Bands that sound like Led Zeppelin:

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you know what I mean...

― yoko0no, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 01:35 (nineteen years ago)

Dread Zeppelin

― Mark Rich@rdson, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 01:39 (nineteen years ago)

nice...I guess thats more than you can say for most Zeppelin tribute bands...

― yoko0no, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 01:41 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.fakejazz.com/images/covers/golden.jpg

― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 01:50 (nineteen years ago)

fuck, I mean http://www.fakejazz.com/images/covers/golden.jpg

― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 01:50 (nineteen years ago)

I really love the Ophelia's track "Apron Strings". Totally gets down that LZ III twee-Delta vibe.

― bendy, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 02:00 (nineteen years ago)

mars volta at times

― chaki, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 02:04 (nineteen years ago)

Jack White?

― Mordechai Shinefield, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 02:09 (nineteen years ago)

Some of the later Small Faces recordings sound like a primer for Led Zeppelin, especially their version of Muddy Waters' "You Need Love".

Free definitely had the slow intense heavy blues sound down as well as Led Zep.

― earlnash, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 02:44 (nineteen years ago)

i guess I'll throw some obvious ones into the ring: Kingdom Come, Whitesnake, Heart, Soundgarden...

― yoko0no, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 02:48 (nineteen years ago)

I really think Bonham's "Wait for You" is a great (late) Zeppelin-style track and one of the best commercial hard rock songs of the 80s.

― Sundar, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 03:02 (nineteen years ago)

(Any way to hear Golden or Ophelia online?)

― Sundar, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 03:03 (nineteen years ago)

I think Kingdom Come win this. I actually know someone who loves them but doesn't like Zep hahaha

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 03:04 (nineteen years ago)

Well, there's always Jake Holmes' "Dazed and Confused"

― dlp9001, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 03:13 (nineteen years ago)

did they ever pay him? he should be paid.

i can think of a bunch of bands that "sound like led zeppelin." but none really sound like led zeppelin.

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 04:02 (nineteen years ago)

Wolfmother are trying to.

― JP Almeida, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 08:43 (nineteen years ago)

they're not trying very hard.

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 08:58 (nineteen years ago)

Various things from the first three Rush albums would also qualify, at least as well as most of the other things on this thread. If you squint, John McLaughlin's Devotion is a little bit like an instrumental Zeppelin album. But, really, I can't think of anyone else who'd play "Rock n Roll" back-to-back with "Battle of Evermore."

― Sundar, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

What about Lez Zeppelin?

― Mark G, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

Aguaturbia!!!!! buy this. it is so zep. the woman even gives plant a run for his money.
http://www.denise.scd.cl/agua/im_agua/volum2.gif

― QuantumNoise, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

Actually Fleetwood Mac's "Oh Well" isn't far from the above mentioned Black Dog/Battle of Evermore combo.

― dlp9001, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

Which Bit?

― Mark G, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

Talking mostly about the contrast, though the riff/concept of the first part of "Oh Well" is def. from the same family tree as Black Dog.

― dlp9001, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

Prince

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

really

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

x-post the mac

i think dlp is talking about the extended version where the songs transforms from heavy riff-rock to a quasi-classical, acoustic-n-piano voyage. i don't doubt page was digging some green-era mac. a lot of the heavies were.

― QuantumNoise, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

songs=song (oh well)

― QuantumNoise, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

Ill second Heart. Barracuda is the closest to a Zeppelin song by a non Zeppelin artist I've heard.

― filthy dylan, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

The Tea Party

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

I was gonna nominate them too- not that I've ever heard them, but I read the threads on them many times during a certain broke-ILX era.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

Some of the later Small Faces recordings sound like a primer for Led Zeppelin

OTM - I was just thinkin this yesterday while listenin to Afterglow (see also the tag on I'd Feel Much Better, Rollin' Over, Song for a Baker...)

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

this album always kinda reminds me of zep, even if it doesn't exactly sound like them. and Ellen McIlwaine was a really good hard rock blues mama like Robert Plant. great album anyway, if you like hard blues rock with a dash of psych.

http://www.laventure.net/tourist/ellen_fear_itself.jpg

― scott seward, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

Ellen is probably better known as a guitarist now than as a singer. Like Rory Block.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

wow awesome sleeve

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

Sounding like Led Zep on a particularly lousy autopilot afternoon: Page & Coverdale. Yuk.

― t**t, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

I heard some old Yes on the radio the other day...I couldn't identify it at first, but thought it sounded like old Rush trying to sound like Led Zeppelin.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

Do you know what song it was? I'm trying to imagine which Yes song could fit that description. "South Side of the Sky?"

― Sundar, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 23:50 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't the first Rush album sort of Rush trying to sound like Zeppelin? I've only heard it a few times, but I remember that being my impression.

― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 23:53 (nineteen years ago)

yeah kinda...it generally just sounds like early 70s rock...zep...cream....not to different than a million bands....rutsey was drumming so no peart theatrics.....but oh is "working man" a jam! blue collar!

― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 00:05 (nineteen years ago)

Detective (70s band with Michael Des Barres and Tony Kaye of Yes) definitely has some Led Zep in 'em, especially in the drums--very Bonham-ish. I think they were even signed on the "Swan Song" label.

