But what was most fascinating to me was the assertion from several GVF fans that I was simply not the right age to truly “get” the band. I thought about The Redwalls a lot last week when I was sifting through all the hate-mail I received from Greta Van Fleet fans after writing a piece called “ I Regret to Inform You That Greta Van Fleet Made a Salient Point About Rock ‘n’ Roll.” Many of the comments I received were what you might expect: some calling me out for being unnecessarily snarky, some calling me a dumb bitch who doesn’t understand rock ‘n’ roll, some insisting (wrongly) that the band fronted by Josh Kiszka sounds nothing like Led Zeppelin. ![]() ![]() Eventually, I got older, my interest faded, and I could see that the questions about their authenticity were, in fact, fair ones. Oh no, they sound too much like one of the best bands of all time, I’d sneer when confronted with the fact that lead singer Logan Baren was perhaps just doing a too-accurate John Lennon impression. I couldn’t see how the way they wore their influences on their sleeves was any different than the ways other popular rock groups of the era like The Strokes and The White Stripes did. (Why, people wanted to know, were four guys born and raised in the Chicago suburbs singing in British accents?)Īt the time, I was unbothered by the criticisms hurled at them. ![]() Their original material bore a heavy resemblance to the work of their British Invasion influences, and they dressed the part - shaggy haircuts, long sideburns, tight pants, Beatle boots - so naturally, they were plagued by questions about authenticity and claims that they were too derivative. They were a local group who had started out playing in bars as a Beatles cover band, and they weren’t much older than I was when they were signed to Capitol Records and thrust into a short-lived brush with fame that included late-night TV appearances, European tours opening for the likes of Oasis and festival gigs before they eventually fizzled out and broke up. When I was in high school in the early-to-mid-’00s, I went through a brief phase where I was obsessed with a band called The Redwalls.
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