Tom Petty Vs RHCP

[fourstarfizzle]

http://www.wgmd.com/SOUNDS/FEATURES/051706-petty.mp3

Have THE RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS ripped off TOM PETTY's famous hit 'Mary Jane's Last Dance'? What is being dubbed as "damning evidence" has been made available in MP3 format courtesy of the Dan Gaffney Morning Show on American radio station WGMD - you be the judge...

[TheArsenal]

Woah!

That's an exact match. That is shocking.

[YI]

Fucking shit...I hate the song anyway.

However the fact he said "The Vocal Medley" instead of "Vocal Melody" makes me wish it was false.

[GA!]

Its 100% proof. And the DJ didn't even pick up that Indiana is mentioned in Dani California anyway!!!

[therockbox]

Everyone's ripping off Lordi now anyway.

[GA!]

Everyone's ripping off Lordi now anyway.

No, that's just an excuse used by the ugly people these days...

[Dan]

Wow.

Big deal.

What's the big problem?

[apsham]

You don't steal something without even noting it...

[Dan]

Plenty of artists do it.

They just get away with it.

[apsham]

Well, they shouldn't. And besides there's differences most times, this is an EXACT copy.

Edited May 23, 2006 by Apple Shampoo

[Liam]

Plus bands have been taken to court about these kinda things.....Killing Joke did it to Nirvana IIRC.

[Fanku Kaibutsu]

So that explains why I actually kinda liked Dani California, Though I think they speed up Mary Jane to make it match. And is it me, or are talk radio hosts the most annoying people on earth?

[Enter Blue Guy]

People are just picking this up now? I put it together after I heard Dani California for the third or forth time. I figured it was just a tribute to Tom Petty or something.

[apsham]

I think they may have sped it up a tiny bit as well, but it's still too big of a coincidence to be not ripped directly.

[K]

Bahah you need to give your credit card details to sign up to the free message board for RHCP? No thanks.

[apsham]

Yeah, I tried to go taunt their fans myself to find that out.

[K]

I just wanted to see the responses. The guy on the show said he would post in on their website.

[Scott McFly]

Wow, that's a bit ridiculous that they've just blatantly ripped that off. What are the chances they could get sued for that?

On another note, do all US radio stations start with the letter W? And do they all have at least one DJ who sounds like that? Seriously, that could be any generic radio station in the US.

[K]

Generally it's K to one side of the Mississippi (West?) and W to the other.

[GA!]

Plenty of artists do it.

They just get away with it.

Most of them are "influences" - another way for bands like Puddle Of Mudd to rip off Nirvana. But in the case of this, the sound of the song is too unique for plagarism to be accidental.

I get the strange feeling to blame John Fruscinate (sp?) for some reason...