The new issue of Rolling Stone Magazine hits newsstands on Friday and the cover story is an interview with Jimmy Page conducted by David Fricke. Here is a portion of that piece:
From Rolling Stone
Ultimately, Robert Plant had no interest in carrying on.
"He was busy," says Page. "He was doing his Alison Krauss
project. I wasn't fully aware it was going to be launched at the same time. So
what do you do in a situation like that? I'd been working with the other two
guys for the percentage of the rehearsals at the O2. We were connecting
well. The weakness was that none of us sang."
With Plant out of the picture, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and drummer
Jason Bonham continued rehearsing together in early 2008. "We didn't do
any professional recording," says Page. "We just had a little digital
recorder. I thought it was good. I wasn't going to walk away from it. But the
weakness came up again. It was, 'We gotta have a singer.'"
The idea
of a tour was batted around, but Page refuses to divulge the full list of
singers who jammed with the group. Alter Bridge frontman Myles Kennedy has
publicly acknowledged rehearsing with the group, and Page doesn't deny that.
"It sounded premature," he says. "I could see what way it was
going. Various people thought we should go on tour. I thought we
needed a good, credible album, not do something that sounded like we were
trying to milk the O2."
Steven
Tyler has also said he flew to England to jam with the band. "The timing
wasn't the best," says Page. "We had put so much toward the O2.
And the three of us were catching up with stuff. It was very good, seriously
promising. But there was this other thing going on. [Pauses] And that's it."
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