Posted on 05/07/2013 5:53:24 PM PDT by ciceroqpublic
Fogerty was able to prove they were different songs by playing them on guitar to the judge. What was the sax solo stolen from?
Why should he? Jimmy Carter is still around, inflicting his assininity on the rest of us, and he had a 20-year head start on leaving the stage.
It was the flute on Down Under...ooops, which they stole from the Girl guides song according to Wiki.
thx you
The Men At Work song was “Down Under” and the song stolen was “Kookaburra.”
Taurus by Spirit is a nice song.
Catherine,
Sorry about the acendency thing. I should spell check more carefully.................
Sorry Skeeter but you are wrong about Led Zeppelin’s being honest about stealing their songs. On all of the original albums they listed themselves as the writers. As a result they were sued a number of times by the original writers/estates and lost. Part of the settlements forced the band to admit they were not the original writers.
Ok Skypilot I can see that you weren’t old enough to experience Led Zeppelin during the seventies. They were, in fact, just another band. They were great in many ways but there were many other bands that were more influential and more successful. Sorry about the typo. We all make mistakes, even Led Zeppelin made a serious mistake when they claimed to have written all of their songs only to be sued and forced to admit they stole the songs. I’ll admit that I like Led Zeppelin’s catalog. And you are correct Kashmir may not be stolen.
Deadrock,
Just google Led Zeppelin and plagiarism and you will find enough proof to convince anyone that the band stole the bulk of their songs.
Save the "LedZep is not cool" stuff for the next Tiger Beat magazine.
MarkL,
Happy to see that you are respecting the free republic rules about not calling names. Your inability to disagree with someone with personal attacks shows how week your grasp of adult discourse is.
I never said that Led Zeppelin wasn’t popular. Being popular does not equal being cool. Yes Zeppelin was cooler than Kiss but not as cool as The Velvet Underground or Iggy and the Stooges.
As for knowing nothing about music you are wildly off base. Since you challenge my competence concerning music I will list SOME of my resume:
Own over 10,000 vinyl LPs, 8000 CDs and have a barn full of 2inch Master tapes from the RECORDING STUDIO I OWN AND OPERATE
aged 7-21 played classical piano and jazz piano
aged 19-23 Disc Jockey (very successful by the way)
aged 20 produced my first record
Aged twenty two - opened my first of three record labels.
All three labels had remarkable successes, including something called “gold and Platinum records”
Toured professionally as a guitarist and organist for about 15 years
produced over seventy records
Study music composition in college ( it was my minor)wrote a few hundred things called “songs” I could continue but I am not sure you are qualified to read the books or would know what “RIAA Rock Producer of the year means.
Since you have mounted the throne of judgment I would love to hear your music qualifications. Let’s hear it buddy....
Yes, that’s all very nice, but what are your qualifications?
I've seen many famous bands perform. Too many of them play as close to the recorded version as possible. Also, when you play with a pre-recorded part (as per Van Halen and the later Who), you have very little wiggle room for improvising, which I found Zeppelin excelled at very well.
I like a wide variety of music (I think of Beethoven's Fifth and Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture to be the rock anthems of their day. Those tunes rock!), but for me, Zeppelin will always be number one.
Each to his own, I say. It makes the world go 'round.
If I had known you were a musician I would not have written the first paragraph above. Please don't take it as condescending.
No harm done. It’s just a pet peeve of mine; these days I see so many misspelled words even running across the TV news screen, and it drives me a bit nuts.
Ummm... Are you the Brad who wrote the article, because that's to whom my name calling was directed, hence the "Dear Brad,"
Mark
Mark,
Yes, I am the person that wrote the article. I have now gored the sacred Led Zeppelin horse. Sorry everyone, Zep was great in many ways but today, 40 years later, they are no longer an example of a cool band.....................
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