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Plant solo - awesome
Plant and Strange Sensations - brilliant
Plant and Alison Krauss - magical
Plant, Page and Jones with Jason on drums - one can only dream
Plant and an allstar backing band including Brian May, etc playing the music that inspired them - definitely worth seeing but
Plant and Queen minus Freddie and John doing Queen or Zep stuff - please don't do it
Plant is a brilliant vocalist/frontman as was Freddie, but that's where it stops. Freddie would have been dreadful singing Zep songs, as Plant would be singing Queen songs.....
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well it's not fair saying they are awful band or an awful live band. They have some great albums, and yes some real duds, but a some real classics. And they arent always awful live. Reading 07 was very terrible. But they have been working none stop for over 20 years, a bit of a decline will happen. But they have had some really great gigs... their live albums is ratehr good.
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basically, the original Woodstock was brilliant. a one-time exception.
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Son Jason is now a pretty good drummer and kid sister Deborah is a great singer in the Janis Joplin style.
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John Bonham, for a full on Zeppelin reunion....best drummer ever, missed but never forgotten
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rocking up last year (after the weather disaster from the year before) to glorious sunshine. the 5 minutes after we setup our tents high up on the dairy ground. it was about 8am when we were done. Cracked open the first beer, rolled a big fat one, unpacked the comfy chair, turned around and saw the whole site in all it's beautiful glory slowly waking up....life was perfect at the time...
musically there were loads of awesome moments (blur doing tender, neil's last minutes on stage, iggy inviting the whole of glasto on stage, the hey jude singalong, rodgab doing wish you were here, ben harper launching into whole lotta love the list is endless)....
can't wait for 2010
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maybe in the Status Quo sunday afternoon sunshine singalong slot but headlining? that would be very silly. 20 years ago maybe but now???
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that would probably be the worst headliner i could think off together with u2 and likes...their early albums were great, but live they are just awful.
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considering Eavis started Glastonbury after seeing the mighty Zeppelin at Bath Festival (then held at the Shepton Mallet Showgrounds, where international Glastopeople now pick up their tickets) there is certainly a glimmer of hope.
Yes JPJ has loads of fun with the Vultures at the mo, and yes Jimmy is just Jimmy and doing f**k all (where's that new material you have been promising for the last few years), but I said even before I saw them at the O2 (they were mindblowing) that there are only 2-3 places Zep could ever consider for further reunion gigs and after Knebworth, Glasto would be in top spot....
Saying that, as any Zep-fan can testify rumours appear constantly and usually fail to deliver...Either way Percy on his own, with some mates, with Alison Krauss, with the Strange Sensations will always be an awesome gig. I saw him in all his incarnations and he might have lost the rawness from his early Zep-Days or the status as the Golden God of Rock, but he is still an outstanding vocalist with a musical repertoire that will blow people away....
On that note....yes please Mr. Eavis keep calling him until he is a definite....
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they would deliver 100 % and surprise many people, even those not interested in metal. I have seen them many times and despite their recent output (especially the few before Death Magnetic) not being up to the usual metallica standard, they are still one of the best live bands around. no matter how long they are around for you'll never find a metallica concert where the audience doesn't leave 100 % satisfied.
Yes Lars Ulrich is a right cock, but that doesn't deflect from the fact that they are one of the best live bands around and definitely worthy of headline slot at Glasto.
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yes of course you can but it's hard work compared to a sunny one....
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i just staggered out off f**ked Up at the John Peel Stage and was mightily impressed. I didn't know them before but a friend highly suggested to go and see them and as am not averse to a bit of loud music it was certainly the most heavy gig i have ever seen at glasto, and a lot of credit needs to go to the frontman for absolutely having it at 2pm and crowdsurfing through out the gig while belting out proper tunes....poor stewards though who had to keep feeding his mic cable over the crowds..
one of my absolute highlights this year.....and then it only got better and better
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As far as I know you don't need to have a specific reason for cancelling. You should be ok with cancelling near the time as well. If the worst comes to the worst just say you've lost your job and can't afford it.
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Just on that actually, what's Hyde Park like as a venue? I've never been, but for some reason I've always pictured it as being a bit, well, ropey really.
For some reason I'm imagining too many people, poor sightlines, dodgy sound and not enough facilities. But I have absolutely no evidence at all to back this up!
One good thing about the Blur gigs is there's no golden circle rubbish is there? I remember the Foos there a couple of years back had a set up where you could pay extra to get close to the front. I think that's dead cheeky!
I'm wandering well off topic now, so I reckon I'd better stop here. I thought Blur were immense at Glasto by the way - was listening to highlights on a 6Music show yesterday and getting all goose-bumpy!
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Highlights
- the 3 pyramid headliners - all absolutely brilliant in their own rights
- finally seeing Terry Reid live
- weather
- the lovely people i was with
- 100s of others (lovely cider, best line up for me in a long time, super friendly police force onsite, general happiness around the place)
Lowlights
- stupid security people (plenty of them)
- the must leave after each film rule in the cinema field
- not enough Brothers Cider tents (gaymers and the cider bus stuff is not as nice)
- scheduling (some highly avoidable clashes, Rolf Harris at the Jazz Stage when there were only 10000 at the pyramid at the time????)
- that it is another 360 days till the next one....
thanks Michael & Emily
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And I didnt like the new rules of having to exit everyone and then go and cue again!!
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my favourite tshirt wasn't very funny but very true nevertheless....it read
For evil to triumph all that is necessary is that good people do nothing....
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we were watching beardymen and i had just sparked up as a blue coat security dude comes up, shouting to put it out and telling me he could throw me out for that....what a knob especially as people left right and centre were hoovering up class a's like it's going out of fashion...luckily the ground was dry and as soon he walked off the spliff got returned to where it belonged:)
the coppers are lovely at glasto but the security are just thugs (some of them anyway)
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oh and note to person with big yellow flag down the front at neil Young ...it's "hey hey my my " not "my my hey hey".
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Am not really a Springsteen fan as such. But I did goto his set to hear some of his biggest hits such as Born In The USA, Dancing In The Dark, Streets Of Philadelphia, etc. He was 15 minutes late arriving. And then he was playing song after song of tracks I've never even heard before! By 11:50, an hour and 35 minutes into his set I decided to call it a night as it didn't look like he was going to play any of his greatest hits!
He's a talented man, but I was dissapointed he didn't play any of his greatest hits(not in hour and 35 minutes I was watching it for anyway).
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my favorite was the one just saying TUNE!!!!!!!!!!
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just stick another couple of screens to the side of the pyramid and the lazy buggers at the back can watch it just like it would be on telly....from sound desk forwards you see all you want and the flags are fantastic.
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1. f**ked up - most dedicated front man ever...he crowd surfed the whole tent back and forth and played blinding music along the way.
2. Neil Young - just mindblowingly good. always has been always will be
3. Blur - didn't want to see them first, got convinced by mates, didn't regret it for 1 second...if only they had a bass player who was slightly less of a you know what...
4. CSN - yes their voices are no longer what they used to be (no wonder really) but just an absolute privilege to see these legends. just a shame they didn't join up with neil for a bit....
loads more, best ever glasto? don't know haven't only been to 5, but certainly one very hard to beat.
U2 Friday night headliners!
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saw them at wembley recently and their were awful. seen them many times before when they were brilliant....so let's hope they realise that they haven't had a decent album since achtung baby (maybe up to pop) and they base their setlist around their earlier stuff...then it could be a cracker