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Led Zeppelin may be reuniting for a tour this fall! Bonham's son likely would take his place with the other 3 original guys getting back together.

Lets hope Yahoo's music coverage is better than it's sports coverage and that this is true. Hopefully they stop somewhere near this area.

Page and Plant have toured, so it isn't hard to imagine Led Zeppelin with John Paul Jones on bass and Jason Bonham on the cans.

By the way, rock fans, have you guys seen the "Closer to the Heart" Rush video from Different Stages? That is really cool for clasic fans. I saw it again last night, and I was really just amazed at how tight those three are.

wang_chi7 wrote:http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/thatsr ... eszeppelin

Led Zeppelin may be reuniting for a tour this fall! Bonham's son likely would take his place with the other 3 original guys getting back together.

Lets hope Yahoo's music coverage is better than it's sports coverage and that this is true. Hopefully they stop somewhere near this area.

I'd pay for that.

I would definatly pay for that


Led zeplin was the best

Page looks like five miles of bad road... yeah they were fun. Some said great, I'd give them very good at best. Page was a very talented guy, was it he or Beck who started out playing bass? I saw them at a rock festival in the 70s.

Why young people are sucked in to paying big money to see these guys, the Stones, etc. today is beyond me. Isn't there any band doing anything for young people today? We had so many, they were good, fun times, but these are old guys today. Must be like me seeing Sinatra, Davis Jr., Dean Martin when I was young... almost mentioned Elvis, who I saw at the old Met Sports Center too, but he wasn't several decades older than me. Is it that same thing today with old bands?

Why young people are sucked in to paying big money to see these guys, the Stones, etc. today is beyond me. Isn't there any band doing anything for young people today? We had so many, they were good, fun times, but these are old guys today

Im close to forty and grew up with stuff older than me. To me Zepplin
and the Doors was music that couldn't be topped. I never liked the Beattles
or the Rolling Stones much. I think a lot of people want to see the bands
that were there when the revolution was in full swing

John wrote:Page looks like five miles of bad road... yeah they were fun. Some said great, I'd give them very good at best. Page was a very talented guy, was it he or Beck who started out playing bass? I saw them at a rock festival in the 70s.

Why young people are sucked in to paying big money to see these guys, the Stones, etc. today is beyond me. Isn't there any band doing anything for young people today? We had so many, they were good, fun times, but these are old guys today. Must be like me seeing Sinatra, Davis Jr., Dean Martin when I was young... almost mentioned Elvis, who I saw at the old Met Sports Center too, but he wasn't several decades older than me. Is it that same thing today with old bands?

IMO Zeppelin was great thru the first 4 albums (maybe 5) and then they dropped down the ladder some. Got too weird for my taste.

I am a younger person (23 yrs) and to answer your question, no there really aren't any great bands around now. At least ones in the mainstream. The record companies have royally screwed up the music scene in many ways including not giving bands a chance to do a second album if the first didn't meet great sales. Nobody takes chances in music it seems anymore, or they just sound like ####; its sad.

There are a few current bands like Queens of the Stone Age, System of a Down, and Disturbed that I do like but none blow me away the way Zeppelin, Floyd, Hendrix, Slayer, Metallica, Rush, or the Beatles do.

John wrote:Page looks like five miles of bad road... yeah they were fun. Some said great, I'd give them very good at best. Page was a very talented guy, was it he or Beck who started out playing bass? I saw them at a rock festival in the 70s.

Why young people are sucked in to paying big money to see these guys, the Stones, etc. today is beyond me. Isn't there any band doing anything for young people today? We had so many, they were good, fun times, but these are old guys today. Must be like me seeing Sinatra, Davis Jr., Dean Martin when I was young... almost mentioned Elvis, who I saw at the old Met Sports Center too, but he wasn't several decades older than me. Is it that same thing today with old bands?

To me it's like seeing history. So many of the bands I love today were influenced by them, and it's interesting and fun to see where your music came from.

In my opinion there are bands that will eventually be up the Zep's level. At the top of the list are the White Stripes.

i'm surprised no one has brought up the feud that John Paul Jones had with the rest of the band after Bonham's death.


But if they're getting back together. AWESOME!!!

I really liked Plant's album he released last year.

John wrote: Why young people are sucked in to paying big money to see these guys, the Stones, etc. today is beyond me. Isn't there any band doing anything for young people today?

As Wang said, the answer to this question is "no". As great as the stones were, it is a little sad that at their age they are STILL the best rock and roll band on the planet. I don't think that is a tribute to them, it is a real condemnation of how pathetic the modern music scene truly is.

Most of the people I listen to are dead already, and to have the chance to see of these bands before they are gone is worth paying for to me. There are no popular modern performers out there that I would cross the street to see.

TrenchGoon wrote: As Wang said, the answer to this question is "no". As great as the stones were, it is a little sad that at their age they are STILL the best rock and roll band on the planet. I don't think that is a tribute to them, it is a real condemnation of how pathetic the modern music scene truly is.

Most of the people I listen to are dead already, and to have the chance to see of these bands before they are gone is worth paying for to me. There are no popular modern performers out there that I would cross the street to see.

If your faith in Rock is gone you haven't listened to nearly enough White Stripes. My comment four years ago would have been the same as yours before I got into them.

Click here and watch this

Then go out and buy "White Blood Cells", and renew your faith, brother!

Cliff wrote: If your faith in Rock is gone you haven't listened to nearly enough White Stripes. My comment four years ago would have been the same as yours before I got into them.

Click here and watch this

Then go out and buy "White Blood Cells", and renew your faith, brother!

To each his own I guess. I can't get into the Stripes. I should like them as I like the idea of a vintage-esque band and do like similar bands. I don't know what it is but I just don't like them.

Jackal wrote:Im close to forty and grew up with stuff older than me. To me Zepplin and the Doors was music that couldn't be topped. I never liked the Beattles or the Rolling Stones much.

The irony is that the Led Zeppelin members credit the Beatles and Stones as major influences.

It's all good, baby!

First off, the Beatles kill Zeppelin on any and all objective standards one can attach to art. Zeppelin was indeed awesome (don't get me wrong),

but put me in the group that says "No way" to the old school revivals. It is not the same. I've seen a boatload of concerts in my day (33 Phish, 27 Disco Biscuits, and countless others), and have been burned way too many times on the old revival acts.

Basically, you are going just for nostalgia, which is fine, but it's not a SHOW, you know, where they are going to do something jaw dropping, mind blowing, or face melting. The only exception for me was Dylan, who is like God to me and I've seen him 8 times, but I won't see him anymore. It's just not the same.

As for new rock, although hip-hop has indeed stolen the show, there are some great rock bands around today. I think Arcade Fire and Of Montreal are the cream of the crop.

For fans of '60s music, you would love Of Montreal. They basically incorporate psychedelic rock with some newer beats. But lots of Spencer Davis, Beatles, Kinks, and even prog-rocky sounds. I recommend their 3 latest albums. (Satanic Panic in the Attic, the Sunlandic Twins, and Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?)

Colinito wrote:For fans of '60s music, you would love Of Montreal. They basically incorporate psychedelic rock with some newer beats. But lots of Spencer Davis, Beatles, Kinks, and even prog-rocky sounds. I recommend their 3 latest albums. (Satanic Panic in the Attic, the Sunlandic Twins, and Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?)

I'll check them out!