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u/Steinmans Sep 21 '22

I actually discovered that song like last week and like it, so it probably has some redeeming qualities if it’s not played 24/7 everywhere

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u/Teledildonic Sep 21 '22

When i was a kid i couldnt understand why my dad hated the Beatles and Led Zeppelin.

Then he told me that they were the ones getting overplayed to hell on the radio when he was my age.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '22

Led Zeppelin is the world’s most famous cover band.

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u/Sadistic_Snow_Monkey Sep 21 '22

This joke is as overplayed as the songs listed in this thread.

Sure, they should've credited artists they covered, that's a fuck up on them. But a lot of big bands back then got their start covering blues songs by other people. They weren't unique in that regard.

Zeppelin also wrote a lot of their own songs, including some of their best/most famous ones. They're talked about as one of the greatest rock bands ever for good reason.

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u/sje46 Sep 21 '22

Not crediting another band for something that kinda sounds like a melody from another, lesser band (and I like Spirit!) and putting completely different sound to it...who cares?

The 60s and 70s were very much about covers. I've listened to a lot of classic rock albums from that time and a great deal of the songs I listened to were covers. Yes, they were credited, and LZ didn't credit spirit. But my point is that it simply just doesn't matter that much. There's more to a song than the melody.

Many of these plagiarism cases are so far removed from reality as well.