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Joe Satriani claims Coldplay plagiarism was a 'dagger through my heart'

Guitarist breaks silence after announcing lawsuit against Chris Martin and co

Mon 08 Dec, 2008

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This is ridiculous. The sad fact is that, as a musicologist myself, I can confirm that the chord sequence "IV, V, I, iii" is not and never has been the property of Joe Satriani. I guarantee that with a couple of hours' halfhearted research I could find countless other artists, all the way back to and possibly including JS Bach (though he wasn't fond of chord iii old Bach), predating Joe Satriani and proove that he, in turn, had "ripped them off" with little-to-no effort. Without casting aspertions on the worth of either Coldplay or Joe Satriani the direction this should go is that someone else who previously used the sequence should sue Joe, they in turn should be sued by someone else and the chain should go on forever, ending with the music buying public sueing them all and giving them a good kick up the arse for being lazy, obvious 'tards.Having said that, it's a great chord sequence and they both made good use of it. Other people will too in the future, and they won't even know they did and they will be "plagiarising" just as much as Coldplay.As a parting shot, if Joe only has enough in him that it takes his heart and soul to think of those 4 chords and string them together and guitar-jizz all over the top of it then he's got bigger things to worry about.

Tue 09 Dec, 2008

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