HW: Hawkwind and the Blues

[pauleatonjones]

  I once wrote to the Hawkwind Feedback office when they were in west
London saying that I thought that 'Time We Left This World Today' was
surely influenced by the second movement of Beethoven's 7th symphony
and what did they think. Steve Gilmore wrote back saying he/they hadn't
listened to the Beethoven piece but said that nearly all music could be
linked in some way whether as a conscious rip-off or a subliminal
influence. Just look at the way the technical, heavy rock musicians
such as Satriani, Vai, Vinnie Moore, Tony Macalpine  et al have applied
  the form of baroque music to guitar music. Little or nothing is new
under the sun. (Except Paranoia parts 1+2 and Electronic No.1).
Paul.
On Sunday, May 16, 2004, at 05:39 Europe/London, MiChAeL "aLiEn DrEaM"
bLaCkMaN wrote:

> If one looks at music that way then all music is a "rip off" of
> something
> depending what you hear in the song or who is listening - some clown
> tried
> to tell me that psychedelic warlords (disapear in smoke) was a rip off
> of a
> Nirvana song until I mentioned the fact that the hawkwind track was
> recorded
> in the early 70's.
> and I tend to find that the average listener can't really
> differentiate one
> da-dada riff from another da-da-dada-dada riff even when each
> individual
> riff has its own distinctive da-da-da sound.  and thats not even
> taking into
> account the melody or the lyric content which gives a song something
> differrent again.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Law" <dplaw at IC24.NET>
> To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
> Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 7:37 AM
> Subject: Re: HW: Hawkwind and the Blues
>
>
>> i thought orgone accumulator was a direct rip off, well very similar
>> to
>> canned heats "on the road again", the thing is with a lot of thee old
>> blues riffs is that they have been recycled on a number of occasions!
>> cheers
>>
>> dave
>>
>