And every song they stole they made a thousand times better.
No one was forced to buy their albums or see them.
many went to court and were settled.
musicasns that hadn’t seen a nickel in forever actually made a few bucks suing Zep
I’ve heard the alleged riff that they say he stole for Stairway
it’s a ####ing joke.
If you haven’t listened to it, you shouldn’t comment on it yet.
So Stairway, Rock n Roll, Black Dog and so many more were just theirs.
And they were great
I did hear Taurus by Spirit. Just another talented American ripped of by a British hack.
And worst of all, they displayed extreme cruelty towards fish.
Meh. The more I hear Zeppelin, the more they sound overrated next to more talented contemporaries. Individually they are not untalented and together they can play energetically and loud, but they needed other people to write their songs for them, it seems. And of course the radio force-fed their music to you.
I always hated the slogan that music journalists used to parrot about them, “the definitive heavy metal band” (per AllMusic’s Stephen Erlewine). At least the band themselves rejected that label.
My understanding is that the lawyers prevented the two riffs from being played during the trial. The jurors had to just look at the notes on the page.
Anyway, Cashmere is my favorite song of theirs, and I like many others. Their induction into some Hall of Fame or other with Heart singing Stairway to Heaven and seeing their reaction brought a tear to my eye.
They were one of the best... even if they had a little help from their friends. ;-)
“Ive heard the alleged riff that they say he stole for Stairway”
Yeah the Spirit tune has ‘whispers’ of the melody... they hinted at it and it sounded familiar. Missing from their offering is the powerful delivery, haunting lyrics, stunning arrangement, and incendiary guitar bridge that made the song a generational anthem.
Zep made it great and I’m glad they won.
But they did produce Natures Way was pretty cool for contemporary environmentalist agit-prop.
>>Rock n Roll, Black Dog and so many more were just theirs.
Rock n Roll uses the banging drum beat of Little Richard’s Keep A Knockin’
Little Richard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcJrExewkYA
Led Zep
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lncr2g9XJHU
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Black Dog
Better than the LZ version!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogMBgUVPMXU
I agree. The supposedly nicked guitar line in Taurus uses the same rhythm as Stairway, but the chords arent the same; Taurus sounds like random noodling. Furthermore, I dont think you can fairly say that Zeppelin stole Whole Lotta Love from Muddy Waters. While the lyrics, standard blues lines, were not changed by Plant enough to avoid charges of copyright infringement, everything else about the song is all Zep, from Pages awesome opening riff on.
I’ve listened to it. They stole it.