Jimmy Page wants world tour

[WolfeMacleod]

Hell.
Yeah.


http://www.adelphia.net/news/read.php?ps=1016&id=14348998&_LT=HOME_LARSDCCL2_UNEWS


Led Zeppelin Guitarist Wants World Tour
Monday, January 28, 2008 8:04 AM EST
The Associated Press
By ERIC TALMADGE

TOKYO (AP) — Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page said Monday he was ready to take the iconic band on a world tour after burning up the stage at last month's reunion concert in London. But it probably won't be before September.

"The amount of work we put into O2 was what you would normally put into a world tour anyway," Page, 64, said of the intense rehearsing the band did for the Dec. 10 concert at London's O2 Arena.

The band's three surviving members — Page, singer Robert Plant and bassist-keyboardist John Paul Jones — were joined at the sold-out benefit show by the late John Bonham's son Jason on drums.

Page, who was in Japan to promote the new Zeppelin release, "Mothership," said the two-hour-plus concert was proof that Led Zeppelin can still perform at its best.

He said the band, which formed in 1968, was ready musically to get back together and take it out on a wider run, but it was not clear when it would go on tour as the singer had other plans.

"Robert Plant has a parallel project and he is busy with that until September," Page said.

Plant and bluegrass star Alison Krauss will begin their world tour with a run of shows in the southern U.S. this spring. The two released an album in October called "Raising Sand" that debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard chart in the U.S. The duo will tour Europe in May before returning for North American shows still to be announced for June and July.

Page said the band set their standards very high before agreeing to do the reunion, their first in 20 years. Led Zeppelin broke up in 1980 after the elder Bonham's death.

Page said they rehearsed for weeks, apprehensive that the cohesion they had in the 1970s when they were at their peak might be hard to rediscover.

"We wanted people who might not have even been alive in 1980 when we finished to understand what we were," he said.

Page said all went well until he broke a finger in three places, forcing the band to postpone the show for several weeks.

"But we did the show, and it was great," he said. "It was instant in terms of chemistry."

[cameron.arnott]

Bring It On!!!

At Least Bring It Down Here

[stuartj]

I would queue.

[Rick Lee]

Wolf, let's have a thread of those NAMM photos.

[id10t]

There was a brief rumor of them playing at Bonnaroo. A friend of mine is a vendor for that, I was ready to get a baby sitter for a week and take the wife...

[gassy]

I'd pay big bucks to see them live.

[legion]

So after two decades of fueding, Page and Jones are talking again?

[WolfeMacleod]

Originally Posted by Rick Lee

Wolf, let's have a thread of those NAMM photos.

Oh..you bet.
DIdn't take very many unfotunately...but I'll post soon

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Oh yea. Oh yea. Oh yea. . .

I'd be all over that like Oprah on a baked ham.

[72doug2,2S]

The Band Remains the Same

well sort of.

[72doug2,2S]

[72doug2,2S]

What? 11 replies and no politics! This is inconceivable!

[the]

Wow, he's 64 years old! That makes me feel old (although fortunately not nearly as old as him).

World Tour would be awesome, though. Never got to see them as a kid, and the show they did in London recently looked like it was great (unlike most of the other reformed old bands).

Really amazing, though. If you would have told him, in 1970, that people would pay thousands of dollars each to see him play when he is 65 years old, he would have LOL'd.

[turbocarrera]

he's pretty cool

[legion]

Originally Posted by the

If you would have told him, in 1970, that people would pay thousands of dollars each to see him play when he is 65 years old, he would have LOL'd.

He would have told you he wouldn't live that long...

[Sonic dB]

Page has always seemed like the driving force behind the business side of Zeppelin... of course he put the band together to begin with so that is understandable...the guy doesnt stop though and is still creating, far better than most other aging rock stars his age.

[Sonic dB]

Here is something of interest...the Richest Rock stars in GB/Ireland...
It is surprising to see the Led Zeppelin guys ranked so low....

New British, Irish rich list includes 38 pop, rock stars
Published: Thursday April 26, 2007



Pop and rock stars account for nearly three billion pounds (4.4 billion euros, 5.9 billion dollars) in an annual list of the richest people in Britain and Ireland to appear this weekend.

The Sunday Times Rich List includes 38 entries from people whose fortunes derive from the music industry, and many of them are now old enough to claim their pensions, the newspaper said Friday.

The two surviving members of The Beatles -- Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr -- plus the late George Harrison's family, have a combined wealth of more than one billion pounds.

They are followed by the Rolling Stones, who are worth 570 million pounds together, with singer Mick Jagger sitting on a 215-million-pound fortune.

Ireland's U2 are the wealthiest Irish music millionaires, with a combined wealth of 487 million pounds.

Five other supergroups make onto the list: Pink Floyd (David Gilmour and Roger Waters, 85 million pounds each); Queen (Brian May, 75 million pounds; Roger Taylor, 70 million pounds); The Bee Gees (Barry and Robin Gibb, 120 million pounds combined); Led Zeppelin (Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, 70 million pounds each); and Coldplay, whose four members are worth 30 million pounds each.

The Rich List profiles the 1,000 wealthiest people and families in Britain plus the richest 250 in Ireland.

No advance details have been given of the richest person. Last year, Indian steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal, a British resident, topped the list with a 14.88-billion-pound fortune.

The list is based on identifiable wealth -- land, property, plus other assets like racehorse and art, or significant shares in publicly-quoted companies.

It does not include bank accounts, as the newspaper cannot access them.

The threshold for entry this year is 70 million pounds, 10 million pounds more than last time around.

The increased threshold means that Queen's John Deacon and Dire Straits' Mark Knopfler (65 million pounds each) dropped off the list.

Former record label boss Clive Calder tops the music millionaires at 1.3 billion pounds, followed by Andrew Lloyd-Webber (750 million pounds) then McCartney.

List compilers said McCartney dropped down the list this year because they made a 100-million-pound allowance for the possible cost of his divorce from wife Heather.

Other notable music millionaires include Madonna and Guy Ritchie (275 million pounds combined); Elton John (225 million pounds); Sting (185 million pounds); Eric Clapton (140 million pounds); David Bowie (120 million pounds).

[legion]

I always liked the New Yardbirds better...