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Originally Posted by memyselfI
Sure, but the same could be said for the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Or nearly any blues based rock band coming from the UK in the early to mid-60s. Most of them will readily admit to being influenced by blues artists. Robert Plant was singing in blues clubs from the time he was 16.
I agree with those who are saying comparing these bands is like comparing apples and oranges.
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Absolutely you could say that about the Beatles and Stones. It's not about how they started, it's about when they broke out of their roots and started innovating. The Beatles, for instance, changed all of music when they did Sgt. Pepper. Yes, their roots were in copying American 50's rock-and-roll. Pepper was the pinnacle of the evolutionary process for the Beatles.
For Zeppelin, the pinnacle of that evolutionary process was likely Led Zeppelin 4, not Led Zeppelin 1. The clear beginnings of the process were first heard in Led Zeppelin 2 and really cemented in Led Zeppelin 3.
And that takes us back to the orginal argument - the progenesis of Heavy Metal music. By the time Led Zeppelin was recording genuinely "heavy" music, there were many, many other bands doing it.