Posted on 05/05/2017 2:55:54 PM PDT by blam
Led Zeppelin fans worldwide have been collectively churning a recent mega-rumor: that the band could reunite for a concert, possibly in 2018, and possibly at the Desert Trip festival in California to celebrate the band's 50th anniversary.
Speculation was set off by a cryptic post to lead-singer Robert Plant's website: "Any time now..."
Then the fire was really set by a brief post at Feel Numb.
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Best cover ever. I saw them live. Great!
I was thinking more about the audience....
these guys have already had 4 reunions....
they are starting to act like Maurice Chevalier.
Every time France was in a monetary crisis, Chevalier would go on another good bye world tour.
Those would be, Clapton, Beck and Page.
Here they all three are palying a song abut George Harrison's wife (Patty Body) that Clapton wrote about her, Layla.
Clapton eventually married Harrison's wife, Patty.
Then why comment, do you think anybody cares?
Overrated.
That is how little I care. Just that one expression.
I think that rumor’s been going around for 25 years now ...
No.
Albums were ok. My band played the hell out of “Houses of the Holy,” and with our female singer (and, yes, my super powerful drumming) we knocked “Stairway to Heaven” out of the park.
But, I got a bootleg live album of theirs & it was horrible. I figured it was the bootleg. In 1977, as part of the Icarus tour, I saw them at Sun Devil Gym (the new one). They were just terrible. I was reviewing for a music mag then and wrote a scathing review. Plant sang EVERYTHING an octave lower, couldn’t hit a high note to save his life. Page was so stoned or drunk that he-—not making this up-—had to be sat in a chair and the roadies had to cross his legs for him. They completely blew the syncopation on one “Physical Graffiti” song with the bass player/Page together, Bonham in another universe. The bass player was demonstrably pissed, trying to use his guitar as a metronome.
Later, I talked to two other people who went to that concert as fans and they had the same reaction. Likely the worst concert I ever saw, and that included Big Brother & the Holding Company without Joplin.
They get ‘em all in at Alice Cooper and Jethro Tull concerts, so why not?
[good luck finding a handicapped space, though]
#NotTooOldToRockAndRoll
I don’t think that’s correct.
It’s ain’t Zeppelin without Bonham.
So I went to look and said “Where’s David Coverdale?!?”
Oh, wait, yeah...Whitesnake, not Great White.
/duh
Nope.
Beck stormed off stage and quit the group while they were on tour in Germany. Page quickly formed the 'New Yardbirds' to complete the tour and their contract. They disbanded after that.
When they toured with Grank Funk Railroad, GFR blew them off the stage, so Peter Grant actually went and threatened GFR’s manager to force them off the tour.
What part?
“Here I Go Again” is the greatest music video ever.
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