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Dave Lewis Diary, Featured, TBL News »

[20 Oct 2016 | 4 Comments | 2,396 views]
THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME AT 40/ LZ NEWS/LAMPEDUSA TOUR/ NEW JIMMY PAGE BOOK/FREE/ DL DIARY BLOG UPDATE/CONGRATULATIONS MICHAELA AND BOB!

The Song Remains The Same Soundtrack at 40:
40 years ago,On the afternoon of Thursday October 21 1976, I anxiously tore open the box marked Warner/ Elektra/ Atlantic Records at the WH Smith record shop where I worked to reveal for the first time the gatefold sleeve of, as the label spine gloriously put it ‘’The Soundtrack To The Film The Song Remains The Same‘’.
Yes the only official live album released during the band’s life time is 40 years old.
I have much affection for that original double live album – it captures …

Dave Lewis Diary, Featured, TBL News »

[13 Oct 2016 | 4 Comments | 1,700 views]
RECORD COLLECTOR SINGLES FEATURE / LZ NEWS/BLUEBERRY HILL/ TBL ARCHIVE – LED ZEPPELIN III / DL DIARY BLOG UPDATE

Record Collector Singles Feature:
The new issue of Record Collector out now has a feature written by yours truly –it focuses on 21 singles issued in the period 1968 to 1971 from rock artists seeking chart success and how they fared – all of which can be picked up for less than a tenner – I had a lot of fun selecting the singles for this feature – quite a few were picked up on the Vinyl Barn over the last few months via Darren Harte. There is of course a Led …

Dave Lewis Diary, Featured, TBL News »

[6 Oct 2016 | 4 Comments | 1,868 views]
TBL MAGAZINE THE ESSENTIAL READ/LZ NEWS/WHOLE LOTTA LOVE IN JAPAN/JOHN LENNON AT 76/BEATLES IN BEDFORD 62/DL DIARY BLOG UPDATE

TBL Magazine Update:
Here’s a round up of the current state of paly with the TBL magazine.
A fair few very regular subscribers to the TBL magazine have yet to come back on board. I would say around 100 subscribers who have previously been very loyal to buying the magazine for some years, have yet to sign up for the 2016/17 subscription.
To reiterate:
ALL current subscriptions to the TBL magazine expired with issue 40. If you received issue 40 and have not re subscribed – now is the time.
As ever, I will be doing my utmost to deliver the …

Dave Lewis Diary, Featured, TBL News »

[29 Sep 2016 | 3 Comments | 2,319 views]
ROBERT PLANT FOR LAMPEDUSA SHOWS/COMPLETE BBC SESSIONS IN AT NUMBER 3/ JASON BONHAM JAMS WITH GOV’T MULE/ LZ NEWS/ JAPAN 71/IAN DIXON REVIEWS/DL DIARY BLOG UPDATE/

Robert Plant joins Lampedusa Concerts For Refugees Tour:
This via Robert’s official website:
Robert Plant has confirmed that he will join Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, Patty Griffin, Buddy Miller, The Milk Carton Kids, and more for select dates (12/10-21/10) on the Lampedusa Concerts For Refugees tour. Lampedusa is an 11-stop concert tour intended to raise awareness of the unprecedented worldwide refugee crisis. Funds raised by Lampedusa will support educational programs for refugees around the world.
“This is a humanitarian issue — it is not a political issue,” says Griffin. “These are real people …

Dave Lewis Diary, Featured, TBL News »

[23 Sep 2016 | 4 Comments | 2,683 views]
THE COMPLETE BBC SESSIONS – INITIAL FEEDBACK AND COMMENT/THE GRAND UNVEILING/JOHN BONHAM 36 YEARS GONE…/LZ NEWS/BEDFORD RECORD FAIR/DL DIARY BLOG UPDATE

The Complete BBC Sessions: Initial feedback and comment:
The release of the Led Zeppelin Complete BBC Sessions has generated a host of comment and feedback – here’s some observations –  kicking off with some comment from Jimmy Page:
This one via the Planet Rock  website:
Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page has told Planet Rock he’s hoping to hit the studio in 2017 to record new music.
The music legend appeared on MOJO Rocks with Phil Alexander on Saturday night to talk about Led Zeppelin’s Complete BBC Sessions album and he joked he’s been “quite rightly” chastised …

Dave Lewis Diary, Featured, TBL News »

