An anonymous reader tipped Bob Lefsetz, author of The Lefsetz Letter, yesterday about an interesting development in the live music world: Zeppelin just confirmed for Bonnaroo. They can't officially announce until after the London gig so pass it on! Also Metallica is confirmed on the bill too!
Anyone who has experienced the unique event that is Bonnaroo (or its younger sibling Vegoose) knows the four-day Manchester, Tennessee show’s trademark is its eclectic mix of bands. Considered the largest hippy festival in the world, as Andrew Stockdale, lead singer of Wolfmother said onstage last June, the festival organizers always manage to add plenty of non-hippy artists. In 2007 there was also the addition of a classic billing, the reemergence of The Police.
If the anonymous reader is right about Zeppelin and Metallica, Bonnaroo 2008 has a leg up on alternatives like Coachella before ’07 is even finished.
http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2007/12/01/led-zeppelin-%2526amp%3B-metallica-confirmed-bonnaroo-2008%3F
Discovery Myrtle Beach, the website that has brought official updates on the construction of the new Hard Rock Park in South Carolina has posted what looks to be the first test run of the new Led Zeppelin The Ride roller coaster!
The 150 ft tall Bolliger & Mabillard-built looping coaster traversed its course without any issues, but did seem a bit sluggish in spots. Though many coasters are slower their first runs until they get broken in.
See a YouTube clip of the roller coaster in action at http://www.youtube.com/v/jxVRHlPJKH4.
http://www.thrillnetwork.com/stories_view.php/2107/led_zeppelin_ride_rocks_time.html
GRAB your double-neck guitar, crank up your amp to 11, strut your stuff in your embroidered satin suit and bash out some of the finest riffs ever written.
Yes, rock gods Led Zeppelin, the masters of Seventies excess, are staging their delayed reunion gig at London’s 02 Arena a week on Monday.
Witnessing their first concert for 19 years should be amazing enough.
But fans are lining up to learn the band’s musical secrets and live like their heroes during a Zep school training weekend at a country hotel in the three days before the show.
Organisers are considering a range of wild activities including an elementary course in flinging TVs out of upper-storey windows a staple of rock bad-boy behaviour.
They won’t even discuss some of their plans so as not to spoil the surprise.
But I can tell you that the £750-a-head event in Oxfordshire features a themed gourmet menu, including Red Snapper after an outrageous story involving a Zeppelin groupie in Seattle.
It is followed by Jack Daniel’s ice cream, surely guitarist Jimmy Page’s favourite flavour.
Each day up to 20 guests will learn to play from veteran rockers like Mike Hurst once in a band with Page and Clem Cattini, twice considered for tragic drummer John Bonham’s job thanks to his session work with Led Zep bassist John Paul Jones. Bonham suffocated on his vomit after a heavy day’s boozing in 1980.
On Saturday night would-be rockers get the chance to show off their skills on stage, alongside a top-flight Led Zeppelin tribute band.
Special guest is the blues singer Maggie Bell, due to share the bill with Plant, Page and Co in London.
Mike, a producer who discovered T Rex star Marc Bolan and singer Cat Stevens, said: Led Zeppelin are iconic they are one of those bands who represent an era.
They are pulling together for their first concert in nearly 20 years so what with the connections between us as musicians it seemed a perfect time to hold this event. We arranged for the tribute band Boot-Led Zeppelin to play on the Saturday night. Then at least people will get the full experience, because I don’t pretend to be able to sing like Robert Plant.
They come with lights, costumes and everything, so it’s going to look good. The gig will be as authentic as we can get it. It’s gonna be fairly deafening.
People get an awful lot of nostalgia for this sort of rock as opposed to the anodyne stuff there is around now. The weekend should be a tremendous experience. Also on the team are guitar tutor Ray Fenwick, ex-Spencer Davies Group and Ian Gillan Band, plus bassist Colin Farley who made his name in Eighties’ band Cutting Crew and was briefly a member of punk outfit The Damned.
A spokesman for organisers RockMasters added: Whether you’re a budding Bonham or an enthusiastic novice, this event can only help your playing.
Our supergroup will take over the whole lavish hotel to ensure that no ‘civilians’ get in the way of the rock ’n’ roll antics. And all equipment and instruments are provided.
Needless to say there is a well-stocked bar, the drinking and story-swapping go on late and the music doesn’t stop.
Guests can of course bring their partners or indeed groupies to join the fun.
RockMasters can’t promise to let you ride a Harley-Davidson down the corridors, like Zeppelin are said to have done. But they can arrange motorbike transfers from London or Oxford.
Just one problem, though the hotel doesn’t have a swimming pool. So you’ll have to find somewhere else to park your Cadillac.
RockMasters’ Zep weekend runs from December 7 to 9 at the Fallowfields Hotel in Kingston Bagpuize, Oxfordshire. See rockmasters.net.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/travel/article520421.ece
For those individuals who haven't grabbed a copy of the newly released reissued/remastered/exanded DVD of The Song Remains The Same, here is a 1 minute, 30 second exclusive clip of No Quarter.
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