Myles

Good stuff. What do people think of the original 'Frances Limon' recording, could it assist in demonstrating that music doesn't belong to one artist, instead, many artists today have created, been inspired by, and added to the music we hear from the past? I'm a big satriani fan. But after I bought Jeff Beck's 'Who Else!' album in 1999, which is an electronic guitar album, then heard Satriani's 'Engines of Creation' album in 2000, which was an unusual electronic album for satriani, I realised Satriani must have been influenced by Jeff Beck's entire album. You could inter-change the songs from each and you'd think they are the same artist, same album. Without going off topic, Jeff Beck has been around many many years before Satriani and has influenced a lot of Satriani's work. [ame=http://youtube.com/watch?v=KLt_Hu8bHFc]YouTube - Did Colplay copy Satriani? Did Joe Satriani copy Enanitos Verdes?[/ame]

Was it something like the following? [ame=http://youtube.com/watch?v=KLt_Hu8bHFc]YouTube - Did Colplay copy Satriani? Did Joe Satriani copy Enanitos Verdes?[/ame]

To the original poster, upload your video to either, then update your original post: http://www.putfile.com/ http://www.dailymotion.com/en

Here is another song with the same melody, from 1981, long before Joe Satriani's 'If I could Fly'. Marty Balin - Hearts (1981) (Thanks to the guy on blabbermouth for the link) [ame=http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=vASdN1WZWAM]YouTube - Marty Balin - Hearts[/ame] Sorry Joe, seen you in concert, followed you for more than 20 years, appreciate all your songs right up until 'Crystal Planet', but you are claiming a melody that isn't yours to claim - the music belongs to many artists before you produced it. What else is yours, you invented the internet? PS - Al Gore beat you to it. ;)

[ame=http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=G57CgtX-BsI]YouTube - ENANITOS VERDES - FRANCES LIMON[/ame] I posted this earlier, but thank you for one with more comments. Definitely sounds like the main melody used in 'If I Could Fly'. Joe Satriani has created some amazing work, but 'If I Could Fly' was generic, and not ground-breaking, and does sound like many other songs. Coldplay's song is unique with its whole arrangement. But if we're talking about his song from almost 15 years earlier, 'The Mystical Potato Head Groove Thing', being adapted/borrowed by another band, then we might have a case. Cause that song is unbelievable. [ame=http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=_77Q9bSjPoc]YouTube - Joe Satriani The Mystical Potato Head Groove Thing[/ame]

You are correct. The youtube video comparison has the coldplay song tuned up, say a half-step, and the satriani song tuned down say a half-step, so both are in the exact same key. Bit of manipulation. Anyway, no slagging each other off. This could all be just record companies/managers being greedy, rather than the artist wanting to profit.

So has the youtube clip by the Argentina band Los Enanitos Verdes, and their song 'Frances Limon' already been mentioned? Click on this clip: [ame=http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=cH4gaPHs9Hc]YouTube - Enanitos Verdes - Frances Limon (if I could Fly - Joe Satriani)[/ame] Sounds similar to 'If I could fly' and was recorded a few years ealier. See my post above. What I'm trying to say, bands are influenced by many. Pick apart Satriani songs, and you'll see shades of Jeff Beck all through them. I mean engines of creation was created after Jeff Beck's who else! album. You could compare any number of songs between the two. I think people should relax, leave the suing aside. Satriani could have casually mentioned in an interview, 'hey that popular song, sounds a little like mine' and left it at that. Otherwise, people will pick apart all of Satriani's songs, see where he's been influenced by other blues players, and guys like Zappa, and Beck. The point is, it's very hard to write any 'totally original' song nowadays without it being compared to a ton of other bands and songs. Almost impossible.

I read about this topic on a local news site here. http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,26278,24764327-7484,00.html Same stuff that's already in this thread, however you might not be aware of a video which shows that Satriani might have ripped the melody from an Argentina rock band which recorded the melody two years before Satriani. Anyway, I posted a reply to the news link above, but I thought there are more of you 'fans' and if you haven't heard already, listenhow Satriani may have very well ripped 'If I could fly'. I'm as much of a satriani fan as they come, but reading this stuff is ridiculous, as Coldplay had so much more to the song than just a few notes. This is my post (which is yet to appear, and might not appear): [ame=http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=cH4gaPHs9Hc]YouTube - Enanitos Verdes - Frances Limon (if I could Fly - Joe Satriani)[/ame]