DargelSkout said:
I have a hard time liking bands that copy other bands. I have the same feeling about Greta Van Fleet. While they are talented, I just can't get into them.
NEWS FLASH - ALL bands copy other bands.
Absolutely nobody is 100% original they all learn from, borrow from, and are influenced by other bands.
They may incorporate multiple sounds or have a new element to an old sound but they all are based on previous stuff.
Even "the originals" borrowed heavily from others (not to mention early cover songs that all of them did to crank out material quickly):Elvis - from black blues performers and white country performers the combined sound was "new"
LZ - from southern delta and chicago blues artists specifically Blind Willie Johnson, Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters as well as folk singers like Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell
The Beatles - Chuck Berry, Carl Perkins Cliff Richard, Buddy Holly and Harrison more later by Clapton and the Byrds
The Rolling tones - likewise influenced by a lot of Chicago blues artists and Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, The Crickets, Jimmy reed and even James Brown
I find the dismissal of new bands to be comical.
Greta Van Fleet may be heavily Zep influenced but also drew from Aerosmith, Cream, Bad Company, The Who and blues greats B.B. King, Albert King, and Freddie King. Their sound might be more Zeppelin-esque but in interviews some of them said they never even heard LZ until after they had been playing a while in high school. So they had a lot of other influences too.
