Plant has always had my respect for moving on, not resting on past glories and resisting the temptation for easy money (and lots of it)

Be fair to Plant.
There's too much baggage associated with Zeppelin for him, likely.
Let's see...

Zep prepares to tour the States in Fall of '75--In August 1975, Plant and his wife are involved in a brutal car wreck which nearly cripples him for life and cracks her head open.

Zep tours the States in '77, a long, bitter, chaotic, turbulent tour full of bad vibes and toxic hangers-on--only for Plant to find out toward the end that his young son has died of a mysterious, still unknown ailment while he was thousands of miles away playing the same old songs.

In the meantime, Punk has risen up and Led Zeppelin are among the groups seen as increasingly passe. Jimmy Page has fallen deep into Heroin addiction, leaving his playing sloppy and a mere shadow of itself. Bonham falls deeper into drink and his skills as a drummer decline due to age, exhaustion, alcoholism and poor health.

By 1980, it's Plant and Jones holding the band together, carrying an increasingly strung out Page and an ailing Bonham. Note how little Jimmy contributes to In Through the Out Door as compared to the other records--he could barely play in '79-80.

To make matters worse, Presence and (especially) In Through the Out Door are seen as disappointments, lesser offerings--Led Zeppelin's star is beginning to wane as the '70s come to a close.

Plant has very bad feelings about touring in 1980 and doesn't really want to, and he is coaxed to against his intuition by Peter Grant.

The band sets off on successful a European tour in the summer of 1980 and all members feel revitalized and refreshed and look forward to the future.

Plans are made for a Fall 1980 USA tour, possibly extending into 1981. And then suddenly, less than a month before the start, Robert's best friend in the whole world, John Bonham, is suddenly found dead.

Given all that baggage and water under the bridge, would you really want to revisit that?

Several interesting points...but the one you leave out that is so clear to me is how much Led Zep as a band feared the Rumours era Fleetwood Mac...that's what did it

The sound of an airship deflating....

Plant was the weak link in Led Zeppelin, vocally and lyrically.
Good on him for not doing the cheesy re-union thing, and trying to maintain some dignity. He doesn't need the cash, and maybe isn't into it. Why play himself false?

mr leatherpurse face doesn't want to take part on the reuinion cos of his fiasco at the 02 arena - i mean, do you call that singing? i'm 34, been singing in an ac/dc cover band since 18, and still can reach my highs all while still having the same voice bon scott had prior to his death and brian johnson in his first 5 years in the band. of course my voice gave up a year ago and i underwent vocal coaching and phonoaudiologist sessions and got it back - something he didn't do since japan in 72 and kept going and sounding more and more like a tool.
me? i've got it all back. plus i know i'll live longer cos i was forced to quit the five packs a day for no pack or a single cig at all. then again considering i drank, snorted coke since 12, shot junk from 16 to 26 and probably had every drug you can imagine in this world in large amounts - i'm clean now, been six months off blow - and for you tourists here in brazil, good for you cos now they've decided to really keep their customers happy and are selling fishscale - then again i might not last that long, what with my emphysema and all that shit. then again i'm jobless, my family is undergoing money problems and my father's schizophrenia is worsening day after day, i couldn't give a crap if i were to fall dead right now.

dude.

at least have the decency of showing something like this--->



oooohhhhh yeah zooey. born in the same day and year as my name - glad to know that two wonderful things were born on that day (but not in the necessarily same year)