tspikes51

Okay. Here's the last shot I'm gonna take. Zeppelin was good. I've already said that. They wrote good songs, they were unique, and they had an above average skill level; but then again there are plenty of other bands that possess those same qualities. To say that Led Zeppelin was better than any other rock band ever is simply an overstatement. You said that Page invented recording techniques. Actually, I believe (having been briefly involved with studio recording myself) that almost all recording artists have almost nothing to do with running studio equipment. They did stand out in a time where rock music in general was, in my opinion, lackluster (mid-60s to early-70s).

There is one thing that I would like to point out about that is just plain wrong: How dare you say that nobody has had the diversity of Page (although I agree he is diverse), or even the success of Page at doing different stuff??? Page ONLY played rock, no matter how different his songs sounded. Then you have people like (I hate to say it again, but its true) Clapton have shown a mastery of a number of styles (ska, rock, blues, emo, country, reggae, and gospel to list a few). Garth Brooks (even though you've probably never listened to him) has mastered both rock and country. Beck (not Jeff) has mastered both rap and rock. Smash Mouth mastered ska, grunge, and pop. Pink Floyd was diverse within rock (even though I don't like them much). Ray Charles did pop, rock 'n' roll, and pop. Just because Page played a double neck, and Bonzo has a timpani and gong on his set doesn't mean that they were more diverse than anybody ever. Since you don't seem to listen to any music from the 90s on, you obviously need a lesson on the extremely short history of recording art.

By the way, Johan Sebastian Bach invented metal more than Zep did (listen to any of his fugues if you don't believe me). It just took the invention of compression and the discovery of excess gain to have it catch on, and in fact, you can hear a lot of Bach in Zeppelin's music.

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Let's stop fighting. That's my last shot, you take yours, and let us hear no more about it. I said they were good, I just refuse to say that they were the best anything ever. Let's just stop it.

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