Stairway To Heaven

correct

Stupidest infringement case ever

but wait!
https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Led-Zeppelin-to-face-retrial-over-Stairway-13266011.php

this is dumb as shit

While allowing a new jury to hear a recording of "Taurus" may put Led Zeppelin at a disadvantage, the context in which the recording can now be considered by jurors will be limited. The plaintiffs can play it for Page in open court to ask him if he'd ever heard the song before writing "Stairway."

Allowing "the jury to observe Page listening to the recordings would have enabled them to evaluate his demeanor while listening to the recordings as well as when answering questions," the three-judge appeals panel said. That line of questioning would be meant to establish whether Page had "access" to the song, an element of copyright infringement.

At the same time, the jury will still be instructed only to consider the sheet music when assessing whether the two songs are "substantially similar," the other element of infringement, the appeals court said.

observe Page listening to the recordings would have enabled them to evaluate his demeanor

Like his eyes are gonna comically bug out and steam will start shooting out of his ears.

Wtf

Of all the potential copyright infringements, this one is the dumbest.

our shadows = taller than our souls

Like his eyes are gonna comically bug out and steam will start shooting out of his ears.

LOL, seriously. Or he starts tugging at his collar nervously as beads of sweat begin pouring down his brow...

https://tse3.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.GhCH-McVawkZkBuQ4DEuxAHaEL&pid=Api

Guilty!

Btw — the RIAA is urging for this case not to be opened back up, saying that a ruling against Zep would throw the music copyright field into chaos (...even more than the “Blurred Lines” decision has, I add editorially).

Sorry, I didn’t state it very well — it’s the ruling by the three-judge panel, vacating the earlier verdict and saying that LZ must face a new trial, that the RIAA and a music publishers’ group are pushing back on:

On Monday, the RIAA and the NMPA warned that the panel decision would allow infringement claims over the use of "basic musical elements that have long been seen as unprotectable."

"Nearly every time a composer chooses to include a sequence of a few notes, an arpeggio or a chromatic scale in a composition, some other composer will have most likely 'selected' the same elements at some level of generality," the groups said.

george harrison got what he deserved.

Still can’t get used to that extra beat at 5:35 after all these years

It's not an extra beat. The "one" just isn't where you think it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhlLtd19szw

Frank Zappa's cover helps emphasize this (starting at 6:03 in this version):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOADUlfh2qY

[/rhythmic pedantry]

One of the weirder things that happen in Jimmy's solo towards the end of the 3rd bar (~6:08), when he's playing in the 5th position, he releases his barre and plays a single open G string, semi-palm muted.

Maybe a flub?

Do you mean the G at the beginning of m. 6 here?: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3e/a7/34/3ea734fe981150735f350e6288b7ae89.jpg . I've always done that on the 5th fret of the D string. I'm pretty sure it's intentional in any case. That said, tbh, I actually do find this solo challenging to do cleanly at tempo.

I just checked the live clips from the Song Remains the Same version and the 75 Earls Court version and that passage is completely different from the studio version both times, although everything in the solo prior to that point is v close. Maybe he found it challenging too?

(although tbh that's actually one of the easy parts imo, at least if you do it all in fifth position)

A student brought in "Samba Triste" and I wonder if maybe Baden Powell should have sued Spirit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znEjrSnwP_4

Brian Hodel's arrangement, from 83, I think, actually uses the identical voicings of the first three chords as they are found in "Stairway":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTpqZlEimtI