John Paul Jones appeared with Sarah Watkins on the Jimmy Fallon show in the US on April 13 performing live in front of a studio audience a version of “Long Hot Summer Day” from Sarah’s self-titled Jones produced album, with Sarah’s brother Shaun and drummer Questlove. Follow this link www.johnpauljones.com , to John Paul Jones own site for exclusive video of the performance.

The new issue of Record Collector (May 2009 edition)
has an extensive feature written by Dave Lewis on the 40th anniversary of the debut Led Zeppelin album. see www.recordcollectormag.com

Another week of ups and downs.
The downers: well have to say I got it wrong with taking the Borders job.
After a few days it was evident to me that this just wasn’t going to work out. For a variety of reasons I have therefore taken the decision to resign from Borders.
I thought being back in retail would re-energize me – and I’d cope fine but it just opened up all the old Zavvi wounds.
The shift patterns of the job would also have adversely affected my work/life balance …

The debut solo album from Nickel Creek singer songwriter Sara Watkins produced by John Paul Jones is out now via Nonesuch Records. In an interview for TBL John Paul Jones told Dave Lewis “The really great thing about the whole process of making the album is that we achieved exactly what we set out to do. As for myself as producer, the entire vision I had for this record came to fruition. I’m really pleased with it. I wanted her voice to be really to the fore with a sparse …

John Paul Jones and alternative rock legends Sonic Youth have collaborated on an original musical piece for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and will perform together in Brooklyn, New York. “Nearly Ninety,” a new full length work composed by Sonic Youth, Jones and mixed-media sound composer Takehisa Kosugi, will debut at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on April 16, Merce Cunningham’s 90th birthday. The piece and its debut performances are part of “Merce Cunningham at 90,” a four day festival celebrating the choreographer’s work and influence. After its world premiere …

On March 21 Jason Bonham joined renowned tribute band Led Zepagain during their 77 tour revisited set at the House of Blues Sunset Strip Hollywood. He got up and performed Rock And Roll during their encore.
See link at www.zepagain.com.

As reported here two months ago Jimmy Page appeared at this years Rock & Roll all Of Fame held in Cleveland to induct guitar virtuoso Jeff Beck into the famed Hall Of Fame. During his speech remembered his friendship with Beck going back to when there were 13 – 14 years old and into the Yardbirds.
He also said of Jeff solo work “Jeff started making solo records, and I carried on with the Yardbirds for a while, and we both started to continue in our own sort of way. …

Well as of Monday April 6 I will be back in gainful employment. I have a new job working at the Borders store in Milton Keynes.
Borders is primarily a major book selling outlet and also sells Magazines, DVD’s and CD’s –the MK store has a Paperchase concession selling designer stationary and a Starbucks café.
It’s the bottom rung in but a foot in the door and as the singer once said ‘’everything that’s small has to grow’’ and it will bring in much needed regular income.
So ends six weeks …

As you can see TBLweb.com has changed.
We’ve decided to move away from our previous site design and bring together our massive archive of Zep news and information that was just not possible under the old site.
So here it is, our new site, our new magazine TBL 23 and our new special-edition 40 year T-Shirt, more details of which you will find in our Orders section within the new navigation bar.
Over the coming months we will be slowly updating this site with all our achive news stories that date right back …

Robert Plant appears on a track on the new album by Buddy and Julie Miller titled Written in Chalk. What You Gonna Do Leroy has Robert trading vocals with Buddy accompanied by fellow band mates Jay Bellerose on drums, Dennis Crouch on bass and Stuart Duncan on fiddle plus Gurf Morlix on lap steel. The track was recorded in a dressing room during the Raising Sand tour. It can be downloaded via itunes. Buddy Miller is currently recuperating from open heart surgery.