[15 Sep 2016 | 5 Comments | 3,611 views]
TODAY’S THE DAY – LED ZEPPELIN THE COMPLETE BBC SESSIONS RELEASED/ OLYMPIC STUDIOS LISTENING EVENT/JIMMY PAGE INTERVIEWS ON LATER & BBC 6 MUSIC/LZ NEWS/DL DIARY BLOG UPDATE/STOP PRESS UPDATE – OUT ON THE STREETS PHOTO SPECIAL

Led Zeppelin – The Complete BBC Sessions …today’s the day…
Today, Friday September 16 marks the official worldwide release date of the Complete BBC Sessions set.
My own fascination with these sessions dates back to the airing of that 1971 In Concert show. I actually taped this on the day it was first aired on Sunday, April 4, 1971 on my Grudig reel to reel tape recorder. My enthusiasm for the Zeppelin BBC sessions was further fuelled by the various BBC session bootlegs that emerged in the mid-Seventies.
During the early days of …

Dave Lewis Diary, Featured, TBL News »

[8 Sep 2016 | 11 Comments | 3,136 views]
LIVE ON BLUEBERRY HILL 46 YEARS GONE/JIMMY ON LATER WITH JOOLS/UNCUT COMPLETE BBC SESSIONS PREVIEW/ LZ NEWS/DL DIARY BLOG UPDATE 60th BIRTHDAY SPECIAL

Let’s kick off with a celebration of one of  the greatest live album of all time upon it’s 46th anniversary
TBL Archive Special:
Led Zeppelin Live On Blueberry Hill – the pioneering bootleg album …still a thrill…
46 years ago on September 4 1970, Led Zeppelin performed a memorable show at the Los Angles Forum – it was captured by more than one enterprising fan and subsequently released on a variety of bootlegs. It remains for me and countless others one of THE essential Led Zeppelin recordings.
To mark the 46th anniversary of …

Dave Lewis Diary, Featured, TBL News »

[4 Sep 2016 | 25 Comments | 2,819 views]
DL AT 60 – ON THE OCCASION OF MY 60TH BIRTHDAY

DL AT 60: ON THE OCCASION OF MY BIRTHDAY
60…how did that happen!
60 is the new 20! As can be seen by this pic of air guitar frenzy taken here on Saturday night…
Firstly some timelines:
I was 7 years old when I first saw a live concert (The Dave Clark Five show)
9 when I first saw Tottenham Hotspur play
13 when I first heard Led Zeppelin
15 when I first started work at British Home Stores (sadly now gone)
15 when I first saw Led Zeppelin live at the Empire Pool Wembley
18 when I first started …

Dave Lewis Diary, Featured, TBL News »

[1 Sep 2016 | No Comment | 2,911 views]
COMPLETE BBC SESSIONS UNCUT MAGAZINE REVIEW /LZ NEWS/1971 TBL ARCHIVE/ DL 60 AT 60 COUNTDOWN/DL DAIRY BLOG UPDATE/

The Complete BBC Sessions Uncut Magazine Review:
Never mind red snappers and trashed hotel rooms – in Britain, Zeppelin’s vertiginous rise had more to do with transistor radios…
It’s the story of a young band making a dramatic entrance onto the late ’60s rock scene. If you’re curious to know how led Zeppelin were able to leapfrog virtually all their British competitors in the space of a handful of radio appearances, their turbocharged versions of Communication Breakdown, How Many More Times and Eddie Cochran’s Something Else will provide you with a convincing answer .
They’re well …

Dave Lewis Diary, Featured, TBL News »

[25 Aug 2016 | No Comment | 3,869 views]
MOJO JIMMY PAGE COMPLETE BBC SESSIONS INTERVIEW/SUNSHINE WOMAN PREVIEW/LZ NEWS/UNLEDDED TBL ARCHIVE/ DL DIARY BLOG UPDATE

The Complete BBC Sessions Mojo Review and new Jimmy Page interview:
The first review of the forthcoming Led Zeppelin Complete BBC Sessions has appeared in the new issue of Mojo.
Commenting on the Alexis Korner version of I Can’t Quite You Baby, Mark Blake observes ”The third version from that previously ‘lost’ Alexi Korner session is a revelation. The sound quality might be poorer but with Page’s flurrying guitar solos and John Bonham’s bionic right foot, it sums up in 5:26 minutes what made the early Led Zeppelin so exhilarating”
In a new interview …