short coryell lick (which has been seen before...)

I've been listening to a lot of Larry Coryell lately and on the tune "Wolfbane" (from his 2005 album Electric with bassist Victor Bailey and Lenny White on drums) I heard a lick which I had transcribed on this blog before...yup one from Vinnie Moore's "Morning Star". Here's the Larry phrase (which is over E7#9) and the lick under discussion begins on the 4th beat of the 2nd measure:


And if you go to the Vinnie Moore transcription it's pretty easy to find: it's the very first phrase.

So the question is: did Larry listen to Vinnie's lick? or is it the case that given the number of players and the style that this pattern is inevitable? Similarities are bound to occur: just listen to the last movement of Brahms' First Symphony...remind anyone of Beethoven?