Jason Bonham, was a guest on SiriusXM‘s, Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk, on May 30th. During the appearance, Bonham discussed his exit from Sammy Hagar‘s band, in which drummer Kenny Aronoff, became his replacement on The Best Of All Worlds tour.
As previously reported, Bonham had to return home, to take care of his mother, who had suffered a stroke. Hagar, Aronoff, guitarist Joe Satriani and bassist Michael Anthony also completed a Las Vegas residency earlier this month. Asked if everything is “okay” now between him and Hagar, Bonham said (as transcribed by blabbermouth.net), “We’re good. I was a little upset with him, obviously — when it happened, I was upset, because I had 10 years — great years — with Sam. Love him, love his family, kids, everything, his wife. His wife and my wife are very, very close. So it was a bit of a shock, but I get it. At that time I couldn’t commit to the Japanese tour because mom was still in a bad way. And at that time, I’d got everything held for the following year that I was asked to do. So, I’d held everything off. The only one commitment I had, which was Black Country Communion. So I read recently, there was an article that somebody kind of cornered him on me. And I just wanted to clear that up. I didn’t have any dates booked or anything. So I could have done rehearsals. I just wanted it to be out there. I could have done rehearsals. The only thing I had booked was the three weeks in June [with Black Country Communion]. But so is Joe and Kenny; [they] are gonna be away at that time [as well]. So that was my only thing. I don’t know if there’s more to it than the eye. And he kind of said Kenny was way more upbeat and I was a bit drama. But oh, well. But I love Sam to bits. Me and Mike, we speak every week. Mikey, I really miss him. But we had a great time. To get where we got playing those songs, who wouldn’t want to do that gig? So, we had a great time last year. If that was my swan song with Sam, then we ended up on a high.”
In additional Bonham news, due to the success of his first round of tour dates, Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Evening/JBLZE announced another round of dates, which can be found here.
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I am gonna say it…I don’t see or hear anything special with Jason. He is just your average drummer. I’ve been saying this forever, even back in 1988 when he played with Zep at the Atlantic Anniversary Show. I also believe Kenny Aronoff is an amazing drummer.
Agee, Kenny is a better drummer – definitely hits the skins hard.
As for Sammy, I think there is a bit of a snake in him outside of his party dude image.