Led Zeppelin Tour RUMORS
Jun 26, 2007 at 10:26 PM Thread Starter Post #1 of 19

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It's way too early to get excited, but still, just the thought
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http://uk.news.yahoo.com/wenn/200706...e-c60bd6d.html

http://www.ticketnews.com/Led-Zeppel...age-Again62725

"On 25th June 2007, World Entertainment News reported Led Zeppelin have allegedly agreed to re-form for a special memorial concert for Ahmet Ertegun, the founder of Atlantic Records who died in December 2006. It was also reported that if the concert goes well, they may also tour in 2008. The same report suggests that the three surviving members (Page, Plant and Jones) would be joined by John Bonham's son Jason."

I first heard this from my brother-in-law who said he heard something on the radio and wanted me to do a search. It hasn't hit any major newsites yet, but it is out there.
 
Jun 27, 2007 at 12:30 AM Post #3 of 19
I'm not sure, but I can't imagine this going all that well. Didn't they decline to even release footage of their last reunion concert because it wasn't up to par?

Not saying I wouldn't attend, I just refuse to get excited about it... yet.
 
Jun 27, 2007 at 1:23 AM Post #5 of 19
I'd go if Bonham was still alive.
 
Jun 27, 2007 at 1:58 AM Post #6 of 19
I saw Page and Plant together in 94 and in 95. Its was pretty much amazing, especially for a 14 year old.

Tickets will be outrageous, and Plant's voice is shot, but it would be atleast as good as Police or Simon and Garfunkel reunion's.
 
Jun 27, 2007 at 2:47 AM Post #7 of 19
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Originally Posted by SR-71Panorama /img/forum/go_quote.gif
If this actually occurs, all I can say is start debating what headphones and amps you can live with out to afford the tickets.


Already am... Already making notes in my blackberry for selling plasma and other bodily fluids until then :p
 
Jun 27, 2007 at 3:00 AM Post #8 of 19
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Originally Posted by Coltrane /img/forum/go_quote.gif
I saw Page and Plant together in 94 and in 95. Its was pretty much amazing, especially for a 14 year old.

Tickets will be outrageous, and Plant's voice is shot, but it would be atleast as good as Police or Simon and Garfunkel reunion's.



I don't know if I believe the rumors. I'm not sure how I would feel about a tour. I will say that I saw Led Zeppelin four times. I also saw Robert Plant on "The Mighty Rearranger" tour at The Tower. His voice most definitely was not "shot." On that tour he did both "Black Dog" and "No Quarter" and he sounded great. Both my wife and I thought that he was showing his age, but that his voice was right on the money...
 
Jun 27, 2007 at 3:26 AM Post #9 of 19
EXCLUSIVE Seventies rock legends Led Zeppelin to reunite for UK gig &
world tour
By Sean Hamilton Showbiz Editor Sean.Hamilton@Sundaymirror.Co.Uk
24/06/2007
IT'S the reunion rock fans thought would never happen. Led Zeppelin
are planning to re-form for a massive world tour.

The surviving members of the Seventies "Whole Lotta Love" group have
been approached to headline a memorial concert for the founder of
their record label, who died last year.

They are understood to have agreed - and during discussions about the
concert, they gave the green light for a tour afterwards.

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Singer Robert Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist John Paul
Jones will be joined by the late drummer John Bonham's son Jason. Led
Zep, who split in 1980 following the death of Bonham, have reunited
only a handful of times in the last 20 years - most famously for Live
Aid in 1985.

But a tour has never been on the agenda for the group who invented
hard rock with songs such as Whole Lotta Love, Stairway To Heaven and
Black Dog.

Plans for the gig in London to remember Atlantic Records boss Ahmet
Ertegun are in the advanced stages. Approaches have also been made to
the Rolling Stones, Genesis, James Blunt, The Streets and Bloc Party.

A friend of the band said: "Page, Plant and Jones spoke and agreed to
do the memorial concert. They are waiting for a definite date.

"And no-one can quite believe it, but during discussions about the
concert they all gave the green light to a tour if it all goes well
and they don't all fall out.

"It has been hoped-for and denied for years. But this is closest they
have ever come to a reunion tour. The feeling is that this is going
to happen next year.

"They have watched the way The Police and Pink Floyd have come back
together.

"And, of course, they would like to step up again to the world stage
before they are all too old to do it. They certainly don't need the
money. But they would like the adulation."

A world tour by Led Zeppelin would generate a whole lotta cash. The
Stones' epic A Bigger Bang tour has already grossed more than
£200million.

But, with 300million album sales worldwide, money is not a concern
for Led Zep. While they no longer make the mayhem for which they
became famous - at their peak, the band wrote the rock rulebook for
drink and drug-fuelled antics - the surviving members all still make
music.

Jimmy Page and Robert Plant have continued to work together on-and-
off and in 1998 released the album Walking Into Clarksdale.

Plant, now 58, has never left his roots in the West Midlands and
still lives on a farm near Kidderminster.

Since splitting from his wife Maureen Wilson in 1982 he has remained
single, although he has been romantically linked with singers Alannah
Myles and Najma Akhtar.

