The Mellotron Group

It depends on your mindset and your interpretation and feeling on the intent of the writer.  I may not like gary Numan, but his songs feel original to me.  Even though poor George got ripped for "My Sweet Lord", it feels original to me and I'd rather listen to that than "He's So Fine".


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-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@gmail.com>
To: newmellotrongroup <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tue, Aug 23, 2011 2:26 pm
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Foo Fighters live w/M4000D


  
    
                  
        
    On 23/08/2011 16:18, ClayE wrote:    
                       
            
Maybe there is no such thing as original material. Some              songwriters come very close to creating original songs.              Lennon and McCartney come to mind. Who else over the past              50 years? Brian Wilson? Simon and Garfunkel? Michael              Jackson? Eminem? Madonna? ...several others but it's not a              long list.
            
          
                  
    
    Well Brian Wilson predicated nearly all his harmonies on the Four    Freshmen and latterly filtered that through Hal David and (to a    lesser extent) Burt B. 
    
    If you need an honest to god original you're probably going to have    to go back to Robert Johnson. There are way less than you think.    It's like when comedians say there are only really seven jokes in    the world and all others are synthesised from them.
    
    Mike