[dennisw]

Won’t argue with that but
I saw LedZep twice ~1969,1970. What disappointed me was how thin the songs sounded done live without double tracking organ, guitars etc. In an attempt to compensate for this thin sound the lead singer (Plant) was constantly moving, emoting, acting. But that was Zeps early days and maybe they found ways to beef up their live sound in later years

My point being that a large part of Zeps live sound was Robert Plant singing and behaving like a young rock god on stage. This is embarrassing and idiotic at 65 and this is why the 2007 Zep reunion was a one time affair. There would have been a tour except for R Plant.

[wardaddy]

This thread is a bad trip......bee gees good.....Zep and stones bad.........good God....beam me up keith

[Lancey Howard]

A few years ago I saw The Police, and it was one of the best concerts I ever had the pleasure to attend. Great seats, too, spitting distance from Sting. (And I, too, go way back. My first concert was a general admission "dance concert" at the Spectrum in Philly in 1970 ('71?) with Humble Pie, and Black Sabbath, opening for Mountain. A zillion more concerts followed, but I never saw Zep back then.)

Anyway, The Police did a full 2+ hour concert with just the three of them - - no side men at all - - and filled the place with music. I commented to my daughter afterwards how impressed I was with all the sound produced by just three guys. Not "thin" in the slightest, as I would have expected. By the way, the opening act for The Police was Elvis Costello, and he was terrific, too. Sting came out near the end of the set and sang 'Alison' with Elvis.

[Yardstick]

Have you ever listened to the Zep live album The Song Remains The Same? They sound huge. So I’m not sure the critical piece is Robert Plant’s stage antics.

RE Plant scrubbing the reunion, I’ll bet if you could really get inside his head, you would find that there’s some kind of an issue with Jimmy Page at the bottom of it. I’ll bet Page kind of wanted to run the show but Plant didn’t feel like submitting to that again.