail update from Sonics camp with some exciting news.

Hello Ernest

The Sonics will be leaving for our 4th European tour on June 30. We’ll be playing festivals in Italy, Norway, Finland, Spain, Belgium and Germany.

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The Belfast Cowboy, Van Morrison, will headline the Gorge Amphitheatre on Aug. 8, Live Nation announced.

Tickets to see the Irish singer-songwriter – known for karaoke classic “Brown Eyed Girl,” among other hits – will go on sale at 10 a.m. on Monday, June 28. They’ll cost $50 to $200, and you’ll be able to find them here.

I’ll be posting video, photos and more from the inaugural Grit City Fest all weekend, starting with this clip from Thursday night at Hell’s Kitchen, featuring a Tacoma Power Trio you’ll recognize from GCB No. 45. And heeeeeeeere’s Big Wheel Stunt Show.