Jane's Addiction derivitives

[Lance]

Ain't no Right, main riff derived from Fela Kuti "Zombie" 1977
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBgewcFh-cg[/youtube]


Intro to Ocean size derived(plagiarized) from Cream "I'm so Glad" 1966
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3GIQ86eu6c[/youtube]

As I find more I will post them here.

[Lance]

"Three Days" drum pattern derived from David Bowie "Panic in Detroit" Re-recorded Version - Scary Monsters 1980
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR8dvjSkGe4[/youtube]

[Jasper]

First, let me say that I'd like to see more songs posted with similarities to Jane's songs. I think it would be fun.

With that in mind, I'd argue that some things being somewhat similar to earlier things doesn't mean that the newer things were derived directly from the earlier things.

The Cream comparison is a popular and fairly plausible theory. The other two seem pretty dubious. I bet if we really wanted we could find things even more similar to those Jane's songs mentioned, and I'm sure we could find multiple precedents for the riffs and rhythms in those Fela and Bowie tunes. I mean, just as a quick example, the overall rhythm of Three Days is very similar to the famous Bo Diddely beat, but of course the Bo Diddley beat was much like earlier things:

Bo Diddley was well known for the "Bo Diddley beat," a rumba-like beat similar to "hambone", a style used by street performers who play out the beat by slapping and patting their arms, legs, chest, and cheeks while chanting rhymes. Somewhat resembling "shave and a haircut, two bits" beat, Diddley came across it while trying to play Gene Autry's "(I've Got Spurs That) Jingle, Jangle, Jingle". Three years before Bo's "Bo Diddley", a song that closely resembles it, "Hambone", was cut by Red Saunders' Orchestra with The Hambone Kids.

Back in the 90s I took a class with this Ghanaian drum master, and they have a few primary rhythms, which all have very specific meanings, and one of the main rhythms, which is ancient, always reminded me a little of the rhythm part in Three Days.

I bet if leviticus or I made an abstract painting from scratch tomorrow, you could scour the Earth and find an earlier abstract painting with an almost identical composition. There's just nothin' new under the sun.

[Lance]

Main riff of "Ocean Size" derived from the Troggs version of "Wild Thing" 1966.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qHX493bB3U[/youtube]

[Jasper]

Vocal melody and lyrics for end of "Trip Away" chorus derived from "Way Out" by the Way Outs, 1966.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obyuyajrz9g[/youtube]

[shadow]

which jane's addiction song derived from Led Zeppelin Ten Years Gone?

[helicine]

Vocal melody and lyrics for end of "Trip Away" chorus derived from "Way Out" by the Way Outs, 1966.

[shadow]

does up the beach/summertime rolls intro derived from bass intro of Pink Floyd Let there be more light?

[nexis]

Hurry On Sundown sounds like something Perry and Dave may have been listening to in the early days of Jane's Addiction. The Kula Shaker version of the song sounds like Jane's Addiction, mainly the vocals.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCi4gUX4oJo[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4omNc3LkNbA[/youtube]

[Hidefumi]

Hurry On Sundown sounds like something Perry and Dave may have been listening to in the early days of Jane's Addiction. The Kula Shaker version of the song sounds like Jane's Addiction, mainly the vocals.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCi4gUX4oJo[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4omNc3LkNbA[/youtube]

It is a good one I love this song.