It's Led Zeppelin performing all their greatest hits live in 2011! Or at least the closest today's fans of classic rock can sidle up to same, given the non-existence of the band in its youthful, mighty heyday. Heartbreaker, this Zep tribute band, remain sufficiently superb musicians to pull it off, to look the part and to fill their own coffers to the brim from excellent, large venue gigs, such as this one at the Orange County (California) Fair, 7.30.11. Lest one think less of a series of rock shows that featured tributes to Aerosmith, ABBA, Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie, Journey, Morrissey and Jimmy Buffett amongst dozens, one should add that the Fair's other attractions included the real Bob Dylan and his band, B.B. King, Paul Rodgers, Weezer, Chris Isaak, Melissa Etheridge, Steel Pulse with The Wailers, and Blue Oyster Cult...
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Tribute Dog 'N Butterfly, joined the Heartbreaker guys for some supergroup-type jamming. I had forgotten that the earliest incarnation of Ann and Nancy Wilson's band dressed as if they all were going to the Renaissance Faire...
Heartbreaker, in their own youthful, mighty glory heydays right now, present a fun replication of thunderous Zep verisimilitude, from musicianly proficiency with its quirks (yes, the mandolin was played by "John Paul Jones" not "Jimmy Page" on Ballad Of Evermore as with the originals) to their studied look, correct not only in costuming, but respective relative heights and girths. Vocalist Jefrey James is dead on as "Robert Plant" in both timbre and stage moves, "John Bonham's" Moby Dick is as bombastic as its progenitor's. It'll always be a good show: they rock!
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