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Poll Question: This are the fathers of hard/heavy rock...choose your favorite
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 21 2008 at 19:41

As far as proggy proto-metal goes, I think I like Uriah Heep more than all three of those....

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 12 2008 at 06:21
Can't believe Purple are bottom at the moment. Thanks to me they now have one more vote!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 12 2008 at 06:29
All 3 bands are extreamly good, but no Band has meant more to me than the great BLACK SABBATH!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 12 2008 at 06:30
Sabbath. They have the most good albums.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 12 2008 at 09:01

They all are good... but Deep Purple is alive!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 20 2008 at 21:55
Originally posted by ProgFrog635 ProgFrog635 wrote:

As far as proggy proto-metal goes, I think I like Uriah Heep more than all three of those....


Fair enough... personally I think Uriah Heep was interesting when they where at their best, but never a great band... personally
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 28 2008 at 12:06
Once I readed in a guitar magazine... "Tony Iommi is the father of the riff".

And this is quite truth.... It's such a hard choice... but I think that Sabbath represents metal.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 09 2008 at 10:25
Sabbath for me. Wouldn't have expected Zeppelin to be so far in the lead, wow.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 23 2008 at 13:57
Gotta cast my vote for Black Sabbath,although Led Zepellin and Deep Purple are both incredible bands as well. Sabbath and Tony Iommi virtually taught me how to play guitar. I learned "Paranoid" way before I ever learned "Stairway to Heaven" and "Smoke On the Water".
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 10 2008 at 10:24
Well I think some of this may have already been said, but here's my two penn'orth..............
 
I think we need to ignore the fact that various Purple and Sabbath incarnations well outlived the Zeppelin break-up.  Those 80s/90s efforts are just glorified lookbacks to better times.  So in essence we are looking at the three bands in their late 60s and 70s heyday, agreed?
 
In that context, I don't think Sabbath are in the same league as the other two bands.  Ozzy could never sing and most of their stuff was too mind-numbingly heavy.  (Great model though for some of the 80s music-lite hair-rock which followed, I agree.)
 
I was more of a fan of Purple when I was a teenager in the 70s and I still love In Rock and Machine Head - truly great albums.  I got Machine Head the week it came out and didn't listen to anything else for probably a fortnight.  Ritchie Blackmore: well I never understood why anyone would prefer another guitarist.
 
But which of the three bands has stood the test of time?  Be honest.  It's Zeppelin by a mile, it's not even a contest, although some of Purple's stuff still stands up to scrutiny as well.  From Zep 1 thru Physical Graffiti, few artists have strung together a series of albums so full of classics.  (All right, yes, I agree, Beatles, Bowie 70s period, Bob Marley, Stevie Wonder 70s period........... you can probably name a few more but if you want to consider 6 great albums on the trot, Zeppelin are right up there.)
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 10 2008 at 12:03
when these 3 are the fathers, the grandfathers  should be Cream & The Yardbirds....
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 12 2008 at 03:26
Originally posted by el böthy el böthy wrote:

Im sure this has been done before, but I could not find it...

I voted for Zeppelin by the way...wow, what a shocker!!!

Also, when you say which band you preferspecify why...
I pick Zeppelin cause I find them to be the most balanced of the three, with the most awesome guitarist of thouse three (hope Ghost Ruder does not read this...) and the best singer and drummer...hehehehe
Also I find their albums to be much better, specially the first 6...and Sabbath bores me to death to be completly honest hehehe


Yes, I did this thread before LOL http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=46417&KW=Zeppelin

I'll always love Zeppelin and Purple
I saw Purple once in February 14, and it was one of the top 10 concerts of my life, I was in front of Roger Glover.
And I love the sound of every instrument in Deep purple, but I choose Zeppelin for other unexplainable loving reasons


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 05 2009 at 09:21
All these bands are amazing and have affected rock music greatly, but I have to go with Zeppelin on this.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 06 2009 at 21:25
Led Zeppelin 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 06 2009 at 22:29
Originally posted by ProgFrog635 ProgFrog635 wrote:

As far as proggy proto-metal goes, I think I like Uriah Heep more than all three of those....

 
As I read the question, I got in here just to write the same. Uriah Heep, of course.
 
I don´t know why UH has ben moved away from this discuss. The 4 basic hard rock bands from the 70´s are those...


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 06 2009 at 22:31
Originally posted by el böthy el böthy wrote:

Originally posted by ProgFrog635 ProgFrog635 wrote:

As far as proggy proto-metal goes, I think I like Uriah Heep more than all three of those....


Fair enough... personally I think Uriah Heep was interesting when they where at their best, but never a great band... personally
 
Never a great band that has sold over 40 millions of lp´s/cd´s and have influented so many bands..?LOL


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 07 2009 at 05:30
Sabbath.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 07 2009 at 07:06

Black Sabbath has meant more to me.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 07 2009 at 13:21
Originally posted by steve788 steve788 wrote:

I think we need to ignore the fact that various Purple and Sabbath incarnations well outlived the Zeppelin break-up.  Those 80s/90s efforts are just glorified lookbacks to better times.
 
I disagree. At least with Sabbath.
 
Originally posted by steve788 steve788 wrote:

So in essence we are looking at the three bands in their late 60s and 70s heyday, agreed?
 
In that context, I don't think Sabbath are in the same league as the other two bands.
 
Because Zep and DP were already releasing big albums in the '60s?
 
Originally posted by steve788 steve788 wrote:

Ozzy could never sing and most of their stuff was too mind-numbingly heavy.
 
Ozzy wasn't exactly an amazing singer, but he was very good at conveying emotion. Then again, in some songs he sounds almost as good as Plant to me in a technical sense (Wicked World). And what about "Changes," "Planet Caravan," "Sleepin Village," etc..? Not incredibly heavy.
 
Originally posted by steve788 steve788 wrote:

(Great model though for some of the 80s music-lite hair-rock which followed, I agree.)
 
Erm? I'm not sure if it's just me, but I think Zeppelin and Deep Purple have way more in common with '80s Glam than Sabbath. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 07 2009 at 13:33
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