"Led Zeppelin II" took one position

Led Zeppelin's sophomore album received a first position on 27 December 1969.

Led Zeppelin said about his album that the band was first chart topper "Led Zeppelin II". Just like the songs "Whole Lotta Love" and "Ramble On."

From the Beatles' "Zeppelin II" took one position. Before "Abbey Road"comeback to the peak the album's starting run at the top of the Billboard 200 previous week

But "Zeppelin II" would run in mid-January and a five-week stretch through February.

Led Zep legend: Rock drummers to unite in honour

Great John Bonham, in rock some of the biggest name have announced plans to join forces in tribute to the late. In the New years, Led Zeppelin a really stick man will be honoured with a series of particular show due to take place in the United States.

Their concert will take place in West Hollywood and Anaheim on January 12th and 13th, entitled 'Bonzo: The Groove Remains the Same'. Outlining the plans, Whitesnake's Brian Tichy explained of the concerts: "It's all about tributing to rock's greatest drummer, John Henry Bonham."

John's son, Jason, is also an clap to the drummer and joined his father's old bandmates theirs concert play in London.

Robert Plant rules out Led Zeppelin comeback

He would rather listen to wailing Berber music than reform Led Zeppelin says Robert Plant.

After the death of drummer John Bonham in 1980 the band was dissolved by the Plant.Robert always turn the other two surviving members - Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones - despite being frequently approached about reforming with the group's.

Plant said he was more interested in working on other projects - such as playing with nomadic Berber and Tuareg musicians from the tribes of North Africa

Led Zeppelin reunion, Robert Plant doesn't want

Robert Plant would listen to music of Berber wailing than reform Led Zeppelin.

He said: "It's almost as if people can't see that I have other projects. It's like a woman with white heels and a pencil skirt passing by will attract my eyes, but most will miss it completely. But yes, some shrieking Berber music, blues musician Charley Patton, paying your own way to the Sahara to sing - it's insane. But if you want to play with the Tuareg, you've got to get there."

Robert Plant has such a specially big vocal range and is now connect to his especially high notes the people of the clans him in a specially way when he went to sing with them, and they weren't too sure of his gender.

He added: "A radio presenter interviewed some of the Tuareg guys and asked them what they thought of me. They said they weren't really sure whether I was a woman or not. The whole idea of it was great, their response wasn't that the songs were good, but about the gender of the guy singing them."

Jason Bonham Reflects on His Own Led Zeppelin Experience

Jason Bonham sat down with LA Weekly to discuss the tour and his Led Zeppelin Experience tour prepared for a stop in Hollywood this past week his father’s drumming legacy and his chance to sit in with his father’s band at London’s O2 Arena three years ago.The band themselves weren’t quite as dangerous as one might imagine, he said regarding the band reunion.

“They are the most normal bunch of guys you could be around,” he reflected. “At one point we were in rehearsal, and this old lady turned up with sandwiches: ‘Robert, here you are, I put an extra pickle on for you ... Jimmy, yours are here; John, here's your salad.’ When we took a break, everyone would take a section of the newspaper and read. And I'm going, ‘Where's the debauchery? Where's the upside down crosses and naked girls and sacrificial tables with virgins on them?’ But, boy, when they played ... The key to me pulling off the gig was that all I was only looking for was the reassurance from the three guys on stage. I didn't care that anyone else was in the audience.”

After the success of the O2 show, there was great anticipation that Led Zeppelin might continue on together. But singer Robert Plant proved unwilling to relaunch the band that broke up in 1980 after John Bonham’s death.

“Robert always expressed to me: ‘Jason, you know I love you, I loved your dad, and I know how great you are as a player. And on the night, you were great. But to me Led Zeppelin's John, not Jason.’ Although it would benefit me to go do it, I also agree with what he says. I understand.”

He continued, “I speak to Robert quite a lot. I'm talking to them as an adult now, talking about grown up things and music. As much as I was disappointed that it didn't continue on, I feel blessed that I got to live in that short time and be the most famous drummer on the planet for a few weeks.”

Led Zeppelin,Former Star Robert Plant Joins Cancer Gig Line-Up

Robert Plant Former LED ZEPPELIN star come forward to help and contribute cancer charity's fundraising concert after losing close friends to the disease.

To raise funds for trials in photodynamic therapy (PDT) treatment along with Robert Plant as well as The Who, Jeff Beck and Debbie Harry, will take to the stage in London for A Concert For Killing Cancer.

