{"id":21602,"date":"2014-05-20T10:08:06","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T14:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=21602"},"modified":"2014-05-20T10:08:06","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T14:08:06","slug":"dismissed-rth-rock-crimes-commission-concludes-that-jimmy-page-had-better-things-to-do-than-rip-off-two-measures-of-the-endless-intro-to-spirits-taurus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/dismissed-rth-rock-crimes-commission-concludes-that-jimmy-page-had-better-things-to-do-than-rip-off-two-measures-of-the-endless-intro-to-spirits-taurus\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Dismissed!<\/em> RTH Rock Crimes Commission Concludes That Jimmy Page Had Better Things to Do Than Rip Off Two Measures of the Endless Intro to Spirit&#8217;s &#8220;Taurus&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jJUdnTKlP1E\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Are you kidding me, <a title=\"Stairway to Taurus\" href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/entertainment\/Phila_lawyer_planning_suit_over_Stairway_to_Heaven_opening.html\" target=\"_blank\">the estate for <strong>Spirit<\/strong> guitarist <strong>Randy California<\/strong> is considering bringing suit against <strong>Led Zeppelin<\/strong> for allegedly ripping off 2 measures of the interminable instrumental album filler &#8220;Taurus&#8221; for the intro to Led Zep&#8217;s &#8220;Stairway to Heaven&#8221;?<\/a> It takes 45 boring seconds to even get to the allegedly ripped off 2 measure. I doubt Jimmy Page could have lasted that long. For all the blatant heists Page has masterminded, this is like charging Willie Sutton for taking a magazine home with him from a doctor&#8217;s office. <em>Dismissed<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>In related news, the state of California is considering bringing suit against the estate of <a title=\"California\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Randy_California\" target=\"_blank\">Randy Craig Wolfe<\/a> for ripping off its name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you kidding me, the estate for Spirit guitarist Randy California is considering bringing suit against Led Zeppelin for allegedly ripping off 2 measures of the interminable instrumental album filler &#8220;Taurus&#8221; for the intro to Led Zep&#8217;s &#8220;Stairway to Heaven&#8221;? It takes 45 boring seconds to even get to the allegedly ripped off 2 measure. <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/dismissed-rth-rock-crimes-commission-concludes-that-jimmy-page-had-better-things-to-do-than-rip-off-two-measures-of-the-endless-intro-to-spirits-taurus\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}