Not only is Jimmy Page the Devil
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- ********
- bored2death0
IT's called sampling.
- instrmntl0
i bet jimmy made that song for space150
- WrappedInBooks0
As a session player Jimmy Page played on something like 60% of recordings that came out of the U.K. during the 50s.
- That's bullshit. Do the math. He'd have had to have been in 30 places at once, every day.boobs
- DoTheMacarena0
It happened more than once
Covers are commonplace, especially in blues, but with zeppelin's fame, they should have at least credited more of them.
- Centigrade0
He does credit some people in the movie It Might Get Loud.
- 10g00
whyyyy did he wait 44 years? or whatever the fuck
- scarabin0
you mean nirvana didn't write the man who sold the world????
- cerberus0
You fucking tosspot. Look up "idiot" in the dictionary, white it out then write your name.
- sothere0
he should be grateful. his song was pretty poor. Led Zep's blows the shit outta it and makes it genius.
- raf0
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- BaskerviIle0
Yes Led Zep reused music and lyrics but they brought their own sound and basically created electric rock as we know it by messing with old blues songs. In the same way that Cream or the Rolling Stones did.
It's hard to understand now but at that time in the 60s British teenagers were discovering the old blues recordings, they were very very rare and hard to come by, as in only a few people in the country had some of them.
If it wasn't for Clapton et al none of us would even have heard of willie dixon. They started the 60s blues revival.
Yes led zep should have credited their sources more, but to a certain extent it was in the tradition of the blues to pass down songs and reinterpret. Look at the number of times those old songs are performed. I wouldn't even call them 'covers' in blues it's more of an oral tradition, they're part of the repertoire.Also willie dixon Dixon reached an out-of-court settlement in 1987 over the similarity of Led Zeppelin's 1969 hit "Whole Lotta Love" to his own "You Need Love."
This is hardly revelatory new territory
- +100monospaced
- Without these guys the Blues would have vanished and no one would know who Willie Dixon was.comicsans
- I'm calling BS on that one - plenty of blues players out there, some far better than LZ...********
- TheBlueOne0
"This is hardly revelatory new territory"
It is to the hipsters who have just discovered Led Zeppelin, yet they love to get into their little "authenticity rages". Gives them meaning.
- vonheart0
This guys gonna go nuts when he hears about Daft Punk. Are they the Devil too, David?
- Nah... sorry, don't know how to indicate sarcasm via an emoticon, but there you go...********
- Nah... sorry, don't know how to indicate sarcasm via an emoticon, but there you go...
- TheBlueOne0
Shit, what about AC/DC? They've been ripping off AC/DC for 30 years now.
- lol********
- there are stories that Brian, singer in AC/DC has been known to show up at Karoke bars and sing AC/DC....vaxorcist
- lol
- vaxorcist0
this all reminds me of a story about "counterfeit" brand name running shoes from China.... story was that a factory making the "original" items for the "real company" had lost a contract due to their competitor underpricing them, so they ended up just continuing to make the same shoes, only they were selling to a wholesaler guy who was moving "counterfeit" merchandise to NYC... i.e. same factory, same shoes, but different boat....
