Led Zeppelin

By Steve Sauer(Steve@LedZeppelinNews.com) Now that I have their CD, I can't wait until the next time I hear "Warsaw" live again! As a matter of fact, my iTunes pre-order came with two official live cuts as bonus tracks. Does anybody know which show they're from (Lowlands, I believe)?

By Steve Sauer(Steve@LedZeppelinNews.com) As previously announced, Them Crooked Vultures will play at the Wiltern in Los Angeles tomorrow, on the day of the album release. At least three more U.S. shows are scheduled -- in Oakland, Seattle and Portland -- before December, when the band heads back across the Atlantic for some shows in...

By Steve Sauer(Steve@LedZeppelinNews.com) The best questions, and John Paul Jones's answers, will be published in a future issue of Uncut.---By Steve Sauer, Lemon Squeezings: Led Zeppelin News, www.LedZeppelinNews.com. For more Led Zeppelin, visit www.OnThisDayInLedZeppelinHistory.com today.

By Steve Sauer(Steve@LedZeppelinNews.com) Led Zeppelin fans have criticized Robert Plant for his willingness to sing Led Zeppelin songs during his concert appearances, particularly when new and foreign-sounding arrangements are applied. (Check out the comments section from this post two months ago or this one from only a few w...

By Steve@LedZeppelinNews.com (Steve Sauer) The intimate event would be Page's first concert appearance of the year. In 2008, Page played a much more high-profile event at the Olympics, and also joined John Paul Jones in sitting in with the Foo Fighters one night in London. Those have been his only onstage appearances since the Led Zep...

By Steve Sauer(Steve@LedZeppelinNews.com) Bonham had five dates scheduled this month, billing shows as "An Evening with Jason Bonham." During shows, his band has been playing songs from his own past as well as from that of his father, the late Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham.

By Steve Sauer(Steve@LedZeppelinNews.com) I am sure I am not the only one whose record collection inspires fond memories of many hours spent in the likes of Carousel, Harlequin Records, Carlow's, Andy's, MVC, Our Price etc."---By Steve Sauer, Lemon Squeezings: Led Zeppelin News, www.LedZeppelinNews.com. For more Led Zeppelin, vi...

By Steve@LedZeppelinNews.com (Steve Sauer) Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page have joined them in recording with engineer Kevin Shirley, the man behind the sound of Led Zeppelin's 21st century releases, How the West Was Won, DVD and the reissue of the soundtrack to The Song Remains the Same.

By Steve@LedZeppelinNews.com (Steve Sauer) Around early October, Plant and Lanois recorded some demos with Black Dub's lead vocalist, Trixie Whitley. At 22, she is a singer-songwriter who plays piano and drums. She has lived in New York and Belgium and has followings in both places.

By Steve Sauer(Steve@LedZeppelinNews.com) Onstage, when accepting the award, Plant thanked his fellow members of Led Zeppelin, among other artists including Elvis Presley and Alison Krauss. Plant said that without them, he would not be receiving this award today. Surely, the new comments from Plant on Glastonbury will fuel a new...

By Steve Sauer(Steve@LedZeppelinNews.com) John? Hell yeah, John Paul Jones wants a second album. This is only the best band he's ever been in, or so he says. Wait, did he just compare his current project to Led Zeppelin -- and TCV wins? He can't be serious!! In case you missed it, check out what he said. Here's the highlight, though:

By Steve Sauer(Steve@LedZeppelinNews.com) In the past week, there have been new posts about Jerry Wexler signing Led Zeppelin to Atlantic Records in 1968 and turning operations over to Ahmet Ertegun, the band proceeding exactly one year later to begin recording music for a third album in a row, and John Paul Jones reflecting on the...

By Steve@LedZeppelinNews.com (Steve Sauer) Want to bang on the drums like Dave Grohl, slide your way across a fretboard or sing like Josh Homme, or handle a bass like John Paul Jones? On Tuesday, you ain't gotta wait no more. While Jimmy Page says he opposes licensing his music for video game consoles, the supergroup starring his forme...

By Steve Sauer(Steve@LedZeppelinNews.com) And there it was: Jones slips in that he won't be anticipating any future work with Led Zeppelin. The window of opportunity for that to happen has firmly shut, Jones affirms. There really is, as LedZeppelinNews.com anticipated not long ago, no reason to believe. Who's going to be at Glastonbu...

