ChrisL
Diamond Member
Led Zeppelin made all of those songs sound great!
Actually they made their legal bills sound Yuuuuge. You just can't grab work somebody else did and go "uh yeah we wrote that, that's the ticket!" Sleazeballs.
If Led Zeppelin hadn't done those songs, a lot of people would have never even heard of them. While I notice some subtle similarities, LZ made them their own.
I'm afraid that's nowhere near a legal argument on an intellectual property case.
The fact remains --- as it should --- you just can't grab somebody else's labor and claim you did it. That's illegal, as it should be. Go ahead and LICENSE their song, with proper credits, put YOUR arrangement on it, whatever you want. But don't go around telling the world you created something that somebody else created.
Well, you make a good point, but I still like Led Zeppelin the band. I like their sound and I like their music.
All I'll say about that is....
-- I used to play violin in a jug band. When my playing got sloppy the guys would get on my case with comments like "hey, you're sounding like Jimmy Page" They knew what I think of Jimmy Page's musical diction.
Actually we used to do that song I posted above, the Gilligan's Island lyrics attached to "Stairway". I would do the Jimmy Page solos. Authentically.
Well, I think you would be in the minority in that opinion. LZ was very influential for many great musicians.