Led Zeppelin is the Number 1 Rock and Roll Band of All Time

I've been in bedrock and cycle all my activity and I'm able-bodied acquainted that The Rolling Stones accept been alleged the best bedrock and cycle band. Don't get me amiss because I adulation Mick and the Stones, and the Beatles were my aloft agreeable influence, but here's why I anticipate that Led Zeppelin is the best bedrock and cycle bandage of all time: 1. BEST PLAYERS First of all, John Bonham was the best bedrock and cycle bagman anytime to airing the face of this planet, and that's an abreast assessment advancing from a aloft able drummer. John played drums clashing anyone abroad anytime did, still does, or anytime will, and that actuality is consistently approved in the alarming across and abyss of his recorded work. He had complete adeptness in all four limbs, he airtight his drums harder than anyone else, and he did it with acceleration and absolute precision, never already bottomward the beat. His beats were avant-garde and creative, and John was never ashore in simple grooves. His fills were innovative, creative, complex, and technically brilliant, he knew if to accumulate it almost simple (i.e. Kashmir), but he was consistently in the blast of drumming. And to top that all off, John created a behemothic boom complete which is unique. It aggressive a host of imitators who were able to imitate the complete of his allurement drum, but abandoned with a simple backbeat. At the time that Led Zep was formed, Jimmy Page could accept gotten any bagman in the apple to play with him, and he chose John. There's not one abandoned bagman animate or asleep who can activate to blow John's power, creativity, speed, precision, and abstruse brilliance. I've heard that Jimmy still feels the aforementioned way about John as I do. Secondly, Jimmy Page has consistently been one of the best bedrock guitarists ever, appropriate from his ancient canicule as a affair amateur and the alpha of his absolute accessible distinction in the Yardbirds. I accept that Jimmy is the a lot of blithely abounding of all the abundant bedrock and cycle guitarists. I doubtable that Jimmy would accede with me that Jimi Hendrix was the one accurate adeptness of guitar because he came from addition galaxy in agreement of his complete and his use of feedback. But unfortunately, Jimi died and we will never apperceive how abundant added he would accept progressed. If I accept to Jimmy's solos application the violin bow, I get the appetite to put him on the aforementioned basement as Hendrix and admiration which galaxy they both came from. As a songwriter, Jimmy acclimated his aloft adeptness to play advance guitar to actualize absolute song structure. Led Zep's songs use not one or two of Jimmy's abundantly powerful, complicated and awfully SEXY riffs in anniversary song, but there are four, 5 or added riffs in some songs. Jimmy's riffs alter from anniversary added aural anniversary song, and aswell from song to song. His advance guitar arena can be HARD and sexy, he can be acute and beautiful, and he can be technically brilliant, all in the actual aforementioned song. Thirdly, John Paul Jones is a bass amateur who accomplished a akin of accuracy commensurable to Paul McCartney. Just like McCartney, John could play admirable "melodic" bass (i.e. "Ramble On"), he could play as fast as it gets, but he aswell knew if to accumulate it simple and just authority down the basal although I anticipate he was butterfingers of accomplishing that afterwards absolute sophistication. No one at all can blow those two on bass, and John aswell played consistently ablaze keyboards - piano, agency and synthesizer. The intricate way in which he wove his bass guitar arena into, through, and beneath Jimmy's guitar arena is annihilation abbreviate of accomplishment itself. And endure but not at all least, Robert Plant had an abundantly top articulate range, emotionally as able-bodied as in agreement of octaves. Just like Dylan was for his own music, Robert's articulation was absolute for Led Zep's music and there's no added accompanist who could possibly accept fit in. As a able singer, I'm agape out by Robert's vocals on both a abstruse and an affecting level. Robert accepted the abstraction of application his articulation like a agreeable instrument, creating alluring sounds afterwards application lyrics. And Robert co-wrote with Jimmy too. A lot of the time you can't accept his lyrics and I've heard that was Robert's absorbed because just like Mick Jagger, all he cared about at that time was that you affix with the affect and the activity in the accumulation of the music. But if you can get the lyrics (like in Stairway to Heaven, their accolade to Janis Joplin), you acquisition a abundant section of poetry. And on top of all that, Robert had the best "oooh yeahs" in the business! 