Zep2/Bonham
When you play drums, you worship Led Zeppelin and John Bonham.
For me, I never had the urge to play in a “cover band”. I always wanted the golden ring and thought the way to accomplish that was to get into an original band and write big hits, “get signed” make video, add water, be huge.
I had my share of success and made music I’m proud of. So its a bit ironic for me to have my biggest success in a “cover band”
I got lucky enough to hook up with some like minded guys (meaning guys who have always made their own original music) and we have this juggernaught called Led Zeppelin 2.
The Best Drummer In The World.com…….Led Zeppelin 2, at least i’m not overly confident.
The band sells out House of Blues size venues around the country. We are booked by The Windish Agency. They book hip bands, which we apparently are.
Here’s what the critics say.
Jim DeRogatis of Spin Magazine and Chicago Sun-Times writes”… Bruce Lamont, Paul Kamp (of Yakuza and Busker Soundcheck fame, respectively) and the killer rhythm section of Ian Lee and Chris Klein bill themselves as Zep2, and they do as good a Zep
as Zep ever did back in the day.”
For me as a drummer, there is no greater challange and no greater joy than to play Zeppelin. Dave Grohl was dying to play on the Zeppelin reunion. This is a video of us doing Moby Dick from a couple of years ago at a smaller venue. There’s a point in the middle where I hit a brief mental block and couldnt figure out what the hell to do next, but I think its a decent representation my approach to playing Bohnam.
Go to www.Zep2.com for tour dates
I recently did an interview with Asylum magazine on the ins and outs of the Bonham gig.
Here’s a link to the interview
http://www.asylum.com/2010/02/02/ian-lee-how-to-be-drummer-john-bonham-led-zeppelin-2/
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