Jimmy Page, It's time to call your lawyers?

Read an article  on Robert Plant, and he mentions GVF, as a current band he likes.

I listened, and they didn't hold my attention. Perhaps if I were 16, and never heard Zeppelin or ANY "classic" hard rock , I would have a different reaction?

Definitely for 20 somethings. Must be exciting to those who dissent  listen their parents R&R. They're just doing all the R&R  moves from every band from the 70's. Just don't hear any original/fresh vibe with these guys.

A different thing from the 60/70's bands interpretation of what the Blues guys did in the 50/60's. To each his own. 

Imagine what new R&R will be like in another 20 years? Kinda sad.

Rock is dead?

Jbhiller-

Regrettably , I concur with the linked reviews.

I just refuse to get off the "classic rock"
bus. I view any new  band now, as simply a weak/bad cover of what was.

IMO- if there is room for R&R to progress,
It's NOT thru GVF. 

Almost cringeworthy moments watching the lead singer. 

As mentioned, there isn't, or I fail to hear, ANYTHING unique about these kids.

This thread is wandering..

IMO, R&R NEEDED the 60's American/British bands to "lift" from
the Blues legends.

That's how it developed. Page,Hendrix,Clapton,Beck...
took the riffs and expanded them to what R&R is(was)

If that didn't happen, the amazing sound, guitar riffs,groove...
wouldn't be there to shape EVERYTHING that IS R&R.

Here is what's troubling. After the 80's cheese factor of music, originality of R&R possibly has PEAKED?

GVF aren't taking Zep's  vibe to a new level  as the R&R founders did to the blues.
I think I even heard the lead singer do some audience interplay with a goofy English accent along with the Robert stance! Fail.

I'm trying to get past the cover band vibe and trying to hear something different.

GVF is embarrassing. I'm a hack living room guitarist, the musicianship is cover band level at best. Same guitar licks,moves we have all heard/seen at the neighborhood bar.

I dig a good cover band. Led Zep Again, how about Dread Zeppelin?
https://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play;_ylt=AwrDQ3LHRjJc1ToArNe5mWRH;_ylu=X3oDMTByN2RnbHFoBHNlYwN...

https://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play;_ylt=AwrDQ3LHRjJc1ToA5Ne5mWRH;_ylu=X3oDMTBzMHZ1YnZvBHNlYwN...



I agree with Wolfie's remark that GVF scratched an itch. I guess the scratch isn't for R&R snobs as myself.

GET OFF MY ROCK AND ROLL LAWN!

What Howlin Wolf cut does Zep reference with the"Lemon Song?"
Or is it some other Blues cat? 

This thread has become a music history class... like!

I can't get enough of El Becko's  bad ass cover of this tune,which also was covered by the great Freddie King.

https://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play;_ylt=AwrEzeptejJcOKYAMT3BGOd_;_ylu=X3oDMTEybGJkdjBoBGNvbG8...

I tried my best to listen to the entire song, then judge.

https://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play;_ylt=Awr46ueuk0RcKUoAAXu5mWRH;_ylu=X3oDMTByZ2N0cmxpBHNlYwN...

Lasted 30 seconds. Even closed my eyes to get past the lead singers goofy,over done,trying too hard outfit and tired Robert Plant mannerism.

The guitarist moves around in rehearsed Page moves.

Thank goodness for You Tube, it’s bad enough SNL has been awful for decades.

For me the pitch of the lead singers voice is a turn off.. Musically, they sound fine, just generic.

Fail....again.

Does any remember watching this on SNL in 1978? These guys killed it.

https://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play;_ylt=AwrS32FSmkRcW3YA8hu5mWRH;_ylu=X3oDMTByMjBzZmhtBHNlYwN...

Approved by Mick
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dQzvBztQIg4

"If you know LZ and if you know Robert Plant you will see that the singer of GVF even parodies his movements and stage presence. Nothing wrong with that. Just saying."

n80-
I was wondering if my criticism was too harsh, mentioning the RP stage persona.
Listening to the singer, and watching the guitarist ape Jimmy’s moves,just became corny.

I don’t think of GVF as a Zep rip-off band, their just lacking in originality.

ANY Rock band coming up these days, has to not only have musical chops, but the rare ability to somehow, add something fresh. Ripoff or not, the mighty Zeppelin, and others did just that.

Those boys need to draw deeper within. A visit to the "crossroads" perhaps?