Posts Tagged ‘Led Zeppelin’

Jason Bonham, son of the late, great Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham, has not ruled out another reunion with his father’s former bandmates at some stage in the future.

Classic ‘III’ track recorded live at the equally classic 1975 Earl’s Court concert

What would happen if you took a generous portion of Led Zeppelin, mixed it with some AC/DC, threw in a little Free and Bad Company, and seasoned with a touch of Black Crowes? The resulting gumbo would probably sound something like Rival Sons.

Having being touted as ones to watch since self-releasing an album in 2009 and an eponymous EP earlier this year, the Californian band make their full label debut on Earache records with ‘Pressure & Time‘. Normally the preserve of thrash, grindcore and death metal bands, Earache does not initially seem like the obvious home for these unabashed blues rockers. However, the band have claimed that such incongruity is to their benefit, as it allows them so stand out from the label’s usual roster of relentless sonic assault.

John Squire has denounced the current trend for reunions as ‘tragic’, and has once again robustly denied any chance of The Stone Roses following in the footsteps of the likes of Pulp and Suede.

It’s hard to imagine a world without ‘Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band‘. The physicist C.P. Snow once said if Einstein hadn’t locked himself away, indulged in a spot of chin-stroking and eventually conceived the General Theory of Relativity, which revolutionised the way we think about science, we’d still be waiting for that idea to occur to someone else now. In the same vein, you have to wonder that if The Beatles hadn’t locked themselves away in Abbey Road during those few fruitful months over 40 years ago, following their self-imposed exile from live duties in 1966, whether we might equally still be waiting for a band to revolutionise the face of popular music today.

It could be said that Steven Gene Wold is a guy who has risen from the very bottom of the barrel, right the way to the top of a musician’s game – by anybody’s standard. But what a search engine, or perhaps some article dubbed as from the streets to the charts might define as the ‘bottom’, is really just a colourful and at times surreal background.

Jason Bonham has revealed the new Black Country Communion album is set to feature a track written by Bonham and his late father John’s former Led Zeppelin bandmates Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones.

In today’s Soundbites, our weekly take on news, reviews, and tabloid gossip, Robert Plant looks to expand his Band Of Joy project, Cheryl Cole could be set for disappointment in the US and there’s a look at Chapel Club’s latest track. Elsewhere, The View reveal their songwriting secrets, and Doves’ woes look set to continue.

Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler has revealed he turned down the chance to join Led Zeppelin due to loyalty to his current band.

Eric Clapton has been named as the number one Guitar Hero amongst musicians in the UK, according to a new survey undertaken by the musical insurer Allianz Musical Insurance at this week’s Guitar Nation Live.