It depends on what you mean by "press." Remember it was a very different media time and they got lots of coverage, most of it favorable. What they did NOT get was the stamp of approval from the self-appointed creators of the "canon," the first generation of Rolling Stone writers and other white-boy intellectual navel-gazers — the Jon Landaus and Dave Marshes who set themselves up as the arbiters of "what mattered." That's probably what he meant. (Note: their presence on the Rock Hall nominating committee is why hugely influential metal and prog rock bands have been snubbed for so long. This group considers that music to be the province of provincial blue-collar kids who don't have lofty, opaque vocabularies to describe music.)