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Taking After Zeppelin

by Geoff Fox

New Port Richey -- Matt Jernigan can wiggle and pose like Robert Plant. People also say he sings like Led Zeppelin's former frontman.

You can judge for yourself whether Jernigan and his bandmates in the Led Zeppelin tribute band Zoso look and sound like the real thing tonight when the band plays at the Bourbon Street concert club, 4331 U.S. 19.

Doors open at 8 p.m. Jeteye opens at 9:30. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door.

"We'll play about two hours," Jernigan said from his home in St. Simons Island, Ga. "It just depends on which songs we do. If we do 'Kashmir' and 'Stairway to Heaven' back-to-back, that's 20 minutes right there."

Jernigan said Zoso mastered Led Zeppelin's look and sound by watching the 1970s concert film "The Song Remains the Same," as well as bootleg films, and by studying pictures of the band.

Zoso's other members are Mike Morgan, who portrays mystical guitarist Jimmy Page, John Richards as thunderous drummer John Bonham, and Adam Sandling as enigmatic bassist-keyboardist John Paul Jones.

Since forming in Los Angeles in 1995, the band has played more than 1,400 shows in the United States and Canada.

Jernigan said audiences are usually a mix of teenagers in Led Zeppelin T-shirts and middle-aged people who might have seen the Hall of Fame band in its heyday.