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Posted: October 20 2013 at 10:51
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!
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Posted: October 20 2013 at 16:40
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
All I like is prog related bands beginning late 60's/early 70's. Their music from 1968 - 83 has the composition and sound which will never be beaten. Perfect blend of jazz, classical, folk and rock.
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Posted: October 20 2013 at 17:16
Zeppelin has a few really great songs that haven't dulled for me in the slightest with time. Tull is talented, but overall I don't really like them. Going with Zep.
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!
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.
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Posted: October 24 2013 at 19:12
When I was younger it was LZ. As I got older it was Tull. So, I voted for both as they both held my fav band at some point in my life. Nowadays I'm enjoying Weather Report, Carla Bley, Big Big Train, certain Underworld tracks, Portugal. The Man and various others.......
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Posted: October 26 2013 at 02:23
like both very much, but Led Zep is my choice, one cannot beat Kashmir, ooohhhh yeah...
Oh, let the sun beat down upon my face, stars fill my dreams
I am a traveler of both time and space, to be where I have been
To sit with elders of the gentle race, this world has seldom seen
They talk of days for which they sit and wait, all will be revealed
Talk and song from tongues of lilting grace, sounds caress my ears
But not a word I heard could I relay, the story was quite clear
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