Greta van Fleet

[crash_davis 23,113]

What's the consensus?  Good, decent, fucking sucks ass through a straw used for enemas?

Hadn't heard them until I saw them on SNL.  First thought, hmm, sounds pretty cool.  Second thought, kids, try not to be so blatant about ripping off LZ.  

Then I read their comment about Black Keys and thought, these fucking dicks barely out puberty who don't even try to hide their ape of LZ is going to pass judgement on the Black Keys?

https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/01/greta-van-fleet-call-out-black-keys/

 

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Speaking recently with HEAVY (via Alternative Nation), bassist Sam Kiszka gave his take on The Black Keys. Specifically, he outlined the stakes that are at play whenever Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney release the follow-up to 2014’s Turn Blue: “They haven’t done a record in a long time, [so] at this point it’s going to decide whether they are some band, or a very serious staple rock band that shows and represents the rock and roll of the early 21st century.”

 

[Chad Fuck 17,684]

As Paul McCartney once said of Oasis, "If you're going to be derivative, why not be derivative of us?"

Same for these guys.  I applaud the youngsters doing their LZ thing.  LZ was pretty much ancient history to me when I first got into rock, and hell, I'm old.  So LZ must be positively stone age to these guys and their peers.  I got no problems with it.  

 

[bluto 4,932]

Thought their snl appearance was shit, esp second song which is a big hit of theirs. Was enough for me

[ohchaucer 1,443]

This guy says it better than I could, but if I could have said it this well, this is probably nicer than what I would have said:

 

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/greta-van-fleet-anthem-of-the-peaceful-army/

[crash_davis 23,113]

20 minutes ago, ohchaucer said:

This guy says it better than I could, but if I could have said it this well, this is probably nicer than what I would have said:

 

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/greta-van-fleet-anthem-of-the-peaceful-army/

lulz.  that was a brutal review.  that first line...

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Greta Van Fleet sound like they did weed exactly once, called the cops, and tried to record a Led Zeppelin album before they arrested themselves.

 

[Deej 76,830]

I saw or read an interview with them where they claimed they hadn't really ever listened to Zeppelin, so they weren't an influence. Lulz. 

Edited February 1, 2019 by Deej

[DougO 5,250]

I think I would like them OK if not for the singer. He really overdoes the Robert Plant thing. They trigger a lot of folks, but there's definitely a lot of worse shit out there. At least it's rock music. Save the hate for shittier shit.

[DougO 5,250]

They're kind of the hard rock Hanson. Led Hanson.

[crash_davis 23,113]

Just now, DougO said:

I think I would like them OK if not for the singer. He really overdoes the Robert Plant thing. They trigger a lot of folks, but there's definitely a lot of worse shit out there. At least it's rock music. Save the hate for shittier shit.

agreed.  but how would you like a blatant rip off band of AC/DC replete with a dude wearing a shorts suit banging his head, high stepping in place the whole time he plays the guitar?  

[Celery Man 20,967]

As original as Jet, but less fun.

[jimmyjazz 45,976]

Those 2 songs on SNL were awful.  I had seen them fuck up a single tune on some late night show nearly a year prior, so I wasn't expecting much, but honestly, they were better when they were clearly just trying to rip off LZ.

I've seen live footage from festivals a year or two old that's pretty impressive, but they seem to be on a dead end path to irrelevance.  I reiterate, WTF were those SNL tunes, anyway?  It was like watching Offspring trying to cover Steely Dan.  Brutal.

[jimmyjazz 45,976]

. . . and the idea that Zep wasn't an influence is completely blown out of the water by the singer, and not just his voice.  He does the same identical pelvis thrust with the mic cord wrapped around his extended index finger.  No way those guys didn't spend massive amounts of time studying that band.

[crash_davis 23,113]

if by studying you mean smoking weed and rocking out to copious amounts of LZ videos.

[crash_davis 23,113]

4 minutes ago, Thujone said:

Chad fuck you are wrong. GVF fucking sucks and should die in a fire and then eat a bag of dicks and then die in a fire again.

that would be more meaningful conveyed in art, specifically ms paint form.

[crash_davis 23,113]

5 minutes ago, Thujone said:

Chad fuck you are wrong. GVF fucking sucks and should die in a fire and then eat a bag of dicks and then die in a fire again.

btw, i think that's called the Bob Stoops.

