so a guy claims he can back up his claims that Zep stole some of their biggest hits from other artist. The first song he provides proof for is Stairway To Heaven. a band Zeppelin use to open for called Spirit had a song called Taurus that is basicly the original music to Stairway.
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you can listen to Taurus here
http://music.yahoo.com/track/825329
And, of course, there's 'Taurus'. All of you certainly know this song even if you have never heard it before. How? Simple. After a brief, gentle strings and Mellotron introduction, Randy California picks up his acoustic and plays a melody that was... yeah, sit up straight: almost perfectly, note-by-note nicked off by Jimmy Page for the main acoustic riff of 'Stairway To Heaven'. Okay, so he changed a couple of chords to make it impossible for Randy to sue him, but that doesn't change the essence - and since it is historically documented that Led Zeppelin once used to open the show for Spirit and Page took a particular interest in 'Taurus', the fact may be considered proved. Not that 'Taurus' is really better than 'Stairway To Heaven' - but it's just different, a short, moody instrumental, with none of 'Stairway's epic magnificence, but also with none of its banal pretentions.
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Led Zeppelin had the reputation of ripping off lots of early blues artists especially on their early albums. Read the book "Hammer of the Gods" if you desire more information.
All artists borrow and steal from other artists...doesn't diminish Zep tho
...And if you ain't down with that, I got 2 words for ya....
Nope. Greatest rock band ever.
"There he goes, one of Gods own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die"
doesn't really bother me either way, but this guy must really "hate" Zeppelin to go on a rampage about it and a buddy of mine is kind of disappointed when he heard this stuff. I don't really care for Zeppelin myself but I won't deny their influence on Rock music
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Wonder if KASHMIRE is a stolen song,,, and I AM HUGE LED FAN,,,
I thought they got all there greatness form Jimmy page selling his soul to the devil. [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
GO VOLS
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