Led Zeppelin’s eternal vocalist says he was invited by Tony Iommi to attend the Back to The Beginning festival, but needed to decline
The absence of Judas Priest at the farewell festival of Ozzy Osbourne and from Black Sabbath It was quite felt, but justified by agenda commitments. But and other bands that helped define heavy sound, as LED ZEPPELIN and Deep Purple?
The first, obviously, ended activities a long time ago, but it would not be possible for any part to represent it in the Back to the beginning? According to the vocalist Robert Plantthe invitation was even done, but he had to decline.
Plant told in an interview with Mojo that Tony Iommi He contacted him and called him to “attend”. However, the singer refused and He claimed that he is totally out of the current Hard Rock and Heavy Metal scene.
According to him, it would not be fair to go there and sing a kind of music that he doesn’t even hear or follows today.
Plant argued:
“I said, ‘Tony, I would love to go, but I can’t. I just can’t.’ I’m not saying I prefer to go out with Peter Gabriel or Youssou n’dourbut I don’t know absolutely anything about what is happening in this world now. ‘
Robert Plant and Heavy Metal
In fact, the explanation may sound strange, but it meets what Robert Plant has been claiming over the years. According to him, the way heavy rock developed from the 1980s does not please him at all
In a 1998 statement to Launch (via Far Out), he said:
“All this thing about how to sing in hard rock turned heavy metal, and all this masculinity, in fact, was that you wouldn’t really be a hard rock singer unless you could reach those notes. I think this whole and very obsolete concept now.”
In an interview with Q (via Igor Miranda site), Plant practically reneged on his influence for the development of Hard/Heavy, including nominally citing Judas Priest:
“If I’m responsible for this in any way, then I’m very, very embarrassed. Hard Rock, Heavy Metal Nowadays is just a way to sell by saying, ‘Come and buy me. I’m allied to the devil – but only in this picture, because after that I will be really cool and one day I will grow and be the manager of a pop group.'”
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Source: Rollingstone
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