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Update 36 hours left to enter - contest closes Sunday at 6PM

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Ramble On Radio has unique 8X10 alternate version of the cover to Neal Preston’s iBook, Sound and Fury, signed by the author, to give away.

Preston’s book is, as I called it on my own review, “a coffee table book on steroids.” If you own an iPad, I would consider this iBook a must have at only $9.99.

To win the above 8X10, send an email to rambleon@briangardiner.ca with the subject header Ramble On Radio Blog Contest (clicking the link provided will install that header). In the body of your email I need your full address, including phone number. This contest is open to residents of North America only.

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You can also enter by listening to Podcast Episode #30, and supplying an email with the appropriate header.

You can enter on Facebook by joining the group Ramble on Radio and entering from there.

You can enter by joining the Ramble On Radio Google+ Community and entering from there.

And, follow Ramble On Radio at @rambleonblog on twitter for a chance to retweet and win.

Contest closes June 7th, and a winner will be chosen live on Ramble On Radio Episode 31.

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Sound and Fury Giveaway

Ramble On Radio has unique 8X10 alternate version of the cover to Neal Preston's iBook, Sound and Fury, signed by the author, to give away.



Preston's book is, as I called it on my own review, "a coffee table book on steroids." If you own an iPad, I would consider this iBook a must have at only $9.99.



To win the above 8X10, send an email to rambleon@briangardiner.ca with the subject header Ramble On Radio Blog Contest (clicking the link provided will install that header). In the body of your email I need your full address, including phone number. This contest is open to residents of North America only.

One entry from the webpage per person.

However, you can also enter by listening to Podcast Episode #30, and supplying an email with the appropriate header.

You can enter on Facebook by joining the group Ramble on Radio and entering from there.

You can enter by joining the Ramble On Radio Google+ Community and entering from there.

And, follow Ramble On Radio at @rambleonblog on twitter for a chance to retweet and win.

Contest closes June 7th, and a winner will be chosen live on Ramble On Radio Episode 31.



Sound and Fury is only available for Pad at the iStore.

Review: Sound and Fury by Neal Preston

Neal Preston's new iPad book, released Monday exclusively as an iTunes download, is a coffee table book on steroids. It is full of pictures with accompanying text by Preston, the only official tour photographer Led Zeppelin ever had. Interspersed are over 80 proof sheets, allowing you to see the shots that surrounded a given picture or that never made the cut.

As for the pictures themselves, while there are “over 100 previously unpublished images," Preston has taken more iconic Led Zeppelin shots than anyone else, possibly than everyone else combined, and he includes most of those as well. Think of a Zeppelin picture you know and love - Jimmy Page in his stormtrooper outfit; Robert, holding his arms outstretched at Knebworth; John Bonham, in bowler and white overalls, waving to the crowd after Moby Dick; Jimmy getting off the helicopter at Knebworth; Robert holding the dove; Bonham, again in bowler and coveralls, giving a peek of his underwear &tc. - and there's a chance Preston took it and it's in his iBook. Pictures and text, put together as a coffee table book, would make a great piece for your living room.

With the use of Apple's digital book creation app, however, the coffee table book becomes an adventure. Preston has added video commentary of himself and others telling stories of the road, plus a number of pictures have Preston’s own audio commentary on a given picture. Add to that the ability to enlarge a picture or scroll through series of pictures at the touch of the screen, and you have an interactive coffee table book that you can take anywhere.

Preston has also used the iPad’s high definition screen to full advantage, scanning the original slides in high quality. Every picture in the iBook jumps off the screen with clarity that’s, at times, breathtaking.  Sound and Fury is a journey through Led Zeppelin’s performance career and latter tours, full of pictures that cover each member of the band, on stage and off.

On the downside, as noted before you must have an iPad to view the book - according to my downloader, it will not work on iPhones - and is a very large file, over 800 mb. If you have an 8-gig iPad, that’s a lot of your storage space. It took over 20 minutes for me to download it, so it’s not something you can grab on the fly like you can with other books, and you really need a wifi connection to download it at all. That said, for $9.99 it is great value for a great book.

