Posted on 10/28/2008 2:15:50 AM PDT by the scotsman
'Rock legends Led Zeppelin are planning to tour and record but without frontman Robert Plant.
Bassist John Paul Jones told BBC Radio Devon that a new singer was being sought after Plant ruled himself out.
The last time the band performed together was at the O2 arena in London in December 2007.
Speculation has since been rife that the surviving members of the band, with Jason Bonham, son of their late drummer John Bonham, would go back on the road.
Jones, speaking at a guitar show in Exeter, Devon said: "We are trying out a couple of singers.
"We want to do it. It's sounding great and we want to get on and get out there." '
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
so if you did something with a friend 30 years ago and someone approached you today and said that they would pay you millions to do it again and your friend refused, would you also refuse?
In today’s environment “Live Wire” can probably be viewed as a good album, but, compared to Quadrophenia, Who’s Next, or Tommy, it is wholly inadequate.
My musical tastes are stuck in the 60s/70s and that is ok. I can’t afford to pay $50+ for a concert ticket (prefer to see that money go into my daughters’ college fund).
Only if his name is Paul Simon. Springstein and Garfunkle just doesn’t capture the magic and sounds like an accounting firm.
I really hate what the survivors of Lynyrd Skynyrd have done. I was the biggest Skynyrd fan you’ll ever meet. My first concert was Rossington Collins Band. They were great. Then I saw the 91 tribute tour, which was a good way to do it. It wasn’t Skynyrd—it was a Skynyrd tribute. Ed King came back. They should video of the original band. It was cool. I’ve never gone to see the joke masquarading as Skynyrd now. Never will. I feel for the survivors (there are only two left that play in the band—Billy on piano and Gary on guitar—but I think they sullied the memory of the band. Without Ronnie, there is no Skynyrd. Without Ronnie and Allen, there REALLY is no skynyrd. But they make money, so that’s that.
Chris Robinson is a good idea. He could do a great job.
The Plant/Krauss project was really cool. I don’t blame Plant for wanting to stick with his fresh work that is some of the best stuff to come out in years. OTOH, classic rock bands are raking in bucks with the Guitar Hero generation—watch as ACDCs new album charts and they sell out all over the place. Page hasn’t done anything noteworthy since the Firm, and that wasn’t very noteworthy. They had fun, they wanna play. So, f it. Find a singer. Maybe Plant will come around. Maybe not. If people will go see what passes for the Who, they’ll go see what passes for Zeppelin.
You have no idea how many kids love Led Zeppelin. I teach guitar for a living so I see it everyday. The video game GuitarHero has created a whole new generation of classic rock fans. Watch as ACDC sells out across the country. Zeppelin is probably the most revered band out there—far exceeding the Beatles or the Stones, or any new band. Modern rock is pretty lame, even to the kids. Outside of the Foo Fighters, there aren’t many rock bands at all that kids like. They all like the classic stuff. Unless they are little emo fruitcakes.
Zepplin died when Bonzo took the “Stairway to Heaven”....the past is simply “Over the Hills and Far Away”
Yep, we were regulars at the Fillmore East, there on the weekend the Allman Brothers Live was recorded.
Maybe they should tour the way they started, as the New Yardbirds.
Hey, I hear Axl Rose is looking for a new band.... maybe he’ll finally give up Hired Guns & Rose to become the new face of Led Zep....
Naah, Coverdale already did a Led Zep cover band, he called it Whitesnake. :)
The ‘groupies’ pictured, were in a very interesting movie... the name escapes me? I caught it on a cross Atlantic flight, returning stateside from Mesopotamia. Watching it on the back of an airline seat, on a 5” x 7” screen diminished it’s effect (on one’s humanity) minimally. I wonder the impact (on me very soul) were I to have seen it on the big screen? Wowser!
Even with Plant, without John Bonham it's not Led Zep.
it'd be "an evening with garfunkel, oates, and hagar."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhlLQ-VvTNg
THIS is the guy for Led Zeppelin!
His name is Larry.
Everybody knows him as Larry the BEAST.
Check out the video..... surprised?
Paul Rogers formally of Free and Bad Company still has a kick ass rock voice.He might do.
Crosby, Oats, Crofts & Messina?
The world would have been a sadder place all around if Stephen Stills had passed his Monkees audition.
There’s a tagline there somewhere.
I think they’re bluffin’
Once Plant starts to see his old bandmates getting offered dumptruck loads of money for gigs, endorsements, etc, he’ll come along.
Plant doesn’t sing anymore the way he did on the old Zep records, he can’t reach high notes, he mostly sings in a lower register now. Plus, I’m sure he’s got more than enough money.
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