1st post...btw..

noticed , when listening to Quadrophenia today, that 'Cut My Hair' / 5:15 has a 7-chord round that is seemingly identical to those in the melody to 'God' .. an odd source of inspiration, or just coincidence?

Coincidence. [img:$uid]http://i757.photobucket.com/albums/xx218/MMikeyBee/Gifs/next-animated.gif[/img:$uid]

There are only so many chord progressions possible that make any sense to the ear. Prince's innovations have NOTHING to do with chord progressions.

I can see why one song reminds you a bit of the other but I don´t really hear a similarity in the chord structure...then again, I don´t know enough about the technical aspects of music. I´d say the beginning does remind me of it because some of the instruments are similar, or the way they sound but the melody is not similar.

okay, i certainly don't mean it as a slight... but I looked up the chords , and hearing both, I can't see how one can't make out a distinct similarity.... I can't think of another song with such a close arrangement...

God (Same chords instrumental or vocal version)

 Fsus2    G/F    Em7    Am7/E   Dm7sus4  Gsus4     C
E--3-------3------3-------3-------3-------3-----------1------
B--1-------3------3-------1-------1-------1-----------0------
G--x-------4------4-------2-------2-------0-----------2------
D--3-------3------2-------2-------0-------x-----------3------
A--x-------x------x-------x--------x-------x-----------x-----
E--x-------x------x-------x--------x-------x-----------x-----



Cut My Hair / 5:15 Piano intro

|Fmaj7  G7                |Em/G       Am/G                |
|---------7-8-10---7h8-10-|7h8p7--------------------------|
|8------------------------|------8------5-6-8-------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------5-7^-7^\----|
|-------------------------|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------------|
|G11     G         |C                   |
|------------------|--------------------|
|-----------8-10^\8|10-8---8------------|
|(7)---------------|-----9--------------|
|------------------|--------------------|
|------------------|--------------------|
|------------------|--------------------|

[Edited 3/26/12 16:24pm]

SeanHanley1978 said:

okay, i certainly don't mean it as a slight... but I looked up the chords , and hearing both, I can't see how one can't make out a distinct similarity.... I can't think of another song with such a close arrangement...

God (Same chords instrumental or vocal version)

 Fsus2    G/F    Em7    Am7/E   Dm7sus4  Gsus4     C
E--3-------3------3-------3-------3-------3-----------1------
B--1-------3------3-------1-------1-------1-----------0------
G--x-------4------4-------2-------2-------0-----------2------
D--3-------3------2-------2-------0-------x-----------3------
A--x-------x------x-------x--------x-------x-----------x-----
E--x-------x------x-------x--------x-------x-----------x-----



Cut My Hair / 5:15 Piano intro

|Fmaj7  G7                |Em/G       Am/G                |
|---------7-8-10---7h8-10-|7h8p7--------------------------|
|8------------------------|------8------5-6-8-------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------5-7^-7^\----|
|-------------------------|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------------|
|G11     G         |C                   |
|------------------|--------------------|
|-----------8-10^\8|10-8---8------------|
|(7)---------------|-----9--------------|
|------------------|--------------------|
|------------------|--------------------|
|------------------|--------------------|

[Edited 3/26/12 16:24pm]

Maybe I didn´t listen to the same version on YT.

The Beautiful Ones has the same Baba O Riley chords.

@ carlcranshaw.. Very true, very true, though that is a more common progression, and only 3 chords.. I would say that would be MORE Evidential of the influence, rather than less.. but what guitar player, black or white, soul or rock, wouldn't be familiar with Townshend's rhythmic contribution to guitar (not that P would admit it, seeing as he had ['never heard 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' prior to the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame Concert'] )

Not connected but whenever I hear "Substitute" it makes me think of Prince.

I don't know why lol.

TheDigitalGardener said:

Coincidence. [img:$uid]http://i757.photobucket.com/albums/xx218/MMikeyBee/Gifs/next-animated.gif[/img:$uid]

How do you know ???

What makes it borrowed when musicians come up with the same cords?????