Rumour Rumour on the Wall

Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends....like reunion rumours. I just received a steamingly fresh reunion rumour involving Led Zeppelin....seriously.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2002471692,00.html

And now my 2 cents wort...

I'm skeptical. Afterall, there was 2 years of talk concerning a rumored reunion of Genesis with Peter Gabriel...when the announcement finally came that a Genesis tour was coming it was sans Gabriel. A class reunion of The Police is hot again...as is the enduring talk of Van Halen with David Lee Roth but without Michael Anthony.

On the other hand...tickets DO go on sale tomorrow for "Heaven and Hell"...the mark 3 version of Black Sabbath featuring Iommi, Butler, Dio and Appice. Rumours of these long-hairs reuniting first cropped up last year... anyways...

Let's look at this Led-ed rumour a little more closely. IMO Plant has put a stake into his own career with the release of his all encompassing solo box set....so I could see his participation....and Jimmy Page's. Afterall; he's been floundering since the demise of Zeppelin with only a modicum of fringe worthy commercial success. (Hey..Black Crowes' tribute albums featuring a sloppy Page augmented by the generous assistance of Audley Freed don't count OK?!) It's Jones who seems to be the odd symbol-rune-man out. He was happy doing his own solo thing and studio work. I saw him a couple of years ago as an opener for King Crimson....who were touring a new album. Jones was just ok...so maybe that means he's in too?!

Could this Zeppelin fly again....possibly. Don't hold your breath though...too much ego all around AND Jones would certainly expect a bigger share than what the predominant writing team of Page-Plant would offer. Another Page-Plant reunion is more likely....but I think Plant is perfectly happy with his own thing and is ecstatic with the privilege of guiding his own ship disparate of the notoriously control-freaky Page...

Either way....do yourself a favor...get the "How the West was Won" dvd and watch the band at its peak....and...just say no to old guys on reunion tours for the sake of finally getting some of that corporate-sponsored REAL filthy lucre that they missed out on in the '70's.

If; on the other hand, they release new music to tour then by all means go....but only if the new stuff is half decent, cause that's mostly what they'll play.

Better yet..go buy the real thing from the likes of Willie Dixon, Sonny Boy Williamson, Son House and Howling Wolf who were essentially ripped off by Page-Plant..

Oh and another thing...this sportsfan will not be buying tickets for "Heaven and Hell"...some 20 odd years ago I waited all night in line in -30 degrees to get tickets the first time around...(they were great AND I got lucky in the 8th row during "Die Young"). Me thinks that lightning won't strike twice..

Ron Wheeler