Wow, who are these GVF impersonators?
Love the holier than thou vibe that comes from some folks who scoff at such a "ripoff" of a timeless, legendary band while simultaneously bashing "today's music" for being "fake".
Ten Years Gone is one of my all time favorite songs. Even after listening to that peaceful but lonesome acoustic-electric riff for the millionth time I get goosebumps.
I don't even know what you're going on about here.
When I said I prefer to listen to the real deal, I'm not talking ripoffs.
The real deal to me are bands like Zeppelin, the Beatles, Pink Floyd, the Who, etc. I've listened to tons of bands so I don't need lectures on being open to find other bands. I've had "indy fans" tell me I'm a horrible judge of music, even though I play the guitar. So, that's what I mean by "listening to the real deal."
Nothing to do with greta van fleet (whatever its called). If they want to sound like Zeppelin then they have every right to do so, countless other bands have done the same. I did listen to one of their songs. At first I thought I was listening to the 6 minute mark of Dazed and Confused on the song remains the same soundtrack, not bashing just stating what I heard. Personally, I don't have an opinion on the band.
I haven't heard anything that since grunge that I like. From my point of view every form of art has become homogenized and corporatized (i know, not a word) over the past 20 yrs. Everything has become ugly. No beauty is allowed... but thats a wider discussion.
Right now, I'm listening to Celtic traditional music played with a harp... things like that I about the extent of my musical taste these days,
Ten Years Gone is my favorite zeppelin song. The guitar solo is so emotional.. my favorite guitar solo by anyone.
People go on about Zeppelin ripping off people. But any other band that wrote epics like Stairway, Kashmir, Ten Years Gone and Achilles Last Stand in the span of 5 years would be considered songwriting geniuses. Those 4 songs alone would make any other band legendary, not to mention the other 75 or so other songs in Zeppelin's catalog.
And I've learned it takes more than writing something, you have to be able to play the song and engineer to make it great.
Zeppelin could have turned "I'm a little tea pot" into a classic.
