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.

Contest Closed

The quiz for the Stephen Davis book LZ-'75 is now closed. Any email received by noon with correct answers will be added to the list. The winner will be notified and announced in the next few hours, and correct answers to the questions posted.

Thanks to all who sent in an email. The winner will receive their book in the mail.

Book Giveaway

I have one copy of LZ-'75 by Stephen Davis to give away.

I have created a short Zep-quiz that isn't too difficult, yet not so easy my wife could answer the questions. The quiz will stay active for 24 hours, until noon Thursday. Email your answers to rambleon@briangardiner.ca. All correct quizzes will be put on a numbered list, then chosen by random number  generator.

Here's the quiz:

1. Name the plane Led Zeppelin used for their 1977 tour.

2. Where did Led Zeppelin get the Swan Song logo from?

3. Jimmy Page and Robert Plant retired to a cottage in Whales to write the third album, Led Zeppelin III. What was the name  of the cottage (proper spelling) and how was it misspelled on the album?

4. Complete the lyric:

So I looked round to ___ __ _ ______.
Searching hard trying to brighten the day.

5. Who (according to himself) wrote Joe Perry and Stephen Tyler's speech when they inducted Led Zeppelin into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?

That's it. Answer as many as you can and send them in. If I don't get any with five correct answers, I'll go to 4, then to 3, so send them in regardless of whether you know al the answers.

Winner will be notified sometime Thursday. They must be prepared to send me their mailing address.




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About LZ-'75

A revealing account of Led Zepplin's 1975 North American tour including all- new interviews with-and insider information about-the band, from the bestselling author of Hammer of the Gods.

As a young music journalist in 1975, Stephen Davis got the opportunity of a lifetime: an invitation to cover the sold-out 1975 North American tour of Led Zeppelin, the biggest and most secretive rock band in the world, for a national magazine. He received a backstage pass, was granted interviews with band members, and even got a prized seat on the band's luxurious tour jet, The Starship. While on duty, he chronicled the Zeppelin tour in three notebooks, but after writing his article in 1975 he misplaced them. After three decades of searching, in 2005 he finally found the notebooks, on the covers of which he had scribbled the words "LZ-'75," and unearthed an amazing amount of new information from the tour including:

• Lost interviews with canny vocalist Robert Plant and the brilliant guitarist Jimmy Page

• Information on the rock icon who moonlighted as a heroin dealer

• Revelations about the identity of the lover about whom Robert Plant sings in "What Is and What Should Never Be" and "Black Country Woman"

• A detailed chronicle of each performance from a musical perspective, and a vivid account of the band members' extravagant, and often troubled, lives on tour

Tied together by Davis's entertaining narrative, and including more than forty never-before-published photographs, LZ-'75 is an unprecedented and comprehensive personal portrait of the greatest (and most notoriously press-shy) rock band in history at its apex.

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Note: comments are closed, lest somebody decide to answer the questions.

contest runs from 12:00 noon EST Wednesday November 10 to 12:00 noon EST Thursday November 11.
All decisions of the operator of this blog are final