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nayjevin
04-13-2011, 07:17 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiiY4ciKFQA

anaconda
04-13-2011, 07:24 PM
I think all musicians plagiarize. This post is amusing and interesting, however. Thanks for the post. Zep didn't plagiarize "I Can't Quit You." It's a cover. The credit is for Wilie Dixon. Not sure but there may be other official covers that also would not count as plagiarism.

amy31416
04-13-2011, 07:26 PM
No "Lemon Song" by Robert Johnson?

I thought their plagiarism was a pretty well-known "secret."

FrankRep
04-13-2011, 07:46 PM
Stairway to Heaven was a rip off? Damn!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhKUfiohxEY

zade
04-13-2011, 07:52 PM
"Good composers borrow, Great composers steal"

BuddyRey
04-13-2011, 08:00 PM
"Good composers borrow, Great composers steal"

Legend has it that Johannes Brahms was so enamored with Strauss' "Beautiful Blue Danube" that when the latter composer's step-daughter asked Brahms for his autograph, he wrote down several bars from the waltz, and then signed it, "unfortunately NOT composed by Johannes Brahms."

Brian4Liberty
04-13-2011, 08:07 PM
No "Lemon Song" by Robert Johnson?

I thought their plagiarism was a pretty well-known "secret."

Yeah, it was never much of a secret. Most of it was altered and Zepplified.

All music is based on what came before it. Much "creativity" arises from not being capable of actually playing what you are copying... ;)

nayjevin
04-13-2011, 08:08 PM
Stairway to Heaven was a rip off? Damn!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhKUfiohxEY

Great songs, both! Just using similar progressions is credit where credit is due to the musician... unfortunately it seems the record companies will sue beyond death. More reason to go the independent musician route IMO.

james1906
04-13-2011, 08:38 PM
original

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3t66Nrqteo

Authorized cover

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kX7DV8-Vxg&feature=related

ripoff of cover

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZSImx5u88Q&feature=related

Zippyjuan
04-14-2011, 12:34 PM
Early rock and roll borrowed heavily from US blues artists- their music was widely popular in Britain at the time but unfortunately mostly ignored in their own country. Without the British rockers like Led Zeppelin or even the Rolling Stones (who took their name from a Muddy Waters song), a lot of these blues men might still be ignored and unknown.