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Re: Led Zeppelin: Innovators or Plagiarists? Audio of 8 Songs Proving They Might Be the Best Cover Band of All Time

markpd — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:40:45 -0000

I cannot get it to play am i missing a plug in or something

Re: Led Zeppelin: Innovators or Plagiarists? Audio of 8 Songs Proving They Might Be the Best Cover Band of All Time

Knobbly — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:43:05 -0000

A cover cover band or a cover band covering a band that coverd other bands

Re: Led Zeppelin: Innovators or Plagiarists? Audio of 8 Songs Proving They Might Be the Best Cover Band of All Time

Robert_Plant — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:23:55 -0000

IF you are a TRUE zep Fan......then Bring this blog to to The Lounge where it counts at ....The Traders Den...., you may even find a few live recordings or two.

Re: Led Zeppelin: Innovators or Plagiarists? Audio of 8 Songs Proving They Might Be the Best Cover Band of All Time

silentjay — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:08:33 -0000

awesomely stated sheplaysguitarandcriesandsings! I'm with you 100%. there are just way too many bozo's nowadays who just don't get it - you' said it well ! rock on bro!

Re: Led Zeppelin: Innovators or Plagiarists? Audio of 8 Songs Proving They Might Be the Best Cover Band of All Time

sheplaysguitarandcriesandsings — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:06:15 -0000

AND TO THE "BIG LED ZEP FAN"...its Bonzo, not Gonzo. Gonzo is hunter s. thompson. bonzo is john bonham.

and why should led zep admit anything? they didnt do anything wrong. words are just words...sounds are just sounds. they are paying homage to their roots.
How about we take an example from REGGAE music.....or other BLUES music..... or FOLK music. its just now in the days of CORPORATE music that people claim that they OWN sounds. you cant own a sound...or sue someone for it...or think that the best band of all time is a sham for going back to the roots and transforming old folk and blues songs into something masterful.
it takes a great master to cover some of these songs. and since zep made them, has anyone else covered them? no. ill tell you why ,because the music industry has no talent anymore.... its erroding from the inside out....screw corporate rock...lets all go back to our roots.
i hate people who bash led zep. if you had some education in music, you wouldnt do that at all. go back home and listen to your backstreet boys cds.

this is the most retarted thing ever.

Re: Led Zeppelin: Innovators or Plagiarists? Audio of 8 Songs Proving They Might Be the Best Cover Band of All Time

sheplaysguitarandcriesandsings — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:54:30 -0000

well....old blues men were covering songs for many many many years. and writing credit was never given. led zep did it in the same style. they were just a type of new school blues men...and thats what blues men do is cover old songs from years and years ago. plus, its 12 bar blues... and one more thing, no one ever called robert johnson a plagiarist...but theres no proof he actually wrote any of the old blues songs he played either. so there. led zep just made it mainstream...and combined rock and roll, metal and blues together. therefore being INNOVATORS. enough said. why shit on the best band of all time? some people are just jealous.

Re: Led Zeppelin: Innovators or Plagiarists? Audio of 8 Songs Proving They Might Be the Best Cover Band of All Time

jamespages — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:39:24 -0000

ok. I am guilty

Re: Led Zeppelin: Innovators or Plagiarists? Audio of 8 Songs Proving They Might Be the Best Cover Band of All Time

curious — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:07:55 -0000

i'm not sure if i missed this somewhere, but i was just wondering if anymore similarities occur on any other albums, besides led zeppelin IV since thats what stairway is on

Re: Led Zeppelin: Innovators or Plagiarists? Audio of 8 Songs Proving They Might Be the Best Cover Band of All Time

ofallon101 — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:05:20 -0000

i like to see when the other songs were written if you can find the info and only a few really sound like they could have been considered plagiarism. Zeppelin Rocks

Re: Led Zeppelin: Innovators or Plagiarists? Audio of 8 Songs Proving They Might Be the Best Cover Band of All Time

jahonaaaaaaa — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 05:13:04 -0000

audio not working

Re: Led Zeppelin: Innovators or Plagiarists? Audio of 8 Songs Proving They Might Be the Best Cover Band of All Time

bluemu — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:12:04 -0000

Oh man it hurts, I have been cheated on all this time. I feel like britney spears now

bluemu.

Re: Led Zeppelin: Innovators or Plagiarists? Audio of 8 Songs Proving They Might Be the Best Cover Band of All Time

Bapudi — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:27:16 -0000

I never really liked Led Zeppelin.
Let the hate comments begin.

Re: Led Zeppelin: Innovators or Plagiarists? Audio of 8 Songs Proving They Might Be the Best Cover Band of All Time

silentjay — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:15:37 -0000

i guess a piece of lettuce , a tomato , a pickle and a bun are plagiarist for being put on a piece of beef. think about it for a minute.

Re: Led Zeppelin: Innovators or Plagiarists? Audio of 8 Songs Proving They Might Be the Best Cover Band of All Time

BIGLEDZEPFAN — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:05:00 -0000

I am a huge Led Zep fan. I saw them on their 3rd to the last live show ever, in Germany, about 3 months before Gonzo died. I heard Stern that day talking about it, the original artists did get a bit of a raw deal, but the real bottom line is this; these songs would never have been heard by the masses if not for Led Zeppelin. Most of these these songs were obscure, living in the ears of only hard core blues lovers until LZ put them on their first album. I do have to take issue with "Your time is gonna come" It really doesn't sound that similiar to the Traffic tune at all. Take care

Re: Led Zeppelin: Innovators or Plagiarists? Audio of 8 Songs Proving They Might Be the Best Cover Band of All Time

marcus — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:07:16 -0000

all artists do this... just most pay the people who's stuff they steal or borrow or whatever you want to call it...

