Dont copy Vinnie!

[Klemme]

While we're at it... How come you can register in a blank name?

[chrisbrady]

Don't want to beat a dead horse here but basically, you can't creat from a vacuum. You have to have input from external sources or it just doesn't happen. Nobody comes up with their own identity without having copied bits and pieces from their heroes. As Bissonette used to tell me, "Good composers borrow, great composers steal". The cool thing is, the bits and pieces I copy won't be the same bits that the rest of you guys copy and even if they were, our interpretations would be different anyway giving us our own sound. Just my 2cents.
CB
CB

[chris perra]

i think the evolution of my style for example was caused by my trying to lift things from others and not having the the same facility technique or knowledge as the original artist.

as a result, in order to pull of the lick or groove, i wind up playing something else thats like it, but has a different feel. largely because my technique may be too loose, or sometimes too clean, or i don't have the exact coordination together and i don't have the time to work it out before a gig.

so what comes out is what i can do at the time, based off of trying to emulate a specific thing, but not completely nailing it.

and it becomes my own.

chris perra

[chris perra]

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chris perra

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ January 22, 2005 03:17 PM: Message edited by: chris perra ]</font>

[FuseU1]

I do believe, if I may be so bold [& correct me if I'm mistaken] that that "P-word" was POSSIBLY overused by many a 60's & 70's hippie...ya' think? [img]wink.gif[/img]

Yeah, it would seem that you can't really create anything w/out SOME sort of stimuli from outside factors/forces in life [& music]...altho sometimes peeps take the cloning thing a little too far... hopefully they grow out of it as we all eventually do.

I know, because I was 1 of those NP copycats [ad nauseaum] [img]redface.gif[/img] ...& that assessment of it was true, that if you do this for too long one could very well hinder many other avenues of growth. It wasn't until VC & DW, AWA a significant exposure to many others, that I got "chequed [checked]"... But influences are important, regardless. So, choose them well & carefully!

Sounds like maybe the orig poster had witnessed 1 too many NPs / Portannoys / Virgs / Vinnie's / Wecks that day! [img]wink.gif[/img] [I say Portannoys, not at the man himself, as much as all the copycats & folks that always tout he's "the greatest!"] Besides, we all know Muhammed Ali was the greatest [because he said so himself]... ;c)

I can't expound further on anything these other "prestigious HOD-HB alumni" have, other than to say...
that this is a real peace of work, here. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ January 22, 2005 03:53 PM: Message edited by: fuseU1 ]</font>

[bananajou]

Originally posted by Klemme:
While we're at it... How come you can register in a blank name?

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">and take a look at his registation date....
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[FuseU1]

Yes...& no "# of posts" listing...hmmm... [img]graemlins/thinking.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/wonder.gif[/img]
I wish I could afford that luxury... [img]wink.gif[/img]

[Klemme]

haha Fuse, don't try fooling us into that you're not proud of your Post count! [img]tongue.gif[/img] [img]wink.gif[/img]

[Gary Linieres]

As usual Daz is on the money.......whoever started this thread needs to slap himself on the forehead.

[pjspoon]

hey -one of the best compliments i've ever got was when i saw a drummer (who i didn't know) do a few things on the cymbals that i do a lot. when i met him on the bands break he said that he saw me playing a few months ago and "stole" these licks from me. he certainly didn't copy me as a drummer-- he just added a few things to go with his own playing. it made me feel like a million bucks.