By Steve@LedZeppelinNews.com (Steve Sauer) Led Zeppelin author Dave Lewis said this April he was reading "Last Shop Standing: Whatever Happened to Record Shops? A Journey Through an Industry In Turmoil" by Graham Jones. Within months, his hometown newspaper published a letter to the editor by Lewis, reading, in part:

By Steve Sauer(Steve@LedZeppelinNews.com) Briefly, for a few months one year ago, there was a reason to believe in a Led Zeppelin reunion. That reason has long since faded. Wish for a Led Zeppelin reunion tour eventually? Hope for this Led Zeppelin gig next summer? Puh-leeeease.

By Steve Sauer(Steve@LedZeppelinNews.com) Two days after Robert Plant's remarks carried by the BBC fueled rumors that Led Zeppelin would reunite at the Glastonbury Festival in eight months, the BBC carries an interview with John Paul Jones on the Led Zeppelin splinter group that nearly formed last year.

By Steve Sauer(Steve@LedZeppelinNews.com) Various places that they would visit like that, we try to hit on somewhat. However, we also try to place Led Zeppelin in different locales throughout the book to show this isn't just a concert photo book. We have photos of them at home in England with their kids. We have them in different locatio...

By Steve Sauer(Steve@LedZeppelinNews.com) And that chump was whoever at Contactmusic.com Ltd. dreamed up the laughably naïve headline, "LED ZEPPELIN - LED ZEPPELIN SET FOR GLASTONBURY 2010?" If this really were the beginnings of a Led Zeppelin reunion, every indication is there would be no indication.

By Steve@LedZeppelinNews.com (Steve Sauer) Jason Bonham was already a veteran of several of his own bands by the time he was pulled to work with such acts as Paul Rodgers, UFO and Foreigner. Jason's street cred rose substantially when he performed an acclaimed show with the three surviving members of Led Zeppelin at the end of 2007.

By Steve Sauer(Steve@LedZeppelinNews.com) That, of course, wasn't Bonham's only link-up with the members of Led Zeppelin. He was Jimmy Page's choice of a drummer when he finally went solo in 1988, and that year also saw Bonham playing for the first reunion under the Led Zeppelin name. Most recently, Bonham played with Page, Plant and...

By Steve@LedZeppelinNews.com (Steve Sauer) Accounting for more than half of that figure is the most prized item, an official hardcover program from the band's 2007 reunion concert that is signed on the cover by Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones. Bidding on this item passed the $2,000 mark yesterday.

By Steve Sauer(Steve@LedZeppelinNews.com) A year ago, Plant issued a statement saying he would not tour for two years and would not partake in any recording sessions with Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones or Jason Bonham. At the time, Led Zeppelin reunion rumors were widely reported in the press, even with one account claiming Plant had ag...

By Steve Sauer(Steve@LedZeppelinNews.com) Throughout much of 2008, a Led Zeppelin reunion tour seemed possible. During the months that followed the band's December 2007 concert in London, encouraging words were coming from Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, Jason Bonham and even, at times, Robert Plant.

By Steve Sauer(Steve@LedZeppelinNews.com) John Paul Jones has given his first interview since the debut of Them Crooked Vultures. In his interview for KUT 90.5 in Austin, Texas, he commented on a number of topics all related to the new band. There were no questions about the status of a Led Zeppelin reunion.

By Steve@LedZeppelinNews.com (Steve Sauer) From the band's tragic end in 1980, the story completes itself with a tidy four-photo recap of events that have followed. Jason and Zoe Bonham join Led Zeppelin's surviving members in a photo taken at Led Zeppelin's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995. A slimmer and distingu...

By Steve Sauer(Steve@LedZeppelinNews.com) September 25, 2009 will be the 29th Anniversary of the passing of Led Zeppelin's mighty John Henry Bonham (31 May 1948 – 25 September 1980) and the Led Zep Set will be performed in his memory and dedicated in his honor."Another site of mine, "On This Day In Led Zeppelin History," today marks B...

By Steve@LedZeppelinNews.com (Steve Sauer) Consider that Plant is one who has often nodded to his lyrical influences by reverting to the original in concert. With Led Zeppelin, he sang "How Many More Times," whereas with the Honeydrippers he sang "How Many More Years" by Howlin' Wolf; with Led Zeppelin, he sang "Communication Brea...

