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But Led Zeppelin weren’t a minstrel show—they were something so much weirder...Here was a band that wedded Robert Johnson-isms to plots borrowed from Tolkien novels with no sense of incongruity, or embarrassment. The problem with Led Zeppelin was never really what they’d stolen from the blues, but what they hadn’t: economy, wit, taste...Led Zeppelin had started as an idea, and was now despised as one. But why did people really hate Led Zeppelin? The rock ’n’ roll of the counterculture had been supposed to change the world and hadn’t...They represented someone’s cynical fantasy of the masses, a coalition of louts and groupies and wasted youths who, come to think of it, probably weren’t even reading rock criticism in the first place.
Posted on: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 17:29:11 +0000

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