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Drumstick maybe, but drumstick with taste.
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And not Guns and Roses?
Yup, I also knew about Guns And Roses a looooong time before I knew about Led Zep. Hell I knew about AC/DC before Led Zep. I have listened to their CD though Blank and as I said in one of my posts I just get bored with their songs.
*Guffaw*
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Haha, the topic title made me laugh. Have you even listened to the Remasters CD? I've asked you a few times and you've said no to all of them.
But anyway. Guns and Roses had a few good songs. A bit catchy. Led Zeppelin wrote Stairway To Heaven, the song that is most requested on radio and sells more sheet music per year even today than any other song. They wrote Whole Lotta Love, the excellent theme used for Top of The Pops for decades. They wrote Immigrant Song, arguably starting off heavy metal. They wrote brilliant acoustic tracks. They wrote mind boggling and amp destroying electric tracks. They wrote blues, they wrote country, they wrote folk, they wrote pop, they even wrote some reggae and Latin American. And they did it all extremely well.
They had eight stupendous studio albums, each far different from the last, always trying out new techniques and pushing boundaries. And let's not forget the live Zeppelin experience. Could Guns and Roses really match up to the improvisational genius - and I'm not one to use the word lightly - of Page, Plant, Jones and Bonham? Are they capable of maintaining the audience's interest for 40+ minutes for one song?
But anyway. Guns and Roses had a few good songs. A bit catchy. Led Zeppelin wrote Stairway To Heaven, the song that is most requested on radio and sells more sheet music per year even today than any other song. They wrote Whole Lotta Love, the excellent theme used for Top of The Pops for decades. They wrote Immigrant Song, arguably starting off heavy metal. They wrote brilliant acoustic tracks. They wrote mind boggling and amp destroying electric tracks. They wrote blues, they wrote country, they wrote folk, they wrote pop, they even wrote some reggae and Latin American. And they did it all extremely well.
They had eight stupendous studio albums, each far different from the last, always trying out new techniques and pushing boundaries. And let's not forget the live Zeppelin experience. Could Guns and Roses really match up to the improvisational genius - and I'm not one to use the word lightly - of Page, Plant, Jones and Bonham? Are they capable of maintaining the audience's interest for 40+ minutes for one song?
Bold statement, would have been much more interesting if you had tried to support it with your opinions.
Guns and Roses have done some good tracks, Slash is a great guitarist, Axel can sing well. But they play mediumish rock and nothing else, they weren't artists to the extreme, they just made music that sounded in the style that they had attached themselves to.
Led Zeppelin explored music in whatever they felt like doing. From the haunting No Quarter to the majestic Stairway, the utter rocking Heartbreaker or the deep blues of Dazed and Confused, everything they did they did so bloody well that it's hard to really say completely what style of band they really were.
Guns and Roses, yes, they're a good band, but they really cannot be classed in the same way as Zep. Not only were Zep one of the utter founders of rock music, developing the sound in the way that they say fit, they also made really bloody good music, and in that way they can't be compared.
Out of the 80's rock clones I'd say G&R were one of the best, but they're nothing but a whimper compared to the power and energy of Zeppelin.
Guns and Roses have done some good tracks, Slash is a great guitarist, Axel can sing well. But they play mediumish rock and nothing else, they weren't artists to the extreme, they just made music that sounded in the style that they had attached themselves to.
Led Zeppelin explored music in whatever they felt like doing. From the haunting No Quarter to the majestic Stairway, the utter rocking Heartbreaker or the deep blues of Dazed and Confused, everything they did they did so bloody well that it's hard to really say completely what style of band they really were.
Guns and Roses, yes, they're a good band, but they really cannot be classed in the same way as Zep. Not only were Zep one of the utter founders of rock music, developing the sound in the way that they say fit, they also made really bloody good music, and in that way they can't be compared.
Out of the 80's rock clones I'd say G&R were one of the best, but they're nothing but a whimper compared to the power and energy of Zeppelin.
You might like Guns 'N' Roses more, but Zeppelin are far better.
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