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Points: 10616 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 02 2015 at 13:01
Has been discussed before, I think, but that doesn't matter.
Maybe true, both bands having toured together.
Conscious or subconscious influence? Downright plagiarism? I don't know myself.

It happens more often BTW, like the famous theme on Pink Floyd's "Echoes", the notes going up on the ladder and then down again, later also occurring on Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom Of The Opera  and Rick Wakeman's "Judas Iscariot".
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Points: 2511 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 02 2015 at 15:51
Originally posted by BarryGlibb BarryGlibb wrote:

Originally posted by dr prog dr prog wrote:

We used to know is average by tull standards. They have 200 better tracks


200 better tracks! We used to know is my all time favourite Tull track. What the hell is going on here?

I must have been listening to a different song over the past 45 years.
 
Too straight forward to me lol
Good track though
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Jethro Tull never had a Hotel California. They had a Chateau D'isaster! Tongue
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Points: 17847 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 02 2015 at 20:57
Originally posted by Chris S Chris S wrote:

Eagles owned it with Hotel California......not a contest regardless of plagiarism questionables...

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Points: 394 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 03 2015 at 15:44
The similarities are pretty obvious, but who cares? I actually quite like both songs (and Jethro Tull is my all time favorite band).




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Points: 160 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 05 2015 at 04:04
Who cares? People who believe in protecting their intellectual property.  Copyright laws, etc.  There are laws to protect those that care.  Robert Fripp cares.  If you don't then no one is likely to care.
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Points: 8238 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 09 2015 at 14:37
If they stole it from anyone it's probably the Stones.  "Angie" has an almost identical chord progression.
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Points: 1008 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 09 2015 at 20:31
Originally posted by Chicapah Chicapah wrote:

If they stole it from anyone it's probably the Stones.  "Angie" has an almost identical chord progression.
 
Which means that Angie was stolen from "We Used to Know" as well.
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