Most blatant, unashamed rip off bands

[Barking Spiders]

I'm not the most ardent Zep fan but I'm familiar with their back catalogue. Planet Rock have just played an unfamiliar sounding track . Not having heard it before I thought it might've been some long lost tune unearthed from the archives. Then Paul Anthony says it's 'Get it on' by Kingdom Come, whoever they might be. I mean, the Plant style vocals, the Page style riffing and the Bonham type drumming are to a T! Anyone else too close for comfort they way they emulate such and such a band.

[Merton]

Airbourne come to mind, shamelessly aping the AC/DC sound.

Greta Van Fleet were accused of being Zep-lite on their first album weren't they...

[bartelby]

I would have nominated Led Zep for this category...

[Lord Sausage]

41 minutes ago, Barking Spiders said:

I'm not the most ardent Zep fan but I'm familiar with their back catalogue. Planet Rock have just played an unfamiliar sounding track . Not having heard it before I thought it might've been some long lost tune unearthed from the archives. Then Paul Anthony says it's 'Get it on' by Kingdom Come, whoever they might be. I mean, the Plant style vocals, the Page style riffing and the Bonham type drumming are to a T! Anyone else too close for comfort they way they emulate such and such a band.

Didn't Gary Moore and someone else do a parody tune of the Zep parody bands?

[MacDaddy]

1 minute ago, Lord Sausage said:

Didn't Gary Moore and someone else do a parody tune of the Zep parody bands?

Led Clones, on the After the War album, sung by Ozzy Osbourne.

[MacDaddy]

45 minutes ago, Barking Spiders said:

 Anyone else too close for comfort they way they emulate such and such a band.

Oasis?

[EBS_freak]

Los Shakers. Guess who...?

 

Edited June 15, 2021 by EBS_freak

[NancyJohnson]

53 minutes ago, Barking Spiders said:

I'm not the most ardent Zep fan but I'm familiar with their back catalogue. Planet Rock have just played an unfamiliar sounding track . Not having heard it before I thought it might've been some long lost tune unearthed from the archives. Then Paul Anthony says it's 'Get it on' by Kingdom Come, whoever they might be. I mean, the Plant style vocals, the Page style riffing and the Bonham type drumming are to a T! Anyone else too close for comfort they way they emulate such and such a band.

While I profess to have never knowingly heard a single note by Kingdom Come, I think what made me chuckle about this post was the throwaway 'whoever they might be' comment.  They were known as being Led Zeppelin-esque since their incept in the late 1980s and have released about 20 albums.

Isn't is a case that imitation is the highest form of flattery?

 

[toneknob]

One for the Led Zep fans.

 

[Steve Browning]

1 hour ago, bartelby said:

I would have nominated Led Zep for this category...

Most definitely!!

 

[Doctor J]

In 1990, Rhino Bucket famously released the best AC/DC album since Back in Black

 

Edited June 15, 2021 by Doctor J

[peteb]

1 hour ago, bartelby said:

I would have nominated Led Zep for this category...

 

3 minutes ago, Steve Browning said:

Most definitely!!

 

I always took the view that Led Zep were just continuing the fine old blues tradition of taking an existing song, changing it a bit, then claiming authorship! 

I mean, who actually wrote 'Dust My Broom'?? 

 

[Bassassin]

52 minutes ago, NancyJohnson said:

While I profess to have never knowingly heard a single note by Kingdom Come, I think what made me chuckle about this post was the throwaway 'whoever they might be' comment.  They were known as being Led Zeppelin-esque since their incept in the late 1980s and have released about 20 albums.

The only reason I can even remember that they existed is that they were invariably referred to as Condom King.

[Doctor J]

Kingdom Clone around my way 🙂

[NickD]

I really liked that first Kingdom Come album when I was a kid (the one with Get it On.... er... on).

Sure a lot of it is pretty blatant, but Zep were the early masters of that anyway. Plus it was better than the stuff that Percy was putting out at the time.

[TheGreek]

Many of my friends thought "American Woman" by Guess Who was a LZ track.

 

How many people thought that "Hey little girl" by Icehouse was Japan/ Roxy Music when they first heard it. Not necessarily a rip off as a "sounds like". We had a similar problem with a band I played in years ago - lots of comments about "sounding like" INXS.

 

[Guest]

My first and only listen to the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club made me think that I prefered my Jesus and Mary Chain unchewed. 

(Though I suppose someone could say the same about them and the Velvet Underground)

[bertbass]

And one for Deep Purple fans.

 

 

I have to say that I think Sweet were a brilliant band, just listen to their albums!

[Steve Browning]

Having toured a few times with It's A Beautiful Day, never mention Deep Purple/Child In Time and the song that came before Bombay Calling.

 

[davepb24]

Being not as familiar with all Zeppelin's catalogue as I perhaps ought to be I have genuinely mistaken Greta van Fleet for them on the radio before now

[obi 2 kenobi]

Yep, Oasis, a rip off of the Bootleg Beatles 😁

[Lozz196]

5 hours ago, Merton said:

Airbourne come to mind, shamelessly aping the AC/DC sound.

Yep, a bit faster, higher-octane version but unashamedly AC/DC inspired 

[bassbiscuits]

Bush, who were dreadful Nirvana-lite from the mid 1990s, but nowhere near as original. 

[EBS_freak]

7 minutes ago, bassbiscuits said:

Bush, who were dreadful Nirvana-lite from the mid 1990s, but nowhere near as original. 

Oh come on, it was close enough for Gavin to bag Kurt's beau... before he moved back to Gwen.

Edited June 15, 2021 by EBS_freak

[Jus Lukin]

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Edited March 14, 2022 by Jus Lukin