plagiarism, Tom Petty vs. Chilli Peppers Options

[woody]

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/05/31/104324.php

Last week, radio presenter Dan Gaffney of Delaware-based WGMD accused the band of ripping off Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. He claims that the leading single from the new album, "Dani California," sounds almost identical to Petty's "Mary Jane's Last Dance".

"The chord progression, the melody, the tempo, the key, the lyrical theme... they're identical."

You decide:
http://www.jared-morris.com/blog/petty.mp3

This post has been edited by woody: Jun 5 2006, 02:21 AM

[GOB]

vanilla ice's lyrics weren't in sync with david bowie's, though. it also says that the overall song theme/content might as well be the same thing as tom petty's, too.

guess the riaa has spent a little too much time trying to put the american consumer in jail while their own artists were ripping each other off.