Comments on: Did Coldplay rip off Joe Satriani?

By: Conde

Conde — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 19:15:42 +0000

lol you must know a lot about music… NOT!
the harmonic understanding of satriani exceeds that of coldpay for about 1000% man.

By: SamK

SamK — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 22:03:18 +0000

@ Walrusgajoob

You’re kidding right? You have to be. If you like Coldplay, that’s fine. But you can’t seriously be arguing that Coldplay are better and more unique than Joe Satriani. That has to be one of the most ignorant statements I’ve read in a long time.

By: Joe Sucktriani

Joe Sucktriani — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 01:32:31 +0000

HAHAHAHA… I love this response, even though I am not big a fan of Satriani. I still agree with everything you said.

Re: Original post… I was in agreement until he mentioned cold play being in any way, shape or form “unique”. That made me barf in my mouth, like their music does us both.

Kudos

By: ML

ML — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 07:22:52 +0000

I recognize this post is years old, but I just had to comment on the ignorance here. If you’d listened to half of Satriani’s discography, you’d realize he has more musical talent in his pinky than that piss-poor excuse of a band Coldplay could ever sell their pathetic souls for. Further, did you know that Joe Satriani is responsible for such guitarists as Kirk Hammet, among others, including Steve Vai? And if Coldplay’s music is so unique compared to Satriani’s, why does Satch improvise every piece he’s written, to some extent or another, in each performance? I bet Coldplay doesn’t–I can’t back that statement up because whenever I hear them I have to pull off on the side of the road to vomit, so I certainly wouldn’t watch their concerts. Chew on that for awhile, get some musical education behind yourself, then post about how much better processed, re-processed, then re-re-processed the pop industry’s autotune-infested genre is than instrumental.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 02:58:52 +0000

As I recall, George Harrison got sued successfully for “ripping off” from “He’s So Fine” by the Chiffons.

While I agree that CP’s riff does sound awful like the 00:50 piece of this track, nonetheless, there are only so many ways to put notes together and a whole lot of people are doing it, and… not a lot of people are listening to other people’s work as they try to make their own.

Leave it to the lawyers but I say, unless the pages are lifted word-for-word, ya don’ts gotta case, counsellor.

By: Moe

Moe — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:51:20 +0000

You all seem to lose the point. It is called COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT. If Coldplay went to Satriani and requested usage and payed the RIGHTS fee all would be fine. Musician make a living off of residuals and rights of usage fees. Having worked with musicians most of my life and being a professional photographer myself, the copyrights laws are what protect our income achieved from our creative talents.

By: Thorn

Thorn — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:44:21 +0000

Keep in mind people, before hating on any musicians, that its the money grabbing record companies who call these shots. I doubt whether Joe could give a damn.

By: Joe Chicken Sarnie

Joe Chicken Sarnie — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:33:08 +0000

Check the following for side-by-side music comparisons:
http://gawker.com/5103189/joe-satriani-sues-coldplay-for-ownership-of-years-most-annoying-melody

By: Joe Chicken Sarnie

Joe Chicken Sarnie — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:11:27 +0000

I often teased my sister for liking Coldplay by calling them Blandplay. I don’t despise them. I simply cannot get into their middle-of-the-road music. Listening to them on the car radio is fine. But I wouldn’t buy it.
It would be interesting to know if any wannabe teenage rock guitarist played the ‘I Wanna Fly’ melody to their friends who were also Coldplay fans. How many would applaud them for mistakenly believing they were hearing a rocked-up version of ‘Viva la Vida’?
I get the ‘can’t copyright chord progression’ rule, but the melody is too similar to dismiss. Whether you like him or not, if he retracts his claim then it’s open season for (c)rappers everywhere to butcher every song ever recorded.
And to all Coldplay fans: As a bass player who enjoys playing guitar ocassionally and is a big fan of Joe Satriani. Not all fans are as over-zealous and childish as some of the ‘Joe is best’ and ‘Coldplay are rubbish’ comments on this page make us out to be.

By: JPMBZ

JPMBZ — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:56:24 +0000

If you don’t think cold play ripped of Joe, watch this.