According to The Pulse Of Radio, ALTER BRIDGE and Slash vocalist Myles Kennedy almost added a third gig to his resume in 2008, and it was a massive one — working with the instrumental members of LED ZEPPELIN on a new project that never saw the light of day. Kennedy rehearsed and wrote music with guitarist Jimmy Page, bassist John Paul Jones and drummer Jason Bonham over the course of two sessions, telling VH1 Classic's "That Metal Show", "Those rehearsals I will remember to my dying day… We played 'The Rain Song', which is probably my favorite LED ZEPPELIN song, 'No Quarter', 'Kashmir'. It was a lot of fun."
Page and Jones were looking for a way to keep working following LED ZEPPELIN's incredible one-off performance at the O2 Arena in London in December 2007.
Although there were rumors of staggering sums being offered to the group for a full tour, singer Robert Plant elected to continue with his solo career instead.
Page and Jones also tried out AEROSMITH's Steven Tyler and SOUNDGARDEN's Chris Cornell, with Page telling Rolling Stone in 2012, "Various people thought we should go on tour. I thought we needed a good, credible album, not do something that sounded like we were trying to milk the (reunion)."
You can watch Myles Kennedy talking about the audition on "That Metal Show" by clicking the Youtube link below:
That Metal Show (VH1)
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