Check out the current edition of Rolling Stone magazine, with Jones, Page & Plant on the cover. (Where’s Jason Bonham?). Inside, there is an excellent story on the rehearsals at the secret location in greater London, as well as talk of a tour.
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/17448308/the_return_of_led_zeppelin
Own the guitar that made “Stairway to Heaven” a hit.
A rare “aged” reproduction of Jimmy Page’s signature EDS-1275 Double Neck Guitar is being sold for charity on eBay.
Kompolt Online Auction Agency wants to give all Jimmy Page and Led Zeppelin fans the opportunity to bid on this unique guitar and support the MusiCares Foundation.
Are you ready to own a Gibson EDS-1275? Bid on #11 of the just twenty-six Limited Edition Gibson guitars replicated after the one Page played during the 1971 Led Zeppelin IV tour! Jimmy personally played and then signed each of the twenty-six, keeping #1 for himself. This particular replica—identical to the original inside and out—has been carefully stored ever since; the only fingerprints currently on the guitar are from Jimmy Page himself.
Page said in a recent interview that he owns in excess of 1500 guitars and has no intention of parting with any of his own Zeppelin memorabilia; whether or not you attend the band’s upcoming reunion concert in London, this official replica may be as close as you’ll come to one of Jimmy’s actual guitars.
The Jimmy Page Guitar Charity Auction runs November 26 to December 6, 2007 with 10% of the winning proceeds benefiting the MusiCares Foundation. Don’t miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: Visit www.ebay.com/jimmypageguitar for more information or to place a bid.
Please feel free to spread the word by posting this information and link on your website. If you have any questions, please contact Jade Catalano at jade@kompolt.com. Thank you from Kompolt Online Auction Agency.
Ever onward!
Go to Guitar Center’s website at http://gc.guitarcenter.com/contests/zeppelin-collection/ to win the ultimate Led Zeppelin Rock & Roll Collection.
Prize Package is a Jimmy Page Autographed Gibson Les Paul, a John Paul Jones Autographed Gibson Mandolin, a Limited Editon Shephard Fairey “Mothership” Fine Art Piece, Led Zeppelin Vinyl Collection & Led Zeppelin Skate Decks. Approximate retail value: $12,078.99.
You can pre-order the Official Souvenir Book now for only £20.00 at http://www.themerchandisingshop.co.uk/shop/shop/product_list.php?shopid=186&catid=481.
The website describes it as “A beautifully crafted hard back, perfect bound book”
It includes a DVD from the Ahmet Tribute Concert in New York City last year>
The souvenir book will also be available for purchase at the O2 Arena on concert day.
http://www.themerchandisingshop.co.uk/shop/shop/product_list.php?shopid=186&catid=481
GRAB your double-neck guitar, crank up your amp to 11, strut your stuff in your embroidered satin suit and bash out some of the finest riffs ever written.
Yes, rock gods Led Zeppelin, the masters of Seventies excess, are staging their delayed reunion gig at London’s 02 Arena a week on Monday.
Witnessing their first concert for 19 years should be amazing enough.
But fans are lining up to learn the band’s musical secrets and live like their heroes during a Zep school training weekend at a country hotel in the three days before the show.
Organisers are considering a range of wild activities including an elementary course in flinging TVs out of upper-storey windows a staple of rock bad-boy behaviour.
They won’t even discuss some of their plans so as not to spoil the surprise.
But I can tell you that the £750-a-head event in Oxfordshire features a themed gourmet menu, including Red Snapper after an outrageous story involving a Zeppelin groupie in Seattle.
It is followed by Jack Daniel’s ice cream, surely guitarist Jimmy Page’s favourite flavour.
Each day up to 20 guests will learn to play from veteran rockers like Mike Hurst once in a band with Page and Clem Cattini, twice considered for tragic drummer John Bonham’s job thanks to his session work with Led Zep bassist John Paul Jones. Bonham suffocated on his vomit after a heavy day’s boozing in 1980.
On Saturday night would-be rockers get the chance to show off their skills on stage, alongside a top-flight Led Zeppelin tribute band.
Special guest is the blues singer Maggie Bell, due to share the bill with Plant, Page and Co in London.
Mike, a producer who discovered T Rex star Marc Bolan and singer Cat Stevens, said: Led Zeppelin are iconic they are one of those bands who represent an era.
