While listening to video from the Bridge School Buffalo Springfield reunion this thought occurred to me. The main riff sounds very similar. Does anyone else concur?

Mr. Soul recorded on January/April 1967

Jumping Jack Flash recorded on March/April 1968









A Live version of Mr. Soul:





This Live version was interesting:

If anything, it sounds more like Satisfaction than JJF.

Indeed, the versions of Mr. Soul on Trans and Year of the Horse would seem to indicate that the main riff from Mr. Soul is lifted from Satisfaction.

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Nimrod
If anything, it sounds more like Satisfaction than JJF.

Agreed. I read a NY interview where he said he would have LOVED to join the Stones after Brian's death...
MS might be some kind of hommage to a band he admires?

Johnny Rogan's biography says "... he had recently adapted the engaging riff from '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction' to add a touch of radio-familiar friendliness to his own 'Mr. Soul'" (page 129) and "The familiar 'Mr. Soul still blatantly imitates the Rolling Stones, combining the riff from 'Satisfaction'..." (page 145). On page 118, it says that Otis Redding wanted to do it as a 'soundalike sequel' to 'Satisfaction' but that Neil wanted to keep it for himself.

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...which brings us to the blattantly obvious: that the riffs of "Satisfaction" & JJF are highly alike, too.

Agree/disagree?

["I can hear the Bullfrog calling me..."]

Agree.

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Squiggle
Agree.

Glad we sorted that one out then. Any other questions?

I can kinda hear it in Chuck Berry's Talkin Bout You intro.

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MississippiBullfrog
...which brings us to the blattantly obvious: that the riffs of "Satisfaction" & JJF are highly alike, too.

Agree/disagree?

Can't say that I agree at all. Playing them on guitar very much underscores this to me. The main riffs are different, chordally, melodically and are in different keys. I'm really not sure how it can be said that it is blatantly obvious that they are alike. It certainly isn't so to me so please explain why you think so...



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 2010-10-28 01:15 by ChrisM.

Whatever, but the riffs to all three are cornerstones of rock, we luv it !!

The missing link between Satisfaction and JJF:

Bump. I'm still waiting to hear why MississippiBullFrog thinks it is "blatantly obvious: that the riffs of "Satisfaction" & JJF are highly alike..."

Neil Young's "Borrowed Tune" (from Tonight's The Night) is also lifted from Lady Jane.

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ChrisM
Bump. I'm still waiting to hear why MississippiBullFrog thinks it is "blatantly obvious: that the riffs of "Satisfaction" & JJF are highly alike..."

I think this is right: they both begin with a minim, followed by a dotted minim on the same note followed by a couple of rising quavers (although JJF's one dips for the first of the quavers) followed by a note tied across the barline. After that they go their different ways but the emphatic beginnings followed by the undulating series of notes is quite similar.

JJF/Satisfaction - The riffs on the studio versions are not alike. The riff in JJF is more than one guita at least to my ears (I'm not a musician) whereas Satisfaction is one guitar.

There was a time when that would be considered copyright infringement.

At least the Stones felt that way with "Anybody Seen My Baby"

When The Whip Comes Down is the closest thing to Jumpin' Jack Flash the Stones have ever done.