Mothership - The Inspiration

Here's some stuff that actually sounds like Led Zep...Great White, Whitesnake, Kingdom Come, & Bonham.

If you'd like the one track that - IMHO - qualifies as the most unlikely choice for "along the lines of" Led Zeppelin, you might want to try "Come" by Fleetwood Mac. (Yes, Fleetwood Mac.) It's on "Say You Will".

Marty

BTW, at the risk of infuriating all the Jimmy Page fans out there, there's a couple of live versions (Fleetwood Mac's "Live in Boston" and Lindsey Buckingham's "Live at Bass Hall")where the guitar solo just smokes anything I've ever heard out of Zep. Obviously, this one is just MHO.

For the record, I've seen Zep 3 or 4 times (including the LZ IV tour at MSG)and like 'em a fair bit.

Hi Silverback,

I'm not trying to be facetious but neither your first post nor anyone since has mentioned the obvious suggestion - Led Zeppelin.

Mothership pulls out the plums, but there is a huge amount of great music on the albums as originally constituted.

If you stop at Mothership you'll never hear "Your Time Is Gonna Come", "What is and What Should Never Be", "Gallows Pole", "The Battle Of Evermore", "The Ocean", "In My Time of Dying", "The Wanton Song", "For Your Life" or "Fool In The Rain". That would be a great pity.

Plus you'll miss the development of the band from mainly blues to folk rock to hard rock to a flirtation with keyboard rock (the latter mainly in response to external pressures) but always with swing and great musical intelligence.

The focus exclusvely on the plums is the great pity about classic rock programming in the current era.