The Mellotron Group

Not trying to stir anything up, but IMO - I think Jimmy Page is lying.

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 collections in those years, because they are fine albums.

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 in Taurus, and I wouldn't be a bit surprised if LZ was influenced by it and actually "stole it", like so many of their other songs...



https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2016/06/16/how-jimmy-page-defended-led-zeppelin-in-the-stairway-to-heaven-trial/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_stairway-7pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

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] 
> <mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com>
> 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 
> collections in those years, because they are fine albums.
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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 
> in Taurus, and I wouldn't be a bit surprised if LZ was influenced by 
> it and actually "stole it", like so many of their other songs...
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> https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2016/06/16/how-jimmy-page-defended-led-zeppelin-in-the-stairway-to-heaven-trial/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_stairway-7pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
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I forgot how good the first Spirit album is. Just ordered!

Bernie

Hi all-

    The media mentioned that the court procedings would only use sheet music of each song and a musician to play it to a jury.  They wouldn't present the artists' original recordings.  I wonder how that will be interpreted by a jury.  I also wonder how the jury was selected.

    I recently played the "Stairway" opening chord sequence to a friend (a Led Zep freak if there ever was one), and he couldn't identify the song.  It was only after I played the individual notes that he got it.  Just an interesting aside.

   -Bruce Daily
   #1221

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On Sat, 6/18/16, Mike Dickson mike.dickson@gmail.com [newmellotrongroup] <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: "Stairway to Heaven Trial"
 To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Saturday, June 18, 2016, 3:47 AM
 
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
     
       
       
       It seems Jimmy Page has credited
 some of the inspiration to 'Stairway To Heaven' from
 a fairly
 unusual source.
 On 17 June 2016 at 11:23,
 guajian@yahoo.com
 [newmellotrongroup] <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com>
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       I forgot how good the first Spirit album is.
 Just ordered!
 Bernie
 
 
     
      
 
     
     
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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