Funny thing, none of these would be famous unless Zeppelin covered/played them. Granted, the original artists deserve credit, and perhaps Zeppelin did deserve to have some lawsuits thrown their way. But that takes nothing away from the music they recorded and performed.
playgerism is almost always coincidental and accidental unless it is just deliberate , humans mimic , the ear doesn't know better because it feels like replicating thought and thought has to come from somewhere,usually emotion , just a few months ago I composed an all major keyed song on the piano which flowed from nothing but pure emotion, because that's how I felt , and it sounds exactly like something I've heard before I just don't know what .
Yeah, they broke some laws. The original artists have a right to sue if their work was still copyrighted. As a fan, I'm not going to enjoy LZ music any differently, it will still affect me the same. I really would stop listening to any of these "plagiarized" songs if the originals were better, but COME ON. The early blues songs are toe-tappers at best, and the late 60's stuff is super obscure for a reason, it sucks.
@motorpsykler I agreed up until you claim the late 60's stuff sucks.You're so wrong here bert jansch's version was better than jimmy hes a better guitarist too.But I dont think they even broke laws those laws are bullshit anyway.Im playing music nobody created these notes they were always there to be played.And early blues is not just toe tapping music its the roots of american music everything else is the fruits.
@ghfla311 you can't really accuse them of stealing music. Lyrics?? may be, but music?? They might be influenced but i don't think that's stealing. With those music Plant could've sung nursery rhymes or even bible verses and still it would've been awesome song.
Brits gettin rich off of American sweat, big shocker. Fuck led zep and all of those piece of shit baby boomers that catapulted them to fame and made them richer than kings. Oh yeah, page Sucks. Rory Gallagher (among Many others) makes page sound like a Slipshod Pantywaist.
The thing with "Bring It On Home," there's only a tiny bit taken from Sonny Boy Williamson's version and we threw that in as a tribute to him. People say, "Oh, 'Bring It On Home' is stolen." Well, there's only a little bit in the song that relates to anything that had gone before it, just the end."
"Both guitarist Jimmy Page and singer Robert Plant were fans of Baez. Baez's original album had indicated no writing credit, and Led Zeppelin credited the song as "Trad. arr. Page". In the 1980s, Bredon was made aware of Led Zeppelin's version of the song. Since 1990 the Led Zeppelin version has been credited to Anne Bredon/Jimmy Page & Robert Plant, and Bredon received a substantial back-payment in royalties."
i think we have to make a difference between tribute and plagiarism.LED ZEPPELIN is the greatest band ever and they didn't need help from anybody to write major classic rock songs.for sure they were influenced by blues music and very proud of it."The american blues music is the is the soul of LED ZEPPELIN" Jimmy Page,Chicago,1970.
Led Zeppelin just happened to be on the top and everybody took shot at them. They never hid their influence and inspirations. Metal bands steal from Page's guitar riffs all the time, you never hear him complaining. I don't care if they stole it or anything, they made it their own. And that's what music is about. Another example of successful artists accused of stealing, Bob Dylan. It's a jealous world.
If you know any history about blues music, most of the songs were being sung for ages before someone eventually recorded it and took the credit. So, in reference to lyrics from Blues and Folk songs, it is almost impossible to find the original artist. Led zeppelin did noting different that what other artist used to do back then. People liked to share music and share inspiration, and not sue every single one who used their music. They made music to express themselves, not to be millionaires.
@deathundone True - but it just so happens that Zep ended up being millionairs. Also - I was under the impression my entire life that all that music was original Led Zeppelin music. So i am a little disheartened to find out that my childhood songs weren't created by whom i thought they were.
Who did the asians steal their music from? Where did africa get their music from? Where did the italians get opera and italian folk music from? Did the germans steal music from the spanish? Does france evan know what music is? I have the answers to all of these questions, and the answer is---- we all stole all of the music from GOD !!!! But god stole the music from satin !!! "i think"? Then again i might be wrong- Any one here like Louis armstrong? Or dizzy giullespii <-- spelled wrong?
This is ABSOLUTELY ridiculous. Led Zeppelin wrote the friggin' music. It's their music. The biggest joke is the comparison of Moby Dick with Bobby Parker's Watch Your Step. Other than both of them being a standard 12 bar blues progression (of which friggin 95 percent of rock music is) they're nowhere near the same. Hey...why don't we just end this by saying ALL rock bands are thieves & have them pay the descendants of the sharecropper who came up with the 12 bar blue progression. F'n ridiculous.
I'm no fan, but Led Zep kicks ass on these others.
I remember when Mojo Nixon and Country Dick Montana got drunk one night and wrote a song called "Are You Drinkin' With Me, Jesus?" They were so proud! Turns out the song had already been recorded, but neither could remember having heard it before. They swore they'd sat there and worked out the lyrics themselves!!
I think that most people who talk sh¡t about others do so out of envy.
This person picked "TEN" of the songs Zeppelin "plagerized(NOTICE THE QUOTES MY FRIENDS.)" And they are probably the only songs out of the 80 something songs Zeppelin made. ( : Ouch....Again, GO FUCK YOURSELF!!!!!
I am sure DeadEros got the message by now. No need to go on. ( : lol. I wanted to make sure the SOB got the point by posting so much. But hey, interesting video nonetheless. I mean entertaining. You could have labelled it differently though. Like "the few songs Zeppelin copied/covered" instead of using the word "plagerized" if you know what I mean you sly son of bitch you. lol.
Basically the ONLY THING Zeppelin is guilty of IF ANYTHING is they won't say "we copied these PARTICULAR songs." ( : Have fun hating on them you fucking retards.
And even if they did come out and say they copied these PARTICULAR songs, it wouldn't make much of a difference if any. It would just satisfy a bunch of 'tards anger issues that's all. I mean, most of their songs are original. And by original I mean they came up with the riffs/lyrics. But you want to leave that FACT out you SOB.
Hey, John Lennon copied "Stand by me." Fun fact. I am expecting a video bashing him as well. ( : I mean, I would hate to see you picking and choosing, it would really piss me off to see a son of a bitch hating on one band for doing something MANY great bands do.
@CheddarBob39 once again you are wrong lol. On the john lennon album that has "Stand by me" on it, it says who really wrote the song. So he didnt steal it, lol lol lol, BUT on all the led zep albums, THEY put on the albums that they wrote the songs, thinking their stupid young white fans would never know anyway, and guess what? We didnt, led zep fans like me really thought they wrote the songs "Too funnt right!!! All songs written by "Plant and Page" YEA RIGHT !!!!
@CheddarBob39 Did you address what pete townshend says about led zep on youtube. If you didnt see it yet just type in "Pete townshend talks about led zep. Or what about what frank zappa says about led zep "They are the best overated rock band ever, or at least in the top ten overated band ever". lol Fucking frank is a pisser! Hey we all know led zep is great, it's just thatwhen they stoped stealing they didnt come out with anything good.Us jethro tull fans just love to make fun of them.
Nothing wrong with that. ( : I personally think they did come out with good songs when they didn't "remake" other peoples songs. But everybody has different tastes/opinions.
@SuperFirewire1 I loved Zeppelin the 1980's, when I was a teen. We didn't know that they were stealing music and passing it off as their own. The music is still great, but a lot of it was just covers. We really had no way of knowing, and Led Zeppelin got rich off of it.
Btw, I am going to follow in whoever made this video's footsteps and make a video bashing "the pink floyd cover bands music." It's going to be awesome. Coming soon. ( :
But I just realized somthing HOLY SHIT!!!! A light bulb went off in my head. I just realized that....LED ZEPPELIN LIKES BLUES ARTISTS AND LIKES TO REMAKE THEIRS SONGS. Cool stuff, didn't know Led zeppelin like and were influenced by such cool people. They are a hell of a lot cooler than I thought. DAMN, thanks for posting.
