Posted on 11/10/2014 2:01:30 PM PST by Bettyprob
No amount of money can get Robert Plant to reunite with his Led Zeppelin bandmates.
The 66-year-old singer walked away from a 35-date tour that would have paid the rock group nearly $800 million — ripping up the contract in front of stunned promoters, the Mirror newspaper reported Sunday.
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Perhaps, but by that time a billion dollars will probably only be enough to cover a nice dinner for two. (only half kidding)
Paul McCartney, when asked about a Beatles reunion, replied, “You can’t reheat a soufflé.”
No No No No ... Nobodys fault but my own ....
I’ve watched Robert Plant perform live several times at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival in SF. His voice has always sounded fine to me.
Great version of “Heartbreak Hotel”
saw them in ‘77- one of the best experiences of my life...
Only if that is the stickup price to keep him from doing the tour.
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saw him in Port Chester opening night of the tour....you could not cram another soul into the theater...his songs were well received but when he busted out Zeppelin songs (What is and What Should Never Be, Going to California, Babe I’m Gonna Leave You) you could touch the excitement from the crowd in the air...
i’ve lived in NY all my life...i saw Zeppelin at Madison Square Garden opening night in 1977...i’ve seen Plant solo many times...it was surreal to here him say “thank you Port Chester” a small town of a few thousand residents...
Yes. BIB was the most intense album of rockdum IMHO, but strangely, I liked Bon Scott’s voice better than Brian’s.
Was it in a Rolling Stone interview that the comment, something like; “You have seven albums that all sound the same” and Angus replied; “No, we’ve done eleven, and they’re all platinum.”?
That stuff is from long ago, such great music, and so against my Christian conversion. Sad.
In a roundabout way, that reminds me of some people on the music/synthesizer boards that are obsessed with finding that one unique sound that no one ever heard that just blows everyone away. Which is fine. Always good to strive for improvement. But a piano has sounded like a piano for hundreds of years, yet people write new unheard songs on it all the time.
I have a Roland Integra 7 rack synth. It can create pretty much all the sounds on any record ever including string sections and banjos and has high quality samples onboard from their top of the line digital piano.
The Piano gets used the most ;)
Now that is a man with “f*** you money”.
Rock and Roll>Whole Lotta Love>Stairway... I guess it will have to do..
Or like a vacuum cleaner with a hole in the bag.
If only more realized when their voices were done. Went to an Eddie Money concert some years ago and he may as well have been Roseanne Barr trying to sing the National Anthem. Had the "I know I'm good" look and attitude/smirk throughout.
Very interesting how the Rolling Stones went on after Brian Jones’ death, Ac/DC went on after Bon Scott and Lynyrd Skynyrd came back after the plane crash and the death of three members including the lead sing Ronnie, yet Led Zeppelin like Creedence Clearwater Revival won’t reunite. Best we can get is both lead singers singing their tunes without the full original living members. Page and Plant wasn’t bad though.
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Very interesting how The Rolling Stones went on after Brian Jones’ death, AC/DC went on after Bon Scott and Lynyrd Skynyrd came back after the plane crash and the death of three members including the lead singer Ronnie Van Zandt, yet Led Zeppelin like Creedence Clearwater Revival won’t reunite. Best we can get is both lead singers singing their tunes without the full original living members. Page and Plant wasn’t bad though.
I am aware of times where reunions don’t work out. Like the recent Beach Boys reunion with Brian Wilson, who was kicked out again or The Eagles who quit touring with certain guys as old wounds were brought back up so no Don Fender and Bernie Leadon in newer tours after years of touring together and of course Tommy Shaw and Dennis DeYoung kicking each other out of Styx.
“...I’ll bet that went over like a lead balloon.”
Now that was good.
Real good.
A newly discovered or invented unique sound is fine, but the APPLICATION of that sound is key to uniqueness. As relevant as “Rests are just as important as notes.” Even, or maybe especially, articulation with that “unique” sound is more important than the “new/unique” sound itself.
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