More influential: Velvet Underground or Led Zeppelin?

[kosmo vinyl]

Now class given the recent nod by Robert Plant for Arthur Lee and Love.  Who is more influential Love or the Velvet Underground?
 
 Extra Credit Question.  Would Led Zeppelin been a better band with Terry Reed as it's singer and extra guitarist?

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
  Led Zeppelin, like The Beatles before them, caused many people to go get guitars, etc and form bands which has more impact than say being influential.  
 

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[thingsfallapart]

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
  Led Zeppelin, like The Beatles before them, caused many people to go get guitars, etc and form bands which has more impact than say being influential.

That's exactly what I was trying to say earlier.

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

Rhett, that's kinda weird, calling me by my real name, don't do that again, mmkay?
 
 Although it's funny, although I have no idea what you look like, I do kinda picture you looking like him.  
 
 Anyhoo, I did exactly what I would've done in junior high, when such occurrences were more common, I thought of the perfect comeback after it was already too late.  
 
 But to get back to the original point, I vote for VU.  Led Zeppelin probably influenced more people to become metalheads, smoke pot, and wear rock concert t-shirts; but the VU influenced a lot of bands to head down different directions than they might have otherwise.  And that impact is more lasting.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Your name is in the link you posted to your website. It doesn't take a genius to figure out what your name is.
 
 QUOTE]Originally posted by D O C T O R D O O O O O M:
  Rhett, that's kinda weird, calling me by my real name, don't do that again, mmkay?
 
 Although it's funny, although I have no idea what you look like, I do kinda picture you looking like him.      
 
 Anyhoo, I did exactly what I would've done in junior high, when such occurrences were more common, I thought of the perfect comeback after it was already too late.  
 
 But to get back to the original point, I vote for VU.  Led Zeppelin probably influenced more people to become metalheads, smoke pot, and wear rock concert t-shirts; but the VU influenced a lot of bands to head down different directions than they might have otherwise.  And that impact is more lasting. [/QUOTE]

[ggw]

Originally posted by Rob_Gee:
 That sounds like discrimination against Zeppelin fans, where are those two fags Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton when you need them.

You do realize that article was satirical?

[edbert]

The answer is obvious to me: Velvets because they're the band any group of dudes in a garage could sound like. Not many kids could get anything like the Robert Plant vocal sound (not saying that's a bad thing that they couldn't) or the Bonzo bass-heavy drumming, so not nearly as many bands got close to the Zep sound

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The Velvet Underground playing for the American Society of Clinical Psychiatrists in NYC, 1966


January 13, 1966, the first concert of the "Exploding Plastic Inevitable": band plus two dancers, and no light show yet.
It was a dinner. The guests didn't quite know what kind of 'entertainment' they were getting - and how could they have known? Candleabra, chandeliers, Louis VIII style ornamentation on the mirror, all made for a clear-cut, decorous culture clash.