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"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)."
but jimmy page did. he took care of the majority of the mastering and recording.
the immense drum tone on When The Levee Breaks? Jimmy's idea
the wailing echo of You Shook Me, Jimbo's idea.
Pretty much the entire "Presence Album" - page.
"Page ONLY played rock"
then you clearly havent heard enough zeppelin.
You Shook me, the rain song, bron yr aur, dancing days, no quarter, gallow's pole, kashmir, (playing the Gizmotron) on in the evening, white summer, the wah wah song, d'yer mak'er. These are all entirely different styles.
He did not come from blues roots, in fact, NONE of the band came from blues roots, like Clapton. Plant was mostly an R&B guy, Page a folk guy, JPJ a jazz-pop guy and Bonzo, well, no one knows where he came from.
and then you go on to say that Beck (who rocks) and Smash Mouth "mastered" some styles?
Then in that case; Dredg, Pearl Jam, Talib Kwali, Sage Francis, Mos Allison, The Haunted, Primus,Queens of the Stone Age, Fantomas, Les Savy Fav and a littany of other artists are all equally as credible. Don't put a skinny kid with a guitar and some turntables, and a bunch of post-grunge sellouts in that category.
"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."
omg. please, go away. your ignorance is stiffling.
"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."
i dunno. i'd hand that credit over to Wagner. Bach was pretty heavy, but Wagner kicks you in the nuts.
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