Wednesday 4 May 2011

Led Zeppelin preparing a 'Zepesque' track

Led Zeppelin drummer Jason Bonham is getting a bit of new member.

The drummer 44 years old says to his band that new song for upcoming CD Black Country Communion dates back to his 2008 rehearsals with Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist John Paul Jones.

The drummer says"There's a song that started off as an idea that I worked on with (them), so I was happy to finish it off with this band and have it come out. It's called Save Me. You'll notice it in the riff. You'll hear a slight Zepesque riff ... it's got a definite feel to it."

Bonham, the son late Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham, the band several months in London's 2007 reunion concert after rehearsed with Page and Jones, but the project fell apart after the son of singer Robert Plant and declined to participate in a Way forward failed to find.

Bonham says, "I was very much under the illusion that we were going to write an album and we were going to put together a new project. It was winter, like early December of 2008 when it kind of came to a halt, which was a hard thing for me to get over for a while. I had just played the concert of my life."