Led Zeppelin tour in 2008???

[MadPatSki]

I've nad a feeling about this since last Summer, BUT nothing is confirmed yet. Page/Jones would be for it, Plant not sure.

Ian Astbury from The Cult mentioned something about it. (The Cult would be the opening band).

Waited in line for ticket in 1980 (?) when LZ North American tour was canceled when John Bonham died.

I know that it wouldn't be the same, but remember seeing John Paul Jones opening for King Crimson in 2001 and it was amazing.

Here ARE the stories...

http://news.google.com/news?sourceid...e-results&cd=1

[Flexon Phil]

Saw Robert Plant tour solo, back in 82 and saw Plant & Page. Both were great shows. I am not sure Robert Plant can hit the notes that we expect for soem of the songs. P&P w/ the orchestra was fantastic. I will keep that memory in my head.

[Tippster]

"Kashmir" with the Egyptian Orchestra was unbelievable.

[Ripzalot]

i saw a led zeppelin poster as i was driving thru town today but i guess it was for the new mothership set coming out. a proper tour would be soooo $$$.

[dookeyXXX]

Plant indeed cannot hit the high notes any more.

I saw him about a year-and-a-half ago with his "current" band The Strange Sensation. Good show, but Plant is singing at least an octave lower these days and does a lot of restrained whispering on the high notes (kinda like what Perry Farrell has to do, as well).



I dunno about a Led Zep "reunion."

That said, I did catch the Police (free tix were tossed my way day of show) and I have to say that the boys sounded better than I expected. hell, i'd go so far to say they sounded better than when i saw them back in 1983/84.

20+ years ago they had a full group of background singers and I think a keyboardist.

This time it was just the 3 and they jammed a bit more (read an article where Summers and Copeland really wanted to jam more, but Sting wanted to keep things short and sweet...they obviously compromised a little during the live set as they stretched out a few songs, which was cool). At any rate they sounded great (only thing that sucked about the show I saw was being in nose bleed seats and having a 10 second sound delay if you watched the band onstage via binoculars.

So, maybe a Zep tour could be cool?

Dunno.

Sometimes it's just best to let sleeping dogs lie (I keep hearing that Morrissey refuses to do a Smiths reunion and he's been offered serious skrill). Gotta give it up for that.

[MadPatSki]

Plant indeed cannot hit the high notes any more..

I remember seeing and recorded (on TV) the Led Zep performances at Live Aid and at the Atlantic Records' 40th anniversary. Let's say that the voice wasn't there. Is it any wonder why LEd Zep performance is not on the LiveAid DVD (they gave money instead).

I dunno about a Led Zep "reunion."

I know the feeling, but I would go anyways.

That said, I did catch the Police (free tix were tossed my way day of show) and I have to say that the boys sounded better than I expected. hell, i'd go so far to say they sounded better than when i saw them back in 1983/84.
(...)At any rate they sounded great (only thing that sucked about the show I saw was being in nose bleed seats and having a 10 second sound delay if you watched the band onstage via binoculars.

Well, I was disappointed by that show. I also saw them in 1983. Not what I would put on my list of best live shows. Plus I add great seats. Side stage 30-40 ft (space between the seats and the actual stage). Much closer than the Olympic Stadium show of 1983. Need to go a few years earlier in my opinion (tours that I didn't see)

Sometimes it's just best to let sleeping dogs lie (I keep hearing that Morrissey refuses to do a Smiths reunion and he's been offered serious skrill). Gotta give it up for that.

I was just talking about that to someone at work. I saw them on their last tour in 1986. Still have goose bumps. However Bauhaus did get back together (twice), so...

I would just be happy to see Morrissey live, but he's boycotting Canada.

[dookeyXXX]

actually i think Morrissey is "boycotting" the world.

from what i understand he's on indefinite hiatus/retirement with no immediate plans to tour again in he near future.

http://music.ign.com/articles/815/815149p1.html

[MadPatSki]

I would just be happy to see Morrissey live, but he's boycotting Canada.

Well prior to his "last" tour he said that he was boycotting Canada specifically. Reason? Seal hunt.

[nesta]

I would love to see Led Zeppelin live. They're right up there as one of my fave bands, and one that I never got to see when I used to go to concerts all the time. Now I never go to "big" concerts- I'm a distance from a big city- but this is one I would travel for. Has that one show they were doing in London happened yet? I thought I heard it was postponed or something like that.

[Fritz]

Page broke his pinky, show postponed til mid-December.

[Dickeymotto]

Plant indeed cannot hit the high notes any more.

He can't be any worse than Jack Bruce.

