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I saw Led Zeppelin once in 1977.  Great show, but a bit scattered - similar in quality to their performance on Celebration Day.  Not bad, but there was plenty of room for improvement.  They started in the afternoon and, as Plant said, they weren't quite awake yet.  I have seen Tull a dozen times and they were always spot on except for once, and that was the second performance of the tour.
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Points: 19236 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2012 at 13:29
I've seen both live, LZ during Houses of the Holy and JT during their War Child tour. Both great live, both have great catalogs. 

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Jethro Tull by a long shot!
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Led Zep—grooves harder, better players, folk instruments used more convincingly
Tull— Thick as a Brick

Jethro Tull, no contest!LOL

In all seriousness, though, Tull— more melodic, influences more diverse, better vocalist, better stage theatrics, more innovative. Led Zep was still great, though.
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Points: 6467 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 25 2012 at 22:31
Hammer of the gods vs the inventor of the automatic seeding machine in the 18th century.  I will go with the agricultural icon.
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Originally posted by smartpatrol smartpatrol wrote:

Tull's okay, but Zeppelin's great


Edited to reflect my feelings now
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Points: 7113 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 25 2012 at 18:44
Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

Originally posted by Dellinger Dellinger wrote:

Originally posted by hobocamp hobocamp wrote:

Isn't that a recorder, not a flute, on the intro to Stairway?
Nevertheless, nothing Ian could contribute would improve that turd (except possibly lyrics about rock critics having sex with underaged boys).

Lol kidding, of course. I love Zep but hate that track
It sounds like a real flute to me, but I might be mistaken, of course.
When played live it was a mellotron, in the studio it was likely JPJ on a recorder using multiple tracks.

Aw man! I can't out-trivia you in this thread I suppose...

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both amazing bands. they rock so much. as musicians i'd go with led zep. but tull are more interesting in my opinion as rock band. 
 
so overall i'll go with jethro tull. but maybe tomorrow i'll change my mind (it's too close to call lol)
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Love them both equally.
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Some bright-eyed and crazy, some frightened and lost.
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Points: 17533 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 11 2012 at 02:14
Tull by a woodland mile!
 
Songs From The Wood and Stormwatch clinch it (as opposed to clench it). Then you throw TAAB, MITG, Heavy Horses, A and BATB on top of those, and you have many, many hours of fantastic music.
 
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Tull a definite for me
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i voted zeppelin
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I find Tull a lot more interesting. Most of their 70's stuff is fantastic. Brick, Aqualung, Heavy Horses, Passion Play, SFTW, Stormwatch. All great albums, though APP can get a bit dull in certain moments.
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Jethro Tull. But I also own all Zeppelin's albums. Both great bands, but I think Tull speaks to me more. And of course the lyrics are far better, which aids in the speaking. Wink
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Jethro Tull. Led Zeppelin have made a number of songs I love dearly ("The Battle of Evermore", "Stairway to Heaven", "No Quarter", "Achilles' Last Stand", to name a few), but Jethro Tull have made more and they're more consistent on an album basis. There's no Led Zeppelin album that comes close to Aqualung and Thick as a Brick and probably only one (Houses of the Holy) that surpasses Songs from the Wood and Heavy Horses.
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Points: 4287 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 02 2012 at 10:40
This is a both, is and have been for ages amongst those very few band, that I can allway listen to one more time.

Edited by tamijo - November 02 2012 at 10:41
Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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Points: 831 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 01 2012 at 16:26
Zep for me. I like Tull, but they're not quite as important to me. Zep were one of the first rock'n'roll bands i started idolizing (as I'm sure they were for many)
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Tull by far !!
I never got very excited by Led Zep music.
Don't know why ...
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Points: 16914 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 19 2012 at 23:22
Zeppelin I crave often.  Tull bores me now, though I enjoyed them when I was a kid. 
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Points: 2516 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 19 2012 at 23:17
The biggest difference isn't the musicians, it's the composers. Ian covers Zeps on his own in that department :D
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