Age isn't the point. If he said Ray Charles or Frank Sinatra was the best, I wouldn't have complained. But there's better bands than the Beatles and Zeppelin.
- James_Tanner
That's fair, I think maybe a new genre name/categorization, maybe "old classic rock"? Like "golden oldies" for stuff like swing music, and big band and 50's and earlier stuff. Because "classic" usually means 25 years old and older. It's like hearing Metallica on Classic Rock radio stations. It doesn't feel right.
You also have to realize that they allowed that kind of music to become mainstream for better or worse, and how many people tried to copy them?