Blues Traveler Song "Christmas" Rip-off of Divided Sky

[Vassillios]

I just heard this song on Pandora, and while listening, I was thinking "wow, this sounds really familiar". And after thinking for about two seconds I realized it was a Phish song, and then I realized it was a rip from the middle instrumental section of the Divided Sky. Just thought it was funny to point out, being the Christmas season and Phish tour and all.

Listen to the Blues Traveler song here: http://new.music.yahoo.com/blues-traveler/tracks/christmas--1330287

at about 2:30 in you will hear something very famliar. Popper even does Trey\'s guitar lick on his harmonica near the end of the song.

[krispy]

holy blatant!  I hope he gets sued.

[Vassillios]

after googling it, i noticed that its a legit operation, popper claiming he\'s "sampling" it.

[inertia1215]

wow, good catch. Probably would not have caught that otherwise!

[mvallo]

I\'m sure if you did some research, you will find that phish ripped off the melody from someone else.

[inertia1215]

I\'m sure if you did some research, you will find that phish ripped off the melody from someone else.

and the answer is..............................?

[bezerker]

i barely heard it.  this song sucks by the way

[Vassillios]

Liner notes include that the song "contains elements from \'Divided Sky\' written by Ernest Anastasio.

So its not a rip-off, just interesting to hear

[kindm's]

popper and phish used to be tight.

I think there was a falling out but popper / Blues traveler helped launch Phish with the early days of HORDE.

Wilco, Phish WP etc etc

Blues Traveler is really good people.

[Bret]

i barely heard it.  this song sucks by the way

:that:

[dannybiscuits]

This shit is hilarious. Popper singing the melody to divided sky in a christmas song is blatantly ridiculous.