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Old 08-24-2013, 05:37 AM   #1 (permalink)
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You can't compare Led Zepplin to KISS. KISS wrote their own songs, Zepplin's first album is nothing but a collection of uncredited covers. Yeah, KISS is better than that.
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Old 08-24-2013, 09:35 AM   #2 (permalink)
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You can't compare Led Zepplin to KISS. KISS wrote their own songs, Zepplin's first album is nothing but a collection of uncredited covers. Yeah, KISS is better than that.
This should win the "silliest post of the week" award.
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Old 08-29-2013, 12:33 PM   #3 (permalink)
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This should win the "silliest post of the week" award.

Except that, even though I am a Zep fan, he has a point. Two songs, "You Shook Me" and "I Can't Quit You Baby" are credited to Willie Dixon, much of the rest of Zep I can be proven to be lifted from other artists. Forgive me anyone that already knows this.





I am personally of the opinion that Peter Grant is a principle villain in this. Maybe I just want to believe that...
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Except that, even though I am a Zep fan, he has a point. Two songs, "You Shook Me" and "I Can't Quit You Baby" are credited to Willie Dixon, much of the rest of Zep I can be proven to be lifted from other artists. Forgive me anyone that already knows this.

I am personally of the opinion that Peter Grant is a principle villain in this. Maybe I just want to believe that...
Most of what you've said is common knowledge, but the lifting of riffs etc was commonly done back then as it is now. Led Zep seem to get a lot of flak for it, mostly from people who don't like the band and these same people are sometimes blind to the practices of other bands. The problem is Led Zep were huge and they were under a much bigger magnifying glass than other bands. At the end of the day, they may have stolen a few coats that belonged to others, but they wore them damn better than most. Also I'd agree with your finger pointing at Peter Grant.

I've always found especially in the UK, that plagiarism is the evil or all evils in the academic and artistic world, everybody does it though, but some are better at disguising than others though.
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So KISS are better than the Rolling Stones whose first two albums were almost entirely covers? Or the Beatles for that matter? Elvis Presley? Legitimate studio albums of covers were not in any odd back then so judging a band for it is silly.
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So KISS are better than the Rolling Stones whose first two albums were almost entirely covers? Or the Beatles for that matter? Elvis Presley? Legitimate studio albums of covers were not in any odd back then so judging a band for it is silly.

With the crucial difference that those covers are credited.

And again, I'm a big Zep fan.
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With the crucial difference that those covers are credited.

And again, I'm a big Zep fan.
But the point was that KISS were better than Zep just because they wrote their own songs.
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