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roneRenée realized today that the melody in Santana's "Love of my Life" (off Supernatural) is lifted, note for note, from Brahms's Third Symphony's third movement. She played for us the Brahms, and then the Santana, and she's right... not only has Santana lowered himself to selling ladies' shoes and releasing crap featuring the flavor of the month on vocals, but he's also a plagiarist. Sad.
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Date: 2004-02-29 09:41 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-02-29 10:05 pm (UTC)1) Attribution, dammit. Sting lifted Prokofiev in "Russians" but he attributed the phrase (and it's just a tiny little phrase)
2) The melody goes on and on. It's not a quote, it's a freakin' paragraph.
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Date: 2004-02-29 10:07 pm (UTC)Fair enough.
Good job
Date: 2004-02-29 10:32 pm (UTC)Thib ;-)
Re: Good job
Date: 2004-02-29 11:28 pm (UTC)Who let Irony Man in here?
Re: Good job
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Date: 2004-03-01 11:02 pm (UTC)satana and brahms
Date: 2004-03-03 03:56 pm (UTC)Carlos says " there's a story behind " Love of my Life " w/Dave Mattews. When my father passed away two or three years ago, I didn't listen to music for four days -- that's a long time for me. I was picking up my son from school, and I thought, okay, time to listen to some radio. I turned on a classical station, and the first thing I heard was this melody.The melody just stayed with me. They didn't say who the composer was, but I thought it was Strauss. I wanted to find out what this was, so I went to the classical music section at Tower Records and said , "All I have is this melody." I sang it , and the guy goes ...."Oh yeah. Brahms " Concerto No. 2." .They get me the CD, and that's the song! I said, " Damn, you guys are good!" So I brought this melody to Dave Matthews in New York. I said, "I hear this with a 1999 bass." I also recited these lines: " You're the love of my life You're the breath of my prayers Take my hand, lead me there With you is where I want to be ". Dave sat down and -- wrote the song lyrics right there on the spot, and we recorded it. If Brahms were alive today, he would swing it, too, because it's what's happening. Listen to Dave's phrasing -- he sang it like Billie Holiday or Frank Sinatra -- way behind the beat. It's that human thing. Only squares sing in the middle. The album " Spellbinder " by Gabor Szabo. That is a must for anybody who plays guitar. He's the person who I credit with pulling me out of B.B. King.......B.B. had us in a headlock -- Michael Bloomfield , Peter Green -- we were all under his spell.
Re: satana and brahms
Date: 2004-03-03 04:01 pm (UTC)Re: satana and brahms
Date: 2004-03-03 04:23 pm (UTC)Of course, I took the embarrassingly passionate and nearly inarticulate fan page at face value, assuming that because it's in print, it must be true. I didn't look for the source of the quote, to make sure it was valid, before posting it here. I certainly didn't check to see that the quote came from a UK guitar magazine that, for whatever reason, was much lower in the google rankings than the nearly inarticulate fan page.
http://www.totalguitar.co.uk/print.asp?ID=462&type=ART
Luckily, you would never give me any benefit of the doubt, and saw through my laziness and poor etiquette right quick!
--plambert
Re: satana and brahms
Date: 2004-03-03 04:30 pm (UTC)I like that Santana thinks (incorrectly) that it's Concerto #2. Also, comparing Maná to The Police is deranged... comparing them to No Doubt or Incubus, that's probably closer.