Led Zeppelin, Doors, Grateful Dead Members Get High On Legal Fees

Brian Raftery | December 19, 2006 9:08 am
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If your name happens to be Eddie Trunk, today is the most exciting day of your life:

Some of rock ‘n’ roll’s biggest names have teamed up to sue the owner of a Web site that specializes in streaming rare concert recordings. Wolfgang’s Vault offers thousands of recordings of rare audio and video music performances collected over 30 years by Bill Graham, a famous concert promoter who died in 1991.

On Monday, major rock names including Grateful Dead Productions, Carlos Santana and members of Led Zeppelin and The Doors, sued the current owner, claiming it was illegally offering recordings to stimulate sales of other products.

We can only imagine how the conference call went for this one, but we’re pretty sure Jimmy Page politely snoozed his way through, and that Ray Manzarek kept the Jim Morrison mentions to a reasonable (for him) eleven name-drops per minute.

Led Zeppelin, Doors members sue concert video site [Reuters]