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No one should be clamouring for the next Led Zeppelin<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n As much as classic rock fans would love the idea of someone coming out and having the same impact as the British heavyweights did back in the day, those kinds of acts don\u2019t happen simply because people will them into existence. It takes the right musicians working in exactly the right way, and even Jimmy Page admitted that even the best bands weren\u2019t going to hold a candle to them.<\/p>\n But, really, the idea of Page thinking that anything could best Led Zeppelin would have been impossible. The band had been Page\u2019s brainchild ever since they began, and when John Bonham passed away, they lost a core part of their identity. No one ever had a thought of continuing without their musical brother, but Page knew he couldn\u2019t simply stop making music, either.<\/p>\n While John Paul Jones turned to a solo career and session work and Robert Plant went in every direction he could think of, Page was always dipping his toes back into the blues. Zeppelin\u2019s demise didn\u2019t mean that he had to give up sounding like Jimmy Page, and looking through his collaborations with everyone from Paul Rodgers to David Coverdale, it was always easy to tell when his guitar came screaming in.<\/p>\n Even if he wasn\u2019t going to have Zeppelin again, there was always a hunger from fans to hear at least something close to it. Everyone may have had to settle for the pretty boys on MTV trying to make their stabs at rock and roll in the late 1980s, but right before grunge came in, a more rootsy form of rock had started to take hold of the zeitgeist for a split second.<\/p>\n As much as Nirvana gets the credit or blame for killing hair metal, Page had been paying attention to what had been going on with the blues acts of the time. Stevie Ray Vaughan had his place on the charts before his untimely death, but right in the era between Warrant\u2019s \u2018Cherry Pie\u2019 and Nirvana\u2019s \u2018Smells Like Teen Spirit\u2019<\/a>, there were bands like The Black Crowes carrying the torch for Page\u2019s brand of hard rock.\u00a0<\/p>\n