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Originally posted by not_so_new
way, when Elvis was Elvis they had the beginnings of rock and roll and everything was undiscovered territory. Since then we have seen funk, disco, heavy metal, pop, boy bands, girl bands, soul, easy listening, reggae, R&B, death metal, techno, grunge, new wave, cool jazz and on and on. The question is, what can possibly be NEW after all of this??
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I hate to say it but the only thing that was "new" about Elvis was he was a white dude playing the blues instead of a black dude. His own style developed when he started adding more country music styling to his repetoire.
Funk is just a natural progression of soul music which was a progression of R&B which was a progression of blues.
Disco was just a watered down version of funk.
Reggae had a huge progression but the really old shit sounds like Fat`s Domino or even country music in comparison. It just developed in a weird way because they kept some things from the Fats domino days like the quick signature guitar strum on the 2 and the 4 while adding a funk elemant.
Marilon Manson is just a shitty metal band with Androgenous gimickery.
I think that was covered by David Bowie and Alice Cooper and for the time they were a lot more shocking than Marilon. (and better music to boot)
Jimi Hendrix is thought of the original "crazy" guitar player with wild showmanship and off the wall guitar riffs. Guess who his main influence was. Buddy Guy who was known for doing the exact same thing 10 years before him.
So what am I trying to say here.
None of it is new. Period.
We all draw on influence and there is no way to write a song that is not calling on influence from something.
The more influence you draw on the more original sounding you will be.
That`s why Miles Davis allways seemed like such a ground breaking "new music" kind of guy.
He was influenced by tons of different music and managed to "fuse" them all together which is also what every other great musician has done before then and after.