Undercover - Jimmy Page Hints At Zeppelin Tour
In other words, Jimmy Page is not critical path for a zep reunion. That's all I'm saying.
Page told Guitar World magazine "It's a bit silly not to [tour] because there is such massive demand. It's a bit selfish to do just one show. If that's it, we probably shouldn't have taken the genie out of the bottle."The whole post-Bonham era has been one long sequence of Jimmy Page trying to convince Robert Plant to play with him again, from XYZ, to the abortive post-Live Aid '84 reunion, Outrider (when Robert did perform one song), the album that Jimmy Page wanted to make with Robert Plant which, when Plant refused, ended up with Page hiring his non-union Mexican equivalent (Whitesnake's David Coverdale), the project which finally ended up being released as 1993's uninspiring "Coverdale/Page." After that, of course, Page and Plant did reunite for much of the 90s, touring, making an album (the under-rated "Walking Into Clarkdale") then touring again. After that, though, Plant and Page seemed willing to go their separate ways, with Page teaming up with the Black Crowes and Plant laying low and playing club gigs with the "Strange Sensations." It seems obvious at this point that Plant has far better career option than Jimmy Page does--"The Mighty Rearranger" was well-received, and Plant's collaboration with Alison Krauss could quite conceivably out-sell even some of Zeppelin's albums given how hard $$$tarbucks has been pushing it. Page, on the other hand, has basically done diddley-squat in he canceled his tour with the Crowes in summer 2000. And I seriously doubt any record company is lining up for Outrider or Coverdale/Page II.
In other words, Jimmy Page is not critical path for a zep reunion. That's all I'm saying.
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What's the difference between a Page/Plant tour and a Zeppelin tour? Seriously I don't get it - less Moroccan songs? Does adding John Paul Jones and a drummer (Jason Bonham?) make it more Zeppelin-y?