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Manchester based original indie band Random White:
https://www.facebook.com/RandomWhite
https://twitter.com/randomwhite1
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
So the first four chord progressions are the same, that's it. Big deal.
Are Ratt about to sue GN'R for ripping Nightrain from Back for More, or Sweet Child from Scene of the Crime?
I think we should turn this into a 'this sounds very much like that' thread.
We'll be hear for eternity, but it is such fun.
I think this case depends on what is being alleged, because if you stripped both tracks of their existing arrangements and played them in a court room on a piano, then I'm sure as many differences than similarities are apparent.
What I think is that at best it's a case of 'inspired by' or 'got the general notion for song a from song b'. However proving even that would be very hard. IMO none of this is so clear cut as other such cases in music history.
Such as ....( edited should any lawyers be reading).
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.
Manchester based original indie band Random White:
https://www.facebook.com/RandomWhite
https://twitter.com/randomwhite1
There's certainly no bitterness or any sense of plagiarism attached to my view on it, although I do sometimes allude, in a joking way, to accepting it as a kind of tribute. It's a bit like this tribute Rolex that I'm wearing.
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.
According to Wikipedia:
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.