Glenn Hughes TBL Interview Preview: 
In an interview for the forthcoming TBL magazine in London on Wednesday, Glenn Hughes talked lucidly to me on a number of subjects. Revealing details of the upcoming California Breed album (due out May 19th), he was quick to acknowledge Jason Bonham’s performance:
”Jason Bonham can now really put his hat next to his father’s – this is the greatest drumming he’s ever done on record by far.”
Other comments:
On his work with members of the Stone Temple Pilots:
”I did start an album with the guys from Stone Temple Pilots a …

Houses Of The Holy – it was 41 years ago today…
41 years ago today Led Zeppelin released their long awaited fifth album, Houses Of The Holy. Here’s some reflections from on another milestone release from the TBL/DL archive:
Like countless fans across the globe on that spring Wednesday back in March 1973 ,as a 16 year old Zep obsessive, I eagerly snapped up the album . I had been touring the record shops of Bedford daily for the arrival of this opus. This was in the years before I began working …

Led Zeppelin Reissue Round -up:
Well once again the staying power of Led Zeppelin has been well and truly demonstrated with the incredible reaction to the news of the release of the first three reissues. The column inches racked up, both across the net and in hard print has been pretty phenomenal. Headlines such as the Independent’s ”Led Zeppelin are back with a whole lotta rock’’ emphasising that fact that this band is always in the present tense. All three of the super deluxe box sets entered the top ten Amazon …

Valentine’s Day is upon us – and February 14th has been the date of a fair few Zep related happenings over the years, not least for it being the second night of their acclaimed Nassau Coliseum gigs in 1975. This show has been released as a soundboard recording, notably on Godfatherecords recent box set Throwing The Wild Seeds. The 6 CD box set also has the previous night’s recording when they were joined on stage by Ronnie Wood for an encore performance of Communication Breakdown
Amongst some slightly more romantic tunes, …

GIVE A WHOLE LOTTA TBL LOVE THIS VALENTINE’S DAY…
Valentine’s Day is nigh on upon us and there’s a variety of  great TBL products on offer to make the perfect Led Zep Valentine’s Day gift – all provided with a whole lotta love – request and order now!
Led Zeppelin Then As It Was –At Knebworth 1979
The much acclaimed complete story of the final Led Zeppelin UK concerts –the book that will take you back to that field just outside Stevenage during an English summer in 1979..and this time there are  no sleeping bags …

John Paul Jones at Peter Buck’s Todas Santos Festival:
John Paul Jones was back on stage last weekend  at Peter Buck’s Todos Santos Festival in Mexico.
John performed on keyboards with a reunited Dream Syndicate line up with REM’s Peter Buck also guesting. They performed a lengthy version of John Coltrane Stereo Blues moving into The Doors Break On Through
Dream Syndicate’s Steve Wynn posed on his Facebook page. “Amazing–I was flashing back to seeing Led Zep at the Forum .” Below is the Dream Syndicate clip  from the  Todos Santos Music festival …

Led Zeppelin finally won an individual Grammy Award last night at the 56th Awards Ceremony at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
The Celebration Day album – recorded at the 02 reunion in 2007, beat off competion from Queen of The Stone Age, Kings Of Leon, Black Sabbath and David Bowie to take the Best Rock Album award.  This is the first outright Grammy the band have won  -previously they received a Lifetime Achievement award in 2005.
Kashmir from the Celebration Day album was also nominated in the Best Rock Performance category but lost out …

Tight But Loose at 35:
35 years ago this month I was busy scribing away quite literally on what would become the first issue of the Tight But Loose magazine. I had been harbouring the idea of a Zep type fanzine (as home made publications were known) for the past year – an early proto- type was mocked up in December 1977. Inspired by the do it yourself tactics of the punk rock fanzines such as Sniffin’ Glue and Ripped & Torn, I set about laying out the content in a …

Plenty of news this week to report with JPJ’s Mini Bus Pimps album due and Robert adding a US festival date to his schedule – firstly, I’d like to bring you up to date with the TBL 2014 Strategy commencing with…
Led Zeppelin Physical Rocket-  At Earls Court 1975 –The sky was the objective – not the limit (Tight But Loose Publishing)
As previously mentioned, the above title will be the next TBL book publication. This is all a long way off yet with a publication date of mid to late 2015. However as …

On the occasion of his birthday….
Jimmy Page is 70 today (January 9th).
In a career that has spanned over six decades – he has simply written the rule book on the art of rock guitar.
From monolithic riffing to bombastic solos. From simple acoustic beauty to vast guitar instrumental orchestration. Jazz, classical and Eastern influences, Blues, 50s rock’n’roll and psychedelic – he has turned his hand to all these varying styles over the years. At times his playing may seem sloppy and seemingly undisciplined but that is all part of the attraction. …