Robert Plant has again poured a huge bucket of cold water on the idea of another Led Zeppelin reunion as the legendary band prepare to start the process of re-releasing their storming back catalogue.
After guitarist Jimmy Page revealed the band’s brilliant, one night only comeback at the O2 in London in December 2007 had originally materialised with the idea of more shows to come in the future, Plant outlined to Rolling Stone the extent to which he would have detested a full blown tour.
“You’re going back to the same old shit,” he said. “A tour would have been an absolute menagerie of vested interests and the very essence of everything that’s shitty about about big-time stadium rock. We were surrounded by a circus of people that would have had our souls on the fire. I’m not part of a jukebox.”
Plant also claimed that suggestions Page, John Paul Jones and new drummer Jason Bonham toyed with the idea of bringing in replacement singers – including Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler and Alter Bridge’s Myles Kennedy to prolong the band’s live return – ‘sounded like a great idea to him’.