Led Zeppelin, born again!!!

[oznob]

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/sto...m_david_fricke

Sounds like the 02 Arena was the place to be! When the DVD of this show comes out it will be a MUST HAVE! Hopefully a tour will be coming soon. I will go into serious "hock" to see that show!

[Duffinator]

Rock N Roll

[bigyank]

Funny part for me is that just as I get the Rollingstone Magazine in the mail with remaining members of Zeppelin on the cover, my daughter comes in from her GW scavenger hunt with a Robert Plant LP "PICTURES AT ELEVEN" from 1982. My god where the heck has the 25 years gone!

I will definitely get the DVD!

Yank

[SEAWOLF97]

http://www.eonline.com/news/article/...d0&sid=fd-news

Plant, Not Zeppelin, Touring in May

by Sarah Hall
Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:44:50 AM PST
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File a Led Zeppelin reunion tour under "What May and What Should Really Come to Be." Just don't count on it happening this spring.
Robert Plant has set aside the month of May for a European tour with Allison Krauss, with whom he collaborated on the recent album Raising Sand.
Plant and Krauss will kick off their jaunt across Europe May 5 in Birmingham, England, before continuing on to Germany, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Sweden and Norway, it was announced Thursday.
The trek is slated to wrap May 22 in London.
The duo has also said they plan to tour in the U.S., though no dates have been announced.
Plant, of course, is fresh off of Led Zeppelin's hugely successful one-night show at London's O2 Arena Monday, which sparked renewed rumors that the rockers would go on to launch a full-scale reunion tour. Most notably, the rockers were being touted as a headlining act for this year's Bonnaroo festival, which is set for June 12-15 in Manchester, Tennessee.
Despite the high hopes of fans and concert promoters alike, no such plans have been announced.
Plant, in particular, has seemed opposed to the idea of hitting the road with his former bandmates.
"The whole idea of being on a cavalcade of merciless repetition is not what it's all about," he told London's Sunday Times before the O2 show.
That said, if the band did decide to tour, there's little doubt it would be a sellout event.
More than 20 million fans entered the lottery for tickets to Monday's concert, for which only 16,000 tickets were available, according to organizers.
Meanwhile, Zeppelin's temporary return has propelled the band to a sizable increase in radio airplay, according to Mediabase, a firm that tracks such numbers for more than 1,800 radio stations in the U.S. and Canada.
Over a two-week period, the band saw a 15.1 percent rise in airplay, with 4,139 spins recorded on Monday and Tuesday of this week, up from 3,514 on Monday and Tuesday of the week before.
The number of song titles in rotation also went up 21 percent, from 84 to 106.
It seems plenty of fans are ready and waiting to get the Led out.

[boputnam]

A friend from Vancouver made the trek, and was really impressed by the show. He was very struck by the job that Jason Bonham did in his dad's throne - apparently he had the material down cold. Nice...

I'd expect there will be a tour, soon enough. However, Plant has just pressed the CD with Allison Kraus and it is top of the charts in the Americana scene. I imagine Plant has commitments to a tour supporting that release - T Bone Burnett et al have a great deal invested in the endeavor. And, in typical Plant style, he'll keep the masses guessing for a while on a 'Zep tour...

[Tom Brennan]

So Rolling Stone magazine likes Led Zeppelin, eh? Back over 30 years ago when the band was popular the elitest journalism majors at the magazine hated the band; too popular with the rowdy working class for their taste.

I saw Zeppelin open for Vanilla Fudge in 1969 and the Fudge blew their doors off, I doubt Zep is a better band live now than then.

[JBobL]

I saw L Z at the Texas International Pop Festival in 1969. Night time show, leanin' back on the hay bales in front of the front row. There were some "other" bands there.
I was told I had a good time.