It’s the rumor that just wouldn’t die, and ultimately turned out to be about 85% true. Remember weeks ago when I first reported the rumor of Led Zeppelin and Metallica headlining the Bonnaroo Festival in Tennessee. Within 24 hours of our breaking the story festival organizers held a press conference stating, “The rumor that the extremely popular, funny, insightful, and let me add on a personal note, life-changing radio program the Cort and Fatboy show (podcasts available at cortandfatboy.com) reported last night is not entirely true. I prostrate myself to their superior knowledge on all things and I beg their forgiveness for defying them, and certainly I will die as I deserve to, but I cannot confirm their report that Metallica and Led Zeppelin will be sharing a stage. God save my soul. Thank you.” 

We were merciful and spared his life and he repaid us by announcing that part of the rumor was true and that Robert Plant would headline with Alison Krause. And we left it at that chalking the mistake up to an over-zealous rumor mill that took a solo Robert Plant and turned him into Led Zeppelin and threw Metallica in as well, just for the hell of it.

So what do I wake up to today? The news that Metallica IS playing Bonnaroo, along with Pearl Jam, Kanye West, The Raconteurs, Death Cab for Cutie, Ben Folds, Broken Social Scene, Against Me, Mastodon, Aimee Mann, and about three dozen more bands from June 12-15th.

But that’s not all. Not only is there Plant and Metallica on the Bonnaroo stage, but also the Led Zeppelin… all lesbian tribute band called Lez Zeppelin. I’m going to go ahead and call our initial rumor report 100% accurate… with a margin of error of plus or minus 30%.

Never before have I wanted to live closer to Tennessee.

Conspiracy theorist… you know who you are because you’re wearing a tinfoil hat to block the mind control devices and clawing through the concrete in your basement floor right now because you’re convinced the Secret Service is surveilling your cereal consumption… I only have one thing to say to you: Knock it off. It’s moved past amusingly eccentric and is quickly approaching irritatingly counter-productive. The fact that people are paying any credence to this whole “the government blew up the towers” theory is beyond grating. But that hasn’t kept Willie Nelson from proliferating the idea, most recently on a nationally syndicated talk show. On the Alex Jones Show Willie said,  "I saw those towers fall and I've seen an implosion in Las Vegas - there's too much similarities between the two, and I saw a building fall that didn't get hit by nothing," he said, referring to WTC Building 7, which collapsed in the late afternoon of September 11.

Willie joins the likes of Charlie Sheen, Ed Asner, Rosie O'Donnell, Martin Sheen, James Brolin, David Lynch, actor Mark Ruffalo and many others who share this view.