― Joe, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 00:11 (nineteen years ago)

Some of the later Small Faces recordings sound like a primer for Led Zeppelin

To say nothing about "You need love" off the SF's first album. (If you haven't heard this, you need to)

― Mark G, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 00:19 (nineteen years ago)

No one sounds like Zeppelin! Listen to the drums, the production and solid tempo, and Jimmy Page's guitar tone on 'Bring it on Home.' Not to mention: the drum fills on 'Dazed and Confused,' the guitar solo and chording from 'Ten Years Gone,' the acoustic edibility of 'Bron-Yr-Aur,' etc.

― calstars, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 00:42 (nineteen years ago)

Jeff Beck's 'Truth' sounds like the first LZ album's older sister.

― calstars, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 00:44 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, and even some early Rod Stewart like "Gasoline Alley" has a bit of a Zeppelinish quality for me.

The voice and guitar on early Rush records evoke Plant/Page (or at least one side of their sound) much more than Bruce/Clapton or anyone else for me. Even A Farewell to Kings sounds more like a math-y Zeppelin than anything else to me.

― Sundar, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 00:56 (nineteen years ago)

Aguaturbia!!!!! buy this. it is so zep. the woman even gives plant a run for his money.

ehhh... don't know about that. not that they're not good. but the leaf hounds, orang-utans and lucifer's friends of the world are just as 'zep,' i.e. there's a surface similarity but really no.

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 06:21 (nineteen years ago)

Yes to Heart , what about Funkadelic ?

― Dimension 5ive, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 06:29 (nineteen years ago)

Leafhound

― Stormy Davis, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 06:40 (nineteen years ago)

Mary My Hope

― Stormy Davis, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 06:41 (nineteen years ago)

Great White

― Stormy Davis, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 06:41 (nineteen years ago)

Heart

― Stormy Davis, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 06:41 (nineteen years ago)

Billy Squier

― Stormy Davis, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 06:42 (nineteen years ago)

Masters of Reality

― Stormy Davis, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 06:42 (nineteen years ago)

the already mentioned Mars Volta and White Stripes, for sure

― Stormy Davis, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 06:43 (nineteen years ago)

Red Hot Chili Peppers "Blood Sugar Sex Magick" (but *only* that album)

― Stormy Davis, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 06:45 (nineteen years ago)

Cactus

― Stormy Davis, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 06:45 (nineteen years ago)

Flower Travellin' Band

― Stormy Davis, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 06:46 (nineteen years ago)

Slaughter

― Stormy Davis, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 06:47 (nineteen years ago)

Soundgarden

― Stormy Davis, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 06:47 (nineteen years ago)

Babe Ruth def has the zep thing going on. as does the one Belle Epoque song that sounds like babe ruth that sounds like zep ("miss broadway")

i bought the Death Wish 2 soundtrack last week by Jimmy Page. i swear it sounds like Bonham playing drums, but he was already dead. good soundtrack btw

― jaxon, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 07:51 (nineteen years ago)

Various things from the first three Rush albums would also qualify, at least as well as most of the other things on this thread.

I'd say Rush in general. Particularly their 70s material.

― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 08:41 (nineteen years ago)

if rush does, then budgie.

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 10:21 (nineteen years ago)

Has Terry Reid been mentioned? No? He was Page's original choice for lead singer you know.

― C. Grisso/McCain, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

Fastway!
Triumph
Montrose
Moxy
Nitzinger
Zebra
Michael Fennelly
Sir Lord Baltimore ("Woman Tamer")
Public Image Ltd. ("Annalisa")
U2 ("Bullet the Blue Sky")

alright, this is getting silly...

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

I'd say Rush in general. Particularly their 70s material.

yeah esp. cuz their 80s material sounds zero like zeppelin.

― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

jeff beck group as well.

― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

Zebra's "Who's Behind the Door" and Whitesnake's "Slow and Easy" both get the In Through the Out Door sound with the big ambient sounding introductions.

― earlnash, Thursday, 8 March 2007 00:20 (nineteen years ago)

I always thought the Guess Who's American Woman shared some similarities

― PappaWheelie V, Thursday, 8 March 2007 01:10 (nineteen years ago)

I'm pretty happy happy wolfmother hasn't been mentioned more.
(I feel embarrassed listening to them)

― Drooone, Thursday, 8 March 2007 01:12 (nineteen years ago)

It's funny but I kind of start feeling Zeppliny when I listen to Dungen.

Even if it's a more jazzy Zepplin.

― MaGoGo, Thursday, 8 March 2007 04:24 (nineteen years ago)

when i was 16 or whatever i bought love by the cult and my brother asked me why i didn't just listen to led zeppelin.

― scott seward, Thursday, 8 March 2007 04:30 (nineteen years ago)

Fastway!

totally OTM, especially the first album. also they rule.

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Thursday, 8 March 2007 08:19 (nineteen years ago)

yeah esp. cuz their 80s material sounds zero like zeppelin.

Geddy Lee will always sound like Robert Plant.

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 8 March 2007 10:48 (nineteen years ago)

This is a good thread to recall the time when I was in the car with my mother, and had put my "ripped" cassette of Led Zeppelin IV on; either Battle of Evermore or Stairway to Heaven comes on and my mom listens in silence with me for a minute or two and says, "Have you ever heard the Mamas and the Papas? If you like this stuff I think you might be really into them."

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 8 March 2007 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

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