OFF: Blues music

[Chris Warburton]

At 11:29 06.10.1999 -0400, Carl wrote:
>At 09.22 -0400 99-10-06, John A. Swartz wrote:
>>On the other hand, it's pretty obvious if you listen to enough blues
>>music that just about any blues song written today is probably a rip-off
>>of an older blues song.  I'm not in any way trying to defend Led Zepplin
>>by the way, just making an observation as one who has been listening to
>>(and enjoying) a lot of blues music over the past few years.
>
>Probably any blues song ever written is, to a great extent, a rip-off of
>another blues song. That's how traditional music works :)  This whole
>originality thing is a weird modern invention.
>
>Cheers,
>Carl

Welcome back pal...I blame Schoenberg myself....

ChrisW



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