"The reverberations from those days run through most of what passes for rock
and roll in the 1990's. Led Zeppelin has never been more popular, more
pervasive more� omnipresent. They broke up ten years ago, but you wouldn't
know it by listening to the radio. Not since Elvis joined the army has an
audience so completely refused to acknowledge an artist's inactivity."
-Cameron Crowe 1990
It's difficult to refute ignorance. This I will admit. The first post in
this string should have been ignored in the same way that one ignores an
errant toddler screaming for attention. I won't even ask for a definition of
what "cockrock" is. As the word lacked a definition in the first post (is it
Styx, Journey, Motley Crew?), I'm not really interested in watching one
backpedal or spackle-up the gaping holes in their argument. I would argue
that only the Beatles come close to the influence that Led Zeppelin has had
over any type of rock and roll in the last twenty, thirty?, years. Zeppelin
was mentored by Muddy Waters and taught by Keith Moon, they were fathered by
Willie Dixon and mothered by Joan Baez . I don't expect anyone who doesn't
know what an Atari is to know this, but I am surprised and happy when they
do. I don't expect anyone who doesn't know how to work Wordperfect 5.1 to
know this, but I am astonished and disappointed when they don't. From "Babe
I'm going to Leave you" to "Fool in the Rain," Led Zeppelin reexamined and
redefined the power that rock and roll and blues can hold over a human
being. I don't know what cockrock is and apparently neither do you. It's
acceptable to have an opinion, but it's commendable to have an informed
opinion. I accept the fact that you have taken the time to stage this
"discussion" about Zeppelin, but I don't commend it.
*Cutty
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