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| From | "Michael Bennett" <mrhonorama@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: What IS influence, anyway? |
| Date | Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:19:00 -0600 |
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Stewart --
Are you a Joyce Hatto fan? She was an undistinguished British piainst who
died last year, who was suddenly discovered. A slew of recordings that
seemed to establish her as a true talent. Guess what - it was a hoax.
It unraveled when someone put in a Hatto CD in his computer, and iTunes
indicated it was a different artist. The two discs were compared -- and
they were identical. Her husband admitted that he committed the fraud so
that his wife's life could end on a high note.
This is post about the fraud -- I couldn't find a link to the wire story on
the admission:
http://www.stephenpollard.net/003148.html
Mike Bennett
Blog: http://blog.myspace.com/mrhonorama
Record reviews and more at http://fufkin.com
Find out about Chicago shows:
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/chicagopopshowreport/
>From: "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: <audities@smoe.org>
>Subject: Re: What IS influence, anyway?
>Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:02:12 -0500
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Sam Smith" <sam@lullabypit.com>
>>So I guess I wonder - there being a good number of musicians here, and
>>plenty more informed listeners - is there a standard that says if I can't
>>hear it, it's not really an influence? Or can influences be more or less
>>invisible to the listener of the finished product?
>
>I think so, or at least so buried that you don't recognize them until the
>artist says they're there. I'm sure I've used this example here before,
>but I once read an interview with Brian Eno where he said that when he was
>in school, he was addicted to his parents' Ray Conniff albums, particularly
>the wordless vocal choruses. I wouldn't have made that connection on my
>own (fan though I am of Conniff myself), but remembering that quote in the
>context of hearing, say, "Taking Tiger Mountain" or "On Some Faraway
>Beach," I just think, "Well, yes, of course."
>
>What bugs me is when I can hear nothing BUT the artist's influences,
>especially when it seems like an artist is influenced solely by a certain
>set of stylistically similar bands. I don't mind when you can baldly hear
>an artist's influences IF he's combining several different styles into one
>whole (the High Llamas' blend of Brian Wilson, Steely Dan, Antonio Carlos
>Jobim, Ennio Morricone and Mouse On Mars, for example), but when you can
>listen to an album and hear that the songwriter's influences stretch all
>the way from the Beatles to Badfinger, with a short detour into ELO, I'm
>just not interested.
>
>S
>
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