Joe Rogan on Led Zeppelin's Plagiarism

Old Donna summer shit, you know like dude I have what is that? I think it's nowhere to run Um, I got some playlists here think it is but Okay, almond brothers or James Brown like you go you go back in time when you listen to that you listen to James Brown song It's not just that you're listening to James Brown. You're listening to a time capsule from 1963 or whatever it was. He's so astonishing Yeah, James Brown. He was amazing Oh like that I when I hear Zeppelin and I hear James Brown I never get I never lose my shock at how good they were how unique they were. Yeah. No Zeppelin was incredible The only thing that taints Zeppelin is this I know allegations of plagiarism which seemed to be totally true I know I've heard the songs you can do that side by side. We like damn you stole those riffs. Yeah, that's rough Yeah, it's unfortunate because the end result is fucking incredible Like you're still so great the immigrant song won the best workout songs of all time I know So crazy The essence no the midnight Sun and the hot springs How much credit to that I mean did should they have I'm not trying to disparage it at all But like they should get a lot of credit for how good they were still they were still the greatest They were the definitive. They're the definitive heavy metal. They're so good band of all there's no doubt that they're so good They see the thing is it Every song I don't know, you know I don't know how every band does it every song is probably constructed differently But in a lot of cases, there's a lot of people contributing to the song You know the drummer has an idea and the singer has an idea and the guitar player has these riffs He's trying out and they're trying to figure out the best way to do the song. It's a collaborative effort It's no doubt that the collaboration was fucking phenomenal The question is was it consensual like how many of these people were collaborating and didn't know it right? So that's what happens if you're plagiarizing. It seems like it's okay And you know, maybe they just thought that bands gonna go away No one's gonna care about them anymore because we're led motherfucking Zeppelin That's possible too because before the internet that kind of would have been a case, you know No, but now we're gonna see you still are taking something that doesn't belong to you You definitely are so in my opinion you have to buy that from the person. Yes, or give them credit Yes, but there's no way you can discount the fact that they were Motherfuckers when they were on top when Robert plant would stand on that fucking stage with his shirt open I mean he's the what's one of the weirdest things like what they think about that change in history, right go from 1950 to 1969 go 19 years and you see you go from people that looked like Hank Williams senior to a guy Robert plant Who apparently was wearing the blouses or dresses or t-shirts? That the girl he had the night before had worn. Do you know that that's what we wear on stage. That's correct So that's what I hear. He probably fucked his way through the His shirts, he always wore girl shirts that were too small for him. Well, you don't always see his hog in his pants Yeah, he always has hog pressed to the side. Yeah, the the every every heavy metal band in the 80s Poison you name it Whatever Motley crude they all had a blonde lead singer with our voice. Yeah, that was cuz their hero is mr Robert. Yeah, no, he was a beast dude there. He's wearing a girl's shirt. Oh my god. That's amazing Yeah, that's amazing. That shirt barely fits him damn, right? All of so many of those pictures where you what a crazy life that guy led. Yes, sir. Look at that You know sure too I don't think any one of us will ever be able to understand even even if you became like the new Led Zeppelin You'll never understand what it's like to be Led Zeppelin in the 70s. Yeah in the 70s. What like imagine if you today Became the new Giganto fucking multi-country rock doesn't matter too many people watching you well It's not just that too many people watching you and there's a lot of you You got to think bats when Robert plant was Robert plant. You were the royalty you were literally like a king Yeah, you had the who you had Rolling Stones yet Elton John yet people yet people but maybe you have 30 Yeah, you might have 30. Yeah 30 big-name artists Maybe maybe maybe but it's true. Maybe a hundred. Let's get crazy 100 you got pink Floyd you got the who when you think about the Beatles obviously DC. Yeah. Yeah, you got all sorts of shit You got a lot a lot going on back then, you know