if i was coldplay\'s guitarist, i\'d listen to that mixed version and think "damn why didn\'t i play it like that?"
that being said, in this day in age, i don\'t see why its preposterous for two musicians to "write" the same chord progression. so i chalk it up to coincidence.
hell if blues musicians had the money and power to sue in the 60\'s led zeppelin never would have gotten off the ground. You can always argue things like this for chord progressions. Take wish you were here, move it up a whole step and strum instead of picking and you have wonderwall. frank zappa wrote variations on the super secret santana chord progression. Pearl jams given to fly is the same as led zeppelins going to california. The pearl jam song soon forget is a blantent rip off of one of the who\'s songs for ukulele. The estate of John Cage sued someone for re-recording a sample of his 4\'33 piece, which is absolute silence for 4:33. Yup, someone had a pause of silence on an album and they tried to say it was a sample. etc, etc, etc
The thing that makes this different is that they have not only the same tempo and chord progression, which is bad but happens all the time, but that they have the same melody as well. They should get the same thing that happend to the verve for stealing the stones orchestral music to make bittersweet symphony... give 100% of royalites from the song to joe.
Good for joe, get what\'s coming to you. I think things like this are going to become more and more common with the technology of iphones to identify songs. They\'ll "mis-identify" something, and people will start making correlations between what they thought the song was and the iphone thought it was and the list is going to become huge.
Also, surfing with the alien is an awesome album. Joe rocks. go find a copy of a g3 concert and drool.
TIM PALMIERI sues YANGWIE MALMSTEEN.
Tim complained,
"He uses the same notes I do!"
see, that\'s why it pays to have EVERY SHOW YOU PLAY RECORDED! audio proof of what and when the breakfast came up with, show by show. One more win for the tapers. :lol:
Maybe Joe will sue matt o next, for stealing his look.
WTF, I Just read that article and it seems like Marty Balin could sue Coldplay and Joe Satriani.
Coldplay sucks
Thanks for the link, Tim. Interested to hear what you (and other published songwriters on the board) think about this. I\'m sure anybody who has written an album\'s worth of material or more has both used something that they unintentionally "stole" and also heard something that was unintentionally "stolen" from them.
And if John Fogarty can get sued (and lose) for plagiarizing himself, then nothing that happens in the music business should be surprising to anyone.
so coldplay is unoriginal? I already knew this.
i dont think they stole anything
And if John Fogarty can get sued (and lose) for plagiarizing himself, then nothing that happens in the music business should be surprising to anyone.
A little birdie told me that Fogerty actually won that case. But the fact that such a lawsuit would even be lent credence (:rimshot:) still validates my points.