Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith recently revealed that Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page turned down a guest spot on the upcoming Ozzy Osbourne record. Or as Smith put it, "I don't think Page plays anymore too much, unfortunately." Though according to Page in an interview with Classic Rock (via Guitar World), he definitely does still play and has some projects in the works.
Page said there are "various things I'm working towards. It's not just one thing, it's multiple things." When asked what he's been working on, Page responded "I don't want to even give a hint, because if you do… you give a one-sentence sound bite, and then if it doesn't materialize, it's like, 'Why didn't you do a solo album?'" He later added another reason he doesn't want to talk about it yet is because he doesn't want to "give people the chance to misinterpret it."
Of course the immediate assumption is that maybe there's something Led Zeppelin-related in the works, even though Page said in 2020 that a reunion is "unlikely."
"At the time of The O2, we thought — myself, John Paul Jones and Jason [Bonham] — that there was going to… it was said that there were gonna be some more dates. It would've been really good to have done that after the O2, 'cause we'd put a lot of work into The O2 and we were really on it, y'know? But it didn't come off."
"It seems really unlikely that there would be a tour in the future. Unlike The Rolling Stones, they do sort of know that the fans love that — also I know that with Led Zeppelin [fans too]. But it doesn't look as though there’s anything in the future, unfortunately.
"We're talking about a concert that was gigantic at the time, but that was 2007: time passes, y'know?"
So I guess we'll see, right? Whatever it is, it'll just be nice to have some Jimmy Page guitar playing back in our lives.
