> I like both Zeppelin and Yes from the early '70s. They explored rather
> different aspects of rock. Zeppelin did a wonderful job of exploring and
> extending the blues that underlie rock. Rock and Roll is a good example
of
> this. Yes explored the possibility of a more classical music approach to
> rock.
rob replied:
Even Zep took some hits over their penchant for experimentation that led to songs such as D'yer Maker.
And Robert Plant seems to have made a connection fairly early on between
the "blue" note in blues (equivalent of a guitar string pushed to a pitch that
is between the pitches of two adjacent piano keys such as F and F#) and
microtonal techniques of the middle-and-far east.
And yet by the same token, Zep wannabe bands like White Snake are partially to blame for the GlamRock trend of the 1980's. Of course, Alice Cooper and Kiss were also influences there....
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