Listen to this - Greta Van Fleet - Led Zeppelin re-incarnated

Lyrics are terrible. Their 'sound' is fine, but .... it's just ... there's nothing magically-extra about them. Like the wildness of early Zep when they were mining the same (pedestrian) progressions. Also wondering when the concept of dynamics will reach them.
 
Of course I am actually more nostalgic for Lester Bangs' righteous contempt for this sort of nonsense

A friend and I were getting stoned and watching the TV eye’s broadcast of the Cincinnati Pop Festival the other night, when a great (i.e., useless) idea struck us. Most of the show was boring, concentrating on groups like Grand Funk (endless plodding version of "Inside Looking Out" with lead singer writhing and barking and making up new lyrics like "Oh little honey I need your love so bad... c’mon, give it to me... oh little mama" etc.) and Mountain (Felix Pappalardi spinning off endless dull solos in a flat distillation of the most overworked elements of Cream’s and Creedence’s sounds, while fat buckskinned Leslie West thumped bass and reacted to Pappalardi’s piddle with broad, joyously-agonized mugging, grimacing and grinning and nodding as if each and every note out of Papa’s guitar was just blowing his mind like no music he’d ever heard before).
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(It seems to me that Leslie West was actually on guitar in Mountain, but Mr Bangs is probably too dead to care at this point.)
 
Yeah I heard them on the radio last week for the first time. They do have some Zep moves down, even the drummer. But they don't have that zest that Zeppelin has. They don't have a bassist and drummer that are clearly influenced by Motown and not just rock and blues. They don't have a guitarist that plagarizes so many eclectic sources as Jimmy Page. And they don't have that rhythmic edge that Zeppelin has. And Zep had all those things on their first album, so youth is no excuse.

They would be amazing at a high school talent show.
 
I don't think of them so much as "Led Zeppelin Reincarnated" so much as having taken the most basic, cliched elements of the LZ oeuvre and driven them right into the ground...

...plus the lyrics suck...
 
We'll see where they are in a year or so, but I love that they are enthusiastically bringing back the rock. Sure, they are wearing their influence a bit too out in front, but that can be forgiven. Lets just see where they take it.
 
frunobulax said:
Well, they certainly do have the whole Zep thing down. Lyrics are OK, they just haven't read Tolkein yet.
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Honest question: Hasn't "the rock" been brought back more than enough? I'm really reluctant to describe myself as averse to any type of format, but it has been a long, long, long time since I heard loud, electric blues-rock that didn't sound terribly stale. In other words, even if we got these guys felt booties, Tolkien books, a hash pipe and a sceptre, I don't think it's going to make it sound any better.

And I love me some Zeppelin, and can even dig Foghat here and there. This just sounded like kids who grew up with one radio station available to them (98.1, Classic Rawk!) and woodshedded their brains out. And while the recordings aren't bad, per se, I don't hear any emotion in much of the playing beyond, shall we say, simple male adolescent arousal.
 
yabba said:
Ugh. I love led zeppelin, but that does nothing for me.. if I want to hear zeppelin, I'll listen to zeppelin. I guess I just don't really have or see a need for "more" zeppelin than already exists.
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I was tired of Zeppelin a long time ago. This comparison does not draw me toward spending time listening to these young musicians. Perhaps unfair, but so it is.
 
frunobulax said:
They look like they are 19 years old, what else is there?
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Honestly, I've heard a lot of young artists discuss things other than arousal.

And I think I could go for the 'discussing arousal' too, if it were ... not so bloody unintelligent.
 
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