They are pulling together for their first concert in nearly 20 years so what with the connections between us as musicians it seemed a perfect time to hold this event. We arranged for the tribute band Boot-Led Zeppelin to play on the Saturday night. Then at least people will get the full experience, because I don’t pretend to be able to sing like Robert Plant.
They come with lights, costumes and everything, so it’s going to look good. The gig will be as authentic as we can get it. It’s gonna be fairly deafening.
People get an awful lot of nostalgia for this sort of rock as opposed to the anodyne stuff there is around now. The weekend should be a tremendous experience. Also on the team are guitar tutor Ray Fenwick, ex-Spencer Davies Group and Ian Gillan Band, plus bassist Colin Farley who made his name in Eighties’ band Cutting Crew and was briefly a member of punk outfit The Damned.
A spokesman for organisers RockMasters added: Whether you’re a budding Bonham or an enthusiastic novice, this event can only help your playing.
Our supergroup will take over the whole lavish hotel to ensure that no ‘civilians’ get in the way of the rock ’n’ roll antics. And all equipment and instruments are provided.
Needless to say there is a well-stocked bar, the drinking and story-swapping go on late and the music doesn’t stop.
Guests can of course bring their partners or indeed groupies to join the fun.
RockMasters can’t promise to let you ride a Harley-Davidson down the corridors, like Zeppelin are said to have done. But they can arrange motorbike transfers from London or Oxford.
Just one problem, though the hotel doesn’t have a swimming pool. So you’ll have to find somewhere else to park your Cadillac.
RockMasters’ Zep weekend runs from December 7 to 9 at the Fallowfields Hotel in Kingston Bagpuize, Oxfordshire. See rockmasters.net.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/travel/article520421.ece
John Paul Jones makes an appearance in the new video for Uncle Earl’s song “Streak O’ Lean, Streak O’ Fat”.
Check it out at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCFJ3LURCtc
Led Zeppelin’s UK fans without tickets to the band’s upcoming reunion gig will be able to stay home and watch the group’s July 27, 1973 concert from Madison Square Garden in New York City.
The gig will be shown on December 10 at 23:50 on Channel 4.
Led Zeppelin have launched a TV ad campaign to promote new double album Mothership in the runup to their reunion concert next month.
The campaign - which uses red-and-black animation modelled on the cover art by “street art” illustrator Shepard Fairey - trails the legendary rock band’s reunion more than 25 years after they broke up.
The 60-second ad, created by Fold7TV - the TV arm of design agency Fold7 - features a medley of snippets from classic Led Zeppelin songs such as Kashmir, Black Dog, Whole Lotta Love and Immigrant Song.
It also features rotoscoped footage - where animators trace over live-action film - of the band performing.
The UK TV campaign, commissioned by Warner Music UK, will run on terrestrial and satellite TV as well as cinemas nationwide until Christmas.
“The task was to create an ad that reflects the enormity of the band and the massive impact that they have had on people’s lives over the last 40 years,” said the Fold7TV marketing director, Sam Balderstone.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/nov/21/advertising.musicnews?gusrc=rss&feed=media
Hiya guys thought you might be interested, keep on rockin.
Livewire Youth Music Project (UK Registered Charity 300632) is offering you the opportunity to own a DVD personally signed by Jimmy Page guitar legend and Led Zeppelin member, by personally sign we mean that Jimmy will sign it to whoever wins it, if your names Fred then that’s who Jimmy will sign it to.
All proceeds from this auction will go to support the work of Livewire a charity helping young people achieve through music, based in Saltash, Cornwall UK.
This is a legitimate opportunity for you to celebrate Led Zeppelins reunion and get your hands on some serious Jimmy Page memorabilia.
The auction will work like this:
People will email Livewire info@livewireyouth.com with Auction in the header/title, giving their bid, name, address and contact number, we will then publish here the first name and town and the amount of the winning bidder at the end of each day, the person with the highest bid at midnight on the 23rd December 07 will be the winner, if payment is not received in full by the 5th of January we will offer it the next highest bidder.
The auction website is http://www.livewireyouth.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/livewirejimmypage.html
We would also like to thank Led Zeppelin for making it possible for me and two young people from Livewire to go to the Led Zeppelin Reunion Gig at 02 London on the 10th December 07, tickets have been selling for thousands of pounds so this will be a great honour for us.
All the best
Andy