Robert Plant made a guest appearance at New Yorks Madison Square Garden last week, but not as a performer. Robert attended the Knicks/Sixers basket ball game on January 25th.
As the energetic cheerleaders danced to Led Zeppelin’s “Rock And Roll” which played over the Garden speakers, Robert Plant sat courtside, receiving as rousing an ovation when introduced at halftime, for a televised interview. 
It was a short interview with a female sportscaster from the MSG TV Network and she asked a few questions while players warmed up in the background: 
Q: Do you …

John Paul Jones is expected to perform at this years Grammy Award ceremony as part of the Foo Fighters special performance. In a unique partnership, 20 unsigned musicians will be given the opportunity to play with Foo Fighters as part of an orchestra created specifically for this event. Three of these musicians will vie to be a featured instrumentalist during the performance. 
Arranging the orchestral piece and taking up the baton as special guest conductor will be John Paul Jones. Together the Foo Fighters, Jones and this talented musical ensemble will …

Jimmy Page was in Japan last week to promote the new Mothership and The Song Remains The Same releases. At a press conference in Tokyo on January 28th , the guitarist spoke fondly of the resent O2 show.
He said (of the show), “That is what was so thrilling really — to come together after all this time and find that there was so much chemistry and so much electricity involved in these four characters.” And continued “We’d all agreed to take it very, very seriously and have a really good …

A new Jimmy Page signature guitar is to be made available from February 15th. Hot on the heals of the Les Paul and the twin necked SG signature guitars comes the infamous “Black Beauty”. The three-pickup 1960 Les Paul Custom “Black Beauty” with a Bigsby tailpiece was the guitar stolen in 1970 at an airport and never recovered. Page has always felt that that particular guitar was “the one that got away.” Gibson returns Page’s cherished lost guitar in the form of this new Gibson Custom Shop Jimmy Page Les …

A new TV ad promoting the tie-in between Led Zeppelin and Verizon phone downloads features a clever use of the track Kashmir and many Zeppelin references. Only shown in the US on TV and in cinemas, the ad features the central character walking down a street with Kashmir on his iPod and on his way he walks past a tattoo shop with the classic four Led Zeppelin symbols on display in the window, then past a girl with the symbols tattooed on her back, past a guitar shop with a …

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss appearance on the country music show, Crossroads will be premiering Monday, February 11 at 8:00 p.m. ET. 
“CMT Crossroads: Robert Plant And Alison Krauss”, features songs from their “Raising Sand” album including Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On), Please Read the Letter” and “Rich Woman”. The pair also performed Alison Krauss’s “The Boy Who Wouldn’t Hoe Corn”, as well as Led Zeppelin classics “Black Dog” and “When the Levee Breaks”.

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss have announced their first tour dates for the USA, beginning with a series of shows in April prior to the European tour with the promise of more to come in June and July.
The dates are as follows:
20th April Palace Theatre, Louisville, KY 
22nd April Knoxville Civic Coliseum, Knoxville TN
23rd April Memorial Auditorium, Chatanooga TN
26th April BJCC Arena (Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Coliseum Arena), Birmingham AL

In an interview with Rolling Stones’ David Fricke, John Paul Jones stated “It could be fun to do more stuff” …
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Robert made a surprise appearance on ITV’s popular This Morning TV show – mainly to discuss Raising Sand though he did comment on the O2 gig. 
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“Streak O’ Lean, Streak O’Fat” from the album Waterloo, Tennessee, featuring John Paul Jones on piano. Ther video is kind of a mix of Oh Brother Where Art Thou, Kill Bill and the Riverdance and is very funny. Follow the link to Youtube