#1 on my list would definitely be Pink Floyd. Would love to see them.
L7 should definitely reform. They're one of my favorite grunge bands and I don't dig on Donita Sparks' solo career. Best thing about an L7 gig is it would be small. I'd be right up there next to the stage. Would sooo love that.
Even though the current Ten Years After is pretty good, wouldn't mind seeing them reunite with Alvin.
Y'all will think I'm crazy, but... Nirvana, definitely. I saw "The Doors" in 2003 and enjoyed it. If Queen, Blind Melon, AIC etc. can do it, so can Nirvana, there's no difference. It wouldn't be innovative or legitimate or... honorable. But it'd be a night full of mindless fun! Plus I'd love to see songs like Old Age, Clean Up Before She Comes and Do Re Mi brought to life. Most of my favorites were never played live.
I wouldn't mind seeing Zeppelin return at all, but IMHO Jason isn't the right drummer for them, and I'm worried about what kind of show it would be. I mean I'm not going to lie, 7 years ago if I saw a Zeppelin show packed with the hits like the O2 reunion, I would have died of happiness, been resurrected by the music, and then died of happiness again.
But Zeppelin's unwavering taste for being... well, interesting, is one of their greatest assets. They were adventurous, tracks like The Crunge and Hats Off To (Roy) Harper are immutable testaments to that. And their live shows were just as adventurous, with 15 minute jams, sprawling inventive medleys of all kinds of songs. Nothing ever sounded like the studio version. The O2 gig was a nice send off, and the boys sounded great, but there was a lot more to a Led Zeppelin gig than what they brought to the stage at the O2.
Mind you, I don't want a hypothetical 2012 Led Zeppelin to come out there and replay their Knewborth setlist, or How The West Was Won, either. I'd die to see a 2012 Zeppelin who... y'know, still cares. It's not like they've been touring as Zeppelin for all of these past 40 years, they should have some vitality and intrigue left to bring into it. I still believe there are new and special things these guys could do together. For starters, I'd like to see these guys take on some of Plant's stuff like Darkness Darkness, imagine JPJ at the helm on that one! And how about medleys of music these guys have been listening to since 1980?? I don't expect it to be post-1980 music, but I'm sure these guys have bought a few CDs since the band broke up. And hey practically every Led Zep song gets radio play, so how about sprawling setlists chalk full of deep cuts?
I know it doesn't matter since they're not getting back together anyway. And I understand there are millions of people who would love to see Zep go out there and just redo the O2 show. And that's absolutely okay. There are plenty of bands who I'd love to see do exactly that kind of a gig. But after listening to Zep all these years, I'd really only be interested in seeing them do something really special, that lives up to my image of them from when I was 13. They don't have to be young or vital, but they do have to put something new and pure into the mix.
