Well pretty much any band with a hard rock sound will eventually get tagged with the “Zeppelin influence” tag considering that they pretty much invented the genre with LZII. Personally I have never found a whole lot in their music to keep me satisfied beyond some stuff from IV, and maybe Kashmir and Achilles Last Stand. There was some good stuff also on Physical Graffiti too but once I left my teen years I kinda moved on to other acts. Though I do give the band credit for keeping their sound dynamic and not just doing II & IV over and over.

C’mon now. Just because it is the Osmonds you can’t dismiss it as not having a sound similiar to Zeppelin or at least influenced by them. It sounds nothing like the Glenn Hughes Purple. No keyboards and no hokey vocals ala “Hold On”. Believe me.....I know that album back to front as me and my friends used to amuse ourselves by reading off the lyrics as if they were poetry. If you listen to this song and another from that same time period that actually made it on to the album called “My Drum” they actually sound more like a version of Soundgarden some 15 years previous. And Soundgarden were definitely compared to Zeppelin.

Yeah I definitely hear some Ian Gillan in there but I don’t think the guys were into Purple. When I hear some of their early stuff I hear a lot of McCartney and Zep influences. I just don’t think that they could nail Zeppelin like other bands could, but they were big fans.

Unreleased song from 1972 time period. This was included in one of their cartoons but never saw the light of day on vinyl. To my ears it has a Zep/Soundgarden/early Rush vibe going on. Anyone here thinks it is at least a decent ripoff of the Zep sound? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiQpj77AN-4