Just throwing this one in there...but I'd like to ask Dr May where he got the idea for that guitar melody in Love Kills ..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inGaWCLCPTk
my guess?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP9xMobANJM
Dr May, hang your plagiaristic afro in shame
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At least he's not plagiarising Lady Gaga, Britney or Eminem.
we should be grateful, i suppose...but just the same it's definitely a "lift" from Zep's melody
That's bad. Brian.
Bruno P. wrote:
That's bad. Brian.
you're being far too generous. i honestly don't think "bad" does it justice. think about it. the song in question has been around since 1968, Brian's been moving in rock circles all of that time - 46 years!!!
I've heard that song FOUR times this week on planet rock alone...surely he's heard it on the radio or his own stereo equipment a few thousand times in the last 46 years....and nowhere ....NOWHERE in the 2014 "Love Kills" process did he think...."you know, I'm sure i've heard this little ditty before"....
Pretty good version, i don`t like the autotune they used on some bits on the chorus.. But the arrangment is beautiful, and i really really love the vocals!
It's a total Zeppelin rip, but considering Zep's history of stealing every musical idea not actually nailed down and covered in a concrete dome, it is totally justice served to them. Still, no bonus points for BM on this one.
To be honest I cant find any similarity at all...
BradMay wrote:
I don`t like the autotune they used on some bits on the chorus..
No kidding. It was beyond unnecessary! What the actual shit!
winterspelt wrote: To be honest I cant find any similarity at all...
There's a reason for that. Because it's not. A similar picking pattern on an acoustic guitar does not make for a "total Zep ripoff." Try 'White Queen' if you really want to go for the ripoff, as it's almost the exact same chord progression in the verses as the Zep song (which they didn't write, BTW).
Watch the first minute of this for a small indication of how much that chord progression has really been used:
http://youtu.be/Qvyep4vU1hU
:-)
Sebastian wrote:
At least he's not plagiarising Lady Gaga, Britney or Eminem.
You forgot the Beeb.
«It's only a bloody record, people get so excited about these things» >Freddie Mercury - 5/6/1982
Brian Maybe wrote:
the Zep song (which they didn't write, BTW).
That's a good point... if he's actually plagiarising, he's not plagiarising Page, the same way someone lifting the bass riff from Under Pressure is not plagiarising Vanilla Ice.
FreddieCat wrote:
Sebastian wrote:
At least he's not plagiarising Lady Gaga, Britney or Eminem.
You forgot the Beeb.
He was Freddie's favourite singer.
Brian Maybe wrote:There's a reason for that. Because it's not. A similar picking pattern on an acoustic guitar does not make for a "total Zep ripoff."
winterspelt wrote: To be honest I cant find any similarity at all...
Watch the first minute of this for a small indication of how much that chord progression has really been used:
http://youtu.be/Qvyep4vU1hU
You've lumped two separately made points together to suit your argument.
but just to reitterate - as topic starter i never mentioned "total zep ripoff" or "chord progression" - i referred to the melody. and anyone who listens to this version of LK and Zep's BIGLY should easily be able to hear the lift from the melody.
last time i checked a "pattern" in a song is in essence part of the melody, so a "similar picking pattern on an acoustic guitar" would constitute a melody surely?
Where's our resident Zep expert when we need him ?
brENsKi wrote:
Just throwing this one in there...but I'd like to ask Dr May where he got the idea for that guitar melody in Love Kills ..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inGaWCLCPTk
my guess?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP9xMobANJM
Dr May, hang your plagiaristic afro in shame
the song was written by Anne Bredon, and originally recorded by Joan Baez in 1962.Than....what now...who stole what??
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