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Dog 3000
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Edited Dec 06, 2007, 22:00
Re: Is Zeppelin Really That Good? Maybe Sabbath...
Dec 06, 2007, 21:48
It's 1973 and you want to conquer the world with your blues-based extremely loud rocknroll . . . what group would you emulate?

I'm NOT saying AC/DC were "copying" Zep, but in terms of what they set out to be (global hard rock superstars) Zep was obviously the prototype (this includes the "classic heavy rock sound" of their records: AC/DC is sonicly much more comparable to Zep than Chuck Berry!)

The same way the Stones were largely defined in relation to the Beatles (they did the write-your-own-songs artiste thing after Lennon-McCartney got acclaim for it, while simultaneously portraying themselves as a self-consciously "evil" alternative to the mop tops -- the better to scare parents and attract angsty adolescents. Stones pretty much perfected "rocknroll bad boyism", a sure-fire moneymaker to this day.)

Which is a totally different argument than "the Stones COPIED the Beatles" -- but the one couldn't have been what they were except in relation to those that came before -- get my drift?

Zep was a sea change, and AC/DC was part of the wave after.
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