[Jeff Higgins]

The music was great and Robert Plant has seemingly not aged a bit. He still has an amazing amount of energy, and if anything, his voice has matured to the point where he is much more complete as a vocalist than in his Zeppelin heyday.

They did a couple of tributes to Bonham but, unfortunately, the drummer was no Bonzo. The guitarist did his best to emulate Jimmy Page on the old Zeppelin stuff but, as was the case with the drummer, he probably shouldn't have even tried. When they played their new music they were fantastic.

All of that said, I was a bit dissapointed. Not in the music, but in the attitude presented by the performers. It took well over an hour between the warmup band and the headliners. It appeared the roadies had run out of things to do after about 15 minutes of changing everything over, and were trying to look busy as they, and everyone else, waited for the band. Once they did take the stage they only played for an hour before Plant said goodnight. They did play a couple of encores but, all in all, it was a very short set. A little too much of the stuck up rock star approach for me.

Speaking of the warmup band; they were fantastic. Three kids out of Detroit that call themselves "The Sights". I picked up their CD on the way out. Old Gospel and Blues based rock'n'roll; quite unlike what most of their generation is into. Great stuff; maybe there is hope for mankind afterall. Geez, though - they looked younger than my kids. I'm getting old. Has it really been 25 years? Wow.