sheesh, an endless list right?
Horse With No Name people just KNOW is a Neil Young song. It's not.
Everything Jackyl did sounded exactly like an AC/DC song, for that matter so did every AC/DC song. Neither of these are bad things.
A lot artists are actively
trying to sound like their idols, especially when they are young. Speaking of Aerosmith, the first album sounds a lot like the Yardbirds....'cause they wanted it to. 'cause the Yardbirds rocked. Same with early Zeppelin (it helped that they
were the Yardbirds, or what was left of them
![Smiley](https://talkelections.org/FORUM/Smileys/classic/smiley.gif)
). The singer of my favorite band heard Bad Religion's Suffer and made him realize a punk song can have a melody too, so NOFX's next few albums sounded a LOT like Suffer. And then there are the legion of mediocre bands that are lesser parts of a bigger wave who copy other artists not out of love of the art, but for the love of the dollars (and girls, it's always about girls). Every wave has them.