[God luvs America]

From my understanding Page settled the initial suit with Jake Holmes 15 years ago and the song credited with “inspired by Jake Holems” Dazed and Confused on all the albums/compilations- but it did not show “inspired by” in the recent hit moving “Becoming Led Zeppelin” when they showed the song being played live.

BTW- the movie is incredible

[HombreSecreto]

New lyrics, new melody.

What’s the problem?

Can you copyright a chord progression?
Can you copyright a drum beat?
Can you copyright a set of instruments that play a song?

Seems like a money grab, imo.

[KTM rider]

sure glad I never had music talent, the music industry sux, and many (most) musicians are narcisistic dorks, I realized this lately after picking up guitar late in life. I live in a small town that has a guitar store operated by a famous studio musician who claims to be a luthier and messed up my expensive guitar and was an azz about it, which is just a tiny but typical example, like how Gilmore pushed the sale of Pink Floyd to SONY just to get away from Waters and never have to deal with him again

there are some cool people in the industry, but its rare. My next door neighbor was OK although a liberal, I stopped seeing him take the trash out and his wife said he just died and said he was a former studio musician for this famous group and that famous group, I asked why I never heard music coming from the house, she said he came to hate the other musicians and the entire industry after a lifetime of dealing with getting ripped off so bad he got sick of music , even hated to hear it. He died with no social security and broke , ended up working in a local coal mine when he got older but then got too old for that

[Captainpaintball]

BTW… Holmes went on to greatness, too, just in a different way. He was the voice and lyrics behind some of the greatest jingles of all time from “aren’t you hungry for Burger King, now?” To “help yourself to Stouffer’s Pizza” to “the best a man can get”, to charmin, to many many others

[Seruzawa]

Lol. Musicians all steal from each other.

[dayglored]

Forget it, Jake, your song is nothing like the Led Zeppelin song.

Jake Holmes on YouTube -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTsvs-pAGDc

The Yardbirds version is closer to yours... but already substantially changed in the direction Zep would take it.

Yardbirds on YouTube -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_SturUfdOI

[plain talk]

Related video comparing LZ songs to many other songs. LZ’s versions are great but they copied a lot of people’s work without always crediting them or paying royalties. Maybe by now they have settled up but I am not sure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efuOELImxAc

[alstewartfan]

Will someone PLEASE sue Al Stewart to put him and his stellar music back on the map? 😼

[Revel]

They will probably all be dead from old age before this is settled.

[dennisw]

I saw this live. It was Yardbirds with Jimmy Page and he whipped a violin or viola bow to play on his guitar strings, in Dazed n Confused. Every pothead and or hippie thought this was beyond cool.

[Burma Jones]

Page plainly stole stuff, but this nonsense where you can wait 40 or 50 years to complain is ridiculous