[Benny Profane]

I just saw the new cover of MOJO with the three boys on it. You gotta check it out. Page's face is priceless. Can't find a big enough example on the web to post - try Borders or Barnes and Noble. Hell, buy it, it's a great mag, if expensive.

[board]

I read an interview in this month's Guitar World with Page and he is completely ready to do a full tour but Plant is defintley the iffy one. We'll see how it works out. If it does in fact go down I would take a second mortgage out on my house to catch a show!

[MadPatSki]

Heard from a source.

Tour schedule is pretty much completed. Merchandise is done. Just missing an announcement.

[tarkman1]

Fark. After reading some of the reuinion show reviews, I'd go see 'em. I've been listening to Zeppelin more lately than I have in the past. A chance to see Jimmy Page play those monster songs would be like getting to ski with Scot Schmidt.

[Benny Profane]

NYT

December 10, 2007
MUSIC REVIEW
Led Zeppelin Finds Its Old Power

By BEN RATLIFF
LONDON, Dec. 10 — Some rock bands accelerate their tempos when they play their old songs decades after the fact. Playing fast is a kind of armor: a refutation of the plain fact of aging, all that unregainable enthusiasm and lost muscle mass, and a hard block against an old band’s lessened cultural importance.

But Led Zeppelin slowed its down a little. At the O2 arena here on Monday night, in its first full concert since 1980 — without John Bonham, who died that year, but with Bonham’s son Jason as a natural substitute — the band found much of its old power in tempos that were more graceful than those on the old live recordings. The speed of the songs ran closer to those on the group’s old studio records, or slower yet. “Good Times Bad Times,” “Misty Mountain Hop,” and “Whole Lotta Love” were confident, easy cruises; “Dazed and Confused” was a glorious doom-crawl.

It all goes back to the blues, in which oozing gracefully is a virtue, and from which Led Zeppelin initially got half its ideas. Its singer, Robert Plant, doesn’t want you to forget that fact: he introduced “Trampled Underfoot” by explaining its connection to Robert Johnson’s “Terraplane Blues,” and mentioned Blind Willie Johnson as the inspiration for “Nobody’s Fault But Mine.” (Beyond that, the band spent 10 luxuriant minutes each in two other blues songs from its back catalog — “Since I Been Loving You” and “In My Time of Dying”).

Ahmet Ertegun, the dedicatee of the concert, would have been satisfied, sure as he was of the centrality of southern black music to American culture. Ertegun, who died last year, signed Led Zeppelin to Atlantic Records; the show was a one-off benefit for the Ahmet Ertegun Education Fund, which will offer music students scholarships to universities in the United States, England, and Turkey, his homeland.

By the end of Zeppelin’s two-hour-plus show, it was already hard to remember that anyone else had been on the bill. But the band was preceded by Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings—a good-timey rhythm-and-blues show with revolving singers including Paolo Nutini and Albert Lee, as well as a few songs each by Paul Rodgers (of Free and Bad Company) and Foreigner — all of whom had recorded for Atlantic under Ertegun.

There was a kind of loud serenity about Led Zeppelin’s set. It was well-rehearsed, for one thing: planning and rehearsals have been underway since May. The band wore mostly black clothes, instead of its old candy-colored wardrobe. Unlike Mick Jagger, Mr. Plant — the youngest of the original members, at 59 — doesn’t walk and gesture like an excited woman anymore. Some of the top of his voice has gone, but except for one attempted and failed high note in “Stairway to Heaven” (“there walks a la-dy we all know{hellip}”), he found other melodic routes to suit him. He was authoritative; he was dignified.

As for Mr. Page, his guitar solos weren’t as frenetic and articulated as they used to be, but that only drove home the point that they were always secondary to the riffs, which on Monday were enormous, nasty, glorious. (He did produce a violin bow for his solo on “Dazed and Confused,” during that song’s great, spooky middle section.)

John Paul Jones’s bass lines got a little lost in the hall’s acoustics — like all such places, the 22,000-seat O2 Arena is rough on low frequencies — but he was thoroughly in the pocket with Mr. Bonham; when he sat down to play keyboards on “Kashmir” and “No Quarter” and a few others, he simultaneously operated bass pedals with his feet, keeping to that same far-behind-the-beat groove.

And what of Jason Bonham, the big question mark of what has been — there’s no way to prove this scientifically, but let’s just round it off — the most anticipated rock reunion in an era full of them? He is an expert in his father’s beats, an encyclopedia of all their variations on all the existing recordings. And apart from a few small places where he added a few strokes, he stuck to the sound and feel of the original. The smacks of the snare drum didn’t have exactly the same timbre, that barbarous, reverberant sound. But as the show got into its second hour and a few of the sound problems were gradually corrected, you found yourself not worrying about it anymore. It was all working.

