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MindYourTanners wrote:Guys, my wife who died tragically, leaving me with my 3 girls. I bet she would have really liked Pearl Jam had she lived to see much of them. But like my 2 good friends that helped me get through it all, she would still prefer Led Zeppelin.

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MindYourTanners wrote:Guys, my wife who died tragically, leaving me with my 3 girls. I bet she would have really liked Pearl Jam had she lived to see much of them. But like my 2 good friends that helped me get through it all, she would still prefer Led Zeppelin.

There is theoretically a point where I'll be tired of mindyourtanners, but I have no idea where it is

Tuolumne wrote:

benton netty wrote:I am on a Pearl Jam message board. I have been seeing them live since 1995.

I never saw Led Zeppelin.

Anyone who thinks Pearl Jam comes remotely close to touching Led Zeppelin, even on a bad day, is tripping balls.

Pearl Jam is great. One of the best live bands. Zeppelin were inhuman gods with the best rock drummer who ever lived.

PJ gets closer to The Who, but they can't quite match them, either.

This thread is like comparing apples to the Hope Diamond.

This is eating up alot of BS the baby boomers threw at you. Led Zeppelin were a great band and they deserve credit for that. They are not gods beyond question and reproach. Aside from being a great band, they are also blatant thieves of the blues. Every southern black blues player's decendants should be collecting royalties off many of their hits, especially their earlier ones, which allowed them to build their career to the point they could really make a creative dent with Physical Graffiti and the like.

They also had bad nights, and there were gigs where Page was too drunk to play or even stand up. There was a night in Alpine Valley a former co-worker told me where they had to stop the gig a few songs in and they had to quit the show. These days some bands almost derail their careers over gigs like that b/c message boards and Twitter feeds spread the word. There were nights when Plant's voice was raspy and shot. And those nights would have become the rule rather than the exception if Bonham hadn't irresponsibily OD'd (fuck rock legend and mythology here, he fucked up royally rather than create more mystique with his death). Led Zeppelin were a fantastic, HUMAN band who had creative highs and lows (the lows were borderline aping, well fuck borderline they were straight up copyright infringement), good gigs and bad gigs, good studio takes and bad mixes, they had all of that shit. We just don't have them under a microscope at every turn like we do with PJ. And fuck Elvis too.

Oh, Jimmy wrote: I'll take "too drunk to play" over some of the stuff that PJ passes off.

Is PJ really under the microscope much more than Zeppelin? Zeppelin was the biggest band, so there were plenty of people pushing the negative shit. PJ basically has a bunch of ass kissing fans that gloss over their live sloppiness. I've listened to alot of Zeppelin boots and there was some sloppiness, but I've never heard the trainwrecks that I have on PJ boots.

If you like PJ more, fine. Just don't pretend like they belong in the same conversations about great bands that Zeppelin does.

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matt reeder wrote:

Tuolumne wrote:

benton netty wrote:I am on a Pearl Jam message board. I have been seeing them live since 1995.

I never saw Led Zeppelin.

Anyone who thinks Pearl Jam comes remotely close to touching Led Zeppelin, even on a bad day, is tripping balls.

Pearl Jam is great. One of the best live bands. Zeppelin were inhuman gods with the best rock drummer who ever lived.

PJ gets closer to The Who, but they can't quite match them, either.

This thread is like comparing apples to the Hope Diamond.

This is eating up alot of BS the baby boomers threw at you. Led Zeppelin were a great band and they deserve credit for that. They are not gods beyond question and reproach. Aside from being a great band, they are also blatant thieves of the blues. Every southern black blues player's decendants should be collecting royalties off many of their hits, especially their earlier ones, which allowed them to build their career to the point they could really make a creative dent with Physical Graffiti and the like.

They also had bad nights, and there were gigs where Page was too drunk to play or even stand up. There was a night in Alpine Valley a former co-worker told me where they had to stop the gig a few songs in and they had to quit the show. These days some bands almost derail their careers over gigs like that b/c message boards and Twitter feeds spread the word. There were nights when Plant's voice was raspy and shot. And those nights would have become the rule rather than the exception if Bonham hadn't irresponsibily OD'd (fuck rock legend and mythology here, he fucked up royally rather than create more mystique with his death). Led Zeppelin were a fantastic, HUMAN band who had creative highs and lows (the lows were borderline aping, well fuck borderline they were straight up copyright infringement), good gigs and bad gigs, good studio takes and bad mixes, they had all of that shit. We just don't have them under a microscope at every turn like we do with PJ. And fuck Elvis too.

There were plenty of nights when Led Zeppelin was off. There were plenty of nights they didn't have it. But they were also one of the greatest live bands ever, and even Pearl Jam never wrote a song as amazing as "Ten Years Gone", "The Rain Song" or "Achilles' Last Stand".

Also - have you ever heard the version of "Black Dog" on How the West Was Won? That's a level Pearl Jam hasn't ever even fucking sniffed. That version of Led Zeppelin was on its own fucking planet. And I say this as a pretty huge fan of Pearl Jam.

Oh, Jimmy wrote: I'll take "too drunk to play" over some of the stuff that PJ passes off.

Is PJ really under the microscope much more than Zeppelin? Zeppelin was the biggest band, so there were plenty of people pushing the negative shit. PJ basically has a bunch of ass kissing fans that gloss over their live sloppiness. I've listened to alot of Zeppelin boots and there was some sloppiness, but I've never heard the trainwrecks that I have on PJ boots.

If you like PJ more, fine. Just don't pretend like they belong in the same conversations about great bands that Zeppelin does.

Yes. Very much this.

Also, fuck this thread.