"Led Zeppelin is just a bunch of idiots who wrote cool riffs"

[ohiosmith]

Happy Birthday Chris Cornell

[Deep13]

1. That's pretty much every rock band.

[ohiosmith]

2. Too true.

[RedStateShame]

3. Actually, Robert Johnson wrote most of the riffs

and the Zep..ahem...borrowed them.

[Maestro]

4. Actually, after stealing a lot from American bluesmen

they really began to write some great original music. John Paul Jones really wrote some great stuff toward the end of the Zepp era. He was an incredible session musician before being in Zepp.

[Bassic]

11. He is one of the most talented bass players in rock history in my view.

Right under Geddy Lee in my book.

[Maestro]

13. Agree

completely.

[LynneSin]

5. I'm hiding this thread before I go balistic

But I am a big fan of Chris Cornell

[Ellen Forradalom]

6. Good thing they were rock musicians

not nuclear physicists. It all worked out well for everyone.

[Treclo]

7. I would say LZ was the grandfather of grunge...

and you know it's true! Oh, how my crush on Chris Cornell has been revived with that very cute picture you posted. :):) (I made it backstage to a show once but never got to meet him...damn). Anyway, I thought Zepplin traveled all around the world looking for enlightenment and such. Don't they get points for that?

[RagingInMiami]

8. Then was does that make Neil Young?

[ohiosmith]

9. Neil Young is a God.

[Jack from Charlotte]

16. Wrong. Clapton is God. (nt)

*

[Bassic]

10. That can be said of a lot of rock bands.

Except mine of course :D

[HEyHEY]

12. "is" a bunch of idiots? - BTW Soundgarden - now THERE'S a shit band

[Spirochete]

14. Jimmy Page stole most of them... n/t

[Juffo Wup]

15. Yeah, but can YOU write cool riffs while shooting heroin into your eye?

n/t