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Originally Posted by louielouie2000
The reason why Led Zepplin were so special and made it so big was because they took something very familiar, the blues, and put it into a blender with the then unheard of hard rock. They basically invented heavy metal. It was the innovation that put them on the map, and kept them there. Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac just wasn't that kind of innovative. .
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Whaaat? Agree with the "made it big" part, not the "innovative" part. Post 1968 Mac - "Green Manalishi" and "Oh Well" (copied by Zeppelin, guess which song) are more innovative than anything Zep put out, it could be argued. To be fair, I have mostly heard their 2 first albums, which are very derivative, with most songs "borrowed" from black blues artists. Better production than Then Play On, though.