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Bassist John Paul Jones has told BBC News that there were plans in 2008 for the original LED ZEPPELIN members to hit the road without frontman Robert Plant — under a different name — which were later abandoned.

Now, John Paul Jones who is currently playing with THEM CROOKED VULTURES, also featuring FOO FIGHTERS’ Dave Grohl and Josh Homme from QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE — said things have worked out for the best. “Jimmy [Page] and I rehearsed a bit with Jason Bonham and we couldn’t really agree on singers and that fell by the wayside,” he said. “Then this came along and to be honest, I’m really happy.”

THEM CROOKED VULTURES made their first official single, called “New Fang”, available to radio stations on Monday (October 26). The track is also streaming at the trio’s web site and is taken from the band’s self-titled debut album, which is due for release on November 17. Meanwhile, following their first North American tour of mostly East Coast cities earlier this month, the group will next head west for four gigs in November.

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In 1968, the members of what would soon be named Led Zeppelin were snapped outside a Scandinavian club by a fan. The images of Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and John Bonham are candid, slightly fuzzy and extremely rare, but now fans can check them out in the new book Good Times, Bad Times: A Visual Biography of the Ultimate Band. The hard-cover title, out earlier this month via Abrams publishers, collects shots of the legendary quartet that focus on their offstage lives: the rockers decompressing in the countryside, spending time with their families, composing in the studio.

In his introduction to the book, Anthony DeCurtis recalls seeing Led Zeppelin for the first time, and what it was like actually being in the studio with the band when he was on assignment for a Rolling Stone cover story. “The entire set was mesmerizing,” he writes of experiencing the band live as a high school student. “Page soloed spectacularly on every song, and the ecstatic call-and-response exchanges he and Plant engaged in were galvanizing.”

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