Tom Petty & Royalties for Sam Smith Song

Maynehead

Reverend said:

Sanitarium is based on Rainbow Warrior by Bleak House.

Orion mid section is a rewrite of Handy by Wishbone Ash.
Bells is based on the riff from Angel Of Death by Angel Witch.
Motorbreath uses a riff from Rapid Fire.

Sanitarium - fair enough, James pretty much admitted it was lifted from another song

Orion - Nah, no where near. Could have picked any song with a guitar playing over a bass line.

Bells - Nope, can't hear anything in there that can be linked to Bells at all.

Motorbreath - Come on, if you said Ace of Spades sounds like Rapid Fire I might have believed you more. They've all got a typical thrash riff, that's about the only similarity there is...

Reverend

You really ought to listen again. They are all clear as day.

Maynehead

Nah, apart from Sanitarium, the others are a pure smear campaign I tell ya! 8-X

Nowhere near the scale of similarity of the first post...

Anyway no point in arguing, let the people judge for themselves!

JAYJO

Dont let me down chorus by free is very similar to the Dont let me down song by The Beatles.
It goes Dont let me down
              Dont let me down.
As does the Beatles. Same words and same tune?
Maybe its a nod to the beatles i dont know the history of the band but it is very similar.

Jalapeno

Tom Petty's view from his blog

http://www.tompetty.com/blog/statement-tom-petty-423041

He's a cool Dude !

blueskunk

Dont fuck with Petty.

Simples.

not_the_dj

Nice response from Tom.

imalone

Jalapeno said:

Tom Petty's view from his blog

http://www.tompetty.com/blog/statement-tom-petty-423041

He's a cool Dude !

Ironically Tom is not petty.

richardhomer

imalone;500349" said:

Ironically Tom is not petty.

True - but he won't back down....

Chalky

It is fundamentally bad for music creation. It mirrors the way legal arguments (or fear of them) have stifled recent developments in electronics such as phones. Imagine the cost of preparing to release a new track being held up because the publishers have to vet it against every song previously released in the world to verify they are not going to get their money nicked off them legally if the track is successful. As someone said at the time of the My Sweet Lord fiasco, its like preventing landscape artists using yellow for flowers because Van Gogh's estate will sue them!

chrisj1602

That's bollocks though isn't it, because yellow flowers are yellow.

Chalky

Yes and the relevant chord tones are likely to feature in a melody as it passes over the relevant chord, and if that chord is a minor7 then it is often going to be followed by a dominant and root, and they in turn are likely to incorporate the relevant chord tones, and so on.... (insert your favourite song-writing guidelines and music theory here). The public ear has a fairly narrow spectrum of familiar melodic and chordal movement - if you want them to pay good money for it. Ask any jazz musician