Motley Crue?s "Droppin Like Flies" = Locomotive Riff ?

[demo23nz]

Yeah, there's a few GnR riffs that they absorbed from other bands, and then some of theirs have been likewise absorbed. It's the way with most great classic rock.

Nikki Sixx isn't very original all the time anyway...

Thats true...also its uncanny how much the riff of Bach's 'Piece of Me' sounds like 'Enter Sandman'

Bach's 'Piece of Me'?

[Robman?]

Yeah, there's a few GnR riffs that they absorbed from other bands, and then some of theirs have been likewise absorbed. It's the way with most great classic rock.

Nikki Sixx isn't very original all the time anyway...

Thats true...also its uncanny how much the riff of Bach's 'Piece of Me' sounds like 'Enter Sandman'

Bach's 'Piece of Me'?

more like Rachel Bolan's 'Piece of Me'

[demo23nz]

This is what I'm sayin'!

[dr. light]

the locomotive riff is taken from the last part of aerosmith`s "lord of the thights"

[GnRScouse]

Also gonna mention Lord of the Thighs by Aerosmith.....heard a great live version of it and the big jam at the end is definitely Locomotive.

[estrangedpaul]

I think its glaringly obvious PC was based on the heavy riff in 'Zero The Hero'. Its just basically that riff sped up!

You have to remember though that there are 1,000s of bands... and 1,000s of songs.. so it really goes without saying that hundreds of songs are going to sound similar!!

Stairway to Heaven was a rip off of Taurus by Spirited.

Listening to Zero The Hero now, and I still don't hear it. It's nowhere close to being the same thing.

Listen from 1:07 from Hero The Zero or maybe its more obvious at 1:38.Then listen to Paradise City at 1:20. The tabbing is quite similiar too.

[estrangedpaul]

now listen to the first minute of this song (very similar to Madagascar)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGx0Hk9uU74&mode=related&search=

I don't see the connection. If anything it sounds like the piano part from the "I see the storm is getting closer" part of Estranged.

[gnrlies247]

"Out Ta Get Me"'s riff is also very similar to Aerosmiths "Rats In The Cellar".  If you check it out, it uses exactly the same chords, except RITC has an extra note thrown in. 

I've always thought Out ta get me sounds like Jumpin' jack flash.When i hear gnr's version, it always sounds like OTGM.

[Lord Kayoss]

The main riff in Saliva's "Survival of the Sickest" is almost a direct rip-off of Marilyn Manson's "Fight Song".

[Anguro]

Oh men..... there are a LOT of songs that are really like others..... to compare Used to love her with any other song is insane.... 1st, 2nd and 3rd in music.... it's like KOHD..... "identical" to Yellow ledbetter from Pearl Jam.... the same chords, different key..... if we start to look for songs similar to other songs, we won't ever finish with that..... the difference is how you play them and how the band feels and puts the signature to the song..... period....

[Jizzo]

i here the pc riff in zero the hero

[Irish rose]

now listen to the first minute of this song (very similar to Madagascar)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGx0Hk9uU74&mode=related&search=

I don't see the connection. If anything it sounds like the piano part from the "I see the storm is getting closer" part of Estranged.

it DOES sound very similar to Madagascar but i think the chords to madagascar are quite widely used anyway

[russtcb]

I was listening to the 1994 Crue album and the end of the song "Droppin Like Flies" has the same riff as Locomotive... did anyone hear that too or am I going insane?

I used to listen to this album alot and finally just got around to checkin' out what you're talkin about.

You're not going insane. It's extremely similar.

[michaelvincent]

to compare Used to love her with any other song is insane....

Why is that? Can't handle that your precious GnR might have been influenced by someone else? It's practically the same song. It's also almost identical to 'Ball and Chain' by Social Distortion and has a similar chord pattern to 'I Know You Rider' by the Grateful Dead...

The point? There really is none. It's just a pretty standard rock chord progression. There are plenty of patterns in the genre of rock n' roll that pop up in tons of songs. It happens. It's the melody that makes it unique. Rock bands have taken from each other for ages, why get bent about it?

[russtcb]

to compare Used to love her with any other song is insane....

Why is that? Can't handle that your precious GnR might have been influenced by someone else? It's practically the same song. It's also almost identical to 'Ball and Chain' by Social Distortion and has a similar chord pattern to 'I Know You Rider' by the Grateful Dead...

The point? There really is none. It's just a pretty standard rock chord progression. There are plenty of patterns in the genre of rock n' roll that pop up in tons of songs. It happens. It's the melody that makes it unique. Rock bands have taken from each other for ages, why get bent about it?

Yeah I can't understand that either.

I hear tunes all the time that are lifted (intentional or not) from other tunes. No biggie.

[thereisnodanaonlyz]

The Beatles "Hey Jude" is an obvious ripoff of "hammer smashed face" by cannibal corpse

[Mama Kin]

Aerosmith's Let the Music Do the Talking rips off a lick from Aerosmith's Draw the Line.......

Yeah, for some reason, they thru it in there.

[Dead N' Bloated]

Aerosmith's Let the Music Do the Talking rips off a lick from Aerosmith's Draw the Line.......

Yeah, for some reason, they thru it in there.

Alice Cooper done that a bit to. The Awakening has little riffs from a few songs from Welcome to my nightmare album. Dunno why they do it.


 

[dr. light]

because alice made a comcept album. it`s a bob ezrin`s idea, pink floyd also made it in the wall produced by bob ezrin too 

[kaasupoltin]

and lets not forget Used to Love Her compared to Dead Flowers!!! same shit, same chords!
UTLH goes D,A,G,A
and Dead Flowers go D,A,G,D....

Yeah, and I'm sure that most of the people who went to see Gn'R in 1993, thought the band started to play UTLH when they actually started Dead Flowers.