Scuttlebutt that Led Zeppelin was going to headline the Bonnaroo festival this June started back in December–only to be subsequently denied by the festival’s management shortly after. But the Mirror is claiming that Led Zep’s headlining gig is back on, thanks to Robert Plant having a “change of heart.” (Maybe the Bonnaroo organizers enticed him with the prospect of playing a bluegrass set as well? Or maybe this isn’t true at all and just filled a ginormous New Year’s-induced news hole within the Mirror‘s pages? It’s so hard to tell!) Anyway, not to be outdone by its not-even-music-centric UK tabloid rivals, the scrappy site Gigwise has a Led Zep-related rumor of its own, and it’s kind of a doozy if you read it straight:
First we had Ian Astbury dropping not-so-subtle hints that Led Zeppelin would be touring, and that their openers would be his band the Cult. And now, even though Robert Plant appears to be booking 2008 with anything but Led Zep dates as fast as he can, it seems crazed fans of Polyphonic Spree/Tripping Daisy main man Tim DeLaughter are claiming that both of their hero’s bands would be opening the tour. Ian, can you come out and at least try to help quell this misinformation? Because people are apparently falling for this. And they’re also thinking that the tour will be renamed in honor of the reformed Daisies:
So now that Led Zeppelin has broken the seal on its reunion–and made a lot of money for a lot of people in the process–and stoked rumors of stints at Madison Square Garden, other venues around the United Kingdom have started floating the idea of the reunited rockers playing follow-up shows (once Robert Plant gets the whole bluegrass thing out of his system, anyway). Two such stories popped up on Blabbermouth today, and even though both are pretty much boilerplate “we’ve contacted the promoters, and we’ll have them if they ever head out on the road” stores, one headline writer seems to be a bit less… optimistic about the chances of Led Zeppelin gracing his local rugby and soccer field.
The efforts of Clear Channel’s programmers have probably helped you already get sick of “All I Want For Christmas Is You” and that damned Don Henley holiday track, but there are quite a few seasonally appropriate songs worthy of your time out there. To help cut through the clutter we’ve asked Jon Solomon, whose 20th annual 24-Hour Holiday Radio Show on WPRB kicks off at 6 p.m. on Christmas Eve, to offer up some seasonal cheer in MP3 form. Today, he brings us a holiday-themed mash-up that incorporates music by this week’s biggest classic-rock reunion:
After much speculation over who, exactly, was trying to get clips from Led Zeppelin’s Monday show at the O2 arena removed from YouTube, the culprit has come forth. And it’s not anyone at Warner Music Group, or even Jimmy Page himself. Instead, it’s the Brooklyn-based outfit GrayZone, which calls itself “the ‘bootbusters’ of the entertainment industry.” (Yes, really.) And it turns out that the mass removal being attributed to WMG was the result of a glitch, or at least what the company claimed as it explained itself to Silicon Alley Insider:
Monday’s Led Zeppelin show, thanks to its semi-historic import and the widespread availability of cell phone cameras, may have been the most shakily videotaped show ever. More »
Monday’s Led Zeppelin show, thanks to its semi-historic import and the widespread availability of cell phone cameras, may have been the most shakily videotaped show ever. More »
Monday’s Led Zeppelin show, thanks to its semi-historic import and the widespread availability of cell phone cameras, may have been the most shakily videotaped show ever. More »
Above, Led Zeppelin performs “Kashmir” at the O2 Arena last night, and some dude with a cell phone is there for sharing his ticket bounty on YouTube. It doesn’t sound bad, although this pitched-down, singalong version of “Black Dog” is a little… meh. Excerpts from a few reviews by people who were actually there after the jump.
Led Zeppelin fans may have imagined Bron-yr-Aur, enshrined in Zeppelin lore as the Tolkien-sounding place in the Welsh countryside where the band recorded Zep III, as an enormous castle or a tower with a serious-looking moat, but in reality it’s a wee cottage owned by a salty vicar under siege by rampaging Zeppelin fans from around the world. And you thought you were irritated by the run-up to the Zeppelin reunion gig.
