Its one saxophonist, and he overdubbed in the studio

You do realize the song is not promoting the side of the white people right? and that the larger parallel is actually the same situation which happened in South Africa, because he was from there.

I promise it makes perfect (musical) sense. you blow into (or fellate) a woodwind, you make fart noises with your lips to play brass (this is actually true, btw)

also Pink Floyd, Steely Dan, Bruce Springsteen, etc, etc

This may be a bit much, but from this guys picture, he looks to have more in common with the frat-bro "culture" he associates with DMB than most of the people I know who actually like DMB

I think that, since they ask comedians to do this, they never are able to get an actual musical opinion, so its either got to be a song they can hate and make funny, or something based on past experience. Either way, this wasn't particularly funny, insightful, or even coherent. In fact, more than half of it was…

they are technically woodwinds, even if they are made of brass

…and this is why, if I want to listen to their music, i buy a live album..theres like 150 of them after all, and you don't have to listen to or deal with the idiots. Plus, a $20 album is cheaper than a $80 ticket

Yeah, he lost me with his first argument…so he doesn't like horns…that is not a reason to justify hating a song…I feel like he picked an easy target for this site and then didn't bother to even defend his opinion

there is just no way that it isn't

A. yes, with an "if"
B. No, and I would hope that someone as intelligent as you claim to be would stay away from framing their rebuttal as you have here.

Mine did (granted, one was for a psychology class).

yeah, about that…I graduated in 2006 from a small town in western North Carolina. We read Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies, Heart of Darkness, Huck Finn, Night, The Bluest Eye, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Old Man and the Sea, the Great Gatsby, Invisible Man, Othello, Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet, Oedipus Rex, 1984, A Brave New…

I bet you think that Apple was justified copying the "rectangle with rounded edges" as well. No design, art, or music comes from a vacuum. Everything has influences, and copyright law usually respects that, which is why it gets a lot more specific than you are describing.

first 13 notes of Taurus -
A C E A Ab C E Ab G C E G Gb…
first 13 notes of Stairway -
A C E A B E C B C E C Gb D…

You copyright an entire song, but you typically cannot defend structural elements (basically musical elements outside of melody and lyrics) because they are universal to the structure of western music.

most cases are made (or broken) on lyrics and melodies. Progressions, effects, tempos, and keys are too universally used to make a case by themselves. They can, however, back up an existing claim where there is melodic plagiarism (like in the My Sweet Lord case). the issue here, is that, while there are similarities…

Blues progressions are germane to the blues, but that doesn't mean that blues artists have the right to sue each other. the 2-5-1 progression is a staple of jazz, but that doesn't mean jazz artists can all sue each other (in fact, many jazz tunes use the exact chord progression of another song on purpose, with a new…

That song had a number of additional compositional similarities in melody and harmony as well as a number of sustained similarities in lyrical melody. The fact is, a chord progression by itself is not enough (in almost all cases) to be counted as plagiarism. Similarly for tempo or effects. And in this case, there…

usually you would have to have an identical melody or lyric(s) to prove a case like this. the rest of the music (chords and chord progressions, as you said) is usually considered too universal to copyright.