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kako si se to transportovao u 2003 godinu ,hoću i ja

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Ma daj šta pričaš. Division Bell i Final Cut i Obscured By Clouds su ti svi genijalni? Možda ako si die hard fan. Ja volim Floyde i znam sve od a-š i slušam ako izuzmeš prvi, uglavnom tri-četri albuma

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Pink Floyd su se okupili da podrže Live 8, Queen jer su se Brian i Roger uželeli svirke, ali ne znam da li je to slučaj i sa Zeppelinom. Prvo se 27 godina kunu "nikad više bez Bonza", a onda - reunion?! OK, verovatno su se i oni uželeli toga da sviraju zajedno, ali onda gaze ne samo na svoje reči, već i na uspomenu na (navodno) neprežaljenog člana benda.

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Na to sam mislio. Prvo Live Aid gde su u protokolu vodjeni kao Collins, Plant, Page i Jones, a zatim na 40-godisnjicu kompanije "Atlantic".

 

Jones: "Sjajno. Ove nedelje me je intervjuisao neki tip iz jednog magazina za klavijaturiste i pitao me je isto pitanje koje mi postavljaju u svakom intervjuu svih ovih godina. 'Da li ce se Zeppelini ikada ponovo okupiti?' A ja sam mu odgovorio: 'Aha, ove subote!'"

 

"Rock", avgust 1988.

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LED ZEPPELIN reunion to be confirmed today

 

by: BBC News - 2007-09-12 07:01:26

 

According to sources legendary Heavy Rockers Led Zeppelin are set to announce reunion this afternoon at a press conference that will be held 4pm BST on Wednesday, September 12 in London.

 

Singer Robert Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist John Paul Jones, split after drummer John Bonham died in 1980. The trio, who have not performed live for 19 years, are expected to be joined by Bonham's son Jason for the reunion.

 

Led Zeppelin's pioneering heavy rock made them one of the most popular bands of all time. The show is due to take place at London's O2 arena. Promoter Harvey Goldsmith will make the announcement at the 20,000-capacity venue, formerly known as the Millennium Dome.

 

The news is likely to spark a huge rush for tickets as devoted fans around the world scramble to get into what could be the band's last show. The concert is expected to coincide with the release of a new two-CD best of compilation, Mothership, on 13 November. Led Zeppelin's last full concert was in Berlin in July 1980 - two months before John Bonham died. Page, Plant and Jones performed at Live Aid five years later, and also get back together at a concert to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Atlantic Records in 1988. But a rift opened between Jones and the other two band members opened after Page and Plant started working together without him in the 1990s.

 

Rumours of a reconciliation surfaced several years ago, leading to speculation about a reunion. Their return follows comebacks by a number of other rock and pop legends, such as The Police, Genesis, Van Halen, Crowded House and Smashing Pumpkins.

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The surviving members of LED ZEPPELIN have confirmed they will reform for a special show at London's 22,000-capacity O2 arena on Monday, November 26 as part of a tribute to Atlantic Records co-founder Ahmet Ertegun, who died last December.

 

Tickets cost £125 each (approximately $254) and will be allocated on a lottery basis through the AhmetTribute.com web site. Names will be chosen at random. There will be seating and standing tickets and fans will be able to express a preference at the web site.

 

Due to expected unprecedented demand, tickets will be limited to two per successful applicants per household.

 

Tickets will not be available from any other source. Please do not take adverts or publicise any company who claims to have tickets. They will not be given any.

 

Profits will benefit the Ahmet Ertegun Education Fund, which provides scholarships to universities in the United States, United Kingdom and Ertegun's homeland, Turkey.

 

The bill also includes PETE TOWNSHEND, BILL WYMAN & THE RHYTHM KINGS, FOREIGNER and PAOLO NUTINI.

 

Founding members Jimmy Page (guitar), Robert Plant (vocals) and John Paul Jones (bass) will be joined by Jason Bonham, son of the late John Bonham, on drums.

 

Robert Plant said in a statement: "During the ZEPPELIN years, Ahmet Ertegun was a major foundation of solidarity and accord. For us he WAS Atlantic Records and remained a close friend and conspirator — this performance stands alone as our tribute to the work and the life of our long-standing friend."

 

Mica Ertegun, Ahmet's wife and president of The Ahmet Ertegun Education Fund, commented: "Ahmet attributed his success to his excellent education, and his ability to recognize innovative artists that touched us all. It was his wish to endow music and liberal Arts scholarships that would enable gifted children to reach their highest creative potential. The Ahmet Ertegun Education Fund was founded with that goal. He would be very proud that LED ZEPPELIN have chosen to reunite and headline a benefit concert in his name featuring so many of his friends. I would like to thank all of the artists for their generous contribution to help make Ahmet's vision a reality."

