Rolling Stone : Led Zeppelin

Article : Beauty and the Beast

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:14:45 PDT

They are an odd couple as they walk up to their microphones on the opening night of their 2008 tour, at the Palace Theatre in Louisville, Kentucky. Robert Plant, in his first concert since his live reunion with Led Zeppelin in London last year, has seasoned his rock-lord aura with a purple riverboat-dandy vest and white ruffled shirt. Alison Krauss, the most successful singer and fiddler in modern bluegrass, looks like she is on her way to a church social, in a long summer dress, her sharp cheek...

Article : Secrets of the Guitar Heroes: Jimmy Page

Fri, 30 May 2008 07:19:46 PDT

• The Essential Led Zeppelin Album Guide

• The 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time

Every song you played at Led Zeppelin's reunion show in London last year started with or was based on a killer riff. What makes a great Zeppelin riff?
It is something you know instinctively. It has energy and attitude. There's sex in it as well. It was definitely my concept to have a riff-based band. My influences were the riff-based blues coming from Chicago in the Fifties —...

Album Review : Houses Of The Holy

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 07:27:22 PST

Artist: Led Zeppelin
Album: Houses Of The Holy
Review: >For me, Led Zeppelin began as the epitome of everything good about rock: solid guitar work, forceful vocals and rhythmic backing, devotion to primal blues forms, and most of all, thunderous excitement on stage and vinyl. But as superstardom came to them, so too came the gradual evaporation of those qualities from their sound. In the same way that the Rolling Stones evolved into a senior, "safe" bi...

Album Review : Led Zeppelin I

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 07:23:31 PST

Artist: Led Zeppelin
Album: Led Zeppelin I
Review: The popular formula in England in this, the aftermath era of such successful British bluesmen as Cream and John Mayall, seems to be: add, to an excellent guitarist who, since leaving the Yardbirds and/or Mayall, has become a minor musical deity, a competent rhythm section and pretty soul-belter who can do a good spade imitation. The latest of the British blues groups so conceived offers little tha...

Article : Q&A: John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 08:33:14 PST

Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones' small bombshell in the current issue of Rolling Stone — "There is a band meeting in January" — will be more than enough to set off new tremors of hope among fans for a full-fledged tour following the group's December 10th reunion performance at the O2 arena in London. But in these additional excerpts from an exclusive interview a week after the concert, Jones also talks about Zeppelin's intense preparations for that night, the backstage vibe,...

Article : Led Zeppelin: The Full Report From David Fricke

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:28:41 PST

For the second encore of their first, full concert in twenty-seven years, at London's 02 arena last night, Led Zeppelin tore into "Rock and Roll," from their untitled fourth album, with a joyful vengeance. As drummer Jason Bonham hammered with the ghostly precision and ferocity of his late father, guitarist Jimmy Page fired dirty chunks of Chuck Berry and bassist John Paul Jones kept iron time with familiar reserve, singer Robert Plant sang the most obvious words of the night: "Been a long...