Do you think Robert Plant has sold out to be an American Idol?
How old is Plant? Sixty something? 60-61? He's fairly close in age to Paul McCartney 66 and Mick Jagger and those guys are like nursing home and assisted living old. How does this English bloke sprout more hair at 60 plus years than most Brits sport by age 30? I wager that could be a Led Zeppelin hairpiece. He looks like Brian Seacrest with long hair and a soul patch. So what do you guys and gals think of Plant teaming up with his niece (she is certainly young enough to be) Allison Krauss? I never cared for Plant's falsetto shrieking in Led Zep but the bluesy acoustic stuff he did with Page was decent if he kept his range below falsetto drag queen screeching tones. Personally, I think he should stick to Led Zeppelin reunions or get a Zep like band going solo. This teaming up of these two was a slick marketing ploy that has obviously sold well but it has the artistic merit of a collection of advertising jingles. If all that glitters is gold, Plant is certainly making up for lost time being a pop star and buying his Stairway to Heaven on a marketing scheme that makes Brittney Spears seem like a legitimate folk singer songwriter by comparison.Should the Plant/Krauss follow up CD be entitled "Whole Lotta BS"?
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Great thing about bands like Led Zep, The Stones, and the Beatles is that none of them stayed within the strict frame work of 1 genre. All three allowed influences of many types of music both past and (at the time of creation) present. Stones and Zep had songs either tinged with, or were written as country, reggae, jazz, blues. Most bands now are crucified ifthey dare step out of a very tightly defined genre. I applaud Plant for making music that is different from his norm. It keeps him and his sound fresh.
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