Baba O Riley/Angel

In a message dated 05/01/97  19:26:11, salamander@MADNET.COM writes:

<<  I was drinking some punch and talking to a couple of people I
 knew, when suddenly I hear what sounds like the opening of "Baba
 O'Riley". It obviously wasn't the version off of "Who's Next" or
 anything, but the notes were (as far as I could tell) exactly the same.
 Now, I knew *I* had not brought any CDs with ANY version of "Baba
 O'Riley" on 'em, and I also knew that no one else had brought any Who
 CDs at all. So I turned to my friend Julian and said, "What the heck is
 this? Someone's covering 'Baba O'Riley'?" and he said, "Huh? This is
 Aerosmith, (and then he said the name of the song and I THINK it was
 something like 'Angel', but I'm not exactly sure)." After the intro the
 song ceased to sound anything like a Who song at all, and it was indeed
 an Aerosmith song. So, to get to the point of this entire message, has
 anyone else heard this song? Does anyone else think the beginning is a
 complete "Baba O'Riley" rip-off or was I just hallucinating? (Perhaps
 there was a strange substance in my punch.) >>


I just checked this out and while it does seem to use the same chord
progression it is at least half the speed of 'Baba O Riley'.  Still, if I had
a CD player with pitch control............



Gary L