Posted on 12/11/2007 3:46:36 AM PST by maquiladora
LONDON (AP) - After that performance, Led Zeppelin really must go on tour.
The reunited rock 'n' roll legends were superb Monday in their first full concert in nearly three decades, mixing in classics like ``Stairway to Heaven'' and ``Black Dog'' with the thumping ``Kashmir'' and the hard-rocking ``Dazed and Confused.''
The band's three surviving members - singer Robert Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist-keyboardist John Paul Jones - were joined by the late John Bonham's son Jason on drums.
And it was the newest member of the band that was given the honor of kicking off the sold-out benefit show, pounding out the beat before the others joined in on a near-perfect ``Good Times Bad Times.''
After the lights went down at the O2 Arena, newsreel footage of the band arriving in Tampa, Fla., for a 1973 performance was projected onstage. Then Bonham jumped in, soon to be joined by the rest.
They followed that with ``Ramble On,'' and with it destroyed all rumors that the 59-year-old Plant could no longer reproduce his trademark wail.
With his button-down shirt mercifully buttoned up, Plant roamed the stage belting out hit after hit, rarely giving his critics anything to work with.
But Page showed he still has the touch as well. Besides ripping out his patented riffs all night, he put the spotlight on himself when the band played the bluesy ``In My Time of Dying.''
With his left hand moving freely up and down the neck of his guitar and the metal slide wrapped around one of his fingers, Page effortlessly played a song that's not easy to master.
Page and Plant later combined to open ``Nobody's Fault But Mine,'' a song that starts with another classic Page riff and then gets help from Plant mimicking the same sounds...........
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Wonder if he’s using a Harmonizer?
Maybe, but given who he's been working with lately, my guess is that he's been working hard on his vocals, with a vocal coach...
Mark
No Quarter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipbM_9KG-yQ
Dazed and Confused:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjFq0G6JYTA
Whole Lotta Love::
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDJY8A1DYgA
Amazing they can still stand, let alone perform. Kashmir is an amazing piece of work
John Henry Bonham can be mighty proud of his son today.
I think to recompense artists by naming them. Led Zeppelin was sued by Willie Dixon for ripping off one his blues songs. The song in question was Whole Lotta Love.
Thanking all the people who had come from more than 50 countries, Plant declared, “This is the 51st country”
I wonder if he meant that Iraq has become the 51 State of the Union? Who knows.
bump for the links. :) Great job thanks. Just love these guys for bringing blues rock to the forfront of rock-n-roll. I still look for bootlegs of their old shows they could get really inspired and do great jams.
boo hoo you have to log in!
‘Ramble On’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nWMNnypWEg
‘For Your Life’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-68QYMquJt0
‘Trampled Underfoot’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Hwx1UfYrmk
‘Nobody’s Fault But Mine’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFlRJRHi1cg
‘The Song Remains The Same’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KmqiUSX1jw
‘Misty Mountain Hop’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMDevqmoEag
p.s most of the earlier songs were removed by youtube but are now back on, so reclick the links....
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