Why release this EP? Why the teasing? Can't they were release the entire shows, and dump them on steaming services? I am sure the Zeppelin fans, worldwide, would rather that than an 'Extended play' in 2025.

Quote
Big Al
Why release this EP? Why the teasing? Can't they were release the entire shows, and dump them on steaming services? I am sure the Zeppelin fans, worldwide, would rather that than an 'Extended play' in 2025.

I've always assumed its because Pagey would have to go through and fix them up. How The West Was Won, Song Remains The Same (Film and album), the reunion concert and the Led Zeppelin DVD took YEARS to finally come out. Mostly because Page and the band like to clean up everything so that it's note perfect. An EP re-release of songs they'd already cleaned up 25 years ago is easy. Anything else would take time.

I was hopeful with those extended editions of the albums a few years ago it would come with live stuff. Alas, besides the first album it had nothing in that department, and most of the bonus discs were the actual songs with a fader pulled up or down. I just think for the most part they are too guarded with their vault. I can't see it changing anytime soon, but hopefully I'm wrong.

I'd really like to see some '77-80 live releases. I know those performances are different, and some don't like them as much, but they contain later material and later versions of early material, which would be really fun to hear in good quality. A whole Knebworth show would be awesome, for example. I had of those boots on a cassette once upon a time-- a terrible reproduction with a deafening hiss-- and I'd love something like that all cleaned up for a proper release. The new EP is great... but it's such a tease!

Quote
RollingFreak

Quote
Big Al
Why release this EP? Why the teasing? Can't they were release the entire shows, and dump them on steaming services? I am sure the Zeppelin fans, worldwide, would rather that than an 'Extended play' in 2025.

I've always assumed its because Pagey would have to go through and fix them up. How The West Was Won, Song Remains The Same (Film and album), the reunion concert and the Led Zeppelin DVD took YEARS to finally come out. Mostly because Page and the band like to clean up everything so that it's note perfect. An EP re-release of songs they'd already cleaned up 25 years ago is easy. Anything else would take time.

Page has had years to work on unreleased live material. I know he's busy suing his neighbour or being sued by his neighbour and that consumes all hours of the day for years because the egos are gargantuan but certainly in his spare time he's worked on live recordings, maybe even flying in different performances for guitar or vocal like Aerosmith did for their Geffen contract fulfilling 1998 live album.

But then someone might mention to him, Hey, that live movie, it really sucked, it still sucks, you do know, and the live album isn't much better.

And then Page understands how good CELEBRATION DAY turned out so why bother.

Quote
GasLightStreet

Quote
RollingFreak

Quote
Big Al
Why release this EP? Why the teasing? Can't they were release the entire shows, and dump them on steaming services? I am sure the Zeppelin fans, worldwide, would rather that than an 'Extended play' in 2025.

I've always assumed its because Pagey would have to go through and fix them up. How The West Was Won, Song Remains The Same (Film and album), the reunion concert and the Led Zeppelin DVD took YEARS to finally come out. Mostly because Page and the band like to clean up everything so that it's note perfect. An EP re-release of songs they'd already cleaned up 25 years ago is easy. Anything else would take time.

Page has had years to work on unreleased live material. I know he's busy suing his neighbour or being sued by his neighbour and that consumes all hours of the day for years because the egos are gargantuan but certainly in his spare time he's worked on live recordings, maybe even flying in different performances for guitar or vocal like Aerosmith did for their Geffen contract fulfilling 1998 live album.

But then someone might mention to him, Hey, that live movie, it really sucked, it still sucks, you do know, and the live album isn't much better.

And then Page understands how good CELEBRATION DAY turned out so why bother.

Don't forget spending all his time with his wife that's, I believe, 50 years younger than him?

He obviously has the time but I think the energy that goes into his projects when he attacks live Zeppelin and making them "perfect" takes a toll and is a dedication I just assume he doesn't have these days. We'll sadly have great stuff when he's gone I'm guessing, at a point when the audience for it will also not get to live with it much longer either.

Robert Plant and Saving Grace will return to the US in March and April to tour, with shows in New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, before ending at Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NYC. Spring Fever 2026 artist presales begin Wednesday at noon ET with general sales beginning Friday at 10am local time.

[www.facebook.com]

Am I 1st who put attention at trick in main riff in song "The Ocean"?:

While guitar plays "D E G - D E A" bass plays "D E G - E F# A" - thus 2 notes being played in septime not octave. In album version as in one bootleg performance I could ever find this relation is always the same as described above.

May be at least here someone knows why did they create that tricky thing almost no one could distinguish?

