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At long last I added a short entry for the Led Zeppelin reunion gig to my site - check it out here.

Pon 10 XII – Led Zeppelin, Foreigner, Paolo Nutini, Pete Townshend, Bill Wyman & the Rhythm Kings

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Mon 10 Dec – Led Zeppelin, Foreigner, Paolo Nutini, Pete Townshend, Bill Wyman & the Rhythm Kings


I arrived at the O2 Arena on Monday afternoon, brimming full of anticipation. I was actually going to see and hear the legendary Led Zep live. I hadn’t even been born when they were in their hey-day but I’m a massive fan. The place wasn't buzzing yet and I still had to collect my ticket from the box office. Just five minutes later (I had been expecting to queue for several hours) I was bestowed with the glorious key to all my dreams – a blue wristband and an entrance ticket!
The doors opened, and to my surprise I was able to get relatively close to the stage (about 13 rows of standing in front). The Progressive rock stylings of the first support act got tedious rather quickly.
Obviously, the sound checks at the Arena earlier that day hadn’t gone well because the sound was atrocious and continued throughout the night - it seemed highly unprofessional for such an important and much anticipated event. …

Mon 10 Dec – Led Zeppelin, Foreigner, Paolo Nutini, Pete Townshend, Bill Wyman & the Rhythm Kings

I am absolutely fucking knackered, but I wanna write this now while it's still as fresh as possible in my mind. It seems like a lifetime ago now that I was sat on the computer all day, repeatedly trying to actually get on the ahmettribute.com website, let alone register my name to be entered into the ticket ballot. Unsurprisingly, judging by the number of people that applied, I wasn't successful, and upsetting as it was, I was already coming trying to come to terms with the fact that I was never, ever going to see Led Zeppelin, my favourite band of all time. To say I was fine with it would be a lie, but I was at least able to reach a bit of a compromise about it in my mind.

That was, until a few months ago, when I got an e-mail off a guy called Lee off the led-zeppelin.com (now simply ledzeppelin.com) messageboard offering me his spare ticket. …

Mon 10 Dec – Led Zeppelin, Foreigner, Paolo Nutini, Pete Townshend, Bill Wyman & the Rhythm Kings



Another thought thread from yesterday which is only further confirmed by my perusal of the comments and brief look at the captures and recaps that have been showing up on the 'net today.

Led Zeppelin's move to end it all - no, to take an extended sabbatical - when Bonzo passed in 1980 was the right move for a number of reasons, and of course took them out of the scene before a possible long decline into irrelevance. What's most often pointed out is, of course, that the four of them - Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham - made together the fifth element that was so magical. Refusing to carry on without John made sense from that perspective alone.

What has happened in their active lives since then, though, has had so much benefit to the rock world, and has turned out to be a much more satisfying tribute to John's memory than just carrying on with some hastily-recruited replacement.
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Mon 10 Dec – Led Zeppelin, Foreigner, Paolo Nutini, Pete Townshend, Bill Wyman & the Rhythm Kings
Strange support and sound not so good. Zeppelin were nevertheless wonderful. Best Kashmir I have ever heard!