 

Mick Jones of FOREIGNER stated: "Ahmet's combination of charm, humour, irreverence and above all his great passion for music made getting to know him one of the brightest highlights of my life."

 

Paolo Nutini: "Meeting Ahmet Ertegun in New York two years ago was a complete honor. He touched my life with his amazing personality and opened a few doors when I was starting my career. He even invited me to sing with Ben E King and Robert Plant at Montreux last year as part of a celebration of his musical life. He was a special guy, a real gentleman and it's such a shame he's gone but a massive tribute that all his music lives on — and will do forever. God bless Ahmet."

 

ZEPPELIN reformed for Live Aid in 1985 with Phil Collins on drums. Page and Plant have played together sporadically since then. A further — brief — reformation occurred at Atlantic Records' 40th anniversary bash in New York in 1988 with Jason Bonham on drums.

 

Three weeks prior to ZEP's O2 show, Jimmy Page will be honoured as the Living Legend at the Classic Rock Roll Of Honour, Classic Rock magazine’s third annual award show. This year the awards will take place on Monday, November 5 at London’s prestigious Landmark Hotel.

 

ZEPPELIN's O2 show is being organized by legendary promoter Harvey Goldsmith.

 

Commented Goldsmith: "Ahmet introduced me to America when I first started promoting. He became a friend and was my mentor. Our industry deeply misses such a giant of music. It is a fitting tribute that these great artists have all come together to perform in his memory. The proceeds of the evening will go to The Ahmet Ertegun Education Fund for student scholarships. One of these scholarships will be for a music student in the UK each year."

 

Bill Curbishley of Trinifold management added: "To have had Ahmet regard me as one of his close friends over the past 40 years was indeed a rare privilege. To be involved in setting up this event, plus a music trust in his name and in his spirit is also a great honour and privilege for me."

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Naisao sam na ovaj intervju (kad sam proveravao mail na hotmail-u):

 

"Getting the Led Out

Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones on Led Zeppelin's historic reunion

By Alan Light

Special to MSN Music

 

It is a rock 'n' roll fantasy that most people had abandoned. On Dec. 10 at London's O2 Arena, the three surviving members of Led Zeppelin -- Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones -- will take the stage accompanied by Jason Bonham, the son of their late drummer, John Bonham. The concert marks the first time Led Zeppelin has performed together in almost 20 years, and only the third time the lineup has appeared since Bonham's death in 1980.

 

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Anticipation for the event has spurred an avalanche of ticket requests, followed by fresh suspense when the group was forced to reschedule from the original concert date of Nov. 26. Guitarist Page reportedly fractured his finger, prompting the delay. The concert is a benefit supporting a scholarship fund created by Atlantic Records co-founder Ahmet Ertegun, who passed away last year.

 

When the show was announced, the Web site on which tickets were being sold was so overloaded that it crashed. In the end, 20 million people around the world entered the lottery for the arena's 18,000 tickets. The response was incredible, but not shocking: Led Zeppelin is one of only two bands to sell more than 100 million records in the United States (the Beatles, of course, are the other, while Elvis Presley and Garth Brooks are the only solo artists to hit that number). The aura surrounding their majestic recordings -- eight studio albums released between 1969 and 1979 -- seems only to have grown over the years.

 

Speaking on the phone from London's Landmark Hotel a few days before beginning rehearsals for the reunion show, guitarist Page and bass/mandolin/keyboard player Jones made it clear that they're not taking this event lightly. "This is a really serious commitment," says Jones. "We need to get so familiar with this material again that we're not just re-creating a show, but doing something that's genuinely good."

 

The O2 performance will follow directly on the heels of several new Zeppelin projects. In October, the band announced that its music finally would be available for digital download, ending one of music's highest-profile holdouts. A new two-CD "best-of" compilation titled "Mothership" is being released Nov. 13, followed the next week by a remixed and remastered version of their 1976 concert film and soundtrack "The Song Remains the Same," with six previously unreleased tracks (including such skull-crushers as "Black Dog," "Misty Mountain Hop" and "Heartbreaker").

 

"Song," which was recorded over three nights at New York's Madison Square Garden in 1973, isn't generally considered a first-rate document of live Zeppelin; the "Rolling Stone Album Guide" dismisses it as "desultory." But the remastering is a revelation, the DVD includes such extras as news coverage of the famous robbery that took place at the band's Manhattan hotel during one of the shows, and the sheer scarcity of material from these towering rock superheroes makes any new recordings significant.

 

The future of the 21st century Led Zeppelin seems very much up in the air: Plant has said that he considers the O2 show a one-time thing, while Page has left the door open for more work going forward. For now, though, Page and Jones sound genuinely excited about the band's return to the stage, raving about a secret rehearsal they did in late spring to test the waters.

 

"We're right on the brink," says Page. "Next week we start, and I'm really looking forward to it. If it's anything like the little things that we've done, then this is going to be a terrific journey."

