ROBERT PLANT IN CONCERT LAST NIGHT

Well I saw Robert Plant in concert last night.. and I have to say he sounds really great.  His set seems a bit short, it only about an hour and a half, but then that probably will help him keep his voice up longer for this tour.  He did the stuff from the new album and of course a few LZ numbers, such as Tangerine and Whole Lotta Love...  It was really a great evening.

Here's a few pics:

sigod wrote: Great photos as ever 3f. I saw Mr Plant on 'Later With Jools Holland' (BBC2 music program) recently and it looked like David Rhodes of Peter Gabriel fame was playing in his band. Was he playing the night you were there or have I been sniffing too many tea bags again?

I saw the same performance - I was massively impressed by his track on Festival In The Desert, and his new material takes the same ideas even further. Mighty Rearranger is one of the albums of the year IMO, and he's in fine voice and Mrs Syzygy reckons he looks very good in a middle aged sort of way.

Shook hands with and thanked Mr. Plant for his contributions to all my teenage rock 'n roll fantasies after seeing him and his Band of Joy (the lads Plant and Bonham played with before Page nabbed them up) at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2000.  Had an all access thingy from the newspaper I worked for and even got to videotape most of his 30 minute set.  They did a Donovan number and he retooled some old folksy blues.....they even included a number they wrote back in '68!

That said, Guy Clark's set brought me to tears, Billy Bragg did his WoodyGuthrie bit (with Ian Mclagan and a rockin' band), Ani DiFranco wowed me, and Dr. John laid some "fonk" on the folky crowd.  Plant, who went on at 5:30p was basically forgotten by the end of the night.