“I’ve appeared in many different incarnations in this town over the years, and God knows I can’t remember all of them,” Robert Plant said, by way of introduction, Wednesday night at the Majestic Theatre.
Indeed, there’s a version of Plant who pivoted from Led Zeppelin directly into an obscenely lucrative career, giving die-hard fans the hits and nothing but, until all that remained of his soul and senses was ash.
Instead, Plant — now 77 years old, slightly ginger of gait but capable as ever of summoning a roar which seems to split the heavens open — has steadfastly kept the nostalgia hounds at bay, chasing his muse wherever it leads…