The Mellotron Group

Randy California was an excellent and creative musician. Died so 
tragically and too young...

I saw this generally non-judgmental comparative video a few months back 
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCEg9gMJakU

Vance

> Robert rmrmax@yahoo.com [newmellotrongroup] 
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> Thursday, June 16, 2016 8:03 PM
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> Not trying to stir anything up, but IMO - I think Jimmy Page is lying.
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> In the early years, LZ opened for Spirit, and I am sure they heard 
> many of their songs including Taurus. I wouldn't be surprised if all 
> the LZ members had the 1st four Spirit albums in their personal record 
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> I don't know what is at stake here financially, but it is clear to me 
> that their is some resemblance of the beginning of STH and a passage 
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> it and actually "stole it", like so many of their other songs...
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