Climbing the Stairway of Reunion
Holy Crap.
According to the rumour mill, Led Zeppelin are going to do a reunion show. The band that swore “never again.” Fans around the world sullenly accepted that they would never again see the band live.
Yet here we go.
Rumours have abounded before. Someone always jumps up to quash them.
This time, no one has. The ledzeppelin.com webpage has been updated with a mysterious date, and no explanation.
Some say it’s just the release date for their new ‘Best-of’ double CD. But why all the mystery then?
The band has scheduled a Press Conference for later today British time (obviously not NZ time… it’s already 10pm!) in which they are expected to announce a charity show.
Note the singular.
It’s probably going to be at the new O2 arena in London, which can hold aroun 18,000 people.
18,000 lucky people.
180,000 wouldn’t be enough. 10 shows wouldn’t be enough. There is no way that the band would be able to satisfy the demand for a final tour without extensive tours of most countries.
If the rumours are true. If the concert is announced. If it all goes ahead.
Tickets to that concert, once scalped, will easily reach the $10,000 mark.
Should they do it, though? I mean, they’ve had a couple of soft reunions before, for Live Aid and MTV Unplugged. But the band’s limitations shone through every time. Robert Plant’s voice has lost range. Jimmy Page is looking old and tired. They refused to consent to thir performance being distributed on the Live Aid DVD as it wasn’t up to scratch.
Should they really risk a final lacklustre performance, despite its obvious definite success?
Or should they rather leave it be, and not taint the memories, remaining forever as the ‘Gods of Rock’ ?
More info:
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1283655,00.html
http://ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/led_zeppelin_announcement_expected_next_week.html
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Adey Ben, 2 months without a post is terrible. Get moving!!!!!
yojoe What about Missile Pops?
Shannon OMG. Check it out… http://mudhead.uottawa.ca/~pet e/beard.html
Ben A singular beer won’t quite cut it. But you’re on the right track…
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Surely this would be at Wembley, surely the ‘best band ever’ would play at the best stadium in the UK (and arguably the world, that place is amazing)?
Rumour is for O2… but yeah, I would have thought Wembley as well. Maybe they just want to play the newer place?
Yeah, I haven’t been to the Dome since it became the O2, but it does seem like a cool place to have a music venue, maybe they thought that being in a dome suited them a bit more.