More music for Led Zeppelin after reunion?

cnn.com ^ | Dec 6, 2007 | AP

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LONDON, England (AP) -- Will Led Zeppelin's long-awaited reunion lead to more concerts?

Guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant and bass player John Paul Jones will perform Monday at London's 02 Arena, a benefit tribute to Atlantic Records co-founder Ahmet Ertegun, who died last year.

It will be the rock band's first concert in almost two decades.

"I must say that after our initial get-together it was so exhilarating and fun that I did feel I would like to do more," Q music magazine quoted Page, 63, as saying.

"I've got things I've been working on for the past four years that I'm proud of," he says. "Some of the songs I've got ready are as good as anything I've done in the past. I wouldn't necessarily save them for my solo career."

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[SIDENET]

I saw them live about 11 years ago. They were great!

[Blind Eye Jones]

No respectable prof will write just yet... they grew up with it as rebellious music and that has not changed. Led Zeppelin is blues based, not the classical music of the European masters and aristocrats talking about grace and other such niceties, rather it’s about yo woman leavin yo for anoth’r fella and yo is sad and want mo’ booze, and a bitch. Unless you can tie it into the case of black exploitation by greedy capitalists and their grievance being transfered to rich privileged white kids who dig the music against their white ma&pa will Led Zeppelin vaguely be mentioned. IMHO.

[blam]

"When I hear women vocalists, I like to get a bit turned on."

This one works for me.

[djf]

Down the road, most certainly. There have been a few accomplished rockers who had PHD’s in Music. Frank Zappa comes to mind. So does Howard Jones, the British rocker.

I guess I just see prog rock as being the closest modern equivalent of classical. For instance, as a set, you can’t really look at Topographic Oceans, Close to the Edge, and Relayer by Yes as a bunch of separate entities. They are closely related in theme and texture, and constantly reference each other.

Wish I knew more about music, but I was trained in Math.

[Freedom4US]

With all due respect to musicians everywhere, that rarely seems to be the case! It’s almost a cliche’.

[djf]

Ah, Stevie.

Without doubt, one of the single best female performers of the 20th century. And it sure as heck didn’t hurt one bit that she had Mick and Lindsey backing her up!

No doubt Mick is up there with Ginger Baker as being the top rock drummers ever.

There is only one female poet rock writer that I would say is better than Stevie, and to even mention her name here brings howls, but she really is a very, very good poet.
Patti Smith

Back to FM, there is only ONE version of my favorite song ever by them on utube.

Some of the stuff on “The Dance” comes close, but not quite.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbD4fj39pEk

The studio version of this is actually better because the stuff Lindsey does almost gives me a cardiac...

[Blind Eye Jones]

I’m surprised you didn’t mention Fragile by Yes. It has Can And Brahms which points to classic music in the same way as Siberian Khatru does on Close to the Edge. Both referential and beautiful. The set you mentioned works well perhaps also because the visuals on the two following albums, Going For The One and Tomato, have little in common with Roger Dean’s surreal planetary imagery.

I didn’t know Frank had a PHD in music. If anything I would have thought pharmaceuticals. And whatever did happen to Howard Jones or Thomas Dolby (whose father was a prof)?

[tdscpa]

She was a babe back in the seventies. Over the last 15-20 years, though, she developed “Hillary legs and butt”.

[catfish1957]

"Some of the songs I've got ready are as good as anything I've done in the past."- Page

Good Jimmy, I see you are hitting the publicist talking points just right. If y'all record something better than Dazed and Confused, and When the Levee Breaks, I'll eat two servings of crow.

[LS]

I saw the Zep live in Arizona around 1977 (cause I have the original black t-shirt with Icarus on it), and was reviewing concerts for the local underground rag at the time.

Zep was horrible. Part of it was the acoustics in the large ASU basketball arena; but more of it was that the drums and bass were just utter mush, and all that stood out was Page's guitar. He wasn't dazzling. Sloppy and about as good as half the guitar players I worked with at the time.

Plant was a complete flop. He sang everything an octave lower (imagine Barry White doing "Whole Lotta Love"). When Page sat down to play some acoustic numbers, he was so drugged-out the roadies had to CROSS HIS LEGS for him. My singer, at the time, worked at the AZ Biltmore where they were staying. She saw them at the pool and said they looked like zombies---pasty white, drugged out, near dead.

[uncitizen]

I think Ann Wilson of Heart has the best pipes of any female vocalist in rock and roll and other genres too.

Went to a Heart concert a couple years ago. Think that was the second time i’d seen Heart in concert but this time it was a small venue and we were in the 6th row floor. My husband told me my jaw was dropped open in awe the entire time.

[angcat]

My 12 year old just asked me about Led Zepplin. Good god I cannot tell her that we use to party and then go to the midnight showing of “The song remains the same” wasted on Saturday nights in Bronxville NY.

[blam]

"Went to a Heart concert a couple years ago"

I saw them at The Summit in Houston in the late 70's. Very good.

[Eddie01]

DZ “Immigrant Song”. Lot’s of DZ on youtube, this is great.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3CO7FPU7a2g&NR=1

[GQuagmire]

Zeppelin Ping.

Anyone who wants to be added to a fledgling Zep ping list,ping or Freepmail me. Low volume ping.

[blam]

"Ah, Stevie. Without doubt, one of the single best female performers of the 20th century. And it sure as heck didn’t hurt one bit that she had Mick and Lindsey backing her up!"

Lindsey and Stevie became a 'couple' at Atherton HS in Palo Alto...I think parts of 'Edge Of Seventeen' is about that period. They made an album titled 'Buckingham - Nicks' and shortly thereafter Lindsey was recruited by Mick and discovered that Stevie had to be part of the package to come to FM.

Later, it was Mick who told Lindsey that he and Stevie were 'getting it on.' John and Christie McVie got divorced too at that time. Much of the Rumours album was about the personal conflicts within the group.

Fleetwood Mac would have been in the dust heap today without Lindsey Buckingham.

[weegee]

Are they going to let Kid Rock rap onstage with their new material?

[Blind Eye Jones]

ping me to the list

[J40000]

Dread Zeppelin RULES!!!

They really are fun to listen to!

[GQuagmire]

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