Page Primed for Zeppelin Reunion Tour
If Jimmy Page has his way, Led Zeppelin will ramble on the road for a world tour sometime later this year.
The guitarist, in Tokyo promoting Zeppelin's new greatest-hits album, Mothership, said Monday that the band's successful reunion show last month at London's O2 Arena got him excited about the possibility of launching a full-scale trek with former bandmates Robert Plant and John Paul Jones.
"The amount of work we put into O2 was what you would normally put into a world tour anyway," Page said.
"It was exhilarating, fantastic, every week was a week to look forward to," he added. "We did the show and it was great."
The trio was joined at the sold-out benefit show by Jason Bonham, son of the group's late drummer, John Bonham, whose death in 1980 precipitated the band's breakup.
Reviews of the concert were resoundingly positive, leaving Zeppelin fans hungry for more.
However, should there be a reunion tour, it's not likely to happen before September, Page said, as Plant has already committed to a tour with his latest duet partner, Alison Krauss.
"Robert Plant also had a parallel project running, and he's really busy with that project, certainly until September, so I can't give you any news," Page said.
Of the band members, Plant has expressed the most resistance to the idea of a reunion tour, stating in one interview that the "whole idea of being on a cavalcade of merciless repetition is not what it's all about."
In recent weeks, however, he has softened his position, admitting that it perhaps "wouldn't be such a bad idea to play together from time to time."
Last week, when asked once again about the possibility of a tour, he gave his most cryptic reply yet, answering, "You never know what's round the corner."
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