Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band

Background information
Birth name	Don Glen Vliet
Born	January 15, 1941
Born place	Glendale, California, U.S.
Died	December 17, 2010
Death place	Arcata, California, U.S.
Genre(s)	Experimental Rock Blues Blues Rock Avant-garde Psychedelic Rock Progressive Rock
Years active	1964—1982
Label(s)	Epic Records Virgin Records Atlantic Records Reprise Records Mercury Records A&M Records Blue Thumb Records
Associated acts	The Tubes Frank Zappa The Mothers of Invention Ry Cooder Zoot Horn Rollo Rockette Morton John French Jack Nitzsche Gary Lucas Moris Tepper

Led Zeppelin Scrap Plans To Tour Without Robert Plant

October 29, 2009

Led Zeppelin's bassist John Paul Jones has confirmed the band have dropped plans to tour without singer Robert Plant.

Jones, guitarist Jimmy Page and Jason Bonham had hoped to hit the road with a session singer after Plant said he had no plans to return to the band.

But the bassist, who is currently playing in Them Crooked Vultures, has now revealed that the idea had been scrapped.

"Jimmy and I rehearsed a bit with Jason Bonham and we couldn’t really agree on singers and that fell by the wayside,” he told BBC 6 Music.

“Then this came along and to be honest, I’m really happy."

Calls for a Led Zeppelin reunion tour were ignited after the band – including Plant – played a one-off show in London in 2007.

But the singer later ruled out a full-time return, saying he wanted to focus on his other projects.

(by Jason Gregory)

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