Led Zeppelin Driving People To The Brink Of Insanity With Reunion Rumors?
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What is up with Led Zeppelin? In what is perhaps the most passive public argument ever, this week has been chalk full of web stories where Jimmy Page's manager Peter Mensch "said this" and then he "said that." It's hard to keep up.
BBC 6 Music
reports that Page is all for a reunion and bassist John Paul Jones and second generation drummer Jason Bonham "had a really good time rehearsing, the three of them, before Robert showed up." Ouch. He continued and said the band would tour once they found a new singer, with Chris Cornell and that Myles Kennedy character as rumored potentials for months now.
On the flip side, in an interview with Music Rader published online the same day as the BBC 6 interview Mensch explained, "Led Zeppelin are over."
Mensch than retracted the previous statement saying, "They tried out a few singers, but no one worked out. That was it. The whole thing is completely over now. There are absolutely no plans for them to continue. Zero."
What gives? Sounds like inner Zeppelin band turmoil. The thing is I've keeping up with it because I didn't get to see them successfully reunite at the O2. But after a year worth of writing about "if they or aren't they" going to getback together and tour again, originally after Plant finished up wirk with Alison Krauss, there is one part of Mensch's latter statements I am really ready to agree with:
"Frankly, I wish everybody would stop talking about it."
I'm over it. Buckle up and release a legit statement you old, indecisive, quarreling geezers. That's the impression this whole reunion business is leaving me with.
Comments (15)
They should tour with a KILLER band and do all Zep. Screw plant. JPJ played with Warren Haynes at his Xmas jam show and they did a ton of Zep tunes. I heard it was incredible. I'd still be pumped to see this non-reuniun show as long as it rocked.
I'm with you. I'm over it.
Without Plant, much as I love Jimmy and JPJ, it's 50% of Zeppelin, and I'm 50% less interested than I was when it was 75% of Zeppelin. And the people in their sphere seem to have an elevated opinion about the demand for information and/or drama. So much for British manners.
Meanwhile, Plant and Krauss did something truly special. I hope everybody who didn't get a chance to see it the first time around will have a chance someday. Unforgettable.
How can they reunite..an integral piece is dead. See also:The Dead, The Who,The Beatles.
I don't mind anybody touring and playing a bunch of Zep as well as they can. I just don't want Page and Jones touring with the douchenozzle from Nickelback and calling themselves Led Zeppelin.
Y' know?
I'm done caring about them...they could reunite in my apartment and I'd go out.
Yup, they should stand pat with what they got. A pretty good hand I'd say. Good for Plant, he does something different. Jimmy should go on an acoustic tribute tour to the folkies like Janch,Graham, Renbourn,and Fahey. It'd sound a lot like Zeppelin and he'd get mad props too.
lame.
Thirty years ago I loved Led Zeppelin, their music has an endless rapport. The harmonious connection with the people who listened to and loved their music will never die, just like the way we all still talk about hoping a reunion could be possible.
My opinion is if Jimmy Page is not singing, it is not Led Zeppelin. I have been in the studio where "Stairway To Heaven" was recorded, and I could picture them in my mind being there, creating musical history.
They would do our grand children a favor by getting over school girl dependencies, grow up and act like men and play like they once did. With Jason Bonham on drums, it would be an honor to the son of the man, the legend who rewrote music history.
I took my fourteen year old grand daughter to her first concert last year to OZFEST, and hopefully to see Ozzy Osborne perform, can you imagine if someone else sang his songs?
My suggestion is this Led Zeppelin is a great band, so is Van Halen, if Eddie and Dave can get it together so can Jimmy and the rest!
AMEN
^robert plant sings.
candyland...Ronnie James Dio sang with Black Sabbath for years after Ozzy left, and did again this last tour with Heaven and Hell, and I've gotta admit it sounded pretty good! I've personally never heard Jimmy Page sing, but I imagine it would be quite awful lol...with a think accent.
I don't even want them to reunite anymore. Seriously, no John Bonham, and all these rumors. Enough! Why doesn't Jimmy Page just make an awesome solo album or something?
put enough money on the table. it will happen
Probably true, avandguard. I think enough cash could make something happen, but not "it." Okay, clearly I've been drinking.
jimmy page sang the backup vocals for communication breakdown.
This is truly getting to be as bad as the rumors around whether or not Axl would or wouldn't ever release 'Chinese Democracy'. Either do it or shut up, but I'm not playing along that's for sure.