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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:

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> > > 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...

> > Oasis

>

> 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