I can't find the interview with both quotes but here's an update on the lawsuit Spirit has filed on Led Zeppelin for stealing the intro. If you don't believe it then you're ignorant. You can defend them all you want but truth hurts. I threw away all my led Zeppelin stuff when I found this out years ago. As well as a LOT of other songs they blatantly stole.
It's one thing to make a riff that sounds like someone else's without prior knowledge as opposed to hearing something and deliberately trying to make it your own.
Did you really think a band puts out 3 albums in under 2 years was all original?
Hahaha
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