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    Rhetoric: Led Zeppelin Textual Analysis

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    Led Zeppelin was a pioneering rock band in the late 1960s and 1970s. They took risks with their music and presentation that helped establish the era of modern rock. While other bands like The Beatles influenced rock music, the author argues that Led Zeppelin truly started modern rock. Their dramatic guitar openings and Robert Plant's vocals set them apart in exciting new ways. Although the band was only together for 12 years before breaking up in 1980, their legacy and influence on rock music lives on through generations of fans.

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    Led Zeppelin was a pioneering rock band in the late 1960s and 1970s. They took risks with their music and presentation that helped establish the era of modern rock. While other bands like The Beatles influenced rock music, the author argues that Led Zeppelin truly started modern rock. Their dramatic guitar openings and Robert Plant's vocals set them apart in exciting new ways. Although the band was only together for 12 years before breaking up in 1980, their legacy and influence on rock music lives on through generations of fans.

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    Led Zeppelin was a pioneering rock band in the late 1960s and 1970s. They took risks with their music and presentation that helped establish the era of modern rock. While other bands like The Beatles influenced rock music, the author argues that Led Zeppelin truly started modern rock. Their dramatic guitar openings and Robert Plant's vocals set them apart in exciting new ways. Although the band was only together for 12 years before breaking up in 1980, their legacy and influence on rock music lives on through generations of fans.

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    Merriman 1

    Connor Merriman
    Mr. Newman
    English 101: Rhetoric
    30 September 2014

    Led Zeppelin: The band that started it all

    Led Zeppelin, a band very widely known for their creativity and willingness to take risks
    with their music has produced some of the most popular music ever known. Not only is the band
    known for the popularity their music has received, they have also been know play a major part
    in establishing the era of modern rock music. But also, the band took risks with the music they
    were playing. The way in which they presented themselves on stage played a huge role too. In
    Slate Magazine article, from June 18th, 2014, "Good Times Bad Times", Jack Hamilton
    effectively uses pathos to show how the band, Led Zeppelin, were one of the most influential
    bands of all time and shaped modern rock to what it is today.
    The article starts out putting the reader in the shoes of someone in early 1969 and is
    listening to the first Led Zeppelin album for the first time. In the article, Hamilton further talks
    about how Led Zeppelins legacy is abundantly long and still lives on to this day. Hamilton says
    how many people believe that modern rock n roll music started with Bob Dylan's Like a
    Rolling Stone, but describes .these myths are wishful, and overly fanciful: Modern rock
    music started with Led Zeppelin. Although there are many bands that had an influence on
    today's rock music, Led Zeppelin is the one to thank. They were the band that gave anyone
    over the age of 40 anxiety, while also having a dramatic influence on the lives of young
    adolescents during the 70s. Nearly 45 years later, people are living in the path that Led
    Zeppelin left behind.

    Merriman 2
    While the stage for rock n roll music had seemed to been set for that era from, The
    Beatles, Led Zeppelin had took that style of music and had flipped it upside down. It cemented
    Led Zeppelin as the biggest band of the post-Beatles era, even if returns afterward were
    diminishing From the dramatic burst of guitar that opened the song Good Times Bad Times,
    to the soft voice of Robert Plant in Stairway to Heaven, the band did everything in a new,
    exciting fashion the world had never seen before.
    On September 25th, 1980, the band that changed rock n roll music forever, had ended
    its career after only 12 short years together. Hamilton describes this well in his article by
    showing how the fans still gave the bands music the power to live on through to this day. Not
    only has the music survived because of how good it was, but also how the fans helped it
    continue. Led Zeppelin may not be everyones favorite band, but the impact they had on the path
    rock n roll music has led to today has had a dramatic impact on the music being produced
    today. From the greek mythology used to write their lyrics, to the murderous blasts of 20 minute
    long guitar solo blasting from Pages Les Paul on stage, Led Zeppelin took a risk and played
    their own take on what they believe rock n roll music should be, and it did everything it was
    supposed to, it changed rock n roll music for all the generations to follow. Hamilton uses pathos
    very well to describe the emotion the fans received from the music and how Led Zeppelin had a
    great impact of todays rock n roll music produced.

    Work Cited

    Merriman 3
    Hamilton, Jack. Good Times Bad Times. Slate. Slate Group, 18 June 2014. Web. 2 Oct. 2014.

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