[GunsAndBibles]

Meh, an over-rated cover band. Never credited the blues greats they ripped off.

[Las Vegas Ron]

BS

[Talisker]

Meh, an over-rated cover band. Never credited the blues greats they ripped off.

Well them's fightin' words...

I love the blues, and I love Zep. I truly do think they were not only the greatest rock band, but musical geniuses. Blues adapt, they always have. And I can't think of a better adaptation of Blues from a smoky honky-tonk into a rock-merged, electric mega-colosseum than what they did.

If SRV had lived, they would have eventually had serious competition, because he was getting more into rock-blues. But his legacy was sealed with Double Trouble at the mostly-straight-blues level. So as far as I'm concerned, Zepplin takes the all-time blues-rock band crown.

Though a double-header with Zepplin and Double Trouble would have shifted the planet into a better orbit and solved tooth decay at the same time, me thinks.

[sauropod]

I agree. Completely overrated.

[Moonman62]

Meh, an over-rated cover band. Never credited the blues greats they ripped off.

Along with Spirit, Steve Marriott, and probably many others.

[dfwgator]

I always thought the early Zep albums, that Plant was basically doing a Janis Joplin imitation.

[allmendream]

They always credited the blues numbers they covered, other than a court of law had to find that Zeppelin’s “the Lemon Song” was basically Howlin’ Wolf’s “Killing Floor Blues” with a little of Robert Johnson’s “squeeze my lemon” added in.

When this subject was brought up to ‘da Wolf’ he said ‘that’s just lawyer stuff’. He had no hard feelings either way.

As to why they covered so many blues tunes, Page and the boys were coming up with riffs much faster than Plant could write lyrics... so he said that he would often just sing some old blues lyrics.

[mitch5501]

Same here.I've always considered them over-rated.Have to admit though that their classics were indeed classics.

As for their musical prowess,I don't think they held a candle to Deep Purple.

[Gene Eric]

>> Meh, an over-rated cover band. Never credited the blues greats they ripped off.

Without question, one of the best R&B bands of the 70s. Don’t agree, check out:

Traveling Riverside Blues
Since I’ve Been Loving You
Ten Years Gone
When the Levee Breaks
The Rain Song
Gallows Pole

Few other bands of that era could hold a candle to LZ up until, and including the Physical Graffiti release. Not much to speak of thereafter.