2. CREATIVE SONGWRITING Hardly anybody has anytime covered Led Zep songs for actual acceptable reasons. Their song anatomy is based on their awfully aloft arena abilities and there's no one who can in fact play what they played. I'm talking about songs that are not based on simple chords like all added bedrock and cycle is. Jimmy and Robert based their songs on Jimmy's riffs and on his chordal tonalities that to this day angle abandoned as getting unique. I'm aswell talking about breadth of songs that advance a connected and acute high, up to 11 account in breadth afterwards resorting to an anytime repetitive chorus. I apperceive from Robert's abandoned plan afterwards Led Zep that he aswell uses abnormal tonalities in his writing, but even afterwards in fact alive this I would accept to accept that due to Jimmy Page getting an erupting bubbler of ablaze guitar work, the majority of the non-vocal music conception came from Jimmy. The Beatles absolutely deserve base adoration for John and Paul's aesthetic songwriting ability, no catechism about that. Absolutely Mick and Keith wrote a bulk of classic, celebrated and absolutely memorable bedrock songs, but the actual attributes of their analogously simple bedrock and cycle anatomy and basal affinity to anniversary added in agreement of application aloft and accessory ambit progressions, simple and basal bedrock and cycle rhythms, and verse/chorus/bridge access defines them as getting beneath avant-garde if compared to Robert and Jimmy. 3. SUM TOTAL OF BRILLIANT WORK Here they outdistance The Stones because a lot of of the Stones' albums accept "fillers", which are songs that do not hit the aforementioned acute top that got airtight in all their best ones. However, I'd like to say that I don't anticipate either Mick or Robert is able of recording annihilation abbreviate of a ablaze vocal. The Beatles in fact beat Led Zep in agreement of numbers of abundant albums that aggregate a greater physique of ablaze and abnormally avant-garde plan that in fact bankrupt new agreeable arena with every abandoned song they recorded. The Beatles were artlessly The Beatles, and they were the a lot of aesthetic bedrock and cycle bandage ever, from getting the best singers and songwriters anytime appropriate down to their abandoned agreeableness and charisma. But afterwards abusive their gorgeous, acute and aboriginal appearance of playing, what they recorded is not the abundant blazon of bedrock and cycle that either the Stones or Led Zep played. George, Paul and John were all ablaze and aesthetic guitarists, but because they did not ad-lib on stage, they were not absolutely adept guitarists. I adulation and account Ringo as both a getting and as a actual aesthetic bagman who baffled the art of boom sounds. He has his own apparent Ringo appearance for both, but he's not absolutely a adept bagman in the faculty of getting able to play with abundant acceleration and dexterity. I'm talking about 9 Led Zep albums brimming abounding of ablaze and acutely top songs - I don't apperceive how abounding hours of abundant bedrock and cycle alert that is. There's not a abandoned anemic clue a part of all that work, and there's artlessly no catechism that they consistently bankrupt new arena musically. Their admission anthology is still the best one of all time (including Cream's), and Coda, their "swan song" is appropriately perfect.NUX Vintage Overdrive 4. STAGE PRESENCE Led Zep was there if the abstraction of "rock and cycle star" was still evolving. I will admission that the Stones at atomic deserve atonement acknowledgment as the best bedrock and cycle bandage but it's mostly because of their absorbing touring almanac and Mick's superstar date attendance with his adeptness to put on a abundant appearance every abandoned time he appears. And he's still accomplishing it at age 60 for advantage sake! My point isn't that Led Zep necessarily had the best date presence, just that they did accept a accurate bedrock brilliant animal aura. I could go on about Jimmy Page's abilities as a producer, and there are added aspects to their abundance like the breadth of time they were calm afterwards a change of bandage members. And the activity they in fact led as archetypal agrarian bedrock and cycle bad boys equals the activity led by the Rolling Stones in intensity, if not length. Both bands are absolute examples on an aesthetic akin of what I alarm FORM = CONTENT, which in this case agency that these two bedrock and cycle bands embodied the bedrock and cycle life. In conclusion, the aloft four categories do abundant to absolutely authorize Led Zeppelin for my not-so-humble award. There will never be addition bedrock and cycle bandage to access the boundless agreeable heights that Led Zep reached. The Recording Industry Association of America, who has the actual statistics, lists Led Zeppelin as the third best affairs agreeable act/artist in history. The Beatles are first, with 166.5 actor albums awash in the USA alone, Elvis is additional with 117.5 million, and Led Zep is third with 106 million. I anticipate it's actual cogent that those statistics are acceptable geometrically times greater than the amount of albums that they awash during their achievement lifetimes. What has happened and is accident is that the adolescent humans of today are advertent them in droves because they are advancing of age sexually and they admit and affix with the a lot of able agreeable archetype of that animal power. They are affairs their CD's, shirts, posters and added memorabilia. And frankly, I'm thrilled.