Article: John Paul Jones: Led Zeppelin's heaviest on riff & rhythm. (bass guitarist) (Interview)

In a few hours John Paul Jones will step onstage for his first set of original music since Led Zeppelin crashed 14 years ago. The bassist/producer's mild voice betrays no jitters as he relaxes in a Hamburg hotel room before the tour's opening show, despite the fact that his new group features a very risky lineup: voice, drums, and Jones' mighty biamped bass. No guitars.

While his former colleagues Jimmy Page and Robert Plant relive their glory days via the No Quarter project, Jones is blasting into the future with the boldest and best post-Zeppelin release: The Sporting Life [Mute], a speaker-frying collaboration with avant-diva Diamanda Galas. Long famed in new ...

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