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

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.

There’s some intentional irony in the thread.

I also agree that LZ stole and borrowed but always advanced their own view and soundscape. GVF sound like they are imitating too much in my humble perspective. I’d like them more if they had more of their own sound. Glad to see young ones rocking though.

I was '1st' to post in this thread, back in 2019. I'd like to add that have nothing against GVF, and wish them the best. I'm neither here nor there on any of it.

Music is a tough business, and any success they gain, in some minimal to even total way, the probably deserve it. Good for them. Humans need music. GVF provides, for some. And that's enough.

I get tired of hearing about Led Zep's thievery. Faulkner once said, “Immature artists copy, great artists steal.” Many other famous folks have said similar things.

Led Zep stole the way great artists do. Then they got caught. And they paid for it in the end. They were also instrumental in bringing blues back to the forefront where it belongs rather than being a cult fad for young English musicians in the 60s. That alone as a lifetime achievement is redemptive even if unintended.

If it had not been for Led Zep I'd have never heard of Willy Dixon or Bukka White.

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.