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Re: Who influenced Zep influenced blah blah blah
> I am not saying exactly........but when I hear Whole Lotta Love,
> I think of Young Man Blues. I got my seasonings out.......but my
> key board is still too rare for me.............is that enough?
> Don't you agree even a little bit?
OK, I'm starting to see what's happening here. When it comes to
the Who's influence on the "metal-type" bands (Zep, Sabbath, etc.)
people seem to almost always use LIVE AT LEEDS as their evidence.
That's interesting because it says rather than being influenced by
The Who's *songs* or Pete's *writing style,* the metal-type bands
that followed The Who simply "borrowed" Pete's raunchy *guitar sound*
from LAL.
I guess one could call that an influence but it seems more like
thievery or "sound plagiarism" to me. Those bands didn't give a
monkey's about The Who's song output or Pete's writing. They simp-
ly liked his live guitar sound from LAL & decided to use it on
their albums.
So rather than say, "Led Zeppelin was influenced by The Who," we
should say, "Jimmy Page's guitar sound was influenced by Pete Town-
shend's live guitar sound." Wouldn't that be more accurate?
Still, I'm looking for evidence of any band using The Who's actual
*songs* as an influence. Or using Pete's *writing style* as an in-
fluence.
Mark has provided the example of Paul Weller incorporating Pete's
writing style for Jam songs. I'll accept that even though, to me,
The Jam *sounds* nothing like The Who.
Maybe also, these influences can be seen more clearly when we look
at *individuals* rather than *bands.*
For example, I definitely hear the Keith Moon influence in Clem Burke's
drumming (Blondie). I couldn't argue against that.
So maybe we should be looking for influences between musicians rather
than bands.
- SCHRADE in Akron