No Led Zep Tour

Ah crap. And for a fucking country singer?

I rather they don't, and they don't become the new Rolling Stones.

They are legends, they don't need to prove anything, and certainly don't need the money or exposure to maybe not being as good as they used to.

Agreed. Besides, that one-off show they did will be on DVD later this year.

This saves me a lot of money.

I love that the article tells us that John Paul Jones agreed with Jimmy Page and wanted to tour. As if John Paul Jones is going to say "No, I think I have better things to do."

Arguably, Jones has had a much better post-Zeppelin career than Page, especially in the last couple decades. He's certainly done better at carving out a career that's not based entirely on nostalgia (e.g., collaborations with David Coverdale, the quintessential Plant ripoff artist; regrouping with Plant to re-do Zeppelin songs; hooking up with the Black Crowes to play Zeppelin covers).

All that may be true, but Page also played with Diddy, Dave.

Diddy.

By the way, who was on Drums for the one-off, was it Bonham Jr.?

Yup. Lil' Bonham.

Buick would like to have a word with you.

Diddy would also like you to "come with him", and have a word. Though, I'm not sure if re-recording a classic guitar riff for a terrible terrible song counts as whoring, but it should.

I got to see Page and Plant in Sydney in 1994 for the Unledded Tour and it was one of the greatest experiences of my life. I looked around the crowd halfway into the first number , The Wanton Song (one of my favs) and there were people weeping because we were in the presence of Gods.

I'm bummed they're not gonna tour because I'd be there for sure but at least I did get to see some of them once.

I'm looking forward to the DVD release of the 1 off concert from last year...do they still belt out like a 28 minute version of Dazed & Confused like in Song Remains The Same ?

By the way, I should put a bit of an addendum to my comments, because I sound like a hater, and I'm not. LOVE everything Zeppelin did, just got really tired of the car commercial and the Godzilla song, and you're very correct, they are no where near as bad as the Stones when it comes to handing their songs out. I'm tired and cranky and argumentitive today apparently, but I'm also very excited to watch whatever DVD they give us of the show.

Plus he looks surprisingly young and spry compared to Page.

Read this news when it was announced and hate it*. Their one-off show last year looked amazing judging off the clips I've seen. And everyone besides (possibly) Plant seem into taking this further. Just one more time so die-hards like me finally get to see them live. That said, I love the Plant/Krauss collaboration. "Raising Sand" is wonderful.

The Jones produced "Independent Worm Saloon" is a bad-ass Butthole Surfers album.


*Still, I haven't seen any reports that a Zeppelin tour can never happen. Maybe that's just wishful thinking on my part. Could it just be Plant committing to finishing his tour with Krauss for 2008?

This makes no sense to me at all. At least a DVD of the show would have softened the blow from the lack of a tour. In retaliation, I'm not playing any more Zeppelin for the rest of the ... DAY. *pouts*

http://www.mirror.co.uk/showbiz/late...9520-20365270/

According to Mirror.co.uk, LED ZEPPELIN are to
disappoint fans by not releasing a DVD or CD of their
one-off comeback concert. Thousands of music lovers
who could not get tickets for their O2 gig in December
had been hoping they could watch or listen at home.
But guitarist Jimmy Page said: "It was recorded - but
we didn't go in with the express purpose of making a
DVD to come out at Christmas, or whatever." Page said
a future release "at some distant point" was remotely
possible.

On December 10th, 2007, Led Zeppelin performed at
London's O2 Arena at the Ahmet Ertegun Tribute
Concert. The hard rock legends performed the following
songs: 'Good Times, Bad Times', 'Ramble On', 'Black
Dog', 'In My Time Of Dying', 'For Your Life, 'Trampled
Under Foot', 'Custard Pie', Nobody's Fault But Mine',
'No Quarter', 'Since I've Been Loving You', 'Dazed And
Confused', Stairway To Heaven', 'The Song Remains The
Same', 'Misty Mountain Hop', 'Kashmir'. Encore: 'Whole
Lotta Love', Rock And Roll'.

It'll be out next year. Or when one of them dies.

So this news comes from a tabloid, right? The Daily Mirror? Are British tabloids known for accurate reporting?

Well, you might have point. I know next to nothing about The Daily Mirror.

The Page and Jones quotes here make this smell like non-news, but anyway:

Gigwise.com reports that members of LED ZEPPELIN have confirmed that their recent reunion show in London will eventually be released on DVD.

Speaking at an awards ceremony in London, both guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist John Paul Jones said that they expected the concert to become available.

"I hope so one day, yeah," Page told BBC 6 Music.

Although Jones echoed Page's sentiment, he said that at the moment "there is no hurry" to release it.

"It was a special occasion, you know, and we really wanted that just to be it, really," he added.

LED ZEPPELIN's reunion at the O2 Arena last December was watched by 18,000 fans, although over a million people tried to register for tickets.


In other insignificant (though slightly amusing) Zeppelin news:

UK's The Sun reports: Rock lords Lemmy and Jimmy Page got on so famously at the Mojo Honours List awards afterparty [Monday night, June 16] that they decided to swap numbers.

MOTÖRHEAD frontman Lemmy and LED ZEPPELIN axe maestro Jimmy were deep in conversation during most of the bash and they clearly intended to continue their conflab at a later date.

But their efforts to swap details were hampered by technology — because neither of the aging duo could use their mobile phones properly.

One amused onlooker revealed Monday night: "The pair of them spent an age looking both amazed and confused as they attempted to stab contact numbers into their mobiles.

"They looked like two old cavemen discovering some shiny new objects in the forest."