Led Zeppelin or Rush?

Led Zeppelin or Rush

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Where’s that Wham! Option… :unsure:

I don’t know why, but I’ve never been able to get into either of these bands. I should like both… but I just can’t. I don’t hate either, I can listen to a song or two, but neither is something I would choose to spend an afternoon listening to
 
hemmelight said:
I love both... but as someone that grew up close to Toronto, I'd probably be fined by the provincial government if I didn't say Rush.
Rush has featured heavily in my life thanks to their place in Canadian pop culture, and both of my parents were always fans while I was growing up.

I don't really listen to Zep much, but when I want that thing only they will do.
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416 and YYZ, baby! A little Lakeside Park in there, too.

I lived just off Danforth and Jones for six years (Ravina Cresent). Great city. Don't miss the winters.
 
When I was just wee young lad in meh pissypants - my father, with Led Zeppelin in one hand and Rush in the other, urged me to crawl my toothless drooling bald little ass across the living room floor and decide which kind of man I was going to be.

On my way over to him my knee pressed up against the edge of a rubber bouncy ball and when the pressure from the weight of meh wee litt'l frame gave way to the grip of the ball on the ground, it shot up at breakneck speed toward the black and white Zenith TV set in our living room hitting it directly in the power button.

The TV turned on in a flicker, giving a new and warm illumination to the room with the music video for Public Enemy's Rebel Without A Pause. I stopped in my puddle of drool, sat in it, and marveled at what was on display.

My father with head in his hands and LPs in his lap, knew that one day this child would grow to be a plague on this planet.
 
My "formal" introduction to Rush (aside from hearing them on the radio) was Moving Pictures.

My "personal" introduction to Rush (actively listening by myself to an entire album) was 2112... mind blown.
 
This was my introduction to Rush
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still my favorite album by them 🤷🏻
 
It’s like asking which was the better Beatle….John or Paul? The answer is…yes, they were.

I just remembered, I had a friend buy me a ticket to see Led Zeppelin but my parents wouldn’t let me travel in a van full of long haired dudes to see the show. I saw Rush a dozen times. I’d trade all those Rush shows to have been at the Zeppelin show so there is that…and I can play ten Zep tunes for every one Rush tune. Yea I guess it’s Zeppelin for the win.
 
Which do I like better? Rush.

But I love Zeppelin too, just got to be a hopeless Rusn nerd over the years.
 
I got together with a bass player and drummer who were Rush nerds like me, and we worked up an entire set of nothing but Rush tunes. :rawk It was a blast!! They both went to the same HS, and wanted to play our stuff at one of their assemblies..., totally instrumental versions since we couldn't find anyone who could sing them (no surprise!)

It went over quite well. :banana
 
Zeppelin for me, born in 1983. Growing up on rock radio, I think their influence was bigger on bands that were big in the late 80's and early 90's. Then when I started playing drums, my first influences like Dave Grohl were much closer to John Bonham than Neil Peart. Zep had a heavier sound and the songs were catchier and more exciting. Now I still liked Rush quite a bit but not as much.

My dad was a big prog rock guy and I think he saw Rush but never saw Zeppelin because he had a date that night or something. He also said he listened to more Rush in the 80's because he got burned out on Zep as they were overplayed on the radio in the 70s's.
 
Who doesn't like Stairway to Heaven? (Unless you are a guitar store employee/ owner)

Seriously, both are awesome bands. I prefer Led Zep though.
 
Rush by a long, long way

my introduction to Rush was Archives

I was influenced by both Page and Lifeson, but Lifeson was always my guy

Rush was always more original, IMO
Zep used so much blues influence in a great deal of their catalogue
 
Zeppelin wins easily. Had Rush stuck to the style of their first album (best by far), it might have been closer . . . but still not close.
 
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