"Robert and I had lived through the final months and days of close friends battling with cancer, but also fighting to overcome the effects of their treatments. Only later we discovered that PDT could perhaps have saved their lives - and certainly given them some dignity in their final weeks." explains Plant manager Bill Curbishley behind his participation

The gig will take place at the Hammersmith Apollo on 13 January (11).

JASON BONHAM Talks 'Led Zeppelin Experience' In New Video Interview

Recently in an interview with drummer Jason Bonham about his 'Led Zeppelin Experience', an interview which is conducted by David "Gus" Griesinger. Jason Bonham celebrates the life and music of his father, the legendary LED ZEPPELIN drummer John Bonham. You can now watch the chat using below.

On October 8,2010 Jason Bonham started his North American tour at Encana Events Center in Dawson Creek, British Columbia, Canada.

Jason Bonham along with his team which includes, James Dylan (VIRTUAL ZEPPELIN) on vocals, Tony Catania on lead guitar, Michael Devin (WHITESNAKE) on bass and Stephen LeBlanc on guitar, pedal steel guitar and keyboards.The thing which was most attractive is there hallowed catalog as a state-of-the-art sound system and light show enhance their live performance onstage. Giant screens display futuristic art and mood-setting historical video footage and photos were set behind them which really electrify the fans over there who are attending the concert.

The setlist includes the following tracks, among others.

* Immigrant Song
* Celebration Day
* I Can't Quit You
* Your Time Is Gonna Come
* Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
* Dazed And Confused
* Lemon Song
* Thank You
* Moby Dick
* Friends
* Since I've Been Loving You
* Black Dog
* Ocean
* The Song Remains The Same
* I'm Gonna Crawl
* Stairway To Heaven
* Kashmir
* Whole Lotta Love
* Rock & Roll

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Led Zeppelin Experience

Have you ever been re-experienced? The original bands are no longer going concerns, but the music of Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix and other classic-rock heroes is evergreen, with younger generations discovering music known well by parents and grandparents. And so, serving nostalgia and new crowds alike, touring road shows Experience Hendrix, Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience and Classic Albums Live do big business.

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The Show: Basically a whole lotta Zeppelin, with hard-rock blues (Dazed and Confused, Babe I’m Gonna Leave You, and an encore of Stairway to Heaven included) accompanied by dazzling lighting and effects.

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The History: Bonham, who drummed for the one-off Zeppelin reunion in 2007, leads a North American tour on the 30th anniversary of his father’s death.

Led Zeppelin: Release Photographic Autobiography

Guitarist Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin band to release a photographic autobiography. The our self titled book will be released on September 27 and includes 650 photographs by page personally selected.

Genesis Publications report it as a “optical history of his vocation as one of the world’s most iconic to the guitar players”. The book will cost £445 and now is available to pre order from genesis publications.com.

Meanwhile, Page discovered in June that he was recently working on a new album.

Led Zeppelin: Reunion ‘heavy’

At London's 02 reunion Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant has admitted the band’s 2007 reunion was “too heavy” for him, and he avoided partying with Liam and Noel Gallagher afterwards in favour of going for a few drinks on his own.

Robert Plant rejected to party with Liam and Noel Gallagher after the Led Zeppelin reunion concert in 2007. The two former Oasis stars went to the singer’s dressing room after the sell out concert at London’s 02 Arena to have a drink with him but he decided to snub their offer. The 61 year old vocalist who performed alongside fellow surviving members Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones, as well as the late John Bonham’s son Jason at the gig told Mojo magazine: "Twenty minutes after we finished, the Gallagher brothers were leaning on the door of my dressing room and one of them said, 'You're the actual feeling thing, you are.' I said, 'I've known that all down the line but I think you required to go a little further round the corridor, next door on the left.' And I went. “I ended up in the Marathon pub, drank four bottles of lager and half a bottle of vodka then went to bed. Because I had to get away from it. I'd done it. Had to go. It was too incredible.”In the past, the rocker has voiced his fears about the surviving members of Led Zeppelin reuniting for a full tour as he doesn’t want to tarnish the group’s legacy. He said: "To visit old ground, it's a very heavy delicate thing to do, and the disappointment that could be there onec you commit to that and the comparisons to something that was basically fired by youth and a different kind of exuberance to now, its very hard to go back and meet that head on and do it justice."

