Jason Bonham


Jason Bonham, son of the late John "Bonzo" Bonham, does not take lightly the responsibility of carrying on his father's legacy. Having made a head start at drumming while he was a child, Jason is now passing on the same lessons to a third generation of Bonham drummers.

John Bonham's death in 1980 left such an impact on the surviving members of Led Zeppelin that they knew immediately they could not continue as they were. Yet Jason Bonham's familiarity with the band made him a shoe-in to join his father's bandmates on the few occasions reunion concerts have taken place.

This year marked the 20th anniversary of Bonham's most successful album release to date, the Platinum-certified disc The Disregard of Timekeeping released by his band, Bonham. To mark the milestone, he recently toured with a new band and played under the banner of "An Evening with Jason Bonham."

In the past, Bonham has also toured and/or recorded with Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, Foreigner, UFO, Paul Rodgers, Joe Bonamassa, Virginia Wolf, Airrace, Healing Sixes and Motherland. He also acted in the movie Rock Star and appeared on the reality TV show "SuperGroup."

- What's the latest on Jason Bonham?

Monday, December 10, 2001

John Paul Jones on his daughter Jacinda's music (interview part 17 of 22)

This is the 17th part of the transcript of my interview with John Paul Jones, conducted Dec. 10, 2001.

SPS: Your daughter, Jacinda Jones. You produced an album for her?

JPJ: Didn’t get it released. Well, it was at a time, one of those cyclical times when everyone gets dropped from their labels, and basically we couldn’t get any interested in it. But it was a good record.

SPS: Do you still have it?

JPJ: Yeah! We taped it. Then she got into production. Animation production. She’s a really good organizer, really good with people. She takes… she has a director and takes them round to festivals [laughing] and gets to work. She loves it.

SPS: Has she stopped singing?

JPJ: Yeah.

SPS: You should just release that as a box set though, something like that. All those Zeppelin box sets that have come out, nothing new. We should have a Jacinda Jones box set, the unreleased tracks.

JPJ: Really. [laughing]

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John Paul Jones is now in one of the hottest and hardest rock bands, Them Crooked Vultures. The frontman, handling lead guitar and vocals, is Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age. Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters is on drums. As for Jones, he offers not only bass and keyboard but also mandolin, keytar, lap steel and whatever else is needed.

One album was released in November, and another is forthcoming. A tour of North America completed in November, and the band now heads to Europe in December and Australia in January.

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