Zeppelin, Purple or Sabbath? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Zep is the clear choice, simply because they only had one weak album. Many don't even consider that one weak (I'll let you diecide which one I am referring to

). Then it is Sabbath, followed by Purple.

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Deep Purple by a mile... Reasons:

1- They have a permanent keyboardist in their line up (the classic one is heck of a keyboardist!)

2- Three members of their "classic five" are either trained classicaly, or have classic music connections: Lord, Blackmore, and Gillan (a turkish writer once dubed them "Ludwig van" Blackmore, "Johann Sebastian" Lord, and "Luciano" Gillan

!!!)

3- Their "classic" period songs are long and winding, showing instrumental skills, sometimes multipart, including "unusual time signatures", thus more proggy. Not to mention Lord's efforts here and there to combine classical music with hard rock, including a concerto and a suite (Gemini Suite was also performed with Deep Purple)

Zep sounds to me more blues than prog. (of course, no one claims they are prog anyway, but they have excellent proggy works) Sabbath is a "heavy" continuation of early British psychedelia (fairies wear boots!!!), when they have outside help, they can kick ass (Sabbath Bloody Sabbath!!!) that said, if Wakeman was a permanent member of Sabbath, it could have been my pick

of course, regarding Sabbath and Purple, I'm talking about "classic" 5's here. Both bands' '80's incarnations mean too little to me (despite Gillan's and Dio's inclusions in Sabbath). Mark VII (or was it VIII

) line up of Deep Purple (with Steve Morse and Lord side by side) is slightly better than these. I still haven't heard Rapture of the Deep, though.

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Baris Manco,Erkin Koray,Cem Karaca,Mogollar,3 Hürel,Selda,Edip Akbayram,Fikret Kizilok,Ersen (and Dadaslar) (but stick with the '70's, and 'early 80's!)

DEEP PURPLE

Led Zep by a looooooong way....................

I prefer the lyrics of Black Sabbath, the guitar of Page and the vocal chords of Ozzie Osbourne, and the drums of Bonham and the bass of Glover, and the keys of Lord

But strictly songlike I prefer Led Zeppelin, with Deep Purple close behind, and Sabbath occasional good songs, but basically not in their league.

so Led Zeppelin for me

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Am I really the first Heep fan to come accross this and go ... "hmmm, what's wrong with this picture" ... have every album by all four bands ... too tough to chose, except that Heep was the band I listened to the most during the most emotional time of my life ...

Of the three, Zep

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The Wizard wrote:

Love em all, but have to give it to the Hammer of the Gods.

What he said....

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but

"How many more times"

Love em all, but have to give it to the Hammer of the Gods.

Ghost Rider wrote:

I love all three bands, though I must admit that I prefer Sabbath with Dio to Sabbath with Ozzy

Zep by hair, then purple and Sabbath

Poll Question: This are the fathers of hard/heavy rock...choose your favorite
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Led Zeppelin	98	[51.31%]
Deep Purple	47	[24.61%]
Black Sabbath	46	[24.08%]
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