Pink Floyd v. Led Zeppelin.
 

Which band is the better band?

I have to disqualify myself due to the fact that I like them both and would like to remain neutral.

Floyd makes me instantly sleepy and begs for me to take a nap, and while I liked Led Zeppelin back in HS I grew out of it and change the station very quickly when they play it on the radio.

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I guess that would be a neither then. Make that one neither, and one both.

Tough question-you are comparing very different bands.

Led Zep-is just in a class by themselves. PF-is a whole different genre al together.

I have seen Plant/Page and PF at Arrowhead-they both put on a great show.

I will still go with Zep. They started heavy metal.

I thought that Black Sabbath was considered to be the band that started Heavy Metal.

Have you heard Led Zep 1? That changed every thing. Before Zep-artist made shit on tours. They demanded 90% of the gate and history was made.

Yeah BS took the three chord thing to dark destinations, but Zep was first. Rush are huge Zep fans-they have met a few times-but never played together. Alex idolizes Jimmy Page. Alex, Jimi, Jimmy, Eddie, Stevie Ray, best ever!

Which might explain why I don't like Rush either.

Morphius
obviously has no taste, or doesn't smoke pot.

The bands are really too different to compare. I definitly prefer Floyd though I also enjoy Zep quite a bit.

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You should compare Metamucil and Citrucel while you're at it.

That pretty much nails the commonly agreed upon "family tree" of heavy metal.

Led Zeppelin 1, the progenitor of heavy metal?

I think not.

Led Zeppelin 1 was mostly rip-offs of old delta blues songs the Zeppelin rearranged and gave the original artists no credit for.

Don't get me wrong, Zeppelin has a solid spot in the genre and are one of the most influential bands of all time. But there were bands experimenting with metal sounds before Zeppelin, including the Kinks and the Who. There were bands in 1966 and 1967 starting the change while Page was playing session with the Yardbirds and Plant was sitting at home. Zeppelin grew out of a small group of blues-rock musicians (the Yardbirds) that spawned all kinds of music from Cream to Hendrix to Mountain.

If you can credit Led Zeppelin for one thing, they paved the way for thousands of (not-so-talented) hair bands in the mid-to-late eighties to copy the formula incessantly.

And just an FYI, Led Zeppelin was formed in early 1968 and released their first album that year. Deep Purple, another candidate for "Fathers of Metal" was born that year as well.

So we at least agree that we can place the "blame" for heavy metal on the British. :)