Here’s the second Red Hot Chili Peppers post on the site (the first). This time it’s a fishy borrowing of a Budgie riff from 1973. RHCP’s 1999 song “Around The World” opens with a nearly identical riff played on bass.
Budgie - "Breadfan" (1973)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Around the World" (1999)
This was sent in by Blaire.
Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook. (Darby Bannard)
Hi Steve! Wow, you’ve just pouding the site with a lot of quotes on originality. You have quite a collection!
And, true to form, none of it is original material.
And that’s the point. Thank you. One can appricate one idea begets the next idea.
Is it ok to take one idea nail it to another idea to make a new idea?
Steve, if that was NOT ok then there would be no progress. Since you bring this up I would like to take this opportunity to clarify my intentions for this site. I don’t necessarily claim that these artists are doing anything wrong (there are a few exceptions) but it it serves as an outlet for people like myself who need to know where a song idea might have originated. It has saved many music listeners nights of anguish trying to piece together something they think they might have heard before.
I agree,
The site is a good tool for that reason. Wonder in the future that could be mapped in a visual way. Anywho, what’s up with “tis my country” vs Britian’s national anthem?
According to The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1992 (and probably other editions), the words for My Country ’tis of Thee were written by Rev. Samuel Francis Smith, set to a melody he found in, of all places, a German songbook, unaware that it was the tune for the British National Anthem, which is attributed to John Bull in 1662, I think, but Wikipedia states that it is similar to several plainchant melodies, back when accidentals where at the discretion of the player.
There are many examples of songs with the same melody, such as in folk music, rock, pop, blues, jazz, anything you can think of, but I suppose what is unusual about this one is that it is two national songs for different countries. Then again, American culture is loosely based on British culture, although there are many aspects which have developed since, some unique, some from other cultures and the same goes for many countries originally colonised by Britain, many of them closer to British culture.