Guitarist Satriani sues Coldplay

[Vim Fuego]

Well, a few people on you_tube have been posting edits of both these songs spliced together... They do sound similar!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7766683.stm

Basically Coldplay's latest hit (used on Apple adverts) Viva La Vida sounds a lot like Satch's If I Could Fly from 2004.
What do you think?

Jim

Sorry, someone else just posted a new thread on this topic.. close please...

[Clonetool]

ha ha beat you by a minute on this thread

[Vim Fuego]

Yeah and you even replied while I was stating how useless my duplicate was!
Jim...

[Clonetool]

Life is funny. I had a Renault Fuego at one time.

[IbanezFreak777]

Nuts, do you reckon he decided to sue after seeing the Youtube clip or he knew it straight away once he heard the track. I would assume he would have heard the Viva La Vida and went, hey thats my melody.

I wonder how they prove that Coldplay stole the melody.

[Myst and rain]

Maybe Joe just called them on the phone and asked them? It'd be kind of weird if they had said "Yeah we did steal it. You got a problem with that? ". lol

Anyway, if they proved they actually stole the melody then I could understand this sue more. But still... It's kind of a waste of time, imo.

[DEADTUNES666]

Originally Posted by IbanezFreak777

I wonder how they prove that Coldplay stole the melody.

I don't think the laws have to prove whether it was intentional or not, just who had the copyright first, and then if the notes per measure warrant a monetary remuneration.

[smooth55]

While it's entirely possible that they just came up with that on their own, I would think it highly unlikely that that's the case. I also think he wouldn't decide to sue without having a pretty good idea that he would win. Looking at previous bands that have sued over this or that with regard to their music (read Metallica) I don't think Joe would want to totally ruin his image without a solid case for winning.

[jaxadam]

Check out this youtube comment:

Its funny seeing all these Joe Satriani fans and their uber-aggressive comments that, in some cases, don't even mention Coldplay. Time to lay off the coke, kids. And here's a bit of information for you: Joe Satriani isn't all that good on a guitar.

The bad thing is, they actually sound pretty good over top of each other! I think Joe and Coldplay ought to get together and jam this one, and everybody wins!

[kotornut]

Originally Posted by jaxadam

Check out this youtube comment:

Its funny seeing all these Joe Satriani fans and their uber-aggressive comments that, in some cases, don't even mention Coldplay. Time to lay off the coke, kids. And here's a bit of information for you: Joe Satriani isn't all that good on a guitar.

Yet another reason why comments on youtube are about as useful as crap in an outhouse.

[Myst and rain]

Yeah, there is a truckload of stupid comments on YouTube. It's horrible.

[elcid]

Let's get this down to 1 thread.

http://www.jemsite.com/forums/f27/sa...lay-84452.html