John Bonham would have been 63 on Tuesday May 31st – the above photo is one of my favourite of John – not least because I was lucky enough to take it. It captures him receiving one of seven awards presented by Michael Palin (on the right) to three quarters of Led Zeppelin on the afternoon of November 28th 1979 at the Waldorf Hotel in London.
Surprisingly and somewhat ironically, Bonzo lost out to Phil Collins as top drummer. John was somewhat irked by this. Jason told me a story recently …

It’s gearing up to be a TBL summer of mass consumption with an outpouring of new TBL product due. Firstly Tight But Loose issue 29 is ready to go. This first issue of the 2011 subscription is another action packed affair. The magazine will be distributed over the next few days.If you are a 2010 subscriber your subscription ended with issue 28.
Now is the time to re subscribe!
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SETLIST (from memory)
Black Dog
Down To The Sea
Angel Dance
Black Country Woman
House of Cards
Monkey
Somewhere Trouble Don’t Go
All My Love
A Satisfied Mind
Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down
Ocean Of Tears
In The Mood
Please Read the Letter
Houses of the Holy
Ramble On
Harm’s Swift Way
Gallow’s Pole
And We Bid You Goodnight
Robert Plant & The Band of Joy’s April 25th appearance in Santa Barbara was very special for a significant reason…as Stephen Humphries reports for TBL:
The lovely Santa Barbara Bowl is a great venue to see any act perform because there’s not a bad seat in the 4,500 capacity amphitheater.
Despite …

SETLIST (from memory)
Black Dog
Down To The Sea
Angel Dance
Black Country Woman
House of Cards
Monkey
Somewhere Trouble Don’t Go
That’s the Way
A Satisfied Mind
Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down
Ocean Of Tears
In The Mood
Please Read the Letter
Houses of the Holy
Ramble On
Harm’s Swift Way
Gallow’s Pole
And We Bid You Goodnight
Robert and the band, as usual, sounded spot on. “Down to the Sea” and “Angel Dance” were both very dynamic and smoking hot. “That’s The Way” was gorgeous and gentle, and Darrell Scott’s pedal steel was a great touch. “Please Read The Letter” a-la Page/Plant in 1998, but also …

Photo by Mark-Van-Manen
Set list included
Black Dog
Black Country Woman
House of Cards
Please Read the Letter
Tangerine
Angel Dance
Satisfied Mind
Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down
Houses of the Holy
Ramble On
In The Mood
Encore
She has Funny Cars
Gallows Pole
We Bid You Good Night

Review: Robert Plant delivers `Joy’-filled Greek show
By Jim Harrington Oakland Tribune
Part of me wishes that Robert Plant had never met producer T-Bone Burnett. If T-Bone hadn’t helped turn the British rocker into a first-rate Americana artist — something that started with Plant’s Burnett-produced collaboration with Alison Krauss, 2007’s “Raising Sand” — then maybe we’d have seen a …

Set list included
Black Country Woman
Black Dog
Please Read the Letter
Monkey
Angel Dance
House of Cards
Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down
Ocean of Tears
Somewhere Trouble Don’t Go
Cindy I’ll Marry You Someday
Satisfied Mind
In the Mood
Houses Of The Holy
Ramble On
Encore
Harm’s Swift Way
Gallows Pole
And We Bid You Goodnight
Robert Plant summons ghosts but is still magical
By Charles R. Cross
Robert Plant was only five minutes into his Paramount show Wednesday before he was summoning ghosts. “Welcome to another incredible evening … live from the Edgewater Inn,” he joked.
It was the first of a half-dozen references he made to Led Zeppelin’s …

Robert Plant & The Band Of Joy are confirmed to appear at the Big Chill Festival held at Eastnor Castle Deer Park in Herefordshire.
The Band Of Joy are scheduled for the Deer Park Stage as second on the bill to Rodrigo Y Gabriela on the Sunday August 7th of the weekend event. Also appearing on the bill are Warpaint, Steel Pulse, Femi Kuti & The Positive Force,  Norman Jay and About Group.
For further details and ticket arrangements see link at
http://www.bigchill.net/festival/home/
 

Setlist
Black Dog
Down to the Sea
Black Country Woman
Tangerine
Houses Of The Holy
Monkey
In the Mood
Please Read the Letter
Angel Dance
House of Cards
Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down
Somewhere Trouble Don’t Go
Satisfied Mind
Ramble On
Gallows Pole
Encore
Harm’s Swift Way
I Bid You Goodnight
It had been 6 or more years since seeing Robert perform live and my 1st Band of Joy experience in Portland.
There was an unexpected surprise thanks to the support band “Mississippi All Stars.” They managed to more than warm up the full house/sold out event for the Band of Joy. They were new to me and I …

Photo by Tanya Coad
Review: Robert Plant churns out pure gold to eclectic Vancouver crowd
Reveiw Amanda Ash, By  Vancouver Sun
Robert Plant and the Band Of Joy
Robert Plant is a musical nomad. He’s sailed the spiraling seas of ’70s psychedelia, scaled the jagged peaks of rock ‘n’ roll and wandered through the twisting backcountry of bluegrass. Today, touring in support of his new album Band Of Joy, he’s rambling through the pastoral prairies of Americana.
The 62-year-old vocalist, better known as the yelping frontman of Led Zeppelin, is a musician of perpetual …

All pics by Martha Haynes
Set List included
Black Dog
Down To The Sea
Angel Dance
Black Country Woman
Houses Of The Holy
Central Two O Nine
Somewhere Trouble Don’t Go
In The Mood
Ramble On
Gallows Pole
Encore
Rock And Roll
A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall

As the crowd waited for Robert Plant and The Band of Joy to take the stage at the Wanee Festival on the banks of the Suwanee River in Live Oak, Florida last Friday night at 6:30 p.m. EDT, there were mumblings about whether he would do any Led Zeppelin songs in the set scheduled just prior to the …