A local Led Zeppelin tribute band will soon shred some slick covers of the legendary rock band in Squamish.
On Saturday, March 2, A Whole Lotta Led will be playing at Trickster’s Hideout in downtown Squamish, with doors opening at 9 p.m. Tickets are on sale now on Eventbrite, costing between $18 to $23.
Four band mates make up the tribute band: Phil Richard on guitar and vocals, Greg Reamsbottom on lead vocals, harmonica and tambourine, Wes Lawrie on drums, and Kevin Torvick on bass and keyboards.
Reamsbottom, who also plays in the Sea-to-Sky-Corridor-favourite The Hairfarmers, told The Squamish Chief that he and Richard first started playing in A Whole Lotta Led in 2002, but the current iteration with Lawrie and Torvick has been playing together since about 2019.
“It’s been just super fun,” he said of the current foursome. “This is definitely the most fun and musically, just kicking butt. It’s really cool.”
Reamsbottom said he’s been a fan of Led Zeppelin since he was a kid, recalling hearing Dazed and Confused on the radio when he was only 10 years old.
“And it just pinned me to my seat,” he said. “Of course, you know, took my lawnmower money and ran out to the record store and bought Led Zeppelin’s first two records, I think, that week.”
Reamsbottom said A Whole Lotta Led tries to keep the show “high energy,” and they play a lot of the hits a Zeppelin fan would expect, including, Good Times Bad Times, Black Dog, Immigrant Song, Stairway to Heaven and the song the band’s name comes from, Whole Lotta Love.
He said he gets a kick out of watching hardcore Zeppelin fans see the band really pay a solid tribute to the iconic rock band.
“You can see them over the first couple of songs, their mouths are open, and the band is kicking butt, and the vocals sound the way they expect them to. And you can see … just their faces light up,” he said.
“It's just such fun music to play,” he continued. “I mean, if you can't have fun doing this, you're doing it wrong.”
Reamsbottom said they’ll likely play from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m.
“Our show will stretch out over three hours, two big sets with a big encore as well. So it's a lot of music,” he said.
Check out more about A Whole Lotta Led and also get tickets to the show at their website awholelottaled.net.
