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kimball492
13-04-2016, 08:16 AM
Certainly an inspirational track.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DDo4CA13LbY&ebc=ANyPxKpdnYQTyHh-6NPQCd_xH9nx-G4YP4aSgk2HGzqrz06opeZVbJ6m0QDe7Tl50IzsYSU1tm8U_RS YG8OQhcA34l36qCuQeA&time_continue=494

Headly Grange n Hampshire where the album was recorded used to be a poor house.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headley_Grange

darthdamo
13-04-2016, 10:02 AM
Still raises the hair on the back of the ole neck like it did when I was a teenager.. Great little insight there!


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pablopepper
13-04-2016, 10:47 AM
Poignant, considering the copyright lawsuit begins today.

Relevant:

https://youtu.be/PCEg9gMJakU

dingobass
13-04-2016, 01:02 PM
Bloody lawsuits.....

enikoy
13-04-2016, 01:43 PM
Love Led Zep. Love Spirit. It really sucks that the estate of Randy California (who died nearly 20 years ago) is taking this action.

BTW if you don't know who Spirit are, check them out. Brilliant. Randy California was the co-guitarist with Hendrix in an earlier band. Jimi gave him the "California" name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_California

pablopepper
13-04-2016, 02:11 PM
It is equally as bad as the Men At Work/Kookaburra sits in the old gumtree garbage that happened a few years ago.

Edit: Definitely Men At Work not Australian Crawl.

kimball492
13-04-2016, 02:51 PM
Yeah Pabs that's why I shared this. It's a dreadful situation when somebody analyses someone's body of work and decides there fate. Sam Smith a singer Performer was just sued by Tom Petty . Tom Petty won, how I'll never know. The songs are most unlike each other.I guess Tom Petty must of been struggling financially. Never liked Tom Petty a dire Bob Dylan Wannabee. Saw him live one of the worst performances I've ever seen. Thank goodness there where other bands playing. Couldn't hold a song melody wise n mumbled most the set. He had an awful,nasal quality. Sorry if your Tom Petty fans.

I can't imagine young Sam would of looked to Tom Petty for musical inspiration or vocal gymnastics.
http://youtu.be/NqqOZbMWesI

Muzza
13-04-2016, 06:51 PM
Poignant, considering the copyright lawsuit begins today.
Relevant:

https://youtu.be/PCEg9gMJakU
Funny. I just posted that exact link on my Facebook page not more than 2 minutes ago...

Adding to the lawsuit theme, there's also The Rolling Stones suing The Verve for 'Bittersweet Symphony' - but that one's pretty well undeniably a straight copy.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfIjxwqta7M

dave.king1
13-04-2016, 07:20 PM
It is equally as bad as the Men At Work/Kookaburra sits in the old gumtree garbage that happened a few years ago.

Edit: Definitely Men At Work not Australian Crawl.

The real sad thing about this one is that the similarity was first noted on Spicks & Specks, then the complainant purchased the rights to Kookaburra and took it to court.

That it is similar is beyond doubt but the predatory approach to this is to my small way of thinking wrong on any level.

Back on topic ( sort of ) my band used to play Spirits " I've Got A Line On You " sure was a popular song back in the day, we only had one guitarist but had two drummers who both sang very very well.

pablopepper
14-04-2016, 07:51 AM
Led Zeppelin had, let's say, a somewhat checkered past of "borrowing" riffs, chord progressions and lyrics. Whether it was intentional or not, who knows?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiiY4ciKFQA

But to be fair, who here can honestly say they haven't jammed out an awesome 'new' riff or even entire song before realising, days later, that it was actually an existing track you heard on the radio the week before last? I do it more than I'd like to admit.

Dedman
14-04-2016, 09:20 AM
The whole law suit thing is ludicrous. Parallel thinking happens, I'm not a song writer but I do write fiction and have had people say "oh that's like what happened in "blah blah" by "blah blah" which I have never read or even heard of.
I tend to think that if you need to sue people over "derivatives" to make a living you need to take a good look at your self.
I had an American film company rip off on eof my characters, it was obvious, it was too precise to be coincidence ( a 1/2 Japanese female zombie killer named Cas ) their filmed sucked, if they had bought my entire story it would have kicked arse LOL. Did I sue? No. I just felt sorry that they were so bad at their craft they had to steal.

Andy40
23-04-2016, 11:02 PM
It is equally as bad as the Men At Work/Kookaburra sits in the old gumtree garbage that happened a few years ago.

Edit: Definitely Men At Work not Australian Crawl.

That was tragic Pabs, really terrible wasn't it? I was gutted when that happened.

kimball492
23-04-2016, 11:38 PM
http://time.com/3528555/led-zeppelin-loses-first-round-in-stairway-to-heaven-lawsuit/

Andy40
24-04-2016, 09:55 AM
Taurus is not a bad track in its own right, but I fail to hear anything more than a fleeting similarity of some of the chords

kimball492
28-04-2016, 04:32 PM
https://reverb.com/news/stairway-to-heaven-settlement-offer-writing-credit-plus-40-dollars-million-in-royalties?_aid=fb

wazkelly
28-04-2016, 07:33 PM
Taurus is not a bad track in its own right, but I fail to hear anything more than a fleeting similarity of some of the chords

Agree, mostly arpeggios in A minor moving in a similar downwards progression.