The TBL Celebration Countdown continues…to mark the impending momentous worldwide release of  Celebration Day – the Led Zeppelin Ahmet Ertegun 02 reunion concert on DVD, Blue ray and CD on Monday November 19th 2012 , we are counting down to the day….

Countdown to the Celebration Day release …15 days to go.

 TBL NEWS ROUND UP:

Here’s a roundup of latest news and views  in the world of Led Zeppelin…

CELEBRATION DAY FILM ENCORE SCREENINGS:

The official Led Zeppelin site has announced further worldwide screenings of the Celebration Day film as follows:

ENCORE SCREENINGS FOR LED ZEPPELIN: CELEBRATION DAY ARE BEING ADDED FOLLOWING THE HUGE DEMAND BY FANS FOR MORE SCREENINGS

FANS CAN NOW EXPERIENCE THIS MOMENTOUS EVENT AGAIN ON THE BIG SCREEN WITH 5.1 SURROUND SOUND.

 The full list of encore cinema screenings can be seen  via this official link:

http://www.ledzeppelin.com/celebrationday/o2_listings.html

BUDDY MILLER AND ROBERT PLANT COLLABORATION:

Band of Joy guitarist and producer Buddy Miller tells Rolling Stone that Robert Plant  visited his home studio in Nashville last year for a casual joint songwriting session that proved fertile, yielding an inspired batch of songs that the pair quickly recorded with Band of Joy drummer Marco Giovino.

“We didn’t mean to, but we sort of wrote a record’s worth [of material] and I said, ‘While we’re doing this, why don’t I put up some mics and document it,’ because that’s better than just trying to remember it or record it on your phone,” Miller explains. “And it sounded so good I think we, you know, accidentally made a record.”

More here:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/robert-plant-records-rockin-new-album-with-buddy-miller-20121101

JOHN BONHAM DRUM KIT AT HARD ROCK CAFE LONDON:

Here’s a nice on from Krys Jantzen

Dave, just back from annual Halloween party at the Hard Rock Cafe in Piccadilly and came across Bonzo’s drum kit with a nice backstory from Robert I hadn’t noticed before.

Photo: Bonzo’s kit with pumpkin!

Text: In Robert Plant’s words “When Bonzo was playing this kit in the 70’s he would shout ‘Here come the cannons!’. John sold me these drums for $500 despite the fact they had been a promotional gift from Ludwig and cost him nothing! Good humour, good times, good music”.

HATS OFF TO LED ZEPPELIN THREE COUNTIES RADIO INTERVIEW  

Very good interview here on the local radio station Three Counties with the excellent tribute band Hats Off To Led Zeppelin –it kicks off at 1.12 –it includes a  very fine acoustic version of Going To California  and there’ s a plug for the TBL editor at 1.30. Hats off to you boys…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00zcw5r

Above – Hats Off to Led Zeppelin at Three Counties Radio studio in Luton ,Bedfordshire.

DL DIARY UPDATE:

Working here on kickstarting various TBL projects including the next TBL magazine and the 02 book project. Many thanks for all your feedback on the latter –if you want to add your comments/feedback/pics on any aspect of the 02 reunion show and film email the usual address…there’s been some Jimmy Page research going on as well as can be seen in this pic of some of the resources I’ve been wading through…TBL mugs – I had a few enquires about the TBL mug that was featured in a pic here last week – it’s actually a one off item though I may well look into getting something organised on that ahead to make it a TBL merch item…look out next week on the TBL site for details of a competition to win tickets for the Supersilent featuring John Paul Jones London Village Underground show on November 18th .

ROBERT PLANT PRESENTS SENSATIONAL SPACE SHIFTERS IN BRAZIL

Here’s a final couple of clips from Robert and the Sensational Space Shifters in Brazil. May we offer a big thanks to Andre Cruz who has been TBL’s man in the know during this tour and has done a great job in feeding back on the spot reports with much enthusasm. Thanks Andre!

ROBERT PLANT IN ARGENTINA

Robert has been named Honorary Guest of the city of Buenos Aires, by the city’s mayor Mauricio Macri. Here’s a clip of the award being made.

AND FINALLY: HERE IS THE COMPLETE OFFICIAL KASHMIR CLIP FROM THE CELBERATION DAY FILM

NOT JUST A BAND…MORE A WAY OF LIFE…

Until next time…

keep reading – keep listening…

Dave Lewis/Gary Foy

November 4th, 2012

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