Jeff Beck Says "NO!" to Half-Assed Led Zep Reunion

JEFF BECK Slams LED ZEPPELIN's Comeback Plans

Sat Dec 6, 2008 12:17 pm (PST)

According to Tiscali, rocker Jeff Beck has slammed LED ZEPPELIN's comeback plans — insisting it will be pointless without former lead singer Robert Plant.

The 64-year-old legend — who played in cult act THE YARDBIRDS with LED ZEPPELIN guitarist Jimmy Page — praised the band's huge one-off concert at London's O2 Arena last December. But Beck argues plans for a full-blown tour should be shelved without Plant, who has repeatedly refused to join his old bandmates full-time.

He says, "I really don't think it's a good idea, not if Robert doesn't want to. I was there at the one-off show at the O2 Arena and it was fantastic. But I think they should just leave it there. They will have been offered loads of money and it'll be tempting but that's not a good enough reason to me. It would be different if they all wanted to do it and record new material but that's not the case."

Mythical Heros

In my teens, heavy metal and hard rock band members attained the status of mythic heros, conquering the masses with aural magick and then getting to fuck the princess, bewitched as she was by these heros' awesome power (usually displayed prominently in the tightest of jeans). The masculine aspect of this music was clear, and the young women who were attracted to it were the most accommodating, blessed females a pubescent boy could want to meet. Rock girls were the goddam coolest chicks on the planet!

I would often imagine my favorite rockers singing from a mountaintop, bone-crushing sound cascading down before them, washing us clean in its life-affirming glory. This may have been an effect of the evil herb that I had discovered wasn't evil at all at the age of 16. Cannibus and metal seemed made for one another. Everyone knew the stars were smoking it, and the music resonated so completely with its vibration. Some of my happiest memories revolve around a bong and a pair of headphones. The members of Led Zeppelin had become gods in my personal pantheon.