And why doesn't this person also play THE MANY Zeppelin songs they THEY made from scratch? Like fool in the rain or STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN perhaps? You like to pick and choose. Do you want me to take Eric Claptons I SHOT THE SHERIFF or Bruce Springsteens version of SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN and bash them? GET OUT OF HERE!!!
...But what would REALLY HELP your case on Led Zeppelin plagerizing, is if you played all of this and then had audio clips/footage of them denying that they copying(took parts from) other peoples songs/music. ( : But since you didn't do that(and maybe cannot) I cannot take you seriously. You do not have a case. In other words....YOU FUCKING LOSE!!!! : D
....IN OTHER WORDS MY SPECIAL ED MOTHERFUCKERS WHO CAN'T UNDERSTAND THE POINT I AM GETTING AT. If you are going to call Led Zeppelin a bunch of copycats/people who plagerize. Then you might as well consider anybody who makes a remake of any song people who plagerize. You might as well call anybody who makes christmas music "copycats" and "plagerists" because "Santa is coming to town" has been done time and time again. Hey look like BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN also "PLAGERIZED" in your douchebag minds.
Actually this is 100% BULLSHIT now that I listen to it. "INFLUENCED" is a perfect word for it. "Stole" is not. They took old songs, modernized them, and changed them a bit. I don't see anything wrong with it at all. You are a stupid peice of shit if you do. It added a shitload of great songs to the cannon of great music. ( :
....And I really don't see anything wrong with it if they give credit is due because did you ever hear of the word "influences?"
With that being said, if they give credit where it is due then all I can say to the haters is GO FUCK YOURSELF. ( : If they don't give credit where it is due then I can understand being upset about it.
...and with that being said earlier from what I said. Zeppelin was badass. Made beautiful music. I can't bash them even if they did "steal." And I am sure if they claimed to write all their music back in the day I am sure now a days the more mature members that they are now would probably give credit where it is due. In fact, I know they would. ( : I mean, Robert Plant and the Jimmy Page are like the most humble people you could meet now days.
The question is this. Would they give credit to the lyrics and songs that they obviously copied from others their credit? If they would then I wouldn't really consider it plagerism. If they took some lyrics here and there, and added words of their own and took riffs here and there and added chords of their their own and gave credit where it is due I don't see anything wrong with it at all.
I can think of 11 more songs they stoled! But thats why they are great- the beatles and the stones and zz top and johnny winter and clapton were all too stupid to flat out steal, and on top of that, the beatles, stones ,clapton and all the rest gave creadit when creadit was due!!! Ok thats cool but, very stupid!! They all could have gotten more money. It was clapton and jeff beck that helped howlin wolf sue led zep over a stolen song, and howlin won thwe case, t
@SuperFirewire1 And to this day, page and plant are too cool to admit something we all know anyway- they just plane will not admitt to stealing!!! I guess in 1969 to 1975 led zep never thought us young white kids would find out the truth someday with something called "The Internet" !!!!! God bless page and plant
@Thelonesniper101 See how easy it is to be original!! I didn't steal a word i invented one. How come led zep couldnt do that? Now it is time for me to check out all the danny gatton video's god is he 10000 times better then page or what?
Led Zepplein was clearly influenced by other artists and knowingly interpreted other artists songs in their own way and in some cases, did not give credit to them. Im a huge Zeppelin fan and love their talent, creativity, and the way they can make other songs into their own but it simply comes down to this: they knew what they were doing and as an artist you think they would have understood to at least acknowledge where these songs came from. Even if their versions are completely better haha
This is quite interesting! I think Jimmy Page's quote is a good resume of the whole problem. Robert Plant was a lazy bastard. :D
However, i totally disagree on stairway to heaven's debate. No 50/50 debate(1/99 eventually...)
the original one is really a very simple going down of chords(not very interesting) whereas Stairway is a very complex song. The real genius is in finding a rough material and turn it into diamond. That's what Jimmy Page did!
LED ZEPPELIN wrote the friggin' music. Led Zeppelin were the geniuses. They didn't steal anything. I hope the asshole who posted this video gets hit by a truck.
That's show biz pal. The money goes to who can put the sizzle in the music and sell it to the global market. Everybody wants credit for their creations and masterpieces, but life isn't fair and that's the way it is. Which Rapper is getting sued for their 'REMIX' practices they utilize? Let's see that video Michael Moore wanna be.
se eu soubesse falar ingles o idiota que levantou essas suspeitas sobre o zeppelin ouveria umas boas,nao tem oque fazer e temta levantar falso de uma das melhores bandas do mundo entao um pouco do meu ingles for you FOCK YOUR MOTHER FOCKER!!!!
It is not Led Zeppelin's job to make sure that the artists that influenced them directly or indirectly have money in their pockets. Consequently, the lawsuits are only on the basis of copyright/"credit" being "owed". In the long run, must people don't even know who these people are or care to find out. There I said it.
Led Zeppelin blatantly stole from the old bluesmen. They never gave anyone credit for their works. That why they spent a lot of their time in court and losing 90% of the time. Make all the excuses you want, it not right and against the law…
@SonofBrunhilde Its true Led Zeppelin where incredibly talented and where one of the best rock groups in history but it doesn’t change fact that they stole a lot of their material from the old timers. Did you even watch the video? It speaks for itself…
@TheDeev that's because you dont have the originals one, after led zep when to court about 100 times and lost- they had to change what was originaly written on the albums.Thats why i always hated led zep i guess, and the sad part is they didnt have to do that to be big time, they could have told the truth, no one would hsave cared!
Well at the lease we can say that they made some average stuff phenomenal.... I'm younger, but never heard of Jake Holmes or Spirit. Not to say that they wernt bad for their time, especially the guys like McCoy or Willie Dixon. But even most people who listen to shitty pop/rap music, and don't know shit about rock know and respect Led Zeppelin.
fuck this,its not plagarism,they signed with atlantic who owned most of the royalties,thats why they didn't list the credit for the influence,after all its only influence,the songs are still different
the blues stuff was just influenced, that's all jimmy page listened to and re-worked, which is different than covering
and stairway was not ripped off, learn what chords are, they're all completely different, the progressions are different, the picking style is different, just because you hear the same notes on the d-string followed by hitting a high note on the high-e-string (also not the same notes) doesn't make it the same song
As for case 9: Dazed and Confused was written by Jake Holmes and released as a track in his debut album "The Above Ground Sound" in 1967. That same year Jake Holmes opened for The Yardbirds in a show in New York where Jimmy Page heard the song. The song was rearranged in lyrics and music and became one of Led Zeppelin best-known songs. Page have the copyright for the song from yardbirds as the Zeppelin became from him. The debt to Jake Holmes however went largely unacknowledged by the band.
Debate herein aside, the statement "he/she made this song/work their own" being used to refute the idea of stealing someone's work is one of the stupidest brain-dead idiotic things you can utter. Use your head. Try out your fucking ears while you're at it.
"Case 5" is a little silly, in my opinion. Sounds like What'd I Say and just so many other blues songs that just happen to have the same kind of progression and similar riffs within.
And what? They only made made known and better average songs. Start listen to music instead of reading Lp covers, spitting of shame, and making videos only for ratings.
without led zeppelin covers, these songs would be unknown. What the fuck do you criticize led zeppelin, we don't care about cover or no, but we can enjoy their songs without thinking about some of them songs which are covers.
@cariells1 i agree with you, led zep are asses for stealing and saying they wrote them, and dont forget the other 14 songs they riped off like "The killing floor" lol they wrote on the album that they wrote that lol. No wonder when Ian Anderson said in 1970 "IF they could write their own songs they would be the best band in the world". Robert plant hated ian anderson for saying that in the "Cream" magazine, but ian was write!!! Also that's why eric clapton and jeff beck hated led zep too.
