Led Zepplin - Writers' credits discussed on Howard Stern

dbs_sailor

Don't listen to Howard Stern, don't listen to much Zepplin anymore, and I have no idea if this is very old news... But for those interested check this out:

http://www.dogmaticblog.com/mp3/led_zep.mp3

It's off this blog:

http://www.dogmaticblog.com/

The accusation is that they ripped off songs. I didn't know much about this at all. Comments??

Giblet

This news is nearly 40 years old. It's mostly the first album, but stuff like Black Mountain Side and Stairway have some parts. It's not a big deal and they paid off Willie Dixon.

The blog is balls.

A sad day in Rock history folks.

Everyone and their grannies knew about this years ago.

Doctor J

Wha? A blues band ripping off another blues band? Surely some mistake

dbs_sailor

hhmmm. i listened to the whole thing and some of it was unconvincing!!

seems every couple of years or so some radio show get a case together for plagarism. remember all those the chili peppers and that tom petty song?

but they said the zepplin lads were credited as author's on the original album... is that true??

funktastic

They had to give credit on Led Zepp 1 on 'Babe i'm gonna Leave You' to the original songwriter a good few years after the album was originally released.

There's loads of them though. 'Travelling Riverside Blues'..loads of bits on 'How Many More Times' where Plant throws in bits of old blues numbers.

It has happened with a lot of bands. I don't really feel it's the issue with Zeppelin though. It's more how they made the songs their own to be honest. Blues songs had never had such powerful/well recorded huge drum sound behind them before.

GhostInTheRuins

I've heard of this before. I remember a line in one of the Simpsons episodes where homer sees Jimmy Page on the street in London and says "There's Big Ben; there's Piccadilly Circus; there's Jimmy Page - the greatest thief of American black music who ever walked the Earth"

Just look at the Led zeppelin Wikipedia page, lots of info there.

Royale with Cheese

There's nothing wrong with taking old blues songs and making them their own, but claiming to have written them is pretty lame.

Only zeppelin cd I have is the greatest hits where the writing credit is given to the original writers, all my proper zeppelin albums are just on mp3 so there's no credits on them. I never knew they originally claimed the credit for the songs.

funktastic

Yeah they claimed credit for a FEW songs. It's not like they were ripping off for their entire albums! Yes, it wasn't right, but in some cases it may have been only a lyric thrown in (such as in 'How Many More Times') They always added something to the songs.

I think it's pretty common knowledge from Led Zeppelin fans that they have used old standards. (Like many bands - Hendrix, Stones, Cream etc)

mike65

Thats where the 'original arrangement by' credit comes from!

Mike.

CrazyTrain

What a load of Boll*x. Has Howard Stern nothing better to do on the Radio but get a bunch of gobsh*tes who obviously know F*ck all about Zeppelin, especially that thick b*tch who keeps butting in, and drag up old news. If they knew what they were talking about they would have mentioned the most blatened rip-off, Whole Lotta Love which is basically The Small Faces version of "You Need Love"!
Stern - Your a marked man...! You don't Dis Zeppelin and get away with it!!!