Please find your own voice too because you have musical talent. "It's so close it's scary," remarked Don after one of the challenges.Ĭatherine implored the band to make its own way: "No one can be Led Zeppelin again. Reviews were mostly positive, except when Catherine bluntly claimed, "It's a ripoff of Led Zeppelin!"Īfter being shown part of Greta Van Fleet's music video for "Black Smoke Rising," Don said he expected the group to look young, "but everything's younger than me."įBE then went on to play some more music for their participants, asking them to guess whether they were listening to Led Zeppelin or GVF.Īs it turned out, there wasn't a whole lot of confusion on the first song! At least three people asked after about a minute if Greta Van Fleet's "Safari Song" was new or perhaps long-lost Led Zeppelin music.
It seems like most of the participants were familiar with Led Zeppelin prior to this experiment. Guitarist Jimmy Page and singer Robert Plant began writing the song during the summer of 1975 and were influenced by Eastern music, mythology, and exposure to diverse. YouTube channel FBE set out to find just how much of a sound-alike Greta Van Fleet truly is, by having some Baby Boomers and Gen-Xers react to the band's music side-by-side with that of Led Zeppelin. ' Achilles Last Stand ' a is a song by the English rock group Led Zeppelin released as the opening track on their seventh studio album, Presence (1976). While GVF avoid talking about it, pretty much everything about the band's sound on its From the Fires EP is reminiscent of early Zeppelin.įrom the way GVF's rhythm section cooks up '60/'70s heavy rock-inspired riffs, to the lead vocals, to the general production aesthetic of the music, you don't need to be a rock 'n' roll expert to hear Zeppelin all the way through. Whether the band of Michigan-based 20-year-olds is a tribute or a ripoff-or whether or not that question should bother Zep fans-has been the subject of plenty of debate since GVF burst onto radio dials all over the world last spring. Greta Van Fleet sounds about as much like Aerosmith as Led Zeppelin does. Greta Van Fleet's worship of Led Zeppelin is about as obvious as the sky is blue. The song, and the rest of its respective EP, is also part of the bands double.
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