Led Zeppelin?

 

I just answered that question!!!

 

Yes I know, I only found out about this one after I posted the other one.

 

But just one question:

 

What genre of rock music didn't Led Zeppelin influence?

 

 

I : A few songs that are a bit proggy, but overall, this is a bluesy rock n roll album.

 

II : Even fewer prog aspects. I don't listen to it much, but I suppose this is where the influence Rush might have gathered is most prominent. A bit less blues, a bit more hard rock.

 

III : I can't remember much prog-relevent music here, just half good English folk tunes and half good rock tunes.

 

IV: Here we go. The progginess kicks in, but I would go so far as to call it any sort of prog album. "Four Sticks," "Stairway to Heaven."

 

Houses of the Holy : Slightly less prog aspects than IV, and a bit poppier in my mind.

 

Physical Graffiti : Oh yeah, lotsa prog here ("In the Light" and "Kashmir" come to mind first), but an equal amount of just plain good rock.

 

I'm even less familiar with Presence, though I understand it has several long songs ("Achillies Last Stand" is rather proggy) and I've got nothing for or against In through the Out Door.

 

I've been drinking less coffee lately

 

I'm not convinced. The first Rush album wasn't prog at all in itself. Yes, they took a lot from LZ, but I think they're actually the only classic prog band to actually draw heavy influence from early hard rock acts. They're a singular example. The other you propose are pretty vague - fantasy themes are literature-inspired and they have been used in all genres of contemporary music; Genesis were in a totally different world. I stand by my point.  

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there some kind of conscious separation between the " educated" prog purists of the time (seventies) on the one hand and the "rest" (the hard rock audience, those who preferred a more "visceral", hard-rocking approach to music - like Led Zeppelin - than listen to the extravagant prog titans playing their pompous 23 minute epics) on the other? Thirty years later, LZ are suddenly considered a massive influence on prog artists... that's quite a long distance traveled, isn't it?

 

I don't know if you can be black and white about audiences or categorise them in taht way, sure a lot of Zep's audience were non prog fans, but they also attracted prog fans as well. In 1970s NZ where I am from, a lot of people in the small towns thought Led Zep as weird and didn'thave the time of day for them, and they were treated with the same contempt as Yes, King Crimson and Genesis etc. A lot of prog fans in  70s NZ were also Zep fans. I guess it depends where you are from, but definately prog related where I am from.

 

Here, here Mouse - Led Zeppelin were not too well received until "Stairway" hit the airwaves - then the group became popular with a broader rock music audience. I am pleased to see them acknowledged on PA. I think they have a wide influence not just on prog bands but on rock music in general. Their musical influence is similar to the Beatles I think - not really specific but enough to make them legendary to many rock bands and musicians to this day