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The Jam. Base Editorial Team profiles must follow Twitter feeds. Take a two decade trip back in time with flashbacks to memorable musical moments that happens 2. This section also includes the Twenty Years Later video series featuring some of Jam. Bases favorite musicians recording covers of songs originally released in 1. Depositfiles Premium Link Generator Leech. Jam. Base contributor Donovan Farley profiles an underrated artist you should make like a shovel and dig. Heres your chance to score free tickets to a local show, passes to festivals of all sizes, signed box sets and plenty of other goodies. Jam. Base presents the Inspiration Celebrating 4. Years Of Terrapin Station video series featuring covers of each of the songs originally issued in 1. While many bands make blips and get noticed, others slip below detection and the most promising up and comers are profiled in this regular report. Stairway To Heaven by Led Zeppelin Songfacts. The acoustic, fingerpicking intro is very similar to the song Taurus from the band Spirit, who toured with Led Zeppelin when they first played the US. Taurus is a guitar instrumental written by the groups guitarist, Randy California, and included on their debut album in 1. It was part of the bands set and Jimmy Page admitted that he owned the album. Randy California never took any legal action against Led Zeppelin or sought compensation from them. A mercurial man who drowned in 1. Mark Andes as kind of a pathetic, tortured genius. The Stairway connection is just a small piece of the Spirit story. California was guitar prodigy, and when he was 1. Jimi Hendrix in the group Jimmy James And The Blue Flames. Three months later, Hendrix went to England. He wanted to take California with him, but Randys age made it impossible. Randy played with future Steely Dan founder Walter Becker in the Long Island band Tangerine Puppets, then moved to Los Angeles where he formed Spirit with three friends and his step father, Ed Cassidy, who played drums. They got some gigs at the Whisky a Go Go, and Lou Adler signed them to his label, Ode Records. Their first album was a modest success, but mustered just one minor hit Mechanical World. Written by band members Mark Andes and Jay Ferguson, it stalled at 1. US. California set out to write a hit for their second album, The Family That Plays Together 1. I Got A Line On You, which made 2. It would be their biggest hit the band declined an invitation to Woodstock and fractured in 1. Californias already volatile mental health ravaged by drug use. The band reunited from time to time, but never got their due. By the time of Californias death, few remembered Taurus and its connection to Stairway To Heaven, but in 1. Songfacts went online and the discussion was revived. In 2. 00. 2, a former music journalist named Michael Skidmore came into control of Californias estate, and 2. Led Zeppelin. In 2. Jimmy Page testified in the case and said that the first time he heard of the controversy when a few years earlier when his son in law told him that a debate had been brewing online. Page insisted he had never heard Taurus before, and that it was totally alien to him. The jury didnt buy the argument that Page never heard Taurus, but ruled in favor of Led Zeppelin, deciding that the chord progression in Taurus was common to many other songs dating back decades, and therefore, in the public domain. Heres a timeline of the case.