ROBERT PLANT NIXES LED ZEP TOUR
Monday, March 3rd, 2008 at 1:04pm by Vince Neilstein
The Sunday Mirror reports that Robert Plant shot down an offer for £300 million to do a Led Zeppelin reunion world tour, clashing with Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones who both wanted to go ahead with it. Plant said he’d rather focus on his new project with country singer Alison Krauss; the pair’s duet album Raising Sand reached #2 in America and Britain and they are starting their own tour in April.
Can I be the first to say… thank fucking God. Though seeing Zeppelin live would be extremely cool (if I decided to fork over the gigormous amount of dough it would have cost, which would’ve been unlikely anyway), a world tour would tarnish the legacy of Zeppelin and make them look like flip-floppers for re-negging on their promise to play just the one reunion show last year in honor of late Atlantic Records president Ahmet Ertegun. I think the world will be a little better off — and our wallets thicker — if this does not happen.
-VN
And yet you wait with baited breath for what will most certainly be a huge pile of dinosaur shit that is Chinese Democracy.
Ha! Seriously, I’d go see Zep in a second!
Yeah…it’s always sooo much better when legendary bands with the good fortune not to be DEAD….DON’T PLAY!
Great music is always best the LESS IT’S actually performed for the fans to enjoy.
The more a living legend continues to perform, the more they “tarnish their legacy”.
(Country side projects, though… “Thank fucking God!”)
How does that make sense….?
I hate this “Why don’t they just stop playing?” argument, which I also hear constantly applied to other ‘old’ bands..
Such as Maiden, Sabbath, Priest and of course the ubiquitous Stones….
I hope ALL their craggy old asses keep rocking til they have to drag the cadavers off the stage….
i really don’t care either way.
I first heard this is just a rumor…and it was 200 million…then 100 mil…now 300? What’s next…”Robert Plant turns down eternal life offer”?
Wow, I am shocked that anyone would actually consider a bands legacy to be better WITHOUT SEEING THEM LIVE. How can a band have any true legacy for you if you don’t even fucking see them live. I think that is when the best memories relating to a band are made.
Oh and to those who bash on them being old, what do you think about Robert Plant’s new stuff… He is old AND putting out new music. I think thats a double whammy of shit.
If anything there image is more tarnished now than ever before because they did a gay, exclusive concert that just pisses me off, and now I look at Robert Plant as a bitch who wants to push his new material in the spot light of denying a LZ tour.
Yeah,but tit is about a lot of money. I guess that if you are already full then why bother for 300 millions. Damn!
Robert is a wanker, and a self git.
What about the music ?
What about his band mates ?
What about the fans ?
I hope he enjoy his new life doin’ the opry
NASCAR, smokin’ spittin’ fightin’ shootin’ crusin’
dancin’ Yeah ha.
Bloody hayseed indeed . . .
Good riddance to bad rubbish i say . . .
Ever since Bonham died in 1980, Plant seems to have developed an attitude of ever-increasing disdain for the band he was once in, as well as for those millions of us who loved them and their music.
He’s made it more than obvious that he holds loyal Zeppelin fans in very low regard, which is a shame considering we’re the people who have provided him with enough wealth over the years so that he can afford to turn down 100?/200?/300? million (if you can believe such stupid figures).
Plant is clearly an arrogant, self-obsessed, washed-up old wanker with far too much of our money in the bank already. Perhaps it’s way past time that Zep fans bid him farewell once and for all as he wanders off into Bluegrass Hell.