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TeamPooka

(24,221 posts) Tue Jan 22, 2019, 12:17 AM Jan 2019

Greta Van Fleet on SNL sent me into a flashback...

The only way I can explain this fantastic Greta Van Fleet performance is that Creedence Clearwater Revival must've made a wish to be younger on a Zoltar machine, then got the love child of Roger Daltrey and Geddy Lee to sing lead on a song Bob Dylan forgot to write in 1974.

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Greta Van Fleet on SNL sent me into a flashback... (Original Post) TeamPooka Jan 2019 OP

I dig 'em too ... it's not my fave song by them but it's still pretty decent ... mr_lebowski Jan 2019 #1

I dig these guys quite a bit as well The Polack MSgt Jan 2019 #2

I do remember, and that album was pretty kick ass ... mr_lebowski Jan 2019 #8

I had never rownesheck Jan 2019 #3

They sound more like Led Zeppelin to me. Tobin S. Jan 2019 #4

I see 'em more as a Zep rip off. nt Dr Hobbitstein Jan 2019 #5

Not an unfair assessment ... and there's been a LOT of those, none of which made it far ... mr_lebowski Jan 2019 #7

I much prefer Andrew Stockdale and Wolfmother's take on the genre... Dr Hobbitstein Jan 2019 #9

Hell, LZ hadn't been gone for long before the clone wars started The Polack MSgt Jan 2019 #10

Put me in the more like LZ corner with some Geddy Lee as well. Solly Mack Jan 2019 #6

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)

1. I dig 'em too ... it's not my fave song by them but it's still pretty decent ...

Reply to TeamPooka (Original post)

Tue Jan 22, 2019, 12:23 AM

Jan 2019

Singer is more reminiscent of Robert Plant than Geddy Lee to me overall (esp. considering their body of work as opposed to just this one ... though it's also pretty Plant-like lol) but I guess I can hear some Geddy too ... along with lots of other Rock singers from the 70's and 80's in particular

I've heard all their songs to date, and cannot say that their lyrics anywhere near the caliber of Bob Dylan's. Not close to Zeppelin's or Rush's either.

I do have high hopes for them, though, they're very young and talented, and I dig a bunch of their songs so far, and look forward to seeing them develop into something great ... I think they got a decent shot at it.

The Polack MSgt

(13,187 posts)

2. I dig these guys quite a bit as well

Reply to mr_lebowski (Reply #1)

Tue Jan 22, 2019, 06:06 AM

Jan 2019

I just hope they avoid "Silverchair Syndrome" because I was convinced that Silverchair was the absolute FUTURE of hard rock after Frogstomp was released.

They faded away instead. Remember?

So good luck to GVF. I'm pulling for them.

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)

8. I do remember, and that album was pretty kick ass ...

Reply to The Polack MSgt (Reply #2)

Tue Jan 22, 2019, 12:03 PM

Jan 2019

rownesheck

(2,343 posts)

3. I had never

Reply to TeamPooka (Original post)

Tue Jan 22, 2019, 07:43 AM

Jan 2019

heard of this band until watching snl. Its not my kind of music, but i couldn't stop singing out loud, "the black smoke rises!" in that high pitch of his. My wife was not amused.

Tobin S.

(10,418 posts)

4. They sound more like Led Zeppelin to me.

Reply to TeamPooka (Original post)

Tue Jan 22, 2019, 09:10 AM

Jan 2019

The similarity is so great they get play on classic rock stations. They've already released an EP and an LP and have had several hits. I think they are all around 20 years old.