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vince

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Are Zep That Good? Maybe Sabbath...

Dec 13, 2007, 00:35

Personally Zep were always light years ahead of Sabbath. Zep could get down & dirty, twee & fiddly, deep & heavy....all on one side of an album. Sabbath were more of a lumbering beast & something of a one-trick pony, though I have come to appreciate them more in later years. But it's often forgotten that LZ had possibly the greatest rhythm section in the history of rock'n'roll. Sure Bonham deserves all his individual plaudits but Jones is - and remains the perfect foil (heard any of the bass on the album he did with Diamanda Galas? Simply stunning. Rocks like a bastard...)

With LZ it was as much about what they left out as it was about being a rock beast. And simply the greatest purveyors of the art of dynamic. Imagine how easy it must've been for Plant & Page with those two behind 'em.

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