Jimmy Page / John Paul Jones / Jason Bonham

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Ah ben ouais, Paul Rodgers ça l'aurait fait !

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Avec Coverdale ça l'aurait fait grave.

T'aurais aimé ça, hein mon salaud

En plus ils auraient appelé ça Page / Plant II et personne n'aurait bronché

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Robert Plant explique pourquoi il n'est pas intéressé :

BJ: Robert, I wanted to try and avoid any mentions of these constant Led Zeppelin rumours, but hear my question, because I think it's an interesting play. You've got your reasons as to why there isn't going to be the Led Zeppelin reunion with you, and its nice that you finally sort of set that out, because then we can put the rumours to bed. But you can understand I suppose the interest and why the public's appetite is still so intense.

Plant: "I guess I… well, you know, the thing is, look at it like this, the reason that it stopped was because we were incomplete, and we've been incomplete now for 28 years. And 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. I mean, you only get one shot at these things, and if they're spectacular on day one, if on day 10 they aren't so good… As Alison said, when we cut out, started to make Raising Sand, we gave ourselves a deal about if we don't get anything going in three days, let's just go out for lunch and say see you later. And I think the thing about it is really, is that to visit old ground, it's a very incredibly delicate thing to do, and 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, its very hard to go back and meet that head on and do it justice."

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Robert Plant for President !!

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Clair, il dégage une intégrité, une honnêteté et une dignité remarquables dans sa position et la façon dont il l'explique.
Alors qu'il pourrait se faire des couilles en or en se reniant.

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Je pense qu'il se fait des couilles en or même sans renier quoique ce soit

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Certes, mais là vu la demande et le buzz après le concert de l'an dernier il lui suffit d'un mot pour déclencher une avalanche de billets verts. Il n'en a pas besoin c'est certain, mais il a quand même trouvé les mots justes pour expliquer en quoi une reformation est une mauvaise idée pour lui.

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On apprend aujourd'hui que Steven Tyler (Aerosmith) avait auditionné pour être le chanteur de ce nouveau projet, ce que son acolyte Joe Perry n'avait apparemment pas trop apprécié...

According to The Pulse of Radio, Joe Perry confirmed the rumors that Steven Tyler did indeed try out for LED ZEPPELIN shortly after Robert Plant passed on reuniting with the band in 2008. For the first time Perry shared the details of Tyler's ill-fated attempt to front ZEPPELIN, telling Classic Rock magazine, "Steven disappeared and I called around. Somebody said he was in London trying out for LED ZEPPELIN. It's something I've never talked about before. It's a kind of window into how hard it's been to keep the partnership together. It's not the first time things like this have happened— that's the downside of our relationship."

According to what Jimmy Page told Perry, the rehearsals were "shambolic," with Tyler unfamiliar with the ZEPPELIN catalogue and under the impression they would be working on new material.

Perry added: "Page felt really awkward about the audition, but ultimately it was a group decision (to pass on Tyler)."

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A son age... passer une audition

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Jason Bonham dit qu'ils sont passés très près de prendre un autre chanteur après avoir travaillés un an ensemble, mais qu'au bout d'un moment ça n'avançait plus alors ils ont simplement abandonné.

Et en recoupant les infos on comprend que les 2 chanteurs auditionnés étaient donc Myles Kennedy (maintenant avec Slash) et Steven Tyler (Aerosmith).

According to The Pulse of Radio, drummer Jason Bonham, who stood in for his late father John when LED ZEPPELIN played a one-off reunion concert for charity in December 2007, has revealed the band came "real close" to continuing from there without singer Robert Plant. Bonham told Music Radar that he, guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist John Paul Jones worked on new material for a year before deciding to abandon the project, explaining, "After a while, it was just time to move on. We did a year of writing and putting stuff together. I loved working with Jimmy and John Paul."

Although a singer was never named, ALTER BRIDGE vocalist Myles Kennedy was invited to jam with the trio in 2008. Kennedy told The Pulse of Radio what it was like to get into a room with the members of LED ZEP. "It was so surreal, it was just unbelievable," he said. "I spent the day there in a studio with those guys. playing songs, and next thing you know, I believe in September that year we got together again and spent what I like to consider probably the greatest week of my life playing with those guys. And any time I'm having a bad day, I think about those days and suddenly everything feels a lot better 'cause I got to experience that."

Oddly, Bonham hinted that another vocalist besides Kennedy was considered for the job, saying, "Somebody else was involved — and that's all I'll say."

Rumors at the time indicated that Chris Cornell and even AEROSMITH's Steven Tyler were invited to jam.

After the ZEPPELIN project fell apart, John Paul Jones went on to play in THEM CROOKED VULTURES with Dave Grohl.

Bonham is playing in BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION, while Kennedy is touring with Slash and will be out with ALTER BRIDGE this fall in support of their next record.

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Ce projet n'avait pas abouti car Page et Jones n'arrivaient pas à se mettre d'accord sur un chanteur, d'après les intéressés :

According to The Pulse Of Radio, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones revealed some of the details following the LED ZEPPELIN jam sessions following their 2007 reunion. It's no secret that Page, Jones, and Jason Bonham were all geared up for more live work with the band, but the pair has now revealed that following Robert Plant's decision to not join in, the trio were working up original material for a new band.

Although both Steven Tyler (AEROSMITH) and Myles Kennedy (ALTER BRIDGE, SLASH) have gone public about their time working with the ZEP members, it seems now that the majority of the work was done before any vocalist entered the picture. Jimmy Page explained to Classic Rock, "Certainly for Jason, myself, and John Paul Jones; Robert had his Alison Krauss project to promote. It seemed the right thing to go in and start playing new material. I thought we really should play to our strengths here, which was the music. But there were a lot of movements to bring in singers and do this, that and the other. And that would've changed the character too early from what we were doing. I won't say there was pressure, but there was a lot of hinting about this singer and that singer. For me it was more a question of, let's see what we can really do. And I don't think we got a chance to do that. Of course we would've played LED ZEPPELIN material, but you want to be playing some really, really good new music beforehand."

John Paul Jones added that once it was clear that Robert Plant was not going to be joining the exploratory rehearsals featuring the new material, it was never going to be merely a LED ZEPPELIN project with a new lead singer. "Not at all," he said. "That's a total misunderstanding. I said, 'Of course, if we go out (on the road), we're going to have to do some ZEPPELIN numbers.' And there's nothing wrong with that. In fact, we rehearsed 'Carouselambra' (from 'In Through The Out Door'), which we've never done live before, and we had a bunch of new material done. But Jimmy and I couldn't agree on singers. . . I quite liked Myles Kennedy. He's got the range, but his voice is completely different than Robert's. Which was fine by me, because it was going to be a completely different band. But it didn't work out and we all moved on."

John Paul Jones has often made light of the fact that Page and Plant reunited in the mid-'90s for two albums and a world tour without him. He recalled that despite being partners with the pair in LED ZEPPELIN — he found out about their team-up through a third party. "I was kind of disappointed that I found out about. . . I read about it in the newspapers," he said. "I called up somebody who works with all of us at the time and said, 'I see the rumors are getting strong again,' because there's always rumors about reunions and stuff. And they said, 'Oh didn't they tell you?' And I went, 'Well, tell me what?' And he said, 'Well, they're getting back on the road again.' 'Oh, well, OK, (laughs) whatever.'"