Celebration Day

They've shown it several times locally.
A co-worker saw it, said it was pretty good, even though he thought Robert Plant's vocals were bad. He said Bonzo'z son could really play.
 
I saw Jason play when he was with Foreigner. They played our sales conference one year. Yeah, Foreigner playing corporate functions..

I wasn't going to hang around and watch, but once they got into it, it was actually a pretty good show. I ended up staying for the whole thing.
Their new singer does a great job.
They played some Zep tunes as well.

I've heard that comment about Plant's vocals a few times now.
 
I was never a big Zeplin fan, not as fanatic as some others, but they were, without a doubt, a great band.
I always thought Plant was the weakest link, though it's hard to picture someone else singing with them. His vocals were a huge part of their success.
But John Bonham was the engine that powered them. He was an incredible drummer.
For his son to have some of that ability is pretty cool.
 
In Robert Plant's defense, he's what--106 now? You can't pull off that voice forever. It's not like the mellifluous vocals that made Sinatra (and many others) famous and allowed him to pull them off until he passed away. Ever try to sing "Stairway to Heaven", "Black Dog" or "Travelling Riverside Blues"? Even when I was younger and could nail either one, it was not easy in the least. Years ago, my "Zep" voice was spot on... people couldn't believe it when I sang karaoke. I'm only 42, but the ability to nail Plant's voice is long gone. It's a bummer... I really enjoyed singing "Rock and Roll". Such is life, I guess.
 
This is the full Kennedy Center honors tribute to Led Zeppelin. Thought Stairway to Heaven was very well done.

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I've watched the DVD 11 times since buying it on the day it was released....

It's pretty phenomenal. Yeah - Plant's vocals ain't what they used to be - but they are far from bad. Really dig the bluegrassy solo stuff he is doing these days.

Heart's rendition of Stairway is pretty damn cool at those awards - but they did start out as a quasi-tribute to Zeppelin in their early days.

Wifey & I are going to see Heart next month...Looking forward to that.


 
Me like Zeppelin - a lot. Even though much of what they did was "borrowed" from old black bluesmen with a new twist.

I would just as soon they didn't do a tour. I think the one-off reunion did their legacy proper homage and they should leave it alone.

I remember a quote from Plant at that time when asked about a reunion tour: "I don't want to tour like a bunch of bored old men following the Rolling Stones around." Sums it up perfectly for me - I gotta respect the sentiment.

But would I buy a ticket if it happened and I had a chance to see it? Yeah.....probably.....
 
Yeah, I'd probably try and get a ticket too.

I like what they did. In the era in which they did their thing, it was new and exciting. Jimmy Page brought a lot of studio tricks with him but at the core they still had music that they could play live and still be exciting.

I'll admit that it took a long time for me to discover the music. I heard it early enough in my life. My older brothers were teenagers in the late 60s and early 70s. They were bringing this music into the house when it was brand new to the world.
Being that young though, I didn't get it.
However, I could say that for almost any music. I'm usually not into it when it's hot. I usually get to it later on. (I had no use for AC/DC and Van Halen in high school with the exception of Back in Black and my brother had most of AC/DC's albums. After Back in Black, I looked back at the earlier discography and found a lot to like.)

Anyway, off on a tangent again, I am.

One thing I read about the Celebration Day concert was something that Robert said later on in an interview, "About the third song in, we looked at each other and really knew we had something going on." (paraphrased)
The answer was in response to a question along the lines of the "old bored men" and seemed to indicate that they all felt excited enough to think that they could do this a little more often.

I think the bigger problem regarding the bored old men issue is they themselves tiring of a long tour.
It's safe to say that they could never book too many dates. The demand is there.
It would come down to whether they could book venues big enough for as many dates as possible and repeat that enough to meet the demand before they burn out.

I can imagine that if they are thinking about any of that, they are likely saying, "Let's just not bother because I don't want to get anywhere close to burning out."

So, it might be a battle of business against credibilityand personal satisfaction against business.
You don't want to appear to be doing a few dates just for the money, but if you do too many, you might stop having fun (personal satisfaction/credibility), and if that happens are you hurting your credibility and therefore affecting the viability of future dates and even your careers (together or solo)?


...and then there is the "We don't really need to do this." element.


Okay, I'm really rambling,
 
I bought Celebration Day off of Itunes a few months ago. Just the music, no video.
I thought it was awesome. :) Like I said earlier, I was never a huge Zeppelin fan, but I'm becoming one.
Robert Plant's vocals sounded ok to me, definately not washed up.
 
I went through a Doors phase, a Joplin/Big Brother phase, etc. I never got over the love of Zeppelin I got from my sister. Do I think every song is great? No. But so much of their stuff was. I also have a great respect for them for choosing not to continue when Bonzo died. That's a rare instance; most bands try to keep the money machine rolling regardless of what happens to them. I'd love to see them live with Jason Bonham on drums. It's as close as I'd ever get to seeing the original lineup.

I have no use for the Rolling Stones. They ceased to be relevant prior to my birth, but people will buy any piece of crap they offer or attend any concert they perform simply because it's the Stones. They could put out "Wheels on the Bus" as a single and sell a million copies because people are so convinced they're awesome that it's a must-have. KISS is another band I wish would just quit, for exactly the same reasons. How many "Farewell Tours" are you assholes going to have, where you charge outlandish ticket prices because it's supposedly the last go-round, and then you're back next year?!
 
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