Sweet Child O Mine a rip off?

lloyd

Has this been done?

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/is_gnrs_sweet_child_o_mine_a_ripoff.html

To my ears it's very similar, I wouldn't have thought it's done intentionally though....

not_the_dj

If Axl/Slash and co. ever sat down and listened to that track and then wrote Sweet Child on the back of it I'll eat my hat.

lloyd

not_the_dj said:

If Axl/Slash and co. ever sat down and listened to that track and then wrote Sweet Child on the back of it I'll eat my hat.

I agree, very similar though. Interesting on the back of the Blurred Lines lawsuit the other month though...Jimmy Page and Plant will be looking over their shoulders if this one gets anywhere in the courts!

Fretwired

not_the_dj said:

If Axl/Slash and co. ever sat down and listened to that track and then wrote Sweet Child on the back of it I'll eat my hat.

You are Paddy Ashdown ....

mike_l

Meh, a bunch of unsuccessful's trying to cash in on someone else.

Common chord progression, common rhythm.

 

bingefeller

It is similar but I don't think Slash and Axl would have heard of this band.   

Fretwired

Why wait until now? Sounds similar but I doubt this is a rip off.

lloyd

Fretwired said:

Why wait until now? Sounds similar but I doubt this is a rip off.

Money troubles? The recent win by the Blurred Lines lawsuit? I hope this isn't going to be the start of something, how many chord progressions are there that sound pleasing to a European ear/scale? I've virtually no theory knowledge but I know there's only a certain amount of combinations that work....

underdog

Isn't the main riff of SCOM essentially a warm up pattern slash used at the time that became a song he hated?

Seems quite a common theme with Slash, Anastasia is another born out of a pattern used to warm up.

not_the_dj

underdog said:

Isn't the main riff of SCOM essentially a warm up pattern slash used at the time that became a song he hated?

That's what he's always said....still he probably nicked that from an obscure Australian B-side as well ;-)

Reverend

The opening lick is pretty similar to a Witchfynde song from their 75 demo.

lloyd

The intro riffs not at issue here I don't think.

sweepy

The riff for SCOM is an old pentatonic exercise from Guitar for the Practising Musician, I don't think Slash has an original bone in his body tbh

not_the_dj

Fretwired said:

not_the_dj said:

If Axl/Slash and co. ever sat down and listened to that track and then wrote Sweet Child on the back of it I'll eat my hat.

You are Paddy Ashdown ....

Just to make it clear it isn't Slash's hat that I'll eat.

Teetonetal

The opening bars brought summer of 69 to my mind.

Yes the verse sounds similar and the little lead line is there too, but we are talking about a pretty bog standard chord progression underpinning it all.

Also the bridge between verse and chorus is an integral part of the G&R song and not here.

It's close but no cigar.

beed84

Why now? And in any case, a lot of songs sound similar to one another.  I bet if you look back to the 70s, there'll be a song out there that sounds like Unpublished Critics.

John_BlackWolf

IIRC Sweet Child was always considered album filler by the label and most of the band...It wasn't released as a single until 11 MONTHS after the album was out.