Thread: Coldplay Plagiarized Joe Satriani?

I find the fact that bands like Coldplay and The Verve who sounds like they are always complaining and whining, I find the fact that they are busted for plagiarizing ironic and hilarious.

Let Coldplay create a song that sounds like "MOM! They say I am copying another guy, get daddy to talk to them"
That is the picture I get.

G$ do you really think that they actually stole it?

I don't really care one way or the other, but it would really be surprising to me for a band with the notoriety/fame that Coldplay enjoys to actively go out and actually "steal" the melody for a song.

Maybe I'm naive, but I'm more apt to think that two decent musicians came up with the same chord progression on their own, but Satriani did it first.

Won't help Coldplay's case at all, they will still lose it, but I just don't see a band that big intentionally stealing stuff like that and putting it out there as the lead song for an album.

Originally Posted by NightTrainLayne

G$ do you really think that they actually stole it?

I don't really care one way or the other, but it would really be surprising to me for a band with the notoriety/fame that Coldplay enjoys to actively go out and actually "steal" the melody for a song.

Maybe I'm naive, but I'm more apt to think that two decent musicians came up with the same chord progression on their own, but Satriani did it first.

Won't help Coldplay's case at all, they will still lose it, but I just don't see a band that big intentionally stealing stuff like that and putting it out there as the lead song for an album.

Its not uncommon for a musician to have heard a riff and then subconciously use the riff without realizing what he had done. But, i have no idea if any Coldplay member is a Satch fan or not. Never the less, the riff/melody caught someone's attention enough and it all spiraled from there. Could they have come up with the same riff on their own? Maybe. I just dont know how they would go about proving it was.

Originally Posted by Northman

Its not uncommon for a musician to have heard a riff and then subconciously use the riff without realizing what he had done. But, i have no idea if any Coldplay member is a Satch fan or not. Never the less, the riff/melody caught someone's attention enough and it all spiraled from there. Could they have come up with the same riff on their own? Maybe. I just dont know how they would go about proving it was.

Well, as I said it doesn't matter as far as the case goes. Satriani owns that music, and however they came up with it I think they lose the case.

I'm just curious more about motive to actively steal it. I don't see it, and would give them the benefit of the doubt, but they'll still owe Satriani a ton of royalties.

Originally Posted by NightTrainLayne

Well, as I said it doesn't matter as far as the case goes. Satriani owns that music, and however they came up with it I think they lose the case.

I'm just curious more about motive to actively steal it. I don't see it, and would give them the benefit of the doubt, but they'll still owe Satriani a ton of royalties.

My guess is it wasnt intentional. I used to play songs in my head from my favorite bands only to say to myself "what if they slowed down this riff or made it faster" and tried to make it sound like it would in my head. Im not even a musician and i would do that. For years i was wondering how Gary Numan's "Cars" would sound in a metal enviroment. So when Fear Factory did it as a cover it sounded much like i thought it would. So i do believe this may just be a case where one member heard something from Satch that stuck in his head which he may of interpreted later on as a riff of his own. I could be wrong, but i like you find it hard to believe they would purposely copyright someone's else's material. But then again, we did have Milli Vanilli at one point.

I don't doubt it, Joe Sat is top 5 all time guitarists in my book.

If Coldplay wasnt such a gaggle of fags, I dont think Joe would have such a problem with it

Originally Posted by CoachChaz

If Coldplay wasnt such a gaggle of fags, I dont think Joe would have such a problem with it

Funniest thing I read all day Coach, LMAO.

I was listening to the "History of Howard Stern" yesterday and he was replaying some of his clips from a stint where he was on Hollywood Squares.

They played the theme song, and it immediately hit me that it sounded eerily similar to these other two songs. ..

Take a listen for yourself. I think it's funny.

Coldplay/Satriani: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvB9Pj9Znsw


The New Hollywood Squares: http://www.televisiontunes.com/New_H...res_(The).html