Stone Birds

i think that's true about everyone who says they have no influences.

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MoonlitSunshine

agreed. The only way i can think of that someone could have no influences is if they'd never heard any music ever in their life, and they recreated the entire idea from scratch themselves. Otherwise, all the little hooks, riffs, style, sounds... everything that every song and tune is lodges in your head somewhere, and comes out in your music whether you like it or not.

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Stone Birds

the closest thing to that is August Rush and even he probably had influences of some sort.

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someonecompletelyrandom

Yeah, I'm not really an Elijah Wald fan. I've read some of his stuff and quite I honestly I think he talks a lot out his ass. The title of this particular book, for example, is just an eye catcher, I've heard most of the book is just the history of lesser known musicians. Not that there's anything wrong with exposing people to a different side of popular music (the real innovators behind the scenes and the influential artists who never got the fame they deserve), but discrediting people just because of their popularity is is equally as dumb as buying into the bandwagon pitch.

Arya Stark

Right, I completely agree with that. It's the other side, the other extreme. I think I'm somewhere in the middle. I'm not going to give the Beatles all of the credit and say they're the best things that ever happened and such, especially due to the fact that what they did either would have been done or HAD been done. But I'm not going to completely disregard them as a HUGE leading influence in music at the time and music now. What they did has strongly shaped music and I completely agree with that, but there is so much more to music than the Beatles and I they're not the only influence. This isn't an argument against you, by the way, just letting out my opinion in the form of a response to your quote.

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mr dave

it's SOOOOOOOooooooooooooooo easy to look back on what an influential person or group did in the past and say, 'pfft yeah, i could do that, or i'm sure other people would have eventually figure it out, it seems so obvious now. they weren't THAT influential really.'


except it's never that obvious before it actually happens and it's impossible for anyone who wasn't there and an active participant in said social change to really have anything more to say than just another fart in the wind.

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someonecompletelyrandom

No yeah, I share the same sentiment exactly.