{"id":1814,"date":"2008-11-21T09:46:49","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T14:46:49","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-11-21T09:50:04","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T09:50:04","slug":"who-to-replace-robert-plant-in-led-zeppe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/who-to-replace-robert-plant-in-led-zeppe\/","title":{"rendered":"Who to replace Robert Plant in Led Zeppelin?  Does it matter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7xgfEb_lUGg?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nAbout a week ago, MSNBC reported that the main contenders to replace <strong>Robert Plant<\/strong> in Led Zeppelin are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alter Bridge frontman <strong>Myles Kennedy<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Chris Cornell<\/strong> of Soundgarden<\/li>\n<li><strong>Chad Kroeger<\/strong> of Nickelback<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I was never that big a fan of Plant\u2019s voice but I can\u2019t imagine someone else filling in for him.  <\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know who the first guy is, but if Chad Kroeger is on your shortlist of potential bandmates, things must be pretty dire. And imagine this from <strong>John Paul Jones<\/strong>\u2019 perspective: after 15 years or so of getting snubbed by the very outfit that you co-founded, you finally get back in, only to have the douche from Nickleback fronting the band. So what are <strong>Jimmy Page<\/strong> and JPJ to do? Possibilities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Give <strong>Terry Reid<\/strong> a chance to not blow it this time<\/li>\n<li>Hold auditions on an American Idol style TV show like <strong>INXS<\/strong> did<\/li>\n<li>Try to get the Devil to take their phone calls so they can plead with him to give their souls back<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Any other suggestions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a week ago, MSNBC reported that the main contenders to replace Robert Plant in Led Zeppelin are: Alter Bridge frontman Myles Kennedy Chris Cornell of Soundgarden Chad Kroeger of Nickelback I was never that big a fan of Plant\u2019s voice but I can\u2019t imagine someone else filling in for him. I don\u2019t know who <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/who-to-replace-robert-plant-in-led-zeppe\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}