@babystinky They took it and made it in their own way. Everyone stole from everyone! Listen to the resemblence of Steve Miller Band's Jet Airliner and Eric Clapton's Crossroads. Jimmy Page just took and entirely changed the whole composition of the song. IT's not even the same 12 bar blues as someone below mentioned. Everyone had their faults. And listen to other stuff! THe only reason you people diss on Zeppelin is bcus they did it and they were very popular.
Not really. Bring it On Home was Credited by Sonny Boy. He gave credit to Willie Dixion, Zeppelin had to settle out of court much later on.They definitely stole Jake Holmes Dazed and Confused. Take a look at Paul Anka, he covered a whole bunch of grunge tunes, and he did it using a "Big Band" sound, but he gave credit to the original artists. The lyrics and the music for Bring it On Home were taken no doubt. Babe I'm Gonna leave you is another.
I could understand if it was just one or 2 examples of this going on but it happened to often with them as far as I'm concerned. Last I heard, Jake Holmes is trying to get something happening now in the courts concerning Dazed and Confused, however, he waited to long. That type of 'stealing' and using the works of unknowns and making huge profit off them is inexcusable. They did it before the age of the internet and youtube and thought no one would notice.
@babystinky They mainly did it on their first two albums, so at least it wasn't their whole career though. There were some other instances, but not as much as their was then.
I agree. I am not saying that Zeppelin didn't come up with some brilliant stuff. I used to play a lot of their stuff myself. Physical Graffiti and Presence has some very good stuff. I still think they were great.
@metadumile - sure - but entire tracks? Have you even listened to Led Zeppelin's 'stolen' version of Bring It On Home? If you had you would know that from about 1.30 minutes in the song bears no resemblance to Dixon's track whatsoever. Aside from the into and outro, it's a totally different track - it's not even a 12 bar blues - it's an original composition by Jimmy Page. For the record, you might also want to ask yourself why Arc Records were willing to settle out of court. No case maybe?
With all the money involved, Led Zep stealing song writing credit, bad enough, also means stealing a lot of someone else's money. Led Zep could come up with enjoyable music and was rich, so it was dumb of them to steal a batch of other people's credits and money. The court shouldn't have had to make them add Willie Dixon to the credit--they should have had the class to put it there in the first place.
it's a blues number you daft c*nts - you can't steal a blues number, you just do your version of it - plus from about a minute in, the Led Zeppeling 'Bring It On Home' bares no resemblance to Sonny Boy's track at all - it's a riff Jimmy Page wrote, the whole thing is totally different... f*ck me it amazes me how damn stupid some people are!
@NgakpaYeshe you Euros are funny. You try and steal blue's to make rock n roll and then call it being original and creative and paying homage. they weren't sampling portions of tracks, they took credit for entire tracks they didn't compose and called it some 'new rock n roll'. Zeppelin and bands like them created their entire careers off of making someone elses music and calling it their own. that's pitiful. if you're paying homage, you pay royalties for what you didn't create.
Listening to this at the time it was a given that Zeppelin's intro was a nod to Sonny Boy before going off with their own thing...what wasn't fully realised at the time was that no credit was given on the album cover or worse still no royalties were dished out.
No I stated that they ripped them off and never gave thenm their due Of course everyone rips of everyone,But today they don't get away with it like they did in the 60;s and 70's
Got Pandora Radio yesterday and the first station I created was Led Zep. Last night at work I created a blues essentials station and this was on of the first songs played. I like the versions by both artists.
@jeepmanic4life - Ok pal, I agree. Neither the aknowledgements nor their "pennies for dollar" - royalties, bucks or ever! But I grown up listening Zep, Purple, Who and so on; when I discover the "roots", or the spring they've drank, I rather listen the masters. But I won't dispose my LP's and CD's of those rock'n'roll monsters. Afterall, I love music, even ripped music. I don't like robbery or plagiarism. Maybe those guys just "lifted" some old southern songs, hehehehe... Thanks a lot! J.
