Robert Plant shared that a classic pose he took while onstage was because he worried about hitting high notes.
Robert Plant’s main job in Led Zeppelin shows was to get onstage and make sure he hit all the notes. Given the range required for many of their songs, this wasn’t always an easy task. As a result, Plant had to find ways to make singing easier for him. He said that one of his classic onstage poses was a direct result of his fear that he might miss a note.(showbiz)
On his podcast Digging Deep, Plant addressed the way he would arch his back while singing. He noted that singers do it to open their chest up, but he was mostly concerned that he would miss a note.
“I often did it like that because I didn’t really know whether I could hit the right peckin’ note!”
He thought it would be safer to get as far away from the microphone as possible. That way, if he missed a note, it might not be as loudly noticeable to the audience.
“I’ll go as far away from the microphone just in case it’s not very good!” he said. “Because you don’t know sometimes.”
He noted that he valued his collaboration with Alison Krauss because he didn’t have to wail out high notes nearly as often.
“It’s going to be good with Alison because I can be quite restrained until there’ll be two or three or four points in the show where it’ll really kick off,” he said. “When that happens, her ribcage opens up — when you push the button she lets it go. It’s great.”
The Lead singer Robert Plant is also a bass player. He even played a bit on one of the band’s earlier albums! Even though the rock legend was stuck on vocals when performing with Zeppelin, he has dabbled in other instruments over the years. In 2005, he admitted he wanted to play bass for a band many have compared to the one that made him famous.
Known for playing blues rock, The Black Keys formed in 2001 in Akron, Ohio. The band caught the attention of many people in the industry, including the Led Zeppelin frontman.
“I’m very happy listening to The Black Keys,” Plant said. “They’re Akron’s most feted sons, and they owe a lot to Skip James, as do I. So I listen to a lot of desert stuff, some very old blues like Lemon Jefferson, and the Black Keys.”
“I’d love to play bass with them for a bit,” he said, referring to The Black Keys. “In truth, I was an occasional bass player. It says so on Zeppelin I, next to my name: vocals, harmonica, and occasional bass. Very occasionally — once, I think, since 1968. How in God’s name that ended up on the cover is so funny. I’m sure Jonesy [John Paul Jones] didn’t like it [laughs]. But I suppose every time he fucked up, he could say it was me.”
