The Mirror reports that Jimmy Page is to take part in an eight-minute spectacle produced by the United Kingdom for the Olympics' closing ceremony on Sunday, Aug. 24. Details about the event are limited, but the article says the guitarist is to play a duet with singer Leona Lewis.
Jason Bonham
Jason Bonham, son of the late John "Bonzo" Bonham, does not take lightly the responsibility of carrying on his father's legacy. Having made a head start at drumming while he was a child, Jason is now passing on the same lessons to a third generation of Bonham drummers.
John Bonham's death in 1980 left such an impact on the surviving members of Led Zeppelin that they knew immediately they could not continue as they were. Yet Jason Bonham's familiarity with the band made him a shoe-in to join his father's bandmates on the few occasions reunion concerts have taken place.
This year marked the 20th anniversary of Bonham's most successful album release to date, the Platinum-certified disc The Disregard of Timekeeping released by his band, Bonham. To mark the milestone, he recently toured with a new band and played under the banner of "An Evening with Jason Bonham."
In the past, Bonham has also toured and/or recorded with Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, Foreigner, UFO, Paul Rodgers, Joe Bonamassa, Virginia Wolf, Airrace, Healing Sixes and Motherland. He also acted in the movie Rock Star and appeared on the reality TV show "SuperGroup."
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Thursday, August 14, 2008
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John Paul Jones is now in one of the hottest and hardest rock bands, Them Crooked Vultures. The frontman, handling lead guitar and vocals, is Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age. Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters is on drums. As for Jones, he offers not only bass and keyboard but also mandolin, keytar, lap steel and whatever else is needed.
One album was released in November, and another is forthcoming. A tour of North America completed in November, and the band now heads to Europe in December and Australia in January.
- What's the latest on Them Crooked Vultures, the group featuring John Paul Jones, Dave Grohl and Josh Homme?
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Three positions on Leona Lewis:
ReplyDeleteCFM: I understand that Jimmy doing the Olympic closing ceremony thing is a true honor for him. It must be in anyone's mind. But we all know that Jimmy usually has ulterior motives, those tending to be doing what it takes to get the band together. So is it too far a stretch to think Jimmy is doing this in part to try to convince Robert that he understands what Robert gets out of this Alison collaboration, and thereby trying to open a door, so to speak with Robert, by doing a similar kind of collaboration? Just a thought.
Steve Sauer: The Summer Olympics is the biggest gig in the world. The closing ceremony happens once every four years and lasts only eight minutes long. I'm sure Jimmy didn't raise his hand and volunteer his services and say, "I've selected the greatest voice in the U.K. to accompany me -- no, it's not Robert Plant, it's the chick from last year's talent show!" I'm absolutely certain that with a gig like this, the organizers had all the say about who was participating, and their selection of pairing Jimmy Page with Leona Lewis had much more to do with "something old, something new" than it did with anything Robert Plant may or may not be doing at the time.
It's completely absurd, in my opinion, to suggest this act has anything to do with Jimmy coaxing Robert back into a Zep act. "Look, we're both capable of duets, therefore we should reunite our band." What a bunch of faulty logic.
YB: I doubt very much whether Leona Lewis was Jimmy's selection.
I still think his ultimate motive is pride in being asked. We don't know who was asked before him... the Stones, all of Zeppelin, Radiohead, et cetera - or how they whittled it down to one representative from the long and storied British music history paired with a rising star.
The not-so-ulterior motive is probably the same for Jimmy as it was when he worked with Puffy or Fred Durst... or even when he played onstage with abominations like Poison, and that is to bring Led Zeppelin's music to people who may not have been exposed to it previously, and to expand and enforce the legacy of his life's work, which is and remains Led Zeppelin.
I don't think a one-off pairing with Leona Lewis is really comparable to Plant/Krauss, nor do I believe it's comparable to Jimmy working with Coverdale with the result (intended or not) of making Plant jealous.