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Brainbell Jangler wrote on Jan 17 th, 2012 at 5:40pm: sweetcharmedlife wrote on Jan 17 th, 2012 at 3:53pm: Brainbell Jangler wrote on Jan 17 th, 2012 at 2:32pm: Bitch wrote on Jan 15 th, 2012 at 9:06am: Led Zep is fvcking rock royalty. 2nd best band ever, after The Rolling Stones of course! Robert Plant still has IT, and remains the 2nd sexiest man on the planet, after MICK. LOVE THEM! Stairway to Heaven brings back fond memories, hell yeah it was my first time, took me all the way to heaven! So sweet! And your opinion on their rampant plagiarism is . . . ? The same as it is with the Stones plagiarism. AS long as it's not my money they're stealing. Seems to me that plagiarizing old bluesmen (the Stones didn't do that; they PROMOTED those old dudes) is worse than ripping off Brian Jones, Bill Wyman, Mick Taylor or Ry Cooder.  Exactly. Except for rare cases like Miles Davis, purveyors of "race music" hardly made any money at all. Lonnie Johnson, one of the great early blues guitarists, was found by Prestige Records working as a janitor in a Philadelphia hotel. The bought him a new guitar, brought him into the studio and he cut a record in a day, which I have. According to the liner notes, he was back with the broom that night. Point is, songwriting royalties meant a hell of a lot to some of those seminal musicians who could really have used the money, much more than some English dandies in their 20s who were already rich and on the road to being richer.
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