California Breed album ready to go:
California Breed, the new band formed by Glenn Hughes, Jason Bonham and Andrew Watt have their new album out on May 19th.
Here’s the info:
California Breed is the new band featuring legendary vocalist-bassist Glenn Hughes, drummer extraordinaire Jason Bonham and 23-year-old newcomer guitarist-vocalist Andrew Watt.
The band’s self-titled debut album will be released in the UK on May 19th by Frontiers Records. The album will be released in regular CD and CD/DVD Deluxe Edition formats.
The album was produced by Dave Cobb (Rival Sons, Lindi Ortega, Shooter Jennings) …

Some thoughts on Physical Graffiti at 39…
So here we are on the 39th anniversary of the iconic sixth Led Zeppelin album – Physical Graffiti. The very title indicated something mysterious and special when I first saw it announced in the NME in late 1974. Then there was the waiting. Ah yes the waiting. Initially it was set for November 29th 1974. That date passed and nothing. Then it was going to be January 10th 1975 and so it went on, until finally on a grey February morning, I took receipt …

Tight But Loose issue 37:
The forthcoming issue of the TBL magazine is in progress now with a planned publication of late March.
Plenty of great stuff lined up including Mike Tremaglio’s retrospective tour log of the first Zep US visit, Andy Croft’s tape analysis of the February 1975 US dates, full results and feedback from the TBL Jimmy Page at 70 polls, James Patrick Page Session Man vinyl box set review, an exclusive interview with former Zep roadie/ guitar tech Joe Jammer, Nick Anderson’s Collectors Column which reports on the surfacing of …

Valentine’s Day is upon us – and February 14th has been the date of a fair few Zep related happenings over the years, not least for it being the second night of their acclaimed Nassau Coliseum gigs in 1975. This show has been released as a soundboard recording, notably on Godfatherecords recent box set Throwing The Wild Seeds. The 6 CD box set also has the previous night’s recording when they were joined on stage by Ronnie Wood for an encore performance of Communication Breakdown
Amongst some slightly more romantic tunes, …

GIVE A WHOLE LOTTA TBL LOVE THIS VALENTINE’S DAY…
Valentine’s Day is nigh on upon us and there’s a variety of  great TBL products on offer to make the perfect Led Zep Valentine’s Day gift – all provided with a whole lotta love - request and order now!
Led Zeppelin Then As It Was –At Knebworth 1979
The much acclaimed complete story of the final Led Zeppelin UK concerts –the book that will take you back to that field just outside Stevenage during an English summer in 1979..and this time there are  no sleeping bags …

John Paul Jones at Peter Buck’s Todas Santos Festival:
John Paul Jones was back on stage last weekend  at Peter Buck’s Todos Santos Festival in Mexico.
John performed on keyboards with a reunited Dream Syndicate line up with REM’s Peter Buck also guesting. They performed a lengthy version of John Coltrane Stereo Blues moving into The Doors Break On Through
Dream Syndicate’s Steve Wynn posed on his Facebook page. “Amazing–I was flashing back to seeing Led Zep at the Forum .” Below is the Dream Syndicate clip  from the  Todos Santos Music festival …

Led Zeppelin finally won an individual Grammy Award last night at the 56th Awards Ceremony at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
The Celebration Day album – recorded at the 02 reunion in 2007, beat off competion from Queen of The Stone Age, Kings Of Leon, Black Sabbath and David Bowie to take the Best Rock Album award.  This is the first outright Grammy the band have won  -previously they received a Lifetime Achievement award in 2005.
Kashmir from the Celebration Day album was also nominated in the Best Rock Performance category but lost out …

Tight But Loose at 35:
35 years ago this month I was busy scribing away quite literally on what would become the first issue of the Tight But Loose magazine. I had been harbouring the idea of a Zep type fanzine (as home made publications were known) for the past year – an early proto- type was mocked up in December 1977. Inspired by the do it yourself tactics of the punk rock fanzines such as Sniffin’ Glue and Ripped & Torn, I set about laying out the content in a …

Plenty of news this week to report with JPJ’s Mini Bus Pimps album due and Robert adding a US festival date to his schedule – firstly, I’d like to bring you up to date with the TBL 2014 Strategy commencing with…
Led Zeppelin Physical Rocket-  At Earls Court 1975 -The sky was the objective - not the limit (Tight But Loose Publishing)
As previously mentioned, the above title will be the next TBL book publication. This is all a long way off yet with a publication date of mid to late 2015. However as …

On the occasion of his birthday….
Jimmy Page is 70 today (January 9th).
In a career that has spanned over six decades – he has simply written the rule book on the art of rock guitar.
From monolithic riffing to bombastic solos. From simple acoustic beauty to vast guitar instrumental orchestration. Jazz, classical and Eastern influences, Blues, 50s rock’n’roll and psychedelic – he has turned his hand to all these varying styles over the years. At times his playing may seem sloppy and seemingly undisciplined but that is all part of the attraction. …