Didn’t anyone ever stop to realize that “Mary Jane’s Last Dance” was already a rip of the opening of Jayhawks “Waiting for the Sun”?

The Jayhawks suck and get a life already

Tom petty is so the dude! No band could ever copy his tunes he is a proper legend! The Chili’s just can’t stop singin’ about good old California can they? you gotta love them for it.

Kudos to you Seth for being the only other person in the world who has realized that Tom Petty actually ripped off the Jayhawks.

The Jayhawks played “Waiting for the Sun” every night while on tour with TP a year before he “wrote” Mary Jane.

gotta love tom petty

I def. love petty. Went to his show the other night. It was awesome. But the Jayhawks def. did that riff first…

well as the jahawks use different chords for their riff…

and lets forget Petty and the Chilli Pepper here…

the man in charge of BOTH songs was Rick Rubin… i say hes as much to blame for the over sight as anyone of the band members.. he produced them BOTH..

and its a pretty simple and standarb beat, not a lot you can do to make it different when its used in multiple songs.

Actually the riff for Petty’s LDWMJ is in a different key and changes a chord from the Jayhawks’ WFTS, but more significantly, the riff is the only thing “stolen.” The rest of the song (melody, etc.) are totally different, whereas the Chili Peppers, aside from speeding up the tempo, ripped LDWMJ off pretty much wholesale.

The Jayhawks album “Hollywood Town Hall” that “Waiting for the Sun” appears on was released on Rubin’s American Recordings…I think if anyone’s to blame here it’s the bearded one.

Truth be told though, Jayhawks and Mary Jane’s opening riffs sound a lot more alike than Mary Jane and Dani.

everyone join a band and see if you dont sound like someone else, or just like the muisc for what it is. sell out buy in or turn the station.

all you losers need girlfriends and lives. pathetic

good call chris

yo freeballin, no need to suck any D…

yeah free, Chris already has that dept covered…

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It’s “Mary Jane’s Last Dance”, not “Last Dance with Mary Jane”. One would think RS could figure that out….

My God- if everyone sues everyone else for ripping off parts of songs, then the courts will be more backed up than a line at the DMV at the end of the month-times 100 million! “Relax, don’t do it…”

in a 1989 video “a bunch of music videos and some other stuff” is there not proof that tom petty was working on mary janes las dance then i know he was working on it for a while before he released it

The key is, to rip off songs that are so old, no one alive remembers them…..enter Bob D.

tom also ripped off the line “a rebel without a clue” (Into the Great Wide Open) from the Replacements who had toured with him shortly before. but i’ll bet tom has been ripped off a LOT more than he’s ripped anyone else off. you can’t have as remarkable a catalog of great songs like petty and not have the occasional outside influence seep in. at least HE has the sense to realize that. keep rockin’, tom!

If you are looking for a true rip off, take a look at NIN’s “Last” and Godsmack’s “Timebomb”. These are almost note to note. On the subject at hand, I love Tom Petty, what a great guy. Finally, someone in the music business I can appreciate as an artist and a person.

Oh ya, Godsmack album release date: August 25, 1998

NIN’s album release date: September 22, 1992

NIN’s puts on a good show!

Dani has a totally different chorus, bridge, final guitar solo, and a totally different (more upbeat) feeling than MJ. There was no ripping off on the part of the Chilis. None. DC is vinatge RHCP, fin.

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originality is plagiarism undetected.

The Dani California riff is from Sweet Home Alabama (Alabama is also in the Dani California lyric). Lynyrd Synyrd got the riff from the Stones’ Stray Cat Blues (Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out – live album). Petty probably got it from the Stones. It’s anyone’s guess as to where Keef got it from – possibly out of his mind!

Tom Petty is the best musician ever lived.!!!

if tom petty did sue the red hot chili peppers it would totally fuck them up and would be the wrong thing to do. glad he didnt!!!
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Waiting for the sun is a rip off of the doors. Petty rocks!

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Petty should talk about ripoffs….he STOLE every Rodger McGuinn lick ever played

petty ripped off roger mcguinn more times than i can count

i love tp

petty ripped off roger mcguinn more times than i can count

petty ripped off roger mcguinn more times than i can count

Did he heck as like rip off Roger McGuinn! So they both play 12-strings? Yes, Petty probbaly uses a lot of similar licks, but that’s what 99.9% of guitarists do – borrow licks from people they admire and are influenced by. This is far removed from someonewriting a track with almost identical chords, identical rythmical structure, similar lyrics, etc. No I don’t think the Chillis went out to rip off Petty, but their song was most definitely inspired by Petty’s, whether they were concious of the fact or not. Anyone who can’t see that is either very blinkered or naive

Tom Petty admitted he copied the byrds when he started out — watch Runnin’ Down a Dream.

Oak… you are fighting a losing battle accusing Tom Petty of “ripping off” Roger McGuinn… First off, he never did take a melody from McGuinn, petty covered the Byrds on Full Moon Fever’s “Feel A Whole Lot Better” but that’s not ripping off McGuinn that’s Gene Clark’s song. In fact in many aspects Petty admired the Byrds for Gene Clarks writing and the sound of McGuinn’s guitar. If you can own sounds then yes maybe you have a point but otherwise you’re being naiive and impractical and let’s not forget that (in your idea of theft) the Byrds stole from Dylan (Mr. Tambourine Man/ and a slew of others) and Pete Seeger (Turn,Turn, Turn). Tom Petty needs to be celebrated as an original and iconic American artist just like the Byrds, Dylan, and Seeger.

tell you what, tom petty should have fucked up the red hot chili peppers. he should have screwed them up big time.

they are so crap at what they do n i’m gettin sick of em. i’d stab em if i had half a chance

Wow. Jayhawks are a great band! Too band they disbanded. But anyway, yeah Tom Petty did rip off “Waiting for the Sun,” but sadly he probably never even heard of them because they are not famous enough.