Are these vocals or keyboards?

[Motorhead350]

I am confused. I am pretty sure we all know the song. The only reason I am wondering is because the vocals/melody sounds just like a song that came out years before this one.

What do you think?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12cLXeS14kM

1:07-1:19 and off and on through out the song. The laaaaaaaaa la la la la la's.

Here is what he ripped off in my opinion for the vocals/melody. We can tell those are vocals.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iALGml0BQoI&feature=related

0:18-0:30

Opinions please!

[a_d_a_m]

What you're hearing in "Crocodile Rock" sounds to me like vocals and keyboards together. As far as the other song, there are similarities, but the melodies are different enough that I wouldn't have picked up on them being similar.

[PonyUP]

First time I heard this on the record, I thought it was keyboards, here's Eddie doing it live in a Les Paul tribute

XO3R-UDa54o

[MMBLUE]

Ah, the old Eddie Van halen Pull off with a little volume nob.:bows:

[MMBLUE]

I am confused. I am pretty sure we all know the song. The only reason I am wondering is because the vocals/melody sounds just like a song that came out years before this one.

What do you think?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12cLXeS14kM

1:07-1:19 and off and on through out the song. The laaaaaaaaa la la la la la's.

Here is what he ripped off in my opinion for the vocals/melody. We can tell those are vocals.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iALGml0BQoI&feature=related

0:18-0:30

Opinions please!


As for the 3 Dollar Englishman, I'm going to go with "Falsetto vocals for $300 Alex"

[duhtroll]

Vocals.

When performed live the part in question is sung, not played.

If it is electronic, they mimicked fluctuating in and out of tune like a voice would do, which doesn't seem likely worth the effort, especially in the 70s.

As for the "ripoff," I don't hear it. It really isn't even that close. I didn't listen to the entire recording, but from the line I think you mean -- there are so many songs with that chord progression that eventually you are bound to run into similarities.

I think you are comparing timbre and not the actual notes being used, which are different enough to discount a "rip off" by any stretch.

[Motorhead350]

I disagree, but I see your point.

1-6-4-5 is my favorite structure. Then 1-4-5 and 12 bar blues.

[SID210SA]

I had always wondered about "Do you feel" by Frampton if the do you feel was actually done by the guitar....it kinda was and kinda wasnt


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7rFYbMhcG8