Led Zeppelin: The 'Tight But Loose' Files

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Firsly the acoustic set is embellished with the addition of the audience recorded version of Tangerine. The Whole Lotta medley is presented in a combination of the official soundboard plus audience inserts. This adds audience sourced versions of Heartbreak Hotel and Slow Down. The latter a frantic rendering of the Larry William’s number covered by The Beatles on their Long Tall Sally EP, is as the forensic Mike T notes in the Evenings With LZ entry the only known version performed by Zep and therefore is most welcome.

My collecting and listening pleasure revolves around heritage releases and reissues. I am not a pursuer of new music -not because there isn’t any great new music being made – it’s hard enough keeping up with the many reissues, Zep bootleg releases etc that continue to surface and the sense of nostalgia attached to these gems is truly inspiring. In effect every record or CD I invest in can tell a story…and there are many stories connected with the following some of which are explained in the DL writings round up below and more will feature in my work in progress DL Memories… Like is said, this is an incredible archive of hours of historically significant Led Zeppelin radio broadcasts

TBL 7 : Released April 1992

This is the sound of a band finding new avenues for their music at every developing gig – and this is the sound that in the summer of 1969, simply slayed every audience they accounted… Welcome to the TBL Market Place – this is a forum I’ll be using to offer one off items from the DL Led Zep and related collection. Featuring… John Paul Jones Thunderthief, Robert Plant Dreamland, Strange Sensations Live, Justin Adams Interview, Led Zep the DVD Project, Pictures At Eleven, Bob Harris – Zeppelin and the Whistle Test, Neal Preston, plus much much more. Below, you can see a sketch drawn by Edwards of the moment the iconic photograph was taken. The historian drew the image while fielding calls from everyone from The New York Times to BBC News to LedZepNews as we all wanted to know the story of how he discovered the photograph:

That vocal telepathy was certainly in evidence on the brilliant House Of Cards, the Richard Thompson song covered on the Band Of Joy album (”a song that means a lot to us” remarked Robert) which had a light and shade all of it’s own -. equally shared by Robert and Suzi in total harmony. As for the performances it’s always a joy to hear this fantastic example of their on stage prowess. Paul also pays tribute to his father Jim and school teacher Alan Durband – his Liverpool upbringing clearly shaped the man he became. Level Two: each of the 154 song lyrics presented are accompanied by an array of fascinating memorabilia – hand writing lyrics, orchestral charts and logs, original diary entries all woven in with a quite stunning selection of photos – many of them new to me and for a man with countless Beatles books on the shelf that is some feat. Early on stage Beatles shots, candid Abbey Road studio images, relaxed shots of Paul and Linda on their Scottish farm retreat and many more –for example: want to see the actual moment Paul began writing Two Of Us which they were on a drive into the country ? It’s all here. 600 images in total drawn from his own personal archives. Bill Cromwell on ROBERT PLANT SAVING GRACE UK TOUR FIRST NIGHT REVIEW/DEBORAH BONHAM NEWS/LZ NEWS/REMASTERS – IT WAS 33 YEARS AGO /PRIORY OF BRION1999/BEATLES AT STOWE & NOW AND THEN /DL DIARY BLOG UPDATE

Release

This was the second day of the launch of the revised version of my Then As it Was Led Zeppelin At Knebworth 1979 book at the two day VIP Musicmania Fair at Olympia. Aside from Zep, I’d list Frank Sinatra’s In The Wee Small Hours, Burt Bacharach’s Hitmaker, Otis Redding Oits Blue,Dusty Springfield In Memphis and David Bowie’s Young Americans as definitive Valentine’s Day play. KNEBWORTH BOOK LAUNCH/VIP MUSICMANIA REPORT/ JIMMY RAMBLIZE/ROBERT MALI 2/ SOCCER BID/JPJ WITH SUSANNA AND DAVE RAWLINGS/DR WHO/KENNEDY/DL DIARY UPDATE - 26,641 views The objective is to create an online Led Zeppelin media archive drawn from archive radio broadcasts as they were aired at the time.

These rumours were further confounded by a news story that appeared in The Sun newspaper on the day of the supposed gig. Reporting on an inflight spat between Zep members and the actor Telly Savalas the story added ‘’The Zeppelin group are in London to make a promotional film and paly at the Marquee Club’’ Along with other contributors notably Chris M, they make up the extensive archive that is now ready to be accessed online. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejCCenSrv70&ab_channel=LedZeppelinBoot&fbclid=IwAR2zR3ceNEz4UgsCuvJFqqwMpNlT7tMqhTVa1NSiJeUa-kNRUd_qGTxJRuw September 15– The exhibition “The Wiltshire Thatcher – a Photographic Journey through Victorian Wessex” featuring the original photograph from the cover of Led Zeppelin’s fourth album will close at Wiltshire Museum.A cropped version of the original photograph seen on the front cover of Led Zeppelin’s fourth album (Ernest Howard Farmer) So as the curtain comes down on 2022, once again on behalf of the good lady Janet may I offer thanks for all your incredible, inspiring and heart-warming support and kindness this past year which means so much to us here. We wish you a hopeful, healthy and safe new year…

ROBERT PLANT PERFORMS STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN AT ANDY TAYLOR CHARITY CONCERT/MR JIMMY FILM/LZ NEWS/LED ZEP II AT 54/THE MAKING OF LED ZEP III/SONG REMAINS/TERRY REID REVIEW/ROLLING STONES REVIEW/WHO’S NEXT/DL DIARY BLOG UPDATEThis was the latter period of the UK underground scene –the famous Oz obscenity trial was a only a couple of months before and on that November night there hung a heady atmosphere as London’s counter culture elite came out to see them. This feeling of being amongst the counter culture was enhanced by the presence of a large stall within the Empire Pool for Virgin Records Richard Branson’s newly inaugurated discount record retail operation. They were proudly selling the new Led Zeppelin album in that mysterious sleeve. There was also the famous Electric Magic poster on sale for all of 30p which now changes hands for upwards of a grand. I wish I’d brought more than one! Last Friday, it was a joy to invest in The Beatles White Album Giles Martin new stereo mix on vinyl on the day of release at the excellent Slide Record shop in Bedford…93 minutes of musical heaven awaited.