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Shine on you theivin' b@*&£rds
Posted by acurtis on 18 June 2009 - 3:10pm.
Maybe this is a well known theory but humour me. Track 8 on the rather excellent 1969 (make a note of that date) self-titled LP by one Boz Scaggs is called 'Spare me a dime' and runs for over 12 minutes. Quite the thing of beauty it is too. I have only dicovered this gem in the last week and couldn't help but think i'd heard it before somewhere. By chance my iPod threw up the Floyd's 'Shine on you crazy diamond' from 'Wish you were here' (recorded and released in 1974) and a lightbulb went off above my head. Have Mr Scaggs lawyers been in contact or am I imagining similarities that just aren't there? I think we should be told.
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"Loan Me A Dime" surely
With Duane Allman on guitar if memory serves. I have it on "Duane Allman : An Anthology"
I think I have heard this commented on before but will need to give it a listen myself. It has been some years...
Loan me a dime
Quite right. My mistake.
Spotify link
is here. There's a definite resemblance.
Deformed Ears
Sounds like "Since I've Been Lovin' You" to these Deformed Ears
The author sued Mr Scaggs and won.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenton_Robinson
I expect he would have tried again, were there the opportunity.
I see what you mean...
check out the guitar solo from 5.20 to 5.36... it is remarkably similar to Gilmour's playing on SOYCD.
How did I never not notice?
I've had Boz's 2 CD anthology for years. Prompted by this thread I had a listen earlier and cannot disagree.
Well seeing as Boz
didn't write either the song or play that solo, with both author and guitarist deceased, now you know from whom to rip off a solo from.
Legal eagle question: in a song, who "owns" the tune within a solo? I imagine the author of the tune rather than the soloist? wasn't this Matthew Fishers Whiter Shade of Pale downfall?