The Strange Tale of “Dazed and Confused”

Page should make amends with Holmes. Two great ver­sion of a great song. Cred­it is due to Holmes.

But why not give dred­it where cred­it is due? How much mon­ey and ego is enough?

@Drew — exact­ly; for much of their exis­tence LZ was a very good blues cov­er band — noth­ing wrong with that… they’ve cit­ed influ­ences before; time to do that now.

Paul, Zep might have done the “bet­ter” ver­sion but for Page to claim he wrote (ie cre­at­ed) the piece is an out­right lie intend­ed to defraud Holmes of roy­al­ties he would oth­er­wise have paid out. As far as I can tell, the case was set­tled out of court, which is an admis­sion that Holmes did write the song. If Page was con­fi­dent of his claim, he had ample mon­ey to pay lawyers to clear his name. Maybe Page was afraid that any judge or jury would decide on Holmes’ side after hear­ing just a few bars of his ver­sion. This whole issue makes me won­der how much else of Page’s out­put was stolen from oth­ers.

Zep stole lot’s of stuff- they even thought they could get away with steal­ing WIllie Dixon stuff even though he was a active in the biz, record­ing arrang­ing pro­duc­ing- like he would­n’t notice or something.Of course zep got sued and even­tu­al­ly had to pay up. Being influ­enced ‚cop­ping riffs is one thing,but LZ and Jag­ger both out­right stole songs ‚inc lyrics. The stair­way riff page copied from Randy Cal­i­for­nia of Spir­it, who lz opened sev­er­al shows in eng­land for

Sor­ry to be the music snob but i cant sit and lis­ten to these sim­plis­tic views of some­thing peo­ple seem to have lit­tle infor­ma­tion on.n Led Zep in turn have had so much stolen. even in rap which relent­less­ly sam­ples their mate­r­i­al. Led have nev­er sued any­one for it. Its evo­lu­tion! con­sid­er how music evolved before MONEY became the focus not the music. Folk and blues is passed on from trav­el­ling musi­cians back in the day. most peo­ple dont even know who wrote most this stuff as african amer­i­cans were not looked at by the music indus­try, many of them would end up sell­ing their songs for pen­nies, at which point they would get some­one white to sing them. no cred­it would be giv­en to such artist either.n I would like to also pose the ques­tion as to whom the roy­al­ty pay­ments are going to from stream­ing these songs on this site? Any way i cant go into all the detail and his­to­ry that this involves. and the morals behind it. did Zep use oth­er peo­ples mate­r­i­al?.… Yes! Did ‘Oth­er’ peo­ple us oth­er peo­ples mate­r­i­al.… Yes.

Dok­tor: And they also had to be sued to give cred­it in the past.