5/31/2023 0 Comments Led zeplin 2007![]() ![]() The combined joy and relief in the room was astounding when each security guy clicked that wristband on our wrists. Then we had to sign different forms and go through a security booth to get our ID wristbands. We had to show pass-codes, identification, and the original credit card used to buy our ticket. The line to collect our tickets at the box office was tense. The first caption said, “Entertainment History is What You Make It.” The last one said, “Take the Moment and Enjoy It Forever.” On an opposite billboard wall outside, a quote from Kashmir, “They talk of days for which they sit and wait and all will be revealed.” Celebration Day On one side, a huge billboard that spanned a timeline of rock n roll history. As I walked toward the entrance there were signs on the wall, that were significant. It houses Indigo, the club where Zeppelin had its after-party. Very sleek with contemporary bars, restaurants, ice skating, movies, nightclubs and state of the art security, it certainly felt like you had entered the Mothership itself. I am privileged to share this with you, as we watched rock history unfold on a very special night. Given the limited availability of the tickets to the public, I coordinated with Rock 102.1 to share my experience with my fellow listeners. All proceeds from the show go to music education around the globe, including Ertegun’s homeland, Turkey. The show was a fundraiser in honor of the founding chairman of Atlantic Records who died on December 14, 2006. I was one of the lucky first ballot winners of the Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert in London. Led Zeppelin Reunion Show December 10th, 2007 London O2 Arena When the Hammer of the Gods knocks at your door, you open it and follow the Piper. That may frustrate some fans who missed out on the O2 Arena show and have been waiting more than 40 years to see the band re-form, but they’ll just have to accept that Raise the Roof is the only Robert Plant reunion project they’re likely ever going to see.Of 3 Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert /Led Zeppelin Reunion They’ll have two albums’ worth of material to cover, which will probably only leave space for a couple of Zeppelin tunes, at best. Plant and Krauss plan on touring next year. Here’s video of “Black Dog” from their appearance on CMT’s Crossroads. But they did sprinkle radically rearranged Zeppelin songs like “The Battle of Evermore,” “Black Country Woman,” and “Hey, Hey, What Can I Do” into the set. Instead of spending 2008 playing stadiums with Led Zeppelin, Plant spent the year headlining amphitheaters with Alison Krauss. A reunion tour seemed like an inevitability, and venues were put on hold in North America, but Plant scuttled the whole thing once Raising Sand became an unexpected smash success. It was a tribute show to Ahmet Ertegun at London’s O2 Arena, and the band spent months rehearsing to make sure it was note-perfect. Months before the album hit, Plant finally gave in to decades of pressure and agreed to reunite with Led Zeppelin for their first full concert since John Bonham died. “In the old days, we would have called this selling out. “I’d like to say that I’m bewildered,” Plant said after accepting the Grammy from Green Day. It debuted at Number One on the Billboard 200 and won six Grammys, including Album of the Year. ![]() Their 2007 LP Raising Sand was the most successful project that Robert Plant had taken on since the end of Led Zeppelin in 1980. “It’s a vacation, really - the perfect place to go that you least expected to find.” “You hear something and you go, ‘Man, listen to that song, we got to sing that song!’ ” Plant added. We brought other people in, other personalities within the band, and coming back together again in the studio brought a new intimacy to the harmonies.” ![]() “ was the moment I knew we’d make another album,” she said. In a statement, Krauss said she knew it was time to re-form the duo when she heard the Calexico song. It’s a 12-track collection that features their original tune “High and Lonesome,” as well as covers of Lucinda Williams’ “Can’t Let Go,” Calexico’s “Quattro (World Drifts In),” and Geeshie Wiley’s “Last Kind Word Blues.” On Thursday, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss announced details of their long-rumored reunion album Raise the Roof. ![]()
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