Coincidental or intentional? RHCP/Yes material.

[Joe Nerve]

Please listen to the following 2 clips and tell me if you think the similarity is coincidental or intentional. I'm not a big Fruciante fan, but if it's intentional I might like him a little more for some inexplicable reason.

RHCP listen at 4:47: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufd45aEnH7k

YES listen at 8:57: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e96V...eature=related and from 1:00 - 1:30 here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-seC7cOHQc . Pretty sure the exact licks fruciante is playing lie somewhere within that half hour song, but I got tired lookin for it.

I could do the same with some KISS stuff and Fruciante, but I forget where.

[Joe Nerve]

Does nobody on this earth care about this but me! I feel so alone. And some people even think tales from topographic oceans is one of the worst albums ever recorded. Ok. I'll leave this be after this one bump. So be it. .

[johndough247]

Originally Posted by Joe Nerve

Does nobody on this earth care about this but me! I feel so alone. And some people even think tales from topographic oceans is one of the worst albums ever recorded. Ok. I'll leave this be after this one bump. So be it. .

I'm pretty sure someone cares...they're prolly not on talkBASS right now...hmmm...go figure

[BassBob2112]

Originally Posted by Joe Nerve

Does nobody on this earth care about this but me! I feel so alone. And some people even think tales from topographic oceans is one of the worst albums ever recorded. Ok. I'll leave this be after this one bump. So be it. .

I didn't even listen to the clip from Yes, but I did ff to the 447 mark on the RHCP clip, and I instantly knew what you were talking about. It DOES sound like Steve Howe from Topographic Oceans, very much so.

I'm guessing it's coincidence.

I love Tales from Topographic Oceans, too.

[Hoover]

Ironically, I always thought Flea's bassline to "Give It Away" was a...well, not so much a rip-off as an inverted, deconstructed homage to Chris Squire's bassline to "Total Mass Retain" (the second movement from "Close To The Edge"). So maybe there is a deeper RHCP<->Yes connection?

[benjammin420]

Frusciante is a big YES/How fan, and he quotes licks regularly

[Jumbotron]

Yeah, I remember that in an old GP interview, Frusciante mentioned quoting Siberian Khartu in a solo somewhere.

[Febs]

I have to think that's intentional.

[SteveC]

Imitation is the highest form of flattery, right?

We all have influences. Intentional or not, you are bound to "quote" them now and again. I'm pretty sure anyone listening to me play knows exactly when I was growing up and learning bass and who I was listening to at the time.

[Rickengeezer]

Wrong album side for that particular poaching....listen to 2:00 on here, and you'll find that riff:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w6jzRKz_m8

vs.

RHCP listen at 4:47: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufd45aEnH7k

[Joe Nerve]

Originally Posted by Rickengeezer

Wrong album side for that particular poaching....listen to 2:00 on here, and you'll find that riff:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w6jzRKz_m8

vs.

RHCP listen at 4:47: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufd45aEnH7k

I believe you may get the award here. I knew I heard it in my head, actually thought it might have been in the ancient, but got tired of searching for the exact lick.

I am one of the few people who think tales is one of the greatest albums ever recorded. Takes lots of listening though, and a strong desire to figure out what they're singing about. Pot helped a lot back then too I guess. I don't do that stuffs no more though.

[Darko74]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIvjxI6QGxE

[Joe Nerve]

I find it interesting that when people are in a band for a long time together they often start to act a lot like, sing a lot like, or resemble each other in one way or another. Notice the flea in fruciante. And I think he's still on drugs.