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What are you listening to, hard rock version?
- Thread starter Magic
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I couldn't agree more with this statement, virtually everything done today (and even older music) is in some way dirivative of music that went before it.
I made the mistake a while back of letting some asshat listen to my original music. One particular song he said I was "ripping off" Pink Floyd. I told him I was a huge fan of Pink Floyd and that it was impossible for me "not" to be influenced by them. He said the song in question sounded "exactly" like a song on Animals. I strained my brain to come up with which song he was talking about. He mentioned acoustic guitar and Moog, I had to think about it for a while, what I was able to figure out, was that he meant Welcome to the Machine from the album Wish You Were Here . It really bothered me that someone I trusted would take a stab at me like that. This guy is a guitar player in a well known local band in Rockford, he sure doesn't know his Pink Floyd very well.
I made the mistake a while back of letting some asshat listen to my original music. One particular song he said I was "ripping off" Pink Floyd. I told him I was a huge fan of Pink Floyd and that it was impossible for me "not" to be influenced by them. He said the song in question sounded "exactly" like a song on Animals. I strained my brain to come up with which song he was talking about. He mentioned acoustic guitar and Moog, I had to think about it for a while, what I was able to figure out, was that he meant Welcome to the Machine from the album Wish You Were Here . It really bothered me that someone I trusted would take a stab at me like that. This guy is a guitar player in a well known local band in Rockford, he sure doesn't know his Pink Floyd very well.
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I didn't make the AC/DC connection either until the lounge chair critics pointed out "certain" songs. IMHO, just a couple songs doesn't make them a clone band, nor does it even make a band a rip-off.
The controversy has been going on for years on Led Zeppelin being a rip-off band. However, there has not been a band like LZ in the past nor the future. They are legends, in my book.
@Mr. Gregory will get a kick out of this......if the singer has a beast like "growl" does that make the band a clone of all the other bands whose singer growls? In other words, almost all death metal is the same!!!
Even funnier, the first use of the "growl" was The Who, Boris the Spider back in 1966...........LOL. So, all metal that uses the growl has ripped off The Who and John Entwistle.
