Them Crooked Vultures at the Fillmore
 
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So, having seen Lucero last week at the Bluebird, I amazingly got off my lame, seldom-go-to-shows-anymore ass again last night (twice inside a week … I know) for Them Crooked Vultures at the Fillmore Auditorium.
The superband, for those unfamiliar, is comprised of Dave Grohl, frontman for the Foo Fighters and long ago drummer for Nirvana; Josh Homme, frontman for Queens of the Stone Age; and the legendary John Paul Jones, bassist, keyboardist and mandolin player from Led …

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John Paul Jones leads Them Crooked Vultures through rocking show at The Joint

JPJ at the The Joint. Photo by Eric Kabik. Click HERE  for more photos         
Up on the second balcony of The Joint during Saturday night’s Them Crooked Vultures show, a woman was getting into it. Dressed in jeans and a cropped shirt she whipped her hair around her and danced in a style reminiscent of a 1970s rock-doc. It was hypnotizing.
And she wasn’t the only one rocking out. Opposite the anonymous fan, Them Crooked Vultures also were …

PhotoCredit: Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times
No wonder the post-sundown sets are so in demand at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival. Those seeing the main stage from afar Friday night might have thought a fire was rising out of the desert, as Them Crooked Vultures was flanked by dozens of perfectly arranged golden lights,
As the dinner hour approached, Coachella got a little aggressive with its top-billed acts. The rock super group Them Crooked Vultures, featuring Josh Homme, drummer Dave Grohl and bassist John Paul Jones, brought a moment …

We have been overwhelmed and humbled by the many kind wishes of support that have come in since the sad passing of our dear Ken.
Some Thank You’s:
Sincere thanks to everyone who has been in touch via the site, facebook, letter etc–your kind words have meant so much to us. Thank you to the nurses of Victoria Ward Bedford South Wing Hospital who’s compassion, dignity and understanding made our loss so much easier to bear. Thank you to the registrars and the undertakers and church, all similarly supportive and compassionate during …

Them Crooked Vultures kicked off their US tour last night with an appearance at Los Angeles Club Nokia, as soon as we get a review we will post it up in the Tour Watch Section. On Monday and Tuesday night the Vultures appeared on the highly rated Jimmy Kimmel show in the US performing Mind Eraser, No Chaser and Gunman on Monday and New Fang and Dead End Friends on Tuesday.

The Vultures have also added two more dates in Canada, those being Quebec City, Pavillion De La Jeunesse (May 11) …

Now this one is a bit of an epic.  This was first published in TBL 13 – It’s an on  the road chronicle of the TBL crew’s adventures in pursuit of Jimmy Page and Robert Plant across the month of March 1998. This took in two dates in Istanbul – something of a zenith in my own ‘’Crazy things I’ve done in the name of Zep’’ portfolio, followed by the superb Shepherds Bush Empire gig which in turn was followed by successive TV recordings at Top Of The Pops in Elstree …

Above – The way they were : Zep filled window at Our Price Record Shop Bedford October 1990. 
This Saturday April 17th is World Record Store Day. This is the day independent record shops the world over celebrate their importance as key outlets for the distribution and selling of music.  Much has been written in recent times about the diminishing role of record shops (not least Graham Jones book ‘’Last Shop Standing’’) – hundreds of stores have closed their doors in the last few years buckling under the threat of downloading, …

Them Crooked Vultures preview their Coachella set at Club Nokia

Set List;
Elephants
Gunman
Scumbag Blues
Dead End Friends
Nobody Loves Me
Highway 1
New Fang
Bandoliers
Mind Eraser
Interlude With Ludes (shortened due to Keytar problem)
Caligulove
You Can’t Possibly Begin To Imagine (new song featuring JPJ on fiddle)
Daffodils
Reptiles (not played)
Warsaw
“We’re having a good time up here,” a swaggering, smiling Josh Homme announced to cheers at Club Nokia on Wednesday. He was midway through a two-hour set with Them Crooked Vultures, his band with drummer Dave Grohl and bassist John Paul Jones, and together they were demonstrating just how far they’ve come …

The much anticipated pictorial autobiography of Jimmy Page is now available for pre-order from Genesis Publications with an expected shipping date set for June.
The book is being offered in two limited editions, the first, a Deluxe Edition which is numbered  1 to 350 with a price of £695, will be presented on archival art paper, with gilded edging and will be fully bound in a single morocco leather hide with gold-leaf “Zoso” blocking. It will be presented in an archival solander box with traditional felt lining to protect the leather-bound …

Robert Plant and Buddy Miller in 2009

Robert Plant and Buddy Miller 2008
The previous photos of Robert in the studio posted earlier, are not from his new recording sessions -thanks to Steve Sauer and Bill McCue for bringing this to our attention. They were taken before October 2008. As the photos feature Jay Bellerose, Dennis Crouch, Stuart Duncan, Gurf Morlix and Buddy Miller, all apart from Gurf, were part of the Raising Sands touring band but more importantly all featured on the track “What You Gonna Do, Leroy” which featured on Buddy …