Tour Gets Zep’d Down
7 March 2008
FROM: POLLSTAR
The rumors of Led Zeppelin going on tour have been usurped by the rumor that they ain’t.
A band source told the U.K.’s Daily Mirror that singer Robert Plant wants to keep the band’s legacy as is, and the reunion show at London’s O2 arena will remain a one-off engagement.
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so this month, i acquired both new and old, refreshing a library that was in dire need of defibrillation. Here’s an overview: [...oh and before i start, the album i've found myself listening to the most is Alexi Murdoch's Time Without Consequences
No Zep Yet
29 January 2008
FROM POLLSTAR
Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page said Monday he was ready to take the iconic band on a world tour after burning up the stage at last month’s reunion concert in London. But it probably won’t be before September.
“The amount of work we put into O2 was what you would normally put into a world tour anyway,” Page, 64, said of the intense rehearsing the band did for the Dec. 10 concert at London’s O2 Arena.
The band’s three surviving members — Page, singer Robert Plant and bassist-keyboardist John Paul Jones — were joined at the sold-out benefit show by the late John Bonham’s son Jason on drums.
Page, who was in Japan to promote the new Zeppelin release, “Mothership,” said the two-hour-plus concert was proof that Led Zeppelin can still perform at its best.
He said the band, which formed in 1968, was ready musically to get back together and take it out on a wider run, but it was not clear when it would go on tour as the singer had other plans.
“Robert Plant has a parallel project and he is busy with that until September,” Page said.
Plant and bluegrass star Alison Krauss will begin their world tour with a run of shows in the southern U.S. this spring. The two released an album in October called “Raising Sand” that debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard chart in the U.S. The duo will tour Europe in May before returning for North American shows still to be announced for June and July.
Page said the band set their standards very high before agreeing to do the reunion, their first in 20 years. Led Zeppelin broke up in 1980 after the elder Bonham’s death.
Page said they rehearsed for weeks, apprehensive that the cohesion they had in the 1970s when they were at their peak might be hard to rediscover.
“We wanted people who might not have even been alive in 1980 when we finished to understand what we were,” he said.
Page said all went well until he broke a finger in three places, forcing the band to postpone the show for several weeks.
“But we did the show, and it was great,” he said. “It was instant in terms of chemistry.”
According to Billboard.com:
“According to an MTV.com report, Astbury told the crowd, ‘We’ll be back next year because we’re opening for a band you may have heard of … the name starts with an ‘L’ and has a ‘Z’ in it.’ After a fan shouted, “Led Zeppelin,” Astbury nodded and raised his arm in the air.”
Check out the article HERE.
if you’re like any good zep fan, you’ve heard, not to mention prayed on your knees every night since hearing your first zeppelin song, speak of an upcoming tour. could this be real?! could the music gods be smiling down on us and bringing us the next best thing since eddie, alex AND david… and oh yeah wolfy… were all on the same stage?!!? (lay off on the kid… so he’s got a couple pounds. i believe it’s referred to as baby fat. i know you had it when you were 15/16 too. soon he’ll find his way into a workout regime aka drug habit and it’ll all disappear.)
annnnywho, check out the rollingstone.com article on who said whatnow
ps… some poor schlub of a booking assistant is TOTALLy fired right now because of this leak… suckkkkaaaaa!
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