TBL 40 In the house – and coming your way soon:
The 40th issue of the Tight But Loose magazine is in the house. The task to pack them and distribute them all via Royal Mail is now underway.
UK copies will begin filtering out from today – I aim to have all UK copies in transit by the middle of next week.  Europe, USA, Canada, Australia and the rest of the world copies will follow and will be in the post as fast as I can humanly get them there. Hopefully the majority …

 
Jimmy Page at the Classic Rock awards to accept Led Zeppelin’s Reissue of The Year award:
On Wednesday night, Jimmy Page was in attendance at the Classic Rock Awards staged at London’s Roundhouse venue.
Jimmy was there to accept Led Zeppelin’s Reissue Of The Year award. He arrived around 6.30 pm and was interviewed by a variety of TV and radio stations on the red carpet for about fifteen minutes. I had a quick word with him – he was very pleased to picking up the award – ”this is the end …

TBL MAGAZINE GOES DIGITAL IN EXCITING NEW LINK UP WITH MAGZTER DIGITAL NEWSSTAND:
I am pleased to announce in an exciting new development, TBL has linked up with the Magzter Digital Newsstand to produce a digital edition of the TBL magazine.
The recent issue TBL 39 is available now via Magzter as a digital download for iPad and Android formats.
The Magzter Digital Newsstand is one of the leading multi platform digital newsstand, with 6,000 magazines from 2,500 publishers globally available for sale.
The Tight But Loose magazine has long been established as the key regular Zep written source. The launch of …

John Paul Jones for Presences Electroniques Geneve:
John Paul Jones will be appearing at the Présences Electroniques Geneva event on November 28:
This via their website:
Présences Electroniques Geneva is celebrating this year its first half decade, as it has now five years on the musical meter. An age that normally marks the history of an event and leads to a certain stocktaking. The opportunity is taken to revisit the genesis of an event that, while taking up the concept of the eponymous Parisian festival from which it originates – « PRESENCES électronique …

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 …

Led Zeppelin Reissue UK Chart Statistics: 
Martin Tait reports…
The final three albums have hit the UK Charts and nearly mirror the first three albums in the series, with two hitting the Top 10 (Coda No.9 & Presence No.10) and one just missing and landing at No.12 (In Through The Out Door).
None of the three albums turned up on the Top 100 Streaming or Download Album Charts.
Top 100 Album Chart No.9: Coda  No.10: Presence  No.12: In Through The Out Door
Top 100 Physical Album Chart No.5: Presence (1wk) No.6: Coda (1wk) No.8: In …