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Led Zeppelin Reunion Gets Great Review From Rolling Stone

by Metal Martyr on December 11th, 2007

The Led Zeppelin Reunion that took place Monday night in London got quite a good lengthy review from Rolling Stone writer David Fricke. As a Zeppelin fan I would have loved to see this, being I’m too young to have ever been able to see an original show as I’m sure are most that attended. I met Robert Plant back in 1990 (I think) in upstate, NY. A very soft spoken, friendly guy, he gave myself and a few others autographs. You could say I was star-struck, but yet I didn’t really know too much about them back then. Anyway, enough of My flashback. Here is an excerpt…

“For the second encore of their first full concert in twenty-seven years, at London’s 02 arena last night, LED ZEPPELIN tore into ‘Rock And Roll‘, from their untitled fourth album, with a joyful vengeance. As drummer Jason Bonham hammered with the ghostly precision and ferocity of his late father, guitarist Jimmy Page fired dirty chunks of Chuck Berry and bassist John Paul Jones kept iron time with familiar reserve, singer Robert Plant sang the most obvious words of the night: ‘Been a long time since I rock and rolled.’ Overhead, images of a much younger ZEPPELIN, in concert during the early and mid-Seventies, flashed on a huge digital-video screen. In those films, LED ZEPPELIN were the biggest, loudest and most cocksure band in rock. Jimmy Page’s now snow-white hair was still jet black; Robert Plant was a golden god, not yet a Viking elder, and the late John Bonham — whose death in 1980 abruptly ended ZEPPELIN’s reign — still ruled the engine room. “

You can read the full Review here: Rolling Stone Led Zeppelin Reunion Review

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