Led Zeppelin "didn't stand for anything"

[Heather Conley]

Actually one of the things I like about Led Zep is that they never went political. There's this great confusing that music have to be political to be meaningful. It's true, their lyrics weren't always very strong, but Plant developed to quite a nice songwriter from III onwarRAB, which the Celtic influenced being quite evident. I think the lyrics on The Battle of Evermore and Going to California, for example, is on the same level or higher than anything The Beatles put out.

[Donnnaa]

A band doesn't have to have a message. The only message they ever implied was Jimmy Page's "Light and Shade" technique of song creation.

[MommyOfaLittleBoy]

.eritas dellac s'tI

[marchingbrassgirl28]

Not a legend? :O
They along with Black Sabbath were the pioneers of metal, and whenever people talk about rock, Zepellin always comes up.
Can you prove they stole the riff?

[Fred Weasley Lives]

I agree completely about them pioneering Metal and Harder rock, BUT Jimmy Page did steal the riff, or most of it at least. He admitted it years ago saying he stole it from a blues band in the south somewhere, he just sped it up and added about three notes.

[raine]

Great music is great music. Why do we have to look any deeper than that?

[I.Rey]

D'oh!

[Ben-Gr8]

Doesn't bug me much but I'm not strict on lyrics as long as it's not nonsense and it sounRAB good.

[cherry clairey]

I wasnt aware of this, but then again im not that much of a Zeppelin fan. I will, however, check Spirit out further, cause if they were good enough to influence a musician such as Robert Plant, they can't be bad.

[tutia]

it's a song called 'Taurus' by Spirit. it's pretty obvious. the band had opened for LZ at one point. Page liked what he heard and 'borrowed' it for Stairway. from what i've read the original guitar player didn't really give a crap. just happy that his music moved people.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogTFdlbup24

if you don't hear the intro to Stairway at all about a minute into this clip from 6 years before LZ4 you really need to get your hearing checked.