Did LED ZEPPELIN Rip Off A Folk Singer?

[Bunbury]

Lawsuit Over Led Zeppelin Classic 'Dazed and Confused' -- 41 Years Later | TMZ.com


Led Zeppelin influenced by blues??? No way!

 

[KhanadaRhodes]

this shit is getting ridiculous. it's insane that a songwriter can just sit on a claim like this for decades and then be like "oh hey, i totally wrote this." if it's a song not well-known or some little-known band i could see a delay in making a claim, but we're talking led zeppelin here. and recently someone woke up one day and realised "down under" by men at work ripped off their song. at least there's a statute of limitations for collecting the royalties (in the u.s. at least) should they rule in his favour.

 

[No spoken words]

I just blue myself.

 

[KhanadaRhodes]

oh tobias, you blowhard!

 

[djerdap]

Well, Dazed and Confused, like many of their other early songs, is more of a cover than an original song, but I thought this thing was settled a long time ago.

 

[The Sad Punk]

Wait, I thought it was fairly common knowledge that Led Zeppelin ripped off basically everyone?

 

[LemonMelon]

Wait, I thought it was fairly common knowledge that Led Zeppelin ripped off basically everyone?

A far more exciting thread title would have been "newsflash: a song written in the year 2010 is entirely original."

Which would probably be referring to Rebirth, since nobody would ever have wanted to make that album previously.