kids these days don't listen to classical music, anyway

[rone]

Renée 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.

Comments

Re: satana and brahms

[plambert.livejournal.com]

You mean the part where you said you googled and found it, but included no URL, and someone replied saying that they weren't able to find it? Yeah, I scrolled down that far.

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

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

You're gonna have to work harder than that... but it's a start.

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.