Stolen Riffs

"Band on the Run" was released in 1973. "Limelight" was released in 1981. How do you figure Sir Paul and company swiped that riff?

Same with Brown and Bowie.

 

yeah, I've heard that- the guitar line is very similar too. never knew which came first....

others;
Nirvana -"Come as You are", taken from Killing Joke's "Eighties".
Elastica- "Waking up", from The Stranglers' "no more heroes" (the Stranglers got 50% credits via settlement)
Elastica- "mad dog", bassline from The Stranglers' "nice n' Sleazy".
Elastica- "Connection", from Wire's "Three girl rhumba".
Papa Roach- "Last resort", from Iron Maiden's "Genghis Khan".

 

I have brain cramps all the time, warwicknut. Usually they're considerably more embarrassing than this one. The older you get the bigger your screwups are

cheers,

allan

 

Incognito borrowed a lot from Billy Cobham's Spectrum, don't remember the names of the songs, though.

 

The "Timmy & The Lords of the Underworld" song from the Timmy 2000 episode of Southpark is almost note-for-note the intro to Rush's "Spirit of Radio"... just played different rhythmically.

 

Hey Mr. Andrews, how did you get "Last Resort" from "Genghis Khan"? I listened to them both but I can't hear the main riff from the Papa Roach song in the Iron Maiden one.

---EDIT---

Just listened to the song again, can't believe I missed it.

 

The opening riff from "blitzkreig bop" by the ramones was used in "last caress" by the misfits.

 

Play crazy train's main guitar riff slow... remind you of anything? Sweet Dreams are made of these...

 

Smash Mouth completely ripped off the Doors song 'Soul Kitchen' with their song 'Cant Get Enough Of You Baby'.
Also the riff from 'Waiting For The Worms' on Pink Floyds 'The Wall' is suspiciously similar to the Doors 'Five To One'.
The Doors have been accused of ripping off the Kinks 'All Day And All Of The Night' in the song 'Hello I Love You', and I gotta agree, the riff is very similar.
Jim

 

Massive Attack sampled this on their UK hit "Safe from Harm" , but they gave Billy Cobham a writing credit - I think this was probably good for both artists in terms of reviving interest amongst people who were too young to have bought the album first time around.

So Billy Cobham was quite popular in the 70s but had dropped out of public view a bit; however interest picked up over here, when he got sampled by a lot of rap artists.

 

Back on the main topic, there is a RadioHead track where the main guitar riff is almost a perfect copy of Status Quo's 60s psychadelia hit "Pictures of MatchStick Men" - but I think most of their fans have never heard this!!

 

Hey, what was that band that came out in the late eighties - early nineties that sounded almost exactly like Led Zeppelin? Gary Moore wrote a song about them called Led Clones in which Ozzy Osborne sang.

 

Kingdom Come?

 

Smash, the part I personally was talking about was the guitar "solo". In "Genghis Khan", it starts at 1:46.

 

That's the one.

 

Do you mean stolen as in the riff is the exact same riff, or that they are similar?

Music has been around for thousands and thousands of years (maybe even millions?). You've got to think that somewhere along the line, some "riffs" are eventually gonna get played with the same notes and in the same way.