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Plant on why Led Zep reunion is a no no
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 5 February 2009
Any Led Zeppelin fans disappointed at the lack of a reunion tour and looking for someone to blame, well, I’d blame Jason ‘son of John’ Bonham, who obviously failed to properly replace his father in the reunited line up.
Well, I’m para-phrasing slightly, but frontman Robert Plant, whose non-participation scuppered plans for a full-on reunion tour, has told Absolute Radio that performing as Led Zep without the late Bonham, who died in 1980 of course, has never seemed right, because without him the band is “incomplete”.
Actually, now I’m felling bad about blaming poor old Jason. And the lack of Bonham on drums doesn’t seem to be the only reason Plant isn’t keen of reforming his old band.
He told Absolute’s Ben Jones: “I think the thing about it is really, is that to visit old ground, it’s a very incredibly delicate thing to do. The disappointment that could be there once you commit to that and the comparisons to something that was basically fired by youth and a different kind of exuberance to now, it’s very hard to go back and meet that head on and do it justice”.
He continued: “No matter what you do, you have to really guard the discretion of what you’ve done in the past and make sure that you have all the reasons in the right place to be able to do something with absolute, total conviction. I mean, if my great award is to do this, then I don’t want to do anything where we challenge what we did in the first place by just going back and visiting it without having a new, fresh makeover start”.
Ah, I know, the problem is obviously the passing of time – so that settles it, disgruntled Led Zep fans, you need to take out your anger on ‘time’. I’m not sure where time lives, though I seem to remember he had a magazine, perhaps it says in there.
