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Old 11-19-2014, 05:04 PM   #401 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by OccultHawk View Post
It's actually weird to me that I could love a band so much but remain so relatively ambivalent about what grew out of them especially when compared to Black Sabbath.
Zep's influence was a lot more wide ranging than Sabbath. I think you'd be really surprised at how many artists across a very wide range of genres would name them as an influence. Here's another interesting read on the subject.

Long read warning.

http://textfiles.com/reports/zeppelin.txt
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