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!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LED ZEPPELIN BLOCKED THIS VIDEO!!! FULL STORY BELOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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After 3 years of back and forth, KZbin finally unblocked my One Man Band cover of Stairway to Heaven, which had been blocked by the Led Zeppelin themselves!
The full story: all the instruments and vocals were played and sung by me and I also did all the audio treatment and production. Even thought I did it all in my (very basic) home studio, the final result sounds very similar to the original, which is why the video was getting a lot of traction when released... and also probably why it got inexplicably blocked by KZbin in mid-2016!
In July 2017, about one year after I had realized that the video had been blocked (why did I wait that long??? Damn!), I got in contact with Warner Chappell, the recording company who owns the rights to the song, in order to try to purchase a license so I could unblock the video. The reply I got was surprising and, to be honest, rather flattering: Led Zeppelin themselves had asked for my video to be blocked!
Here's a screenshot of the email trail between me and Warner Chappell (starts at the bottom, you might want to zoom in): drive.google.c...
Now, Jan/2020, after a bit more than 3 years, the video has finally been unblocked and it's getting close to 100k views. I'm posting this whole story here to ask you all to spread the word and help me get more and more views!
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Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven is one of the greatest rock songs of all time, and Led Zeppelin itself is one of the greatest bands of all time.
That being said, one could question my song choice. "So many great songs out there and you decided to cover Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven?" Well, that's the whole idea: the bigger the challenge, the better it feels once it's done! :)
There were several challenges while recording this Led Zeppelin cover, starting by the most obvious one: the vocals in the chorus. Robert Plant, Led Zeppelin's frontman and one of the greatest rock singers to ever walk on Earth, has a very peculiar voice and the chorus of Stairway to Heaven is anything but easy to sing.
After more than 30 minutes of vocal warm ups and stretches, I recorded the first take. It was good, but not good enough - this is Led Zeppelin, after all. The second take was better, but the third was the one that finally put a smile on my face and was used in the final cut.
Another big challenge was the fact that Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin's legendary guitarist, used a 12-string guitar throughout most of the song and I don't have one of those. I had to simulate it by recording twice with the same guitar, doing the octave notes in one of them.
The guitar solo of Stairway to Heaven is epic, but it was no challenge. The drums, the bass, the piano, the flute (yes, Led Zeppelin used a flute in this song) and the other vocals were also relatively easy. I struggled a bit to get the sound I wanted for the acoustic guitar, but after moving the microphone and applying some EQs I managed to get there.
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