You Know You've Made the Big Time...

when the Onion is satirizing you...

Citing “troubling” statistics revealing that the vast majority of Americans are not receiving all rock all the time, U.S. Disc Jockey General Rich “The Wolf” Haskel urged citizens nationwide Tuesday to get the Led out...

According to the latest Oz 106 listener survey, a shocking nine out of every 10 U.S. citizens are not receiving their daily dose of Zeppelin

Read the whole thing at The Onion

Black Dog in Dubstep

Well, this doesn't make me want to see White House Down:

New Robert Plant Video Upload

Robert Plant's official YouTube page in recent weeks uploaded Sensational Space Shifter performances of Spoonful and Black Dog. Today's addition is Tin Pan Valley.

Led Zeppelin on Live Downloads

Live Downloads, a website which last year began releasing Robert Plant's live shows, now has the Led Zeppelin catalogue available for download. The entire catalogue is available album by album or singly by songs.

Albums are available in MP3, lossless FLAC or Apples ALAC for $9.99 for MP3 or $14.99 for FLAC or ALAC. individual songs, with some exceptions, can be purchased n MP3 only for $1.29.

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.

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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.

Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters

Robert Plant's official YouTube page has released a couple of videos from Robert Plant's South American/Australian tour this past winter.

Here's Spoonful



And Black Dog

Peace in Ireland, Sure, but Reuniting Led Zeppelin...

Back on Dec 24th I recorded Episode 26 of the Ramble on Radio Podcast. In that podcast, I alluded to, what I considered to be, the possibility that Led Zeppelin could have reunited for the Hurricane Sandy Relief concert:

... If there's ever going to be a reunion, it's going to be in the next little while. I say that not because I think it will happen, but because the guys actually look like their enjoying each others company when they're together these days. Robert looks like he's enjoying their company very much... They're in a good place, personally it seems, with each other. So if it's ever going to happen, it's going to happen in the next little while... I actually thought it could have happened on Letterman. It also could have happened at the big concert they did for the Hurricane Sandy relief, because ... the band could have hidden inside that lineup. They could have done that fairly comfortably...

Turns out, I wasn't the only one with the thought. The organizers of the Dec 12 benefit concert for victims of Hurricane Sandy at Madison Square Garden thought it as well:

Harvey Weinstein had this great idea that we could enlist Bill Clinton to convince Led Zeppelin to reunite... The president was terrific - 'I really wanna do this, this will be a fantastic thing. I love Led Zeppelin.' And Bill Clinton himself asked Led Zeppelin to reunite...

Clinton, the president who helped broker peace in Northern Ireland, approached the band when they were DC for the Kennedy Centre Honors in early December. Turns out peace in Ireland was the easy one.

As I noted at the time, the band seemed to enjoy spending time with each other and on the set of David Letterman the Monday after the Kennedy Center Honors. One wonders if Clinton had waited until after Letterman if they would have given the idea more consideration.