@jeepmanic4life "All the greats"? What about Charles Brown, Roosevelt Sykes, Bessie Smith, Leroy Carr, etc.?
FYI son, musical theft is pretty common throughout the entire history of blues music. Sonny Boy ripped off Memphis Slim for "Fattening Frogs For Snakes". Why do so many people seem shocked by Zep's theft? Did you just discover this music? Musical theft occurs in all forms of music, even classical music.
@whathefck1 its a little different when you're friends with the other artist. for example, Muddy Waters "Mannish Boy" is basically Bo Diddleys "I'm a Man", but Bo never said anything because he was good friends with Mudd, and Sonnyboy and Slim were friends themselves. It wouldn't seem that bad if the artists didn't mind, but they obviously were offended since they filed lawsuit.
@Blonday92 I'll just ask one question. How can any human being say that someone other than Sunny Boy is better for this song when they're doing the exact same thing? If he(Plant) would've sang a bit different I might agree with what you said, but Plant didn't add/took away anything for it to be better/worse.
@Blonday92 Plant has a more powerful and entertaining voice but there's something so genuine about Blues being sung by a black man who's almost old enough to know grandparents who were slaves. When Blues is in it's purest form it captures a type of sorrow that privileged people like us will never know and Williamson captures that perfectly.
@54sep Zep got worked in court for this ,quite a famous case actually . Listen to "When the Levee breaks" if you thinik this Sunny Boy didn't show Robert Planet (sic) a few things on harp.
@mrnoodleful nothing beats the original masters, this has waaaaaay more soul, and is effortless, led zep tries too hard with plants screams, and pages long and annoying solos.
@JonteBrihage yeah annoying voice and solos, they try way to hard to copy the masters of soulful blues, but failed. plant has a very ugly voice and page is way to overrated.
@bran1226 no, you're wrong. wrong about one and two. one, they don't try to copy the song. and if they do, they've succeed. it's more like a tribute to masters of soulful blues. and two, "plant has a very ugly voice and page is way to overrated."??? cmon... plant is one of the best rock singers of all time. his voice is unique. say no more. and page is an icon, a guitar legend. show them respect.
Willie Dixon held the rights to this song and DID receive payment for the Zep version from Arc Records, albeit after sueing Arc, his own label; FACT. Sonny Boy Williamson received every dime he deserved from the recording he made but was not due any payment from the Zeps as he did not hold the author's rights.
Oh man, Sonny's natural voice vibrato was even used by Plant over a tremolo or some similar effect.I like when people do other peoples songs.BUT Zeppelin NEVER paid a dime or gave any rights to the original artist.FACT...
Try just sitting perfectly still while listening to this. I just don't think it can be done. I'll be dancing around with this song in my head an hour from now. Love Sonny Boy's music.
@scream8485 Zeppelin didn't just do a "cover" of this song. They recorded it, and took all the songwriting credit, and didn't pay royalties to the writer of the original -- until they got sued, like they've been sued about 10 other times for shamelessly ripping off other artists songs, and claiming them as their own
@redneck10102 Still, Dixon's song. Contains the same music. Same title. If they wanted to establish it as a different song they should have taken out the material of this song. Or at least changed the name of the song.
@redneck10102 And now that I've listened to the whole song I know what you meant by changed it alot. Well, they sure did rearrange the music in the middle part of the song but they also kept the lyrics. So, know they didn't make it their own. They rehashed it with some new instrumentation. Like all good covers. Hmm . . . what was that song called? That song Ringo did with the Beatles? The one Joe Cocker covere? Have a clue?
btw, sonny boy credited willie dixon for this. what did zepp do with it?
babystinky 1 month ago
@babystinky They took it and made it in their own way. Everyone stole from everyone! Listen to the resemblence of Steve Miller Band's Jet Airliner and Eric Clapton's Crossroads. Jimmy Page just took and entirely changed the whole composition of the song. IT's not even the same 12 bar blues as someone below mentioned. Everyone had their faults. And listen to other stuff! THe only reason you people diss on Zeppelin is bcus they did it and they were very popular.
