If I’m going to do this, I’ve got to get the best out of it that I can.Īfter all these years, how do you calm people down when they meet you and treat you like their idol? I’m a little wary of repetition, and no matter where I play or what I play or how it works, I’ve got to feel really good about it, because the bird is on the wing. My whole deal is entertainment is fine so long as the person that you’re entertaining most of all is yourself. Today, I’m three days off playing at the biggest festival in Europe, and I’m going be pretty melodic.īy the smiles on the faces of the people I’m working with, the demeanor, my own demeanor. They were all rather silly adventures, but they kept me thinking, or just falling upon melody. From then on, I made a lot of departures, and I have no embarrassment about them. A lot of what I was singing was really at the top of my capacity, right at the sharp end of what I could ever possibly do with the keys that we were playing music in.īy 1980, that whole idea was long over and gone. Our itineraries were pretty demanding, and sometimes it really would take it out of my voice. There was nowhere to hide at all in a four-piece band, and so there were great days and there were days that weren’t so good, and I would have to push through.
There was a panic of responsibility in the Seventies, believe it or not. How do you get in the right frame of mind for a concert these days, compared to the old days?
#I m still in love with you song license
And so I have this license where I can actually get away with it, and I’m singing alongside a monster singer who has great demands of how my harmony fits under the songs that she selected. So if you are able to watch, the eyebrows tell everything, like she’s asking me, “Why am I doing this? Why are you fucking about like this?” It’s great. I’m still slightly impish, so I might hold one syllable of a word a little bit long, and she hangs on with me, and she doesn’t know when it’s going to end, that particular syllable. We kind of watch each other when we’re singing, and you can more or less tell. One of the things I liked about seeing you and Alison live is the way you harmonize. There’s a kind of, for me, an alluring element to that aspect. The Honeydrippers was an adventure which spoke for itself, really, whereas these two collections with Alison and T Bone have far more of a quest, and in that quest comes the weave of the songs within the collection, how they interlock even with different keys and how you would be taken from one piece to another piece. I tried it in the Eighties with the Honeydrippers, but that was a slam dunk because I was working with Ahmet. The whole deal is, “How do you actually take these songs, show them respect, and give them a new place?” It’s not supposed to be an endearing selection it’s a little more rough, particularly with the Bert Jansch pieces. You perform songs by the Everly Brothers and Calexico, but you’ve been doing cover songs your whole life, going back to “Babe, I’m Gonna Leave You.” What do you get out of doing covers? Meet the Drummer Who's Covering Entire Led Zeppelin Shows on YouTube Although Zeppelin have reunited a few times over the decades, Plant has always been reluctant to dwell too long in the past. He has indulged moody pop and supergroup R&B, reunited with Jimmy Page on the No Quarter album, and indulged his folkier interests with Krauss. Since Zeppelin disbanded in 1980, following the death of drummer John Bonham, Plant has kept his spirits up by following his own muse. The shows touch on the new record, as well as their first collaboration (their Grammy-winning 2007 outing, Raising Sand) and folky reworkings of tracks by Plant’s first big band, Led Zeppelin. Plant and Krauss released their second album together, Raise the Roof, last fall, and they just hit the road for a string of dates that run through Sept. “I was able to experience the very first rays of the sun this morning and the sound of a female blackbird.
Plant has just arrived back in England in a great mood and describes his day so far in his very Plant-like way: “It’s summer solstice - it’s magnificent,” he exclaims. When I reach Robert Plant on the phone, it’s a few days before he and Alison Krauss play Glastonbury.
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