 

MSN Music: How does it feel to be playing together again?

 

Jimmy Page: Well, earlier this year we had this clandestine get-together. There had been a bit of a rift between us, so we had to find out if it could work, or was there too much water under the bridge? And that session felt absolutely fantastic -- it was urgent, vibrant, everything you might have hoped for and then even a bit extra, a bit more than that.

 

When the Ahmet thing came up, it was a call to arms. It gave us the opportunity to come together.

 

John Paul, I saw you this past June at the Bonnaroo festival, and you were having a blast sitting in and jamming with everyone. Have you been able to bring that spirit and enthusiasm into these rehearsals?

 

John Paul Jones: To be honest, though, it went the other way as well.

We had done this few days' rehearsal with Jason Bonham just before then, to see how it went. It felt really, really great playing with Jason, and with the others, really satisfying. It clicked immediately, it sounded tight -- I was surprised how many of the keys we remembered! So I was there at Bonnaroo fresh from the excitement of that.

 

How did the timing come together? Was it planned that the "Song Remains the Same" reissue, the "Mothership" collection and the digital catalog announcement would all happen leading up to the show?

 

Jones: The timing just kind of fell into place. We'd been working on the "Song Remains the Same" 5.1 mix for quite a long time, and we'd gotten lots of requests from the record company for a good compilation. We were never really happy with (the 1999-2000 collections) "Early Days" and "Latter Days," and this will replace those. It's really kind of a chronological sampler -- there are songs from every one of the studio albums, so that's kind of cool.

 

The online stuff we started talking about not so long ago, and the O2 show was just decided on, quite late -- and that's part of it, we were having so many meetings about everything else, this just got on the agenda and then started to receive more serious talk. The time seemed right to do it.

 

But why was this the right time?

 

Jones: I don't know why! It seemed sort of organic. These things appear at the right time. The last time it came up was quite some time ago, and then it didn't seem right. This time it came up and everyone said, "Well, why not?" That's kind of how it's always been with Led Zeppelin. There never has been any great strategy or great planning.

 

How is it being under so much media scrutiny for this show? When Led Zeppelin was actually making records, you never really received that much attention or mainstream exposure.

 

Page: I don't really want to give the media the benefit of the doubt, but each of our albums is so radically different, I just think that the reviewers didn't have a clue as to what we were doing. They were totally perplexed and bewildered. The passage of time, though, has shown what it was that the fans could connect and relate to.

 

In the late '60s and early '70s, there were other bands that had virtuoso players within them, but to have four virtuosos who could truly play as a band -- that was the important thing. So we had four guys on top of their game, straightaway, and then those four combined to make a fifth element, which took them even further.

 

The level of playing is so fine, it travels across so many musical landscapes. Anyone who wants to play an instrument inevitably comes to Led Zeppelin because it is such a remarkable textbook, it's a diamond with so many facets. And the spirit and the honesty of the playing translates across generations.

 

Jones: It's very nice that everybody is so interested. It's astonishing, overwhelming, to get 125 million hits or whatever for the tickets. But the music is what it's all about, and we have to just get to that.

 

Do you think that the media's lack of interest worked to the band's advantage in the end? Certainly no one could ever say that Led Zeppelin was overexposed.

 

Page: We were always underplayed in press, to the point of annihilation, really negative press. But each tour, we couldn't meet the demand for people in each city. If we sold as many tickets as we could, we could have kept touring forever. So because of being so underplayed, it really relied on people's spirit coming to it, to access Led Zeppelin through the records. And like anything that's any good, it spread by word of mouth.

 

Is that why there's still such reverence for the music? Why do you think the allure is still so strong for younger listeners?

 

Jones: I'm not entirely sure. We made the records in the '70s, but they're not really of the '70s. It was a pretty unique band, it didn't really fit into any categories. Which is part of why the press didn't really get what we were doing, which was really their problem -- it certainly wasn't a problem for the fans who were buying the records or coming to the shows. So I think the records aren't dated because they weren't of their time in the first place.

 

Young kids, especially young musicians, really recognize the truth and the integrity of the music. So many people tell me, "My son or daughter has taken up an instrument and they want to play like you." It's nice to be an inspiration. I was certainly inspired by my heroes, and it's nice to pass that along.

 

"The Song Remains the Same" isn't generally considered to be an example of Zeppelin at its live peak. What do you think of that reputation -- do you think it gets a bad rap?

 

Page: Listen to (the 2003 live album) "How the West Was Won" -- that was done a year earlier and we were really firing on all cylinders, but, you know, I could be critical of those performances, too. ("Song") is taken from across a couple of nights, at the end of a long tour. It was pretty happening, really happening. It wasn't the best shows we did on that tour, but I don't know which ones were.

