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Re: The Who Vs The Rest
>At 1:02 AM 96.2.12 -0500, Mark Leaman wrote:
>
>>Songs that reflect The Who on Zep II: Whole Lotta Love (especially the end:
>>"Way down inside/Woman you need..."), the electric parts of What Is And What
>>Should Never Be ("And the wind won't blow...") & Bring It On Home, and
>>Heartbreaker (not the lead break, of course). The chorus and end of Ramble
>>On ("Now's the time/The time is now..."). I never said (nor implied) that it
>>was note for note...it's not. But there is a strong resemblance.
>
>
>I gotta say you're stretching here. Maybe the end of WLL, but as for the
>rest, I don't hear it (I'm listening to 'em right now.) As for Page and
>Plant stealing from others, Plant joked about this last week at the show I
>saw. He said that Gallows Pole was a song they thought they had written at
>the time. It was good to see that he at least knows he's full of shit :)
Chris:
Well, that's certainly the impression expressed at the time by myself and
those around me back in `69. It's hard to get that perspective on it now
(after years of similar songs), but you must remember that the "field" was
smaller then.
Cheers ML
NP: Stern