No Led Zeppelin Record Store Day Announcement Yet...

... but this has to qualify as close.

Two Yardbirds albums will be available on Record Store Day, April 19th, 2014.

The Yardbirds final album, Little Games, with "magic finger" Jimmy Page on guitar, will be reissued in splatter colour vinyl for Record Store Day. The album will be available on LP, and is a "British import... cut from the 1992 stereo remix."

The second album, Sounds I Heard, is a collection of tracks, including the Beck/Page written, Happenings Ten Years Time Ago, recorded on De Lane Lea Studios, London August 1966. As well, the vinyl LP has Mister You’re a Better Man Than I from Stockholm on April 7th, 1967, and Dazed and Confused form a 1968 BBC recording. The album will also include a 1-sided 7" single of BBC session "White Summer."


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Already with an update:  Wax Poetic reports "BLACK CROWES AND JIMMY PAGE Live a the Greek (3LP Red, Clear and Blue vinyl set, limited to 2000 copies)"

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Update: March 21: The compete list for Record Store Day is now available. Jimmy Page and the Black Crowes LP will be a run of 2,000 copies, while The Yardbirds Little Games LP will be 2,500. The Yardbirds  Sounds I Heard compilation is not on the list, and disappointingly, neither is any Led Zeppelin releases.

The Jimmy Page and the Black Crowes will be a 3-LP set in red, clear, blue vinyl with gold sticker Little Games will be a British import, reissued on psychedelic spattered vinyl, cut from the 1992 stereo remix.

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Update March 28th: While the Yardbirds Sounds I Heard is not listed, my local record store has posted that they have ordered it. Also, see this post about The Drive-By Truckers Dragon Pants EP, including the title song which is about Jimmy Page.

The Led Zeppelin Podcast Episode #52: Tea For One

This week, I did not have an inerview with Dave Lewis, so I talked about him instead. More specifically, I talked about his book, Then As It Was: Led Zeppelin At Knebworth.

As well, I discussed the Drive By Truckers, Jimmy Page's Dragon Pants and his daughter,the photographer.

 

You can download the podcast at Podbean or Spreaker. If you go to Spreaker, be sure to follow the episode.

You can also subscribe on iTunes. If you subscribe via iTunes, be sure to leave a review.

Dave Lewis runs the website Tight But Loose, and his magazine and books come highly recommended.

If I Was Jimmy Page

The Drive-By Truckers new EP, Dragon Pants, is available to stream on Grooveshark.  The title, and title track is an homage to Jimmy Page by Drive-By Tuckers singer Patterson Hood.

The song first made it's appearance at some of Patterson Hood's solo shows this time last year.

Click here to listen to Dragon Pants.



The actual EP will be available as a 10" vinyl record released specifically for Record Store Day on April 19th. The Truckers will be doing an in-store appearance at Twist and Shout Records in Denver on that day.  The EP is being listed at Vintage Vinyl for $11.99.

Update: The Drive-By Truckers cover.

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California Breed - Sweet Tea

The first video from Jason Bonham's new group, featuring Glenn Hughes on bass and vocals and Andrew Watt on guitar. Sweet Tea by California Breed.

 

John Paul Jones To tour With Dave Rawlings Machine

After a successful run of shows last November, John Paul Jones is set to do another mini-tour with the Dave Rawlings Machine in June. Jones will join Rawlings, along with Gillian Welch, Willie Watson and Paul Kowert for a five show run beginning June 18 in Boulder.

Pre-sale for all six shows begins Thursday at 10:00 local time, and presale password for each show is DAVE14. Here's the announced dates so far:

• Wed. June 18 - Boulder Theater - Boulder, CO
• Tue. June 24 - Uptown Theater - Kansas City, MO
• Wed. June 25 - The Sheldon - St. Louis, MO
• Thurs. June 26 - Brown Theatre - Louisville, KY
• Fri. June 27 - Ryman Auditorium - Nashville, TN

Here's Dave Rawlings Machine, featuring John Paul Jones on November 20th last, playing Going to California.




h/t @LedZepNews
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Finally We Get a Bonham/Hughes Tour

It looks like California Breed will spend some considerable time on the road in 2014.

I've given California Breed's first album a spin and, at first blush, it's a good one. It appears that California freed is going to get a better chance to succeed than it's predecessor, Black Country Communion.

BCC's guitarist Joe Bonamassa was reluctant to tour with them, preferring instead to concentrate on his solo career. this, in support of three studio albums they did a few festival shows, a very small tour of the mid-west and a three week or so jaunt around Europe, recorded and released as the DVD/CD set Live Over Europe.

California Breed, conversely, appears set to do more performances in 2014 than Black Country Communion did in three years. According to Jason Bonham via twitter, California Breed will spend September through December?

I have 4 different tours this year so far JBLZE May 3 to May 18 Heart from June 14 to June 29th Sammy Hagar & friends from July 17th until Aug 16th Then California Breed Sept , Oct , Nov , Dec !!!!

via Jason Bonham, Twitter and Facebook.



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In the summer of 2010 I started playing with the notion of a Led Zeppelin podcast. This blog was had progressed as far as it could without a push, and other people seemed to have twitter and Facebook covered. To move forward, something was needed, and I was surprised to discover no one else was doing a podcast on the subject of Led Zeppelin. Questions such as do I want to have a partner (in fact, my first idea was to do one with Led Zeppelin News' Steve "the Lemon" Sauer, with whom I had met up with in July. I had just finished doing a stint covering for Led Zeppelin News, and the two of us had a pretty good rapport. However, I couldn't see me finding a way to fit a regular weekly hookup into my weird, shift worker schedule), do I want to pay for a licence fee to use music, how on earth do you record and upload a podcast and could I actually sit and talk into a microphone for an hour.

On the night of August 17th, a Sunday, the house was quiet and I had a fair bit of wine in me. Time to try, I thought, and sat down at my computer. It was meant to see if I could actually do it, not to really record a podcast, but I pressed record so I could listen back, and started talking off the top of my head. Over 40 minutes later I finished, and what I had was not great - way too many uhmms, errs and "that's all I have to say about that"'s, but it wasn't wholly awful, so I took the plunge. It would be another three or four days before I figured out how to upload the podcast and get it to iTunes, and find a place to upload it to.

So it is, this week I celebrate the 50th episode, with news that the 1st three remastered albums are finally ready for release. I cover what we know, and what we will learn in the next few days.

As well, I review John Paul Jones Avante-Garde band, Minibus Pimps', 1st album, Cloud to Ground.






Thank you to everybody who's taken the time to listen over the past 50 episodes. It makes my day every time I hear from someone who listens.


You can download the podcast at Podbean or Spreaker. If you go to Spreaker, be sure to follow the episode.

You can also subscribe on iTunes. If you subscribe via iTunes, be sure to leave a review.