[jimmyjazz 45,976]

7 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

btw, i think that's called the Bob Stoops.

I assume that's a taco at Torchy's?

[stc 1,462]

those snl videos are some of the most ridiculously terrible shit i've seen. like the kind of shit you would see on slavic public access. 

[crash_davis 23,113]

fucking lulz.

[Hank Kingsley 20,967]

The Pitchfork review nails it. 

Also their stage presence is awful, their musicianship is meh, and they wear costumes on stage. Absolutely nothing authentic about them.

 

[crash_davis 23,113]

15 minutes ago, Thujone said:

this should be submitted as their next album cover art. 

still laughing.

[dcar00 14,269]

Led Zeppelin is an icon and my favorite band.  these guys are decent.  songs are tight and catchy.  certainly have the Zep sound but people will tire of them if they don't evolve.  that said, to all the people being pissed about them aping Zep, let me know when they get sued multiple times for directly ripping off other songwriters and have to pay back-royalties.

[Big D 249]

I think they are better then some of that other shit that is out there today.  

[Deej 76,830]

1 hour ago, dcar00 said:

Led Zeppelin is an icon and my favorite band.  these guys are decent.  songs are tight and catchy.  certainly have the Zep sound but people will tire of them if they don't evolve.  that said, to all the people being pissed about them aping Zep, let me know when they get sued multiple times for directly ripping off other songwriters and have to pay back-royalties.

At least Zep adapted those songs to their own sound. GVF is just a new version of Kingdom Come.

[DougO 5,250]

The thing is they wouldn't have ever been noticed much if there was a lot of competition in the current hard rock genre.

Edited February 2, 2019 by DougO

[BrickHorn 18,237]

19 hours ago, Deej said:

I saw or read an interview with them where they claimed they hadn't really ever listened to Zeppelin, so they weren't an influence. Lulz. 

Wow.  They even ripped off Led Zeppelin’s defense to accusations that they ripped another artist off.  Say what you will about Greta Van Fleet, but no one can doubt their dedication to all-encompassing plagiarism.

Edited February 2, 2019 by BrickHorn

[TwiceHorn 31,495]

16 hours ago, Thujone said:

Seems more like a box of dicks, but I'll allow it. 

[Deej 76,830]

16 hours ago, Thujone said:

I had no idea the lead singer was Bob Stoops' son.

[immamac 42,865]

Band sucks, Thujone confirmed lock it up.

[Steel Shank 9,428]

22 hours ago, DougO said:

I think I would like them OK if not for the singer. He really overdoes the Robert Plant thing. They trigger a lot of folks, but there's definitely a lot of worse shit out there. At least it's rock music. Save the hate for shittier shit.

this

[phdhorn 6,224]

They're not bad.  Remind me a lot of the Partridge Family, only less hawt/no Susan Dey/Shirley Jones.  But I can just play Led Zeppelin because they're better at imitating Led Zeppelin than GVF.

[Mdhorn 5,970]

On the fence about them and have seen them live.  They are talented but the lead singer dresses like an old Jewish lady and at times, sounds like Adam Sandler singing Robert Plant.  The band can jam but they've copied LZ's mannerisms.  The guitarist has Jimmy Page down and I read in an interview that he spent a year watching him and learning so he's definitely in tune with not just his sound but the way he plays and looks.  They've tried to talk about Iggy Pop some but that ends with both bands being from Detroit.  Their first album is a good listen.  I don't think it's an easy thing to copy any of the greats playing, much less craft your songs in their style but they've managed it. And if you ever want to hear some different Led Zeppelin tunes, maybe look up GVZ.  There's no point in learning the band members names when the original 70s lineup was the better band.  

 

Edit: Just watched a live studio performance of them that seemed more like a parody.  Awful.  

Edited February 2, 2019 by Mdhorn

[Al_4_ISU 12,464]

If you're gonna be a rip off artist, rip off someone good.

Thats how I see these guys.  I enjoy them to the extent it sounds like someone found a bunch of Zep left overs.  Christ, it's not like Plant wrote any deeper lyrics.

[Steel Shank 9,428]

I've got a long list of shitty bands to run through before I hit these guys. Not saying they're bad or good, just not the worst.

[Goredho 17,408]

Ok for a Led Zeppelin tribute band.

[Deej 76,830]

I like them more when I can't see the hobbit they have for a lead singer, although it fits with a lot of Plant's lyrics.