Often voted the best rock guitarist of all time in polls, Page, 63,
from Hounslow, Middx, wrote the soundtracks to the Death Wish films
in the 1980s.

A renowned philanthropist, he was awarded an OBE two years ago for
his charity work helping Brazilian slum children. His daughter
Scarlett is a respected photographer.

John Paul Jones, 61, from Sidcup in Kent, has continued as a musician
and record producer and has worked with Paul McCartney, Brian Eno and
R.E.M.

John Bonham died aged 32 after choking on his own vomit following a
drinking session. His son Jason is also a fine drummer and has filled
in for his dad at the rare reunions as well as playing with Foreigner.
 
Jun 27, 2007 at 3:50 PM Post #10 of 19
Quote:

Originally Posted by John D. /img/forum/go_quote.gif
EXCLUSIVE Seventies rock legends Led Zeppelin to reunite for UK gig &
world tour
By Sean Hamilton Showbiz Editor Sean.Hamilton@Sundaymirror.Co.Uk
24/06/2007
IT'S the reunion rock fans thought would never happen. Led Zeppelin
are planning to re-form for a massive world tour.

The surviving members of the Seventies "Whole Lotta Love" group have
been approached to headline a memorial concert for the founder of
their record label, who died last year.

They are understood to have agreed - and during discussions about the
concert, they gave the green light for a tour afterwards.

Advertisement
Singer Robert Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist John Paul
Jones will be joined by the late drummer John Bonham's son Jason. Led
Zep, who split in 1980 following the death of Bonham, have reunited
only a handful of times in the last 20 years - most famously for Live
Aid in 1985.

But a tour has never been on the agenda for the group who invented
hard rock with songs such as Whole Lotta Love, Stairway To Heaven and
Black Dog.

Plans for the gig in London to remember Atlantic Records boss Ahmet
Ertegun are in the advanced stages. Approaches have also been made to
the Rolling Stones, Genesis, James Blunt, The Streets and Bloc Party.

A friend of the band said: "Page, Plant and Jones spoke and agreed to
do the memorial concert. They are waiting for a definite date.

"And no-one can quite believe it, but during discussions about the
concert they all gave the green light to a tour if it all goes well
and they don't all fall out.

"It has been hoped-for and denied for years. But this is closest they
have ever come to a reunion tour. The feeling is that this is going
to happen next year.

"They have watched the way The Police and Pink Floyd have come back
together.

"And, of course, they would like to step up again to the world stage
before they are all too old to do it. They certainly don't need the
money. But they would like the adulation."

A world tour by Led Zeppelin would generate a whole lotta cash. The
Stones' epic A Bigger Bang tour has already grossed more than
£200million.

But, with 300million album sales worldwide, money is not a concern
for Led Zep. While they no longer make the mayhem for which they
became famous - at their peak, the band wrote the rock rulebook for
drink and drug-fuelled antics - the surviving members all still make
music.

Jimmy Page and Robert Plant have continued to work together on-and-
off and in 1998 released the album Walking Into Clarksdale.

Plant, now 58, has never left his roots in the West Midlands and
still lives on a farm near Kidderminster.

Since splitting from his wife Maureen Wilson in 1982 he has remained
single, although he has been romantically linked with singers Alannah
Myles and Najma Akhtar.

Often voted the best rock guitarist of all time in polls, Page, 63,
from Hounslow, Middx, wrote the soundtracks to the Death Wish films
in the 1980s.

A renowned philanthropist, he was awarded an OBE two years ago for
his charity work helping Brazilian slum children. His daughter
Scarlett is a respected photographer.

John Paul Jones, 61, from Sidcup in Kent, has continued as a musician
and record producer and has worked with Paul McCartney, Brian Eno and
R.E.M.

John Bonham died aged 32 after choking on his own vomit following a
drinking session. His son Jason is also a fine drummer and has filled
in for his dad at the rare reunions as well as playing with Foreigner.




Exciting news...I'll be in line for those tickets...
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Jun 27, 2007 at 5:27 PM Post #11 of 19
I'll wait until we see an official announcement from the band. While I'm hopeful, a lot of this is still a rumor, especially the news about a tour. The memorial concert itself isn't even definite yet.
 
Jun 27, 2007 at 5:34 PM Post #12 of 19
Am I the only one who doesn't care and won't bother?

I used to like them and I guess I still do, but I can't imagine them sounding all that great. I mean even towards the end of their carreer (decades ago), all they did was mess around with sound affects. Jimmy Page and Plant were very hit and miss. Bonham was the only one that could keep them together and he's no longer around.

Sorry to be so negative, just throwing my view out there, but don't want to rain on anyone's parade that IS excited.
 
Jun 27, 2007 at 6:04 PM Post #14 of 19
I caught the Page/Plant show when I was 16. I was blown away. Of course, I was in high school and it's REALLY hard not to like Led Zeppelin when you're in high school. Not sure I'd support a reunion tour. I'd rather remember them as they were on LZ II.
 
Jun 28, 2007 at 3:27 AM Post #15 of 19
My father saw them 7 times. I have never been more jealous of anything in my life. He saw them twice at SMU Auditorium at SMU Dallas while they toured the US under the first album.
 

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