Re: Fire to Wind

["Louie's Lost His Mind" <pdw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 29 Jan 1998 WMcCue@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> 1. Lotta brouhaha about Pearl Jam "covering" Led Zep. Sorry folks, but Zep 
> fans are in no position to weep about another band stealing a thing or two 
> from one of their influences. Bukka White, Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, 
> Robert Johnson, John Lee Hooker, Moby Grape, Vanilla Fudge, Spirit, 
> Leadbelly, Eddie Cochran, etc. etc. Zeppelin picked and chose bits and 
> pieces from all of them and more. The trick is "making it your own." 
> Nobody's ever gonna confuse Eddie Vedder for Robert Plant or any of PJ's 
> guitarists for Jimmy Page, so whatever they do with the Zep influence, 
> blatant or subtle, it's gonna sound like Pearl Jam. No harm, no foul here. 
> My call? Hey, they got a track that sounds like Going to California? Cool. 
> Can't wait to hear it.


I agree here.  I guess my feelings on this matter are, hey, if they
"borrowed" parts of GTC that probably means they like Led Zeppelin and
were influenced by them and that's never a bad thing.

	-Pat