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Hemispheres
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Topic: Pink Floyd ripped off Neil Young Posted: August 28 2005 at 21:41 |
listen to the song down by the river by neil young the opening is all most the same as the pink floyd tune breath
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Biggles
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Posted: August 28 2005 at 21:52 |
Not really. It's just E minor and A major. As far as chord progressions go, those two aren't exactly uncommon.
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Trotsky
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Posted: August 29 2005 at 00:33 |
The chords and the tempo do overlap a little, but as Biggles says, that's common enough ... now try and compare Wish You Were Here to Van Morrison's Almost Independence Day (on the Saint Dominic's Preview album) ...
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salisbury steak
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Posted: August 29 2005 at 14:58 |
There are hundreds of thousands of songs in the world, some are going to overlap. Especially the chord progressions (harmony). It is the vocals and solos (melody) that constitute any similarities, IMO.
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Poxx
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Posted: August 29 2005 at 15:23 |
Interesting - searched my Floyd collection for 'Tune Breath', couldn't quite find it. Then I searched the net, 'till I thought of the possibillity of spelling errors, so I seached for 'Tuna Breath'. Surprisingly, I got the same results.
But then, glorious enlightenment shone on me.
'Down By the River' is as similar to 'BREATHE' as meatball crust and...
FLAMINGOS!!!
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Posted: August 29 2005 at 17:32 |
I know both songs and have them original in my collection, but I never heard breathe out of down by the river. Maybe I now listen to Breathe with a new background, LOL.
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: August 29 2005 at 17:54 |
Biggles wrote:
Not really. It's just E minor and A major. As far as chord progressions go, those two aren't exactly uncommon. |
I think that Pink Floyd hold the record of having the most songs based on the dorian mode ...
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fender101
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Posted: August 29 2005 at 22:51 |
I remeber reading an interview with Roger Waters about how this song came about. He said something like" We were just jamming and then someone started playing Em and A and we were all like yeah this is great!".
Somehting like that
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Well McGarnical Billy is dead! They slit his throat from ear to ear!
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