Over the past few months, the mere mention of Led Zeppelin would likely elicit at least one of these responses: "Are they reuniting?" and "Why not?"
While frontman Robert Plant originally sat down with Ben Jones on Absolute Radio to talk about his current work with singer/violinist Alison Krauss, the conversation eventually turned to the Led Zeppelin reunion that could have been.
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The reason that it stopped was because we were incomplete and we've been incomplete now for 28 years,"
Plant says. "
No matter what you do, you have to really guard the discretion of what you’ve done in the past and make sure that you have all the reasons and the right place to be able to do something with absolute and total conviction."
He adds, "I think the thing about it is really, is that to visit old ground, it's a very incredibly delicate thing to do, and the disappointment that could be there once you commit to that and the comparisons to something that was basically fired by youth and a different kind of exuberance to now, its very hard to go back and meet that head on and do it justice."
During the interview, Plant also confirmed that he is already working on new material with Alison Krauss after the success of their 2007 album, "Raising Sand". "Raising Sand" was nominated for five awards at this year’s 51st Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year.
The full interview can be heard here.
Report by David Lowe-Bianco.