By Steve@LedZeppelinNews.com (Steve Sauer) In one October 2008 edition of the influential Lefsetz Letter, the author railed against the band for licensing a line of footwear. It was little over a month later that I similarly criticized the Led Zeppelin activity of 2007 -- not the reunion concert but the further distillation of Zep'...

By Steve@LedZeppelinNews.com (Steve Sauer) Drummers aren't afforded the same luxuries given to singers. If Robert Plant doesn't want to tour with Led Zeppelin, he can still record an album with Alison Krauss and sing "Black Dog" in concert -- and he does, and then people vilify him for doing the same thing others praise him for doing.

By Steve@LedZeppelinNews.com (Steve Sauer) Throughout the month of Zeptember, the radio show "Get the Led Out" is giving away digital downloads of Led Zeppelin albums. The sweepstakes also includes a chance to win the grand prize: a vinyl copy of the Mothership best-of package and the Led Zeppelin DVD set.

By Steve@LedZeppelinNews.com (Steve Sauer) Rolling Stone may have panned Led Zeppelin's debut album 40 years ago, but readers of the magazine have now voted it their favorite album of 1969.And Led Zeppelin II, reviewed that same year without a straight face, was voted the year's No. 2 album.

By Steve@LedZeppelinNews.com (Steve Sauer) It's an odd explanation, given that Led Zeppelin played similar festivals near Seattle and Austin two weeks before and after Woodstock, alongside many of the same acts that were at Woodstock. But when it came time for the three days of peace and music, Led Zeppelin took its serving of "Whol...

By Steve@LedZeppelinNews.com (Steve Sauer) Page first conceived an instrumental "Swan Song" in about 1973 or perhaps even earlier. He rehearsed it with John Paul Jones and John Bonham at the time, but the track was abandoned during the Led Zeppelin years. Meanwhile, Page continued previewing segments of it live during their concer...

By Steve@LedZeppelinNews.com (Steve Sauer) The film may not have many new revelations for the ardent Zeppelin fans who have ingested the liner notes of every box set to the point of memorizing dates and facts, but this film may possibly represent the most accessible way for fans of rock music in general to learn, directly from Page, a...

By Steve@LedZeppelinNews.com (Steve Sauer) Jimmy Page spent his teen years teaching himself how to play guitar, and one of the jazz guitarists who inspired him at that time was Les Paul. Multi-tracking became an industry standard, and it is certainly a part of the Led Zeppelin sound on albums.

By Steve Sauer(ledzeppelinhistory-owner@yahoogroups.com) Three British concert appearances by Airrace, with Bonham on drums, are currently scheduled for this June and July, with Mansworth telling Classic Rock magazine a more permanent reunion, including a new album, could be in the works.

By Steve Sauer(ledzeppelinhistory-owner@yahoogroups.com) The surviving members of former Swan Song recording artist Bad Company have reunited again and will be playing 10 shows in late June and early July. I'm a fan of the fact that this band's first reunion of the original lineup reunited in honor of Peter Grant, their manager and Led Zeppelin's,...

By Steve Sauer(ledzeppelinhistory-owner@yahoogroups.com) Merriam Webster defines the word "progressive" as "moving forward or onward." And so when it came to progressive rock, the members of Led Zeppelin always looked at themselves as progressive. John Paul Jones told me in a 2001 interview that to him, the word meant "forward-thinking" even in...

By Steve Sauer(ledzeppelinhistory-owner@yahoogroups.com) So, even if there isn't a Led Zeppelin reunion on the horizon, there are still plenty of opportunities to catch the surviving members of Led Zeppelin and their relatives!--- Want to learn more about the band's history? Visit www.OnThisDayInLedZeppelinHistory.com today today!

By ledzeppelinhistory-owner@yahoogroups.com (Steve Sauer) When Robert Plant shared in the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award presented to Led Zeppelin in 2005, he ignored the honor. That's not because he and Alison Krauss stand to rack up as many as five more awards, added to the one they shared for last year's Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals.

By ledzeppelinhistory-owner@yahoogroups.com (Steve Sauer) Since I was reading show reviews of this Zooma concert series from Jones online at TBL/Web, I knew it had already become a nightly custom for some informed fan at each show to invoke the line from children's literature John Paul Jones happened to be reading to his children in a scene in "The S...

