What is best turntable for listening to Rock from the sixties like Led Zeppelin?

As impressive a roster as any. Those shows in that era covered a huge range of different types  and styles of music, and I don't think the audiences were all that different- you could hear soul or boogie one night and go psychedelic the next. 

The sound quality isn’t great, so rather than something super revealing, something that is very musical, and can also convey the magic. Sort of the Decca cartridge equivalent of turntables. I am guessing less Caliburn and Techdas, more Linn, Roksan, Denon, EMT 927, Rega, even

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Actually, to deliver the raw energy with more force it is hard to beat a healthy idler deck.  Choose arms and cartridges to compliment your individual taste. 

This discussion has veered off-course somewhat while musicians speak of the differences between electrified instruments.  And it is worth the discussion.

The point:  we're playing records here, not making them. 

No way can the recording of it capture the live event so that it is anywhere close to the same as being there.  Not the scale of it.  But you can play the record in the privacy of your own listening room. 

In that venue (listening room) and for playing rock records, I'll choose an idler deck like a healthy TD124.  Choose tonearm and cartridge that best synergize with the deck to reproduce rock.

-Steve

td160- and attention to the pressings, which vary considerably in what is emphasized. 

The same turntable that works with Mahler, Brahms, etc. 

I’m from Honolulu where I worked as a musician from 1967 to 1986. I moved to the Right Coast, still play here and there, and mix live concerts as an insanely esthetically rewarding sideline (highly recommended). The name Wolf Garcia is the result of my borrowing the last names of two people in my office (owned a banking business) when doing a show in 1998 or something…I kept the name for show biz stuff because I found it to be fun.