John Davis 1960 – 2023:

I am so very sad to hear the passing last week of the highly respected audio mastering engineer John Davis aged 63.

John worked with many artists over the years including Gorillaz, The Killers, Noel Gallagher, Years & Years, Dua Lipa, Primal Scream and U2 to name but a few.

He of course worked extensively with Jimmy Page on the remastering of the Led Zeppelin catalogue which ran from 2014 to 2016. He was described by Jimmy as ‘a master of his craft’. He also mastered the 2012 …

John Paul Jones and Anssi Karttunen are delighted to be bringing Sons Of Chipotle to Big Ears Festival in March 2024 in Knoxville, TN.

Sons of Chipotle cover an uncommonly vast area of the musical map and both John Paul Jones and Anssi Karttunen are thrilled to be making their US debut performance at Big Ears Festival in March 2024. https://bigearsfestival.org/

It is incredibly rare to find two of the finest musicians in the world improvising together, but following 6 sold out concerts in South Korea and Japan, the next stop for …

Robert Plant Presents Saving Grace featuring Suzi Dian – Teatro Romano Di Ostia Antica – September 3 2023:
On the spot report by Michael Scullion… 
What began as nothing more than a whim, then that light bulb impulse turned into a real something, a quite magical thing that will stay with me for the rest of my days …
On Sunday night I joined several thousand likeminded souls in the simply breathtaking surroundings of the beautiful Teatro Romano Di Ostia Antica.
Built in the reign of Augustus at the end of the 1st Century …

TBL Archive Special 1: September 7, 1968 – the on stage debut 55 years gone:

55 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 55 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…
Two years gone…
Andy Adams passed away two years 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 …

This via LZ news…
Robert Plant will tour the UK with Saving Grace in November, it was announced on August 15.
The band will perform 13 shows across England and Wales starting on November 1, according to the tour announcement.
Tickets for Saving Grace’s upcoming UK tour will go on sale at 10am UK time on Friday, August 18 through this link.
Saving Grace previously announced that the band will appear at the November 4 80th birthday concert in London to honour Bert Jansch.

The band’s November UK tour will follow a European tour due to take place during …

TBL Archive Special – Knebworth August 11 1979 – Then as it really was…44 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 44 years ago.
On Thursday  August 11 I, and thousands of other fans will no doubt be thinking back to that glorious second Zep gig …

Tom Locke 1957 – 2023…
We said goodbye to our dear friend Tom Locke yesterday following his sad passing on July 7.
Over the past 49 years, Tom and I have shared many special moments together – he was an amazing friend to have.
I first met Tom when we were both 17 years old in the spring of 1974 at the Pilgrims bar in Bedford. He was part of a group of friends including Dec Hickey, Phil and Max Harris, Dave Bunting, Andy Filby, Shaun King, James Eaton etc that I was …

The Prelude to Knebworth…the Copenhagen warm-ups – it was 44 years ago:
Here’s a couple fascinating first hand views of the Led Zeppelin warm up shows all of 44 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 28 years ago…
28 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 …