Jimmy Page Talking about Stairway to heaven

**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?

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.