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  1. 9 hours ago, chillumpuffer said:

    I agree with you there. At 73 if he still enjoys doing what he does then fair play to him.

    If people are happy to see Plant in whatever guises he chooses then that's great. I believe it was my friends partner who wanted to go and although he likes some of Plant's stuff, he just wasn't enamoured in what he was hearing. Maybe he was expecting a bare chested rock god belting out Whole Lotta Love !

    I suppose it's like Deep Purple fans going to see Blackmore's Night and expecting to hear Space Truckin'?

     

     

    I daresay there were a few when BN first started performing. Its each to their own really. If I didn't like what he does I wouldnt go.

  2. Well if he was expecting Zep then he would be disappointed. The only bit that has any Zep is during Satan your kingdom must come down where Robert adds parts of In my time of dying. 

    I know its not going to be a Zeppelin night, its folk and americana but I like to see him on stage, enjoying what he's doing having fun and just being up there singing that's something I am happy with.

    I know there are plenty of folk who only want him in Zep and hate anything else he does as with AK BOJ and now SG, there are those who didn't like Strange Sensation and SSS especially him doing Zeppelin numbers when refusing to reunite and calling him a hypocrite etc but hey that's down to them. Zep is not going to happen and I would be at the front of the queue if they had ever or ever did in the future. 

    As I said I'm happy to see the guy doing what he enjoys and is good at cos one day he wont be.

     

     

  3. Saving Grace were a very late addition to the Bewdley Festival and ended the proceedings on Saturday night.

    I was there and took a few photos. Robert and the band seemed to be enjoying themselves in the  intimate atmosphere of a huge tent usually used for weddings.

    Its been quite a week for me, seeing Jimmy Page on the Wednesday and then Robert on Saturday.

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  4. 22 hours ago, zeplz71 said:

    Great pics. Was video permitted?

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    https://www.nme.com/news/music/jimmy-page-led-zeppelin-reunion-phil-collins-drums-mistake-live-aid-3070870

    Jimmy Page says it was a mistake to hire Phil Collins for Led Zeppelin’s Live Aid reunion

    "We were in real trouble"
    By
    Tom Skinner 14th October 2021

    Jimmy Page has said that it was a mistake to enlist Phil Collins to fill in on drums for Led Zeppelin at Live Aid.

    Collins and drummer Paul Martinez both played live with the reunited Led Zep – Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones – at the legendary 1985 concert, as did bassist Tony Thompson.

    Speaking in a new interview with The Times and The Sunday Times, Page admitted it was “not very clever” to reform the band, who had split in 1980 following the death of their drummer John Bonham.

    “The drummer couldn’t get the beginning of ‘Rock And Roll’,” Page explained about Live Aid. “So we were in real trouble with that.”

    He also told The Times that Led Zeppelin had less than two hours to rehearse for their three-song set, which included the classics ‘Whole Lotta Love’ and ‘Stairway To Heaven’.

    Led Zeppelin went on to reunite again in 2007 for a performance at The O2 in London. Recalling how nervous he felt ahead of the concert, Page told The Times: “A lot more could go wrong. I didn’t want to be the one making the mistake.”

    Phil Collins reflected on the disastrous Live Aid show during an interview last year, explaining: “If I could have walked off, I would have done, ’cause I wasn’t needed and I felt like a spare part.”

    The majority of the Genesis musician’s preparation for the concert came from listening to Led Zeppelin’s tracks on the flight to Philadelphia. “I didn’t rehearse when I got there, but I listened to ‘Stairway To Heaven’ on Concorde,” he said. “I arrived and went to the caravans, and Robert said: ‘Jimmy Page is belligerent’.”
     

    I didn't see anyone vidoeing but I was on the 3rd row so most of the audience was behind me. Someone may have done some.

  5. I attended the literary festival where Jimmy was one of the main interviewees this year. He was talking about his book Jimmy Page the Anthology and some of the events and history behind some of the photos in the book. Hewas in good form and humour. There was no music during the interview session. I managed to get a few photos which I am sharing here. 

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