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Tea41

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  1. It's amazing seeing all the anger in some of these posts, I'd love to see how angry these people get when presented with real problems that actually affects their lives. When you sell 350 million records and form the greatest band of all time, like Led Zeppelin did, then release a massive peerless catalog with not a clunker in the bunch, a catalog so good it makes most other bands look like pathetic, as well as becoming the #1 most influential guitarist, producer, and songwriter in popular music history, as Jimmy Page did, then you can release whatever you want too. Nobody's stopping you.
  2. Rik Emmett is the famous guitarist, songwriter, and lead singer of Triumph, who has 18 gold and 9 platinum records, and is also a music professor at Humber College in Toronto, Ontario. But gee, but what does he know, right? And I'm not the only one who "says so", anyone with a brain and even remotely functioning ears can hear the vast differences in the 2 songs and riffs in about 5 seconds flat, the Emmett video lays it out clear. And btw, those goofy emoticons don't help you make your weak point.
  3. The 2 are not even close, unless you need a hearing aid. Real musicians like Rik Emmett explain why in this video, he plays both and explains how they are not even remotely similar. But you know more than Rik Emmett, right? Go to 2:38, and also 5:30 and learn something..
  4. With all the bonus track mania going on with the Zep reissues, how couldn't Page put the full live NQ with the full solo from 1976 version on this new TSTRS release, at least as a bonus track? IT'S AMONG HIS BEST LIVE SOLO'S EVER. Is Page that isolated and out of touch that no one has told him how much the fans want this? We've been waiting decades now for it. This is the last TSRTS release, so I guess there's no hope for it. I'll take the full NQ remastered with the full solo over 99% of all the Zep reissue "outtakes", which I love. Page still seems sharp, not sure why he refuses to put his best solo out in a remastered form. There is no excuse.
  5. Translation of what Maloify is saying in laymen terms: "Can we please have just .000001% of anything having to do with the incomparable masterpiece Stairway to Heaven, even though it sounds nothing like the hoky, cringeworthy elevator music called Taurus? I swear you'll never hear from us again"...
  6. Williams seems like such a dick, not to mention his music is beyond painful.
  7. They did the right thing. It only helped their long term legacy and mystery more.
  8. He's improvising, like a real master. He has been sloppy, like on certain shows in 1977 and 1980, but then, a second later, when he plays a really complex, difficult piece like The Rain Song, he's clean as a whistle while doing really heavy duty, intricate chord changes, . Page is a mystery!
  9. Page's guitar playing on TSRTS concert from 1973, on tracks Dazed, WLL, and No Quarter, as well as the song TSRTS are his best ever. Like the OP said, his fingers just danced on the strings with tasty, killer licks that are coming through rapid fire and are just on another level from any other guitar player, I don't care who they are, they don't cut as deep to your soul the way Page did in 1973. Plus, for you long time guitar players and tone maniacs like myself out there, his tone was PERFECT AND PURE. Just enough edge, plenty of clarity and definition, and ATTITUDE. THE best rock and roll tone ever in my book. TSRTS is unreal, don't care about the edits here and there, I have the bootleg, it's 99% the way you hear it, he played it. LIVE. He was also really great on 1988 Outrider tour and 1998 Page-Plant. We saw Page-Plant at MSG in NY in July 1998 from the 10th row, and it blew the whole arena into smithereens. After the show, on the way out of the Garden as people were exiting, huge crowds started chanting and screaming again, it was INSANE. I've been to hundreds, maybe a thousand shows in my life (yup, I'm over 50) and I've NEVER seen an aftermath of people still so psyched as to what they just saw. Huge crowds WERE STILL SCREAMING ON THE STREETS IN MANHATTAN AFTER THE SHOW! I only wish JPJ was there. Page and Plant truly earned it, and lived up to every bit of their legend, plus it was only a 4-piece, not some corny ensemble of backing musicians like the Stones, The Who, Pink Floyd, etc. all used in recent times to fill out their sound. 1998 was the time they should have done the Zep reunion and filmed it, they still totally had it.
  10. This is incorrect. Before deliberation, the jury asked to hear both songs, the known recorded final versions as they appear on the records, and immediately voted unanimously there was no infringement. The appeal will go nowhere.
  11. They need to give it up, and get some real music of their own instead of parasitically clinging to Zeppelin's talent for $. Skidmark needs to get a life. This stupid song Taurus isn't even worth a listen much less a lawsuit, Spirit needs to stop flattering themselves and delusionally thinking they are worth comparing to Led Zeppelin even for a second. Taurus is so unmemorable, these maggots must have alot of cash to keep suing Zep. They will keep losing.
  12. Good, I'm glad Zep are seeking fees back, they should. What a stupid lawsuit.
  13. Probably, as it was such a weak case. Any lawyer in his right mind who isn't hearing impaired and not suffering from brain damage would not have taken this case about 2 seconds after listening to the 2 songs and seeing how dissimilar they are.
  14. That says it all! Spirit, not Zeppelin, has some serious egg on their face now. They lose what proved to be a silly case, then the laywer gets suspended, hilarious! Proves what a complete clusterf@ck this whole Taurus-Stairway lawsuit, Skidmore, and Malofiy are, he's such a douche nozzle it's has become comical. If this isn't full vindication for the Zep boys, I don't know what is..they come out looking clean as a whistle with a cherry on top. You know Zep is laughing right now, not to mention the likely increase in Stairway's sales from all the media coverage. People are undoubtedly rediscovering how great of a song it truly is.
