Led Zeppelin is the greatest band ever to walk the earth.

[name not needed]

Discuss.

[jpgray]

1. Give it a few years

:)

[Bok_Tukalo]

2. Overrated in the extreme

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[Placebo]

3. I disagree.

Overrated crapola.

[HEyHEY]

4. you're totally ignoring skid row

[lenidog]

7. There is a reason for that

;-)

[name not needed]

9. I had completely forgotten they even existed.

But not anymore, thank you very much.

:)

[Pepperbelly]

5. They are certainly among the very, very best.

I listened some to How the West Was Won today. Since I've Been Loving You. If you have not heard that version of the song, you really owe it to yourself to check it out. Jimmy Page was fresh from the Robert Johnson crossroads and I have never heard anyone play guitar anywhere anyhow like he did on that performance. It was as though he took the very good solo that they had recorded and proceeded to filligree it, playing 5 or 6 notes everywhere that he played one note on the album.

Fucking dynamite.

No fluke either. On Heartbreaker, I suppose during the same show or at least the same tour, he took the overdrived off his guitar and played it sans distortion, kinda like Stevie Ray Vaughn would do later on with his strat, and Page did guitar work that I could not even wrap my mind around what he was doing.

And that's not even getting into Bonzo, Jones, or Plant.

Fucking amazing musicians.

:headbang:

[lenidog]

6. Fantastic band

in the top five. But for sheer influence on both music and popular culture the "Beatles" are still the undisputed rulers.

[MissMillie]

8. Not in my mind

To be sure, I don't know that I can say which band is the greatest, but I can think of many that I like more than LZ.

Crowded House
Yes
Talking Heads
Beatles


and I really like everything the Moody Blues did before 1985.

[cser]

10. I do like the Unledded DVD

as well as the other concert footage DVD.

Prince said about LZ, "Every song was a different color."

To me it was a true band. Each member created enough tension that you were amazed it stayed together even through one song. I think the key to the band was that John Paul Jones and Jimmy Page were very experienced session men, so they knew there way around a studio as well as round a rock song.

[Pepperbelly]

11. Have you listened to ...

How the West Was Won?

Amazing album IMO.

[cser]

12. I'm Bad

Since the internets, I don't buy CDs. I think I've heard most of that through bootlegs though. The DVD is amazing though. I can't believe how skinny Jimmie is during the '79 segment. I guess H really is an appetite suppressant.

[Pepperbelly]

13. kept the wolves away ... he's getting pudgy these days ... like me.

I guess he's just smoking pot now. Can still play almost like that. I truly believe that he was fresh from the X-roads when they recorded How the West Was Won.

[tuvor]

14. I'll bet there's someone you haven't heard who you'd think is better.

In which case I've shot your theory all to hell.

Sorry! :evilgrin:

[Pepperbelly]

15. they had the total package, despite the purile pulings of their critics.

The songs were great, their musical abilities as individuals and together were boundless, and they knew how to rock.

[FredScuttle]

16. It begins and ends with

the Fab Four.


Plus, if Led Zeppelin ever dreamed they were a better live act than the Who, they better have woke up and apologized.

[Hailtothechimp]

17. Zeppelin rules. Nobody else comes close. n/t