>>>I was around when these guys were first getting started. I started getting into them again recently and I'm amazed at how good they really were. I still listen in wonderment whenever I drive through a college campus and hear students blaring out Whole Lotta Love or Stairway to Heaven. I can still play most of their best known stuff on guitar, but one of my favorites is Over the Hills and Far Away.
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>>Yes I was around at that time. My night club went from Tamla and Soul to Metal practically overnight, and we all head banged away :-)
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>>Whol lotta love's guitar riff was the basis for the BBC's decade-spanning premier pop show, "Top of the Pops" for more years than I can recall.
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>>Interesting how that era spawned several bands with names of improbable flying objects. Can't remember most now but Iron Butterfly was one. Anyone recall any others?
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>Not really the name of the band, but, Pink Floyd was famous for their flying pig balloon at concerts.

That was to represent one's chances at getting a ticket to one of their gigs!