wow, nice even tempered responses... let me clear on this much. i don't hate zeppelin any more than i hate hendrix or cream or the allmann brothers or whatever because of the blues thing. i just don't like the blues or much of anything blues related. they don't hit me where i live. and i know i'm in...
zepellin, by and large, was a group based on wholesale theft of ideas, just like any other pop band. on principle, they are allowed that, because it is pop music and no one expects much from it. they deserve credit for taking some rather stale puzzle pieces and assembling them into a fairly presenta...