 

Jones: I never thought it had a bad reputation. I always thought it was a good gig, but now it sounds bloody good as well. I think the record companies, as they will do, when they put the film on VHS and on DVD, they just did the transfer directly, straight to video, with no consultation with us.

 

Everything we've ever done was a statement of where the band was at the time. It was the end of a tour, the New York crowds were always very responsive. I'm sure I saw the same faces in the first rows from night to night. I think we played well -- I don't know how it came across, but I have no hesitation saying that.

 

Was there anything that surprised you in the performances while you were doing the remixing and remastering?

 

Page: The remix was related to having up-to-the-minute 5.1 surround mix on the film. But we couldn't change a frame on the film once it was copyrighted. So unlike the (2003 live retrospective) DVD, where we could overlay visuals to the sound, the exercise was that the film was out of sync and we had to actually adjust the music. We couldn't just go slow motion on the film. With the aid of ProTools, (engineer) Kevin Shirley did a fantastic job with that. And everything just sounds so much better. You have techniques today that weren't dreamt of back then.

 

Also, the whole of the set is included now. It goes in the way we envisioned it, how we would really pace a show. The only addition was "The Ocean" -- that was the encore, but we put it into the set.

 

John Paul, what stands out to you when you go back and listen?

 

Jones: How good it all was. I hadn't played the records much since those days -- or even in those days. As soon as one was finished, we would start work on the next record or the next tour or whatever. Now I hear them and think, "Oh, I forgot -- that was really good!"

 

What is it like to watch the movie's famous "fantasy sequences" now?

 

Jones: Well, we did look young! It was supposed to be a concert film, but when we went through it, there were these holes in the film, when they were changing reels or something. So then there was a bit of panic. I don't know whose idea it was to do the fantasy sequences -- but Jimmy and I were just talking about it, and we realized that Bonzo's wasn't actually a fantasy sequence, it was a reality sequence!

 

It was all fun, but in the end, not to sound like a broken record, it still comes down to the music. There were some embarrassing moments, but some good fun, too.

 

Page: We all went off our own merry ways, but Bonham just carried on in his usual way while we did these weird depictions of whatever. It was very much for the time and of the time. It was courageous, on one hand -- on the other hand, we managed to be Spinal Tap (laughs). But we did it first!

 

What is the biggest misconception about Led Zeppelin?

 

Jones: A lot is made of the salacious reputation of the band, which always detracted from the music. That was always disappointing -- especially newspapers, they would always start talking about sharks or whatever, and I would always think, "Oh, God, why does nobody mention how good the band was?"

 

Page: The biggest misunderstanding (long pause) ... I could be trite and say that people think the robbery in the movie was a fake, that we did that to add drama to the film. But now, by including the local coverage from the New York news (in the "Song" DVD's bonus footage), you can see that it was very real.

 

I don't know -- I don't care what they think about the band, or about me, or whatever. That will all be eradicated by listening to the music. If you really listen closely and hear what it was that we were doing, all the rest goes away.

 

Alan Light is the former editor-in-chief of Spin, Vibe and Tracks magazines and a former senior writer at Rolling Stone. His writing has also appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker, GQ and Entertainment Weekly. His book "The Skills to Pay the Bills: The Story of the Beastie Boys" was published in 2006. Alan is a two-time winner of the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for excellence in music writing.

 

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Gil Kaufman of MTV.com reports: It was one of those moments where all you can do is look at the guy next to you and wonder, "Did he really just say that?"

 

Is it possible that Ian Astbury, lead singer of '80s rock powerhouse THE CULT, spilled the beans on the biggest secret in rock — during a club show in Cincinnati?

 

"We'll be back next year," a breathless Astbury said midway through the band's gig at Bogart's nightclub Saturday night. "Because we're opening for a band you may have heard of ... the name starts with an 'L' and has a 'Z' in it." Stunned looks bounced around the room until one sweat-drenched superfan shouted out the obvious: "LED ZEPPELIN!" Astbury, his eyes hidden behind dark shades, nodded affirmatively and stuck his hand in the air triumphantly before plowing into one of the band's signature Zeppelinesque rockers.

 

When asked about Astbury's seeming confirmation of the world tour, spokespeople for THE CULT and ZEPPELIN both declined to comment. ZEPPELIN's spokesperson added that no decision has been made on any LED ZEPPELIN tour and the band is focusing on its appearance at the Ahmet Ertegun tribute concert in London on December 10; a CULT spokesperson declined to answer questions about Astbury's comment.

 

 

Znachi, jebo kult, smaraju za medalju, ali ako je ovo tachno...

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Hahah to i mene brine, ali LZ u Beogradu... uh kako to deluje nestvarno ali s druge strane i izvodljivo.

 

i da im predgrupa bude van gog.

ja bijih kamenovo izeš me u glavu,leba mi bi ih kamenovo kad bi oni svirali ko pregrupa.

 

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