ROBERT PLANT - "I Feel So Far Away From Heavy Rock"

ROBERT PLANT - "I Feel So Far Away From Heavy Rock"









The Independent reports:

For a star of his magnitude, once the singer in the biggest band on the planet, frontman of the only group to seriously challenge the ROLLING STONES' perennial claim on being the raunchiest of rockers, ROBERT PLANT has managed to retain an admirably down-to-earth attitude to life. Matey and approachable in circumstances to which most stars react with bristling petulance, Plant seems to have mellowed well with age – as too has his music, which, over the years, has developed a burnished grain and texture comparable to that of the folk and blues heroes who originally inspired him to pick up what he calls "the great flaming torch of rock'n'roll" and run with it.

These days, he's more fascinated with the acoustic subtleties of North African scales and North American harmonies than with the bludgeoning power of electric blues-based rock music. Indeed, when Plant went to see his former LED ZEPPELING bandmate John Paul Jones's new rock supergroup THEM CROOKED VULTURES at the Royal Albert Hall a few months back, he admits his ears "bled for two days" after the sonic assault. "But I feel so far away from heavy rock now," he reflects. "It's quite odd, how mine and John's paths seem to have crossed over – we've sort of gone into each others' worlds a bit."

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