Submitted by Alexis
What?!!
I guess the guitar shop in “Wayne’s World” should add Dolly Parton to the sign… (video: Wayne’s World “No Stairway to Heaven” scene)
I’m not sure how Dolly Parton got away with using Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” in her song “We Used To“. For more Led Zeppelin on this site click here
Led Zeppelin - "Stairway to Heaven" (1971)
Dolly Parton - "We Used To" (1975)
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According to this video, Zeppelin covered/stole the intro themselves: http://vimeo.com/14912890. (One to watch for everyone who checks out TSSL.)
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Keith Reply:
January 16th, 2012 at 3:03 pm
Ah, yes. This series is great. I will definitely update the post with this!
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You can add The Animals version of ‘The House Of The Rising Sun’ to this page, which sounds a lot like the verse part of the Dolly Parton song. Although I’d imagine it’s a pretty standard eastern folk/rock chord progression…. Still, good find!!
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You can add “Taurus” by the band Spirit as well
And then further:
“There is a claim made that the intro of “Stairway to Heaven” was influenced by Spirit’s “Taurus”. OTOH there is evidence that Spirit themselves nicked their song from Davey Graham’s acoustic version of “Cry Me a River”. Graham’s song was issued in 1958, ten years before “Taurus” came out. The video clip for “Cry Me a River” can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWeejHJxGjs It is quite clear that large sections of “Taurus” was taken from Graham’s song without credit.”
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Keith Reply:
January 17th, 2012 at 12:45 am
Kyle, Thanks for the Davery Graham link. This is really great. I also came across the Spirit track a while back. I’ll be sure to update this post soon!
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The song ‘We Used To,’ really goes off in quite a different direction afterwards.
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Keith Reply:
January 17th, 2012 at 12:45 am
Indeed, it does.
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you guys probably know this, but Dolly does a rippin’ stairway to heaven cover
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp8-tJTUWto
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why is it that whenever a band or someone does a cover of something they usually end up making something that directly copies it
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check this one out
pearl jam: given to fly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C2NiI4I4VE
led zep: going to california
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ2mbCQdBQA
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I’d have to throw another one on the pile here. Eric Clapton’s song “Let It Grow” (ca 1974) borrows heavily from the “Stairway” chord progression in the fade in the final 90 seconds of the song. In fact, every time I hear the Eric Clapton song I can’t help but sing “Stairway” over the top of that chord progression.
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