Bob Rood  – January 27, 1959 – September 30, 2015:
The Led Zeppelin community has been saddened by the news of the passing of Bob Rood.
For many years Bob hosted the pioneering For Badgeholders Only forum – here are some fitting tributes to a man who will be much missed. RIP Bob. 
I’ve known Bob since FBO’s inception and took great pride in the fact that eventually he entrusted me to be sole co-admin of the server for close to the past 10 years. Bob never asked anyone for any donations to keep …

Robert Plant and The Sensational Spaceshifters US Tour:
Robert and co have been back in the US for some very well received performances – here’s the Toronto setlist:
Trampled Under Foot
Turn It Up
Black Dog
Rainbow
Black Country Woman
Spoonful
The Rain Song
No Place to Go / Dazed and Confused
The Lemon Song
Little Maggie
Crawling King Snake
Whole Lotta Love / Who Do You Love

Encore:
Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down / In My Time Of Dying
Rock and Roll
Troronto Review via Jason Macneil : Toronto Sun

It’s been nearly eight years since Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page and singer Robert Plant performed together. And …

John Paul Jones on stage with the Foo Fighters at Milton Keynes Bowl:
Last Saturday September 5, John Paul Jones along with Queen drummer Roger Taylor joined the Foo Fighters on stage at their Milton Keynes Bowl gig. They performed a version of the Queen classic Under Pressure – John performed on keyboards – see YouTube clip below. Above photo by Adam Tidd.
Here’s an on the spot report here from Michaela Finegan for TBL:
“I think I just broke my leg. I’m going to go to hospital. I’m going to fix my leg …

From the John Bonham Memorial Fund organisers:  
Remembering John Bonham 35 years On
Next month sees the 35th anniversary of the untimely and tragic death of John ‘Bonzo’ Bonham, the powerhouse behind Led Zeppelin and arguably the best drummer in the world.
Redditch born John died on 25th September 1980 at the age of just 32 at Led Zep guitarist Jimmy Page’s home near Windsor. Weeks later the remaining band members announced Led Zeppelin would disband.
A Memorial Weekend, organised by The John Bonham Memorial Fund and Steve Barnes of Redditch Music Festival is set …

Led Zeppelin From The Beginning 1963 – 1975 – Photo Exhibition at Proud Chelsea Gallery:
Launch night – Thursday August 20, 2015:
The launch night of the Proud Chelsea Gallery Led Zeppelin Photo Exhibition proved a big success.
The gallery itself is adorned with a series of superbly displayed framed images from a variety of photographers. Amongst them, superb Earls Court and Madison Square Garden ’77 shots from Michael Putland, US tour 1975 pics from Lynne Goldsmith and early 1969 images from Jorgen Angel.
The Yardbird’s bass player and photographer Chris Dreja is represented by his Jimmy Page …

Robert Plant on the occasion of his 67th birthday:
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…
In the past 12 months touring and recording working with the Sensational Space Shifters line up, Robert Plant has continued to expand his quench for musical thirst. The prowess of …

The final three Led Zeppelin reissues…
Here are my thoughts on the In Through The Out Door reissue assessed after another non stop from beginning to end playback..   
In Through The Out Door  ….Then:
The 1977 tour of America had given rise to a revival in the fortunes of the group. They were playing great, the on stage spectacle had reached new heights and plans for a new album to be recorded after the tour were in place.
The tour would subsequently be cancelled amidst backstage violence in Oakland and then the shocking news of the …

The Final Three Led Zeppelin Reissues: Today is the day…
Today, Friday July 31, 2015, sees the official worldwide release of the final three Led Zeppelin reissues – Presence, In Through The Out Door and Coda.
This is the culmination of a momentous total remastering of the entire Led Zeppelin studio catalogue complete with Companion Disc audio. As Jimmy Page remarked in my recent interview with him
”This has addressed the whole history of the studio work. Here’s the bottom line – it has doubled the output of what the studio situation was in the first …

TBL Issue 39 Out On the Streets: 
TBL 39 is out on the streets.
I have spent the past few days packing the TBL 39 issue ready to be shipped out to over 30 countries across the globe.I counted them all in and I’ll be counting them all out…
State of play so far is as follows: All UK copies will be in transit by the weekend and should be landing on UK doormats imminently.  Europe, USA, Canada and the rest of the world copies will filter out over the weekend and into next week.
 
TBL …

TBL 39 Coming your way soon…
TBL 39 is a wrap – Designer Mick Lowe and I signed it off on Monday and it’s now at the printers. Distribution should commence at the end of next week. We really went some to get this one finished -we had done a little work on it early in the year but that all got way laid when we began the Earls Court project – and it  was only after the Five Glorious Nights book was completed in early May that we got down to …