Really? Because last time I checked, "I shot the sheriff" wasn't written by Eric Clapton. ROTFL. In fact, not only wasn't it written by him but it was a song before he "remade" it. ( : But then again, I guess Clapton isn't denying that he copied music. lol. But again, I don't give a shit. ZEPPELIN RULES!!!!
@CheddarBob39 Ok, i can see you dont really know what's going on here. You are a big led zep fan and your mad by what we are all saying but- eric clapton NEVER said he wrote i shot the sheriff and on the album it never said he wrote it, clapton and his record company listed who really wrote the song, get it? Your boys put on their albums that THEY wrote the songs lol, thats why they had all their albums taken off the market and redone to put the real song writters names on them- Get it?
@SuperFirewire1 BTW. Stupid "WHITE" fans shows you are a racist. LOL. HAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAA. YOU LOsE FUckER. YOU IGNORANTS STUPID PEIcE OF SHIT YOU LOSE ALL CREDIBILITY AND LOSE. YOU FUckING LOSER HAHAHHHAHAHHAA!!!!
Oh, and does J.J. Cales "cocaine" come to mind. My man Eric Clapton is great indeed. And I love HIS VERSION of cocaine just as much if not more than J.J. Cales. But you got some comments to back up here son. You got some words to eat. Because you just got OWNED. NOT ONLY did my man Eric Clapton do a remake of Cocaine(GREAT SONG) but he also did "i shot the sheriff." Enough is said. I love this. I AM MOTHERFUCKING LOVING THIS!!! The great debater. I am.
straight out plagiarism. They should just come out and admit it. it's not as if they didn't make great songs themselves, just need to admit to the mistake.
Let's not stop here-lets have an argument about where Jazz started. Many artist traveled through the Delta's, passed through many towns up & down the railroad tracks, looking for work.
Many of the samples you've used to make your argument, didn't belong solely to those artist either. So, keep the lawsuits going on down the line. Eventually, you will find that the origins come from many. Plenty going on during Joe Turner, Earl Connelly, Williams-your argument is weak by nature of environment.
HOW MANY ARTISTS TODAY ACTUALLY STEAL MUSIC FROM OTHER ARTISTS?! End of discussion. Here's an idea, look at the songs they didn't "plagiarize". Any one of those songs are better composed and performed than about 99% of today's artists/music. You say that Led Zeppelin fans are quick to pull the "they only covered it" card, as if we're predictable. It is you, sir, who are predictable. Same old song n' dance, my friend. HATERS HATE, AND ZEPPELIN FANS APPRECIATE!
@ColtClockwork You're right. I hate it when ppl go above and beyond to shit on Led Zeppelin. Their my favorite band, yes... I'm a little bias, yes.... but it erks the hell out of me when ppl post this stuff as if it's proof that Led Zep stole artists' music. I should have read the poster's description first, my bad, I saw it and got defensive. I do welcome the debate, so long as it's not a smear campaign.
that does seem to be that somewhat same riff that you can hear in 100's of other songs. as for examples. i have no idea. but it's all the same idea. it's that standard E A B blues riff idea. the same scale and patterns. to say Zep ripped that off, would be like saying that every band rips off that patterns in music, even before Zeppelin
I think that all blues artists did it. The others just gave more credits and props to their inspirations and muses. Led Zepplin did not tip their hat to those who they copied, to those who came before.
Page has merely changed the trail off notes of the phrase of the riff. The key notes at the begginning and the phrasing and even the way it stops on the 4 chord at the 12 bar sequence's resolution are the same so i believe Bobby deserves credit. People would be up in arms if some new band came along and and only changed moby dick to the same extent Page changed the Parker song.... one must think of it in relative terms!
some just used the lyrics, others were similar but not exactly the same. They are alot like modern remixes in electronic music today. plagerism is taking someone else music EXACTLY and putting in a couple lyrics or something like that withought giving credit.
saprando is not helping his cause. I have no problem with the use of previously done progressions. How many different blues tunes are there, really? This. however goes beyond that. I didn't know that Page and Plant didn't even share credit with the originators that "inspired" their songs (covers). An honorable artist honors his mentors. That is not what happened here.
I'd give you all of them except "Stairway". It's kiiiinda similar, but not even near the same. ...And using others songs was standard practice back in the blues days. People wold take a song, and change it into Zeppelin's case they just happend to make it 100 times better :)
To be honest, I hate to say this, but I've noticed this for years. Look out for "Way Down Inside" by Wilie Dixon. This is Whole Lotta Love all the way through......
It was called "You Need Love"......not only did Zeppelin steal it from Willie Dixon....but Plant stold the vocal delivery from the "Small Faces" lead singer Steve Marriot....who covered the song a couple of years earlier.....renaming it "You Need Lovin". Check out this version and you will never respect Plant again! LOL!
"spirit" sounds alittle like stairway but its completely different. When you are a musician you know that there is a finite number of sounds you can get out of an instrument, some of this shit is bound to sound alike, man.
Zeppelin claimed it as their own. I think that's the issue at hand. In interviews Plant or Page, like most "blues" outfit members of the UK (ala Cream), on the subject they will tell you that they were definitely doing what blues cats in the states did and that they loved that shit. But instead of saying you covering cats like Son House or Albert King like an Eric Clapton did, they claim shit as their own. But Zeppelin still is important
@DanSkorsky I'm a Zeppelin fan like everyone else, but just like hip hop artists in the 80s who was just using and sampling people like James Brown music freely, you got to at least give credit to the artists you got it from. But like I said earlier Plant and Page usually will tell you that on the road to creating their sound they were doing the blues. I mean Page was in the Yardbirds
Ah, so playing variations of widely used blues progressions is plagiarism now? I hate to break it to you, but all musicians do this. Have you ever hear of Muddy Waters and Bo Diddley...? They want back and forth to create what everyone knows as "Mannish Boy" now...
Sure some are lifted from other artists, but c'mon, its not like its 100% copy note-for-note. Plagiarism, as far as I'm concerned, is lifting a piece of music and changing one or two aspects of it. Zeppelin made these songs their own.
@Timeaisis The song dazed and confused was stolen from Jake Holmes, Led Zeppelin then copyrighted it themselves, claiming it as their own. They did not rework the song or make it their own, it was almost a replica down to the unique, odd sound effects and the complete make up and playing style during the bridge. Led Zeppelin was a group of very talented musicians who changed history and wrote some great, and even important songs, but they were guilty of plagiarism
@Timeaisis Exactly. Whenever Led Zeppelin covered a song they would vastly change it. The entire mood and feeling of the song would warp into Led Zeppelin's own thing. Almost all of classical rock is based off of jazz and classical music but it still comes nowhere near the threshold of plagiarism.
@Timeaisis its not the plagiarism (which is undeniable, they lost a half dozen law-suits, being convicted of plagiarism) that is very bothersome.. it's that they refused to give credit where credit was due. They ripped off black musicians and left them to die penniless while they amassed hordes of treasure touring and playing music they did not write. Yes, I LOVE ZEP.. and they really made stuff their own... but GOD DAMN, take care of those who helped you get where you got!
@leeharveyosmosis so... the recond labels forced jimmy page to rip off music and not give credit? Blues musicians shared and credited each other... there was no money in being a black bluesman!!! So, when a band comes along like led zeppelin and they make as much money as they did........ You know what they should have done.
Willie Dixon copy-righted a whole lot of "Blues Standards", that is songs that were traditional like many folk ones with the original origins unrecorded and unforgotten.
The true theft are those who privatised the community property of the Blues for their own interests, building up a war chest of copyrights in order to sue those who developed the tracks and made commercial success out of work that was believed to be public domain.
There's more to this than paper, lawyers and court judgments.
i GUARANTEE! they asked permission to remake these songs. if they got permission they can make it any way they want. i can't quit you was the only one they fucked up on. Your a fucking idiot. these were never cases besides one. get your facts straight. Led Zeppelin is the best.
