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Originally Posted by Bane of your existence
1.) They stole as many blues licks as they did lyrics.
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Nearly every example I have ever heard was bullcrap. You haven't even given any. Probably because you only believe what you are told.
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2.) Stealing anything should be unacceptable on any level in music.
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Stealing licks is what the blues is all about. I guess the blues sucks.
You need to realise that the pentatonic blues scale is so basic that the variety of notes is very very
very limited. With there being so damn many blues musicans and so many blues songs, its only to be expected that a lot of blues licks sound virtually identical. The material is just
that generic. Generic to an extent that it can't be attributed to just one musician, if Page did rip somebody off, odds are that guy also ripped somebody off, and so on, resulting in a chain of "ripping people off" that goes straight into oblivion. Thats simply how traditional genres of music work.
I'll say it again.
Pathetic.
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3.) I don't hate them and I think posting "Led Zeppelin would be great... if they wrote their music." is hardly going to any great lengths to discredit them.
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Well the people who make whole sites about it have certainly done a better job of making themselves look like obsessed losers.