Led Zepplin VS Guns N' Roses

[Padmasana]

The best things that can be said about Led Zeppelin are that they were dated 70s cock rock and the best damn rip-off merchants that ever strode the globe.

[don_vercetti]

Lol sorry meant jones.  One of the great multiinstrumentalists.

[doooodickiebr]

cant say cause zep paved the way for future acts like gnr!!

[loretian]

I agree with lynn1961    

I second that...

Third!

Zeppelin is great, I love them, but Gn'R is the best band, ever.  End of story.   

I mean, they are, unless you wanna start getting objective and reasonable about it.  Then the question is kind of silly in the first place.

[freedom78]

Zeppelin is so prolific, it's hard to argue with.  I personally like GNR more and listen to them more, but Zeppelin pretty much tops all.  They managed to do something very difficult, which is to be popular while also being extremely innovative and talented.

The best things that can be said about Led Zeppelin are that they were dated 70s cock rock and the best damn rip-off merchants that ever strode the globe.

   It's called the blues.  I'm always finding that some song I love is an old blues number reimagined.  How can you look at the original version of "When the Levee Breaks" and argue that Zeppelin just "ripped it off".  They're nothing alike. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ0eZiarvEE

It's like saying Clapton/Cream's version of Crossroads is a rip off of Johnson's Cross Road Blues.  Of course it's the same song, but they're very different.  The blues is constantly reinvented.  Acoustic to electric, southern to Chicago, Delta to rock n' roll.  I suppose you could argue that all blues is a "rip off" in that same sense, but I'm more inclined to think the rip off is paying $12 for some corporate pop crap being shoved down my throat.  If someone can take the blues, which has been done so many times, and make it seem original and interesting...well, that's impressive, and it's exactly what Zep did (in addition to pursuing a number of other musical styles). 

[oldgunsfan]

as much as I love GnR I have to give the nod for Zeppelin.  Going thru the band members:

As good a singer/songwriter/lyricist axl is; Plant during his Zeppelin years was better......he basically wrote stairway to heaven in one session

Though slash is my favorite guitarist, he can't really hold page's jock in his prime; and please don't bring in any member of the current band and compare what they did with GnR to what Page did with Zeppelin

and as for duff/steve vs bonham/jones-thats not even a comparison.

That's not even looking at their body of work.  People think GnR toured alot and that the UYI tour was long.  That tour doesn't hold Zeppelin's jock for  the amount they toured from the release of Zeppelin I to Houses of the Holy.  If you look at the number of shows they played during that time period it's astonishing how much they were on the road.

[TransAmMan]

Anyone not picking GNR should be kicked off this site.  LZ is the worst most overrated band EVER.

[ppbebe]

i can get the overrated bit but the worst? don't you like rq?

[GNRreunioneventually]

i'm going to have to say that G'n'R have this one. Personally i think that Zeppelin was overrated a little back in the day but they still are a pretty cool band.

[Jdog0830]

Anyone not picking GNR should be kicked off this site.  LZ is the worst most overrated band EVER.

Over rated and worst band well Zep are one of the bands that if they didnt exist we wouldnt have our GN'R today.

[ppbebe]

Anyone not picking GNR should be kicked off this site.  LZ is the worst most overrated band EVER.

Over rated and worst band well Zep are one of the bands that if they didnt exist we wouldnt have our GN'R today.

You must like Robert Johnson. Mr plant has stated that but for robert johnson and the devil, zep and the likes wouldn't have existed.

[Layne Staley's Sunglasses]

Led Zeppelin allllll the wayyyyyyyyyyy.

[ppbebe]

do you post at any zep forum? I don't.

say there were a gnr gig and a zep one tommorrow,  the former one would be my pick.

[seely]

GN'R all the way
I like Zepplin, but nowhere near as much as GN'R, nor as much as most people seem to

[Layne Staley's Sunglasses]

do you post at any zep forum? I don't.

say there were a gnr gig and a zep one tommorrow,  the former one would be my pick.

Why would I?  They aren't active.

I'd pick Zep, for I have seen Guns four times.

[D]

Not a Zep fan


GNR way more dynamic

better vocals, better lyrics, better guitar riffs/solos

LZ have the drums but thats bout it

[Layne Staley's Sunglasses]

Not a Zep fan


GNR way more dynamic

better vocals, better lyrics, better guitar riffs/solos

LZ have the drums but thats bout it

LZ has them beat in all those categories.  GN'R is my favorite, but come on...some of Axl's vocals are downright embarrassing.

[Jdog0830]

Not a Zep fan


GNR way more dynamic

better vocals, better lyrics, better guitar riffs/solos

LZ have the drums but thats bout it

LZ has them beat in all those categories.  GN'R is my favorite, but come on...some of Axl's vocals are downright embarrassing.

Not really only one song he did that i dont like My World it was a crapy song.

[Layne Staley's Sunglasses]

Not a Zep fan


GNR way more dynamic

better vocals, better lyrics, better guitar riffs/solos

LZ have the drums but thats bout it

LZ has them beat in all those categories.  GN'R is my favorite, but come on...some of Axl's vocals are downright embarrassing.

Not really only one song he did that i dont like My World it was a crapy song.

You don't have to go very far to find another embarrassing song, in fact, it's track #5 on the same album.

Everything Zeppelin did was gold.

[Jdog0830]

 

Not a Zep fan


GNR way more dynamic

better vocals, better lyrics, better guitar riffs/solos

LZ have the drums but thats bout it

LZ has them beat in all those categories.  GN'R is my favorite, but come on...some of Axl's vocals are downright embarrassing.

Not really only one song he did that i dont like My World it was a crapy song.

You don't have to go very far to find another embarrassing song, in fact, it's track #5 on the same album.

Everything Zeppelin did was gold.

let me clarify I was talking about Axl Rose not Zepplin there but I have to side with GN'R but I still give Zepplin props they were one of the godfathers of Rock N' Roll!

O and man I personaly love Get in The Ring its not a bad song good guitar rifts unique lirics and a good rithum whats wrong with that.