Led Zeppelin vs Jethro Tull

I have voted for LZ for the simple reason that they are the best live act I have seen. However I have a liking for heavier hard rock bands.
However if bonham had not died I think LZ in the 80s would have had a very different sound with keyboards featuring much more in their music.
See carouselambra from the in through the out door album for how they were heading.

judahbenkenobi wrote: micky wrote: hard vote...  the first four Tull albums absolutely rule.. and bitch slap the collective Zep output..  problem is...  JT became JD (aka Ian's Ego and his collection of cronies) and didn't stop after Aqualung... so giving it to Zep.. for having the good sense to know when to hang it up.... Are you sure Zep really knew when to hang it up? What about that time when they invited Phil Collins to play with them

Cristi wrote: iluvmarillion wrote: People are going to shoot me, but I reckon Jimmy Page is overrated as a guitarist. a little bit

There are better guitarists I'm sure, but it's not all down to how technical and precise they are. Like Zappa, he had a style and sound that was very distinctive and worked brilliantly with the music, eve if there were a few rough edges. The same could be said of Alex Lifeson - distinctive style/sound etc - who I believe IS far batter 'technically' than Page, but then Lifeson was in Rush who weren't in the same sales league as Zep..

I once heard it said that Eddie Van Halen was once asked what it's like being the best guitarist in the world, to which he allegedly replied something like "I don't know. You'd have to ask Alex Lifeson"

iluvmarillion wrote: People are going to shoot me, but I reckon Jimmy Page is overrated as a guitarist.

I won’t shoot - he’s very sloppy, sloppier than Steve Howe, though what they play is pretty challenging stuff that nobody could replicate with the right nuances.....

Edited by Tom Ozric - May 26 2020 at 05:00

People are going to shoot me, but I reckon Jimmy Page is overrated as a guitarist.

I agree that JT barely fits in the Big 5 or Big 6 list of English prog. But for me it still beats Zep by a long shot

I actually find it hard to make my mind on this one, they are both great... I guess I have to give the nod to Zepp, though. Still, I only wish, when they toured together, that they might have helped each other on a few songs... for example, I can think of Stairway to Heaven, if only Anderson had come in to play the flute for them in the intro (and then join in in the last hard rocking part of the song with his flute again). Or perhaps on Kashmir, have either the bass player or the keyboard player from Tull help out, so that they could play both instruments (or on some other song from Zepp that uses keyboards). Or Plant might have come out to help Anderson sing whenever a song required flute and singing at the same time.

I like some Led Zep and I don't like some Tull... but if I make a top 5 list of albums from both of these bands, it'd be all Tull (no. 6 maybe Zep... maybe).

Sacro_Porgo wrote: verslibre wrote: TULL! A far more interesting band, with a better lead guitarist (yes, I went there).  LZ is nearly as overrated as the most overrated band ever, The ****les. The Buggles?