At Mojo Awards Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page celebrated

Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page has been inducted into the Mojo Hall Of Fame at the magazine's award ceremony.
The best album prize won the Singer Richard Hawley, while Kasabian's single Fire was named song of the year.
But Florence and the Machine, who led the field with four nominations before the London event, was overlooked.
Page, who last won a Mojo award for the 2007 Led Zeppelin reunion, revealed he was working on new material with a number of different projects.
He has been taken on by Robbie Williams' management company IE.
He said,"I'm just looking forward to making some music and surprising people with it".
"It won't be just teaming up with lots of people who are (big) names. I've got an idea of something which I've had for a long time and now's the time to do it." But he declined to give further details about his collaborators or his new direction.
Mojo is now the best selling music magazine in the UK, selling more than twice as many copies as NME.
Five winners were voted for by Mojo readers, including best album, best single and best live act. That category saw US act Midlake beat Kasabian, Arctic Monkeys and Florence and the Machine.
A further 16 honorary prizes were handed out. They included the classic album award, which went to The Stone Roses for their 1989 self titled debut LP.
Bassist Mani, who picked up the trophy, said it was "gratefully received".
Asked why there were few new guitar bands making a splash in the way The Stone Roses did, Mani replied: "Bands of my era had a whacked out agenda. They walked it, they lived it, they breathed it.
"(They were) not necessarily the best musicians in the world. I think what's wrong with British music at the moment is people are too career orientated. They're afraid, or record companies will not allow them to take risks, and that just makes everything so uniform." A number of other acts from the 1980s were also honoured, including Marc Almond, Jean Michelle Jarre and Teardrop Explodes.
Teardrop Explodes were due to reunite for the first time in 28 years to accept the Mojo inspiration award, but singer Julian Cope did not turn up.
Keyboard player David Balfe said: "At seven o'clock I was told, 'He's going to be there - he likes to make an entrance.' At eight o'clock, 'He's going to be here.' Then we got a text - and he's not here."
Balfe went on to establish record label Food, which signed Blur.
Mojo editor Phil Alexander said: "The 80s are almost the new 60s. You can hear the influence of that decade everywhere.
"The aspects of the 80s we chose to celebrate at the Mojo Honours List reflect the genuine innovation of that period and I think you sense that the best music made at that time has had a massive impact on the musicians of today, in the same way that the 60s and 70s did previously.
"Somehow, there is a freedom in parts of 80s music that resonates among a new generation of musicians and fans."

Best band ever of Led Zeppelin really

The best band ever of the Led Zeppelin. ‘I’m In A Rock And Roll Band!’ crowned the Seventies rock gods, after boiling it down to a short list of three: Zep, Queen and The Beatles.
All good choices, of course, coming from a longlist of The Clash, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Joy Division, Nirvana, Radiohead, The Rolling Stones & The Smiths. Presumably a lot of names got weeded out along the way but it’s hard to argue with Led Zeppelin, an incredible coming together of nice musicians who pushed and pulled rock music in a host of new directions while fundamentally defining what it meant to be a hard, heavy, sexy rock band.
But personally, I would put them third on the list. The Beatles and The Rolling Stones are the bands who set almost the entire parameters for rock music in the Sixties. They remain the quintessential rock bands, and everything that followed is a kind of offshoot, either by reacting against them, or following through on their inspiration. Led Zeppelin certainly took up the baton and charged into the Seventies, but by that time the core of what it meant to be a rock band had already been defined.
I was talking this morning to the great English folk and rock guitarist Richard Thompson (he’s curating the Meltdown festival which starts this week). I made an observation about how rarely you hear the electric guitar in modern pop records, to which he retorted, “Good, its about time”. His argument was that the truly original and creative use of the guitar dominated rock template was essentially over by 1971, but its visceral and commercial entreaty is so great it has lingered on long past its sell by date.

Robert Plant’s New Band Has an Old Name.

Robert Plant still isn’t reuniting Led Zeppelin, but he is digging deep into his past for the name of his next project. Coming off a successful collaboration with the bluegrass singer and fiddler Alison Krauss, Mr. Plant, left, will next hit the road with a group called the Band of Joy, a name cribbed from the 1960s group from Birmingham, England, in which he performed with the future Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham.