Drawing inspiration from certain genres of music it's not the same as plagiarism. It's also one thing to make a proper cover when you give the proper credits, and other to make it pass like if it was yours hoping nobody would realize it's actually a rip off. They didn't give the credits to their ''covers'' that's why they were accused of plagiarism.
@Kamyu03 Most of the examples in this video are artists recording traditional blues songs, not really very impressive, did they credit properly or just assert their own copyright on their arrangement & performance? Somehow I doubt the originator of this video will expose them in a vid. LZ were targets with money, who never hid the development of Rock was based on the Blues. Being foreign, rich and having a good chance of a sympathetic hometown court, mean greed is the prime motivation.
Dude, It's Called THE BLUES. They've done covers of old blues songs like a bazillion artists out there, and made it there way - a cover. It's not Plagiarizem , It's a taking of blues standards and playing it your own way. BLUES STANDARDS.
Bobby Parker riff and the Moby Dick riff are similar but not identical. If you listen to a lot of early Rock N Roll, and or even Blues, you'll find a zillion other riffs that sound like that. It's a standard Blues riff. Moby Dick has it's own spin to it. Taurus and Stairway, similar but not nearly identical. You have a good case with the other songs. One with music, one with music and lyrics, and he rest with lyrics. To throw a couple in there that don't really match, you're trying too hard.
@LedWilde Exactly.. and as Jimmy Page was a 60's session guitarist, asked to come up with something to fit in with other artists' tracks, it'd be surprising if his guitar work wasn't similiar.. the original was him but without credit. Jimi Hendrix to covered blues, that doesn't mean his version & arrangement didn't also accrue a copyright.
Rock became big business and money attracts lawyers and leeches. The equivalent today is ludicrous software patents (with prior art) and law suits.
Funny thing, none of these would be famous unless Zeppelin covered/played them. Granted, the original artists deserve credit, and perhaps Zeppelin did deserve to have some lawsuits thrown their way. But that takes nothing away from the music they recorded and performed.
SPXScreech 44 minutes ago
Give'em all 20.00
Who would you rather listen to?
bogey19018 3 hours ago
playgerism is almost always coincidental and accidental unless it is just deliberate , humans mimic , the ear doesn't know better because it feels like replicating thought and thought has to come from somewhere,usually emotion , just a few months ago I composed an all major keyed song on the piano which flowed from nothing but pure emotion, because that's how I felt , and it sounds exactly like something I've heard before I just don't know what .
bobboberan 11 hours ago
Zeppelin did it better.
killbill2241 15 hours ago 2
Yeah, they broke some laws. The original artists have a right to sue if their work was still copyrighted. As a fan, I'm not going to enjoy LZ music any differently, it will still affect me the same. I really would stop listening to any of these "plagiarized" songs if the originals were better, but COME ON. The early blues songs are toe-tappers at best, and the late 60's stuff is super obscure for a reason, it sucks.
motorpsykler 19 hours ago
@motorpsykler I agreed up until you claim the late 60's stuff sucks.You're so wrong here bert jansch's version was better than jimmy hes a better guitarist too.But I dont think they even broke laws those laws are bullshit anyway.Im playing music nobody created these notes they were always there to be played.And early blues is not just toe tapping music its the roots of american music everything else is the fruits.
DAFUNK213 18 hours ago
didn't steal caruoselambra, dangit!
scrollfinger 1 day ago
@ghfla311 you can't really accuse them of stealing music. Lyrics?? may be, but music?? They might be influenced but i don't think that's stealing. With those music Plant could've sung nursery rhymes or even bible verses and still it would've been awesome song.
deathundone 1 day ago
Brits gettin rich off of American sweat, big shocker. Fuck led zep and all of those piece of shit baby boomers that catapulted them to fame and made them richer than kings. Oh yeah, page Sucks. Rory Gallagher (among Many others) makes page sound like a Slipshod Pantywaist.
rnrsteev 1 day ago
from Wikipedia:
"In an interview he gave in 1977, Page commented:
The thing with "Bring It On Home," there's only a tiny bit taken from Sonny Boy Williamson's version and we threw that in as a tribute to him. People say, "Oh, 'Bring It On Home' is stolen." Well, there's only a little bit in the song that relates to anything that had gone before it, just the end."
aerolele84 1 day ago
from wikipedia
"Both guitarist Jimmy Page and singer Robert Plant were fans of Baez. Baez's original album had indicated no writing credit, and Led Zeppelin credited the song as "Trad. arr. Page". In the 1980s, Bredon was made aware of Led Zeppelin's version of the song. Since 1990 the Led Zeppelin version has been credited to Anne Bredon/Jimmy Page & Robert Plant, and Bredon received a substantial back-payment in royalties."
aerolele84 1 day ago
why are you talking of Plagiarism?!
as you can read on wikipedia, in the Led Zeppelin (Album) page
"many song were based on blues standards"... Willie Dixon collaborated with them.
aerolele84 1 day ago
i think we have to make a difference between tribute and plagiarism.LED ZEPPELIN is the greatest band ever and they didn't need help from anybody to write major classic rock songs.for sure they were influenced by blues music and very proud of it."The american blues music is the is the soul of LED ZEPPELIN" Jimmy Page,Chicago,1970.
thegodswerethere 1 day ago
Dang, some of them are exactly the same!!! My view of them just changed..!
MrDougIsHere 1 day ago
Led Zeppelin just happened to be on the top and everybody took shot at them. They never hid their influence and inspirations. Metal bands steal from Page's guitar riffs all the time, you never hear him complaining. I don't care if they stole it or anything, they made it their own. And that's what music is about. Another example of successful artists accused of stealing, Bob Dylan. It's a jealous world.
deathundone 2 days ago
If you know any history about blues music, most of the songs were being sung for ages before someone eventually recorded it and took the credit. So, in reference to lyrics from Blues and Folk songs, it is almost impossible to find the original artist. Led zeppelin did noting different that what other artist used to do back then. People liked to share music and share inspiration, and not sue every single one who used their music. They made music to express themselves, not to be millionaires.
deathundone 2 days ago 2
@deathundone True - but it just so happens that Zep ended up being millionairs. Also - I was under the impression my entire life that all that music was original Led Zeppelin music. So i am a little disheartened to find out that my childhood songs weren't created by whom i thought they were.
ghfla311 1 day ago
dude rappers steal lyrics from EVERYBODY and they have the same beat through the whole song? and most dont even make sence
TheAABBCC91 3 days ago 2
Wow.
brianpadrickdrake 3 days ago in playlist music
Ecclesiastes 1:9
Idlehampster 3 days ago
Who did the asians steal their music from? Where did africa get their music from? Where did the italians get opera and italian folk music from? Did the germans steal music from the spanish? Does france evan know what music is? I have the answers to all of these questions, and the answer is---- we all stole all of the music from GOD !!!! But god stole the music from satin !!! "i think"? Then again i might be wrong- Any one here like Louis armstrong? Or dizzy giullespii <-- spelled wrong?
SuperFirewire1 3 days ago
This is ABSOLUTELY ridiculous. Led Zeppelin wrote the friggin' music. It's their music. The biggest joke is the comparison of Moby Dick with Bobby Parker's Watch Your Step. Other than both of them being a standard 12 bar blues progression (of which friggin 95 percent of rock music is) they're nowhere near the same. Hey...why don't we just end this by saying ALL rock bands are thieves & have them pay the descendants of the sharecropper who came up with the 12 bar blue progression. F'n ridiculous.
SonofBrunhilde 3 days ago 2
I've heard all the info on this video elsewhere!
I'm no fan, but Led Zep kicks ass on these others.
I remember when Mojo Nixon and Country Dick Montana got drunk one night and wrote a song called "Are You Drinkin' With Me, Jesus?" They were so proud! Turns out the song had already been recorded, but neither could remember having heard it before. They swore they'd sat there and worked out the lyrics themselves!!