Led Zeppelin has semi-reunited a few times in the past, with not much success: short, problematic sets at Live Aid in 1985, and at Atlantic Records’ 40th Anniversary concert in 1988. But this was a reunion that the band had invested in, despite the fact that there are no plans yet for a future tour; among its 16 songs was one the band had never played live before: “For Your Life,” from the album “Presence.”

The excitement in the hall felt extreme, and genuine; the crowd roars between encores were ravenous. At the end of it all, as the three original members took a bow, Mr. Bonham knelt before them and genuflected.

[willywhit]

tune in O & A. they're having a field day talkin about the led zep show

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdail...-david-fricke/

[f2f]

best footage so far is from the bbc, which are prolly recording it to release on dvd:

[Benny Profane]

another review:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critic...sic_frerejones

[Rideski]

Sounds fine to me.

[MadPatSki]

Holy Batman....I know, don't get excited yet.

4 days at the Skydome in Toronto, no US tour.

It's all over the news wire. Here is the original news that started this...

http://blog.muchmusic.com/archives/2..._exclusive.php

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News Exclusive: Led Zeppelin Tour Toronto This Summer
May 17, 2008
Everyone knows about Led Zeppelin's reunion show in London, UK this past December. Naturally, it was both magical and nostalgic. And a 'once in a lifetime' opportunity, right?

Maybe not.

So NME confirmed late last year that Led Zeppelin had plans to go on tour sometime in 2008. Well, a reliable source just gave me a scoop on some Toronto dates. Apparently these dates will be announced shortly...but now you know.

No fancy tour of the U.S., but Toronto will have FOUR dates at Skydome/Rogers Centre this coming August. AMAZING. Hardly any bands play Skydome anymore because it's such a juggernaut of a venue and impossible to fill unless you're, well, Led Zeppelin. Or maybe Backstreet Boys.

Stay tuned for an official tour announcement, but for now start saving your dollars (cause you KNOW it's gonna be expensive) and practising your Ticketmaster skills (cause you KNOW people will be flying in from all over North America to be here) for these amazing shows.

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Only ONE thing sucks about this if it's true (for me), is that the only 4 consecutive dates available at the Skydome are from August 25-September 1...

That's EXACTLY when I was maybe planing to go back to South America.

I know, nothing is official.

[funkendrenchman]

Zeppelin is so over-the-hill....

[powpig]

Next summer perhaps?


http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...cle1735624.ece

Led Yep

By JESS ROGERS

Published: 26 Sep 2008

ROCK legends LED ZEPPELIN are set for a reunion tour after singer ROBERT PLANT finally caved in and agreed to join them.

Guitarist JIMMY PAGE, 64, bassist JOHN PAUL JONES, 62, and drummer JASON BONHAM, 42, had resigned themselves to touring without Plant.

They even rehearsed with stand-in singers — and one American was so impressive they were confident they could hit the road next year without Plant.

That was what finally persuaded him to return.

A source revealed: “The rest of the band had all but given up on Robert joining them, but they were determined to go ahead so had started to seriously explore other avenues.

“When Robert realised the band were serious about doing it without him, it made him think long and hard.

“He realised he couldn’t face the thought of not being involved.

“The band were over the moon when he told them the news.

“They are now forging ahead with the tour plans and they can’t wait to get on the road.”

The tour, set for next summer, follows the massive success of their one-off reunion show at London’s O2 Arena in December.

Led Zep, who have sold more than 300million albums worldwide, formed in 1968 and split up in 1980 when drummer John Bonham — father of Jason — died aged 32.

Rolling Stone magazine dubbed them the biggest band of the ’70s.

[dookeyXXX]

^I wonder who the "stand-in singers" were?

And I always love when they say somebody had to "think long and hard." perhaps it's the cynic in me, but i wonder how much $$$ was tossed around to aid in the "long and hard thinking"?



don't quote me on this, but didn't Sting hold out on the Police reunion until the $$$ were to his liking?

again, it may be the cynic in me, but it usually seems that these high profile reunions are more for the $$$ than the actual love of the material and the fans (if it were the latter then the artists would do the reunions for free, but we all know that's not gonna happen).

[fiddler]

We're going to see Plant and Allison Krause next week and if Zep comes anywhere near Seattle we'll be there for sure. After kicking ourselves for years for missing Plant and Page in Vancouver some years ago we won't make the same mistake again!
I first saw them in about 70 with Three Dog Night as the opening act at the Aqua Theater on Green Lake, the stage was just off shore and the stands which are still there, were just on shore. It was Mother's Day and I got a lot of shit from my Mom for that one.