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08/23/2005 9:00 pm
Originally Posted by: R. ShackleferdStealing? Have you heard the originals? They're almost not even the same song. Dazed and Confused for instance. Jimi did the same...All Along the Watchtower (among others) is nothing like Dylan's.

Jimi at least gave the writing credit without legal measures being taken, though.

He also never did anything as blatantly plagiaristic as Page did with Sprit's song "Taurus" when writing the intro to Stairway to Heaven.
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