zeppelin did get a lot of ideas for their songs from earlier songs, but they would always change them up and make them better and in their own style. dazed and confused owes a lot of thanks to jake holmes, he founded the evil sounding descending line, but page added his own spin to it. he layered it with fuzzed out octaves and weeping bends and vibrato, later displacing the entire figure by a dotted-eighth beat. also it features a heavy 6/8 call and response riff not found in the holmes original. this is true to most of the songs they supposedlty ripped off. they would use parts of songs to get an idea, but they wouldnt play the whole thing note for note in that same style. if you think about it, how many songs have used a descending line like dazed and confused? tales of brave ulysses has a descending line, i know there are some others as well i cant think of off hand. and they did not rip off stairway to heaven or parts of it at all, it was purely original zeppelin.
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"Into this house we’re born
Into this world we’re thrown
Like a dog without a bone
An actor out on loan
Riders on the storm"
"How many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
How many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died?"
"Diamond rope silver chain
Pretty noose is pretty pain
And I don’t like what you got me hanging from"
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