[dp0622]

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

[nickcarraway]

I never bought one of their albums. Only someone who was deafened by listening to One in a Million on repeat would think they were good. And that singer sounds like Jim Neighbors being fed through a strangling-cats effects processor.

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.

[Olog-hai]

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.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

I like Led Zeppelin. I listened to the video that had the two tracks and they sounded awful similar.

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. ;-)

[Samurai_Jack]

“I’ve 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.

[a fool in paradise]

>>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

[newfreep]

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Black Dog

Better than the LZ version!!!

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

[I-ambush]

I agree. The supposedly nicked guitar line in “Taurus” uses the same rhythm as Stairway, but the chords aren’t the same; Taurus sounds like random noodling. Furthermore, I don’t 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 Page’s awesome opening riff on.

[liberalh8ter]

Rick Beato covered this quite nicely in his video explaining line cliches, citing many examples including Duke Ellington’s 1935, “In a Sentimental Mood”.

[Poser]

I’ve listened to it. They stole it.