Perhaps I'm just old-fashioned
but I maintain there's more to good rock music than just a good guitar riff. Most of the later Zeppelin does sound like Pagey came up with a riff, Bonham stomped a 4/4 over it and bingo, they had a song. Just to really stir the shit, I prefer John Renbourne's version of Nobody's Fault but Mine.

Had a listen to RS/GSS pt1 last night - really very good, I think if you were to split the different movements into separate tracks you'd have a perfectly serviceable concept album on your hands. I thought the dance/electro section towards the end went on a bit long, and one or two of the choices of guitar tone weren't ideal (a couple of the more scratchy overdrives didn't sit that well, in my humble opinion), but otherwise I thought it was excellent.
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 10:36, Reply)