I think that most people who talk sh¡t about others do so out of envy.
cliffwalkinfool 4 days ago
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THAT'S RIGHT you stupid fuck. I wouldn't fucking affect their fame and greatness at all. Go suck a dick you faggot. ( :
Out of 84 songs they copied/remade 10 songs no big deal and they weren't even Zeppelin's greatest tunes. Go fuck yourself because
you LOST bitch. : D All they would have/need to do is say that in those PARTICULAR songs they copied. No big deal. : D
CheddarBob39 4 days ago
And what about Led Zep's first "hit" "Whole Lot a Love" which is Willie Dixon's "You Need Love" with a big jolt of caffeine
MyBarkingdog 4 days ago
@MyBarkingdog
SANTA CLAUS IS ALL THAT NEEDS TO BE SAID about one of their shittiest tunes. ( : My friend. hahahaa,
CheddarBob39 4 days ago
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CheddarBob39 4 days ago
...And you can't deny they are good remakes/copies. ( : Again...GO FUCK YOURSELVES.
CheddarBob39 4 days ago
This person picked "TEN" of the songs Zeppelin "plagerized(NOTICE THE QUOTES MY FRIENDS.)" And they are probably the only songs out of the 80 something songs Zeppelin made. ( : Ouch....Again, GO FUCK YOURSELF!!!!!
CheddarBob39 4 days ago
What's that I hear from the critics? SILENCE....THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT!!!!!!!! lol. And um.....that's the way it should be.
CheddarBob39 4 days ago
Stills best band in the world.
Huisihuilke 4 days ago
I am sure DeadEros got the message by now. No need to go on. ( : lol. I wanted to make sure the SOB got the point by posting so much. But hey, interesting video nonetheless. I mean entertaining. You could have labelled it differently though. Like "the few songs Zeppelin copied/covered" instead of using the word "plagerized" if you know what I mean you sly son of bitch you. lol.
CheddarBob39 4 days ago
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Basically the ONLY THING Zeppelin is guilty of IF ANYTHING is they won't say "we copied these PARTICULAR songs." ( : Have fun hating on them you fucking retards.
And even if they did come out and say they copied these PARTICULAR songs, it wouldn't make much of a difference if any. It would just satisfy a bunch of 'tards anger issues that's all. I mean, most of their songs are original. And by original I mean they came up with the riffs/lyrics. But you want to leave that FACT out you SOB.
CheddarBob39 4 days ago
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CheddarBob39 4 days ago
Hey, John Lennon copied "Stand by me." Fun fact. I am expecting a video bashing him as well. ( : I mean, I would hate to see you picking and choosing, it would really piss me off to see a son of a bitch hating on one band for doing something MANY great bands do.
CheddarBob39 4 days ago
@CheddarBob39 once again you are wrong lol. On the john lennon album that has "Stand by me" on it, it says who really wrote the song. So he didnt steal it, lol lol lol, BUT on all the led zep albums, THEY put on the albums that they wrote the songs, thinking their stupid young white fans would never know anyway, and guess what? We didnt, led zep fans like me really thought they wrote the songs "Too funnt right!!! All songs written by "Plant and Page" YEA RIGHT !!!!
SuperFirewire1 4 days ago
@SuperFirewire1
Read ALL MY COMMENTS. Because I address people like you. ( :
CheddarBob39 4 days ago
@CheddarBob39 Did you address what pete townshend says about led zep on youtube. If you didnt see it yet just type in "Pete townshend talks about led zep. Or what about what frank zappa says about led zep "They are the best overated rock band ever, or at least in the top ten overated band ever". lol Fucking frank is a pisser! Hey we all know led zep is great, it's just thatwhen they stoped stealing they didnt come out with anything good.Us jethro tull fans just love to make fun of them.
SuperFirewire1 3 days ago
@SuperFirewire1
Nothing wrong with that. ( : I personally think they did come out with good songs when they didn't "remake" other peoples songs. But everybody has different tastes/opinions.
CheddarBob39 3 days ago
@SuperFirewire1 I loved Zeppelin the 1980's, when I was a teen. We didn't know that they were stealing music and passing it off as their own. The music is still great, but a lot of it was just covers. We really had no way of knowing, and Led Zeppelin got rich off of it.
peerman2006 3 days ago
You are a MORON.
SonofBrunhilde 3 days ago
Btw, I am going to follow in whoever made this video's footsteps and make a video bashing "the pink floyd cover bands music." It's going to be awesome. Coming soon. ( :
NOT!!!!
CheddarBob39 4 days ago
And again, I know I am going on and on but THIS IS TOO MUCH FUN!!!!
For all you people who say "Zeppelin copied A LOT of songs though not just one."
Oh, I didn't know there was some secret rule book that says you can only copy "one song." ROTFL.
CheddarBob39 4 days ago
This is too much fun and too easy.
But I just realized somthing HOLY SHIT!!!! A light bulb went off in my head. I just realized that....LED ZEPPELIN LIKES BLUES ARTISTS AND LIKES TO REMAKE THEIRS SONGS. Cool stuff, didn't know Led zeppelin like and were influenced by such cool people. They are a hell of a lot cooler than I thought. DAMN, thanks for posting.
CheddarBob39 4 days ago
I know I rambled on far too long. Heck, NO I DIDN'T I WAS MAKING A GOOD POINT DAMN IT!!!! AND I WILL NOT STAND FOR THIS KIND OF BULLSHIT ANYMORE. : D
CheddarBob39 4 days ago
And why doesn't this person also play THE MANY Zeppelin songs they THEY made from scratch? Like fool in the rain or STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN perhaps? You like to pick and choose. Do you want me to take Eric Claptons I SHOT THE SHERIFF or Bruce Springsteens version of SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN and bash them? GET OUT OF HERE!!!
CheddarBob39 4 days ago
...But what would REALLY HELP your case on Led Zeppelin plagerizing, is if you played all of this and then had audio clips/footage of them denying that they copying(took parts from) other peoples songs/music. ( : But since you didn't do that(and maybe cannot) I cannot take you seriously. You do not have a case. In other words....YOU FUCKING LOSE!!!! : D
CheddarBob39 4 days ago
....IN OTHER WORDS MY SPECIAL ED MOTHERFUCKERS WHO CAN'T UNDERSTAND THE POINT I AM GETTING AT. If you are going to call Led Zeppelin a bunch of copycats/people who plagerize. Then you might as well consider anybody who makes a remake of any song people who plagerize. You might as well call anybody who makes christmas music "copycats" and "plagerists" because "Santa is coming to town" has been done time and time again. Hey look like BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN also "PLAGERIZED" in your douchebag minds.
CheddarBob39 4 days ago
Actually this is 100% BULLSHIT now that I listen to it. "INFLUENCED" is a perfect word for it. "Stole" is not. They took old songs, modernized them, and changed them a bit. I don't see anything wrong with it at all. You are a stupid peice of shit if you do. It added a shitload of great songs to the cannon of great music. ( :
CheddarBob39 4 days ago
....And I really don't see anything wrong with it if they give credit is due because did you ever hear of the word "influences?"
With that being said, if they give credit where it is due then all I can say to the haters is GO FUCK YOURSELF. ( : If they don't give credit where it is due then I can understand being upset about it.
CheddarBob39 4 days ago
"Good artist copy, great artist steal" - Pablo Picasso
jjtcoolkid 4 days ago
...and with that being said earlier from what I said. Zeppelin was badass. Made beautiful music. I can't bash them even if they did "steal." And I am sure if they claimed to write all their music back in the day I am sure now a days the more mature members that they are now would probably give credit where it is due. In fact, I know they would. ( : I mean, Robert Plant and the Jimmy Page are like the most humble people you could meet now days.
