Similarities?? Ripoffs?? Coincidence??

[oldguy]

I like the last one best. Randy California (Spirit) had an interesting life, to say the least.
Zeppelin toured w/ Spirit in '68 or '9, I think.
Did Page ripoff California's tune? Part of it? Was it subliminal, unintentional?
Whaddaya' think?

[aeolian]

Pretty interesting to listen to. I have to say, though, that most of the examples are just sections of 2 songs that happen to use the same chord progression; the similarity pretty much stops there. Carried to an extreme, every 12-bar blues tune would be ripoff of all the other 12-bar blues tunes.

I have to admit I don't know what happened with "My Sweet Lord", the first time I heard it I recognized the similarity to "He's So Fine." And the riff from Led Zep is eerily similar to Spirit's tune.

[Big_Rob]

It wouldnt surprise me one bit, Page and Zeppelin ripped off all kinds of old blues artists.

Although it seems that rip offs in the music industry is common

[Spudman***]

Looks like the universe is running out of songs . Oh no!

[oldguy]

Had to happen sooner or later. We only got like, what, 12 notes to work with?

[sub006]

And Boston's "More Than A Feeling" ripped off the "Louie, Louie" riff, especially at the end of the song. I heard it almost the first time I heard the Boston song.