Post by Admin on Jun 10, 2013 8:42:08 GMT -5
Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones too busy writing an opera for reunion
After talk of a Led Zeppelin reunion, the band's bassist says '2014 is full of opera', since he is adapting a Strindberg play
Rock soap opera … John Paul Jones, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page in 2012. Photograph: Dave J Hogan/Getty Images
More Led Zeppelin news: John Paul Jones is writing an opera. While Robert Plant has dangled the possibility of reuniting Led Zeppelin next year, the band's bassist revealed that he has his hands full adapting a 105-year-old Swedish play.
"2014 is full of opera for me at the moment," Jones explained in a recent interview. Red Carpet News had caught up with the rocker at an after-party for the English Nation Opera's latest production, The Perfect American. "[Opera] is unlike anything else," he said. "It's the emotion, the passion, and I'm writing an opera myself so I have to say that."
Jones's opera is based on Spöksonaten (The Ghost Sonata), written by August Strindberg. "Right now I'm halfway through the first act," he said. A favourite of Ingmar Bergman's, the play mixes the surreal and the domestic, with ghosts roaming through a Stockholm apartment building. It first premiered in January 1908.
Although still best known for his work with Led Zeppelin, Jones roamed widely before, during and after his time with the band. Over the past 30 years, he has collaborated with artists as diverse as REM, Diamanda Galás, Foo Fighters, Gillian Welch, and the Norwegian avant-gardists Supersilent. These days, Jones said, he only has time "to do little gigs that I don't have to prepare too much for".
Unfortunately for Led Zeppelin fans, this seems to put an end to discussions of a possible reunion. Whereas Robert Plant blocked the group's last attempts to get together, saying he was too busy with Alison Krauss and the Band of Joy, Jones is now the one with clashing priorities. "I've got nothing to do in 2014," Plant complained earlier this year.
After talk of a Led Zeppelin reunion, the band's bassist says '2014 is full of opera', since he is adapting a Strindberg play
Rock soap opera … John Paul Jones, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page in 2012. Photograph: Dave J Hogan/Getty Images
More Led Zeppelin news: John Paul Jones is writing an opera. While Robert Plant has dangled the possibility of reuniting Led Zeppelin next year, the band's bassist revealed that he has his hands full adapting a 105-year-old Swedish play.
"2014 is full of opera for me at the moment," Jones explained in a recent interview. Red Carpet News had caught up with the rocker at an after-party for the English Nation Opera's latest production, The Perfect American. "[Opera] is unlike anything else," he said. "It's the emotion, the passion, and I'm writing an opera myself so I have to say that."
Jones's opera is based on Spöksonaten (The Ghost Sonata), written by August Strindberg. "Right now I'm halfway through the first act," he said. A favourite of Ingmar Bergman's, the play mixes the surreal and the domestic, with ghosts roaming through a Stockholm apartment building. It first premiered in January 1908.
Although still best known for his work with Led Zeppelin, Jones roamed widely before, during and after his time with the band. Over the past 30 years, he has collaborated with artists as diverse as REM, Diamanda Galás, Foo Fighters, Gillian Welch, and the Norwegian avant-gardists Supersilent. These days, Jones said, he only has time "to do little gigs that I don't have to prepare too much for".
Unfortunately for Led Zeppelin fans, this seems to put an end to discussions of a possible reunion. Whereas Robert Plant blocked the group's last attempts to get together, saying he was too busy with Alison Krauss and the Band of Joy, Jones is now the one with clashing priorities. "I've got nothing to do in 2014," Plant complained earlier this year.