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Anyone who has built their career on trying to copy Led Zeppelin<\/a> is better off going back to the drawing board.\u00a0<\/p>\n There\u2019s no chance that anyone was going to write as many classic riffs as Jimmy Page could, and even if some Zeppelin copycats were successful, there is only so much time for throwback acts to make a dent in the zeitgeist before they start running out of ideas. We\u2019ve seen it happen with everyone from Kingdom Come to Jet to Wolfmother, but Page knew when a throwback act was worth making a big fuss about.<\/p>\n Because, for all of the great bands that have been trying to bring rock bands in recent years, the ones that stick around are those that have something to say. As much as Greta Van Fleet might try to take the bones of what bands like Zeppelin, Rush and Aerosmith used to do in their prime, it\u2019s always better to listen to artists like Rival Sons that are actively trying to build on what those bands did in the first place.<\/p>\n After all, rock and roll didn\u2019t become one of the greatest musical forces in the world by staying stagnant. Even Page wanted to move outside the confines of what rock and roll could be when he first formed Zeppelin, and some of his biggest proteges have been able to make a name for themselves as legends in their own right, whether it was Aerosmith jacking a few Zeppelin riffs for their songs or Judas Priest taking that brand of heaviness and helping form the basis of heavy metal.<\/p>\n But by the time Zeppelin called it quits, Page was more content to reinvent music with his blues vocabulary. A lot of The Firm\u2019s greatest songs had a lot more to do with old-school classic rock, and while his one-off collaborations with David Coverdale and Robert Plant were definitely fun, there were clearly some licks that felt like they could have been the successor to anything that turned up on Physical Graffiti<\/a>. <\/p>\n That was the genre he was most comfortable with, but that didn\u2019t mean that bands like The Black Crowes couldn\u2019t absorb that kind of music as well. They were students of the blues from the time they started working on tracks like \u2018Hard to Handle\u2019 or \u2018Twice As Hard\u2019, but when Page actually worked up the nerve to join them onstage, he remembered feeling that same rush that he had when working up \u2018Dazed and Confused\u2019 for the first time.<\/p>\n