Today’s Zeppelin are White Denim. Hands down.

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I love your video’s Chris !
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Any other unknown bands people would like to share?? CHARLIE

I know we hear “Dazed & Confused” blasting out of car stereos every summer, and there’s a certain comfort in that, but you know I think the execs who own the rights and control the hype happen to be my age, and it makes deep intuitive sense to push these old recordings on successive generations. Kids that age listen to what they are exposed to.

I love Led Zep, but if I need deep musicianship now, as an adult, they don’t satisfy. Your ears open up a little when you get into jazz, and the Page guitar solo that blew your mind when you were 14 seems silly now. Maybe if I want to hear a good guitarist I’ll listen to Bill Frisell or among drummers maybe I’m impressed by Dave Weckl, but I can’t think of Led Zeppelin as a “super group”, rather they are/were stylistically innovative, and, for what it’s worth, they were very cool! But it was not really about “mad skillz” ( a phrase borrowed from my 12 year old daughter).

But you’ll get so many fellows of my generation (and younger, strangely) making claims that there’s never been a better songwriter than Bob Dylan, there’s never been a better guitarist than Jimmy Hendrix, there’s never been a better pop band than The Beatles, there’s never been a better blah blah blah, and what you’re doing is you’re giving these guys too much cultural authority. Everybody thinks the 60’s were super cool, okay, wow.

It’s possible that the arena rock thing is basically played out, so I can’t speak to “who’s the new Led Zep”, but I will say one thing I’ve noticed in indie pop is that the lyrics have improved over the years. Kurt Cobain was an improvement on Neil Young, Trent Reznor was an improvement on Jim Morrison, and Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel was a huge improvement on Blonde-on-Blonde era Dylan. I’m just trying to indicate a noticeable trend, I’m not trying to prove that I’m up to date on the current bands, because I’m not, I grew up and started listening more to jazz and classical, but what is obvious even from a distance is that there are young poet-lyricists writing very feverishly and intensely, doing things that astonish even an older jaded fellow like myself.

Listen to your contemporaries and don’t compare yourselves to the better acts from years past. The “classic era” in rock/pop doesn’t really hold up anyway, and is re-introduced to kids every summer partly for reasons of cultural demographics and market forces, or because of the way cultural demographics effect market forces, actually. If you really have a yen for great musicianship, look towards other genre’s of music, and maybe at some prog and post prog (I hear Porcupine Tree is supposed to be good). If you are looking for great songwriting, listen to what speaks to you, personally, to your particular generation, and support those acts and believe in them. Devote yourselves. I think it is the quality of the audience that has diminished more in the last few decades, rather than the quality of the art. And the problem here is merely lack of confidence.

The mainstream destroys this potential by making “lame music” acceptable. There may be many greater, more unique, and creative bands than Led Zepplin in the underground… but I haven’t heard them.

I think mabey a few bands in the last 20 years have done it (Tool, NIN, and my personal favourite that would be the greatest rock band, world wide known if they were heard properly… Down). Even more years before that (Black Sabbath, Lynard Skynard)

I think if any band should be put into the running for being crownd a modern day led zeplin it’s Down. No gimicks, musically focused and driven, very unique and just a great pure rock band.

If you don’t know the band check it out!

I am sure ther will never be a band comparable with with Zep. They were to unique