  15. I guess these idiots have tons of money to waste trying to milk money they didn' t earn. Gold digging losers with ZERO talent of their own. They need to face the fact that they lost, let it go, and get a job, instead of trying to extort Zeppelin with sob stories from 45 years ago...the songs sound nothing alike, not even the 3 notes (!) in question. They only wish Taurus sounded anything like Stairway...
  16. Maybe this whole silly lawsuit was Wolfe's family trying to sell some Spirit records, we all know how those fly off the shelves...I think Taurus went cardboard. Zeppelin sold 300 million records, while Spirit sold about 12 records, 11 of which were bought by his immediate family, the other one being bought by Helen Keller. I think it's safe to say any sales they get are because of this whole phony unfounded association with Stairway...so I would say Spirit owes Zeppelin some royalties...not the other way around. That would amount to $26 total in sales. Taurus is so forgettable and uninspiring, comparing it to Stairway is like comparing horseshit to filet mignon. If they keep appealing they will go broke quick, as Zep has unlimited resources to defend themselves. It's done.
  17. Nah, I think they are quite happy to move on at this point. Let's get Jimmy going on his solo album, that's what I'm really waiting for. Something tells me it's going to be special.
  18. Now Skidmore et all have to pay for their own legal fees for what turned out to be a stupid case. Serves them right. You don't put the remaining 3 Led Zep geniuses on the stand and get away with it! +1 for Led Zep!!
  19. What's curious is how the "plaintiff" is getting all this money to spend on legal fees to sue Led Zeppelin for this long over something so flimsy... If it doesn't get thrown out eventually, like it should have in one second flat, as they sound nothing like alike to anyone who isn't Helen Keller, it will set a horrendous precedent for a new breed of "artistic infringement" over any subjective nonsense reason. This uninspired POS Taurus is nothing more than goofy elevator music which sounds nothing like the masterpiece Stairway. Not even the one second they claim...amazing how Zeppelin rolled up their sleeves and created a beautiful, Beethoven level piece of timeless music that billions of people love and that influenced just about every musician alive directly or indirectly, and yet they're being punished for it by these no talent gold-diggers. And why wait 45 years to sue?!? Flimsy case, that's why. If LZ somehow loses this, LZ should then sue about 10,000 other bands since Zeppelin are THE most ripped off band in history in so many ways...as 99% of all musicians are influenced by Page, Bonzo, Plant, their songs, etc...and how about all the people that try to sound like Bonzo, but FAIL so badly. LZ could sue so many people if they wanted, even on "sonic" grounds as, to this day, so many people try to emulate LZ's guitar and drum sounds, as well as Page's studio production techniques.
  20. Well done. 2 very different songs, not even a shadow of a doubt this is a frivolous golddigging lawsuit, should have been thrown out, in fact, laughed out of court immediately. Stairway is such a higher class of original music it's mindboggling, not to mention the song as a whole could not be more different. STH is a timeless masterpiece, and "Taurus" is a turd that is best forgotten. In fact STH is the best thing to ever happen to Spirit, any fame they got, which isn't much, is because of it's unfounded "association" with Stairway. NO CASE WHATSOEVER.
  21. This whole thing is ridiculous for sure as "Taurus" sounds nothing like Stairway, any musician would agree. It's just Randy's family getting greedy trying to get their hands on some of that Stairway money, yet Zep did all the work and made a classic...Taurus? Not so much. In fact, at best, Taurus is a hokey piece of unlistenable, unmemorable garbage. It's akin to some zero talent art student trying to sue Rembrandt for ripping him off 45 years after the fact just because he also used the color yellow in his painting. If it's sounds so much like it, why sue 45 years after the fact? Shouldn't there be a time limit to sue someone like in personal injury cases? Also, if the plaintiff's lawyer asking for more time to investigate, that's not a good sign the plaintiff has a case. They are money hunting, nothing more. If only Peter Grant's was still around, someone would already be in the emergency room... The judge needs to get his hearing checked. That being said, I've got my copy so it doesn't matter to me!
  22. Yup, that's definitely Bonzo singing.
  23. "Presence", especially in 24/96, has got to be the cleanest, punchiest mix of any Zep album, and that's saying alot. The air on "Tea For One" is sublime, it really breathes and moves, it's some of the best blues you will ever hear, never mind Clapton, SIBLY and TFO are blues played with inspiration and imagination, not just some rehashed 12 bar blues that'll put you to sleep (pretty much any Clapton album)...Page breathes life into the blues, rather than staying in the cliched blues "boxes". I can't get enough of "Royal Orleans" and "Candy Store Rock"! Page did a great job on these, this is how you guard a legacy...RESPECT.
  24. Wow, what a touching story, my friend also met Page at the 11/5/14 NYC signing, talked to Jimmy and said he was cool as heck, happy, and friendly. What can you say, JP's a legend who also has that extra rare, star-quality "it" factor. It's not something you can teach, you either have it or you don't. You can never underestimate the immense depth of the LZ catalog, and it's effects on people's lives.
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