vanzeposmith910 3 weeks ago
@vanzeposmith910
Not really. Bring it On Home was Credited by Sonny Boy. He gave credit to Willie Dixion, Zeppelin had to settle out of court much later on.They definitely stole Jake Holmes Dazed and Confused. Take a look at Paul Anka, he covered a whole bunch of grunge tunes, and he did it using a "Big Band" sound, but he gave credit to the original artists. The lyrics and the music for Bring it On Home were taken no doubt. Babe I'm Gonna leave you is another.
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babystinky 3 weeks ago
@vanzeposmith910
I could understand if it was just one or 2 examples of this going on but it happened to often with them as far as I'm concerned. Last I heard, Jake Holmes is trying to get something happening now in the courts concerning Dazed and Confused, however, he waited to long. That type of 'stealing' and using the works of unknowns and making huge profit off them is inexcusable. They did it before the age of the internet and youtube and thought no one would notice.
babystinky 3 weeks ago
@babystinky They mainly did it on their first two albums, so at least it wasn't their whole career though. There were some other instances, but not as much as their was then.
vanzeposmith910 3 weeks ago
@vanzeposmith910
I agree. I am not saying that Zeppelin didn't come up with some brilliant stuff. I used to play a lot of their stuff myself. Physical Graffiti and Presence has some very good stuff. I still think they were great.
babystinky 3 weeks ago
@babystinky Yea I know. Physical Graffiti was their best all around album, even though I still find Zep's second album pretty damn good.
vanzeposmith910 3 weeks ago
@vanzeposmith910 They actually did it with 80% of their discography from Zep I to Zep IV(which are basically all their "greatest" albums).
pachendrix 2 weeks ago
@metadumile - sure - but entire tracks? Have you even listened to Led Zeppelin's 'stolen' version of Bring It On Home? If you had you would know that from about 1.30 minutes in the song bears no resemblance to Dixon's track whatsoever. Aside from the into and outro, it's a totally different track - it's not even a 12 bar blues - it's an original composition by Jimmy Page. For the record, you might also want to ask yourself why Arc Records were willing to settle out of court. No case maybe?
NgakpaYeshe 1 month ago
With all the money involved, Led Zep stealing song writing credit, bad enough, also means stealing a lot of someone else's money. Led Zep could come up with enjoyable music and was rich, so it was dumb of them to steal a batch of other people's credits and money. The court shouldn't have had to make them add Willie Dixon to the credit--they should have had the class to put it there in the first place.
glen1ster 1 month ago
it's a blues number you daft c*nts - you can't steal a blues number, you just do your version of it - plus from about a minute in, the Led Zeppeling 'Bring It On Home' bares no resemblance to Sonny Boy's track at all - it's a riff Jimmy Page wrote, the whole thing is totally different... f*ck me it amazes me how damn stupid some people are!
NgakpaYeshe 1 month ago
@NgakpaYeshe you Euros are funny. You try and steal blue's to make rock n roll and then call it being original and creative and paying homage. they weren't sampling portions of tracks, they took credit for entire tracks they didn't compose and called it some 'new rock n roll'. Zeppelin and bands like them created their entire careers off of making someone elses music and calling it their own. that's pitiful. if you're paying homage, you pay royalties for what you didn't create.
metaldumile 1 month ago
Good artists copy, but great artist steal. That just came to me off the top of my head.
