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• bigbrova

  

  33 weeks ago.

  Also when are these shredders gonna give away their effects pedals and shit and start playing pure.Maybe experiment with a few different amps and guitars.EVERY album sounds the same!!I love going to blues and jazz clubs and listen to really talented players who sustain notes by the way the play not by some vibrating humbucker.I'd love to see Joe and Vai put out a album and play strickly raw with no effects.The tones always the same.
  To those who say Joe is a musical genius.He has only had 1 hit song 20 years ago.Cold play have had about 7.Remember when Joe realeased his album when he sang.What a f'ing disaster that was.Hes a great guitarist but a shit house song writer.If you want to look at the facts cold play have out sold joe 50 to 1.That would mean they are the better artist.You can't argue with the facts your honor.

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• bigbrova

  

  33 weeks ago.

  NO NO NO ! Infact joe satriani ripped this tune from numerous 80s songs from foreign countries .Type "more on satriani v coldplay" into you tube and hear it for your self.Joe I love ya bro but your a hypocrite and this makes you look like an ass.
  Now he claims it took him 10 years to write the song.Bullshit Joe.You use that line to get out of being sued from the other artists, who still had it out there 10 years before that.Swallow your pride Satch heads .Shred is dead and Cold play rule!.As much as i don't like cold play but am a fan of viva la vida.If you can sell 50 million records you must be doing something right.Lets face it Every song written can be linked some how to every other song.Whats next .I'm waiting for when a drummer sues for someone using the 4 by 4 beat which he used in some pop song.Although there are similarities they are different songs. I rest my case BOOM!

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• JS1000

  

  39 weeks ago.

  Please. No need to be upset over this. Coldplay and Satriani work for a living. They both bring their music to the people and both will defend their property. However. Joe Satriani has been making music for over 20 years. Breakthrough record "Surfing with the Alien" in 1987. He is a master guitar player/Composer. There is every chance that either Satriani will win or there will be an out of court settlement (i believe). Please check out a bunch of training exercises in Joe Satriani: guitar secrets. from late 80s to 90s these appeared in guitar player magazine. You will see that all his songs have these techniques. There is an exercise called "The eight steps". The exercise is from the 90s i think and it became a song released on the Anthology 2CD in 2003. Similarly his Crystal planet, the fast and furious fun happy CD is tied to the Sad and bluesy Joe Satriani self titled album. Your also find similarities between Super Colossal and Crystal planet and earlier albums. Time machine song has similarities with Flying in a blue dream. "If I could fly" can even be tied to a song on the 1985 Not of this earth. If you listen very very closely to Memories, or even The Snake. (it is a totally different song, but if you keep the "If I could fly" in mind then you will see. The are things common. That is of course not when reading the actual notes which I didn't do. Probably Satriani doesn't know this himself. Most of his songs are interconnected. It took me years to figure out. As I tried to learn guitar parts but had no time to do it from the notes/tabs. I kept on starting with one song and ending with another. The Guitar Secrets book was the key to this. The basic techniques that he uses. The more you learn Satriani's music and exercises the more you will be amazed. When I first heard the cold play song many months ago, I switched the the radio channel, it played frequently and it bugged me because Satriani's song would start playing in my head. I thought whoever this band is has probably partnered with satriani or is a tribute to him. Little did I know that it was Coldplay and now there is a lawsuit. Coldplay may have just heard the Satriani song in a bar or Radio or something. It stuck in their heads. They had possibly had a few drinks and ended up recording it. Joe Satriani has influenced hundreds of thousands or more guitar players around the world (if not half a million). I am disappointed many times by his songs also. Some sad eerie songs. LA sound. not happy but sad. or both at the same time. But you learn to respect Satriani as a True Master musician when you try to play his songs. But you must first hold a single note correctly. This man is indeed a living legend. Its about time that he put up a fight for his music. Which has been copied in the past also. As a last note here, there is also a Satriani song on the Satchfunkilus CD that reminds of a Coldplay technique. Just the technique that coldplay uses frequently. (which has been used from the 60s onwards). Which song is it ? ha ha. Not kidding. I asure you. It is very obvious.

