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Topic: Led Zeppelin To Replace Robert Plant
Posted: April 22 2010 at 16:58

EatThatPhonebook wrote:

They should have quit years ago.

They did

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Posted: April 22 2010 at 15:42

Is it really even Zeppelin then? No Bonham, no Plant, and it seems JPJ has been pushed to the shadows for so long that he has absolutely no input anyway.

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Posted: April 22 2010 at 14:22

They should have quit years ago.

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Posted: April 15 2010 at 04:11

I wouldn't be surprised if that happens. In the age of the Internet, the band's can't just sit at home and be inactive for decades and collecting the royalties of record sales. That's way 'impossible' reunions happened, like The Police, The Sex Pistols, Queen with Paul Rogers. That's way bands that fell in obscurity have to tour to survive: even in my godforsaken hometown, artists like Tony Hadley (of Spandau Ballet), Blaze Bayley (of Iron Maiden) and even Saxon are performing...not on stadiums, but in local, smallish venues.

That being said, any collaboration of Zep member(s) plus any half-known musician/singer from the Classic Rock era is possible...why not? They can even produce something that's remotely decent, like that Coverdale/Page album.

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Posted: April 15 2010 at 00:38

Zep would have remained huge in the 80s if they had just carried on with Cozy Powell instead of John Bonham. But perhaps the albums may have declined in quality, so its for the best that they only made 8 great studio albums (I can see why people dislike Presence and In Through The Out Door, but I like even those ones) and left it at that.

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Posted: March 26 2010 at 23:39

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Then its not Led Zeppelin

What he said way back when.................like trying to chnage a vintage wine

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Posted: March 26 2010 at 16:29

Still nothing happening. John has a new Them Crooked Vultures album in his schedule, and now this:

Robert Plant has reformed Band of Joy — a ’60s group that predated Led Zeppelin by two years and featured John Bonham on drums — with the addition of vocalist Patty Griffith, multi-instrumentalist Darrell Scott, guitarist/co-producer Buddy Miller, drummer Marco Giovino, and bassist Byron House. The revised band will tour this summer and release an album in the fall. Another record with Alison Krauss is also in the works, although the two reportedly won’t start on the project until next year.

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2010/03/26/robert-plants-new-band-of-joy-plot-lp-summer-tour/

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Posted: November 04 2008 at 20:56

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June wrote:

I can't find the Jack Bruce thread...

this the one?
http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=52674

Awesome! Thanks!

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Posted: November 04 2008 at 19:54

June wrote:

I can't find the Jack Bruce thread...

this the one?
http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=52674

Edited by Atavachron - November 04 2008 at 19:55

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Posted: November 04 2008 at 19:51

I can't find the Jack Bruce thread... I might have hallucinated it, but if I didn't, hopefully, this next article wasn't the topic of it.

http://www.classicrockmagazine.com/page/classicrock?entry=led_zeppelin_you_re_crap

But it is an interesting read... what Jack Bruce thinks of Led Zep, let's just say that "What? You’re gonna compare Eric Clapton with that f**king Jimmy Page? " isn't the meanest thing he said...

I love both LZ and Cream, by the way...

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Posted: November 04 2008 at 13:14

With a shrubbery? Tongue

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Posted: November 04 2008 at 09:27

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Yeah but they don`t really have a singer either. Maybe they could just jam for two hours.

That was my point. Get the two half-cover bands together.

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Posted: November 03 2008 at 21:39

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Yeah but they don`t really have a singer either. Maybe they could just jam for two hours.

After Page's half hour bow concerto, that just leaves an hour and a half. What if Yes wants to play Tales of Topographic Oceans in its' entirety ?

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Posted: November 03 2008 at 10:08

Yeah but they don`t really have a singer either. Maybe they could just jam for two hours.

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Posted: November 02 2008 at 22:08

Maybe Led Zeppelin could tour with Yes. Just a thought.

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Posted: November 02 2008 at 21:18

I knew that Hatebeak dude (assuming the avian is a dude) had a future with Zep...

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Posted: November 02 2008 at 21:16

So Plant doesn't want to tour???? Is it a reason good enough for the 3 others not to do it???

There is still a Bonham behind the drums who learned the tricks from dad, Jones and Page ,the heart of the band are there...

...Does anyone has listened to the ''mighty Rearranger '' from Plant... i've got it, it's a cool album but the voice????........If not for reading ''Robert Plant'' on the cover, you wouldn't know this is the same guy who sang ''Immigrant Song''

So if Led Zep brings a Coverdale, i don't mind...he still got more voice than Plant as of today!

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Posted: November 02 2008 at 20:58

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There were actually two reasons why LZ disbanded in 1980: Jones found Bonham was unreplacable and Plant wanted really out of the band. Unlike others he hurried to start his solo career. Page wanted actually LZ to conitinue with Cozy Powell on drums. So, like 1980 Plant is not interested in working with egomaniac Page any more. History`s repeating.

Let's not forget Page and Plant reunited in the 90s for 2 albums and seemed getting along! I saw their show in Miami in 95...was great even if Plant voice was already not to its old self anymore

Edited by febus - November 02 2008 at 21:09

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Posted: November 02 2008 at 17:02

Well, if Jones is true to his word, and some of it is of the "we're not going to play everything like we always did" nature, then it might work.
But it has to fit with his "tribute" band comment, i.e. get a new singer and just play the same old songs the same old way, bring out the bow for Jimmy's solo, cloud up the stage for No Quarter, etc ...
Funk it up, trash it out, acousticiasize some, whatever. Call yourself Zep to reflect the past, but only as the base for a new phase. And if Jones comes through like he did on In Through the Out Door, and Jimmy does more than w**k, a new singer could be the twist in the mix to make it worthwhile.
Can it work ? Well, I loved the live album Paul Rodgers & Queen put out. Their new studio album, Cosmos Rocks, though, at best leaves me hoping they give it another try.

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Posted: November 02 2008 at 06:48

Won't work. The thrill of Led Zeppelin was gone after I went through my ( brief ) Zeppelin phase in my teens. Like any other proposition such as this it's all about moneyf or the large corporations and it's the struggling new artists who pay the price. For christ sakes if you really care about music throw in the towel and give the budding artists their kick at the cat.

Edited by Vibrationbaby - November 02 2008 at 06:49