Article: POST-ZEP ATTITUDEFORMER LED ZEPPELIN BASSIST JOHN PAUL JONES IS BACK WITH BOOGIEBY STEVE MORSE THE BOSTON GLOBE.(PREVIEW)

Some rock stars retreat into a tame sound as they grow older, maybe settling for the adult contemporary format or even making a new-age album because they've mellowed from the renegade days of their youth.

An exception is John Paul Jones, the former Led Zeppelin bassist, who released his first solo album last month. Titled ``Zooma,'' it's a pedal-to-the-metal instrumental disc that sounds like a bassist's answer to the heaviness of rock-jazz guitarists Joe Satriani and Steve Vai.

``What I really like doing is playing loud and fast and noisily,'' Jones says from his home in London. ``That's the way this record had to be.''

Jones, who launches ...

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