[Saint Troy]

Originally Posted by JimmytheT

Now I admitedly enjoy Led Zeppelin's music, however both of these statements are very erroneous:

Led Zeppelin ripped off more American Black Music than any other rock band of that era and gave no writing credit to the original writers. At least bands likeCream gave writing credit for a song like I'm So Glad, to the original writer, Skip James.

Many of their songs should have writing credit given to Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Robert Johnson, and Blind Lemon Jefferson to name a few. They just cranked up the distortion on old Blues riffs, and Plante sang the lyrics of old blues songs in his trademark voice.

To say they were top notch song-writers is false; Led Zeppelin were top notch cover-writers for the most part, sans maybe stairway to heaven (even that's disputed -- It may have been performed by a local British band and they stole it).

They made excellent cover songs to help build a new genre of rock, however it disgusts me that they never gave any credit to original authors, until they were sued in some cases.

in your opinion of course