Led Zeppelin To Replace Robert Plant

Then its not Led Zeppelin 

rushfan4 wrote: Interesting.  I'm 90% sure that Alter Bridge was the band that played at the 2005 All Star Game here in Detroit.  They played 3 or 4 songs prior to the home run derby (I think).  Useless comment since I don't remember that much about it.  They were somehow related to Creed.  I think after Creed broke up, 1 or 2 former Creed members formed Alter Bridge.

Actually, Alter Bridge are Creed without their singer Scott Stapp. But that's all I Know about them, which may say much on how good they were.

Since Bonham was Zeppelin (in the first place and why they stopped soon after his death) , they can replace or replant whomever ......... Moby Dick , babe, see it live, you know what I mean

debrewguy, no I haven't seen it. Even assuming all of that is true, it still hasn't happened regardless of how much money is on the table and what Dee Snider and his manager say about Page/Plant being ready to go.

I haven't heard any statements from either of them yet, so I'm sticking to what I said before: this isn't 100% true unless a band member or the official website announces it. That is the only case in which it is definitely happening.

I, for one, hope it isn't true, because Zeppelin without Plant is not Zeppelin. Just in the way that Page/Plant sans Jones wasn't Led Zeppelin either.


Edited by ClassicRocker - October 14 2008 at 16:06

ClassicRocker wrote: debrewguy, no I haven't seen it. Even assuming all of that is true, it still hasn't happened regardless of how much money is on the table and what Dee Snider and his manager say about Page/Plant being ready to go. I haven't heard any statements from either of them yet, so I'm sticking to what I said before: this isn't 100% true unless a band member or the official website announces it. That is the only case in which it is definitely happening. I, for one, hope it isn't true, because Zeppelin without Plant is not Zeppelin. Just in the way that Page/Plant sans Jones wasn't Led Zeppelin either.

The only weight I give to it is that Snider and Plant share the same manager, therefore the "inside information" that Plant has refused, and that Page/Jones still want to go.
It does give pause to think that they may have second thoughts. Queen pulled it off with Paul Rodgers, but being the singer who replaced Scott Stapp as Creed's (reborn as AlterBridge) vocalist isn't really close to the status that Robert Plant has. And even with the two threads here at PA, I haven't seen any name singer that could stand up to scrutiny. My best guess would have been Sammy Hagar, but as good a fit as he might be, he's just not on the same level. Paul Rodgers had Free, Bad Company, and of much less standing - the Firm. And the new team with Queen happened to seem like a good fit, without being a rip off of Mercury's work with Queen. But I just can't see any of Sammy's songs, solo or Van Halen, that Zep could play that would stand up to their own masterpieces.

Bern wrote: Hawkwise wrote: Then its not Led Zeppelin  Yeah, it wouldn't be Led Zeppelin even if Plant was there. He doesn't sound like he used to at all and, most of all, Bonham died a long time ago.

There were actually two reasons why LZ disbanded in 1980: Jones found Bonham was unreplacable and Plant wanted really out of the band. Unlike others he hurried to start his solo career. Page wanted actually LZ to conitinue with Cozy Powell on drums. So, like 1980 Plant is not interested in working with egomaniac Page any more. History`s repeating. 

So the rumor is now that Steven Tyler has been jamming with the Led Zep guys?  

MargusKiisEstonia wrote: There were actually two reasons why LZ disbanded in 1980: Jones found Bonham was unreplacable and Plant wanted really out of the band. Unlike others he hurried to start his solo career. Page wanted actually LZ to conitinue with Cozy Powell on drums. So, like 1980 Plant is not interested in working with egomaniac Page any more. History`s repeating.

This is highly questionable, I suspect based on dubious sources and speculation  ..to assume Robert Plant "really wanted out of the band" simply because he released a solo album before the others (untrue by the way, as Jimmy Page's Death Wish ll soundtrack was released the same year Plant's solo debut, 1982) is sheer theory, and anyone who knows the band's history knows Plant and Bonham were the closest of the four members having known each other well before Zep formed.

..and Page is an egomaniac, huh.  I see, of course he is, and Bonham is overrated, Jones was mediocre and Plant was a hack  ..oh and they stole almost everything they played.  Wonderful.

Well, if Jones is true to his word, and some of it is of the "we're not going to play everything like we always did" nature, then it might work.
But it has to fit with his "tribute" band comment, i.e. get a new singer and just play the same old songs the same old way, bring out the bow for Jimmy's solo, cloud up the stage for No Quarter, etc ...
Funk it up, trash it out, acousticiasize some, whatever. Call yourself Zep to reflect the past, but only as the base for a new phase. And if Jones comes through like he did on In Through the Out Door, and Jimmy does more than w**k, a new singer could be the twist in the mix to make it worthwhile.
Can it work ? Well, I loved the live album Paul Rodgers & Queen put out. Their new studio album, Cosmos Rocks, though, at best leaves me hoping they give it another try.