Photographer Neal Preston has new Led Zeppelin iBook

Neal Preston, photographer of this picture of Jimmy Page in Chicago 1977 immortalized in the National Portrait Gallery, is releasing a book of Led Zeppelin pictures exclusively in iTunes.

From Big Hassle Media:

Led Zeppelin: Sound And Fury, an innovative illustrated digital book by famed photographer Neal Preston, is available now for pre-order and will be released exclusively on the iBookstore on April 15 for a price of $9.99. The book comes alive with a tap, swipe or pinch and provides an unprecedented and comprehensive look into the world of Led Zeppelin, one of rock's most iconic bands. Through Preston's lens the reader experiences hundreds of photos (over 100 of whichhave never been seen before), 80 contact sheets (all previously unpublished), audio commentary from Preston, video and text interviews with people who worked with the band, and even memorabilia and set lists for concerts whose photos are featured in the book.

Created with Apple's digital book creation app, iBooks Author, this Multi-Touch experience on iPad is unprecedented in its visual style and layout, letting the reader explore never-before-seen shots of Led Zeppelin and join them not only on stage, but also backstage. Led Zeppelin: Sound And Fury contains an intro by Stevie Nicks and has contributions from bands like My Chemical Romance, Heart, Mastodon and many more.

No photographer was granted the access to Led Zeppelin that Neal Preston had. Any photo of the band from the post-1973 era familiar to fans is probably one of Preston's images. Led Zeppelin: Sound And Fury immerses you in the band's inner circle with brilliant on-stage performance photos, backstage candid shots, intimate images from onboard the band's two private planes, as well as snapshots from press conferences, movie premieres, private band parties and more...

Led Zeppelin: Sound And Fury, an innovative illustrated digital book by famed photographer Neal Preston, is available now for pre-order exclusively on the iBookstore for a price of $9.99 before going on sale April 15.:

iBookstore Pre-Order:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/led-zeppelin-sound-fury-by/id624738803?mt=11

Official Teaser Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOkSlVXu0jA

Take a Picture of This

JimmyPage.com, the official website for James Patrick, announced today it os offering 5 photographic prints for sale.

As mentioned on this site two weeks ago, The National Portrait Gallery in London had digitized five photographs of Jimmy Page. The photographs, by five different photographers, were part of a folio.

Now, the guitarists website is making the photographs available as framed fine art prints. The Jimmy Page Fine Art Photographic Print Collection will make the "museum quality" prints available through his website. There will only be 50 of each print available, and each framed print will be numbered and signed by Page himself and the photographer. Cost of each print is £1,000 ($1,600 US). As well, a limited set of 10 deluxe portfolio box-set is available for £7,000 ($11,216 US).

The series contains well known photographs of Page by Jorgen Angel, Dick Barnatt, Neal Preston,Baron Wolman and Ross Halfin.

To order the prints, go to JimmyPage.com and remember, your friendly, but not that rich, blogger of choice thinks the Baron Wolman print would look great in his office.

Jimmy Page Digitized

England's National Portrait Gallery began digitalizing it's collection in 1996, and began making it's portraits available online a year later.

By 2009 the Gallery had digitized 70,000 images. Today, the figure stands at over 100,000 images.

The 100,000th portrait digitized by The National Gallery was a picture of Jimmy Page, taken by acclaimed rock photographer Ross Halfin.

The photograph was taken in 2009 and was donated to the gallery by Dave Brolen. Both Page and Halfin have signed the limited edition print, and it is part of a collection of five photographs of Page signed by photographer and artist. The other pictures in the portfolio are by Jorgen Angel in Copenhagen in 1970, Dick Barnatt at Earls Court Arena in 1975, Neal Preston at Chicago Stadium in 1977, Baron Wolman at Oakland Coliseum in 1977.

Page appears in six pictures in total at the portrait gallery, including one of him with the Yardbirds in 1966.  The gallery also has single  Robert Plant picture, as well as a Sandy Denny portrait.