Reply #57: Yep - all except Heart were dumbed-down prog

[hifiguy]

and the absolute worst of the bunch, a band I hated and still hate with an undying and unbankable passion was Sty(n)x. I don't know what I hated more about Dennis De Young - that horrible, retch-inducing warbling voice or that gawdawful porn moustache. :nuke: :puke::puke::puke:

Heart was always more Zep influenced, at least in the mid-70s. Like LZ they did the "ass-kicking rock song followed by pretty acoustic ballad" thing a lot. And Ann Wilson was a mind-blowing singer. See, for example, "Barracuda."