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Originally Posted by Flint

To be fair, the entire history of people making music, throughout all of history, has consisted of people travelling into a new place, hearing a new song, and putting their own spin on it as they travel elsewhere and play it for different people; thus songs evolve and take on different cultural characteristics, etc.

The idea of "ownership" of a piece of music did not come about until recording technology was introduced, and a piece of music (a recording) could be treated like a piece of property.

In this context, what Led Zeppelin did--taking old blues songs and amplifying them, adding a backbeat etc. is a very natural thing in terms of what humans have always done.



However, to say that they performed "the original" of any given song is probably less accurate than with any other modern band I can think of.

Funny that this should come up again so soon. Notice that's Son House he is accusing of ripping off Zeppelin.

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