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'I'd Love' a Led Zeppelin Reunion: Jason Bonham
Billboard ^ | August 12, 2010 | Gary Graff

Posted on 08/15/2010 12:42:22 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

Jason Bonham knows better than to promise a Led Zeppelin reunion as part of his "Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Experience" show that goes on tour this fall. But he's certainly not opposed to the idea.

"I'm not going to hide it from them," Bonham, who filled his late father John "Bonzo" Bonham's spot and played with Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones at the 2007 Zep reunion concert at London's O2 arena, tells Billboard.com. "I will invite them to every show I can, because my goal and dream is, 'Wouldn't it be cool if I did something that they thought was cool and they would get up and play with me?' That's what I'm doing [this] for. I'd love it."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: bonham; ledzeppelin; music; rockandroll; zeppelin
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To: Reaganwuzthebest
Zep was awesome, but some of their studio tracks are just about impossible to play live. Case in point is the Studio version of The Rover. Linked below. Page actually used several studio overdubs. Would be awesome to hear someone play this just as its sounds, perhaps Hendrix might have been able to do it justice, but this song has multiple Page tracks in places. According to Wikipedia, The Rover; was never played live in its entirety at Led Zeppelin concerts, although the band played the opening bars as an introduction to Sick Again; throughout their 1977 North American tour.

The Rover

The Tribute band Led Zepagain is supposed to be pretty good. Never saw them, but they do play around the country at various venues. They only do the intro to The Rover though. Here they are doing Achilles Last Stand.

Achilles Last Stand

41 posted on 08/15/2010 9:34:11 PM PDT by justa-hairyape
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To: GunsAndBibles
Meh, an over-rated cover band. Never credited the blues greats they ripped off.

Along with Spirit, Steve Marriott, and probably many others.

42 posted on 08/15/2010 9:44:08 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Politicians exist to break windows so they may spend other people's money to fix them.)
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To: Las Vegas Ron

Yeah they are.
You seen any of em lately?

Also, youse guys in Nevada gonna kick Reid to the curb like he deserves?
Then investigate his crooked ass and throw him in jail til he croaks?


43 posted on 08/16/2010 3:36:28 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) Ya unAmerican p.o.s.)
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To: justa-hairyape

A lot of Page’s ideas along with Zep’s songs were carried over from his days with the Yardbirds, especially early on. Like Pink Floyd they play a music genre that’s very distinctive, it’s not really hard rock but more like a cross between blues, progressive, and rock all in one. They did a pretty good though reproducing most of it on stage.


44 posted on 08/16/2010 8:53:30 AM PDT by Reaganwuzthebest
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To: GunsAndBibles

I always thought the early Zep albums, that Plant was basically doing a Janis Joplin imitation.


45 posted on 08/16/2010 8:55:04 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: ConservativeStatement

i would like to see Zep and Dave Gilmour one last time

maybe Steve Winwood too


46 posted on 08/16/2010 8:57:04 AM PDT by wardaddy (effed up times..)
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To: GunsAndBibles

They always credited the blues numbers they covered, other than a court of law had to find that Zeppelin’s “the Lemon Song” was basically Howlin’ Wolf’s “Killing Floor Blues” with a little of Robert Johnson’s “squeeze my lemon” added in.

When this subject was brought up to ‘da Wolf’ he said ‘that’s just lawyer stuff’. He had no hard feelings either way.

As to why they covered so many blues tunes, Page and the boys were coming up with riffs much faster than Plant could write lyrics... so he said that he would often just sing some old blues lyrics.


47 posted on 08/16/2010 9:00:24 AM PDT by allmendream (Income is EARNED not distributed. So how could it be re-distributed?)
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To: GunsAndBibles
Guess you’re not familiar with James Hendrix?

Well it would be hard for me not to, seeing as I feel Stevie Ray Vaughan was the greatest guitarist ever, bar none - and he considered Hendrix his musical master.

But I think SRV was better than Hendrix, better than Page, better than anyone. And Double Trouble was spectacular as a band. But they were more traditional blues, and still growing when Stevie died, even though they were filling coloseums at the time.

In contrast, Zepplin was a monster from the beginning, and roared straight through at that level right up until Bonham's death. As a unified band which was not based upon a single star performer, IMO, they were the top of the top.

