Did ELP rip off Led Zeppelin?

[A. Scherze]

Bass line starting at 2:04.

[Rufus]

That LZ bass line is a rip-off of an old blues number!

[A. Scherze]

That LZ bass line is a rip-off of an old blues number!

Actually, my post was tongue-in-cheek.

However, your observation doesn't preclude the possibility that ELP got the riff from LZ, does it?

[GuitarGeek]

Actually, my post was tongue-in-cheek.

However, your observation doesn't preclude the possibility that ELP got the riff from LZ, does it?

Yeah, because there's no chance they could have heard a stock shuffle groove anywhere else, despite the fact that it probably occurs on thousands of blues and quasi-blues records that predate Zeppelin, huh?