Looks like while Robert Plant will sit out on the big money making venture known as Led Zeppelin, rumours have it that Alter Bridge lead throat Myles Kennedy will be the one singing Karoke Zeppelin. Alter Bridge used to be known as Creed before Scott Stapp left to do a failed solo career and if the stars align right there may be a Creed reunion in the future.
I've heard Alter Bridge's stuff and don't care for their music although it is a step up from Creed. In fact Creed remains a joke upon itself. I do wish Jimmy, John Paul and Jason all the best but if you decide upon Myles as your vocalist of choice I'll sit this one out too. But if Robert Plant decides to do another album with Alison Krauss, I'll sign on. Likewise Zep.
It's November and we finally close another successful couple months of nice sunny weather. With daylight savings time now over, the sun goes down at five PM and when the sun does go down, it goes down fast. Went out to Matsell's tonight and about five thirty I was in the darkness of that place but got to do a nice walk among the The Wapsipinicon River, which is so peaceful and so low tide, after four months ago, it was raging everywhere. I like walking by rivers if they're not flood stage, The Wapsi counterpart The Red Cedar is also around four feet deep, far from the 31 foot of mad flood that changed the face of CR. The weather has been quite warm, about 70 degrees which is nice but you have to deal with biting asian beetles and damn gnats that try to go into your eyeballs. Record highs tomorrow and then chance of snow on thursday night. Weather in Iowa in November. Ridiclous but not as bad as it gets in the rainy season.
Don't know about y'all but we have one more day of poltical add bullshit and then on Tuesday we can vote for the lesser evils. If you think that McCain and Palin is the answer then check them, if Obama is the answer then vote for him. We have gone through eight up and down years with a dumbass president and an endless war and fucking four dollar gallon gas and record profits from EXXON. We once had a surplus before this idiot became president, now we'll all eighty thousand in debt. If McCain got a better VP in there, it would have benefited him but Palin I just don't like too much. Palin reminds me of Wynna Wittmer, some bimbo chick that I worked with at NCS years ago. This chick would show interest in me but when I did ask her out a couple times, she reminded me that she had a boyfriend and not interested but still would flirt from time to time. In fact Wynna does look lots like Sarah Palin and probaly just as psycho too.
I don't have a fond memory of Wynna, but the last time I've seen her, I was walking across the street from NCS to the HandiMart (RIP) to get a coke and a hot dog and I heard this honking from behind me and lo and behold there's Wynnie, boring the hell out of me about her ass kicking life. She married her boyfriend who ran unsuccessfully for Muscatine Country Sheriff and had a baby in the back of the car. She never did shut up enough to ask about my life, perhaps she never cared. But I did wish her well in her life and endeavors but I also thought that if there's a God that I'll never see her again. It has been 14 years ago and hopefully maybe more. Out of all the relationships that I have been with, I believe Wynna was the biggest mindfuck I have ever known. That's the feeling I get when I see Sarah Palin and then she makes me think of Wynna.
why led zeppelin should not reunite by Steve Kandell
Which, I guess, is what's going through the minds of Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones right around now. How else to explain why the excitement from last December's Led Zeppelin show at London's O2 Arena — by all accounts the rare triumphant reunion that actually lived up to its unfathomable ballyhoo — and subsequent tour rumors have now deteriorated, nearly a year later, to this:
The dude who replaced the dude from Creed might be the new lead singer for Led Zeppelin.
There's no amount of times that one can re-read the previous sentence before it makes a modicum of sense. But rather than wait on Alison Krauss' duet partner to get the bluegrass out of his system, which doesn't seem close to happening yet, Page and Jones appear willing to fritter away their legendary band's entire mythos on The Guy Who Isn't Even Scott Stapp for a big-bucks world tour.
This would be hilarious if it weren't reportedly close to being true. Jones, in particular, seems eager to paint Robert Plant as the villain in this story -- the stubborn holdout selfishly depriving his fans of a treasured experience and his bandmates of, well, treasure.
But -- and this is merely speculative, as Plant hasn't yet told me -- it just may be that a 60-year-old man who now more closely resembles the Cowardly Lion than a bare-chested golden god in too-tight jeans wants to preserve that bedroom-poster image, and his dignity, rather than treat us all to the mental image of the juice dripping down his leg. (Who among us wants to hear rock's gnarliest bit of double-entendre turned into a Depends gag?)
Or, maybe he just has enough fucking money, thanks.
Plant's ambivalence is not what's shocking. What's shocking is that Page and Jones can't abide by this reasonable, if disappointing notion. And it wouldn't be the first time Page hired a Plant manqué, but at least David Coverdale and Paul Rodgers had their own sizable, if still inferior, pedigrees. Hell, at least Coverdale had long, curly blonde hair. From the back row, if you squinted just so…
But, with all due respect to Myles Kennedy, who may well have a set of pipes and a set of balls up to the unenviable task, his "joining" "Led Zeppelin" feels closer to Journey trolling YouTube for a replacement Steve Perry than a personnel decision worthy of the name on the t-shirts waiting to be sold.
And certainly the box office for this compromised version would be a fraction of the bonanza that could be expected if Plant were on board, but are the numbers still low enough to keep this nothing more than a bad idea rampantly overblown on the Internet?
The song remains the same. Here's hoping sanity prevails and everything else does as well.
