[linux-audio-user] Cactus Data Shield copy controlled cd's

Jan Depner eviltwin69 at cableone.net
Wed Jul 9 17:25:01 EDT 2003


Daniel,

	I hope you were being facetious (it's hard to detect sarcasm in
print).  That is a standard blues riff.

Jan


On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 03:52, Daniel James wrote:
> > > What I meant was that if you ask a musician directly, they are
> > > often modest and ready to acknowledge influences, where as the
> > > marketing people come up with all that 'best band in the world'
> > > or 'greatest singer of all time' stuff.
> >
> > Yes, that's usually the case, with notable braggart exceptions...
> > <cough>Oasis</cough>
> 
> I actually heard one of the Gallagher brothers claim that the opening 
> to 'Cigarettes and Alcohol' was not a direct lift from Get it On by T 
> Rex (released as Bang a Gong in the US for some bizzare censorship 
> reason). He claimed it was a standard blues riff - yeh, right. 
> 
> With four of the five members of T Rex now dead, I guess their estates 
> didn't have the money to mount a legal challenge. I suppose that's 
> what intellectual property is all about - if you can afford a team of 
> lawyers, then you've got those rights.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Daniel





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