TSJMajesty
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I don't know, but it sure as hell sounds the same, but here's something I noticed:
Dave Grohl, in his book Storyteller relates a time when he was young, and his mother would take him to a club where jazz musicians played improv, and allowed sit-ins. On her birthday, she asked Dave if he'd play for her, which he did.
And as he's making his way to the stage, he mentions he was "wearing a tee shirt that said Killing Joke." Not, "I was wearing a Killing Joke tee shirt." I say this because, if I was wearing a Dream Theater tee shirt, that's exactly what I'd say, not that I was wearing a tee shirt that said Dream Theater. I didn't even realize that was the name of the band that had the song Eighties.
Anyway, maybe the way he wrote that sentence doesn't matter, but the interesting thing is that, because Come as You Are does sound a lot like Eighties, maybe the song did come from somewhere else. Dave wearing a tee shirt of said band, and knowing how much he is into all his musical influences, and how his entire life revolves around music, and could run to a soundtrack of all the music in his life, it's not too much of a stretch to think he could've turned Kurt onto Killing Joke, then Kurt writes Come As You Are, released 8 years later than Eighties.
I know it's possible to have someone else's song in the back of your subconscious mind, and then it come out when you write a song, so the fact that Dave knew of this band as a kid, doesn't make it much of a stretch, to me anyway, that Kurt got the idea indirectly from Dave. And ripped someone else off in the process.
And before anyone gets into the "Oh every song can be said to sound like another song if you try hard enough," certain songs are in fact closer, and close enough they'd probably lose in a copywrite dispute. And I think this is one of them.
And yeah, I watched the video from a thread at TOP, but I was only over there looking for the thread in which someone claimed something about "the 5 people at TGF." Which by the way, said poster deserves a great big, Bob Zaod, GFY!
Dave Grohl, in his book Storyteller relates a time when he was young, and his mother would take him to a club where jazz musicians played improv, and allowed sit-ins. On her birthday, she asked Dave if he'd play for her, which he did.
And as he's making his way to the stage, he mentions he was "wearing a tee shirt that said Killing Joke." Not, "I was wearing a Killing Joke tee shirt." I say this because, if I was wearing a Dream Theater tee shirt, that's exactly what I'd say, not that I was wearing a tee shirt that said Dream Theater. I didn't even realize that was the name of the band that had the song Eighties.
Anyway, maybe the way he wrote that sentence doesn't matter, but the interesting thing is that, because Come as You Are does sound a lot like Eighties, maybe the song did come from somewhere else. Dave wearing a tee shirt of said band, and knowing how much he is into all his musical influences, and how his entire life revolves around music, and could run to a soundtrack of all the music in his life, it's not too much of a stretch to think he could've turned Kurt onto Killing Joke, then Kurt writes Come As You Are, released 8 years later than Eighties.
I know it's possible to have someone else's song in the back of your subconscious mind, and then it come out when you write a song, so the fact that Dave knew of this band as a kid, doesn't make it much of a stretch, to me anyway, that Kurt got the idea indirectly from Dave. And ripped someone else off in the process.
And before anyone gets into the "Oh every song can be said to sound like another song if you try hard enough," certain songs are in fact closer, and close enough they'd probably lose in a copywrite dispute. And I think this is one of them.
And yeah, I watched the video from a thread at TOP, but I was only over there looking for the thread in which someone claimed something about "the 5 people at TGF." Which by the way, said poster deserves a great big, Bob Zaod, GFY!
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