Led Zep guitarist promises New Page
Guitar hero Jimmy Page has promised his new solo album will be "radical", and also says he has no hard feelings against Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant for not going ahead with a reunion tour in 2008.
Page has recently begun work on his first new record in 22 years. It's rumoured to have come about after the one-off Zep show at London's O2 Arena proved to be just that. When Plant refused to take part in a tour, Page, bassist John Paul Jones and drummer Jason Bonham – son of John – planned a tour anyway, but it fell apart.
Plant has been working with country singer Alison Krauss and their duet album, Raising Sand, won give Grammys last year. Jones has gone on to work with Dave Grohl and Joshe Homme in supergroup Them Crooked Vultures, who are already starting work on a second album. Now Page, 66, promises a new approach to his music on his upcoming album.
He says: "I think it's very important to make musical statements with new material, and that's exactly what I plan to do over the forthcoming year. Musically it will be a different picture in quite a radical frame, I hope. I'd like to try some ambitious projects."
Page appeared in guitar-oriented movie it Might get Loud lat year, with Jack White and the Edge. He's recently spoken about being interested in touring this year, and is thought to be considering a power-trio lineup. He also says he has no problem with Plant, who recently sparked a new round of reunion speculation by saying he'd been offered a slot at Glastonbury but wasn't sure who to play it with.
He explains: "Robert and Alison Krauss' album is really good. I don't want to try and make it look as though I'm trying to be controversial about what they'd doing. We get on fine."
Rock Radio recently speculated that Led Zeppelin might just reunite for this year's Download festival.
Meanwhile, Glenn Hughes of Deep Purple, Black Sabbath and Trapeze fame says he's singing in a new supergroup, but hasn't revealed the other members. Due to recent comments from producer Kevin Shirley, with whom Hughes is working, some names in the spotlight include Page, Bonham, Joe Bonamassa and David Coverdale.
Hughes says: "The new band is now running - it's a spectacle with the most amazing players. It's an orgasm for the mind and it's gonna rock."
Bonamassa has also referred to starting work with a "supa groupa".
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