Post by rockandrollphotog on Aug 17, 2006 13:14:16 GMT -5
It seems like interest in Led Zeppelin is higher than ever and there's a lot of people who wouldn't turn down a chance to see a reunion show. In my book Whole Lotta Led (check it out at on p. 238, I wrote about what it meant for the band once John Bonham passed away in 1980. Plant said , "No one could have ever taken over John's job. Never, ever! Impossible...The band didn't exist the minute Bonzo had gone." Zeppelin's final press release said the band was over out of respect for Bonham's family and also because the "undivided harmony" was now gone. Do you agree? Would a relaunching of Led Zeppelin fly to new heights or be a disaster like the Hindenburg and crash in flames? I saw the band in 1969--there was nothing else like them in music back then! And even when I saw them much later in 1977, Zeppelin could still deliver, even though there were severe drug problems by then with Page and the road crew. This marred the shows, particularly the final ever American show at Oakland. Who out there has seen Zeppelin? Could the magic ever come back? Or is it true as Plant said, that without Bonham there is no more band?
