Even if a band calling themselves "Led Zeppelin" doesn't include John Bonham?

From his current tour:

I didn't give you or anyone else "shit", I merely tried to explain that the Plant/Krauss site is just that, a site set up for Robert Plant and Alison Krauss. Do you know Plant was in Led Zeppelin? Then that's all you need to know. He doesn't have to state it in bold letters on a Plant/Krauss website. I'm not the only member of this board that's pointed that out to you so get off of my fucking back already. In regards to "namedropping" exactly who's name did I drop? I completely missed that. As for Zeppelin not being my favorite band what in the hell does that have to do with me criticizing anyone? No artist (even Led Zeppelin) is sacred to me. If they do something I don't care for I say something about it. By the same token, if an artist does something I like I have no problem heaping praise on them. Just because Led Zeppelin isn't my favorite band doesn't mean I hate them.

With all due respect, I don't think there's anything that could have been done to The Song Remains the Same that would allow it to enter the same stratosphere as How the West Was Won, which I feel is a much better representation of Led Zeppelin live (same for The BBC Sessions). That said, for many, many years The Song Remains the Same was the only album I had of Led Zeppelin in concert so for that reason alone it holds a lot of sentimental value for me. As the years went along, like many others, I started hearing a lot of "unofficial" concert recordings and discovered just how much more ass Zep kicked live. In that respect, The Song Remains the Same isn't all that representative of Led Zeppelin live but the plethora of unofficial live recordings, The BBC Sessions and How the West Was Won are.

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That remains my favorite show. I do hope you get to see them on this tour as they're playing with a passion and fire I haven't seen since the 80s. I like the last few albums leading up to Accelerate but Buck had had enough of taking forever to record Around the Sun and put his foot down. As a longtime fan I admit to being at an impasse myself and am tickled to death to see they finally got their shit together. The setlists have been out of this world so far too, including some songs like Ignoreland that have never been played live before. Otherwise the sets have been different every night of the tour with some very deep album cuts such as HarborCoat, 1,000,000, Feeling Gravitys Pull, Pretty Persuasion and others. Cool to see another Mitch Easter fan here. Unfortunately I haven't seen him live since Let's Active opened for R.E.M. that night back in 1986 (which just so happened to be Mitch's birthday, for which R.E.M. joined Let's Active on stage for Hush). I finally saw Mitch again a few years ago when he played the pop music festival SparkleFest in Raleigh and again a few weeks ago when he and Don Dixon got on stage in Raleigh to sit in on Sitting Still. Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Mitch Easter and Don Dixon on stage in Raleigh

For those interested here's the setlist from Buffett's guest DJ slot on the Grateful Dead channel earlier this evening: 1. Uncle John's Band by the Grateful Dead 12/75/70 Binghamton, NY 2. Uncle John's Band by Jimmy Buffett from Fruitcakes 3. Scarlet Begonias by the Grateful Dead 12/31/78 San Francisco, CA 4. Scarlet Begonias by Jimmy Buffett, from License to Chill 5. Fire On The Mountain by the Grateful Dead 12/31/78 San Francisco, CA I had kind of hoped he would show his Dead fandom by digging deep into their catalog but instead he wasted his valuable airtime by playing some of his own covers of Dead songs.

He has a residency at the Lucky Lounge in Austin. When he's not on tour he plays there every Thursday night.

Even though I was as fan as far back as Murmur I didn't see R.E.M. live until the Pagentry tour in '86 when they played Duke University with Mitch Easter's band Let's Active. It was also very cool when I saw Plant on the Now and Zen tour and he used Life's Rich Pagent as the house music before he and the band hit the stage. I've seen two shows (Raleigh and Atlanta) so far on R.E.M.'s current tour for Accelerate and they've been my favorite shows of the year so far. Can't wait to see Plant and Alison in Raleigh on the 11th.

You quoted yourself you fucking dumbass, that's why I asked. And, when you finally get around to pulling your head out of your ass it'll dawn on you that Plant/Krauss and R.E.M. have both been selling out shows on their current tours. R.E.M. is about to head overseas to continue their tour where several of the dates are already sold out. Someone ban this piece of shit troll already. Yeah, I called you a troll and a piece of shit. If the shoe fits...

Jaws did react to being called Rick but he's not fooling anyone. As to Joel, I don't remember him being especially anti-Robert Plant so I'm not so sure he's one of them.

I love his take on the other artists he's worked with (I wonder if Ryan Adams is one of the "wankers") as well as his opinion (which I share) that Madonna has no place in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame. After hearing great things about Ian and the Bump Band I finally had the pleasure of seeing them play live when they hit Raleigh last year. Highly recommended if ever you have the chance. I still need to pick up that Faces box. On the subject of folks Ian's worked with, they're not mentioned in the article but he's played on records by NC's Patty Hurst Shifter. Be sure to check 'em out if you haven't already. Their originals kick ass but they also do a commendable job of covering Buffalo Springfield's Mr. Soul which appeared on a comp of Neil Young covers called Like A Hurricane which was issued by Uncut magazine several months ago. Patty Hurst Shifter on MySpace

Yes, it does. Unless you didn't read your own post:

Since you quoted yourself I'm not sure if you're having a conversation with yourself or if the comment is directed at me. If it's the latter, I didn't say I disagreed with you. I suggested you should actually read the article before calling everyone that doesn't share your opinion of Plant and Krauss a "Plant Apologist" again.

You didn't need to read it for me. You needed to read it so you could actually bring an informed opinion to the discussion.

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Before trotting out your same mantra I suggest actually reading the article at the link I posted. It doesn't have anything to do with poor ticket sales but does help explain why there may have been tickets available to a concert that was considered sold out. Then again, you're not one to deal in logic.

I'm a member of this board but where would anyone get the idea that Led Zeppelin is my favorite band? I also post on several other music boards and e-mail lists. Does that mean the artists those forums and lists are devoted to are also my favorite artists? For the record, my favorite band is the Beatles but I don't belong to a Beatles messageboard or e-mail list.

"Scalping" is only when tickets are being sold to make a profit (in other words, more than face value). Selling them for ten bucks a piece isn't scalping. As for why there were still tickets available for a "sold out" show perhaps it was a similar situation to what happened at this this recent R.E.M. concert in Jones Beach.

Good luck with that one. I've posed a similar question regarding Page, Jones and Jason as many times as this asswipe (that's right I insulted scs and cursed so fuckin' sue me) has uttered his "Plant Apologist" mantra but got nowhere. I guess there are only Plant apologists, not Page, Jones or Bonham ones.

It definitely played a part, though the actual origin of the term (when applied to music) is tied to many different sources.

There's more to this board than just Led Zeppelin, that's why it includes so many sub-forums, including one devoted to Pre and Post Zeppelin.

I have a life, thank you very much. No need to get your knickers in a twist.

You never know with some of the clueless fucks around here, especially those that don't even know how to correct typos using the edit feature. Seems like even a chimp could figure that out.

If you know Robert Plant was in Led Zeppelin that's all you need to know. There's no need for it to be the emphasis of a website set up for Plant and Krauss. Led Zeppelin ended in 1980. Move on already, Plant has.