Fucking EMI.
Music Buzz Everyone's favorite band to hate has now been sued for plagiarism. Here is a handy comparison of the songs in question. This song has been playing for a lifetime—did it just now occur to Joe?
Fucking EMI.
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Despite how Satriani feels about the alleged rip-off of his tune, this is an eclectic world. Borrowing and re-invention goes on everywhere, all or most of the time. It's part of the game and many artists and musicians see it as a compliment if their work is an influence on others - unless the 'borrowing' is really egregious. Obviously if a tune is reproduced pretty much note for note and word for word, there's a problem. This isn't the case with 'Viva La Vida'. The tunes are similar. But even though the chord progressions are alike, the octave changes between bars aren't. If you listen carefully you can hear that the tunes are by no means identical.
You mean they copied other boring songs? Whose?
how about Joe's “Chords of Life” sounding like 10CC-Dreadlock Holiday…..?
I could hear either version of this tune under the end credits of any made-for-TV movie featuring Pam Dawber.
Speaking as a long time musician myself, this kind of thing HAPPENS ALL THE TIME. Completely unintended I might add.
Chord progressions are based on modes, which boil down to just equations-except in this case instead of numbers or letters chords and notes are used. So in most instances, ANY SONG YOU HEAR HAS ALREADY BEEN WRITTEN AND PLAYED BEFORE in some shape form or fashion. It is only timing and expression that will set identical progressions apart. As a musician, it is very easy to hear a progression and its melody from another artist, and dismiss it. Only to here the same chord progression at practice or writing sessions a year later and have the previously heard melody it spill out on top of it unconciously. Or you can just completely RIP a solo instrumental artist for a pop song because you are to busy knocking up Gwen Paltrow and naming her kids ridiculous, self-deprecating names like APPLE.
Hilarious! Unintentionally hilarious, I'm sure, but hilarious none the less. I agree, Satriani IS boring… almost as boring as Coldplay. For all his technical wizardry, Satriani's music leaves me cold. Just as Coldplay's does. I absolutely understand Coldplay's popularity though, they fall into that strange music niche where soulless mediocre bands have a mass appeal, ala Dave Matthew's Band, Blues Traveller and Hootie and the Blowfish. It's for those who want a nice safe, pleasant music experience, who do not want to be challenged by what they are listening to. That said, Satriani almost certainly has a case. The boys in Coldplay better be prepared to pony up.
Satriani is a boring twit, I've been a musician my entire life and have never felt the urge to buy one of his records or listen to his music. What a moron, he's obviously doing all of this for greed and probably wants to ride on the coat-tails of someone else's success to sell a few more of his crappy records or get some publicity. What would artists like Coldplay want with Asstriani's “guitar riffs” anyway?
Why not offer to play a solo on the next Cold Play version, Joe? It works well; but if I were a judge or jury member, I wouldn't find such a common chord progression and melody subject to copyright.
Seriously? I guess this is what happens when you need to try and grab the last few minutes of your finished 'rockstar' career, or maybe just some extra drama-attention with the paparazzi. Regarding the two songs, yes, they have a similar if not the same chord progression for the eight bars of the hook, but that means nothing. Chord progressions are way too common to copyright, otherwise every wannabe musician would be crying in court about how a multi-platinum selling artist stole their beloved tune. Really Joe, you were going to be remembered as a great guitarist, fantastic teacher, and exceptional performer, all of which are worthy of respect and admiration among your fans and the music industry. Now, you're just a whiner standing in the shadows stabbing at an artist in a lame attempt to keep yourself afloat so that maybe next time you are nominated for a Grammy award people might actually recognize your name.
Come on! It's such a bog-standard melody and chord progression to start with! The same four chords, over and over. Took me about 3 seconds to work out how to play the song, or songs, as it turns out, in their entirety. I really don't care too much what happens to Coldplay either way, but really, this is the entire INDUSTRY, guys. The whole thing is built on obvious melodies, and major-relative minor-dominant-subdominant chord progressions in various keys/permutations, which means that this sort of 'plaigarism' thing is bound to happen all the time. Which, of course, it does.
Is that it? That's the evidence? Wow, you gotta dig pretty deep to claim plagiarism if that's all you've got. What a non-story and I hope Coldplay doesn't give an inch. Say it isn't so Joe. You've stooped so low.
Can the record stand that the Creeky Boards song is fairly better than Satarini's song, and 100% less douchey because they're not trying to sue Coldplay, even goes as far as to wish them luck.
Tom Petty Mary Jane's Last Dance and RHCP's Dani California
Creaky Boards 'Songs I didn't Write' and Coldplay's Vida La Vida
Wow. If I were Joe Satriani I'd be suing Beamz for stealing my rockin' licks. There's money in them thar music lights. As for that overlay of his guitar atop Coldplay, I now envy the deaf.
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