CheddarBob39 4 days ago
The question is this. Would they give credit to the lyrics and songs that they obviously copied from others their credit? If they would then I wouldn't really consider it plagerism. If they took some lyrics here and there, and added words of their own and took riffs here and there and added chords of their their own and gave credit where it is due I don't see anything wrong with it at all.
CheddarBob39 4 days ago
that spirit song is nothing like stairway to heaven ...
asbeitemu 4 days ago
I can think of 11 more songs they stoled! But thats why they are great- the beatles and the stones and zz top and johnny winter and clapton were all too stupid to flat out steal, and on top of that, the beatles, stones ,clapton and all the rest gave creadit when creadit was due!!! Ok thats cool but, very stupid!! They all could have gotten more money. It was clapton and jeff beck that helped howlin wolf sue led zep over a stolen song, and howlin won thwe case, t
SuperFirewire1 4 days ago
@SuperFirewire1 And to this day, page and plant are too cool to admit something we all know anyway- they just plane will not admitt to stealing!!! I guess in 1969 to 1975 led zep never thought us young white kids would find out the truth someday with something called "The Internet" !!!!! God bless page and plant
SuperFirewire1 4 days ago
@SuperFirewire1 Stoled is not a word.
Thelonesniper101 4 days ago
@Thelonesniper101 See how easy it is to be original!! I didn't steal a word i invented one. How come led zep couldnt do that? Now it is time for me to check out all the danny gatton video's god is he 10000 times better then page or what?
SuperFirewire1 4 days ago
Led Zepplein was clearly influenced by other artists and knowingly interpreted other artists songs in their own way and in some cases, did not give credit to them. Im a huge Zeppelin fan and love their talent, creativity, and the way they can make other songs into their own but it simply comes down to this: they knew what they were doing and as an artist you think they would have understood to at least acknowledge where these songs came from. Even if their versions are completely better haha
MDsty1ee 4 days ago
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This is quite interesting! I think Jimmy Page's quote is a good resume of the whole problem. Robert Plant was a lazy bastard. :D
However, i totally disagree on stairway to heaven's debate. No 50/50 debate(1/99 eventually...)
the original one is really a very simple going down of chords(not very interesting) whereas Stairway is a very complex song. The real genius is in finding a rough material and turn it into diamond. That's what Jimmy Page did!
(ps: sry for possible english mistakes, i'm FR)
MrFanGali 4 days ago
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MrFanGali 4 days ago
LED ZEPPELIN wrote the friggin' music. Led Zeppelin were the geniuses. They didn't steal anything. I hope the asshole who posted this video gets hit by a truck.
SonofBrunhilde 5 days ago
That's show biz pal. The money goes to who can put the sizzle in the music and sell it to the global market. Everybody wants credit for their creations and masterpieces, but life isn't fair and that's the way it is. Which Rapper is getting sued for their 'REMIX' practices they utilize? Let's see that video Michael Moore wanna be.
gcbluesgod1 5 days ago
se eu soubesse falar ingles o idiota que levantou essas suspeitas sobre o zeppelin ouveria umas boas,nao tem oque fazer e temta levantar falso de uma das melhores bandas do mundo entao um pouco do meu ingles for you FOCK YOUR MOTHER FOCKER!!!!
Grievorious 5 days ago
It is not Led Zeppelin's job to make sure that the artists that influenced them directly or indirectly have money in their pockets. Consequently, the lawsuits are only on the basis of copyright/"credit" being "owed". In the long run, must people don't even know who these people are or care to find out. There I said it.
BawlinOnaBudget 5 days ago
yawn
brimcowa 5 days ago
Led Zeppelin blatantly stole from the old bluesmen. They never gave anyone credit for their works. That why they spent a lot of their time in court and losing 90% of the time. Make all the excuses you want, it not right and against the law…
186kms 5 days ago
WRONG
SonofBrunhilde 5 days ago
@SonofBrunhilde Its true Led Zeppelin where incredibly talented and where one of the best rock groups in history but it doesn’t change fact that they stole a lot of their material from the old timers. Did you even watch the video? It speaks for itself…
186kms 4 days ago
... but in every case the Led Zep version is better so good on 'em I say.
EdwinBedwetter 5 days ago
@EdwinBedwetter doesn't make right....
186kms 5 days ago
Actually, the song "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" was credited to Baez on the Led Zeppelin record (or at least the LP copy I have).
TheDeev 6 days ago
@TheDeev that's because you dont have the originals one, after led zep when to court about 100 times and lost- they had to change what was originaly written on the albums.Thats why i always hated led zep i guess, and the sad part is they didnt have to do that to be big time, they could have told the truth, no one would hsave cared!
SuperFirewire1 4 days ago
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i just found out this one... oh my head-Ritchie valens ...Boogie with Stu...fucking cheaps cant make there own stuff
fucktheheros 6 days ago
Okay now do one for Lady Gaga, there must be plenty of scope!
MsBPunk 6 days ago
Well at the lease we can say that they made some average stuff phenomenal.... I'm younger, but never heard of Jake Holmes or Spirit. Not to say that they wernt bad for their time, especially the guys like McCoy or Willie Dixon. But even most people who listen to shitty pop/rap music, and don't know shit about rock know and respect Led Zeppelin.
kvsuprise 6 days ago
fuck this,its not plagarism,they signed with atlantic who owned most of the royalties,thats why they didn't list the credit for the influence,after all its only influence,the songs are still different
hyquStarOfDavid 1 week ago
the blues stuff was just influenced, that's all jimmy page listened to and re-worked, which is different than covering
and stairway was not ripped off, learn what chords are, they're all completely different, the progressions are different, the picking style is different, just because you hear the same notes on the d-string followed by hitting a high note on the high-e-string (also not the same notes) doesn't make it the same song
learn to listen
hyquStarOfDavid 1 week ago
As for case 9: Dazed and Confused was written by Jake Holmes and released as a track in his debut album "The Above Ground Sound" in 1967. That same year Jake Holmes opened for The Yardbirds in a show in New York where Jimmy Page heard the song. The song was rearranged in lyrics and music and became one of Led Zeppelin best-known songs. Page have the copyright for the song from yardbirds as the Zeppelin became from him. The debt to Jake Holmes however went largely unacknowledged by the band.
NikolaosLedZeppelin 1 week ago
Debate herein aside, the statement "he/she made this song/work their own" being used to refute the idea of stealing someone's work is one of the stupidest brain-dead idiotic things you can utter. Use your head. Try out your fucking ears while you're at it.
eddison72 1 week ago
@eddison72
The bluesmen ripped each other off all the in a time when the blues wasn't completely fucking lame.
leeharveyosmosis 1 week ago
"Case 5" is a little silly, in my opinion. Sounds like What'd I Say and just so many other blues songs that just happen to have the same kind of progression and similar riffs within.
whiteflagwhiteflag 1 week ago
And what? They only made made known and better average songs. Start listen to music instead of reading Lp covers, spitting of shame, and making videos only for ratings.
NoWaked 1 week ago
without led zeppelin covers, these songs would be unknown. What the fuck do you criticize led zeppelin, we don't care about cover or no, but we can enjoy their songs without thinking about some of them songs which are covers.
cariells1 1 week ago
@cariells1 i agree with you, led zep are asses for stealing and saying they wrote them, and dont forget the other 14 songs they riped off like "The killing floor" lol they wrote on the album that they wrote that lol. No wonder when Ian Anderson said in 1970 "IF they could write their own songs they would be the best band in the world". Robert plant hated ian anderson for saying that in the "Cream" magazine, but ian was write!!! Also that's why eric clapton and jeff beck hated led zep too.
SuperFirewire1 4 days ago
@SuperFirewire1
Really? Because last time I checked, "I shot the sheriff" wasn't written by Eric Clapton. ROTFL. In fact, not only wasn't it written by him but it was a song before he "remade" it. ( : But then again, I guess Clapton isn't denying that he copied music. lol. But again, I don't give a shit. ZEPPELIN RULES!!!!
