{"id":4557,"date":"2010-12-03T14:01:56","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T18:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=4557"},"modified":"2010-12-03T13:38:59","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T17:38:59","slug":"suspect-claims-of-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/suspect-claims-of-influence\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect Claims of Influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n7t7cGwN7_0?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>In our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/bullshit-on-beatles-fans-who-didnt-call-bullshit-on-linda-regarding-her-failure-to-call-bullshit-on-pauls-worst-musical-tendencies\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Bullshit On<\/em> thread involving <strong>Linda McCartney<\/strong><\/a>, <strong>Townsman Oats<\/strong> made the follow wisecrack (I think) that got me thinking about something else:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I always thought Linda helped invent the two-fingered style of playing Minimoog that has since popped up in all kinds of settings, from The Cars to Dr. Dre to assorted indie rockers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The &#8220;something else&#8221; I thought about was <strong>John Lennon<\/strong>&#8216;s subtle claims in his final interviews\u00a0that <strong>Yoko<\/strong> must have been a big influence on New Wave bands they were hearing, like <strong>The B-52s<\/strong>. Perhaps Yoko <em>was<\/em> the influence for the singing style of those women, but what this really got me thinking about were <em>suspect claims of influence in rock &#8216;n roll<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>These suspect claims of influence often come long after the fact. They sometimes seem orchestrated to add relevance to the comebacking career of a veteran artist, such as <strong>Neil Young<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>Godfather of Grunge<\/em> campaign. There may be merit to these claims, but they can just as easily be as whacked out as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/ap-gary-busey-in-talks-to-play-bo-diddle\/\" target=\"_blank\">the now-commonly accepted notion that Buddy Holly ripped off his entire act from Bo Diddley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>What claims of influence in rock &#8216;n roll do you find especially suspect?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our Bullshit On thread involving Linda McCartney, Townsman Oats made the follow wisecrack (I think) that got me thinking about something else: I always thought Linda helped invent the two-fingered style of playing Minimoog that has since popped up in all kinds of settings, from The Cars to Dr. Dre to assorted indie rockers. <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/suspect-claims-of-influence\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[389,391,392,87,225,390],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}