[Goredho 17,408]

4 minutes ago, Deej said:

I like them more when I can't see the hobbit they have for a lead singer, although it fits with a lot of Plant's lyrics.

Lol.  I’ll give them some props for being commercially successful in 2018/2019 with hard rock style guitar front and center.  Almost all other recently popular music has relegated the guitar to its big-band role prior to rock&roll.  GVF may be opening doors for someone to actually evolve the classic/hard rock genre.

One big problem with basing your identity on Zeppelin today, though — how can you be someone’s “backdoor man” in the politically correct #metoo era?  You can’t, the lyrics have to be sanitized to the point of being bland. Like an inoffensive, least common denominator “Blazing Saddles” would be.  This is a big criticism of mine with GVF — They are zero calorie, diet Zeppelin.  Perfectly acceptable to the suits of corporate America.  “The Hanson of hard rock” was a perfect description.

[Red Five 40,862]

(I kind of like them....)

[pepper brooks 580]

I try not to overthink it.  I like the kind of music they're putting out.  I really don't care if it's a copy/ripoff/etc of something that was great.  There really isn't that much originality left in music anyway.  I'm not going to get all bent up about them trying to claim they are or are not a copy of zeppelin.  It doesn't matter.  What matters is do I like the music theyre producing?  Yeah.  Pretty much.  I like their first EP better than their album they released.  

[SwanderedTalent 5,761]

37 minutes ago, pepper brooks said:

try not to overthink it.  I like the kind of music they're putting out. 

Same. I'm somewhere between liking them and finding them obnoxious. But this is one of the few acts I've heard in the last few years that didn't make me ask "are you fucking kidding with this shit?" immediately.

[Chad Fuck 17,684]

23 hours ago, Goredho said:

Lol.  I’ll give them some props for being commercially successful in 2018/2019 with hard rock style guitar front and center.  Almost all other recently popular music has relegated the guitar to its big-band role prior to rock&roll.  GVF may be opening doors for someone to actually evolve the classic/hard rock genre.

One big problem with basing your identity on Zeppelin today, though — how can you be someone’s “backdoor man” in the politically correct #metoo era?  You can’t, the lyrics have to be sanitized to the point of being bland. Like an inoffensive, least common denominator “Blazing Saddles” would be.  This is a big criticism of mine with GVF — They are zero calorie, diet Zeppelin.  Perfectly acceptable to the suits of corporate America.  “The Hanson of hard rock” was a perfect description.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Door_Man

 

[Goredho 17,408]

3 hours ago, Chad Fuck said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Door_Man

 

Point taken.  Now answer me this:  How can you violate a groupie with a mud shark in the #metoo era?

[SwanderedTalent 5,761]

18 minutes ago, Goredho said:

Point taken.  Now answer me this:  How can you violate a groupie with a mud shark in the #metoo era?

that's not a question I dream of answering any more, but... does it help if the groupie consents? I mean in all the tellings of the mud shark story, no one's ever indicated whether the shark itself consented so that's moot

[Chad Fuck 17,684]

22 minutes ago, Goredho said:

Point taken.  Now answer me this:  How can you violate a groupie with a mud shark in the #metoo era?

[DougO 5,250]

The big winners of the Superbowl, next to the Patriots, are Greta Van Fleet. Not nearly so many people talking about how much they suck since last night's halftime show.

[DougO 5,250]

Bobby Fleet and his Band With a Beat > Greta Van Fleet

Jim Lindsey was a bad mother...

 

 

He could play totally separate rhythm and electric lead parts at the same time on one acoustic guitar.

[Deej 76,830]

5 hours ago, Goredho said:

Point taken.  Now answer me this:  How can you violate a groupie with a mud shark in the #metoo era?

Your biggest problem would be PETA.

[mr. sunshine 2,827]

On 2/1/2019 at 1:44 PM, crash_davis said:

smoking weed and rocking out to copious amounts of LZ

I retired recently and decided to return to my roots which is pretty much this 

[El Diablo 4,232]

2 hours ago, Deej said:

Your biggest problem would be PETA.

Because of the groupie? Or because of the stool sample?

[Goredho 17,408]

The most visually disturbing thing to witness in a GVF mud shark scene would be this:

 

[Deej 76,830]

Katy Perry really deprived us of a great Super Bowl halftime show a few years ago by not having dancing mud sharks.