John Paul Jones: Zeppelin Tried To Replace Plant
John Paul Jones has spoken for the first time about attempts to carry on Led Zeppelin without Robert Plant.
Talking to BBC News, the bassist – who is now with Them Crooked Vultures – said:
“Jimmy Page and I rehearsed a bit [last year] with Jason Bonham, and we couldn’t really agree on singers and that fell by the wayside. Then this [Them Crooked Vultures] came along and to be honest, I’m really happy.”
The self-titled, debut album from Them Crooked Vultures is released by Sony on November 16.
The band – also featuring Josh Homme and Dave Grohl – are playing dates the next month in the UK. These are: Plymouth Pavilions December 10, Portsmouth Guildhall 11, Blackpool Empress Ballroom 13, Birmingham 02 Academy 14, Edinburgh Corn Exchange 15, London HMV Hammersmith Apollo 17/18.
For further info, go to www.themcrookedvultures.com
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[...] Original post by mdome [...]
Well let’s be thankfull it all fell through. Now we have new music by JPJ instead of all the old tosh with the wrong drummer and the wrong singer. The legend lives on.
Bob is making the right call on this one…
Couldn’t they just have gotten a new singer and done some NEW stuff? Why does Jimmy always get stuck holding the bag by Percy?
Page must have songs coming out of his ears by now. Whatever he does, it should be worth hearing. Hope he works with someone more interesting than Josh Homme. Grohl may be great, but…
well, at least they decided not to make the tour with steven tyler, maybe they should just wait a couple months for robert to finish his tour with allison… what the hell do i care?, maybe they wouldnt even come to mexico anyway
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