Jimmy Page
Robert Plant
John Bonham
John Paul Jones
Led Zeppelin stole (as in gave no credit to) the foundations of their most memorable songs from others. Notably Spirit - an opening act who wrote the song which provided Jimmy with the riff (note for note) for Stairway to Heaven.
Whereas all The Who’s music was profoundly original. Which settles the classic “which group was better” question once and for all - for me anyway.
Which Spirit song?
I like Spirit too
But to dismiss Zepplin for that claim is unfair
Originality is not the benchmark for underrated
Lydia Lovich was original.....;
Page had pretty good chops as a Bird......and Zepp really blew out the MS blues .....if they stole ut then did Hendrix and Clapton too?
And Spirit went in to Thunder Island......quite a fall from Sardonicus.....and Firefall....very Poco-ish
...and JoJo Gunner...i saw them....we have a poster that moniker
The Who were original cause of very odd Pete and they were not Blues based....a wee bit cause Pete felt obligated
Anyhow ....are you old.....most Zep bashers here hate boomers as much as anything
I love LZ one thru Holy
It was standard setting for the time but Wenner and his faggot pals at RS hated them
But Lester Bangs knew better
Not to take away from LA’s Spirit but to me the two are no more related than Cream and the Grateful Dead
I looked it up and remembered Taurus and yes the early chord sequence is similar
But the spacey meandering before that which sounds like a door opening is straight from Days of Future Passed released 18 months before Taurus
And so it goes.....Artists lift.....and yes Page/Plant shoulda said so
And Spirit is a very important underrated band like the Kinks or Beef