Re: Led Zeppelin: Innovators or Plagiarists? Audio of 8 Songs Proving They Might Be the Best Cover Band of All Time

kim garbow — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:00:59 -0000

Isn't the use and re-use of various songs by different artists more a characteristic of the blues and folk genres? I had always assumed that many of Led Zeppelin's songs (like many other British bands of this period) were performed and recorded with the implication that no one can take original credit for them as they had been passed on for so long, much like no one can take credit for a folk tale. Whether they abused this notion, i'm not sure, but it seems more likely that Led Zeppelin came along in a time when the record industry was changing greatly in that the business of it was beginning to conflict with its artistic aspects. Where once recycling songs was an accepted form of innovation, it was now a matter of cash in somebody's pockets. Also, Joan Baez didn't even write that song. Some other lady did.

Re: Led Zeppelin: Innovators or Plagiarists? Audio of 8 Songs Proving They Might Be the Best Cover Band of All Time

Paul — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:28:01 -0000

This page seems pretty silly. I mean I am in now way defending Led Zeppelin,I am of the opinion that they are the #1 most overrated band in the history of music. But some of these songs are so obviously similar that Led Zeppelin would have to have been retarded to try and get away with stealing them. They probably gave credit to all these artists in the liner notes, and some of these songs are probably tribute to the other band, especially Black Mountain side to black waterside. The stair way to heaven one was interesting though, not cause it shows they copied from them, but that Spirit, whos a better band than led zeppelin, but much less known, had almost the exact same riff years before zeppelin but got no where near the amount of radio play or fame zeppelin got from the worlds #1 most over played over rated shitty song stairway to heaven.

Re: Led Zeppelin: Innovators or Plagiarists? Audio of 8 Songs Proving They Might Be the Best Cover Band of All Time

Bill — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:49:48 -0000

Many Bands have covered other musicians who inspired them , but to call Led Zeppelin a
" Cover Band " is ,in my opinion , an insult. "Kashmir"," Ten Years gone"," The Ocean," In My
Time of Dying" "Moby Dick ". These songs alone say it all.

Re: Led Zeppelin: Innovators or Plagiarists? Audio of 8 Songs Proving They Might Be the Best Cover Band of All Time

some dude — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:35:01 -0000

i agree stairway to heaven and taurus both use scale based riffs so it's not plagerism

Re: Led Zeppelin: Innovators or Plagiarists? Audio of 8 Songs Proving They Might Be the Best Cover Band of All Time

Tony — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:01:51 -0000

Plageurism IS a big deal nowadays. Not all artists steal lyrics and music from other bands. And when they get caught, they get sued. Tom Petty (Mary Jane) sued Red Hot Chili Peppers (Dani California) and Vanilla Ice (Ice Ice Baby) was sued for stealing from Under Pressure. So you can't say that everyone does it and it's no big deal. It IS a big deal. Does this make Led Zepplin Milli Vanilli? No. It just makes them like hundreds of other bands these days that are good at singing and playing their own instruments, but not writing their own music. They should at least have given credit and royalties to the original authors of the songs

Re: Led Zeppelin: Innovators or Plagiarists? Audio of 8 Songs Proving They Might Be the Best Cover Band of All Time

Chunk — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:39:34 -0000

Get over yourselves. Songs that weren't written by the band are credited as such in the liner notes of the album. You do know how to read those, right? There should be no surprise about any of this, except for the fact that most of those songs are nothing like the comparative samples. Others, well let's just say that Vanilla Ice wasn't the first person to steal a riff.

Re: Led Zeppelin: Innovators or Plagiarists? Audio of 8 Songs Proving They Might Be the Best Cover Band of All Time

shaun76 — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:24:08 -0000

not a crime to cover, but it IS a crime to put "Page/Plant" for writing credit. That keeps the original composer from receiving royalties. Not sure how that applies to folk songs, but usually writing credit would say, "Traditional."

Re: Led Zeppelin: Innovators or Plagiarists? Audio of 8 Songs Proving They Might Be the Best Cover Band of All Time

pedrocs — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:20:43 -0000

But... it's a cover. It makes it *not* plagiarism.

Is it a crime to cover?

Re: Led Zeppelin: Innovators or Plagiarists? Audio of 8 Songs Proving They Might Be the Best Cover Band of All Time

pedrocs — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:19:29 -0000

Babe I'm gonna Leave you is a traditional folk song!

Re: Led Zeppelin: Innovators or Plagiarists? Audio of 8 Songs Proving They Might Be the Best Cover Band of All Time

pedrocs — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:18:28 -0000

What do you mean, great research? It's taken from wikipedia! Which is what the author of this post should have done.

Some songs are covers and duly credited, others are adaptations and/or quotes/winks at the original songs.

Everybody knows this and yet you act as if you discovered something. Get real.