In a news release Mr. Plant said the lineup for the new Band of Joy would include the singer Patty Griffin, the instrumentalist and vocalist Darrell Scott, the bassist Byron House, the drummer Marco Giovino and the guitarist Buddy Miller. The band will begin a 12-city tour on July 13 in Memphis and conclude on July 31 in Miami; it is also preparing an album.

UNRELEASED LED ZEPPELIN RECORDING DISCOVERED AT CAR BOOT SALE

A previously undiscovered bootleg of a 1971 Led Zeppelin gig has been unearthed at a car boot sale.

The gig, from the band's 1971 show at St Matthew's Baths Hall in Ipswich features tracks including 'Immigrant Song', 'Whole Lotta Love', 'Stairway To Heaven', 'Rock & Roll', and 'Black Dog'.

Bargain hunter Vic Kemp bought the CD bootleg at a car boot sale in Portman Road, Suffolk, and told the Evening Star that he picked it up for just "two or three pounds".

He explained: "I was going through a stand of CDs at the car boot at Portman Road and the guy who was selling them said, "you might be interested in this"."

Kemp continued by saying that the gig "must have been recorded by someone standing at the front with a microphone. You can hear Robert Plant talking to the audience quite clearly."

It's currently unclear whether any duplicate recordings of the tape have been made.

Led Zeppelin cover band

Have you ever imagined what it would be like if you could go back in time and see Led Zeppelin in concert? Open your eyes and ears to Kashmir, a band that brings you that live experience and you do not even need a time machine to take you there.Watching Kashmir perform live, you cannot help but feel the essence of Robert Plant's vocals and Jimmy Page's soulful, hypnotic classic rock trance. Kashmir has mastered the captivating display of melodic input Led Zeppelin created.

An interview with Frank Livingston helped get a better understanding of the band and their ability to replicate one of the best classic rock bands known to this day."Kashmir seeks to recreate the mindset of a 70s Led Zeppelin show utilizing in a non-pretentious way, using authentic vintage stage gear, costumes and special effects with attention to great detail," Livingston said."But most importantly," Livingston added, "Kashmir does not take any liberties on improving the music. Led Zeppelin should be played using only the equipment available of the day and should be reproduced dead on with as much great respect and admiration as possible.""Dead on" is right. Since 2001, Livingston, who is the founder of Kashmir, plays Jimmy Page's guitar riffs and solos note for note. Crowds from across NWI and the Chicagoland region gather in amazement to see them live.

Kashmir is able to deliver what the spectators are waiting to hear, from "The Song Remains The Same," "Whole Lotta Love," the John Bonham-exact drum solo during "Moby Dick" and using a violin bow during a crucial eighteen minute version of "Dazed and Confused."But what is most intriguing is when Livingston plays his double neck guitar, note for note, performing, "Stairway to Heaven."Seeing Kashmir perform brought the unity and peace you get when listening to Led Zeppelin to another level, with no breaks between the songs they perform. Kashmir is the next best thing to actually seeing the real deal because at the end of the show you feel it would not be such a crime to say, "I got to hear Led Zeppelin live!"Livingston thanks Led Zeppelin for being what they were and are known for today.During the show, Livingston shares information and the history behind the songs and albums Led Zeppelin made.

It really shows something when you can see a performance where the members of the band have so much passion for the music that the energy can feed to the audience as well.The professional attitudes and social output the members share with the audience is universal itself. Kashmir is highly recommended to perform at any gathering where people of all age groups are into Classic Rock, via Led Zeppelin.

Led Zeppelin replacement singer idea 'fell by wayside'

Led Zeppelin's plan to find a replacement singer for Robert Plant "fell by the wayside", bassist John Paul Jones has explained.The bassist, now playing in Them Crooked Vultures with Dave Grohl and Josh Homme, said that despite he and guitarist Jimmy Page auditioning potential frontmen, they couldn't agree on a new band member."

Jimmy and I rehearsed a bit with [drummer] Jason Bonham and we couldn't really agree on singers and that fell by the wayside," he told BBC 6 Music. "Then this [Them Crooked Vultures] came along and, to be honest, I'm really happy."Jones was keen to heap praise on Foo Fighters drummer Grohl, saying it was a pleasure to play with him in the new outfit.

"I immediately recognised that this was a drummer that was a) really good, b) groovy and c) listened. All those nice things that bass players like in drummers," he explained.Them Crooked Vultures release their self-titled debut album on November 17. Listen to the album's first single, 'New Fang', by clicking on the video below