Some of the songs Zeppelin "Borrowed From"
jaymack
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these are pretty interesting to listen to. some of the songs are total covers. some are just copied riffs. some are straight lyrical jackings. http://www.zshare.net/download/zo-rar.html1. Bert Jansch - Blackwater Side (3:46)Black Mountain Side2. Bert Jansch - Go Your Way My Love - intro (0:26)Going To California3. Bert Jansch - The Waggoner's Lad - intro (0:51)Bron-Y-Aur Stomp4. Blind Willie Johnson - Nobody's Fault But Mine (3:11)5. Bobby Parker - Watch Your Step (2:49)Moby Dick6. Bukka White - Shake 'Em on Down (3:01)Hats Off To (Roy) Harper7. Davey Graham - She Moved Through The Fair (3:07)White Summer8. Howlin' Wolf - Killing Floor (2:51)The Lemon Song9. Jake Holmes - Dazed and Confused (3:48)10. Joan Baez - Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You (2:41)11. Josh White - Jesus Gonna Make up My Dying Bed (3:05)In My Time Of Dying12. Leadbelly - Gallis Pole (3:01)Gallows Pole13. Little Richard - Keep A-Knockin' (2:15)Rock And Roll14. Memphis Minnie - When The Levee Breaks (3:11)15. Ritchie Valens - Ooh! My Head (1:48)Boogie With Stu16. Robert Johnson - Travelling Riverside Blues (2:41)17. Sonny Boy Williamson - Bring It On Home (2:36)18. Spirit - Taurus (2:37)Stairway To Heaven19. The Small Faces - You Need Lovin (3:57)Whole Lotta Love20. The Yardbirds - Knowing That I'm Losing You (2:55)Tangerine
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Weird. Yesterday, someone started a thread on this very topic on another board I visit.
Their version sounds VERY little like the original and fucking
KILLZZZZZZZZZZZ
Dope fucking song, not on any of their major released albums in the original run.
You need stuffit to unzip it.. They make it for windows.
ah, thanks
can you listen on a mac?
you sound like an old lady.
Which does not make them (Zep) suck any less.
Leave Crink alone he is still in mourning from Elise's hasty departure.
sidenote: winzip also opens RAR files along with WinRar (both free downloads)
these tracks are great
Fuck Winzip. It's all about ExtractNow!
ya indeed. hes on this one a lot:
and in fact the "white summer" on it is a precursor to Black Mountain Side.
There are a couple of tracks on that record that blow away anything Zeppelin ever did.
I'm pretty sure this is a "traditional" song that Leadbelly just recorded the definitive version of. Much like "House of the Rising Sun"/"Rising Sun Blues", "In the Pines" etc.
Yeah, this is kinda the key to a lot of it. Basically, what Zep did was extend the folk/blues tradition of adaptation into rock, but where they differed from a lot of British bluesers like Fleetwood Mac or John Mayall was that they didn't always credit the sources. It's a little like Paul Simon learning "Scarborough Fair" off Martin Carthy, then taking it back to America, recording it and essentially passing it off as a Simon original without acknowledging its source as a traditional English folk song. A few times in Zep's case, such as with "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" and "Dazed and Confused", they arguably crossed the line into outright plagiarism. If you check the credits on the recent-ish "How The West Was Won" live album, you'll notice that Willie Dixon is now credited on "Whole Lotta Love", and I have it on good authority that part of the reason they never went after anyone for sampling the drums on "When The Levee Breaks" is because they were being sued (successfully, as it turned out) by the estate of Memphis Minnie, and it would have prejudiced their case if they'd claimed authorship of the song in any way.
True. Because they suck not at all. Private loner folk they are not.
But awesome they are.
I know everyone thinks I have an "I'd rather be listening to amputees" bumper sticker on my car, but that has little to do with why Led Zeppelin suck ass. The fact is that there are many way more interesting "heavy rock" bands of this era. I'll take the MC5 or Amboy Dukes over Zep anyday.
Damn, dude... the Dukes have a few cuts and all but their catalog does not stand up to Zep's at all
before you think i'm on some elitist shit, freat not; i'll ride for ac/dc any day.
Where were you when I was taking a beating over this on Waxidermy?
I can understand your not wanting to bother with "Dr. X" but damn
dude, I was left alone to voice my apathy for all things Zep!