Led Zeppelin never needed a message. Not all good music has to have a message, or music that simply came out of that time period. Look at a band like Phish. Are their lyrics good? Not really, pretty sub par if you ask me. But what makes a band like that so great is simply the instrumentals for example. Looking back at Led Zeppelin, songs like Moby **** or Bron-Yr-Aur (the instrumentals), and then musical soundscapes like No Quarter, Whole Lotta Love, The Song Remains the Same, and then just cliche rock songs like The Ocean or Heartbreaker... a lot of the time they were just going for the musical aspect of the song; the feel, the emotional, the overall soul of the song, not simply for its message. Their message was simply to love music, and that music rocks. Also Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll for the most part. You could argue it was the message, but I think it was more a theme than a message. At least that makes more sense to me.
Also people who say great artists don't praise Led Zepplein: you've got to be kidding. Almost every major rock guitar player that's come into the scene within the past 30 years always mentions either Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath are their influences, most drummers agree John Bonham is one of the greatest drummer ever, Jimmy Page is obviously a guitar legend and god, and Robert Plant has been considered by many to be one of the best front men ever. I mean to think other great artists don't believe this, when they impacted music so much, is just crazy talk. Also, yeah Stairway is similar to another song. They could have ripped it off. Whatever. Take the one song out of their catalog of music and they STILL would've changed music. You still have the rest of Zoso, LZ I, II, II, HOTH, PG, etc. They were great song writers and great musicians. Enough said.
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