The Black Dog That Helped Inspire Led Zeppelin’s “Black Dog”

Today in 1971, the release of the fourth Led Zeppelin album. The opening track, "Black Dog," still gets played and shared today, and it got its name from a very unusual visitor to the studio.

By |2024-12-04T10:32:52-05:00November 8, 2024|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , |

A 10 Month Old Kitten Once Climbed The Matterhorn… Somehow

Today in 1950, the Coshocton, Ohio Tribune carried a news story with one heck of a headline: “Kitten Scales Matterhorn: Veteran Mountain Climbers Are Astonished”! Here's how the cat, later nicknamed Matt, got there.

By |2024-12-04T10:36:02-05:00September 7, 2022|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , , , |

Another 25 Days of Holiday Songs: “Mystic Snowman” by Lez Zeppelin

The acclaimed all-woman Zep tribute band puts Frosty the Snowman in place of the May Queen and the lady who's sure all that glitters is gold.

By |2021-12-04T07:22:42-05:00December 9, 2021|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , |
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