4 Jul
2003
4 Jul
'03
2:01 p.m.
Yeah, and when you listen to the origianls , like Willie Dixon, although
both use 12 bars, the black blues is different. However the Stones had
black blues musicians opening for them, and Clapton is accepted as a real
blues guy by people like BB King. I actually had a guitar workshop with
one of BB's old protege's who gave him some of his first radio airplay,
and I'm just some Sicilian WOP, but he told me I HAD to play the blues,
that I "got it" better than anybody else in the workshop, and after the
class I got all these invitations to come back to a couple of my black
female musician friends rooms to "kick it".
My own music is heavily influenced by the african diaspora, as well as by
southeast asian music, but lately, after finding out the Sicily was a part
of ancient Greece, I've been delving into ancient Greek music to get into
my own personal roots, but I could never stop listening to jazz or blues
or hiphop, even though its not within my own native culture perhaps, but
music is about love, not culture.
On 3 Jul 2003, Jan Depner wrote:
Daniel,
On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 04:46, Daniel James wrote:
In particular, I have a problem on this latter
point with the UK's
rock aristocracy, who made most of their money from ripping off black
American music and selling it to white Americans in a more acceptable
format. So for Mick Jagger or Eric Clapton to say I owe *them* money
because they own 'their' music, I find particularly distasteful.
OK, I had to comment on this one. Eric Clapton pays royalties to the
writer on everything he covers - just ask J. J. Cale (After Midnight,
Cocaine). The Stones didn't cover much music, theirs was mostly
original. When they covered, they paid (Harlem Shuffle). If you're
trying to say that writing a blues tune is stealing just because it's 12
bar you're in pretty deep. If that's the case who "owns" 12 bar blues?
If you really want to nail those who stole verbatim and put their name
on it why not try Led Zeppelin (Killin' Floor and a cast of thousands).
Jan