Evenings With Led Zeppelin Revised & Updated Edition: One Year On..…

The Evenings With Led Zeppelin book has now been available for a year following it’s publication in September 2021.
This is a timely moment to reflect on the overall response to the book and it’s current availability.
Here’s some feedback from satisfied readers…
The book arrived today. It is a thing of beauty!  I’ve just had a glance through – and it looks wonderful.  I can’t wait to immerse myself in this incredible piece of work, with all my unofficial Zep recordings, and …

Led Zeppelin Blueberry Hill footage…

I’ve had a 50 year love affair with the Led Zeppelin performance on September 4 1970 at the LA Forum …

In late 1972 I purchased the double album bootleg Led Zeppelin Live on Blueberry Hill after replying to an advert in the Sounds music paper for ‘’live albums for sale’’ I was very aware of this bootleg having read about it in both the NME and Melody maker. It was to be £6 (quite a lot back then for a mere 16 year old) very well …

TBL Archive Special 1: September 7, 1968 – the on stage debut 54 years gone:
54 years ago on September 7th 1968, the line soon to be known as Led Zeppelin performed their very first concert in Gladsaxe Denmark. – the first of two appearances that day… 

REMEMBERING 54 YEARS GONE….
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 7th, 1968
GLADSAXE, DENMARK
TEEN CLUB BOX 45
DATE:                         September 7, 1968 (1st show)
VENUE:                     Teen Club, Egegård Skole
LOCATION:              Gladsaxe, Denmark
Billed as: “Yardbirds”
Support Acts: Fourways; Bodies
With The New Yardbirds line-up complete, there was an outstanding engagement to fulfil that was left over from the old …

Andy Adams 1961 – 2021…
One year gone…
Andy Adams passed away a year ago on August 27,2021.
The response back then to his very sad passing was truly overwhelming though not unsurprising given Andy’s standing in the Zep community…
Reading back through all those amazing tributes and memories, it’s heartwarming to see the esteem he was held in by so many – and the way he brightened all our lives and still does.
It’s a tribute to Andy that his Celebration Days Facebook group has continued to be an enlightening platform for Zep related …

Robert Plant on the occasion of his 74th Birthday: Photo by Dave Roberts 
Robert Plant is 74 years old on Saturday August 20…
From his initial forays in the Midlands scene in the mid 60’s leading to his first record being released in 1966, through to his vital contribution to Led Zeppelin and on to an always compelling solo career, Robert Plant has occupied a unique position at the forefront of the music world for over five decades…
With his recent gigs with Saving Grace  and the Alison Krauss album ahead, he continues …

TBL Archive Special – Knebworth August 11 1979 – Then as it really was…43 years gone…
It’s that time of year again…
The anniversary of Led Zeppelin at Knebworth always resonates  – Saturday August 11h 1979 – just writing that date sends a tingle of excitement because that is the day when it all occurred for a second time back in that field just outside Stevenage all of 43 years ago.
On Thursday  August 11 I, and thousands of other fans will no doubt be thinking back to that glorious second Zep gig …

Led Zeppelin at Knebworth: 43 Years Gone today…
The Knebworth stage under construction in the early morning of Thursday August 4 1979. Pic by Dave Lewis from the book Then As It Was – Led Zeppelin at Knebworth 1979.
It’s that time of year again…
The anniversary of Led Zeppelin at Knebworth always resonates …Saturday August 4th –just writing that date sends a tingle of excitement because that is the day when it all occurred back in that field just outside Stevenage all of 43 years ago.
42 years ago today Thursday August 4  …

The Prelude to Knebworth…the Copenhagen warm-ups – it was 43 years ago:
Here’s a couple fascinating first hand views of the Led Zeppelin warm up shows all of 43 years ago…

A 24 month break separated Led Zeppelin’s walking offstage in California on July 24th 1977 and their return to the concert stage in Copenhagen almost two years to the day on July 23rd 1979.
In a tactic that echoed Peter Grant’s original launch of the band in 1968, Led Zeppelin flew to Copenhagen on Monday July 23rd to perform two warm up shows for the …

TBL Archive – Jimmy Page and Robert Plant – UK tour 1995 – it was 27 years ago…

27 years ago this week a fair few of you reading this were tearing up and down the highways and byways of the UK to catch the long awaited on stage return of   Jimmy Page & Robert Plant.
It was incredibly exciting few days -I was lucky enough to catch the dates in Glasgow, Sheffield, St Austell, Poole and two nights in Birmingham and London. Along the way there was many a TBL meet …

Peter Mulder 1953 – 2022…

I am so very sad to hear the passing of Peter Mulder aged 68

Living in Holland, Peter and his wife Jan have been ardent Led Zeppelin fans for many years.
They were a huge support to me personally with all my Tight But Loose projects and were very kind to Janet and I.

I have great memories of them attending the 1992 Celebration Days Convention in London that Andy Adams and I co- organised – the photos here are from the 1992 Convention.

Jan and Peter were also in …