A new soundboard track from 1971 emerged on a bootleg release

[ledzepnews.com]

From “The Led Zeppelin News Email - 01/02/26”

Previously unseen Fillmore West 1969 photos were published
“A series of previously unseen photographs of Led Zeppelin performing at the Fillmore West in San Francisco, California on January 10 and April 24, 1969 were published on Led Zeppelin’s official forum this week.
The photographs were shot by Vince Sanchez and published alongside recollections by his brother Ron Sanchez.”

The b&w photos are truly stunning if amateurish, capturing the energetic images of Jimmy Page and Robert Plant in the early days of Zep touring America (no Jonesy and Bonzo, though). Also included are three colour shots of the latter day-era Yardbirds performing on stage at the Fillmore Auditorium (the ‘old’ Fillmore, not Fillmore West), May 1968 although the exact date is unspecific (they played there, the 23rd-25th).

Ron’s memoirs are also very interesting, revealing a few new facts about these concerts. One of them is the venue change. It has been said that on their second visit to San Francisco, April 1969, Zep played the Fillmore West on the 24th and 27th, the Winterland 25th and 26th, and all of the circulating documents, posters, flyers, ticket stubs etc., indicate accordingly. What happened is, the final Sunday show was changed from the Fillmore to the larger Winterland due to high demand. This is never-before-known information.

[forums.ledzeppelin.com]

What Led Zeppelin did was just as important as The Rolling Stones.

Flag waving aside, they did what they did.

Huge impacts on the future. Which started with The Rolling Stones in 1969.

That's something.

But...

U2 had a B-stage for the ZOO TV tour.

Mick Jagger saw that.

The Stones had a B-stage for one show in 1994 as far as I know.

U2's 1997-98 tour... Stones 1997-99 tour.

Patrick.

The Stones BRIDGES was magnificent. Best stage EVER. That was it. Supreme.

NO FILTER was better in the deliverance via screens in the entire presentation, in my opinion, but BRIDGES will always be the best Stones stage.

Nonesuch Records releases a vinyl EP from Robert Plant this Record Store Day, Saving Grace: All That Glitters...

The record follows his recent critically acclaimed album, Saving Grace; both feature singer Suzi Dian, and a band of musicians from the English countryside that Plant calls home. The EP's four tracks, recently recorded especially for RSD, explore the folk and Americana songs that Plant and the band love: the traditional tunes "The Blackest Crow" and "Two Coats," arranged by Robert Plant and Saving Grace, as well as Gillian Welch's "Orphan Girl" and Bert Jansch's "Poison." #RSD26



[www.facebook.com]

Raleigh Memorial Auditorium is a 2,300 cap venue. Robert Plant and Saving Grace play it March 31st.

I see scattered single standard price seats for as low as $73, and resales together as low as $52.

Robert Plant and Saving Grace perform "Ramble On" on Late Night with Stephen Colbert (which CBS has cancelled; its final show is May 21st).

[youtu.be]

Nice performance and it's well shot.
They truncated the act's name, leaving off the "with Suzi Dian." (I failed to see from the start why Plant was promoting her so heavily.)

****
I'm down in Virginia
with your Cousin Lou

Robert Plant & Saving Grace on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert", April 8

And this - a brilliant take on a classic Zepp song.

“The original 1969 promo video for ‘Good Times, Bad Times’ has been found”

[ledzepnews.com]

“How the 1969 ‘Good Times, Bad Times’ promo video survived thanks to a single reel of video tape”

[ledzepnews.com]

Quote
RisingStone
“The original 1969 promo video for ‘Good Times, Bad Times’ has been found”

[ledzepnews.com]

“How the 1969 ‘Good Times, Bad Times’ promo video survived thanks to a single reel of video tape”

[ledzepnews.com]

Oh, that's good to read. It's always great when a recording considered 'lost' or 'wiped', is found. Thank you BBC and ATV(?) for not preserving the 60's editions of Top of The Pops and Ready Steady Go! respectively. Just think: we'd have earliest televised performances by Bowie, Rod Stewart, Jimi Hendrix's British T.V. debut, etc.

Robert Plant with Saving Grace and Suzi Dian announce Up the Sharp End, September 18–October 15, a US tour in celebration of their album 'Saving Grace.' The band, which completed two sold-out US legs last fall and this spring, performs in the Midwest and West, with stops in Saint Louis, Santa Fe, San Francisco, Minneapolis, and Chicago, among others, with special guest Rosie Flores. Up the Sharp End artist presales begin Wednesday, June 10, at 10am local time; general sales begin Friday.

[www.facebook.com]