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Robert Plant Rips Up $800 Million Led Zeppelin Reunion Contract
Fox News ^ | 11/09/2014 | Alan Colmes

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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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: ledzeppelin; plant; robertplant
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To: Bettyprob

Perhaps, but by that time a billion dollars will probably only be enough to cover a nice dinner for two. (only half kidding)


161 posted on 11/10/2014 5:17:28 PM PST by Bill93
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To: Bettyprob

Paul McCartney, when asked about a Beatles reunion, replied, “You can’t reheat a soufflé.”


162 posted on 11/10/2014 6:25:05 PM PST by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: Bettyprob

No No No No ... Nobodys fault but my own ....


163 posted on 11/10/2014 6:31:17 PM PST by 11th_VA (It may be legal, but it's still wrong)
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To: dfwgator

I’ve watched Robert Plant perform live several times at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival in SF. His voice has always sounded fine to me.


164 posted on 11/10/2014 6:40:29 PM PST by GSWarrior
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To: dfwgator

Great version of “Heartbreak Hotel”


165 posted on 11/10/2014 6:41:05 PM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Mr. K; dfwgator

ever hear of “When the Levee Breaks”?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEQTJV_3-w


166 posted on 11/10/2014 6:46:36 PM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Mariner

saw them in ‘77- one of the best experiences of my life...


167 posted on 11/10/2014 6:47:57 PM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Bettyprob
Maybe in the 2050s, there will be a billion-dollar Justin Bieber concert.

Only if that is the stickup price to keep him from doing the tour.

"Ceterum censeo 0bama esse delendam."

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

168 posted on 11/10/2014 6:48:40 PM PST by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: Robert DeLong

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...


169 posted on 11/10/2014 6:51:18 PM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Norm Lenhart

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.


170 posted on 11/10/2014 7:43:07 PM PST by Blue Collar Christian (quod est Latine morositate)
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To: Blue Collar Christian

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 ;)


171 posted on 11/10/2014 7:58:36 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Feet to the fire folks. YOU PROMISED!)
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To: Bettyprob

Now that is a man with “f*** you money”.


172 posted on 11/10/2014 8:07:01 PM PST by ctdonath2 (You know what, just do it.)
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To: Norm Lenhart
My only Zeppelin "viewing" was Live Aid in 1985. Robert, Jimmy, John Paul, and Phil Collins on drums.

Rock and Roll>Whole Lotta Love>Stairway... I guess it will have to do..

173 posted on 11/10/2014 8:23:02 PM PST by cardinal4 (Certified Islamophobe..)
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To: ifinnegan
Like a hysterical shrew or a castrato

Or like a vacuum cleaner with a hole in the bag.

174 posted on 11/10/2014 9:12:12 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: Rinnwald
On the other hand, Plant knows his old voice just can’t cut it anymore. Maybe if he was Leon Redbone it wouldn’t matter, but young Plant is a tough act to follow.

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.

175 posted on 11/11/2014 4:00:06 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Bettyprob

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.


176 posted on 11/11/2014 6:58:39 AM PST by Mozilla
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To: Bettyprob

Typos fixed... and more added

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.


177 posted on 11/11/2014 7:05:18 AM PST by Mozilla
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To: exit82

“...I’ll bet that went over like a lead balloon.”
Now that was good.
Real good.


178 posted on 11/11/2014 7:57:34 AM PST by Verbosus (/* No Comment */)
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To: Norm Lenhart

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.


179 posted on 11/13/2014 7:17:28 AM PST by Blue Collar Christian (quod est Latine morositate)
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