I struggle with the Hendrix, LedZep stuff now though I've always been a huge fan. That music is timeless in the sense that I think someone who is totally unfamiliar could listen to it today and say "wow", but for myself, I've heard so much of it so many times that it's become somehow stale and faded for me. Took me a while to find an LZ song off the first 2 albums for the 60s post above that still sounded interesting to me. I guess it depends too on what's happened over the years to one's musical taste. Most of the Rush catalogue and the Black Sabbath catalogue up to Mob Rules still sounds great to me and I listen to all of that often, but it's rare I'll sit and listen to LZ much - I think over the years, my tastes changed to heavier rock / heavy prog / early Metal, so I have less interest now in the more blues based stuff that comes thru in LZ. In the early 70s Metal was not a term I heard a lot, if at all - at the time LZ was "Metal" to my mind given the small record collection I had, though I could hear those strong LZ references back to very old blues music that I was not really a fan of. Had I invested in a few Black Sabbath LPs at the time, I'd likely have "switched over" to that style more quickly as I feel Black Sabbath really did invent a completely new genre with their first album in 1970 (and mostly sticking to that throughout), where as LZ took older blues and transformed it.
