47, grew up on Zeppelin - every song every album - after learning the depth and bredth of their plagerism I know longer hold them in high regard. Simple as that. Huge Zappa fan - have majority of catalog. Fan of Spirit, Procol Haram.
Originality is not the benchmark for underrated. No, but it is for overrated.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyvLsutfI5M
There are plenty other videos documenting those they ripped off. The beginning of communication breakdown is lifted from Little Richard’s Keep a Knockin’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcJrExewkYA
You just damn them
I might too had I been classic radioed to death my whole life
I came up right as they peaked....I'm 55
Yes they lifted riffs....very few have not
My point was that being original purist doesn't guarantee greatness
I did feel they got stale after HOTH
what you missed is how unique they were for their time....hard rock...bluesy....tolkienish...Cotswalds feeling
I feel lacking with say Supertramp or Styx or Chicago. Like u do Zep
My kids love Zep but they like ACDC better....which to them is same era but to me quite different
I first heard whole lotta love at 12 years old 7th grade....late 1969
No one had ever done anything like it
Yes black blues was one root but they did not create their Rolling Fork sound....um from that area btw.....from thin air and all those Brit white boys sure transformed it way beyond Son....Patton ...Robert ....Broonzy.....Lemon. etc
Its PC today to bash the white boys
Its a matter of perspective
Plenty black bluesmen had electric guitars by the 50s.....only one u can think of who took old blues to true electric heights was Freddy King
The rest just played louder basic blues...and I love Albert King
Stones lifted Richard too
And he and Jerry Lee lifted one another
I like Zappa too as does my 13 year old.....
Very talented
Brillo likely one if few traditional melidies
Wifey finds him Dina mo. Hum vulgar