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Jimmy Page, It's time to call your lawyers?

I'm pretty late to this party--as usual.  A Chicago radio station is starry-eyed over Greta Van Fleet.  I gave them a listen today.  All I could think was...

Is this a Zeppelin parody band? 

There are so many features to their sound, playing, and sonics that sound just like LZ--so much so that I cannot get into the music passionately.  These are (IMHO):  Vocals (phrasing mimics Robert Plant without stopping);  Lyrics (the themes seem, based on limited listening, to track LZ);  Lead Guitar (I cannot think of another guitarist who sounds like he's trying to sound like Page as much as this one).  

Does Greta Van Fleet sound like a facsimile to you?  I'm not hung up on punishing artists who copy, as I think it's part and parcel of the art form.  But I'm having real trouble getting past the photocopy nature of this.  Again, this is just one person's opinion. So curious to hear what others think and feel about this group.  I'd like to give them more of a chance and maybe others can help.  For now, I can't keep listening.

jbhiller

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tylermunns
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Can’t tell if the OP is joking when he asks if the most famous plagiarists in the history of pop should “get their lawyer” because of Greta Van Fleet.

Greta Van Fleet are embarrassing.
Don’t get me wrong, I would highlight songs like “What Is and What Should Never Be,” “Ramble On,” and the best stuff on 3  through Physical Graffiti and have a good 2-LP’s-worth of brilliance, but…uh…yeah…they have been in no position to file for copyright infringement for the entirety of their existence.

tylermunns
601 posts
 

I can’t speak for Mr. Faulkner, but I’m pretty he wasn’t a proponent of plagiarism and copyright infringement.  I don’t think he’d have taken too kindly to Hemingway or Fitzgerald blatantly stealing his ideas.

It’s easy to toss off cute aphorisms from the peanut gallery, it’s another thing to be the one having their work stolen.

As noted by myself and others, no artist, Led Zeppelin or otherwise, should be defined by their worst moments.

Greta Van Fleet have no good moments.  If they were a joke band (unintentionally, they kind of are) they would have something. They are not a joke band. They are shameless shlocksters.

Just because it’s difficult to become rich and famous as a pop band doesn’t mean that exploiting the lowest-common-denominator and shamelessly regurgitating the safest, most unoriginal ideas, heard ad nauseam for decades on ubiquitous Classic  Rock FM radio, makes one worthy of praise when doing so.

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