MIZZHASTINGS 2 months ago
@MIZZHASTINGS
" Igor Stravinsky "
philzinos 1 month ago
Listening to this at the time it was a given that Zeppelin's intro was a nod to Sonny Boy before going off with their own thing...what wasn't fully realised at the time was that no credit was given on the album cover or worse still no royalties were dished out.
jamesT5581 2 months ago
No I stated that they ripped them off and never gave thenm their due Of course everyone rips of everyone,But today they don't get away with it like they did in the 60;s and 70's
preattyprincess325 3 months ago
Got Pandora Radio yesterday and the first station I created was Led Zep. Last night at work I created a blues essentials station and this was on of the first songs played. I like the versions by both artists.
themossbackman 5 months ago
Zepplin ripped of all the Blues greats and never gave them thier due.
jeepmanic4life 6 months ago
@jeepmanic4life - Ok pal, I agree. Neither the aknowledgements nor their "pennies for dollar" - royalties, bucks or ever! But I grown up listening Zep, Purple, Who and so on; when I discover the "roots", or the spring they've drank, I rather listen the masters. But I won't dispose my LP's and CD's of those rock'n'roll monsters. Afterall, I love music, even ripped music. I don't like robbery or plagiarism. Maybe those guys just "lifted" some old southern songs, hehehehe... Thanks a lot! J.
salimlog666 5 months ago
@jeepmanic4life "All the greats"? What about Charles Brown, Roosevelt Sykes, Bessie Smith, Leroy Carr, etc.?
FYI son, musical theft is pretty common throughout the entire history of blues music. Sonny Boy ripped off Memphis Slim for "Fattening Frogs For Snakes". Why do so many people seem shocked by Zep's theft? Did you just discover this music? Musical theft occurs in all forms of music, even classical music.
whathefck1 3 months ago
@whathefck1 its a little different when you're friends with the other artist. for example, Muddy Waters "Mannish Boy" is basically Bo Diddleys "I'm a Man", but Bo never said anything because he was good friends with Mudd, and Sonnyboy and Slim were friends themselves. It wouldn't seem that bad if the artists didn't mind, but they obviously were offended since they filed lawsuit.
willwelsh816 2 months ago
I am a huge fan of Led Zeppelin and gotta say that I like Sonny Boy Williamson's "Bring It On Home " better than Zep's cover.
nostalgiahistoria67 6 months ago
Led Zeppelins Version is better and has more views
mrnoodleful 8 months ago
@mrnoodleful no
MyWoodstock1 8 months ago
@MyWoodstock1 i agree, i think robert plants voice was just better for this song, but i dont think u should be saying it on sonny's vid....
Blonday92 7 months ago 5
@Blonday92 I'll just ask one question. How can any human being say that someone other than Sunny Boy is better for this song when they're doing the exact same thing? If he(Plant) would've sang a bit different I might agree with what you said, but Plant didn't add/took away anything for it to be better/worse.
pachendrix 2 weeks ago
@Blonday92 Plant has a more powerful and entertaining voice but there's something so genuine about Blues being sung by a black man who's almost old enough to know grandparents who were slaves. When Blues is in it's purest form it captures a type of sorrow that privileged people like us will never know and Williamson captures that perfectly.
aVeryIntelligentDog 1 week ago
@mrnoodleful Pardonnez leur Seigneur car ils ne savent pas ce qu'ils disent. Forgive them Lord, for they know not what they say
Herve1955 7 months ago
@mrnoodleful Led Zeppelins version is an uncredited ripoff of this cgreat song. Zep were giant music thieves period!
54sep 7 months ago 2
@54sep Zep got worked in court for this ,quite a famous case actually . Listen to "When the Levee breaks" if you thinik this Sunny Boy didn't show Robert Planet (sic) a few things on harp.
hogiesanKenobi 7 months ago
@mrnoodleful led zeppelins blows and has more views is your argument? dumbass peasant
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@mrnoodleful nothing beats the original masters, this has waaaaaay more soul, and is effortless, led zep tries too hard with plants screams, and pages long and annoying solos.
bran1226 7 months ago
@bran1226 zepplin rules. screams? annoying solos? dude, wake up. plant and page recompose this song.
JonteBrihage 7 months ago
@JonteBrihage yeah annoying voice and solos, they try way to hard to copy the masters of soulful blues, but failed. plant has a very ugly voice and page is way to overrated.
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@bran1226 no, you're wrong. wrong about one and two. one, they don't try to copy the song. and if they do, they've succeed. it's more like a tribute to masters of soulful blues. and two, "plant has a very ugly voice and page is way to overrated."??? cmon... plant is one of the best rock singers of all time. his voice is unique. say no more. and page is an icon, a guitar legend. show them respect.
JonteBrihage 7 months ago
Amazing
ZosoPagePlumaJohn 11 months ago
Good music when driving your car.
chrisradano 1 year ago
he told robert plant to fuck off when robert was 14
robert plant stole his harmonica back stage
BLEACH01Z 1 year ago
No one does it like sonny boy the harmonica is sooooooo sweet
TheJojo99999 1 year ago
To enessx:
Willie Dixon held the rights to this song and DID receive payment for the Zep version from Arc Records, albeit after sueing Arc, his own label; FACT. Sonny Boy Williamson received every dime he deserved from the recording he made but was not due any payment from the Zeps as he did not hold the author's rights.
markyfx 1 year ago
Oh man, Sonny's natural voice vibrato was even used by Plant over a tremolo or some similar effect.I like when people do other peoples songs.BUT Zeppelin NEVER paid a dime or gave any rights to the original artist.FACT...
enessx1 1 year ago
This is one cool cat.
marentoni 1 year ago
amen to rwalk2730!!!!!
makemegood18 1 year ago
send me some of those up and down my spine kind of chills sonny boy
nisedratler 1 year ago
At least Zeppelin had good tastes in who they ripped off.
rwalk2730 1 year ago 27
@rwalk2730 Yes, and they did an awful lot of ripping off, lol.
lewars1912 9 months ago
@rwalk2730 So true, and so funny and so sad at the same time.
cwcwful 2 months ago
Try just sitting perfectly still while listening to this. I just don't think it can be done. I'll be dancing around with this song in my head an hour from now. Love Sonny Boy's music.
delora33 1 year ago
@delora33 (:o)
lewars1912 9 months ago
Anyone know what key harmonica?
partingbead 1 year ago
@partingbead Anyone got an ear if they want to play in the first place?
metyuewb 1 year ago
i love this song!!
Legendary blind bluesman & harp player
luv sonnyboy williamson II
thnx soo much 4 posting =D
rainbowstarre 1 year ago
@rainbowstarre
he was not blind ... some of them old bluesmen actually could see :)
Bluefinger 1 year ago
led zeppelin did a cover of this song
scream8485 1 year ago 2
@scream8485 Zeppelin didn't just do a "cover" of this song. They recorded it, and took all the songwriting credit, and didn't pay royalties to the writer of the original -- until they got sued, like they've been sued about 10 other times for shamelessly ripping off other artists songs, and claiming them as their own
MusicWriter1965 1 year ago
@MusicWriter1965 dude zeppelin did use some of this song but they changed it so much it was their own u know what i am sayin bro
redneck10102 1 year ago
@redneck10102 Still, Dixon's song. Contains the same music. Same title. If they wanted to establish it as a different song they should have taken out the material of this song. Or at least changed the name of the song.
NeverAloneForever 1 year ago
@redneck10102 And now that I've listened to the whole song I know what you meant by changed it alot. Well, they sure did rearrange the music in the middle part of the song but they also kept the lyrics. So, know they didn't make it their own. They rehashed it with some new instrumentation. Like all good covers. Hmm . . . what was that song called? That song Ringo did with the Beatles? The one Joe Cocker covere? Have a clue?
NeverAloneForever 1 year ago
@redneck10102 No, I don't know what you're saying, lol.
lewars1912 9 months ago
@scream8485 Who gives a fuck about Led Zeppelin when you got Sonny Boy Williamson????
metyuewb 1 year ago 2
@metyuewb lol
lewars1912 9 months ago
thats the blues
bigwillhenk 1 year ago