Bob-Dubery
what's intersting to me is the "borrowed" phrase. This is not the first such instance and I'm sure it won't be the last. Sometimes I think that the borrowing is just coincidence, that two musicians just strung the same notes together. This might explain why Clapton's solo on "Sunshine Of Your Love" begins with a lick that sounds a lot like "Blue Moon" or why Richard Thompson's riff on "For The Sake of Mary" sounds a lot like Neil Young's "Cinnamon Girl". But here Paladino fesses up. I guess the copyright had lapsed.
This sort of leads back to another recent discussion about sampling and borrowing.
Other borrowings or coincidences off the top of my head are Greg Philingane's solo on "Ruby Baby" which cleverly reworks (or just happens to sound like) "You Really Got Me" and Richard Thompson tacking an Erik Satie composition onto the end of "The Great Valerio". Oh! And Billy Joel nicked a Beethoven sonata for "This Night".
Of course the listener may not spot what's going on. I spotted the Beethoven melody but only because I knew it well. The Young/Thompson lick made me go hmmmmm and the rest were pointed out to me.
Another thing that made me go hmmm is Joe Walsh's "Meadows" which is reminiscent of Deep Purple's "Woman From Tokyo".
There's a whole lot of borrowing going on.
Big-G
I must have been around 10 to 15 years old when that song made it? And at that point, I didn't even know what a bass guitar was? Yet later on, Pino became pretty inspirational to me as a player.
One of the things that I picked up on in the first video, which may have been a flippant joke, but could also be the truth, is his comment 'I don't know how to read music'. As a Dyslexic person who CANNOT read music, rather than HAVEN'T Learnt, I've had to develop an ability to play music through my hearing and feel, rather than by sight. So, if he was being serious about this, I find it quite encouraging to know someone who has 'made it' and is one of the most respected players around.
Regards
G!
