Jethro Tull vs Led Zeppelin

bucka001 wrote: geneyesontle wrote: It's only on this site that Jethro Tull can win over Led Zep Yup.

Well...it is a prog site after all.  

Tull for me.  Both were able to put together albums with great hard rock songs, but Tull had the ability to compose complex pieces of music not just build a song around a great guitar riff.  Saw both live in the 70's (Tull '76 '77 '78 '79, Zep '77) and there was no comparison...Zep was just 4 super talented guys playing rock, Tull was a circus of insanity!

Zeps were too rock n roll influenced. Their compositions were no match for the classically and occasionally jazz influenced tull. Plus plants vocals were pretty average when he started screaming with his squealing breathless voice

Edited by dr prog - October 20 2013 at 16:44

Zeppelin

The Dark Elf wrote: dr wu23 wrote: bucka001 wrote: geneyesontle wrote: It's only on this site that Jethro Tull can win over Led Zep Yup. Well...it is a prog site after all.   But you are right in that any other rock or classic rock site would have Zep significantly ahead. It is all subjective. Led Zep or Tull would fare horribly on a Justin Bieber or One Directiion site.

I don't think there are such sites that actually would do such a comparison......are there?

Edited by dr wu23 - October 20 2013 at 19:05

I pick Jethro Tull..although I wasn't fond of their musical input after Songs From the Wood..except for Stormwatch having some fine moments..but the band seemed to grow weaker with creativeness. Their inability to ever produce albums like Thick As A Brick, Minstrel In the Gallery, Stand Up, A Passion Play again..felt alienated at that point in time.

Led Zeppelin were not stylistically based around the more technical sounding arrangements of Jethro Tull. Jimmy Page was a fine acoustic player. He had fine skills in that area using open tunings , creating strange chord voicings, and writing songs with an atmosphere underneath the music. He was a good writer,but he wasn't going for a style that lifted long extensive note passages every measure. He desired sticking to a harder edged Rock sound for the band. He was a mysterious character that had an interest in the underworld. That prevails in their music.

Both, because I really like both pretty equally.  But if you made me choose, it'd probably be Tull

Edited by bloodnarfer - October 24 2013 at 12:08

I like both, but absolutely Zepp.

If I had a time machine my first stop would be a Tull concert in 1974.

Now if you're going to argue Led Zep, this is the song/video to use (I, myself, voted for Tull).