Oh, and as an aside, a "cover band" is one that generally does not create it's own work. The Blues is based on standard riffs and songs that are repeated forever by each band's version - it's not the same as a cover unless you're actually trying to imitate a specific band's version, rather than the riff or song itself. That's just a fact. And Zepplin's interpretations were so unique, to call them a cover band isn't even an insult - it's ridiculous, and just plain ignorance of the incredible uniqueness and creativity of what they were actually doing.

48 posted on 08/16/2010 2:37:50 PM PDT by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
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To: Talisker
But I think SRV was better than Hendrix, better than Page, better than anyone

But I look at it this way, no Hendrix, no SRV. Hendrix created something out of nothing, nobody did what he did before, SRV merely stood on the shoulders on giants. Was he technically a better guitarist, maybe, but not nearly as original as Hendrix.

49 posted on 08/16/2010 2:40:19 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: wardaddy
Dave Gilmour

One of my favs, along with Mark Knopfler.

50 posted on 08/16/2010 2:45:46 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Talisker; dfwgator
It's pretty obvious that there's a lot of people here who hold Zep in higher regard than I do... So I'll let acknowledged musical genius, Frank Zappa sort it out for 'ya: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p3Ue3ncH3g See 'ya later...
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51 posted on 08/16/2010 3:53:24 PM PDT by GunsAndBibles (God save Calif. - 'cause it's gonna take a miracle.)
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To: GunsAndBibles

Zappa link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p3Ue3ncH3g


52 posted on 08/16/2010 3:55:29 PM PDT by GunsAndBibles (God save Calif. - 'cause it's gonna take a miracle.)
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To: Reaganwuzthebest
Like Pink Floyd they play a music genre that’s very distinctive, it’s not really hard rock but more like a cross between blues, progressive, and rock all in one.

You can also hear just a wee bit of Celtic in the music. This song seems to have all those aspects. Sounds like they were trying to reproduce bag pipe sounds in sections.

In the Light

Here is some info from Wikipedia on this song, which they never did perform on stage.

The unique sound of the intro to the song was created by Jimmy Page using a violin bow on an acoustic guitar....."In the Light" was never played live at Led Zeppelin concerts.[1] According to Jones, Robert Plant was emphatic about wanting to play the song onstage, but because Jones could not reproduce the synthesizer sound properly outside of the studio, he vetoed the idea.[citation needed]

53 posted on 08/16/2010 8:59:14 PM PDT by justa-hairyape
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To: GunsAndBibles

Judging Led Zeppelin by Stairway to Heaven is like judging Frank Zappa by Valley Girls.


54 posted on 08/16/2010 9:15:25 PM PDT by justa-hairyape
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To: Grizzled Bear

Metal Ping


55 posted on 08/16/2010 9:19:13 PM PDT by Captain Beyond (The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
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To: NewRomeTacitus; cripplecreek; creeping death; JeffreyH; RandallFlagg; cschroe; rollo tomasi; ...

You got it, Captain Beyond!


56 posted on 08/17/2010 4:36:50 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear (Does not play well with others)
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To: Grizzled Bear

Love to see Zeppelin. But to do it right I would need a time machine and a handful of Purple Microdot.


57 posted on 08/17/2010 4:44:15 PM PDT by bigheadfred (apoplectic purple)
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To: GunsAndBibles
Same here.I've always considered them over-rated.Have to admit though that their classics were indeed classics.

As for their musical prowess,I don't think they held a candle to Deep Purple.

58 posted on 08/17/2010 7:00:56 PM PDT by mitch5501 (top of the world ma!)
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To: justa-hairyape
"In the Light" is a good song too.

Plant is still doing pretty well touring with Alison Krauss and singing old classics like "Battle of Evermore". The version from the Tennessee performance was awesome and yes I agree there is a bit of Celtic in some of their music.

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Battle of Evermore-Nashville

59 posted on 08/17/2010 8:24:53 PM PDT by Reaganwuzthebest
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To: GunsAndBibles; Talisker; sauropod; Moonman62; allmendream; mitch5501; Las Vegas Ron

>> Meh, an over-rated cover band. Never credited the blues greats they ripped off.

Without question, one of the best R&B bands of the 70s. Don’t agree, check out:

Traveling Riverside Blues
Since I’ve Been Loving You
Ten Years Gone
When the Levee Breaks
The Rain Song
Gallows Pole

Few other bands of that era could hold a candle to LZ up until, and including the Physical Graffiti release. Not much to speak of thereafter.


60 posted on 08/31/2010 12:38:57 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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