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Post by Brainstem on Nov 17, 2010 20:40:39 GMT -5
Right, but that's why he's famous, for being the first one, not for being the best one. I listened to enough Elvis this year while teaching the kids to know that his musical skills couldn't have been the drive behind his fame.
And, again, it just sounds like he covered Blue Suede Shoes more than stole it.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2010 20:46:13 GMT -5
Sure, if you call Elvis singing it before he actually had the rights and having to be took to court over it for royalties a cover then yes by that definition was a cover. He was singing it before he had permission. Eventually he paid Carl off, but that was only after a lawsuit
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Post by Brainstem on Nov 17, 2010 20:53:12 GMT -5
It's also not exactly like Elvis went around picking his song selection. Elvis was groomed specifically to be what he was: a commercially viable way of making rock and roll music popular.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2010 21:17:09 GMT -5
by stealing a bunch of ideas from different people.
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Post by Brainstem on Nov 17, 2010 21:50:58 GMT -5
That's how progress happens, though. Some people make things, some other person likes what they do and borrows from different places to make something new, then people borrow from that person and make something else, and the process continues on and on until you have something completely different.
Really, if you look at music forever through time, people are constantly borrowing and sampling and reinventing and changing music so that you wind up with something like reggaeton when, initially you had ska or, going even further back, you had blues, or even further back you had chanson.
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