{"id":792197,"date":"2019-01-19T08:00:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T15:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=779296"},"modified":"2019-01-19T08:00:28","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T15:00:28","slug":"greta-van-fleet-on-why-its-time-to-stop-the-zeppelin-comparisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/greta-van-fleet-on-why-its-time-to-stop-the-zeppelin-comparisons\/","title":{"rendered":"Greta Van Fleet on Why It\u2019s Time to Stop the Zeppelin Comparisons"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Greta Van Fleet<\/a> frontman Josh Kiszka was sleeping in during a rare day off in December when his phone suddenly started blowing up. \u201cI didn\u2019t put together what was happening,\u201d he says. \u201cI thought the pope had died or something.\u201d Pope Francis was fine, but Greta Van Fleet had just been nominated for four Grammys, all related to their 2018 debut, Anthem of the Peaceful Army.<\/em> \u201cThese are some of the first songs we ever released,\u201d says Kiszka. \u201cSo it\u2019s kind of shocking. I didn\u2019t expect us to get any nominations.\u201d<\/p>\n

The nominations were the culmination of an incredible year for Greta Van Fleet that saw the Michigan hard-rock revival band go from playing clubs to selling out three consecutive nights at 5,000-seat theaters like the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago and the Fox Theater in Detroit. \u201cWe\u2019re seeing nearly triple the amount of people in the audience than we saw at the start of 2018,\u201d says Kiszka. \u201cIt gives us a huge sense of accomplishment.\u201d<\/p>\n

But along the way, they became one of the most polarizing young bands in America, with many critics saying they sound way too much like Led Zeppelin (\u201cThe poor kids from Frankenmuth, Michigan, don\u2019t even realize they\u2019re more of an algorithmic fever dream than an actual rock band,\u201d read a scathing review on Pitchfork<\/a> in October). Robert Plant joked that Kiszka\u2019s voice reminds him of \u201csomeone I know very well . . . they are Led Zeppelin I<\/em>\u201d \u2014 which Kiszka says he took as a compliment. \u201cThat\u2019s lovely,\u201d he says. \u201cYou can\u2019t put that more Robert Plant than that.\u201d<\/p>\n

That attitude has helped the band brush off detractors: Kiszka swears he didn\u2019t even read the Pitchfork review. \u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate they\u2019d be putting that energy out into the world, but it\u2019s their prerogative, I guess,\u201d he says. \u201cUltimately, I\u2019d like to think that there\u2019s substance to what we\u2019re doing.\u201d That said, he does think it\u2019s time that people stop making the Zeppelin comparison. \u201cObviously we hear the similarity,\u201d he says. \u201cThat\u2019s one of the influences of ours. But at this point it\u2019s like, \u2018Okay, we\u2019ve acknowledged that. Let\u2019s move on.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Kiszka and his bandmates have moved on by beginning to think about their next record, even if they\u2019re going to be busy touring for the foreseeable future. \u201cWe\u2019re setting some ground work for the next album,\u201d he says. \u201cWe hope to get an album out this year. This time, we feel less pressure than we did before the last one. We can\u2019t wait to explore a little more of the Greta Van Fleet universe.\u201d<\/p>\n

They are also anxious for Grammy night to come around, though Kiszka is tight-lipped about the possibility of them performing at the show. \u201cThere\u2019s been a little talk,\u201d he says, \u201cbut it\u2019s been very brief and I don\u2019t really know what is going to happen.\u201d Young bands are often teamed up with older acts at the Grammys and if that happens, Kiszka says his dream is to play with either Florence and the Machine or Chris Stapleton. \u201cI\u2019ve also always wanted to play with Paul McCartney,\u201d he says. \u201cGetting the chance to play \u2018Let It Be\u2019 with him one day would be amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the meantime, however, his life is a never-ending series of hotels, bus trips and backstage dressing rooms. \u201cThere are times you literally wake up and have no idea where you are,\u201d he says. \u201cWe\u2019re getting along great. We\u2019re getting strong. Being family helps, especially in the way we can communicate onstage and in the studio. And for right now, we aren\u2019t feeling any sense of exhaustion. We\u2019re anxious to get back in the studio and explore and be creative.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Greta Van Fleet frontman Josh Kiszka was sleeping in during a rare day off in December when his phone suddenly started blowing up. \u201cI didn\u2019t put together what was happening,\u201d he says. \u201cI thought the pope had died or something.\u201d Pope Francis was fine, but Greta Van Fleet had just been nominated for four Grammys, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-792197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 16:12:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}