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"Prior to hearing a recording of 'Taurus' in 2014 in connection with this matter, I have never heard 'Taurus' or even heard of it."
I call bullshit, since Led Zep had played with Spirit live and Spirit had Taurus on their setlist at the time.
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Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 24.06.2016 at 15:34
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"Prior to hearing a recording of 'Taurus' in 2014 in connection with this matter, I have never heard 'Taurus' or even heard of it."
I call bullshit, since Led Zep had played with Spirit live and Spirit had Taurus on their setlist at the time.
If Spirit's lawyers didn't bring this up when cross examining Page, then they suck as lawyers. If they did bring it up, it either failed to impress the jury, or Page's lawyers had a good counter.
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Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 24.06.2016 at 15:34
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"Prior to hearing a recording of 'Taurus' in 2014 in connection with this matter, I have never heard 'Taurus' or even heard of it."
I call bullshit, since Led Zep had played with Spirit live and Spirit had Taurus on their setlist at the time.
Proof?
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Written by qlacs on 24.06.2016 at 17:00
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 24.06.2016 at 15:34
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"Prior to hearing a recording of 'Taurus' in 2014 in connection with this matter, I have never heard 'Taurus' or even heard of it."
I call bullshit, since Led Zep had played with Spirit live and Spirit had Taurus on their setlist at the time.
Proof?
Not sure oif they played at at that particular gig, but the band did play it live quite often at the time. And Spirit did ply with Led Zeppelin on at least one occasion. So, I really doubt Page had never heard the song, since he was familiar with the band.
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But I find it totally preposterous that the band decided to sue Led Zep some 40 odd years after the fact.
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Yeah, it all seems a bit doubtful to do it now.
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So after two long years of spending money on such process they finally managed to figure out the obvious
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It is well known that Page 'used to play' (at the beginning of their career) too many riffs from other classic bands to build up his songs! just listen to Led Zep II... I call it bullshit too.
But I really don't care.
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Not sure if my English is too bad, or the title is writting stupidly, because I thought I was intering a contest to win 'Stairway To Heaven' vinyl.
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Even if they had sued them one year after the fact it still would've been ridiculous. So the first 2 minutes or so of Stairway bear slight resemblance to Taurus, big whoop. There's still 6 additional minutes that don't sound even slightly like anything from Taurus, so it's pretty ridiculous to sue a band because "ooooh, two minutes of one their songs happens to have the same chord progression as one of ours!" If Stairway was an exact replica of Taurus, that'd be a different story, but it's anything but
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Sounded like a lame ass attempt at a cash grab from the outset. Don't particularly care if Zep did it or not, the fact Spirit waited 40 fuckin' years to speak up is just too effin' bad.
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Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 24.06.2016 at 17:14
But I find it totally preposterous that the band decided to sue Led Zep some 40 odd years after the fact.
Wasn't it the song writer's estate (read: descendents) who sued, not the band? I assume they already spent all daddy's royalties, so they tried to get more.
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ABC is the same a Twinkle Little Star! LAWSUIT!!!
If they're so outraged over this, why wait 40 years to bring it to court?
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Written by Enteroctopus on 29.06.2016 at 16:20
ABC is the same a Twinkle Little Star! LAWSUIT!!!
If they're so outraged over this, why wait 40 years to bring it to court?
See above.
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It seems that piece is a public domain written in baroque era by harpist O'Carolan
https://musictales.club/article/celtic-baroque-roots-stairway-heaven
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