You think? Well if they didnt write them then who did??

Besides nearly every artist rips off someone else. Spirit probably ripped that song off someone.

By ripping off of course he means they asked some band to let them use a riff for a song even though it ended up being a different riff altogether.

Theres more to Stairway to Heaven than just the f*cking opening riff anyway.

And most of them are invalid and biased.

Funny, all I wanted was the name of the song. I didn't realize that it would start this big argument. But since it did, I don't see any way anyone can say this isn't a total stealing of a song. As far as Zep taking those old blues songs, I am sure the old blues original writers were happy as can be about that. Doesn't 90% go to the writer? Bye the way, thank you crowquill for the answer. I have found you musical knowledge very helpful many times already.

Ok yes the two guitar lines do sound similar, but the Zeppelin one sounds better. :p:

Still a rip off

And yet, try as they might Zeppelin still remains one of the most popular bands in music.

I'm no fan boy, but those they stole from ought to thank them from taking them from the musical oblivion and at least installing them as a footnote to something relevent.

Yeah the opening arpeggio isn't the reason the song is amazing but some people just close thier eyes tighly and hold on for dear life with the one argument they have.

If it wasn't for Zep hate, Spirit would be where exactly? Does anyone know any other song by them without googling it? Or having googled it in the past? How many Spirit albums do you own?

I was verbally accosted by the same "did you know" rhetoric at the grocery store one time. And the know it all there had to let me know everything Zep did was stolen. This argument is officially on par with the tabloid news.

I happen to own 3 Spirit albums, although they have been packed away in box's with my other albums for many years now. It would be easy for many, many people to tell you that Spirit had a pretty big hit with "I got a line on you". Also, did you realize that Zeppelin used to open for Spirit back in the late 60's. Hmmmmmmm, think that may be where they heard the song Taurus??? I am by no means saying that Spirit is even close to as popular as Zeppelin. But the fact is, Zeppelin stole that riff, end of story, why can't you just admit they did and get on with it. Are you so into Zeppelin that it hurts you to hear anything like this about them?
Also, the lead guitarist from Spirit used to play guitar with Hendrix's first band.
Their drummer has played with Taj Mahal, Rye Cooder and April Wine
Their keyboard player was the keyboard player for Nazerath
Their Bassist was Bass for Firefall and Heart
And Jay Ferguson went on to have his own solo hit's
I would rather go see a concert with all those groups than one with Led Zeppelin, The Honeydrippers, and The Firm any day. As a matter of fact, I would take Hendrix alone over Zeppelin. I might even choose Spirit and The Partridge Family over Pages sloppy old worn out stolen licks.

Lolz

Song rip-offs
 

I started a post asking what song Stairway to Heaven was coppied from. This seemed to lead into a discussion on other coppied songs. Let's see how many coppied songs we can name here. Put song clips if you have them.
I'll start off with one of my favorite songs, "Buffalo Soldier" by Bob Marley being coppied from "The Banana Splitz Theme". I read someone say that Bob must have been stoned one Saturday morning while little Ziggy was watching Saturday morning TV. Sounds right to me.

YouTube - Banana Splits - The Ultimate Intro!

YouTube - Buffalo soldier