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I like the analogy, but this kind of suggests there were other Led Zeppelins and the one we know is just the one that happened to be marketed. I find that hard
by globular-toast 3y ago
I like the analogy, but this kind of suggests there were other Led Zeppelins and the one we know is just the one that happened to be marketed. I find that hard to believe.
I think it's more like the cabbages are still there, but now you have to sift through a ton of wild varieties of bitter and tough brassicas yourself.
- toyg 3y agoI would argue that any musician active at the time will know someone who was as good as Led Zeppelin, but never made it because they couldn't get a label contract at the right time. This is particularly true if you include black artists. It's not just marketing - production costs were very high. There is an element of cargo-cultism in the boomer experience, as a result of scarcity and strict gatekeeping that lasted pretty much all the way to the early 2000s.