Led Zep will tour…
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- MrRemote0
Who wants to bet it will be Ian Ashbury.
- of the cult? no thanks.anxiousarms
- God, I hope not. And I like Ian..but...er...no...TheBlueOne
- exador10
Pink Floyd were able to make a go of it without Waters....of course, David probably sang close to half the tunes up til then anyhow...With Richard Wright gone now, my hopes of seeing floyd again are severly diminished..however....when Dave and Nick first reformed Floyd after Roger left, it was just the two of them...Richard hadn't yet re-joined them...so....there's atleast a chance that Dave an NIck will take Floyd out on the road again....and Nick has said in countless interviews that he really wants to....
sorry ....i realize this is a Zep chat.....but atleast Floyd was able to make a go of a tour as 'floyd' without their original front man...
more or less....
- matt310
kinda lame - i wonder why plant doesn't wanna do it?
- boobs0
If you want to see Plant, go see him sing with that ugly chick he likes so much.
- Gucci0
Bittersweet news.
I can't fathom them without Plant. Sad.
- The Black Crowes with Page were pretty good...and Bonham's Songs of My Father was good as wellTheBlueOne
- locustsloth0
If they sound TOO similar, it almost feels like an actor playing the old singer's part. In examples i gave all the singers sound different than their predecessors.
Oh and i forgot one: Van Halen
- you mean Van Hagar?!!! bastards!anxiousarms
- what about Van Extreme?fooler2
- I liked Van Extreme. I have some killer bootlegs form that tour...but like the cheese, I stand alone.TheBlueOne
- anxiousarms0
Journey did it this year and started touring. The new singer IS amazing like the old singer.
But I still don't abide. It just feels wrong.
- morilla0
Blue have you heard Chris Shinn from Unified Theory? He was touring with Blind Melon. He freakish sounds pretty close to Shannon. Just a little higher register.
- locustsloth0
Replacing a drummer or a guitarist is WAY different than replacing a singer. The voice is the only blatantly human interface a listener has with the music. It's difficult to connect on a personal level to any other instrument. Changing singers is like trying to forge a new connection.
The can only think of a couple rock bands that were successful after changing singers:
• AC/DC (as mentioned above)
• Faith No More (but only cause they weren't very popular with the first one)
• Anthrax (they weren't quite as successful, but that was due to the quality of songs, rather than the singer. John Bush rocks)Anyone think of any others?
- fugged0
nirvana - cobain.
- CyBrain0
You can have Zeppelin without Plant and Bonham as easily as you can have the Who without Entwistle and Moon or the Beatles without Lennon and Harrison.
In other words, you can't.
- Only AC/DC, the Stones and Metallica have really pulled that off...OK..and Black Sabbath,,,TheBlueOne
- ..but no one died in Black Sabbath,,,TheBlueOne
- ozzie is rigged up on strings man, like the greatful dead video for "I Will Get By"tasty
- I'm really against death.CyBrain
- Didn't Sabbath's guitarist die? Randy Rhodes? and I don't think any of those bands lost half their members.CyBrain
- That was Ozzy's guitarist post-Sabbath...1982...TheBlueOne
- tasty0
dumb.
Hot Topic t-shirt sales not pulling in enough cash anymore?
Let an amazing history remain that way.
- anxiousarms0
no one can sing like plant. period.
- You obviously missed a good portion of the 80's then...many tried...TheBlueOne
- Stone Fury, Kingdom Come, Early Rush Geddy Lee, Zebra, Young David Coverdale...TheBlueOne
- ..what's his face..the dead dude from Blind Melon...the guy from Mars Volta...TheBlueOne
- but then again, no one else had the total "Plant Package"TheBlueOne
- key word being "TRIED" and failed. don't site music from the 80's as an example of anything...anxiousarms
- I wasn't "site"-ing. I was "citing". And I lived the 80's so I can.TheBlueOne
- good for you for growing up in the 80's. so did i, although i'm leaving them behind.anxiousarms
- BaskerviIle0
I was one of the few (20,000) people lucky enough to attend the one off led zep gig last christmas. It was amazing, one of the best gigs ever, they were really tight, didn't sound aged or over-the-hill at all.
BUT robert plant was great and I can't see how they can tour without him. I respect his choice not to tour, but I agree you can't call it Lep Zep without him.
I have a feeling they might get some other famous singer to fill in. Like when Queen got Paul Rogers to sing.
I was thinking maybe it will be Dave Grohl because Page and JPJ played with foo fighters recently. That would be cool to see but it won't be led zep.
- locustsloth0
What is the thing you are most proud of doing in elementary school? A painting? A little part in a play?
Now what if nearly everyone you met was like "Hey, you should really paint something like that again, i LOVE it!!!"
Why revisit or rehash a past that is so wonderful and loved? The likelihood, especially given the number of years since they've been Led Zep, is that it won't measure up.
i imagine the Raising Sand album and tour was much more fulfilling to him than playing a bunch of old songs (in a lower key so they're back in your range).
Enjoy the old albums. Get a bag, take the day off, listen to them all and then watch The Song Remains the Same. But you can hardly begrudge Plant for wanting to leave the past in the past.
- rylamar0
It's unfortunate Jason Bonham has to play a Zep tour instead of being able to focus on Damnocracy...
- TheBlueOne0
If Page and Jonesy are going to tour without Robert at least have the common human decency to not label the project "Led Zeppelin"
- calcium0
The bummer about Robert Plant is that he thinks his Allison Kraus collaboration is more important. I don't mind the album, but it certainly doesn't hold a candle to Physical Graffiti.