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Sampled Songs
I was reliving my high school days over the weekend and found a song that had sampled AC/DC that I don't think I'd heard before. Believe it or not, Vanilla Ice took the main riff from Highway to Hell and worked it into a white-boy hip hop song. Why was I listening to Vanilla Ice? I'm not so sure of that myself. But it got me thinking. What other bands/artists have sampled AC/DC? Anyone else have any examples? Here are two that I know of off the top of my head: Vanilla Ice Road to My Riches - from 'Extremely Live' Beastie Boys Rock Hard - 12" released in 1984 (you can skip over the first 50 seconds to get to the music and avoid the 2 really annoying 'hosts')
"Road To My Riches" - Oh yes, old school hip-hop. Beastie Boys - More old school hip-hop. A "new schooler" if he can be considered as so, Eminem, has the famous "My Name Is" remix with "Back In Black" thrown in. I don't think it's official, but it's damn good. My guess is AC/DC wouldn't have had a problem with the Beastie Boys releasing "Rock Hard" on CD if the CD wouldn't have been released when hip-hop/rap was at such a dead time. By the late 90s, rap-rock and rap in general had started to decline, and AC/DC didn't want their name involved with a declining genre.
From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Hard "Rock Hard" was one of the first songs released by the Beastie Boys, released by record label Def Jam on 12" in 1984. It has long been removed from print and is now considered a rare collector's item. The song contains samples from the AC/DC song "Back in Black"; the Beastie Boys used this sample without legal permission. Later, when the Boys planned to include the out-of-print song on their 1999 anthology The Sounds of Science, AC/DC refused to allow the sample to be used. Mike D spoke to AC/DC's Malcolm Young personally on the phone when their lawyers refused to clear the sample, and later said that "AC/DC could not get with the sample concept. They were just like, 'Nothing against you guys, but we just don't endorse sampling.'" Adrock then added "So we told them that we don't endorse people playing guitars."[1] The cover design is also famous for now being the official Def Jam records logo for vinyl releases. To this day songs released by Def Jam in vinyl have this design.
By the time "The Sounds Of Science" had been released, the DMCA had been implemented in the US, making any thing that was released, uploaded, shared, etc., etc., eventually leading to the F*CK VIACOM video on YouTube, have proof of copyright ownership or face a large lawsuit.