Postby WildcatOne » Sun Apr 08, 2007 12:32 am
The Robert Plant concert on "Soundstage" is amazing. He has a big band and sound crew, they are playing versions of a lot of his Led Zeppelin songs with new arrangements and new styles, and they are great...it's stuff he wrote; he can do it any way he wants, but these songs are killer. His voice is an instrument just like the guitars and synths are. They're tearing it up, they have modern, hi-tech sound, world beat, and they're hypnotic...balanced, dynamic...great show...what's funny about these two posts is I wasn't ever much of a Robert Plant fan; I kind of saw him as a rock-star caricature, with his curly billowing golden locks and blouses, bumps and grinds, nothing about his act I could relate to (not that part, anyway), and I highly regarded Elvis Costello as an artist, a songwriter and as an uncompromising individualist...after watching these two shows tonight, the two images are now reversed. Elvis Costello made a fool out of himself, and Robert Plant more than redeemed his image to me. He was better than I ever thought he could be without Led Zeppelin. Cheers, WC1
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