Interesting thing is that Randy California did nothing about it when he was alive :-\.
Rick
The lawsuit is news. Page's history is old news. Since Mark Andes is working with the attorney on this, you can bet that he wants some compensation, NTTAWWT. It's not just some altruistic attempt to get an acknowledgement.
Suing Zep for stealing musical ideas was all the rage - these days I believe they have to even co-credit Whole Lotta Love.
The attorney for the California estate isn't known for his altruism; that's true.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/10851780/Lawyer-suing-Led-Zeppelin-heavily-criticised-by-judge.html
Of course, borrowing a riff here and there is a time honored tradition in rock and roll, right, Uwe?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvXxlXg_V-k
:mrgreen:
Did I mention that I always found that Stairway intro twee and that the whole song is hugely overrated? Give me Kashmir or In my Time of Dying or even The Battle of Evermore anyday. Also, can anybody explain to me what Stairway to Heaven (the lyrics) is actually about?
Wait a minnit, did a Kiss Army grunt of all people just make a snide remark about DP's originality? :mrgreen: Purple have never been anything but frank about what and from whom they stole, they even joked about it,
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Zep got sued a lot for their songs, there must be something that irks people badly about the way they do it or perhaps it is just the vast amounts of money they made. One thing you can say about them is that whatever they played, they sure made it sound like their own.
Evil never needs to be explained? But that lacks literary ambition! Didn't Shakespeare explain his (real and perceived) villains rather well? Whether it was Macbeth or Shylock, he tried to make you understand where they are coming from and even his worst villains weren't all-bad, they were still human with feelings and all. With Tolkien, evil is some inhuman force of nature, he didn't even dare give Sauron a real physical body. That is too quasi-religious for me. I don't believe in the existence of evil - however you define it - as a spiritual concept that somehow hovers over mankind.
PS: "Full disclosure: at one time, I could write both Elvish and Dwarvish, having spent some hours poring through the appendices of the third book and working out serviceable alphabets for both." :mrgreen: You, Sir, are a very brave man!
Blackmore's favorite bands were Mountain and Vanilla Fudge? That's cool if he's being serious but you never know with that guy.
It's not uncommon for musicians to like music at odds with what they are known for, like the singer of this song, before he became more well known, Stateside, being a 60's R&B fan, to such a degree, his next band had a hit or two covering some items...
It's not uncommon for musicians to like music at odds with what they are known for, like the singer of this song, before he became more well known, Stateside, being a 60's R&B fan, to such a degree, his next band had a hit or two covering some items...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xUSYUaLMAA www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeHom0rZHGM
My fave cover of theirs, unfortunately, was not a hit...
Two of my favorite singers when I was growing up were Jon Anderson and Robert Plant. The often cryptic lyrics never mattered that much to me. I listened to the voice as another instrument, and it was all about the melody and emotion. But believe me, I can see how either or both those guys could be annoying if you weren't feeling it!
I was weaned on Zep and Yes too. Stairway is more of a smash hit run into the ground by fm radio. I know what you mean about insufferable vocals. Care for "Child in Time" anyone?
This begs the question, how does your son feel about the way you appreciate the music that he plays and likes?
He has the Paula already!!! Except in his Korn phase, he was never into brutal metal and not ultrafast stuff either. And he likes Zep better than Purple, Page better than Blackmore. I'm a failed parent in that regard! :-\
But what he certainly needs together with that banjo is a pair of dungarees. You can't seriously play banjo without them.
PS: I love that vid. Banjo playing minor and chromatic scales sounds unsettling.
Everybody seemed to like II amd IV, I liked the "strange ones" best, Houses of the Holy and Physical Graffiti. And even that last one "In through the Outdoor" had some nice tunes.
I started on drums before bass and Bonham was my guy. The first CDs I saved up to buy was the Zep box set with the crop circles on it. Lots of good music and a bunch of stuff that wasn't in regular radio rotation. It's impossible not to associate the band with my adolescence.