CheddarBob39 4 days ago
@CheddarBob39 Ok, i can see you dont really know what's going on here. You are a big led zep fan and your mad by what we are all saying but- eric clapton NEVER said he wrote i shot the sheriff and on the album it never said he wrote it, clapton and his record company listed who really wrote the song, get it? Your boys put on their albums that THEY wrote the songs lol, thats why they had all their albums taken off the market and redone to put the real song writters names on them- Get it?
SuperFirewire1 4 days ago
@SuperFirewire1 BTW. Stupid "WHITE" fans shows you are a racist. LOL. HAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAA. YOU LOsE FUckER. YOU IGNORANTS STUPID PEIcE OF SHIT YOU LOSE ALL CREDIBILITY AND LOSE. YOU FUckING LOSER HAHAHHHAHAHHAA!!!!
CheddarBob39 4 days ago
@SuperFirewire1
STINGS doesn't it. Hurts. Burns you up inside. Your racist ass is burning with hate. You are furious. Don't know WHAT TO SAY NOW. ROTLF. HAHAHAHA.
CheddarBob39 4 days ago
@SuperFirewire1
Oh, and does J.J. Cales "cocaine" come to mind. My man Eric Clapton is great indeed. And I love HIS VERSION of cocaine just as much if not more than J.J. Cales. But you got some comments to back up here son. You got some words to eat. Because you just got OWNED. NOT ONLY did my man Eric Clapton do a remake of Cocaine(GREAT SONG) but he also did "i shot the sheriff." Enough is said. I love this. I AM MOTHERFUCKING LOVING THIS!!! The great debater. I am.
CheddarBob39 4 days ago
straight out plagiarism. They should just come out and admit it. it's not as if they didn't make great songs themselves, just need to admit to the mistake.
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nasher931 1 week ago
y si algo ladri eran pero que buenos eran
zeppelin208 1 week ago
Let's not stop here-lets have an argument about where Jazz started. Many artist traveled through the Delta's, passed through many towns up & down the railroad tracks, looking for work.
Many of the samples you've used to make your argument, didn't belong solely to those artist either. So, keep the lawsuits going on down the line. Eventually, you will find that the origins come from many. Plenty going on during Joe Turner, Earl Connelly, Williams-your argument is weak by nature of environment.
mediacircus7 1 week ago
dred zeppelin is better
eddievanhalenstoung 1 week ago
Cover or no it still changes the way i will think about them now. :(
toolrocks1395 1 week ago
Spirit's claim is fairly dubious.
minotaurseduction 1 week ago
some songs are cover for led zeppelin player willy dixon etc you don t any about zeppelin bye idiot!
turkitotx 1 week ago
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HOW MANY ARTISTS TODAY ACTUALLY STEAL MUSIC FROM OTHER ARTISTS?! End of discussion. Here's an idea, look at the songs they didn't "plagiarize". Any one of those songs are better composed and performed than about 99% of today's artists/music. You say that Led Zeppelin fans are quick to pull the "they only covered it" card, as if we're predictable. It is you, sir, who are predictable. Same old song n' dance, my friend. HATERS HATE, AND ZEPPELIN FANS APPRECIATE!
AwolGgHt 1 week ago
This guy should get a job for Rolling Stone.
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ColtClockwork 1 week ago
@ColtClockwork You're right. I hate it when ppl go above and beyond to shit on Led Zeppelin. Their my favorite band, yes... I'm a little bias, yes.... but it erks the hell out of me when ppl post this stuff as if it's proof that Led Zep stole artists' music. I should have read the poster's description first, my bad, I saw it and got defensive. I do welcome the debate, so long as it's not a smear campaign.
AwolGgHt 1 week ago
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AwolGgHt 1 week ago
Clearly plant was on the opposite shift from Moby Grape.
lincland 1 week ago
Oh, you blindsided me with Joan Baez. It's like an icepick through my ear.
lincland 1 week ago
Robert Johnson anyone? Come on in my kitchen & squeeze my lemon, cuz I got the travellin riverside blues...
moJosouthpaw 1 week ago
If all you do is copy that's one thing. But look at how many great original songs Page/Plant wrote. Is any popular music 100% original & pure?
Page & Plant have reverence & respect for musicians & the birthplace of the blues. They know where it comes from.
entwistle4ever 1 week ago
CASE 5 MOBY DICK
that does seem to be that somewhat same riff that you can hear in 100's of other songs. as for examples. i have no idea. but it's all the same idea. it's that standard E A B blues riff idea. the same scale and patterns. to say Zep ripped that off, would be like saying that every band rips off that patterns in music, even before Zeppelin
PrankZabba 1 week ago
only if they gave credit to the originals haha
chrisismename 1 week ago
never realised how much better led zep's 'babe i'm gonna leave you' is than the original!
burns1234100 1 week ago
@burns1234100 thats not the original thats a old blues songs she redid it herself
5150pb 1 week ago
I think that all blues artists did it. The others just gave more credits and props to their inspirations and muses. Led Zepplin did not tip their hat to those who they copied, to those who came before.
markothwriter 1 week ago
oviamente son covers pork todas esa cansiones son de sus primeros años
thuptm 1 week ago
Who the fuck watches this shit? I'm gonna hit dislike and go someplace else :D
rrrajiv1234567890 1 week ago
Ha... That Bobby Parker song sounds nothing like Moby Dick. Similar, but you really have to be a pedantic fuck to think they're the same.
SantaSlayer666 1 week ago
@SantaSlayer666
Page has merely changed the trail off notes of the phrase of the riff. The key notes at the begginning and the phrasing and even the way it stops on the 4 chord at the 12 bar sequence's resolution are the same so i believe Bobby deserves credit. People would be up in arms if some new band came along and and only changed moby dick to the same extent Page changed the Parker song.... one must think of it in relative terms!
tommyboyce 1 week ago
some just used the lyrics, others were similar but not exactly the same. They are alot like modern remixes in electronic music today. plagerism is taking someone else music EXACTLY and putting in a couple lyrics or something like that withought giving credit.
theomen49 1 week ago
saprando is not helping his cause. I have no problem with the use of previously done progressions. How many different blues tunes are there, really? This. however goes beyond that. I didn't know that Page and Plant didn't even share credit with the originators that "inspired" their songs (covers). An honorable artist honors his mentors. That is not what happened here.
noisefuljoy 1 week ago
pretty sure zeppelin made it way fucking better anyway and made those ppl famous anyway. fuck em
saprando 1 week ago
music is made by cunts, for cunts
ozph08 1 week ago
Black Mountainside was a cover
DJMC141 1 week ago
I'd give you all of them except "Stairway". It's kiiiinda similar, but not even near the same. ...And using others songs was standard practice back in the blues days. People wold take a song, and change it into Zeppelin's case they just happend to make it 100 times better :)
SunWillSomedayRise 1 week ago
To be honest, I hate to say this, but I've noticed this for years. Look out for "Way Down Inside" by Wilie Dixon. This is Whole Lotta Love all the way through......
larryczsonka 1 week ago
It was called "You Need Love"......not only did Zeppelin steal it from Willie Dixon....but Plant stold the vocal delivery from the "Small Faces" lead singer Steve Marriot....who covered the song a couple of years earlier.....renaming it "You Need Lovin". Check out this version and you will never respect Plant again! LOL!
atomic3939 1 week ago
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hahaha i am zoo freaking glad they did "it".
whatever "it" might be according to u... they made these songs immortal ;-)
long live Zeppelin !!!
vineetpunjabi 2 weeks ago
Even if you took out all the examples of "stealing" you list from them, they're still a better band than your favorite band. Just sayin'.
