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Originally Posted by theblue1  Of course, you're responding to a guy who was initially responding to me (so you're on My side, right?  ) but I had one quibble: agreed on your overall point about bands borrowing from and building on the work and ideas of other bands -- but the Gang of Four / Television example... I dunno.
I was on the ground back then and saw Go4 twice and TV three times (the first time around and then saw TV again in the 90s when they reunioned)... and they were very different in their approach to guitars, rhythms...
I do think it's safe to say they were both deeply respected by... well... guys like me, for sure.  |
Didn't mean to butt in - it just amuses me how worked up some people can still get about Cobain/Nirvana. Personally I hear a lot more Sonic Youth and Husker Du in them than the Pixies. But Cobain made one comment in an interview that he thought
Smells Like Teen Spirit sounded like the Pixies - and suddenly Nirvana were the scourge of struggling True Original Artists everywhere. It's silly. Some of the most famous Led Zepplin songs were lifted almost word-for-word from earlier blues artists, but nobody seems to have a problem with that.