re: What’s a band you want to like, but you just don’t?

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Though I’m coming around on Waxahachie thanks to MJ Lenderman and Wednesday.

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I have been genuinely surprised t see Waxahachie in this thread.

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phish
govt mule
goose
widespread panic

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While all of these are considered jam bands they sound nothing alike. Except for Goose. The guitar dude’s tone is very Phishy

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Led Zeppelin

I like Jimmy's playing, but the fact that they were such big rip offs tarnished it all for me.


I dont agree with this.


Really popular band that sang blues. Which all of blues is ripping off each other.


So people who werent as popular saw a potential to make money. And not all of those, like Spirit, even won their cases.



But anyway, almost every artist said some other artist inspired them.





And if you decide to redo a song or sample it and make it better. Who gives a frick?

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The guy gets bent out of shape about Led Zeppelin doing cover tunes of blues standards when the Rolling Stones first four or five albums were nothing but cover tunes. The Stones did plenty of "borrowing" but weren't creative, talented, or inventive enough to move the needle playing them.

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The Stones did plenty of "borrowing" but weren't creative, talented, or inventive enough to move the needle playing them.

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What? No need to trash the Stones to make a point. They released Let It Bleed the same year LZ I came out and You Can't Always Get What You Want and Country Honk are hardly blues rip offs let alone blues inspired. Their LZ like liberal use of blues covers goes back to pre-Aftermath (another unique not blues rip off album) records.

Bruce Springsteen.

To me he's in the drunk karaoke genre. I'll sing along with everyone or whatever, I respect his catalog and career. But it's always sounded cheezy to me.

Did not help that I went to school up on the east cost...so I'll forever equate him to loud rich kids from the NJ suburbs pretending to be from some scrappy blue collar town.

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What? No need to trash the Stones to make a point. They released Let It Bleed the same year LZ I came out and You Can't Always Get What You Want and Country Honk are hardly blues rip offs let alone blues inspired. Their LZ like liberal use of blues covers goes back to pre-Aftermath (another unique not blues rip off album) records.

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Let It Bleed was the Stones' eight studio album. Led Zeppelin I was the first album released by LZ. I will correct myself in saying the Rolling Stones first three albums not four or five were almost exclusively Blues and R&B covers. Hence the Paul McCartney quote in my earlier post in this thread. Showing their lack of creativity and talent to make original material or even elevate the Blues genre beyond simple mimicking American Blues / R&B artists. While Led Zeppelin I and II were heavily influenced by Blues standards, the remainder of their catalog shows a depth of creativity and talent that the Stones could never attempt to emulate.