I bet you remember more of '77 than Jimmy does Strider... 😁

So...proof that JP played drums on stage once with Zeppelin...! (sort of)

Be interesting to know if Showco have any formal archives where the drawings for such might be. And did any Swan Song employees take anything as a keepsake when the office was shut in 1983 or thereabouts? Still feel there's (a little )stuff of that nature out there...

The latest Classic Rock has a feature on the 50th anniversary of Zeppelin 2. I haven't bought it as I know the author will be Mick Wall and there'll be nothing new in it.

Lol. Not only would I do the same thing, I'd be duckfacing too!

What money-grab suits like this really show is there is a bunch of people who've given up trying to make anything new or creative in the world of music; instead the future will be lawsuits to try and squeeze revenue away from big selling song catalogues. I bet as I type this there are lawyers looking at massive radio play songs (the biggest back catalogue earners) and seeing if there are any similarities that previously (pre Blurred Lines judgment) wouldn't have been worth considering. I also predict this process will accelerate as the baby boomer musicians pass on; inevitably some of their heirs will not be so involved and will just pay up rather than fighting the case. Grim business.

I agree it seems likely they've confused the RAH with the Roundhouse. And yet..... the tantalising thing is if you misremembered it, confusing it with say, the Marquee would make a lot more sense, not the Roundhouse. I almost wonder if some footage was shot there but proved unusable due to lighting or whatever, then the footage was destroyed.

Surreal to think, when those pics were taken, Plant had been playing to three men and a dog at teacher training college in Walsall just 7 weeks earlier. Suddenly he's strapped into a rocketship and it's about to take off.

JPJ is exactly 2 years younger and still plays. His fingers seem to be in great shape. Of course, different people age at different rates, though Page has good genes, his mother lived into her 90s I think. I suspect it's more a case of he can't think of anything new that's worth recording. Most songwriting is a finite resource, few people do great new albums in their 70s. The real issue is that rumours multiply because he's always been so secret squirrel about everything: he likes mystery and it served him well in Zeppelin. As Plant said, "Page ought to have been a San Francisco version of Simon Templar, hiding in shadows and peering round corners".

It's the Daily Star! Over here that's one step up (down?) from the National Enquirer.

Jesse is Plant's kid with Shirley. Complicated! Plant will never do an autobiography though. He's said as much. Shame. The one I'd love to see write something like that, is JPJ, maybe that'll happen one day.

Plant is the master of using flowery language to not answer anything he doesn't want to. Ironically, similar to Page's interviews. I like hearing both of them talk, so I listen to these kind of things, but I'm not expecting to hear any great revelation tbh.

Not sure G ever had a Jaguar. I recall reading somewhere it was Mickie Most's Jag. Now he was the kind of bloke to have a Jag!

Saw this on reddit. Is this really Plant? They were in Dallas March 1970, but....it just doesn't look right. I know blond hair can go dark in water, but the shape of the face doesn't look quite right either.

If Leif Mases still with us? He could verify if Jeff was involved in the recording of ITTOD. While someone like Dave Northover could confirm or deny re: the '77 tour. There ought to be a "people who worked with Zeppelin" Facebook page we could invite people to! Isn't there one for ex-Showco techs?

I recall from the Barney Hoskyns book that Jeff was doing extra "drum setting up" assistance on the 77 tour. Iirc the source for this was Benji LeFevre (?), I'll have to dig it out. The claims on wiki about Jeff being there for the recording of ITTOD are more controversial. EDIT: having checked, the source is Ocheltree himself. He is however, credited as "drum tech who assisted Bonham on the '77 US tour". Barney is pretty accurate, so who knows.

Latest Guitarist mag has Page on the cover, and a review of the Tele. and link https://www.myfavouritemagazines.co.uk/music/guitarist-magazine-back-issues/guitarist-july-2019-issue-447/

Funny how Matt Everitt was in a band called Menswear and now he's interviewing Percy. "did you ever play Madison Square Garden son?" "er no I was in Menswear" (kidding, I know Plant would never ask something like that!)

It seems a distinctly odd choice, especially given how puffy Page looked at Atlantic 40th compared to his prime. Why not a stock 70s Earls Court type shot?

Redditch town centre. Lovely of Percy to put that pic up, keeps perspective.

This article is by Dave Lewis and relates to a new collection by Jorgen Angel "Led Zeppelin 1968-70" out 28 May. Irritatingly the article only includes the already seen photos from the book, but I guess it's a typical publisher's tease. Jorgen says thre Engish language edition will have 16 extra pages compared to non English, so presumably that's where any extra / unseen will be. Think I know what'll I be getting for my birthday at the end of the month.

What was her name, Penny Lane?!

Some have. Whenever there's a book or previous documentary Benji leFevre is there. He's a funny interviewee and can actually remember stuff, so I suspect whoever's writing / filming tend to seek him out for that reason. Despite him being pretty open about rock and roll behaviour I gather him and Plant are still on friendly terms. And Henry "the Horse" Smith, Dave Northover & Dennis Sheehan are extensively quoted in Barney Hoskyns' Zep book. For the others who haven't, it may be as simple as loyalty even after all these years. Or they can't remember anything!

You missed "light and shade", "distance miking" and "inventing backwards echo". HOUSE!!

If it were genuinely nothing new, I doubt Plant or JPJ would get involved.