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Originally Posted by RdTv
I'm peeking in on page 7 of this thread and what I'm gonna say is probably redundant but here I go:
Zeppelin was a very important and influential band for many other bands. The problem with some people is that they refuse to learn about the past in order to understand the present and the future. For example some kids today (I say this being 22, not much of an adult I know) want to alternate tune their guitars and start playing grunge/experimental which is ok, BUT they will never progress past that...its sad I know, you will have to learn songs like Brown Eyed Girl before you can progress to the funner things. The same with musical taste, you have to explore the basics (in this case Zeppelin) befoire you can fullly appreciate the seemingly more interesting and appealing bands out there. My point is that without growing up through years 7-11 constantly blasting the classsics (Zeppelin, Hendrix, Elvis, Miles, Floyd and others) my understanding and overall ability to grasp every kind of good music would have been hindered. I'm sure many people feel that Zeppelin is way overplayed on the radio and that makes them a burned out band, well I agree, what songs the radio plays are not the best and are not much more than dated rock. But, explore the albums, the more you do, the more you will find the hidden treasures lying there waiting for you, the songs that you will say...hey what the hell, why isn't THIS on the radio. Its what me and my bro have always said : Zeppelin radio music is some of the most annoying and grating stuff around, but the majority of the non-radio stuff is just good music.
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I'm not picking on you today, it just so happens that I want to say something to two posts.
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There was an interview with Haino in the Wire a few months back (the Invisible Jukebox one) where he's saying he's glad he never saw Hendrix - musicians end up carrying their influences around like an albatross sometimes.
I entirely agree with the sentiment that some music is better than its fans, and there are a lot of very, very large bands that are actually beyond the merit of their vulgar appeal (The Justin Timberlake album springs to mind here) - I think musicians need to be careful though. Part of my problem with the Beatles (Can/ worms) is that they influenced loads of bands, but also prohibited the exploration of those bands. While the Beatles themselves would probably never have wanted for their music to become standarised, the less-imaginative bands who followed treated their music as sacrosanct - and it becomes very difficult to hear the original when you've heard what happens afterwards. This is more of a problem with rock bands than it is pop bands (I hate these divisions, but they apply here). Elvis was a personality, a look, a mythology and a type of music (in that order). The Beatles were a music, and that music has become bastardised and repeated to the point where the original is severely lessened in its effect. The same, I think, applies to the Zep-haters. It's not to say that there's no merit there (and I for one am going to buy some Zep as a result of this thread), but that the merit is obscured by the mythology of the music.