Led Zeppelin tour is ON! (September at the earliest)

[Bennyboy]

TOKYO — Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page said Monday he was ready to take the iconic band on a world tour after burning up the stage at last month's reunion concert in London. But it probably won't be before September.

"The amount of work we put into O2 was what you would normally put into a world tour anyway," Page, 64, said of the intense rehearsing the band did for the Dec. 10 concert at London's O2 Arena.

The band's three surviving members _ Page, singer Robert Plant and bassist-keyboardist John Paul Jones _ were joined at the sold-out benefit show by the late John Bonham's son Jason on drums.

Page, who was in Japan to promote the new Zeppelin release, "Mothership," said the two-hour-plus concert was proof that Led Zeppelin can still perform at its best.

He said the band, which formed in 1968, was ready musically to get back together and take it out on a wider run, but it was not clear when it would go on tour as the singer had other plans.

"Robert Plant has a parallel project and he is busy with that until September," Page said.

Plant and bluegrass star Alison Krauss will begin their world tour with a run of shows in the southern U.S. this spring.
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[pinniped]

1. I'll go if they come to CA or NV.

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[Bennyboy]

2. It would have to be all stadiums....

Probably multi day stops. Biggest tour in history.

[Kucinich4America]

3. Is Plant going to be able to handle back to back tours like that?

He don't exactly have those 19 year old pipes anymore, and even though they have reconfigured a lot of the Zep songs to fit the reality of a 60 year old singer, Plant's probably going to have to adjust to singing in "Zep mode" after being on the road all year with this country thing.

I never got a chance to see Zeppelin in their prime, so I hope I get to see at least this version.

[Bennyboy]

4. I wonder that myself....

I am thinking that there might be a month or more off between the second leg of the Krause tour and LZ tour.

What he sings with Alison is much less demanding on the voice than the LZ catalogue...

[Parche]

5. LynneSin is going to pee her pants!!!

:rofl: :rofl: :hi:

[Initech]

6. They had better fucking come to Los Angeles!

[Reverend_Smitty]

7. They have to make a stop in either NYC or Philly

this is why I *love* living within driving distance of both those cities

[devilgrrl]

8. the tickets are going to cost 8 million dollars

where ever they're playing.

[Joe Fields]

9. I'll take out a mortgage.