(January 6, 2016 at 10:45 pm)ApeNotKillApe Wrote: To be fair, the music industry has always been fraudulent in one way or another, whether it was black musicians singing like white people so they could actually make some money or white people playing black music so they could get filthy rich.
I don't think black people or white people singing like each other is fraudulent, or using each others styles as an influence.
Led Zepplin though, their case might be considered to be fraudulent, that level of copying. One thing I can say for them is that I think they made better songs than all the guys they were ripping off though.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
