Led Zeppelin
guitarist wants world tour
By ERIC TALMADGE, Associated Press
Writer
Mon Jan 28, 8:04 AM ET
TOKYO - Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy
Page said Monday he was ready to
take the iconic band on a world tour
after burning up the stage at last
month's
reunion concert in London.
But it probably won't be before
September.
"The
amount of work we put into O2 was
what you would normally put into a
world tour anyway," Page, 64, said
of the intense rehearsing the band
did for the Dec. 10 concert at
London's
O2 Arena.
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Jimmy Page and
John Paul Jones on Led Zeppelin's
historic reunion
By Alan
Light
Special to MSN Music
It is a rock
'n' roll fantasy that most people
had abandoned. On Dec. 10 at
London's O2 Arena, the three
surviving members of
Led Zeppelin
--
Robert Plant,
Jimmy Page
and
John Paul
Jones
-- will take the stage accompanied
by
Jason Bonham,
the son of
their late drummer,
John Bonham.
The concert marks the first time Led
Zeppelin has performed together in
almost 20 years, and only the third
time the lineup has appeared since
Bonham's death in 1980
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What is the biggest
misconception about Led Zeppelin?
Jones: A lot is made of the
salacious reputation of the band,
which always detracted from the
music. That was always disappointing
-- especially newspapers, they would
always start talking about sharks or
whatever, and I would always think,
"Oh, God, why does nobody mention
how good the band was?"
Page: The biggest misunderstanding
(long pause) ... I could be trite
and say that people think the
robbery in the movie was a fake,
that we did that to add drama to the
film. But now, by including the
local coverage from the New York
news (in the "Song" DVD's bonus
footage), you can see that it was
very real.
I don't know -- I don't care what
they think about the band, or about
me, or whatever. That will all be
eradicated by listening to the
music. If you really listen closely
and hear what it was that we were
doing, all the rest goes away.
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Breathtaking and spine-tingling
By
John Aizlewood, Evening Standard
11.12.07
There are re-formations. And then there
is the Led Zeppelin re-formation. The
most popular, the loudest and the most
innovative act in their day, their
reunion show was always going to be the
most popular, the loudest and the most
innovative of this era, from the moment
one million people entered the ballot
for the right to purchase the 18,000
tickets for what is officially still
just a one-off event to benefit a
charity established by their late mentor
Ahmet Ertegun.
Gallery: See pictures from the gig here
Two hours and 10 minutes after they
began with Good Times Bad Times, the
opening track of their 38-year-old debut
album, they had assuaged the doubts and
delivered a show of breathtaking power
and spine-tingling excitement; a
four-way musical tug-of-war in which
they all won.
A crowd including Sir Paul
McCartney, Liam and Noel Gallagher, Jeff Beck, Foo Fighter Dave Grohl
and the inevitable Kate Moss (none of whom, one suspects, entered any
ballot) could scarcely believe their luck. Not only had they actually
secured tickets, but this was rock's holy grail made flesh: a
full-length performance featuring all three surviving members, plus
Jason Bonham, drumming son of drumming father, John.
Naturally, for a band who
always left nothing to chance, the sound, lighting and backdrop were
perfect. Weeks of rehearsals had shed ring-rustiness and reconciled
everyone to playing Stairway To Heaven, the favourite of nobody inside
the band. They delivered it straight and slow with Jimmy Page on
double-necked guitar and 18,000 hearts melted. Even mine, despite that
preposterous lyric which rhymes "May Queen" with "spring clean".
If Jason Bonham was his
father's equally hard-hitting son, the others have sauntered to their
bus pass years with varying degrees of dignity. Even so, the rock band
who taught the rest how to rock still have much to teach. John Paul
Jones may have been unassuming, but his feel for bass was almost
Jamaican and his pounding keyboards on Misty Mountain Hop showed he
could lead as well as follow.
Singer Robert Plant was
lined of face but long of hair and lithe of body. More crucially,
although he required a teleprompter, his voice - part air-raid siren,
part instrument of lust - was as astonishing as it always was.
It needed to be, for Page
(less the waxy buddah of recent vintage after losing weight) was
wondrous. Initially peeping from behind sunglasses and dressed in
trademark frock-coat, once he had ignited Ramble On with some
mind-boggling guitar work, the shades and coat were soon dumped and he
was sweating and smiling like it was 1975 again.
By Dazed And Confused (all
26 minutes of it), Page was at his most avant-garde, attacking his
guitar with a violin bow, but on Kashmir, unleashing the Zeppelin riff
of Zeppelin riffs, he was almost inhumanly exciting. It was like
watching a man invent electricity. One oft-repeated Seventies myth
suggested Page's prowess came as a result of a pact with the devil.
Superstitious nonsense of course, but sometimes you wonder ...
This really is as good as
popular music gets.
WHAT THE OTHER CRITICS
SAID
The Guardian, Alexis Petridis
"For all the pre-emptive discussion in the media about his inability to
hit the notes he once could, Plant sounds fantastic, and retains an
utterly magnetic and startlingly lithe presence on stage, kicking his
microphone stand to the ground, dancing with a rather cheering abandon,
even setting aside his celebrated distaste for the band's most famous
and overblown song and having a stab at Stairway To Heaven."
