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