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Originally Posted by bhutocracy
"Then...onto Spirit's Taurus......I doubt Denny did too much research here or he would have actually read Randy California's autobiography which states that Page asked to use the first measure for a song and Randy agreed. He himself never had a problem with it. Listen to ALL of Taurus, not just the opening measure and you'll hear a completely different tune. As far as all the other rips....sure, it was commen for blues artists to "borrow" , but Zep can't?? I agree, most of Zep I was not "original" musical ideas....much of it came from the Yardbirds days. Several songs off Zep II were inspired by other blues tunes as well. As were spuratic later ones. Zep still completely wrote well over 80% of it's material. "
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Is Denny MikeVega? You are absolutely right. No research at all! This is very old news. These people hear something on the radio and now think the band is a half-class act. As I said in the other Zeppelin topic,
All Artists Borrow From Other Artists. Whether it be Steven Spielberg borrowing from Alfred Hitchcock, Johnny Depp from Keith Richards in 'Pirates' or Led Zeppelin borrowing from Blind Willie, etc.