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In the end, everyone is borrowing from everyone that is borrowing from everyone.
This guy appears to be on a real "seek and destroy" mission on Led Zep. Apparently he isn't a musician, because if he really was, he would understand that every time you are exposed to a piece of music, a little bit of it slips into your subconscious. Over time, your influences grow based on all that you hear, plus all that you play.
The example he cites is a good one, but he very carefully only plays a very small part of two larger songs. Perhaps Page was thinking a bit about that sort of sound structure or playing style when he started to write stairway to heaven. Perhaps it was an entire subconscious move based on having maybe played that song in the past, or having tried to learn it maybe 5 or 10 years before... a snippet that he remembered without knowing.
If this guy has nothing better to do in life than pick at 30 year old rock classics, I think he truly needs to get a life.
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