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Old 11-20-2014, 09:01 AM   #406 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Ninetales View Post
I think the initial point wasn't that Led Zeppelin aren't influential, but that there are other artists that are equally/more influential.
The Beatles, The Stones, and Bob Dylan. Joni Mitchell too.

Pretty everyone that came after them took a huge amount of influence from one or more of them.

“I think at that point we were aspiring to be a Led Zeppelin kind of a band where you could pick up your acoustic instruments or you could go out and rock or you could play a country song." - Pearl Jam's Jeff Ament
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