I'm not talking about Foxy Lady. I'm talking about Little Wing's bluesy improvisation also found in metal solos, and his previously mentioned important techniques. You should hear Voodoo Child (Slight Return), an you'll know what I mean.

I think Led Zeppelin is one of the most influential rock artist....

Cause they do rock of course, but you can find in their music blues influence, hard rock influence, (metal ? not sure), psychedelic stuff, pop, country ...

... And .... Maybe i just love Led Zeppelin :o:

Nobody can disagree that the Beatles is the right answer. Even if one do not like them, if one does not admit their influence, then one is a fool.

Bob Dylan and The Beatles.

It must be the Beatles due to the sheer opposite ends of where they started to where they ended up in such a remarkable amount of time. No band in the History of music has written the body of work that the Beatles have. They are the template for everything that has gone after them.

You can honestly picture a group of kids singing "Tomorrow Never Knows" or "For No One" on a school bus?

No doubt in my mind it is The Beatles.

I went with Bob Dylan...but it's a tie for between Dylan, Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin...of course I'm biased because they're my favorites..but how could it get any better?

To me, like it or not, the answer is The Beatles. It just seems that most people, be it other musicians or just people in general, could not ignore what The Beatles were doing. I think even some bands who hated The Beatles would've ended up being influenced by them in some way.

My feeling is though, that Jimi Hendrix sort of got away from the Beatles a bit and then moreso Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Black Sabbath, especially Sabbath because Sabbath almost never sung about sex or romance.