Tophat665

No maybe about it. Without Zep, none of the noise that passes for rock on the radio these days even exists.

However, as integral to fusing the blues with what was beginning to become rock as Zeppelin was, (I do overstate a little. If it hadn't been Zeppelin, it would have been someone else. Indeed there were others. Cream, f'instance, and the Stones), no band is now or ever has been as good as

Blue Öyster Cult

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