Robert Plant Talks Zeppelin Reunion With Rolling Stone
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This month’s upcoming Rolling Stone has a quick interview with Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant, covering many of the recent activities he’s been up to, as well as his thoughts on a reunion with his beloved band. Seemingly, it’s not happening any time soon…
Plant recently told the magazine, that not only does he not have intentions for playing with his band any time soon, but he’s more worried about getting old. When noting the band’s 2007 reunion show at the O2 Arena in the UK he shared,
“It was an amazing evening. The preparations for it were fraught and intense, but the last rehearsal was really, really good, for all that it represented and all that we were trying to capture. But I’ve gone so far somewhere else that I almost can’t relate to it ... It’s a bit of a pain in the ass to be honest. Who cares? I know people care, but think about it from my angle – soon, I’m going to need help crossing the street.”In the meantime, Plant has been doing a number of other projects, including attempting to record the follow up to the Grammy winning, best album of 2009 Raising Sand, written with Alison Krauss. When talking about the sessions, he explained, “The sound wasn’t there. Alison is the best. She’s one of my favorite people. We’ll come back to it.” He also noted why he quit writing songs lately,
“The last time I lifted a pen was when Tony Blair became a Roman Catholic. We were supposedly going into the Gulf, determined to sort the world out in the name of tyranny. Then, once he had to leave the throne, he became a Roman Catholic and became a peace envoy in the Middle East. That’s when I knew the world was completely upside down.”Finally, the legend explained his thoughts on his old contemporaries and their newer aspirations.
“There’s nothing worse than a bunch of jaded old farts, and that’s a fact. People who have written their story – they’ve gotten to the point where nothing moves. I don’t deal in that, and I don’t deal with anybody who deals in that.”Plant is currently on tour with his Band of Joy, supporting their album of the same name which came out last year. Check the tour dates out below: January: 18 Asheville, NC - Thomas Wolfe Auditorium 19 Pittsburgh, PA - Peterson Events Center (University of Pittsburgh) 21 Ann Arbor, MI - Hill Auditorium 22 Toronto, ONT - Sony Centre for the Performing Arts 23 Toronto, ONT - Sony Centre for the Performing Arts 25 Boston, MA House of Blues 26 Upper Darby, PA - Tower Theatre 28 Mashantucket, CT - MGM Grand Theater at MGM Grand at Foxwoods 29 New York, NY - Beacon Theatre 30 New York, NY - Beacon Theatre February: 1 Washington, DC - DAR Constitution Hall 2 Raleigh, NC Raleigh - Memorial Auditorium 4 North Charleston, SC - North Charleston Performing Arts Center 5 Atlanta, GA - Fox Theatre 7 Charlotte, NC - Ovens Auditorium 8 Nashville, TN - War Memorial Auditorium 9 Nashville, TN - War Memorial Auditorium June - 2011 Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Colorado (TBA)
File this under “Things That Will Likely Never, Ever Happen but Would Be Kinda Awesome If They Did”: Roger Daltrey and Jimmy Page doing a blues album together. Maybe I’m being too negative. Maybe it will happen. It will if Roger Daltrey has his way about it; the front man for The Who has put the word out that this is something he’d love to do.
“I’d love to do an album with Jimmy Page. He needs a singer to drive him. I’m a great blues singer,” Daltrey told BBC 6Music. “I don’t sing the blues with the Who, but that’s what I used to be before Townshend started writing. I used to be a great blues singer.”
You can’t really hate on Daltrey for looking elsewhere for musical companionship; bandmate Pete Townshend’s well-known, ongoing issues with tinnitus have put the Who on indefinite hold as far as recording and touring. And Daltrey, who is still energetic and spry (trust this; I saw the Who just a couple of years ago and Roger Daltrey was bouncing around like a 21-year-old, with a pretty ripped body to match), is apparently looking for a new project to keep him occupied.
If Daltrey and the Led Zeppelin guitarist were to collaborate, they would just be the latest in a long line of super groups and dynamic duos, a trend that seems (for who-knows-what reason) to be prevalent among more seasoned musical veterans. For example, Page’s Led Zeppelin bandmate Robert Plant released an album called Rising Sand with Alison Krauss, to heaps of critical acclaim.
But until Jimmy Page responds to the invitation, Roger Daltrey has enough lined up for now: The Who has one scheduled show on March 30th, a cancer benefit at London’s Royal Albert Hall (where they are going to play Quadrophenia in its entirety, by the way), and this while in the middle of a much-anticipated tour with Eric Clapton, which started February 25th, 2010 in Pittsburgh. Take it easy, old man.