Rainbow vs. Led Zep...to the slaughter

 

Anyways, here's the deal. Based on what I've heard, Rainbow released at least two, count 'em, two, masterpieces in their meager existance. Namely Long Live Rock (and possibly Roll), and Live in Churmany.

 

Led Zeppeling, on the other hand, has not released one. Which is...strange. The Zeps are definitely a more even band, probably more diverse, and certainly more revolutionary; whereas Rainbow, despite having a better guitarist, had nothing else. Buncha lowly, albiet sometimes real cool, session type dudes, and their only revolution was to put the phrases "wizard" and "tower" in a single song. On the plus side, they seem to have inspired the Maiden to a somewhat type extent...

 

AND YET, I think that Rainbow was the better band. And I do...not...know...WHY!!! I do think that Ritchie is the more talented string-slinger, and that Dio actually believes in all that wizardly crap he's singing about, whereas Plant could sound just a tad...goofy from time to time. Ya know? "Mordor?" Yeah.

 

So I actually, and for whatever reason, believe that Rainbow is the better, and perhaps best, heavy metal band. Certainly from the "classic" era. Of, er, "that" era. Unless you count the Tull. And I do. 'Cause they were pretty f**kin' metal.

 

What REALLY confuses me though is that I've actually heard more Led Zep than Rainbow, so you can't accuse me of absurd loyalism. However, I have not heard very much Deep Purple, so, perhaps the poll is a tad premature...

 

Still, in the Page/Plant's defense, the Zeps have yet to hit the LOWS of which I've heard in Rainbow, but then again, that's probably because Rainbow somehow made it past 1980.