Exactly the same.īlack Crowes Rich Robinson took his Keith Richards influence “Twice As Hard”. But the song and lead break sound totally different to what Gilmour did, and it’s the same notes and same phrasing.

Michael Schenker took a David Gilmour lick from “Hey You” and used it in “Lost Horizons”. This is seen as paying homage to his influence. In the outro solo of “Runaround”, Eddie Van Halen quotes a piece of Paul Kossof’s classic solo from Free’s “All Right Now”. And the Metallica song sounds nothing like Rush or Bleak House in the end. Plus they took the whole intro/verse section from a Bleak House song called “Rainbow Warrior”.

Metallica took a progression and a feel from “Tom Sawyer” and used it for the Bridge section of “Welcome Home (Sanitarium)”. Miles Davis basically took ideas from early blues recordings and turned them into something modern. And he even mentions how the chord sequence from “It Gets Better” was taken from a Lightning Hopkins song. In the liner notes for Miles Davis “Star People” album, he mentions how the bass line in “Come And Get It” is taken from an old Otis Redding lick. And it’s perfectly okay and very common to take an existing idea and turn it into something new. When ideas appear in ones mind, quite often they are unconsciously inspired by a piece of music the artist has heard. It is possible and part of music history to borrow without “stealing”. Everything, in any artform, are ALL inspired by something or someone who touched on the same matter, subject or concept. In every case of copying, I am sure people could find hundreds of other songs that have something similar. There are thousands of songs that have that same theme. The fact both songs have similar themes about a person dying is irrelevant. In a song that has many verses, is six similar lines copying or influence? – Iron Maiden, “Hallowed Be Thy Name” (1982) Life down here is just a strange illusion When you know that your time is close at hand Life down there is just a strange illusion “Hallowed Be Thy Name” has six lines similar to “Life’s Shadow” from Beckett. When is inspiration/influence just that and when is inspiration/influence copying? Harrison on The Record Vault: Deep Purple… 2021 – The 50/50 List I’m Still Investing Time In.2021 – Released Too Late In The Year To Listen To Properly.The Week In Destroyer Of Harmony History – December 19 to December 25.The Record Vault: Deep Purple – Bombay Calling.The Record Vault: Deep Purple – In Concert With The London Symphony Orchestra.Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

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