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• eddie0100

  

  40 weeks ago.

  this bullshit with fans calling other bands or other people gay or idiots is retarded just because you dont like something doesnt mean you have to go around be cyber dicks people have there own opinions i support coldplay because i really dont think they would steal someones music like that and just because i think that i'm not gonna go out calling joe satriani gay (like jon11baller calling coldplay gay) so i really dont know what else to say but to all the haters out there FUCK YOU!!!!

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• jon11baller

  

  43 weeks ago.

  anyone who likes coldplay is gay. they're probably the gayest band ever. the reason why satriani took 6 months to finally sue coldplay was because he tried several times to contact them about this matter and they didn't respond. they didn't want to talk to him. why would they refuse to talk to him about it if they didn't steal from him. it took satriani 10 years to write 'if i could fly'. he would add something to the song little by little until it was just right. he spent a long time on that song and then someone copies it and says its their own. that is bull fucking shit. whoever thinks satriani is going after the money are fucking idiots. COLDPLAY is after the money. they took somebody elses work and published it as their own. they are getting so much money from 'viva la vida' its not even funny.

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• jill

  

  46 weeks ago.

  In response to beauty 222. How old are you because odviously you are the one who is a friggin idiot or just very very young and inmature. Joe Satriani is one of the best guitar players alive today and just because he currently does not have songs on the top 40 charts, such as coldplay, does not mean that people do not know who he is. He is a guitar God and anyone who is a true musician knows who joe Satriani is and admires his talents. Is coldplay a true musician? Then he odviously has heard of Joe Satriani. Almost everyone has heard his music wether they realize it or not. Always with you, always with me is one his best songs that dates back to the early 90's and was played on radio stations across america. Summer Song was notably one of his most widely heard songs both on radio and TV. Joe Satriani has been in the studio recording music his entire adult life. Way longer that your precious coldplay. Beauty 222 should know WTF they are talking about before they spuew out garbage. You go Joe...

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• Alefandango

  

  46 weeks ago.

  Listen to Enanitos Verdes, 2005, before Satriani. Sorry, Satriani, dont steal from latinos...
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLt_Hu8bHFc
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL4OCL2r-ZQ

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• jamkeys1

  

  47 weeks ago.

  I bought several Joe Satriani albums long before Coldplay ever existed as a band. Satriani doesn't need to sue Coldplay for money. He's way too well off for that. You know, Coldplay could've at least paid for the right to use the tune. It's just a matter of musical integrity. And sure, chord progressions and arrangements and melodies are are used over and over again ( hit pop patterns get repeated constantly because they sell songs). But this is a blatant ripoff.

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• beauty222

  

  47 weeks ago.

  Joe Satriani your a friggin idiot. Your going to go and do a whole lawsuit for a song u created way back when that no one other than crazy drug addict guitar players listen too. I mean coldplay is probably the nicest set of guys you could ever possibly meet and your going to go and sue them because your ass can't go into a studio and record your own damn songs and make money, you have to go for someone big and take their money that they earned. I'm sorry to say but if you went around the world and asked people if they knew who coldplay was they would say "ofcourse we know who coldplay is" but if you asked people who Joe satriani is, they wouldn't have any friggin clue. Just because they have more talent and play better than u doesn't mean u have to go and try to make free money when they work there asses off for their songs. And all the people saying "oh its not about the money" bullshit, it is always about the money because if it wasn't you wouldn't be suing for what and how much your suing for. GO IN THE STUDIO AND MAKE ANOTHER DAMN ALBUM LIKE EVERYONE ELSE AND MAKE YOUR OWN DAMN MONEY JOE and LEAVE COLDPLAY TO DO WHAT THEY DO BEST AND BETTER THAN YOU EVER WILL.

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• BenRobinson1

  

  47 weeks ago.

  I heard both songs. It is a copy. No problem, just take care of Joe.
  Next time, get a co writer.
  

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