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Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier
Every blues rock band at the time, were doing what Zeppelin were doing and that was lifting material by older traditional blues acts, some of these bands acknowledged what they were doing and others didn't. People just point the finger at Zeppelin because they were the biggest band of their day. The fact of the matter is, that whatever Zeppelin may have lifted their version often shared little with the original. Of course Page and Plant were poseurs, rock at that time was just about image and sex appeal as it was about the music.
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I dunno, man. A lot of folks were doing it as an homage, & were paying royalties to the authors. What Zeppelin does comes across more as pillaging. And it has nothing to do with them being the biggest band, Cream were gigantic & didn't get the backlash. It had everything to do with Page's attitude about it. I mean you hear it, Plant thought he was singing original lyrics. Where other bands were knowingly covering songs & acknowledging it. To say it was just because they were the biggest band around is a cop out. They were a unique case.