When Robert Plant did his recent rounds of media in support of his new album, Band of Joy, he did lots of TV and newspaper, but no radio. It wasn't accidental, as Plant intentionally decided to do no radio interviews. Woods, and Legends of Rock, wouldn't take no for an answer and got the only radio interview with Robert Plant on his recent promotional tour.
A little background - let me tell you, getting Robert Plant to speak to radio stations, was not an easy task, despite it not being the first time I sat down across from him to talk music. You see, he’s not a fan of commercial radio any longer. Getting asked for the millionth time about his old band getting back together no doubt part of the problem. In fact Robert didn’t want to speak to commercial radio stations, PERIOD, and so none were granted interviews this time around.
Taking no for an answer is not something Legends likes to do, so with the efforts of Universal Music Canada, we pushed until in the 11th hour, we got the green light, the ONLY such approval for commercial radio in North America, apparently.
Despite our usual approach being recording audio and video, as we’ve done in recent months with Carlos Santana, Rush, Bachman/Turner, Ronnie Wood, and others, – in this case, for reasons unknown – no video. We figured audio was better than nothing at all, and so on the 16th of September 2010, I walked into the Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto with my recorder and there he was, ready to go. After making a joke about really enjoying Supertramp on the radio that morning … followed by the punchi-line: ‘with the volume turned to zero’, we got down to talking about how his new album came together …
You can hear the interview in it's entirety here.
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