How were they so insanely good?

>>127121392 (OP)
the yardbirds & a fuck ton of practice, higher evropean culture from the 20-50s to inspire their lyrics & good genetics.

The only thing that could have made them better maybe was if Robert Plant learned guitar to be a rhythm guitar to Page's lead. Literally a 10/10 band for their time.

>Led Zeppelin III had been mixed by Jimmy on the road, mostly at Ardent
Studio in Memphis. It was released on October 5, with the Brown Bomber still
high on the American charts. The cover was originally supposed to resemble an
annual crop rotation calendar, reflecting the album's rustic context. Instead, as a
result of a compromise, it evolved as a die-cut psychedelic wheel that revealed
different faces of the band as it was spun. The huge advance order in the wake
of the Brown Bomber guaranteed the new album a quick rise to the top of the
charts, but it didn't stay there long. The fans didn't like it as much as the classic
Led Zeppelin . But the press reviews were really shocking to the musicians. The
critics loathed the album, harshly putting down the rock songs as more empty
bombast, the blues tunes as unprincipled thievery from real bluesmen, and the
acoustic songs as lame pandering to the CS&N sound. The press actively
loathed the band and resented its success. Not only was the band insulted, its
audience was attacked. First Rolling Stone printed the canard that Zeppelin's
fans consisted mainly of "heavy dope fiends." Other papers picked up on this.
The Los Angeles Times sneered that Led Zeppelin's "success may be
attributable at least in part to the accelerating popularity among the teenage rock
and roll audience of barbiturates and amphetamines, drugs that render their
users most responsive to crushing volume and ferocious histrionics of the sort
that Zeppelin has dealt exclusively." In other words. Led Zeppelin appealed to
Seconal gobblers and the Boone's Farmers, to field hippies and speed freaks.
Led Zeppelin was declasse, low-rent, sleazy cock-rock with no redeeming
social virtues.

>>127121392 (OP)
inb4 the ginger baker fan boy who seethes about bonham not having swing

>>127121705
WTF I love Led Zeppein now!

>>127121392 (OP)
>literal slop merchants
they were the beginning of the end for modern music

>>127121705
Most cock rock band that will ever live
Beta music critics hate them
Shocker

Im amazed any of you lend any credence at all to critics

>>127122180
its copy pasta bro

>>127121392 (OP)
none of them overplayed. john paul johns was an absurdly talented instrumentalist and page was a compositional visionary. they were both great at playing ahead of behind the beat even when bonham had some funky swing. plant didn't bring much to the band but he fit them perfectly. i guess their big secret was not being formulaic and they all had eclectic music tastes

>>127122664
meant to say john paul jones but i guess you already knew that

>>127121392 (OP)
John Bonham gets overglazed, JPJ is the one that deserves it

>>127122664
Plant was like the Mystic Lyricist fag
He was a hardcore reader especially of mythology and Tolkien. So yeah he had that Chud Faustian Spirit to him & a pretty good voice.

He wasnt an instrumentalist thats for sure. But even still Voice is arguably the most difficult "instrument". Here on /mu/ there is guitar fags, bass fags, even a few drummers but vocalists? I haven't seen a single one.

>>127122723
yeah i didn't really appreciate plant until i watched the live version of dazed and confused before he joined. it's fucking awful

Bonham had technique, but he couldn't swing a sack of shit

>>127121705
yeah Led Zeppelin are fucking awesome aren't they.
didn't read btw

>>127121392 (OP)
- all talented
- all perfectionists
- all shared the same vision of what they wanted the music to be

>>127121463
>Literally a 10/10 band for their time.
Which translates to a 12/10 in current day.

>>127121705
In Through the Out Door was supposed to have been released prior to the Knebworth shows, but the usual delays prevented this, as well as the three-song EP Jimmy had wanted to do. Instead, In Through the Out Door came out in the late summer and promptly saved the American record industry from pandemic bankruptcy. The previous year, impressed by the enormous media attention lavished on the New Wave bands, the record companies had gone out and signed young musicians who barely knew how to play their instruments. Only a few of these bands—the Sex Pistols and the Clash, for example—had enough
rebellious attitude and animal magnetism to overcome the fact they couldn't really play. In America nobody bought these records. The suburban kids, who had once purchased millions of rock records and pumped up the music business into a multibillion-dollar industry, hated the punks and detested New Wave. What they wanted was Led Zeppelin and its clones—Black Sabbath, Heart, Cheap Trick, and Foreigner (which was actually more a clone of the ever popular Bad Company). In the high schools, the New Wave fashions and the punk ideology were for losers and nerds. In the high schools of the late 1970s, Led Zeppelin and the Pittsburgh Steelers, in the words of writer David Owen, "drifted together in a vague continuum of big money, fast cars, and prestige." At a time when American record stores were empty of customers. In Through the Out Door brought so. many kids into the shops that the badly slumped industry: got a huge boost overnight as the Zeppelin customers began buying other hard rock bands as well. Trade publications like Billboard ran articles implying that Led Zeppelin had rescued the entire pop music business from an early oblivion.

>>127121392 (OP)
They stole half their songs, that's how

>>127125766
silly bandwagon take

>>127125766
classic meme

>>127125615
based beyond belief. Zeppelin are the GOAT rock band

>>127125766
classic meme

*invents punk in 1969*

https://youtu.be/2atkj_KWLl0?si=rgZO7xDQJQgIjCNg

>>127122664
Plant is one of the few humans with enough swagger to stand in front of prime Bonham, Jone and Page grooving and not look like an out of place dweeb

Physical Graffiti is the greatest double album in existence

>>127122664
>>127122723
plant is quite underrated as an harmonica player. and it seems he was the only one who could actually write lyrics.

>>127126614
solid choice. for me, it's Tusk

>>127121392 (OP)
How are you so insanely gay?

>>127125766
Bucn of fags calling this a meme as if there hasn't been irrefutable proof floating around for half a century. Someone else in this thread even mentioned Dazed & Confused, a song they stole completely and outright. They had a bad habit of playing with bands and stealing their material.