The Great Debate: Floyd or Zeppelin?

[Noir]

Pink Floyd and Led Zepellin are both incredibly pompous, although inspired, talented and technically accomplished - the Who (as well as the whole mod thing) were as carefully constructed as Pete Townshed's riffs; taking extra care on what clothes to wear what sort of face make on stage and what sort
of guitar to smash.

While all three are worth a place in r'n'r history they don't really worth their hype IMO.

Many Thanks

Noir

[Incongruous]

Gah! One is progressive, the other Hard Rock, or as Americanos call it heavy metal (j/ks!)

But uhh, I like Zep's style of musics more than Floyds, but then again, Prog is best described by genesis or king crimson.

Otherwise, rock is still ruled by King Fab Four and Prince The Who?
All ohers are merley slaves!

[John86]

When did this become a debate?

Floyd.

[Gawain of Orkeny]

When did this become a debate?

Thats all covered under the Gah option.

[naut]

John Paul Jones is a good keyboardist.

Better on bass though, listen to The Lemon Song. Now that my friend is insane bass.

Personally I find the Who meh. But that's just me, so each to their own really.

[Gawain of Orkeny]

etter on bass though, listen to The Lemon Song. Now that my friend is insane bass.

Personally I find the Who meh.

Entwistle blows him away. Well Hes better You cant even see his fingers flying over them strings. The list of great Who bass lines is too long to even list. By the way so Is Paul McCartney. Many dont realise what a great bass player Paul is.

[naut]

By the way so Is Paul McCartney. Many dont realise what a great bass player Paul is.

He certainly is, damned good.

[Ianofsmeg16]

Each man unto his own...but personally i find The Who meh-ing brilliant

meh being replaced by a rather vulgar and rather banned swear word.

If you see them live you would agree

[Spino]

Entwistle blows him away. Well Hes better You cant even see his fingers flying over them strings. The list of great Who bass lines is too long to even list. By the way so Is Paul McCartney. Many dont realise what a great bass player Paul is.

While I don't rate the Who nearly as high as you (who doesn't? ) I must say that Entwistle and Moon have to be the best rhythm section of any rock band. Townsend was damn smart to simply let those guys do their own thing. JP Jones was a fine bassist but he never stood out like Entwistle and while Bonham was a fantastic drummer I thought he wasn't nearly as creative as Moon. Anyway I get the feeling Page was more of a control freak than Townsend and would not have liked Jones and Bonham tearing off on their own between major beats. One thing I loved about Moon was that he always seemed as if he was about to go careening out of control, this is especially apparent if you watch him in concert footage. Sometimes you think to yourself, "What the hell is he doing, how can he keep the beat, do those fills and do all those wacky antics at the same time?" Speaking of fills Moon's are simply phenomenal, he even manages to make Mitch Mitchell's work sound a tad anemic!

[Reverend Joe]

Entwistle blows him away. Well Hes better You cant even see his fingers flying over them strings. The list of great Who bass lines is too long to even list. By the way so Is Paul McCartney. Many dont realise what a great bass player Paul is.

Just for the record, Jack Casady is still the greatest bassist of all time. If you don't believe me, buy the extended CD of "After Bathing at Baxter's" and listen to the bass solo on the live version of "The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil." Even after listening to it well over 500 or so times, it renders me catatonic.

And if you STILL don't believe me, listen to some Hot Tuna.

[macsen rufus]

Floyd, all the way.

I never really saw the point of Led Zep. Actually it took me a long while to see the point to Floyd as well, but one of my friends played "See Emily Play" when I was in a "receptive state", and I loved it so much he ended up playing it seven times in a row..... Well, I was so "receptive" I couldn't remeber that little fact afterwards

But as a child of the (mid) 70s, my thing was really punk - but The Who were well in there too. I never did get to see them live - I even had a ticket once, but for some reason had to miss the gig.

As for Tommy, though.... well I liked some of the songs for quite a while, but I didn't actually see the film til after I'd seen "The Wall", which is, of course, too late! It just looked lame, dated, and cringeworthy. In its time it may have been something, but it's time wasn't for very long.

[InsaneApache]

Floyd, all the way.

I never really saw the point of Led Zep. Actually it took me a long while to see the point to Floyd as well, but one of my friends played "See Emily Play" when I was in a "receptive state", and I loved it so much he ended up playing it seven times in a row..... Well, I was so "receptive" I couldn't remeber that little fact afterwards

But as a child of the (mid) 70s, my thing was really punk - but The Who were well in there too. I never did get to see them live - I even had a ticket once, but for some reason had to miss the gig.

As for Tommy, though.... well I liked some of the songs for quite a while, but I didn't actually see the film til after I'd seen "The Wall", which is, of course, too late! It just looked lame, dated, and cringeworthy. In its time it may have been something, but it's time wasn't for very long.

Just as long as you explain to Gawain that the Who and punk were very,very tenuously linked.

[Plebian#10]

A most difficult choice but i would have to say zeppelin over floyd but just by a pinch.

[Orb]

Floyd