I’d like Greta van Fleet a lot better if I hadn’t grown up listening to rock ‘n’ roll in real time. Almost six decades after I bought my first Beatles album – and having spent my life listening ardently to rock music – there’s very little left for a new guitar/bass/drums band to do that I haven’t heard.

The young hard rock group Greta van Fleet is certainly used to such observations by now. And it’s not their fault. No way they could have comprehensively listened to the thousands of albums and hundreds of bands I've heard – much of which I can reference as points of comparison.

Just because, from across the generations, I hear traces of Led Zeppelin, Humble Pie, Aerosmith, Alice in Chains, Def Leppard, Triumph, Free and King’s X and on and on in the songs and arrangements of GVF doesn’t mean THEY’VE heard all these bands. Hell, the members of Greta Van Fleet are each 11 years old!

That said, if Oldsters like me can get beyond the sonic similarities – and I am decidedly NOT saying they’ve ripped off any songs – the truth is Greta Van Fleet is a pretty damned good band. I particularly like their latest album, “The Battle at Garden’s Gate.”

See them Friday in the Mohegan Sun Arena and feel free to wear your Iron Butterfly or Lucifer’s Friend T-shirts. Only us Oldsters will get the joke.

Great Van Fleet with Houndmouth and Robert Finley, 7:30 Friday, Mohegan Sun Arena; $69-$99; www.mohegansun.com.