Daily Mirror, Gavin Martin
"Page may no longer swagger across the stage, his guitar worn low like a
gunslinger as he churns out riffs. And Plant can't scram and strut like
he did in his rock god heyday. But the awesome power and majesty of the
music was undiminished - the slithering slide guitar of In My Time Of
Dying, the blistering boogie of Trampled Underfoot, the majestic,
heart-breaking blues of Since I've Been Loving You, the ethereal
mysticism of No Quarter."
The Sun, Pete Samson
Manufactured pop is ruling the charts and young music fans are an
impatient sort. Maybe that's why the bars filled during some of the
winding rock epics. But their classics proved music doesn't rock like it
used to. Tracks like Whole Lotta Love and Stairway To Heaven had every
one of the fans on their feet and shaking their fists."
Daily Star, James Cabooter
"Led Zep were pure class. Now bring on the full reunion tour."
Zeppelin lead the fans to heaven and back
By Louise
Jury, Evening Standard 11.12.07
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Paulo Nutini, who performed in the first
half of the concert, said: "They're so
intense. Based on tonight, they should tour.
If they could do that every night it would
be phenomenal."
Tony Catania, a friend of Jason Bonham for
20 years, fuelled rumours of a tour. "He
[Jason] was over the moon and I've just
spoken to John Paul Jones and he was very
shocked. They were all
blown away with each
other. I don't think it's sunk in yet."
The Presleys, McCartney,
and the Jaggers:
The
night the rock clans
gathered for Led
Zeppelin reunion
12.12.07 01:18
The reunion show for legendary rockers Led Zeppelin attracted
some legendary fans as the famous rock clans of the
Presleys, former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney, and The Rolling Stones
Mick Jagger gathered for the highly anticipated reunion show.
Rock royalty turned out clad in denim and leather to see the
band reunited for the first time in 19 years, in a
show which brought the rock gods out of their country
piles and into London's
O2 arena....
....
So many celebrities turned up to watch Led Zeppelin last night,
it was difficult to spot people that weren't
famous in the 20,000-capacity crowd.
And if you thought tickets were both rare and expensive, passes
to the after-party were being flogged on the
internet for up to £2,500. ...
.... The reaction to the band's long-awaited reunion was
ecstatic. And fans are now desperate for a full-blown
tour.
....
Last night it was the real deal, a 90-minute set at
London's O2
arena in front of
10,000
people who counted themselves among the luckiest music
fans in the world.
The
internet rush to buy £125 tickets to see Jimmy Page,
Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and
Bonham's son Jason saw up to 20 million people
crashing the website with
the winners being drawn by electronic lottery.
Read the full article here, gallery, what
other critics said
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Jimmy Page
Led Zeppelin reunion December 10, 2007
January 9, 2007 = 1 + 9 + 2 + 0
+ 0 + 7 = 19 = 10/1 Personal
Year
Page has his progressed Sun in Pisces, and just started his p Capricorn
Ascendant, so life is still a search for Utopia, but takes some getting
used to on a new plane.
Page has the
first two decans of Aquarius [Equuleus,
'horse sense,' and Pegasus,
'humanitarian innovation'] in his Ascendant as well; his second
department of life, with the third decan of Aquarius, his complex Pisces
Sun and planets, and Aries, is a study in itself.
The serious fracture of his finger, that was responsible for
postponement of the Ahmet Ertegun Tribute, is probably due to p Saturn
[bones, cartilage, hearing] in Gemini [fingers, hand, wrist] square his
p Mercury [hand, wrist, arm, lower back, lungs] in Pisces. However, Page
has his p Moon in Libra conjunct the fixed star that rules the arts, and
especially the stage, so the show will go on!
Refer to
www.ahmettribute.com for information on how to
obtain further information.
Page and Plant reunited for their
1995 World Tour during a brilliant 7 Personal Year for Jimmy Page.
January 9, 1995 = 1 + 9 + 1 + 9
+ 9 + 5 = 34/ =
7
A
musician like Jimmy Page may view the whole operation as a composer
penning each, note, rhythm, and bridge in tune with the seven metals as
each is processed during his life course.
The Page technique [structure
+ efficiency + electricity] is obvious early in collaborations with The
Yardbirds.
Attitude is developed in the context of live Led Zeppelin
performances, and eventually an unmistakable delivery system in the
1998 Page/Plant song-video, "Most High."
Listen to sound at
PAGE and PLANT.
Beginning Led Zeppelin music notes.
Tribute to New Orleans 2005 @ Bonzo's
Page
Jimmy Page teams with The
Black Crowes
Jimmy Page enjoyed a Personal 11 Year
on tour with The Black Crowes during 1999
January 9, 1999 = 1 + 9 + 1 + 9
+ 9 + 9 = 38/ = 11
[see more @
Ladyhawke]
The 11 Year alliance with The Black Crowes
was a superb, strategic
move that delivered a universally esteemed Page to a new
generation of fans.
Since disbanding the Mighty Zep, Page had
engaged in a variety of collaborations with varying degrees of success.
The 11 Year is one of the best for this kind of enterprise.
The
preeminent year for spontaneity originating with oversoul, the 11 can launch a personal and public image make-over, especially when the
profession, by nature, thrives on improvisation, wit, and charm. It is
bizarre no agent has had the business sense to take advantage of the
opportunity to publish a book about this phenomenal tour by Page and The
Black Crowes.
