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Re: Robert Plant: I Nearly Quit Led Zeppelin
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ROBERT PLANT: I NEARLY QUIT LED ZEPPELIN
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Robert Plant has revealed how he was ready to quit Led Zeppelin and become a teacher
Sunday October 31,2010
By Jane Clinton
ROCK superstar Robert Plant has revealed how he was ready to quit Led Zeppelin and become a teacher when his young son died.
The 62 year old said the death of his six-year-old son Karac Pendragon from a virus in 1977 made him reassess his life and he decided to turn his back on the band.
He said: “All of us had been thinking about what would happen next because the illusion had run its course.
“I’d already lost my boy and then you think: ‘I really have to decide what to do.’ I applied to become a teacher in the Rudolf Steiner education system.
“I was accepted to go to teacher training college in 1978. I was really quite keen to just walk.”
In the end it was the band’s drummer, John Bonham, who convinced Plant that training as a teacher for the progressive Steiner school system would not be right for him.
Two years later, in September 1980, Bonham died following a heavy drinking binge and Led Zeppelin’s 12-year reign was over.
Plant said: “John had been incredibly supportive to me so to lose John, that was the end of any naivety.
“It was very evident that my last connection was severed. As far as strong affairs of the heart and a confederacy it was gone.”
While Plant has gone on to great success, not least with his collaboration with Alison Krauss and his recent Band Of Joy project, he admitted he would never again reach the heights of superstardom achieved with Led Zeppelin.
In the forthcoming BBC2 programme Robert Plant: By Myself, which is part of an evening of shows dedicated to him and will include his BBC Radio 2 Electric Prom performance, Plant also speaks candidly about his rise from lowly roots in Stourbridge, West Midlands, to international stardom.
- dr_love6977
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There's a new book out by this guy who was on the 75 tour with them. He was talking on the radio the other morning, and I was shocked to hear some of these stories about how this was Page's band, and NOBODY in the band had any say but him. I'm surprised Plant didn't quit.
- Mikkamakka
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He almost saved us from the pain of having to hear Coda....
Coda was released after Bonzo's death, and had only throw-away tracs from their career. They could have released it as a 'Coda' in 1978, too.
The album that would have surely never gotten to be released without Plant was In Through The Outdoor. Not a masterpiece though.
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ROBERT PLANT's BAND OF JOY Announces North American Tour Dates - Nov. 16, 2010
Legendary LED ZEPPELIN singer Robert Plant and his new band BAND OF JOY — an updated version of his pre-ZEPPELIN group which also featured the late John Bonham — have scheduled the following North American tour dates:
Jan. 18 - Asheville, NC - Thomas Wolfe Auditorium
Jan. 19 - Pittsburgh, PA - Peterson Events Center (University of Pittsburgh)
Jan. 21 - Ann Arbor, MI - Hill Auditorium
Jan. 22 - Toronto, ON - Sony Centre for the Performing Arts
Jan. 25 - Boston, MA - House of Blues
Jan. 26 - Upper Darby, PA - Tower Theatre
Jan. 28 - Mashantucket, CT - MGM Grand Theater at Foxwoods Resort Casino
Jan. 29 - New York, NY - Beacon Theatre
Feb. 01 - Washington, DC - DAR Constitution Hall
Feb. 02 - Raleigh, NC - Raleigh Memorial Auditorium
Feb. 04 - North Charleston, SC - North Charleston Performing Arts Center
Feb. 05 - Atlanta, GA - Fox Theatre
Feb. 07 - Charlotte, NC - Ovens Auditorium
Feb. 08/9 - Nashville, TN - War Memorial Auditorium
"Band of Joy", the new album from Robert Plant and BAND OF JOY, sold 49,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 5 on The Billboard 200 chart.
Plant's first release since recording the six-time Grammy-winning bluegrass album "Raising Sand" with collaborator Alison Krauss in 2007, the "Band of Joy" CD enlists the help of an array of U.S. musicians, all of whom are performing with Plant on tour.
The new lineup of BAND OF JOY includes: Patty Griffin on vocals; Darrell Scott on multiple instruments and vocals; Byron House on bass and vocals; Marco Giovino on drums, percussion and vocals; and co-producer Buddy Miller on guitar and vocals.
Re: Robert Plant: I Nearly Quit Led Zeppelin
Robert Plant - The king of the high G (hidden # 2)
Here´s the man who started it all. His voice started to decline (rangewise) after a few years already but when one listens to these clips it´s not so hard to understand, robert used a lot of chest tone on these very high notes, that is taxing for the vocal chords, but impressive for the ear!
He also hit a short F#2/G2 on a elvis cover (love me) from a 73 soundcheck and there is a rumour of a C6(!) in a how many more times live 1969 version.
1. a solid A2 from "going to california", this is not his bottom.
2. An emotional D5 from "since i´ve been loving you".
3. A E5 from "rock´n´roll".
4. A F5 from "communication breakdown".
5. A F#5 from "babe, i´m gonna leave you".
6. A F#5 from "how many more times" live 1968-12-30.
7. A powerful G5 from "operator".
8. A classic G5 from "since i´ve been loving you", lots of chest tone here.
9. A G5 from "how many more times" live 1968-12-30.
10. and another one.
11. A strong G#5 from "i can´t quit you".
12. a G#5 from "how many more times" live 1968-12-30.
13. a primal scream G#5 from 1979 song "i´m gonna crawl".
14. the famous A5 from "black dog", a bit thin though.
15. a short A5 from "since i´ve been loving you" live 1973 madison square garden.
16. a powerful A5 (almost a Bb5) from "how many more times" live 1968-12-30.
17. a squeaky falsetto C#6 from "you shook me" 1969-01-10.
18. and lastly the famous "duet" with jimmy pgae off "you shook me" with a G#5 in the beginning followed by many G5:s.
Enjoy!
New info: Plant does high falsetto in the 1968-12-30 HMMT (Nobs version here on youtube) It is a G#6 at 5.04 sliding shortly up to Bb6!, then a solid A6 at 5.08, two C#6s at 5.10 then progressing downwards. I thought this was the guitar first! The guitar does a D6 at 5.03 and at 5.06.
