Bonnaroo, Sunday: Robert Plant & Alison Krauss

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VazquezNYC
June 24, 2008

As always, Bonnaroo brings you a left-field pairing, tho' this wasn't a superjam; this team of Plant/Krauss/T-Bone Burnett, et., al., have been touring the US. and this Bonaroo main stage gig was ...

As always, Bonnaroo brings you a left-field pairing, tho' this wasn't a superjam; this team of Plant/Krauss/T-Bone Burnett, et., al., have been touring the US. and this Bonaroo main stage gig was an opp for a lot of Plant fans to hear the lion live for the first time.

Granted he didn't cut loose on this, but the undercurrent of restraint makes for a nice version and a better number than some of the unplugged stuff Page/Plant did for MTV. Would've been crazy to see Page and John Paul Jones pop up at Bonnaroo, tho...

Unlike John Paul Jones who jammed around at multiple gigs at Bonnaroo last year, as did Avant-Jazz legend Ornette Coleman, Plant was not to be found on any other stage (they're in mid-tour), tho the Lez zeppelin show sounded mighty Led Zepp-ish.

In our downtime at the Roo, we happened to be reading an advance copy of "Bumping Into Geniuses" a industry memoir by former Led Zep publicist (and subsequent Nirvana manager) Danny Goldberg who speaks of how in the early 70's LZ were under-heralded by the rock establishment, and how older writers didn't understand how they could have such a young audience. The book also revisits how the Golden God scene from Cameron Crowe's film "Almost Famous", was based on an interview with Plant where he said that famous rockist line "I am a Golden God!" overlooking the Sunset Strip in L.A.

It is, after all, easy for media stars to lose perspective...Fast forward a few decades and you have, on a Sunday at Bonnaroo, a fine answer to the bullshit burn-out VS fade-away question, with Plant sagely and wistfully on a refreshingly human scale, expressing his joy in being alive and in the present and feeling the love while still performing: "Well how the time's come and gone." is his first comment and after that, what else really needs to be said, except to pour some out for the brothers and sisters who ain't here?

Bonnaroo also saw the great soul vocalist Solomon Burke perform (video of Burke soon, plus a lot more from Roo '08) and we also found him in the "...Geniuses" book; apparently Jerry Wexler, who'd signed both Led Zep and Burke, viewed Burke as the greatest American singer of all time. Too bad artists weren't always paid the way they should have been; for every Plant and Burke that's still standing, sadly many were done in by more than a few raw deals.

'Always time to remedy a bad deed from the past...

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hflinsch (6 months ago) Show Hide

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thanks for this pair and this posting and thanks for the memories

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this was one of the highlights of the entire weekend for me. I was hoping he'd do a traditional version of one of his Zep songs, but in a way I'm glad he didn't. It was more special to have this subdued re-imagination of the old classic.

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LOL thedoc, I think so too ! ;-)

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he defintly fuckin her

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I guess it would go to his dick, but thats not a person

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Fantastic!

XXXTREMEWAYS (8 months ago) Show Hide

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Yep, he was cracking up . I think this version is frankly very erotic . But thats just me , ;-)

acoronab (8 months ago) Show Hide

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God bless him for reinventing himself

rodentcafeteria (9 months ago) Show Hide

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Look at Robert at 0:39, he's trying to keep from laughing!!

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