Steal or borrow?

[Niels (Mod)]

Okay! I'll give it a shot, and try to knock Scott of the "first place":



Sometimes you can hear when musicians steal or borrow from each other. Do you have some examples? I'll start:

It has allways "annoyed" me a bit, that I think that Pete Townshend borrowed the guitar-intro to "Pinball Wizard" from this song, or did he? Was he first? I don't really know. They're both from 1969, but imo, they sound about the same.



Anyone else has some examples?

[Niels (Mod)]

YES!!!! I'm at the top again!! I'll guess it's going to be close, Scott?!

[Scott]

Get a goods night rest and see what happens!!!?

[Niels (Mod)]

Yeah, but you've got every chance of winning this, because when it's 7PM "over there", it's 2AM where I am, and by that time, I've been sleeping at least 2½ hours, BUT I'll give you some competition, because I'm going to start up VOTW today, instead of tomorrow he he.....

[Jon]

Umm...hello? You guys forget about me?

[Niels (Mod)]

Hmmm, I'll guess, I've found the "answer" myself on google:

The famous guitar riff was sampled by The Shocking Blue on their 1969 hit "Venus," which was covered by Bananarama in 1986.

[Niels (Mod)]

How about this one:



The riff sounds allmost the same to me. This time, I KNOW, that Peter Green was the first one, but did Malcom (or Angus?) borrow or steal?

[Niels (Mod)]

Kurt Cobain admitted, that he stole Nirvana's most famous riff from "More than a feeling":

[RJhog (Admin)]

Ace stole the guitar solo from Robbie:



Then Cinder Road borrowed a line of the solo:

[Niels (Mod)]

Yeah, I thought about Ace too, but you beat me to it.

[Jon]

The one to end it all...

[Phil]

Here's the one that always comes to mind:

Foghat--Honey Hush
Aerosmith--Train kept a rollin'

Forgive me, I don't know how to add the youtube files. Anyone feel free to add them if you'd like.



I added 'em for you Phil. I'm glad to do it, but let me know if you want me to show you how.

RJhog

[RJhog (Admin)]

Those do sound alike. Which one came first?