I came across Greta Van Fleet as they played on Jonesy’s Jukebox (video below, performance starts at 6.10). I’ve never been much interested in acts I’ve never heard of on Steve Jones’ show before. (Except I did once really like a performance by a chap called Cobi who played a great solo acoustic song but then I investigated further and his official studio recordings didn’t interest me at all.)
Greta Van Fleet grabbed my attention by performing on the show with the full band, which doesn’t happen usually. Then I was really surprised and intrigued by the singer’s voice. Robert Plant meets Geddy Lee. And the music was a surprise too. Retro rock in a Led Zep stylee. There’s certainly an “ooh, that’s an interesting area for a new band to revisit” element to appreciating them, rather like Green Day, The Darkness, The Feeling, and Leon Bridges all had in their time. So, whaddawe think? I’d say “interesting”.
Greta Van Sant
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They even have a drum solo on this one (3.45):
In a private message, @h-p-saucecraft says, “Seriously, why do I fucking bother?”
Gary, check this blog post from a few days ago. Saucy was way ahead of you: https://theafterword.co.uk/a-fresh-furrow-in-the-narrow-field-of-classic-rock/
Whoops-a-daisy. Thanks Nick. I did search Greta Van Sant before posting and nothing came up. Which is sloppy. I hereby advise any future readers of this thread to ignore it cos it’s been done before. And better. (Although the retreading of old ground might hold some nostalgia value.)
If there’s one thing we fans of Greta Van Fleet are categorically *not* looking for, it’s nostalgia. We on that new shit.
The ep is chock full o’tunes! Four of them! Out of four! Yes, they sound a bit like Led Zeppelin, but everything sounds like something, and I’m just tearfully grateful these boys don’t sound like Abba. Or anything recorded after 1975. This is fantastic, fist-pumping, air guitar, strutting your stuff rock music. Nuts to all you sneering (fingerwaggle) “Classic Rock” deniers who find this simply too jejune. These are great songs played with some considerable skill and passion – if Led Zeppelin had a song as good as Black Smoke Rising, well, they’d … something! They would! So nyer!
Can’t wait to
illegally downloadbuy the album!I’d prefer it if there was some black feller who won’t take his coat off talking sociopathic gibberish over the top of it. That’s good lissenin’!
Nothing personal here, Moose, but … eh?
I mean… it’s all… singing… and playing instruments… isn’t it? Do people think that’s how you make music?
Yer man could at least say “Uhh, uhh, a-one-two, a-one-two” before he starts singing, just for the sake of politeness. I can’t breakdance to this, I’d hurt me doings!
I feel more like I do now than since I got off drugs!
My best friend’s wife loves Greta Van Fleet so much that she made a 1,000 mile round trip to Tucson last week to see ’em live. She said it was worth it. They did two shows in LA the week before and they sold out in a matter of minutes.
The new 8-song EP (From The Fires) has “dropped” today (see how trendy my lingo is, teenagers?). I was confuse, because it adds four new tracks to the four tracks on their first EP. And the album, when it comes, will apparently add another four! But worry ye not, pop-pickers, because it’s all very deeply fab. Also – they do a version of the Fairport’s Meet On The Ledge (!!YES!!) that will snap your bone spurs right off!
(I was going to post the YouTube link where I
grabbedheard it, but it’s been deleted awready!)This is fun – spot the Afterworder with the plastic cup!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoWQNZCk_Sc
Just so’s you know – the new EP is number one with a bullet in the Amazon charts, on the day of release, and already out of stock.
They sound like fun, but they seem to have crowd sourced their song titles from Classic Rock FM: Highway Tune, Black Smoke Rising, Edge of Darkness, Talk on the Street etc. Fortunately I neither know, nor care, what the songs are about.