By ledzeppelinhistory-owner@yahoogroups.com (Steve Sauer) Myles Kennedy has finally admitted he sang in rehearsal with Led Zeppelin members Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and Jason Bonham last year. Plant also issued a statement last September that said he would not be taking part in any Led Zeppelin activity.

By ledzeppelinhistory-owner@yahoogroups.com (Steve Sauer) Not entirely Led Zeppelin news-related, but close enough -- especially considering Jeff Beck will soon be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist, having been previously inducted alongside Jimmy Page as members of the Yardbirds.

By ledzeppelinhistory-owner@yahoogroups.com (Steve Sauer) Absent from his announced plans is any mention of the obvious. Both Kennedy and his interviewer manage to sidestep any mention of the rumors that he was under consideration for a new band featuring two of Led Zeppelin's original members -- Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones -- and Jason Bonham,...

By Steve Sauer(ledzeppelinhistory-owner@yahoogroups.com) JB: "Hey Pete, nice interview with the BBC, who's replacing Robert Plant, then?" PM: "What interview? I haven't spoke to those guys for like four months or something." JB: "So Led Zeppelin are not going to tour and record?" PM: "No chance."

By Steve Sauer(ledzeppelinhistory-owner@yahoogroups.com) No particular singer has yet been confirmed as teaming up with Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and Jason Bonham for an album and tour, Page's manager disclosed to BBC Radio's "6 Music." Plant says he is not interested in reuniting Led Zeppelin at least for some time.

By Steve Sauer(ledzeppelinhistory-owner@yahoogroups.com) He becomes the second member of Led Zeppelin to be named by the queen for a rank in the Order of the British Empire. In 2005, she bestowed a lesser honor upon Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page in 2005, naming him an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, or OBE.

By ledzeppelinhistory-owner@yahoogroups.com (Steve Sauer) David Coverdale has recently suggested the style of a Led Zeppelin reunion that he would like to see as a fan of Jimmy Page. Come on, can a revolving door of performers sitting in with Page, John Paul Jones and Jason Bonham really be considered Led Zeppelin?

By ledzeppelinhistory-owner@yahoogroups.com (Steve Sauer) Page turned to DADGAD again in the 1973/1974 recording sessions for Physical Graffiti. This time, it provided him with two completely original compositions, the better known being "Kashmir." That song, originally included on Physical Graffiti in 1975, is on the above-mentioned box se...

By ledzeppelinhistory-owner@yahoogroups.com (Steve Sauer) That's because it kept things on track with our band. All but one of the other encores we played were things we ran through only on the day of the gig. The difference between the first and second shows is the crowd. Thursday audiences are all ages, so with the kids there we tend to play more of the ra...

By ledzeppelinhistory-owner@yahoogroups.com (Steve Sauer) But, given the plans that have already been announced to the press, there is no way that Page, Jones and Bonham are planning to replace Plant and go on the road as Led Zeppelin. Yet that's exactly what Page, Jones and Bonham have been wrongly accused of considering.

By ledzeppelinhistory-owner@yahoogroups.com (Steve Sauer) Yeah, yeah, I know. Robert Plant said this and Jimmy Page said that. Of course I know it. Robert Plant only said he's against touring with Led Zeppelin for now. He never said he wouldn't do another one-off concert with Led Zeppelin. And I'd be surprised if Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones have writte...

By Steve Sauer(ledzeppelinhistory-owner@yahoogroups.com) Screw it, Jimmy. Go ahead and tell us what your next band will be like. Forget your image. Just go out there and play some killer music already. Do it quickly before John Paul Jones and Jason Bonham slip away from your grasp once and for all. Can't you see that Michael Lee is already gone. Robert Plant...

By Steve Sauer(ledzeppelinhistory-owner@yahoogroups.com) BBC Radio Devon caught up with John Paul Jones at the Mansons Guitar Show in Exeter on Oct. 26. "The Late Show," hosted by Vic Morgan, broadcast the full interview with Jones last night. Part Two: Jones commented on Led Zeppelin's one-off concert at the O2 Arena in London this past December:

By ledzeppelinhistory-owner@yahoogroups.com (Steve Sauer) Now that Robert Plant has quashed the rumor of his agreement to participate in a Led Zeppelin reunion, the rumor mill must find a new storyline to push. And in this case, why not revive the one we were fed last week involving Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and Jason Bonham?