RockBanned 2 weeks ago
"spirit" sounds alittle like stairway but its completely different. When you are a musician you know that there is a finite number of sounds you can get out of an instrument, some of this shit is bound to sound alike, man.
samlovemetal 2 weeks ago
watch?v=2AhPZx7AedE
Hurt fanboys are hurt
tjd1985 2 weeks ago
Zeppelin claimed it as their own. I think that's the issue at hand. In interviews Plant or Page, like most "blues" outfit members of the UK (ala Cream), on the subject they will tell you that they were definitely doing what blues cats in the states did and that they loved that shit. But instead of saying you covering cats like Son House or Albert King like an Eric Clapton did, they claim shit as their own. But Zeppelin still is important
TerraRyzinglives 2 weeks ago
@TerraRyzinglives smart comment!
DanSkorsky 2 weeks ago
@DanSkorsky I'm a Zeppelin fan like everyone else, but just like hip hop artists in the 80s who was just using and sampling people like James Brown music freely, you got to at least give credit to the artists you got it from. But like I said earlier Plant and Page usually will tell you that on the road to creating their sound they were doing the blues. I mean Page was in the Yardbirds
TerraRyzinglives 2 weeks ago
Lol Jimmy Page, robert plant, john pul jones, and john bonham are still gods at their instruments nevertheless
josechampthinks 2 weeks ago
So this makes Led Zeppelin not only the Best Band Ever, but also the Best Cover Band Ever!? AWESOME
Frijolero18 2 weeks ago 9
@Frijolero18 lol classic
5150pb 1 week ago
@Frijolero18 grow up.
gorgolyt 5 days ago
Led Zeppelin gave credit to Willie Dixon for "I Can't Quit You Baby", so you can't even start with that.
FreddyGuy925 2 weeks ago
Ah, so playing variations of widely used blues progressions is plagiarism now? I hate to break it to you, but all musicians do this. Have you ever hear of Muddy Waters and Bo Diddley...? They want back and forth to create what everyone knows as "Mannish Boy" now...
Sure some are lifted from other artists, but c'mon, its not like its 100% copy note-for-note. Plagiarism, as far as I'm concerned, is lifting a piece of music and changing one or two aspects of it. Zeppelin made these songs their own.
Timeaisis 2 weeks ago 19
@Timeaisis The song dazed and confused was stolen from Jake Holmes, Led Zeppelin then copyrighted it themselves, claiming it as their own. They did not rework the song or make it their own, it was almost a replica down to the unique, odd sound effects and the complete make up and playing style during the bridge. Led Zeppelin was a group of very talented musicians who changed history and wrote some great, and even important songs, but they were guilty of plagiarism
prodigynitrogen 2 weeks ago
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funnylife90 1 week ago
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@Timeaisis what idiot copy somebody's song 100%? stupid.
funnylife90 1 week ago
@Timeaisis Well said, Sir.
Sparkes669 1 week ago
@Timeaisis Exactly. Whenever Led Zeppelin covered a song they would vastly change it. The entire mood and feeling of the song would warp into Led Zeppelin's own thing. Almost all of classical rock is based off of jazz and classical music but it still comes nowhere near the threshold of plagiarism.
Camplosion 1 week ago
@Timeaisis its not the plagiarism (which is undeniable, they lost a half dozen law-suits, being convicted of plagiarism) that is very bothersome.. it's that they refused to give credit where credit was due. They ripped off black musicians and left them to die penniless while they amassed hordes of treasure touring and playing music they did not write. Yes, I LOVE ZEP.. and they really made stuff their own... but GOD DAMN, take care of those who helped you get where you got!
zakquack 1 week ago
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No, record labels ripped off black musicians.
leeharveyosmosis 1 week ago
@leeharveyosmosis so... the recond labels forced jimmy page to rip off music and not give credit? Blues musicians shared and credited each other... there was no money in being a black bluesman!!! So, when a band comes along like led zeppelin and they make as much money as they did........ You know what they should have done.
zakquack 6 days ago
@zakquack
I'm saying the labels the bluesmen were signed to ripped them off.
leeharveyosmosis 5 days ago
@leeharveyosmosis i was under the impression that they rarely got signed... instead they signed white guys to play their music and not credit them...
zakquack 5 days ago
Willie Dixon copy-righted a whole lot of "Blues Standards", that is songs that were traditional like many folk ones with the original origins unrecorded and unforgotten.
The true theft are those who privatised the community property of the Blues for their own interests, building up a war chest of copyrights in order to sue those who developed the tracks and made commercial success out of work that was believed to be public domain.
There's more to this than paper, lawyers and court judgments.
RobBCactive 2 weeks ago
LED, BAND OF THE COVER.
flaviooliveira851 2 weeks ago
i GUARANTEE! they asked permission to remake these songs. if they got permission they can make it any way they want. i can't quit you was the only one they fucked up on. Your a fucking idiot. these were never cases besides one. get your facts straight. Led Zeppelin is the best.
takinadeuce 2 weeks ago
lemong song, in my time of dying, bring it on home
djcuca100 2 weeks ago
Drawing inspiration from certain genres of music it's not the same as plagiarism. It's also one thing to make a proper cover when you give the proper credits, and other to make it pass like if it was yours hoping nobody would realize it's actually a rip off. They didn't give the credits to their ''covers'' that's why they were accused of plagiarism.
Kamyu03 2 weeks ago
@Kamyu03 Most of the examples in this video are artists recording traditional blues songs, not really very impressive, did they credit properly or just assert their own copyright on their arrangement & performance? Somehow I doubt the originator of this video will expose them in a vid. LZ were targets with money, who never hid the development of Rock was based on the Blues. Being foreign, rich and having a good chance of a sympathetic hometown court, mean greed is the prime motivation.
RobBCactive 2 weeks ago
@RobBCactive A Thieft who stoles from a thief it's no less of a thief y'know. Just sayin...
Kamyu03 2 weeks ago
Dude, It's Called THE BLUES. They've done covers of old blues songs like a bazillion artists out there, and made it there way - a cover. It's not Plagiarizem , It's a taking of blues standards and playing it your own way. BLUES STANDARDS.
nimrodlev333 2 weeks ago
who really cares?
123camaleon321 2 weeks ago
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Bobby Parker riff and the Moby Dick riff are similar but not identical. If you listen to a lot of early Rock N Roll, and or even Blues, you'll find a zillion other riffs that sound like that. It's a standard Blues riff. Moby Dick has it's own spin to it. Taurus and Stairway, similar but not nearly identical. You have a good case with the other songs. One with music, one with music and lyrics, and he rest with lyrics. To throw a couple in there that don't really match, you're trying too hard.
LedWilde 2 weeks ago
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LedWilde 2 weeks ago
Stones lifted a lot lyrics too and they play a lot of standard Blues riffs. Let's see if you ever make a video about the Stones plagiarizing.
LedWilde 2 weeks ago
@LedWilde Exactly.. and as Jimmy Page was a 60's session guitarist, asked to come up with something to fit in with other artists' tracks, it'd be surprising if his guitar work wasn't similiar.. the original was him but without credit. Jimi Hendrix to covered blues, that doesn't mean his version & arrangement didn't also accrue a copyright.
Rock became big business and money attracts lawyers and leeches. The equivalent today is ludicrous software patents (with prior art) and law suits.
RobBCactive 2 weeks ago
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LedWilde 2 weeks ago
When the Levee Breaks was a cover and so was Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
ledwhofloyd101 2 weeks ago 9
@ledwhofloyd101 What about whole lotta love that's a direct ripoff of you need love and no credit was given to willie dixon.
Ianoodin 1 week ago
@ledwhofloyd101 yes, they admitted they were covers after they lost law-suits and had the change the credits lol...
zakquack 1 week ago
Babe I´m gonna leave you is not by Zeppelin. It was written by Anne Bredon and has been covered by many, as f.eks. Joan Baez.
kuojiao 2 weeks ago